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A08803 The allegeance of the cleargie A sermon preached, at the meeting of the whole clergie of the dyocesse of Rochester, to take the Oath of allegeance to his most excellent Maiestie, at Greenewich, Nouem. 2 1610. By Samuel Page, Doctor in Diuinitie. Page, Samuel, 1574-1630. 1616 (1616) STC 19088; ESTC S113755 8,460 22

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them fully pressed by most learned and iudicious Diuines which expresse the power of Princes ouer the Church First their inuention of generall Counsells so Pighius himselfe confesseth Constantinus primus auth●r fuit conuocandi generalia consilia Constantine was the first who deuised to assemble generall Counsells but the power heereof was by GOD himselfe giuen to Moses to whom hee committed the making and vsing of the two siluer Trumpets and from him deriued to all Princes and States imperiall And the Church storie since Christ maketh it plaine how Emperours and Kings in their seuerall dominions haue both called Counsells and sate Presidents to order the meeting to censure and punish offendours to keepe them to the point that would digresse and in their absence to depute secular Iudges in their places and at last to dissolue their meeting at their pleasure Yea sometimes the great Bishop of Rome hath made request to the Emperour as Leo for example for the calling a Counsell in Italie and preuailed not And lastly the Canons of Counsells were by the imperiall power ratified and without that soueraigne approbation had no strength Secondly for Appeales the Princes haue bin in the Church the end of them all euen in causes Ecclesiasticall More Socrates reporteth libr. 5. cap. 10. That many Bishops differing in iudgement concerning the Doctrine of the Trinitie Theodosius the Emperour conuented them before himselfe hee tooke the seuerall Coppies of their Doctrines and praying first to God to assist him in that holy businesse that he might choose and maintaine his truth against all heretical opinions after mature aduice hee resolued vpon the truth of Doctrine and in the presence of all the Assembly hee tore in peeces all the rest and this truth he did not measure by the depth of his own iudgement but by comparison with that Canon of Faith which both holy Scriptures and former Counsells had sufficiently maintained And this was in a matter meerely Ecclesiasticall And for Ecclesiasticall persons the law of Appeales in our Land when Popery passed for true religion in the reigne of King Henry the second had this Processe from the Archdeacon to the Bishop of the Diocesse from the Bishop of the Diocesse to the Archbishoppe of the Prouince and from him to the King which was the finall hearing and determination beyond which there was no further prouocation but to leaue all to God Therefore we determine that our Causes and our Persons are all vassalles and subiect to our Soueraignes and the immunities and liberties which wee possesse wee holde them of the indulgence and gracious fauour of our most worthie and louing Princes and our Salomon our Ecclesiastes requireth of his Cleargie no vndue obedience that the iudgement remaineth most iust They that resist euen of the Cleargie shall receiue vnto themselues damnation They resist this power who refuse this Oath of Loyaltie to his most excellent Maiestie as all Popish Recusants do who set vp a demy-god as Bellarmine his Parasite fawneth and faineth De Pontif. 5.6 qui potest mutare conferre auferre principibus regna who hath power to change to giue and take away Kingdomes from Princes Our Soueraigne doth not set vp an Inquisition to finde out Papists as Rome doth to discouer Protestants hee doth not make bare suspition quarrell enough to apprehend conuent imprison racke and torture men to force them to selfe-accusation hee onely deuiseth to know sheepe from goates loyall subiects from hereticall rebells he is the Image of that King of whom wee reade Matt. 21.5 Ecce rextuus venit tibi mansuetus Thy King commeth to thee meeke and gracious It is the glorie of a King to passe by an offence How many Princes of the earth would haue put vp such an attempt as the Gun-powder treason was with such patience Might not Christian Princes haue thought his anger iust if it had drawne his Sword against all of that Religion till none of them had beene left and it had beene no more then the equitie of my Text for they that resist must receiue iudgement heere by iust Magistrates who beare not the Sword in vaine and heereafter damnation by the Sentence of the great Iudge of Quicke and Dead The Israelites thought this Sentence iust for thus they say to Ioshua Whosoeuer will rebell against thy Commaundements let him be put to death And God gaue a fearefull example hereof in the rebellion of Corah The reason is giuen by the Almightie himselfe in this case of opposition to soueraigne dominion why he taketh it so to heart For hee said to Samuel They haue not cast thee away but they haue cast me away that I should not raigne ouer them In these cases of resisting GOD is most sensible for his owne Scepter of Rule is touched in them For by mee Princes raigne saith his Wisedome Therefore the vsurping pride of Rome struggling and wrastling with the Holy one of Israel for the Scepter of Regiment may now looke that the censure of Saint Gregorie the Great then Bishop giuen vpon the Patriarch of Constantinoples ambition of the name of Oecumenicall may turne into a prophesie of these times and then Elatio tanto citius rumpitur quanto magis inflatur And we may all expect the breaking of the head of Leuiathan in the great waters Dauid said they that hate thee haue lifted vp the head Saint Augustine vpon that place saith Nec capita sed caput quando eo peruenturi sunt vt etiam illud caput habeant quod extollitur super omne quod dicitur Deus quod colitur quod Deus interficiet spiritu oris sui that is he saith not their heads but they shall lift vp the head seeing they shall come to that passe that they shall haue that head which is lifted vp aboue all that is called God or is worshipped which GOD shall destroy with the breath of his mouth The time of my warning to this place and the time limited to this short Preface to a long businesse are both impatient of prolixitie Let mee therfore addresse my speech to you my reuerend Brethren in the holy Ministery of the word of God to stirre you vp not onely to expresse and approoue your owne vndoubted loyalty to your Soueraigne by your oath publiquely giuen for the same but further to employ the vttermost of your wittes and tongues and pennes to recouer so many of our recusant brethren as are not frozen in their dregges of superstition but led in blindenesse for want of light to the vnitie of our Church and the obedience of our Soueraigne and withall to stirre vp the Magistrate to zeale and feruour in the cause of God to detect and pursue recusant Papists and to lay them at the foote of our gracious Lord the King For Salomon saith right well A King that sitteth in the throne of Iudgement chaseth away all euill with his eye Prou. 20.8 or if they be so grounded in their disloyalty that they dread not the