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A68300	A sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the 25. of Nouember. 1621 Vpon occasion of that false and scandalous report (lately printed) touching the supposed apostasie of the right Reuerend Father in God, Iohn King, late Lord Bishop of London. By Henry King, his eldest sonne. Whereunto is annexed the examination, and answere of Thomas Preston, p. taken before my Lords Grace of Canterbury, touching this scandall. Published by authority.	King, Henry, 1592-1669.; Preston, Thomas, 1563-1640.	1621 (1621)	STC 14969.5; ESTC S108024	33,075	94

so the Glosse and therefore as they might not scorne or thinke much to runne those courses of hazard and reproch which hee himselfe had past so neither take vpon them out of pride to do more then he Thus doth he expresse himselfe If I your Lord and Master haue washed your feet ye ought to wash one anothers feet there hee giues them an example of Humility heere of Patience If they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you To strengthen which perswasion he argues from this Axiome The seruant is not greater then the Lord. A iust truth and not to bee contradicted but Rome denies it and that great Heteroclite in Religion the Pope thinkes it too scant for him to be circumscribed by presidents either of the Apostles though he calls himselfe Peters successor or of Christ himselfe whose Uicar hee is proclaimed Hee will ducke and complement as low as may be stile himselfe Minimus Apostolorum and seruus yea lower yet seruus seruorum a seruant of seruants Yea and yet the Fox wants attributes deepe enough to earth his pride in You know what in another case Saint Augustine sayes Fabrica ante celsitudinem humiliatur fastigium post humiliationem erigitur it is true in this those that will build high lay deepest foundations Nor euer was insolence so high flowne but before it tooke wing it raised it selfe from the ground Brutus will kisse the earth though his thoughts aime at the gouernment of Rome so will the Pope lessen himselfe and contract his greatnesse into short titles as the Snake hides her length by folding her selfe vp into many gyres and doubles kisse the ground euen when he meanes to build his nest in the Starres when he aimes not at Romes alone but the worlds supremacy Thus like a Falcon he stoopes lowest when he meanes to soare highest and his ambition like a bullet spit from the mouth of a Cannon first grazes and then mounts For behold from these low foundations from this flat and bottome of dissembled humility he hath built a Tower loftier then Babel on the highest pinnacle whereof as on a Pharos the Banner and Flag of his Supremacy is hung out hath cast vp a Mount equall to Olympus on the top whereof himselfe stands like the Tempter vpon that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 exceeding high hill from whence he shewed Christ all the Kingdomes of the earth Loe from hence doth he ouerlooke the world and the Kingdomes of it and to maintaine the Idoll of his supremacie with an Omnia dabo sets them all to sale proclaiming vnto the Kings of the Nations All these will I giue if ye will fall downe and worship me But amongst them if there bee any that refuse to adore this Golden Calfe or question his vsurped supremacie Res fisei est straight hee seazeth their Crownes and as due to him by forfeit bestowes them most bountifully vpon any who by force of Armes can get them It is not long since he gaue away our Land vpon the same quarrell that I may name no Germane examples not of yesterday but to day yet thankes bee to God the Title proued so difficult and the possession so hard to get that he who thought it already his was faine to disclaime the suit and with losse of fame and costs returne home Thus doth hee sit in Templo Dei opposing himselfe against and exalting himselfe aboue all that is called God that is all Kings of the earth who are stiled Gods Dixi quod Dii and Christi Dei Christs the Lords Anoynted which will not acknowledge him their Head as being impatient to heare of any Deity equall or greater then himselfe Nor against these onely doth he aduance himselfe but he doth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fight against the God of heauen and his Christ. Take a short suruey of his practice and you will finde no greater opposition betwixt the sides of the Diameter nor larger distance betwixt the two poynts of heauen North and South nor more enmity betwixt the words Christ and Antichrist thē their persons Our Sauiour Christ when he entred Ierusalem came riding meekly vpon an Asse no attendants but his Disciples and a few poore Villagers but Kings haue walkt afoote whilest the Pope hath rode and Emperors like Querries waited on the stirrop Christ washed his Disciples feet and wiped them but the Pope hath caused Emperours to kisse his feet Christ taught vs to giue vnto Caesar Reddite Caesari The Pope bids take from Caesar the things which are Caesars not the Tribute but Crowne and life too Christ refused to be called good 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as holding it a stile fit for God alone but the Pope is patient of a stile so farre aboue it as superlatiues can stretch him Optimus Maximus and Dominus Deus noster Papa our Lord God the Pope Christ instituted a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Imposition of hands but the Pope hath practised 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an imposition of feet For Caelestine the fourth crowned the Emperour Henrie the Sixth with his foot and spurned it off againe with his foot dismissing him with a curse of Excommunication So as Christ laid his hands vpon them and blessed them the Pope laid his feet vpon the Emperour and cursed him Now iudge their contrariety and see if this seruus seruorum seruant of seruants the Pope take not more vpon him then euer Christ the Lord of Lords did Finally the Popes that I may omit the impiety of their owne persons some whereof haue been Arians as Liberius some Nestorians as Anastasius II. some Heretickes as Syricius Caelestinus c. some Sorcerers as Alexander VI Sergius IIII. and 17. besides some Atheists as Leo X. who called the Gospell Fabulam de Christo a fable of Christ The Popes I say for these many Centuries of yeeres haue beene such profest enemies to Christ that there haue beene no persecutions Massacres Invasions Powder-plots but they haue come out in a sort cum Priuilegio with their allowance their encouragement their priuity At their feet haue the garments of all those Jesuiticall Assassinates beene layd down as Stephens executioners layd theirs at Sauls Nor doe we yet finde better measure looke but to the other side of the sea and then iudge Nor can we hope better but the voyce of the Ancient Churches by them persecuted cries vnto vs in the words of my Text as Christ to his Apostles If they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you I Am arriued at my last point which needs no long discourse Haec meditatione potius quam expositione indigent It is a matter fit rather for meditation then proofe and is a story acted and no supposition so that our Sauiours Si persecuti If they haue persecuted me is now turned to an assertion They haue persecuted me Since the quarrell in the garden betwixt the VVoman and the Serpent the deuill

neuer wanted Seconds to take vp his weapons against the promised Seed God told her Ponam inimicitias I wil put enmitie betwixt you And did hee not keepe tutch Marke the whole passage of our Sauiours life tell me what day was not to him a Persecution So soone as he saluted the light to auoyd Herods bloody Inquisition which pursued him hee was constrained to flie the land and like a banished soiourner make Egypt his abiding place When Herod deceased and he vocatus ex Egypto reuok't was he yet secure No but in the house of his friends as Zacharias so vsed that Barbarians would haue dealt more mercifully Amongst his own countreymen the Iewes vnacknowledged and vnregarded scorned reuiled belyed Hee hath a Deuill He is mad He blasphemes sometimes conspiracy to throw him headlong from a Cliffe sometimes to stone him Thus was hee shuffled vp and downe from coast to coast from the City to the field from the Gaderenes to Samaria from dry land to sea yet no sayles able to make speed from his Persecutions but Mare nos repellit ad Barbaros each shore hee tutch't at was an enemie nor found his wearines the benefit of a resting place whereon to lay his head As a Partridge from the fowlers so fled he from the cruell Priests and Scribes who were They in my Text the Actors in this persecution and like a Roe in the wildernesse was he pursued Many darts throwne after him Many toyles pitched for him for they sought 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 how to take him in the snare all which though hee long auoyded yet neuer did they giue ouer the furious chase till faint and wearie on the top of Caluary their cruelty ouertooke him where with nailes and speare they goard his harmelesse body and bereaued that Just one of the life they long had hunted after When the Principall is slaine partakers must looke to bleed nor can the Armie hope for mercy when the Generall is put to the sword One life sacrificed cannot appease an incensed enemy nor could the life of Christ though the best among the sonnes of men quench the bloody thirst of the Jewes but being flesht vpon the Leader they are eager after the Heard and hauing rent this Lambe from the fold they seeke to worry the whole Flocke For the diuels commission was not like the command of the King of Syria Fight neither with small nor great saue onely against the King of Israel but as that in Zachary Arise O sword and smite the shepheard and not him alone but let the sheepe be scattered spare none neither Lord nor Seruant Master or Disciple but extirpate all downe with the glorious Temple of Christs body Downe with it euen to the ground and let not one stone of that building one Disciple suruiue to reedifie the demolished Church You see the sad Patrimony of the Apostles and that as Hugo Cardinalis hath it Uenit bellum tanquam ad haeredes imitatores eius the warre descended to them by inheritance and persecution was their lot and portion For so was the will of the Testator Jf they haue persecuted me they will also persecute you Sinne is a fruitfull parent and neuer yet wanted issue but as poyson runnes successiuely thorow the veines so haue her agents drained thorow al successions of time The tyrannies of Gods enemies towards his Church neuer ended where they began and though the persons changed the malice did not As in a Campe the word goes from Centinell to Centinell so in this Abyssus abyssum vocat one misery called vp another and as the Carthaginians hate to Rome was by the Fathers assigned ouer and intailed to the sonnes so was the cruell tradition of shedding the blood of Saints deliuered ouer by predecessors to their following generations Finis vnius mali gradus futuri one persecution hath trod vpon the heele of another and where the old went off new Scenes of mischiefe haue taken their Cues The Monarchies of the world haue not shifted oftener their se●●s then the Empires of death and Persecution The first persecution began in Egypt in the time of Pharaoh from thence it was deriued to the Iewes when they failed the Arians and Easterne Heretickes went forward with the Chase Vbi desinit philosophus incipit medicus where these wrangling Sophisters of the diuell left the Jesuites began Those onely the great Paracelsians of the world whose practice is Phlebotomy to let States blood in the Heart-veine and deale altogether in metals and minerals Steele and Gunpowder Creatures so prodigiously dexterous in their art that they are now become the onely Inuentories of mischiefe All the shallow elementary examples of trechery formerly practised seruing to them but as a garden of simples from whose composition they haue extracted Quintessence of such speeding operation that it is able to make an Earthquake greater then Nature euer durst owne and in a moment purge a whole Kingdome into nothing Thus hath the diuell his Infantry belonging to his Campe and where the old Garrisons were worne out new supplies to make good their places They shall also persecute you Persecution heere is no single appellation of misery but a compound of all cruelty I cannot giue a fitter Embleme to expresse it then that possest man Mark 5. who dwelt among the Tombes bound with fetters and chaines so mad and raging doth it runne about the world keeps its court amidst the graues and her pauillion hung about with the trophees of death fetters and whips rackes and strappadoes halters and swords stakes and fire Besides this hath a name as numerous as his My name is Legion saith the possest for we are many so is Persecution Nomen multitudinis a collectiue name of Multitude in it many Legions of ills the Burse of Tyranny and which speakes all a full Inquisition is included Persecution of the body and affliction of the mind persecution at home persecution abroad and not only Persecutio manus violence offered to the body but to the Good Name by slanders and calumnies For Non martyrium sola effusio sanguinis consummat nec sola dat palmam exustio illa flammarum it is not the sword alone nor the fire which makes a Martyr There is Martyrium famae Martyrdome of fame as well as vitae of life A man may bee a Martyr without blood-shed and siccâ morte by a dry death attaine the Crown of a Confessor euen by suffering persecution in his fame and honour which is as Anselme calls it Persecutio oris the persecution of the mouth Neither is this lesse grieuous then the former it rather exceeds it as farre as the price of fame is aboue life Feare not those which kill the body saith Christ this is more exquisite and kils if not the soule that which is next in value the Good name One of these two mischiefes Os gladii or gladius