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A52110	Lex Pacifica, or, Gods own law of determining controversies explain'd and asserted in a sermon preached at Dorchester at the Assizes holden there for the county of Dorset, August 5, 1664 / by John Martin ...	Martin, John, 1619-1693.	1664 (1664)	Wing M843; ESTC R31215	24,813	40

reputation and advantages of his Religion by the like design whose Priests always sit with the secular Magistrates their Alcoran or Scripture after the manner of the ancient Councils lying before them as if all were done by an infallible rule and the judgment were Gods But it almost exceeds belief in what veneration and power that Order of men was in this Land for some hundreds of years after this Nation had received the Faith and that not by any precarious favour of Princes or by an ignorant fondness of the People but establisht their honour was by Law by which every Priest was accounted Thani rectitudine dignus as appears by the a Can ult de Wer●gildis i. e. cap tum aestimati●nibus Vid. S. H. Spelman in epist ad Reg. Jac. ib. Laws of King Ethelstan a respect which I shall neither arrogantly nor unseasonably communicate unto vulgar ears The reason whereof is not only that which our learned Antiquarie gives us in his English Councils Quippe sub his saeculis apud ipsos solum esset literarum clavis c. because the learning of that age was wholly ignorss'd by some of the Clergy the Priest being the Oracle of the People as the Bishops were of the King and Kingdom but there is another and perhaps a stronger reason to be collected out of those words in one of King b Si quis arrogans pro Episcopi justitia e●●ndare noluerit Episcopu● Regi notum faciat Rex au●ë constringat mal●facto ē ut emendat cui soris secerit scil pr●mum Episcopo deind sibi sic erunt ibi duo gladii gladius gladium juv●b●t H●veden Annal. par post Hen. 2. p 6●● n. 50. Edit Savil. Edwards Laws gladius gladium juvabit from the reciprocate assistances of the temporal and spiritual swords Christians then believing that there was as much credit to be given unto those as to any other words of our Saviour Mat. 18.18 Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever ye shall loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven But this honour and power together with the immunities of the Church sub Normannicis Regibus nutare coepit says that c Sir H. S. ib. Author and in the Council of Clarendon under Henry the second they received a grievous wound which hath more or less continued bleeding ever since and t is to be fear'd would have done so till the spirits of all Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction had been clean exhausted if Experience which is sometimes the Mistress of wise men as well as of fools had not bound up the wound with a probatum est No Bishop No King I speak not this as if I thought it either convenient or necessary that the Clergy should concern themselves in matters of civil Judicature Pity it were that so active and learned a Gentry as this Nation is wont to produce should betwixt doing nothing and doing ill which would be the certain consequent of that other design degenerate from the worth and lustre of their Ancestors that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or power of self-Government which the Primitive Church did exercise and for which some men of late did so much struggle and contend though it cannot be denied to be lawful yet was it cumbersome and in many cases uneffectual It could not stand with the Reputation of the Church of Christ to make appeals unto the Heathen Emperors as the d B●ls ex Eu seb Synod Antioch in P●●●● n. Council of Antioch was fain to do under the affronts they received from Samosatenus the Heretick after they had deprived him Nor have the Popes themselves been wholly exempt from the like exigents as appears by one instance for all by the supplicatory Epistle of Pope e Voel tom r. p. 213 B●● ad A● Chr. 419. Boniface to the Emperor Honorius in the case of Schism between the Popes themselves So unuseful if not unsafe will be St. Peters Keys though hanging at the Pope's own girdle if they should lock up Caesar's sword The sober and learned Clergy of this Church must needs know that the Spiritual Jurisdiction stands in need of the temporal power and that the Miter is only safe under the shadow of the Crown Happy then it is for us that Ecclesiastical Dominion can derive it self into the same fountain from whence descends the temporal authority and that like f Ps 85.10 Righteousness and Peace the two Jurisdictions can kiss each other in the Arms of Soveraignty that among us 't is all one to be our King and to be the Defender of the Faith that the Sword is joyn'd to the Word and the Judge to the Priest This Constellation of Power as it is a Prognostick of security and happiness to men of temperate spirits so will it prove a terrible Omen to such as despise Dominion and leave their heady practises to the Censure of just Laws which are the true Standard whereby to measure the crimes of Offenders and not the Opinions of Ignorant and prejudicate men which leads me to the second integrant part of this Law Censura Legis 2. Such hath been the policy of Satan that taking advantage of the ignorance prejudice interest and vices of men he hath sent some sins up and down the world like spies with false names that might not cause men to distrust and avoyd them they were not only carnal but spiritual wickednesses which have wandered about in this disguise compassing the world like him whose emissaries they are not only pravae but Piae fraudes have on all hands cheated men of their pretious souls stellicidia mellis de Lebacunculo venenato as Tertullian speaks the Devil having poysoned the Limbecks from whence men hoped to have suckt most soveraign Elixars and dealt with the world as Praxiteles the Statuary in g Clem. Alex●d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 29. Posidippus did with the foolish Heathen made his own Darlings to be worshipt by mens fancies instead of a Deity But as the judgement of God is according to truth in punishing sinners so are the sins of men exactly recorded by Him in his Doomsday-book at the approach of those everlasting burnings Drunkenness will not then be called good fellowshp nor uncleanness a trick of youth nor cheating a trick of wit nor pride decency nor oppression self-preservation nor Rebellion honesty nor faction Godliness nor Sedition standing for the truth nor superstition devotion nor Sacrilege reformation How light soever it may seem to some in these days to reject the just commands of our Lawful Superiours in Church and State yet ab initio non fuit sic and how it came to pass that that which was so g●ievous a crime among the Jews Gods own people too should be transform'd into an heroick Virtue among Christians will want some Oedipus to unty the knot The Scripture it self bears witness of the hainousness of this Sin allotting it a place among sins of