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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17294	A censure of simonie, or a most important case of conscience concerning simonie briefly discussed not altogether perhaps vnparallell for the meridian of these times. By H. Burton rector of little Saint-Matthewes in Friday-street London.	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1624 (1624)	STC 4139; ESTC S107062	105,164	152

to the Interpretation of this Statute doth the Oath take place For vpon this impregnable Bulwarke of the Law positiue is mounted the Canon of the Church full charged vpon Simonists with powder and shot to batter downe this high towring conceite of all those that stand out in defiance of all opposition and in defence of their vngodly merchandise The charge of this Canon is heauier then Lead and harder then Iron and so planted against the Simonist that hee m●st of force receiue it into his verie mouth I meane that most fearefull Oath of Simonie But the Simonists Motto is Iuraui lingua mentem iniuratam gero The Oath may well touch the tip of his tongue but it shall not come neere his heart he hath some euasion some reseruation or tricke 〈◊〉 elude the Oath either by giuing it a false glosse o● by looking the face of his conscience in a false glasse vnlesse by way of commutation he decline it as other offenders doe the wearing of the White Sheete but neuer any by commuting or call it what you will is able to shift off his winding sheet Many may auoide the mouth of the Canon but when it comes once to the ryding of the Canon that will bee sure to pay his ryder For to bring it home to the conscience let mee borrow an example of a Simoniacall Bishop from Rome whereof that now step-mother Church is fruitfull and may spare enow to stand for sea-markes for our better direction Imagine you see him entring the Chancell of Saint Peters in Rome to receiue his consecration in all his Pontificalls and standing in the middest of such a congregation as at least themselues account most sacred To this man let that dreadfull and direfull Oath which our Church hath religiously prouided as a wholsome remedie and preseruatiue against this dangerous disease of Simonie be administred And before hee take it let some powerfull voyce such as came to Balaam to forbid him to goe to Balack for the wages of iniquitie or as came to Abimelech to forbid him to touch Abrahams wife summon and rowse his conscience as on this wife Come now O Roman Prelate who hast purchased a Bishopricke as the Centurion did his Burgeship for a great summe I dispute not now about the manner it makes no matter a purchase it is But now thou art come to the place of thy Consecration take heed it proue not thy Execration Now thou standest in the middest of an assembly of Prelats and Priests on a day in a place all sacred the seruice sacred praying praising preaching communicating expecting also the presence of the Holy Ghost with his manifold gifts to bee conferred vpon thee by imposition of hands now thou art set in the presence of Men and Angels who stand about thee as so many eye and eare witnesses of this dayes deed All these weightie circumstances considered might be of force to put thee to a stand and because I haue knowne that a desperate fellow comming before a Iudge in open Court armed with a strong and obstinate resolution to take a solemne oath in the maintenance of a wrong cause which the Iudge hauing smelled out first wisely admonished him to bee well aduised what hee would doe laying before him the fearefulnesse of an oath wrongfully taken Hee thereupon feeling the remorse of conscience openly confessed the whole truth of the businesse Therefore bee aduised before thou commest to take thine oath first to read the Oath that weighing the tenure of it thou mayest rather timely preuent the danger then afterwards repent thee when it is too late The wordes of the Canon prefixed stand thus To auoyd the detestable sinne of Simonie because buying and selling of Spirituall and Ecclesiasticall Functions Offices Promotions Dignities and Liuings is execrable before God Therefore the Archbishop and all and euery Bishop or Bishops or any other person or persons hauing authoritie to admit institute collate install or to confirme the election of any Archbishop Bishop or any other person or persons to any Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall Function Dignitie Promotion Title Office Iurisdiction Place or Benefice with Cure or without Cure or to any Ecclesiasticall Liuing whatsoeuer shall before euery such Admission Institution Collation Installation or Confirmation of election respectiuely minister to euery person hereafter to bee admitted instituted collated installed or confirmed in or to any Archbishopricke Bishopricke or other Spirituall or Ecclesiasticall Function Dignitie Promotion Title Office Iurisdiction Place or Benefice with Cure or without Cure or in any Ecclesiasticall liuing whatsoeuer This Oath in manner and forme following The same to be taken by euery one whom it concerneth in his owne person and not by a Proctor The words of the Oath I N. N. doe sweare That I haue made no Simoniacall payment contract or promise directly or indirectly by my selfe or by any other to my knowledge or with my consent to any person or persons whatsoeuer for or concerning the procuring and obtaining of this Ecclesiasticall dignitie to wit the Bishopricke of c. Nor will at any time hereafter performe or satisfie any such kind of payment contract or promise made by any other without my knowledge or consent So helpe mee God through Iesus Christ. Hast thou now duely and seriously weighed the substance and circumstances of this most solemne Oath Then let it summon and assemble thy saddest thoughts in counsell together all mouing thee thus to argue with thy selfe I am now in a place sacred in the open view of Men and Angels all Spectators all Expecters of what I am to doe Here I come to bee consecrated a Bishop a great honour but a greater burthen which taking vpon mee I must ouer-top many here present and many more absent all deseruing this honour farre before mee So that I pull vpon my selfe and that iustly the most insupportable burthen of Enuy yea more if this Bishopricke had fallen vnto mee by Lot as that fell vpon Mathias or had beene cast or inforced vpon mee as Bishoprickes were once wont to bee vpon good men in the time of the Churches innocencie I might better beare and brooke it yea it would diminish all the Enuy But my conscience tells mee yea and others also can too well witnesse for ambition is not hid in a corner how eagerly how ambitiously how vnbeseeming the grauitie and modestie of a Priest yea the ingenuitie of any honest man by cap and knee by soothing and flattery by often visiting and long attending the Court when I should haue beene at my sheepe-coat haue I at length attained to this reuerent Dignitie Nay more though the world perhaps know it not as yet my conscience failes not to charge me what a summe of money I haue and am to pay for it that which my kindred and friends may one day rue if the lease of my momentanie lent life be not all the longer besides the faire and goodly liuings I haue parted withall into the bargaine yet