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duty_n	church_n	civil_a	magistrate_n	1,328	5	8.0220	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03763	A sermon preached at Paules Crosse the 4 of December, 1597 wherein is discoursed that all buying and selling of spirituall promotion is vnlawfull / by Iohn Howson ...	Howson, John, 1557?-1632.	1597 (1597)	STC 13882; ESTC S2747	34,824	48

bee chosen to bee Rephaims Deut 2. that is Phisitions or reformers of vices they become Zanzumins corrupters wicked and abhominable For although ex malis moribus bonae leges causaliter Euill manners are the occasion of making good lawes Yet wicked men are seldome the authors of good lawes but Valerius Flaccus turpissimus author erit turpissimae legis Valerius Flaccus Vell. Patere a wicked and corrupt man will bee the author as farre forth as hee may of a wicked and corrupt law or if not of a wicked law yet of a cunning law with a faire glosse and pretence of the common wealth when hee is indeede intentus sibi Pachimer attentiue onely to his owne profite and priuate gaine with a faire glosse and pretence of the safety of the state when hee seeketh to satisfie his owne malice or effect some reuenge as the Priestes and Pharisies made a law to put our Sauiour Christ to death leaste the Romains shoulde come Ioh 11. and take away both their place and their nation with a faire glosse and pretence to maintaine the priuiledges of the people or the authority of the Senate as amongst the Romaines Sal. in Cat. when pro sua quisque potentia certabat euery man endeuoured to aduance and increase his owne honour with a faire glosse and pretence to relieue the poore when ex ipso remedio morbi nascuntur pouerty is increased in some other estate Plin. l. 2. op 20. These and a number the like are the issues and effects when wicked and corrupt men do aspire to the place and authority emendandi id est disperdendi as Pliny saith of reforming that is deforming a state whereas if they bee holy and iust and incorrupt as our Sauiour Christ was I say not in essence but in imitation Scuerissimar●i sed iustissimarum legum author nay but as iust as Lycurgus the heathen was who was the maker of most seuere but most iust lawes the reformation would bee iust though somewhat seuere as was this reformation of our Sauiour Christ For the Time if we consider it in respect of our Sauiour Christ as in what time of his life it was done 2. Circumstance The Time 4. Reg. 12. 4. Reg. 23. as wee consider and obserue in what yeare of a Princes reigne he beginneth his reformation as it is said in the 23. yeare of Ioas reigne hee repaired the Temple and Iosias in his 18. yeare reformed religion may it please you to vnderstand that it was done towards the end of his life when hee was euen now going to his passion And least you should gather hereby that the reformation of religion or of the Church or abuses thereof should bee the last thing which a good Prince or Magistrate should regarde when Aristotle could say that with euerie good Magistrate in euery good Common wealth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the first and the chiefest thing is the regard of establishing or reforming of religion Polit. l. 7 cap. 8 and the Church of God you shall vnderstand that with the like action he began his office as it appeareth in Saint Iohns Gospell where also with a whip of little cordes presently after his first miracle at his first comming to the Temple Iohn 2. hee cast out the sheepe and the oxen and the sellers of them So that if Omnis Christi actio be nostra instructio euery action of our Sauiour Christ bee a lesson for vs wee may learne by this that it is not onely the last office which a good Prince or Magistrate should put in practise to reforme the abuses in the Church of God but the first also and not onely the first but also the last the Alpha and Omega and not the first and the last but his continuall endeuour And therefore where all ancient Writers agree that this was put in practise twice by our Sauiour some learned men of later time say Aret. super 21. Matth. Ter hoc fecit Christus Christ did it thrice First in the beginning of his preaching Iohn 2. Secondly in die palmarum that is in this place and thirdly when hee returned out of Bethania Mark 11. and cursed the Fig-tree So that if it bee demanded what is the first dutie or vertue of a Magistrate wee may answere out of this example to reforme the abuses and prophanations in the Church of God And if wee demaund what the second dutie or vertue of a Magistrate is wee may answer out of this place to reforme the abuses and prophanation of the Church of God and if we demaund what is the third dutie or vertue of a Magistrate wee may answere To reforme c Not that the Common-wealth or ciuill affaires should be neglected but because if the subiects doe 1. Pet 2. Deum timere Feare God that will follow naturally which lyeth orderly in the text they will Regem honorificare Honour their King if they feare God Xenoph. in Cyropaep 8. they will honor their King and as Cyrus could say very well if all the subiects were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 true seruants of God they would giue the King his honor If wee consider the time in respect of the season of the yeare or according to the diuision of dayes which the wise man maketh where some dayes are sayd to bee chosen and sanctified Eccles 33. as the holy-dayes and solemne feasts and some to be numbred onely as the first or second of such a month both this reformation and the former Iohn 2. was in festo Paschatis when hee came to Ierusalem to celebrate the feast of the Passeouer Deut. 16. For at three feasts in the yeare all the males were bound by the lawe to appeare before God in Ierusalem in the feasts of Easter Pentecost and the Tabernacles Lyra super 2. cap. Iohn And although as Lyra noteth in two feasts of Pentecost and the Tabernacles those that dwelt farre off were sometimes dispensed with yet there was no dispensation for the feast of Easter Now our Sauiour Christ vntill his Passion did obserue the lawe duly and consequently at these feasts did ascend to Ierusalem Now it is probable that to the imitation of this it was prouided in former and ancient times of Christianitie as appeareth in Concilio Agathensi Can. 18. Concil Agathē sub Xisto 3. circa anū 440. That all Christians of lawfull age should ioyntly together at their parish Churches receiue the Sacrament of the Lords supper at three speciall feasts in the yeare at the feast of the Natiuitie Easter and Pentecost and although a dispensation were admitted sometimes at two of these feasts yet at Easter no remedie all should receiue Which kinde of imitation of some ceremonies of the old law obserued by antiquity I cannot condemne For although old thinges are passed away yet behold new thinges are come in their place 2. Cor. 5. And although all things are not to be made and ordered