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duty_n	good_a	king_n	subject_n	2,457	5	6.6055	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00282	An abstract, of certain acts of parliament: of certaine her Maiesties iniunctions: of certaine canons, constitutions, and synodalles prouinciall: established and in force, for the peaceable gouernment of the Church, within her Maiesties dominions and countries, for the most part heretofore vnknowen and vnpractized	Stoughton, William, fl. 1584.	1583 (1583)	STC 10394; ESTC S101664	176,465	272

minister such men are altogether vncapable of such offices For CONSVETVDO c. A Custome cannot giue authoritie vnto priuate persons to excommunicate neither to degrade or depose neither yet to arest Cleargie men or bodily to chastice them De offic Archid. c. cum satis Extra de elec c. transmissa De cleric co●… c. cle 10. lib. 6. Touching the statute made in 37 yeare of Henry the eight that al singular persons as well laye men as those that were then or shoulde afterward be marryed beeing Doctors of the Ciuile law lawfully create and made in any vniuersitie maye lawfully execute and exercise all maner of iurisdiction and all Censures and coertions appertaining or in any wise belonging to the same First I aunswere that the same is but a law of man and therfore by man may be abrogated Secondly that as it was made in a corrupt time so in truth the statute in that poynt is corrupt and ought therefore in the same point to be repealed For though the same statute in some respect establishe and confirme vnto the king and his successors and so vnto our most gratious soueraigne Ladie the Queenes maiestie that now is lawfull preeminence power superioritie and Lordship ouer all persons within hir Dominions of what state or condition soeuer touching punishment for any heresies errours vices schismes abuses idolatries hipocrisies and superstitions springing or growing by meanes of any hir disobedient and disloyall subiectes so hath hir maiestie by hir iniunctions published that hir highnesse did neuer pretend any title or challenge any authoritie to punnishe any of hir subiectes for any of the sayde offences by censure Ecclesiasticall in right belonging to hir royall person but that hir highnesse meaning and intent is and alwayes hath beene to commit the execution thereof alwayes to the Ecclesiasticall state of hir time Hir Iniunction is as followeth The Queenes maiestie beeing infourmed that in certaine places of the Realme sundry of hir natiue subiectes beeing called to Ecclesiasticall ministerie in the Church be by synister perswasion and peruerse construction induced to finde some scruple in the forme of an oth which by an act of the last Parliament is prescribed to be required of diuers persons for the recognitiō of their allegiance to hir maiesty which certainly neuer was euer mēt ne by any equity of words or good sence can be thereof gathered Woulde that all hir louing subiectes should vnderstand that nothing was is or shal be ment or intended by the same oth to haue any other duty allegiāce or bond required by the same oth then was acknowledged to be due to the most Noble kinges of famous memorye King Henry the eight hir maiesties father or king Edward the sixth hir maiesties brother And further her maiestie forbiddeth all maner hir subiectes to giue eare or credit to such peruerse and malicious persons which most sinisterly and maliciously labour to notifie to hir louing subiectes how by the wordes of the sayd oth it may be collected that the kinges or Queenes of this Realme possessours of the crowne may challenge authoritie and power of ministerie of diuine offices in the Church wherein hir sayde subiectes be much abused by suche euill disposed persons For certainly hir maiesty neuer doth ne euer will challenge any other authoritie then that was chalenged and lately vsed by the sayd noble kinges of famous memory king Henry the 8. and king Edward the sixth which is and was of auncient time due to the imperiall Crowne of this realme that is vnder God to haue the soueraigntie and rule ouer all manner persons borne within these her realms Dominions and Countreis of what estate either ecclesiasticall or tēporall soeuer they be so as no other soueraigne power shall or ought to haue any superioritie ouer them And if any person that hath conceiued any other sence of the form of the said oth shall accept the same oth with this interpretation sence or meaning hir maiestie is well pleased to accept euerye such in that behalfe as hir good and obedient subiectes and shall acquite them of all maner penalties contayned in the sayde act against such as shall peremptorily or obstinately refuse to take the same oth By which Iniunction we may euidently perceiue that as the Lord hath restored vnto hir maiesty the scepter of iustice and iudgement ouer all persons within hir Dominions and reunited the gouernment ouer the ecclesiasticall state to hir highnes crowne and dignity so hir maiesty remembring the Lords goodnes towardes hir mindeth nothing lesse thē hereby to cōfound the two principal offices in his church viz. magistracie ministery but leaueth them still distinguished as by his word he hath prescribed challenging vnto hir selfe as chiefe magistrate nothing els but power to commaund both that the true ministery be duly executed by men lawfully called thervnto and also that hir lawful magistracie may be aduaunced in all thinges according to his word Wherin we see hir maiesty both in respect of hir sex and in respect of hir ciuile office vtterly to haue refused to take this part of the ministery vpon hir as wel as she doth abstaine from ministring the Sacramentes or dispensing the word by publike preaching She contenteth hir selfe with the authority limited vnto hir by the word of God ouer the bodies goodes liues possessions of hir subiects she challengeth no power ouer their soules as by excōmunication to deliuer them to sathan If any person whatsoeuer shall offend against any law statute or custome of this Realme whereby he may incur any bodily punishment she thinketh it sufficient for hir by hir processe to summon him before hir tribunall seate and vpon his triall to haue in hir name iudgement pronounced against him for the breach of hir highnes lawes whether the same consist in losse of life goods landes promotions or whatsoeuer And as touching ecclesiastical coertion if any of hir people deserue to be punished by the ecclesiastical ministery hir highnes demandeth no other soueraignty then to cōmaunde the ministery to exercise the discipline of the Church againste the offenders as by the lawes of God they are cōmanded and in case they of the ministerie shal be herein remisse negligent then to punish them with such paines as either by hir lawes is prouided or by hir wisdom shal be thought expedient in that behalf for the contempt of hir gratious cōmandemēt neglect of the Lords seruice In which diuersitie of punishments the diuersitie of the offices of magistracie and ministery doth manifestly appeare Magistracie hauing euermore regarde to the bodye and outwarde man but ministery alwayes to the soule and inner man The magistrate punisheth with bodily chastisemēt the minister with spiritual discipline neither doth th one hereby derogate frō the other or any whit weaken the other but rather ech one strengthneth fortifieth the other For the mind brought in frame by discipline frameth the whole body to a more holy obedience so that

If no deceit on the part of the demādant haue bene vsed but the thing it self hath in it deceit it is all the self same one case with the former For whē so euer any man shal make a demand by vertue of that cōtract in asmuch as he doth demād it he doth it by deceit As for exāple suppose I haue boght in good faith without collusion of you a peece of Plate for lesse then the one half of the iust value therof as suppose for 8. Pound which was worth 20. po afterwards I couenāt with you simply you promise to deliuer me the same plate in this case if I sue you for the deliuery of the plate you may vse an exception of guile against me because I deal deceitfully in demāding the performance of a cōtract which in it self cōteineth iniquity For this cōtract it self is against the equity of lawe prouiding that a man should not be so vnprouident in selling his goods as to sel thē vnder the one half of the iust value And therfore in this cōtract being against law appeareth a manifest iniquity because the plate being worth 20. Pounds was solde by you for 8. Pound a lesse sum then 10. pound halfe of the iust price and therefore in it selfe by law without equitie and therefore neither to be demaunded by me neither to be performed by you And to make this more playne and so to apply it to my purpose bona fides good Fayth in this contract ought to be in this sort You for your part and I for my part and we both ought in trueth to think and bee of opinion that you haue interest right in the plate and so power to alienate and to sell it vnto me And therefore concerning the contract made betweene the Byshop and the party because the Byshop oftentimes knoweth the partie that is to be made a minister by him to be a man altogether vnlearned vnfit and vnapt to execute his ministerie duely and therefore cannot thinke him to be a man quallified as were requisite And because the partie that is to be made a minister knoweth himselfe vtterly voide of those graces and gyftes which ought to be in him and therefore cannot beleeue him selfe to bee truely called or mooued to that office by the holy ghost And because they both know that there hath bene no such calling no such tryall no such examination no such presentation c. As by the forme and order of the booke shoulde be I say therefore that good fayth wanting on both partes this contract made coulourably betweene them is meerely voyde and the one not bounde by lawe to the other to the perfourmance of the same therfore much lesse the common wealth or the Church of Christ to tollerate their conspiracie or to bear with their collusiō ff de Liber causa l. si pariter Extrauag de regni iure c. non est Extrauag co Non debet alterius collusione aut inertia alterius ius corrūpi No mās right oght to be impayred by collusion or slouth of another Fraus dolus nemini patrocinari debet deceit guyle ought not to patronage any And therefore sithence Non est obligatorium contra bonos more 's iuramentum An othe made against good manners is not obligatorie and that Nemo potest ad impossibile obligari No man can be bound to a thing impossible and that Impossibilium nulla est obligatio of things impossible there is no band ff de reg in l. impossibilum Extra de reg nu in malis And that In malis promissis fidem non expedit obsernari It is not expedient that Fayth be kept in wicked promises I conclude that the impossibility or iniquitie of condicions to be perfourmed by him that is made a Minister make the contract betweene the Byshop and him meerely voide and of none effect in Lawe The impossibilitie of the contract made betweene the Bish ●nd the minister cause that the contract is voyde And that the Byshoppe according to the true intent and meaning of the Lawes whereof he hath the execution ought to cite and Ex officio to proceede and obiecte agaynst him in this sort You A. B. Parson of C. about twentie foure yeeres passed at what time I had appoynted a solemne day for making of Deacons and Ministers had called by my Mandat men meete to serue the Lorde in his holy seruices to teach his people and to be examples to his flocke in honest life and godly conuersation came before me making a great bragge and fayre shewe of zeale and conscience and of your knowledge in the holy Scriptures and that you woulde instruct them faythfully and exhort them diligently in the doctrine of Saluation by Christ in holinesse of life that you would exercise his Discipline according to his commaundement and that you woulde bee a peacemaker And all these thinges you faythfully promised and tooke vpon you to performe ioyning your selfe openly to the Lordes people in prayer with a solemne vowe Nowe so it is as I vnderstand by your demeanor euer since that in trueth you had no other ende but to steale a liuing from the Church though it were with the murther of many soules You dishonored the Lorde you made an open lye in his holy Congregation you circumuented mee by guyle and by crafte deluded me you haue euer since falsifyed your worde You haue not preached one Sermon these many yeeres you haue not instructed one of your parrishe in the doctrine of Saluation by Christ alone you haue not gouerned your familie as became one of your coate you haue not exercised the Discipline of Christ against any adulterer any swearer any drunkarde anye breaker of the Lordes Sabbothes you haue beene and are a quarreller among your neyghbours you cite them to my consistorie for toyes and tryfles and so abuse my iudgement seate you are an example of euill and not of goodnes vnto your flocke you ment no good faith at the firste you wittingly tooke vpon you a charge which in your owne conscience you knewe was impossible for you to discharge you prophaned the Lords most sacred name in praying hypocritically before him you haue not since repented you of these iniquities but haue continued obstinate in the same and therefore in as much as you for your part without any good conscience haue gotten you a place in the ministerie I for my part mooned by a good conscience and for the same my conscience sake to discharge my duetie to the Lorde haue summoned you publikely lawfully and rightly to disposse you of that place and depose you from that function whereof though publikely yet vnlawfully and vnrightly you are possessed neyther ought you or any other to thinke me rashe light or vnconstant in so doing For I tell you playne that herein I will both saye and doe that thing which the noble and wise Emperour sometimes both sayd and did in a