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A68537	Herod and Pilate reconciled: or The concord of papist and puritan (against Scripture, fathers, councels, and other orthodoxall writers) for the coercion, deposition, and killing of kings. Discouered by David Owen Batchelour of Diuinitie, and chaplaine to the right Honourable Lord Vicount Hadington	Owen, David, d. 1623.	1610 (1610)	STC 18983.5; ESTC S113808	40,852	73

rather resolued to suffer any death or torture then by his consent to betray the truth or to condemne the guiltlesse He admonisheth freely and reprooueth sharply he offreth his life to the Princes pleasure It was farre from his meaning to reuile the sacred maiestie or to stirre vp any rebellion against this hereticall Emperour which infringed the Canons of the Church without all regard of truth or equitie to serue the humors of the Arrians and to wreck his anger on them all which yeelded not to that heresie Liberius a Bishop of Rome did neither excommunicate nor depose this wicked Emperour Constantius but appeared at his commaund and endured his pleasure to the admiration of the Arrians and the confirmation of the Christians as we finde in Athanasius Trahitur Liberius ad imperatorem c. Liberius was haled to the Emperour when he came to his presence he spake freely Cease said he O Emperour to persecute the Christians goe not about by any meanes to bring hereticall impietie into the Church of God Liberius quo supra apud Athan. We are readie rather to endure any torture then to be called Arrians Compell vs not to become enemies vnto Christ Fight not against him we beseech you that hath bestowed the Empire vpon you Render not impietie to him for his grace persecute them not which beleeue in him least you heare it is hard for thee to kicke against the pricke Act 9.5 Oh would to God you did so heare it that you might as Paul did beleeue it Loe we are at hand and come to your presence before our enemies the Arrians can inuent any thing to enforme against vs we hastened to come at your commande though we were assured of banishment that we might abide our punishment before any crime could be obiected much lesse prooued against vs. Whereby it may appeare that all Christians are as we now be vndeseruedly punished and the crimes laid to their charge not true but fained by sycophancy or deceitfull subtilty Thus spake Liberius euery man admired his resolution but the Emperour for answer commanded him to banishment Thus farre he Pope Liberius had not learned the language of his successor Pius Quinius when he bellowed against our late Queene nor that principle of the Puritanes that the inferior officer may vse force of armes against the cheife Magistrate that shall become a tyrant whereof euery seditious sectarie will be iudge and not onely defend himselfe and his owne people but also any other that shall flie vnto him Poliria Christian l. 6. c. 3. Which opinion Lambertus Danaus auoucheth contrarie to the Law the Gospel and the generall consent of all orthodoxall Fathers Hilarius a Bishop of France Hilarius ad Imperatotē Constant wrote the same time to this same Emperour in most humble manner Benefica natura tua domine beatissime Auguste Your milde nature most blessed Emperour agreeing with your gracious disposition and the mercie which floweth aboundantly from the fountaine of your fatherly godlinesse doe assure vs that we shall obtaine our desire We beseech you not onely with words but also with teares that the catholique Churches be no longer oppressed with greeuous iniuries and endure intollerable persecutions and contumelies and that which is most shamefull euen of our brethren Let your Clemencie prouide c. Surely if it had then beene knowne that the Pope by his absolute power or indirect authoritie could haue punished or deposed kings which the Papists auouch or for the Peeres or the people to haue done it which the Puritanes affirme some of these olde Bishops would haue pressed that point against this hereticall Prince which abused his sword to the blaspheming of Christ the murthering of the Saints the seducing of many thousand soules by strengthening maintaining and establishing the Arrian error But they tooke it to be no Christian mans part to beare armour no not defensiue against his Prince though neuer so wicked cruell or vngodly Holy Athanasius confesseth the power of Kings to be of God and their impietie not to be punished by man Sicut in toto mundo Deus rex est imperator potestatem exeroet in omnibus As God is King and Emperour ouer all the world and exerciseth his power in all creatures so the King and Prince is ouer all earthly men and doth by his absolute power Ad Antioch quest 55. what he will euen as God himselfe haec ille When it was obiected against this reuerend father Athanasius that he had incensed Constans the religious Emperour of the West against Constantius in the bebehalfe of the persecuted Christians Apolog. Athan ad Constant he cleared himselfe from that accusation in an Apologie to the saide Emperour Constantius The Lord saith he is my record and his annointed your brother that I neuer made mention of your Maiestie for any euill before your brother of blessed memorie that religious Emperour Constans I did neuer incite him against you as these Arrians doe slaunder me but whensoeuer I had accesse vnto him I recounted your gracious inclination God knoweth what mention I made of your godly disposition Giue me leaue and pardon most courteous Emperour to speake the truth That seruant of God Constans was not easily drawne to giue eare to any man in this kind I was neuer in such credit with him that I durst speake of any such matter or derogate from one brother before an other or talke reprochfully of one Emperour in the hearing of an other I am not so madde neither haue I forgotten the voice of God which saith Curse not the King in thine heart and backbite not the mightie in the secrets of thy chamber for the birds of the ayre shall tell it and the winged foule shall bewray thee If then the things that be spoken in secret against Princes can not be hid is there any likelihood that I in the Emperours presence and before so many as continually attended his person would say any thing otherwise then well of your Maiestie Thus farre Athanas This is sounder and seemelier doctrine for subiects then that which Henrie Garnet and Robert Tesmond taught some Romish catholike gentlemen of England who imployed Thomas Winter into Spaine in the moneth of December Ann. Dom. 1601. to make request to the Spanish king in the behalfe and names of the English Pope-catholikes L. Cooke in his speach at Garnets arraignment that he would send an armie hither into England for the aduancement of their Catholique cause and to promise that the forces of the Papists here should be readie to doe him seruice against the late Queene The selfe same doctrine of sedition was published in the yeare after viz. ann Dom. 1602. by Gulielmus Bucanus a man of no meane esteeme among the Puritans and that at the earnest request of Beza and Gonlartius the chiefest Ministers of the Chutch of Geneva if the author himselfe belie them not whose words are as followeth Subditis si fit

of heauen graunt your Lordship many dayes much honour the loue of your Countrie inward peace and euerlasting glorie From Clarehall in Cambridge 12. Octo. 1610. Your Lordships Chaplaine humbly devoted DAVID OVVEN To the dutifull Subiect THe Puritan-Church-Policie and the Iesuiticall societie began together a See M●lic●kers preface And the preface of Chemnic before his examen against the first part of the Councell of Trent the one in Geneva 1536. and the other in Rome 1537. since their beginning they haue bestirred themselues busily as he that compasseth the b Iob. 1.7 earth or they that coasted c Matth. 23.15 sea land each one in his order The Puritan to breake downe the wall of Sion by disturbing the peace of the reformed Church the Iesuite to build vp the ruines of Babylon by maintaining the abhomination of the deformed Synagogue These though brethren in sedition and headie are head-seuered the one staring to the presbyterie and the other to the Papacie but they are so fast linked behind and tayle-tied together with firebrands betweene them that if they be not quenched by the power of Maiestie they cannot chose when the meanes are fitted to their plot but set the Church on fire and the state in an vprore Their many and long prayers their much vehement preaching and stout opposition against orders established their shewe of austeritie in their conuersation and of singular learning in their profession as the euill fiend transformed into an angel of light brought them first to admiration Whereby they haue not onely robbed widows houses vnder pretence of prayer and ransacked their seduced disciples by shew of deevotion but also battered the courts of Princes by animating the Peeres against Kings and the people against the Peeres for pretended reformation And whereas God hath inseparably annexed to the crowne of earthly maiestie a supreme ecclesiasticall soueraigntie for the protection of pietie and an absolute immunitie from the iudiciall sentence and Martiall violence for the preseruation of policie These sectaries bereaue Kings of both these their Princely prerogatiues 2. Thess 2.3.4 exalting themselues as the sonne of perdition aboue all that is called God Least they might seeme sine ratione insanire to sowe the seedes of sedition without shewe of reason Caedem faciunt scripturarum as the heretikes in Tertullians time were wont to doe in materiam suam they kill the Scripture to serve their turnes and pervert the holy word of the eternall God by strange interpretation and wicked application against the meaning of the Spirit by whom it was penned the doctrine of the Church to whom it was deliuered and the practise of all the Godly as well vnder the Lawe as the Gospel that did beleeue vnderstand and obey it to maintaine their late and lewd opinions I haue in my hand aboue fortie several places of the old and new Testament which both the brethren of the enraged opposite faction doe indifferently quote and seditiously apply in defence of their dangerous opposition and damnable error against the Ecclesiasticall supremacie and the indeleble character of royal invnction Vnto the which places falsly expounded perverted and applyed I haue added the interpretation of the learned Protestants since the time of Martin Luther who began to discouer the nakednesse of the Romish Church 1517. More especially insisting in the a K. Henry 8. K Iames. Th. Cranmer lo. Whitgift Rich. Bancroft Archb. of Cant. Henry Earle of Northampton Robert Earle of Salisbury most mightie Kings the most reuerend Prelats The L. Burleigh L. treasurer of England The L. Els nere L. chancelor of England The L. Stafford The L. Cooke B. Iewell B. Horn B. Pilkington B Elmere B Couper B. Bilson B. Babington B. Andrewes B. Barlowe B. Bridges D Ackworth D. Sarania D. Cosen● D. Sutchliffe D. Prvthet●h D. Wilkes D. Morton D. Tochen M. Bekinsaw M. Foxe M. Nowell M. Hooker many others honourable Lords loyall Clergie and other worthie men that haue in the Church of England learnedly defended the Princely right against disloyall and vndutifull opponents which by Gods helpe I meane to publish when I haue added the exposition of the Fathers to confute the falshood of the Puritan-popish-faction to confirme the truth of the Protestants Doctrine in each particular quotation I protest in all sinceritie that I neither haue in this treatise nor meane in the other hereafter to be published to detort any thing to make either the cause it selfe or the fauourers of it more odious then their owne words published with the generall approbation of their seuerall fauorites doe truely inferre and necessarily inforce I hope the loyall subiect and Godly affected will accept in good part my endeauour and industrie intended for the glorie of God the honour of the King and the discouerie of the seditious The displeasure of the malecontented-factious which can no more abide the truth then the owles can light or the frantique the Physitian I neither regard nor care for Farewell Errata Pag. 10. l. 15. for subtilly read subtilty p. 17. l. 4. presto for praesto p. 19. l. 25. Sabanianus for Sabinianus p. 34. l. 27. odience for obedience p. 37. l. 13. his for this p. 39. l. 5. as very foole for as very a foole p. 47. l. 1. regnum for regum p. 48. l. 17. Prince for Princes The Table of the Booke The dutie of Prelates Peeres People by Scripture Chap. 1. Pag. 1. Fathers of the first 300 yeares 2 pag. 3 second 300 yeares 3 pag. 8 third 300 yeares cap. 4 pag. 21 fourth 300 yeares 5 pag. 24 fifth 300 yeares 6 pag. 30 Sedition of Puritans Papists Concord in the matter of sedition cap. 7. p. 36 Discord in the manner of sedition cap. 7. p. 36 Danger of their doctrine to Prince cap. 8. p. 43. People cap. 8. p. 43. Puritan-Iesuitisme or the generall consent of the principall Puritans and Iesuits against Kings from the yeare 1536. vntill the yeare 1602. out of the most authentique Authors cap. 8. p. 46 The first Chapter prooveth by the testimomonie of Scripture that Kings are not punishable by man but reserued to the iudgement of God KINGS haue their authoritie from God a Rom. 13.1 and are his Vicegerents in earth b Prov. 8.15 to execute iustice and iudgement for him amongst the sonnes of men c 2. Chron. 19.6 All subiects as well Prelates and Nobles as the inferiour people are forbidden with the tongue to reuile Kings d Exod. 22.28 with the heart to thinke ill of them e Eccl. 10.20 or with the hand to resist them f Rom. 13.2 The great King of heauen doth impart his owne name vnto his Lieftenants the Kings of the earth and calleth them Gods with an ego dixi g Psal 82.6 whose word is Yea and Amen with this onely difference that these Gods shall die like men h Psal 82.7 and fall like other Princes Wherefore Nathan the man of