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A16342	Two sermons preached at Northampton at two severall assises there The one in the time of the shrevalty of Sir Erasmus Dryden Baronet. Anno Domini, 1621. The other in the time of the shrevalty of Sir Henry Robinson Knight, anno Domini, 1629. By Robert Bolton ... Published by E.B.	Bolton, Robert, 1572-1631.; Bagshaw, Edward, d. 1662.	1635 (1635)	STC 3256; ESTC S106258	56,433	110

8. Saint yet I hope he holds himselfe subject unto him by the Law of GOD though no expresse word faith this or that King rules by me yet know therefore that that Scripture which faith By me Kings raigne saith also by me King Iames raignes that precept which bids us honour the King 1 Pet. 2.17 Binds us also to honour King Iames. For generall rules in GODs Booke whether about precepts prohibitions or promises bind and belong to particular persons without naming them and particulars are necessarily and personally conteined in the universals First Now this false foundation being thus laid in the disgrace and abasement of secular Soveraignty as they call it marke the progresse and bloody gradation Secondly Hence they have proceeded and dared to rob and bereave Imperiall thrones and the crowned Majesty of Kings of that native reverence due attributions and obligations of State which divine ordinance and purest times appropriated unto them Thirdly They have beene heartned to flye even in the face of Majesty and with unhallowed hands to decrowne the Princely heads of the LORDS annointed That great Abaddon in this streine of rage and pride See hist. of the Councell of Trent p. 314. hath set his foot upon the very necke of Emperours and spurned off their Crownes with his shooe Fourthly Lastly they are hardned prodigious and execrable villany even to kill and cut the throats of Kings upon this bloody staire they now stand having lately revealed it in the royall blood of the two last Henries of France I have discovered and already done with the foundation which they have laid for a Babell of confusion and blood Now for their second affront upon Soveraignty see a selected Catalogue of unworthy and base aspersions cast upon Kings Crownes by Cardinall Bellarmine Pag. 131 and purposely collected by his Majesty towards the latter end of his most Royall Apology Let me also here in a world tell you how that late famous Casuist Azorius P. 2. Inst. Mor. lib. 10 in his treatise de Imperatore Romanorum hath handled the Emperour in this kind This fellow teaches that the jurisdiction and power of the Emperour Ibid. cap. 2. pag. 1551. sect propterhec Et hec sentencia Et propter hec jura decreta hath its being existence and dependance they are his owne words from the Pope of Rome And upon this occasion tell us de facto how many Emperours the Pope hath deposed * Sect. hec sententia Ibid pa. 1155. sect adea vero omnia That the Pope is he who first gives right and power to the Electors to choose him and then himselfe annoints consecrates and crownes him so elected That the Emperour is but the Popes minister Cap. 3. sect Quinto quaeritur elected by him for the defence of the Church So that in another place he saith the Pope if it pleased him might create two Emperours in the Church equall in power Pag. 2. lib. 3. ca. 29 pag. 475 sect Deindeobjicies one to governe in the East part of the Church the other in the West And therefore having proposed this question Whether the power of the Emperour be from GOD the Bishop of Rome or the people he concludes But certainely saith he by the common consent Ibid cap. 2. of most of the Doctors of the Law Ibid. sect Propter especially Pontificall it is the received opinions that the Iurisdiction and power of the Emperour depends immediatly upon the Bishop of Rome and how proves he that thinke you even thus It was said to Peter sayes he Feed my sheep not these or other but absolutely and simply my sheepe and therefore all but the Emperour is a Sheepe Ergo c. And in the same place he makes also Kings and Princes amongst the number of sheepe and by consequent concludes their subjection to the triple Crowne Now these are strange passages against the Emperour considering that * Dalingron p. 27. Ad sinem Guicciardine the Popes creature in his Digression now effaced out of the Originall by the Inquisition Tells us that aforetimes the election of the Pope did not stand good without the confirmation of the Emperour nay saies he the Popes in all their Bulls priviledges and Grants expressed the date in these formall words such an one our Lord the Emperour raigning Neither hinders it saith he that thou say The Empire hath his being from the Romish Bishop in respect of those things onely which are Spirituall For it is contrary the Bishop of Rome hath received the keyes of both Kingdomes both terrene and celestiall and it is conformable to the Popes owne words Sixtus the fifth I meane in his Bull against Henry the third of France For he there affirmes that he hath obtained supreme power over all the Kings Princes of the whole earth and all people and Countries and Nations given him not by humane but divine Institution See Barclay de potestlate Papae cap. 13 pa 101. cap 3 p 31. See Barclay de potestate Papae cap. 1 pag. 6 7. They are the words of the Bull. And to the Doctrine of Thomas Bozius one of the most execrable flatterers that ever the Pope had who teaceth Omnem vim Regiam c. Vpon this point and principle Alexander the sixth gave the West-Indies to the Spaniards and the East-Indies to the Portugals placing the meridian which passeth by the Azores for their limits See Moulins book of Faith pag. 544 out of Barclaius loco citato col 2. lib. 2 pag. 670. And upon the same ground Pius the fifth deprived Queene Elizabeth of England of her Kingdome and gave it to Philip the second of Spaine as Azorius tells us But of all in this point for a true Iesuiticall straine Father Binet shall take it to him for sayes he marke it well It were better that all Kings were killed then to reveale a confession and he takes his ground from that rotten foundation so derogatory to Kingly power refuted before Because saith he the power of Kings is ordained by humane lawes but Confession by divine law You have it in Causaubons Epistle to Fronte Ducaus the Iesuite Now here is a sweet piece of worke Eudaemon in Apol Garnetti ca. 13 Suarez tracta de panit speakes to the same purpose See Moulins booke of Faith p. 547. It were better that all the Kings in Christendome had their throats cut then that a knavish secret or a traiterous plot of a Faux or Ravillacke confessed to a Sodomiticall shaveling should be disclosed Here is a true brat of the bloody whore a fellow of the right Ignatian stampe Thirdly Now the third violence and villany they offer to Kingly power and Princely Thrones is the decrowning and dethroning of Majesty And to this end the Pope doth pestilently abuse that noble and glorious Engine of the Church Excommunication which in it native vse ought to be discharged upon the hairy pate of

holes with confusion and rottennesse before they see that day They would questionlesse lay hold upon Veronensis woolvish and bloody * If publicke meanes be wāting of making away hereticks by the ordinary Magistrate he gives allowance leave to every private man to murder the hereticke as he meetes him Franciscas de Verone Constantinus in Apology for Iohn Chastell History of the Counsell of Trent p. ●48 conclusion especially being animated thereunto by the example of the Massacre Resolution of Pope Vrbane Cau. 23.9 5. Can. Excommunicatorum We esteeme them saith he not to be murtherers who being possessed with zeale of their mother the Catholique Church against those that are excommunicated shall happen to kill any of them and by the edge of their owne Popish blood thirstinesse really eneagerd by fained conceits of their pretended persecution Decree of the Parliament of Paris That it should be lawfull to slay all the Hugonots which by publicke order was read every Sunday in every Parish And therefore to tell you in one word the end why at this time I have stood so long upon this point It is to aske you this question at close whether it be not now true and honourable mercy for GOD forbid that I should perswade any cruell thing nay and the contrary extreme cruelty to the State to execute exactly just and holy lawes upon such a generation and let every one be judge that heares me this day if he be not a party in that bloody faction or hanker that way And yet one word more and I have done I know Parsons in his miserable shifting booke about Equivocation against Doctour Morton Cardinall Perronius Beltarmine in his Apology against the Kings Monitory Preface See the Kings Answer p. 273. See Eliensis his answer to it pag. 299. and others upon whose foreheads the whore of Rome hath stamped her marke of Popish impudency charge the Protestants and Reformed Churches with these bloody passages but in so doing they deale with us as an impudent strumpet with an honest woman See how we are cleared Anticoton pa 63. Answer to certaine scandalous papers pault and as Verres dealt with Tully Verres himselfe was a very notorious theese and knew that Tully had much against him in that kind and therefore he very knavishly and impudently calls Tully a true man and that noble Oratour theese first Eliensis in his answer to Bell. Apolog. p. 299. Answer to Perron pag. 279. It is just so in this case But above all heare King Iames in the point we glory and well we may that our Religion affords no rules of rebellion nor allowes and grants any dipensation to subjects for the oath of their Alleageance and that none of our Churches give entertainement unto such monstrous and abominable principles of disloyalty And as concerning Iunius Brutus Ibid. pa. 277. whom they object his Majesty answers That he is an Author unknowne and perhaps of purpose patched up by some Romanist with a tricke of wily deceit to draw the reformed Religion into hatred with Christian Princes If we were in the same predicament with the Papists this way how comes it to passe that our English Popelings have made so many bloody assaults against the sacred persons of Queene Elizabeth and King Iames and the Protestants of France having farre better opportunity and more power have never stird rebelliously against their Kings Kings Answer to Perron pag. ●73 of whom King Iames thus speakes I could never yet learne by any good and true intelligence that in France those of the Religion tooke armes at any time against their King much lesse then offered they to butcher or blow him up with gun-powder I have thus farre discovered in the first Use the most pestilent opposites and cut-throates of Government and Kingly Majesty at this day in Christendome I now come to a second Use. Vse 2. If Government be such a goodly thing as hath beene proved before then all that heare me this day and every mothers child in this Land I say we are all bound to blesse GOD upon our knees and to put it as a sweet perfume into our daily sacrifice of thankesgiving for being bred brought up under so blessed and happy a Government in the Sun-shine of the Gospell and under the wings of IEHOVAH What staid or restrained the Omnipotent arme of GOD from creating any of us and planting us upon earth in the unhappy dayes of Queene Mary when we might either have beene damned or burned or in the bloody times of Lancaster and Yorke or when the mists of Popery and insolent domineering of that man of sinne enthrald under the most grievous yoke of miserable bondage both the Crowne and consciences of this Kingdome or under some Pagan Turkish or Tyrannicall Government or neighbouring Popish Country or which also had not beene so comfortable in the persecuted or Schismaticall parts of the Church it was nothing but GODs owne meere mercy respiting and remitting our being upon earth to better and more blessed times and place It was that and that alone which ordered and appointed our lot of living here in that golden knot of time as it were and the very Diamond of the ring of that happier revolution since CHRISTS dayes I meane in the most orient and comfortable breaking out of GODs holy truth from under the cloudes of Antichristian darkenesse and in this little nooke of the world where the Gospell shines with such glory truth and peace and under the kindly warmth and influence of two the most glorious Queene Elizabeth King Iames. Starres that ever moved or gaue light in Englands Hemisphere What beasts are they then that daily doe their utmost to bereave and rob us both of GODs blessing and this warme Sunne and hale downe all they can with strong cart-ropes of iniquity the vengeance of GOD upon the face of this noble and famous Kingdome and such are all the wicked amongst us and those that hate to be reformed Ale-house-hunters pot-companions good-fellowes drunkards are the most pestilent and cursed canker-wormes that gnaw at the very-heart and sinew of the glory and strength of the State And like audacious and outragious Giants even wrastle with heaven and by powring in of strong drinke labour might and maine to pull downe the full viols of GODs fiercest wrath See Isa. 28.1 2 3. upon our heads And therefore if there be any Iustice of Peace which is a secret supporter of any rotten Ale-house he is a great plague to the place where he dwells whether it be Towne or City The cruell Usurer is the cut-throate of the Country where he kennels See what a deale of compassionlesse miseries and confusion a company of such caterpillers brought upon the infant Replantation of the new returned Iewes Neh. 5. 2 7. The swearer and tearer of GODs glorious Name by his blasphemous breath gives wings to the flying booke of GODs curse Zach. 5.2 3. and is able to

all no not so much as by ambitious seeking Neither am I now upon a precise point except the prodigious iniquity of the times in this kinde represent it so thorow the false glasse of commonnesse and custome to the covetous and carnall eye be but honest Heathens but ingenious Turkes and that is not much I require of those who professe Christianity and you will be on my side ● witnesse See Peter Mar. Common places pag. 2●7 Iust intan Iust. and Pacius Annot at p. 4●3 That famous Iulian-law De ambitu amongst the ancient Romanes whereby it was enacted that if any man should attaine honour or magistracy by money he should both be punished with a great pecuniary mulct and also made infamous That right noble carriage of mighty Tamerlane a Scythian and commander of the Tarrars who is reported in the Turkish Story never to have bestowed his preferments upon such as ambitiously sought them as deeming them in so doing unworthy thereof but upon such as whose modesty or desert he thought worthy of those his great favours We are come unto a strange passe that it should be holden a Puritanicall point to condemne all corrupt comming into places of preferment and publicke charge sith even politicke Pagans and barbarous Nations out of light of reason and ordinary notions of nature did abhorre it And no marvell for besides motives of piety and the feare of GOD which they wanted even grounds of policy give us to understand that this base and accursed course was able to become the bane and breake-necke of the strongest States upon earth in short time I leave it to your wisdomes to weigh well in your owne bosomes what strange degenerations from worth and honour what fearefull Apostasie from orthodoxenesse and zeale it may bring upon a Common-weale in few yeares If the world once take notice Reason 1. that money doth the deed men to make way for preferment will seeke more to get money then merit Those who should rise into high roomes in the Common-wealth will labour rather to furnish themselves with heavy purses then noble parts Ministers will study more to become pragmaticall Traders about Benefices and other Ecclesiasticall promotions then compleat Divines and powerfull Preachers and having learned the Trade they would heape living upon living cry downe preaching plunge into the world and secular employments gather a hoard hoping thereby at length to be hoisted into some higher place c. which you know were a very horrible thing would marre all and undoe us quite Againe Reason 2. it is a common saying in this case what we buy by grosse we must sell by retaile He that buyeth saith Mornay is shrowdly provoked nay is after a sort openly dispensed withall to sell againe And what wofull worke and intollerable misery that brings upon a people you may easily guesse These two Reasons I have insinuated unto me in the French Story where the Authour gives this excellent eulogy of Lewis the ninth Pag. 153. The Realme was corrupted with the unjustice and extortion of former raignes by the sale of Offices being most certaine that what we buy in grosse we must sell by retaile He did therefore expresly prohibit these sales supplyed such places as were void according to the merit of persons after due examination to draw good men and of understanding to apply themselves to study otherwise they would have beene shrowdly tempted rather to have stored themselves with money then merite with gold then goodnesse Wise and gracious then is the counsell which the fore-named noble and learned * pag. 135. Mornay gave unto another French King in his Meditation upon Psalme 101. The Princes eye saith he and care should be upon the best sort of people to set them in offices and bestow charges upon them He should take this course Those that shall affect such places he should alwayes suspect them their persons and practises for certaine it is that he that very earnestly aimeth at an office or living hath laid his plot already and without doubt he desireth it for the profit and not for the charge Sermon 5. before King Edwad the 6. Heare also what old reverend Latimer said to this purpose in Edward the sixts time and the Saint GOD defend saith he that ever any such enormity take notice he takes it for an enormous sin should be in England that civill offices should be bought and sold whereas men should have them given for their worthinesse And a little after the holy Scripture qualifieth the Officers and sheweth what manner of men they should be men of courage wise fearing GOD c. Oh if Latimer had lived in our times I am sure if he had he would have beene a great honour and ornament to our Church Nay Anno 12. R. 2. cap. 2. heare your owne Law and Fer legem quam ipse tuleris The title is None shall obtaine offices by suite or for reward but upon desert The Chancelour Treasurer or Keeper of the privy Seale Steward of the Kings house the Kings Chamberlane Clarke of the Roles the Iustices of the one Bench and of the other Barons of the Exchequer and all other that shall be called to ordaine name or make Iustices of Peace c. nor other officer or Minister of the King shall be straightly sworne for any gift nor brocage savour nor affection nor that any which pursueth by himselfe or by other privily or openly to be in any manner of office shall be put in the same office or any other but that they make all such officers and Ministers of the best and lawfullest men and most sufficient to their judgement and knowledge Now blessed be GOD for this blessed law holding such a comfortable conformity to GODS holy Word complying so exactly with the grave counsels of all truely learned and godly Divines the auncient uprightnesse of morall Puritanes reason honesty common sence rules of naturall equity and necessity of holding up States Kingdomes and humane society for the contrary overthrowes them all and crossing directly the mighty torrent of the times corruptions You see here as in the former passages not onely the viler and baser and more grosse wayes of getting into places of preferment and rising as by gifts brocage affection favour c. are forbidden and condemned but even ambitious seeking also For howsoever it may seeme a strange paradoxe compared with the strong corruptions of the times yet notwithstanding it is a true principle in godly policy that he which ambitiously seekes a place even in so doing makes himselfe most unworthy of it An excellent Interpretour of Ioshuah intimating that GODS extraordinary earnestnesse and iteration of encouragements to Ioshuah implyed his lothnesse and backwardnesse to be advanced into Moses roome though he was a man of invincible spirit and incomparable wisdome le ts fall upon consideration thereof this conclusion Qui Magistratum ambiunt eorum unt indignissimi That none are lesse