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A15350	A second memento for magistrates Directing how to reduce all offenders, and beeing reduced, how to preserue them in vnitie and loue both in Church and common wealth. By W.W. Doctor of Diuinity, and one of his Maiesties chaplains in ordinary.; Obedience or ecclesiasticall union	Wilkes, William, d. 1637.	1608 (1608)	STC 25634; ESTC S114429	40,774	86

A SECOND MEMENTO FOR Magistrates Directing how to reduce all offenders and beeing reduced how to preserue them in vnitie and loue both in Church and common wealth By W. W. Doctor of Diuinity and one of his Maiesties Chaplains in Ordinary AT LONDON Imprinted for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop in Fleet-street neere the Conduit 1608. TO THE HIGH AND Mighty Great Brittaines most renowned Monarch Iames the first of France and Ireland King defender of the saith c. MOst dread Soueraigne GOd which hath put the Globe of this little world into the hands of your rule doth in the bottomlesse graces wherewith he hath imbrodered your Scepter merite your thankefulest recognition of his diuine goodnesse in whose bosome their Spring ariseth and oblige the Christian Nations of your Kingdomes in straightest bonds of loyaltie vnto your Sacred Person the next and immediate Conduit by which all happinesse is deriued vnto them Your Highnesse religious affections to the seruice of God experienced in those effects of your royall desires with best offices to glorifie his eminent and eternall being hath a most sure promise of blessings from the immortall rewarder of holy workes And for so much as your Maiestie in your admirable wisdome studying by all meanes to continuate the tranquill peace of the Gospell hath seene it necessarie to propose and by intimation of your gratious pleasure inioyned one vniforme order of worship due to Gods diuine excellencie The Subiects of your Dominions whose toungs are the true witnesses of their hearts to acknowledge that supreame Power which is in existent in your princely rule will not faile by their cheerefull obedience the true workemaister of happy State to manifest their religion to God and submission to your iust commaund If any through a wanton Superfluitie of fancie shall disaccustome their deuotiue actions from the traine wherevnto your Lawes would range them God shall in time reueale better things vnto their apprehension and by their industrie whom your Maiestie hath deputed for the administration of gouerment frame them to that method of deuotion which in the Prerogatiue of your wisdome is prescribed vnto all In meane time I know he which shall oppose himselfe against this euill now growne headdie by custome and suffrance of time lyes open for the racket of mallice to band him into the hazard of vndoing the thoughts whereof seconded with the knowledge of my owne disabilitie to write in a matter of so great consequence had kept me resolute in my resolued silence but that my priuate conscience and sorrowe to see this vnnaturall distraction wherein the body doth refuse to follow the will of the head counterpoized the validitie of all other opposite respects and gaue confidence in your Maiestie for my protection who hauing nothing better then my selfe to bestow vpon your Maiestie do with best alacrity of spirit deuote and giue my all to be disponed at your Princely pleasure God which ballanceth the times prolong the time of your most glorious Regiment and so strengthen your sacred power in the continuance of that vnmatchable goodnesse wherewith he hath honoured all your liues time that when the time of times shall come wherein time shall be without time you may be receiued into his timelesse eternitie Your Maiesties faithfull Subiect and humble Seruant WILLIAM WILKES BY THE KING THe care which we haue had and paines which we haue taken to settle the affaires of this church of England in an vniformitie as wel of doctrine as of gouernment both of thē agreeable to the word of God the doctrine of the Primitiue church and the lawes heertofore established for those matters in this realme may sufficiently appeare by our former actions c. In the meane time both they may resolue either to conforme themselues to the church of England and obey the same or else to dispose of themselues and their families some other waies as to them shall seeme meet And the Bishops and others whom it concerneth prouide meete parsons to be substitutes in the place of those who shall wilfullie abandon their charges vpon so light causes Assuring them that after that day we shall not faile to do that which Princely prouidence requireth at our hands That is to put in execution all wayes and meanes that may take from among our people all grounds and occasions of Sects deuisions and vnquietnesse wherof as we wish there may neuer be occasion giuen vs to make proofe but that this our admonition may haue equall force in all mens hearts to worke an vniuersall conformitie So we doe require all Arch-bishopps Byshopps and other Ecclesiasticall parsons to do their vttermost endeauours by conferences arguments perswations and by all other wayes of loue and gentlenesse to reclaime all that be in the Ministrie to the obedience of our Church lawes For which purpose onely we haue enlarged the time formerly prefixed for their remoue or reformation to the end that if it bee possible that vniformitie which we desire may be wrought by clemencie and by weight of reason and not by rigour of lawe And the like aduertizement we doe giue to all ciuill Magistrates Gentlemen and others of vnderstanding as well abroad in the counties as in Citties and Townes requiring them also not in any sort to support fauour or countenance any such factious Ministers in their obstinacy Of whose indeauours we doubt not but so good successe may follow as this our Admonition with their indeauours may preuent the vse of any other meanes to retaine our people in their due obedience to vs and in vnitie of minde to the seruice of Almightie God Giuen at our Mannor of Ottlands the 16. day of Iuly 1604. in the second yeare of our raigne of England France and Ireland And of Scotland the xxxvii God saue the King OBEDIENCE Or Ecclesiasticall Vnion WE haue now long time been more disputant then agent in Religion and whereas we should study to doe what we know we are set in inquisition to finde what we may beleeue Such is the supple and restlesse volubilitie of wauering mindes whose licentious feruour will not admit strength to ground and settle them in dutifull obedience vnto a stayed rule That there is no Errour so absurd but some doe imbrace it No Paradox so incredulous but some doe beleeue it no Action so irreligious but some doe countenance it not any Sentence so certaine but some by contradiction doe call it into needlesse and subtile dispute That which wrought much hurt amongst the auncient Christians Procopius lib. 3. Goth. hath greatly troubled the State present and would dangerouslie hazard the gouernment both of Church and Common-weale if Princely determination had not preuented it \ To dispute and by triall of disputation to strengthen the weake as Saint Paule did with the Christians at Troada or to conuince the errant as the Saints Act 20 Euseb eccl hist lib. 6. cap. 24. Trip. lib. 1. cap. 11. did Augustine with Poscentius