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A73282	Iethroes counsell to Moses: or, A direction for magistrates A sermon preached at St. Saviours in Southwarke. March 5. 1621. before the honourable iudges by that reverent divine Thomas Sutton Dr. in Divinity.	Sutton, Thomas, 1585-1623.	1631 (1631)	STC 23505; ESTC S123301	19,735	38

the fire the Pope loath his owne fingers useth them as the Spaniells foote to scrape forth the chesnut little cares hee how they be scorched so he be in hope to obtaine his desire and though many of them have burnt both their hands and hearts yet blessed be God he mist the chesnut Wee have heard the roaring of his Bulls but they have not hurt us they have beene like the shewes of Semiramis the Astrian Queene when shee warred against the King of India which seemed afarre off to be Elephants and Dromedaries but being examined were nothing else but hides of oxen stuft with straw such have beene all Popish machinations against us They have plotted but God hath prevented them laid snares but God hath broken them attended mischiefe but God hath confounded them Nati natorum qui nascentur ab illis the children that are yet unborne have continuall cause to remember what the Lord hath done for us let our tongues cleave unto the roofe of our mouthes let the Sunne deny us his light the heavens their influence the earth her fruites if wee forget to give God thankes and to say as Psal 124. If the Lord had not beene on our side they had swallowed us up quicke when their wrath was kindled against us c. and this I passe over and come to a two fold dutie The one concernes our duty to the Magistrate the other the Magistrates dutie towards God Our duty to you is reverence and honour Aristotle and Herodotus in Euterpe have recorded a story of Amasis the King of Egypt who being mocked of his Subjects by reason of his meane discent tooke a golden bason wherein they vsed to wash their feete and turned it into the Image and similitude of one of their gods and the men that before regarded it not did then fall downe and worship it The story applies it selfe though when you were private men your respect was ordinary but the Lord hath given you his owne name I have said you are gods and set you in his owne place of judgement and trusted you in his worke the cause and lives of his people we obey and reverence you even for conscience sake and this is our duty towards you The next is the Magistrates dutie towards God God hath given you much and he requireth much from you and yet sometimes it comes to passe that they pay him least who owe him most Tacitus reports of Claudius that he was a good subject but a bad Emperour and in his lib. 2. Hist of Titus that he was a bad privat man but a good Emperour But where one proves like Titus bad private men and good governours a thousand prove like Claudius good private men but bad governours As Pope Vrban said of Baldwine the Metropolitane Bishop of this Kingdome that he was Monachus ferventissimus Abbas calidus Episcopus tepidus Archiepiscopus remissus or as Bucolcerus at the yeare 1464. reports of Aenaeus Silvius that after he got the Popedome and changed his name into Pius Secundus he then condemned many things which before he allowed whereupon one wittily plaies upon him thus Quod Aenaeas probavit Pius damnavit It was the practise of heathen persecutors to place the Image of Venus in the same place where Christ was crucified that if any came there to worship they might seeme to worship Venus A tricke which the Devill useth at this day to set in Gods roome and seate of judgement an Idoll Magistrate sometimes a Cupid or Venus delighting in pleasure sometimes a Mars delighting in blood sometimes a Mercurie with a voyce like Iacob to speak smoothly but hands like Esau and fingers like lyme-twiggs to bring all homewards and make their places but bands for their profits And howsoever this point may seeme as needlesse as for Phormio to discourse of militarie Discipline before Hanniball yet I beseech you beare with patience for though I must remember you I must not forget my selfe nor my place nor the mount whereon I stand For I also am in Gods roome and am set here to put you in mind of your duty your maine dutie is the care of religion and worship of God the suppressing of Idolatry and prophanes There are a kinde of men whereof I may say as Tully said of the Catelinarians Semper prohibetur semper retinetur wee have lawes against them and yet still wee keepe them a good common wealth consisting of Heterogeniall parts must be like Peters sheet in the 10. of the Acts. wherein though there bee all manner of beasts and foules yet must it bee knit at the foure corners though in a common wealth there be Nobles flying above like the foules of the heauen and meaner men creeping below yet must it be knit at the foure corners the remotest parts as lines in a center must meete in unity of religion if you be slacke in this it is no small danger whereto our Kingdome may be quickly brought Seneca on Theavil reports that Cadmus the King of Phaenicia seeing some of his followers staine by a serpent slew the serpent and sowed the teeth of it Ex quibus prodiere homines armati and we have good cause to feare it though some of these serpents brood be dead yet there be armed men bred out of their bones who though they may speake us faire yet I approve the judgement of Caesar who stood more afraid of Brutus who had his mouth in his heart than of Anthony who had his heart in his mouth Our land never was so sicke never groaned so loud never mourned in such a passion never travelled of such Hermaphrodites with halfe so much paine and griefe as now it doth shee hath already bred and at this day both feedeth and clotheth numberlesse swarmes of outcast professours who sometimes like Iudas pretend to kisse but if they can come neare enough intend to kill her she may conclude a peace with forraigne enemies but they will cut her throat by way of friendship It is no whispering rumour but the voice of truth but they are warmely lodged and richly friended and costly fed with the marrow and fatnesse of our land who in the middest of our Iubiles make flawes in our peace and in the midst of our joyes indanger our lives and if ever forraigner should invade our Land would lend their knives to cut our throates and be the foremost men to beare armes against us this alas this is the malady that makes the visage of our Church so wanne and her face so full of wrinkles her backe so full of furrowes and her eyes so full of teares and her heart so full of sorrowes that though many good Physitians will speake her faire and wish her health yet they launch not the Impostume they purge not the fretting humour that consumes and grieves her you may reade in her face that the gripings and convulsions are unsufferable you may heare by her groanes that her paines are intollerable you may presage by

only ad Temporalia and for spirituall matters he hath no more to doe with them than Vzzah had to touch the Arke who for his paines was striken with death 2. Sam. 6.7 hee dares not denie but Magistrates be gods for David should confute him I have said yee are gods Psa 82. but yet say of them as the Aramite said of the God of Israell that he was the God of the Mountaines not of the Vallies 1. King 20.28 they be gods and governours of the Laitie not of the Clergie For the Councell of Constance Sess 31. Laicus in clericum iurisdictionem non habet The Councell of Trent Sess 25. Personarum Ecclesiasticarum immunitas adeò instituitur Beller lib de eler cap. 28. clerici non possunt à iudice politico puniri nec sunt Reges Clericorum superiores idque habuit iure divino The exemption is by a divine right saith the same Cardinall gainst Berclay cap. 34. quite contrary to the order and course of Scripture for David had the same power over the high Priests that Kings have over their subjects and calls Zadoc the Priest and Nathan the Prophet his servants 1 Kings 1. Salomon his sonne turned Abiathar out of the Priesthood that the word of the Lord might be fulfilled which was spoken against the house of Ely 1 King 2.27 Which text hath so puzled Bell. writing against Berclay that hee is glad to confesse that in Salomons time Priests were subject unto Kings Christus solvit c. Math 17 24 25. Paul appealed ad Caesarem non ad Petrum and he hath warrant Act. 23.11 when Saint Chrisostome expounded that of the Apostle Rom. 13. speaketh thus c. consonant to this is Tert lib. de Idela cap. 15. and St. Bernard ad Archiepiscopum Senonensem Epist 42. Si omnis anima et iam et vestra quis vos accepit ab vniversitate si quis tentat excipere conatur decipere For conclusion note onely how Bellarmine in this point hath contradicted himselfe in writing against Barclay cap. 34. his position is Clerici exempti sunt non solum privilegijs Principum sed jure divino and yet in his 1 Lib. Ecclesiae de membris militantis intituled De Clericis cap. 28. Nullum potest deferri Dei verbum quo ista Clericorum exceptio confirmetur Propos 4. In the first skirmish he is like to Thrasilius in Anthonies Deipnosoph lib. 12. challengeth every page of Scripture to be their advocate that if it were possible for paper and inke to blush his bookes would be as red as his Bonnet and at the parting he is willing to confesse that there is no expresse precept of Scripture for it I end with the speech of Constantine the great noted by Theodoret lib. 1. cap. 20. when he exiled Eusebius Bishop of Nicomedia Si quis Epispiscoporum in consulto tumultuatur meae authoritati illius audacia coarcebitur If it be Gods prerogative to appoint Magistrates what may we thinke of them that would wring this power from God and cast it upon him that sits in the Temple and advanceth himselfe above all that is called God making himselfe the King of all other Kings to whom all Kings and Kingdomes must doe homage and pay tribute the greatest Monarchs must fall downe and kisse the feete of his Holinesse as they say their bookes Sacrarum Ceremoniarum lib. 1. cap. 3. sect 2. The Emperour must hold his stirrop when he mounteth the bridle when he lighteth beare his traine when he walketh holde the bason when he washeth he now acts the same part that the Divell acted Matth. 4.9 and takes upon him as he did to dispose of all the Kingdomes of the earth and we may say of him as Irenaeus said of the Divell Mentitur Diabolus nam cujus jussu homines creantur illius jussu regna constituuntur Who knowes not that Fredericke the first was deprived of his Kingdome by Pope Alexander the third as Petrus Iustinianus reports in his Lib. 2. Rerum venatarum Fredericke the 2. by Innocentius the 4. Leo the 3. called Leo Isauros was by Gregory the 3. first excommunicate and then deprived of all his revenues in Italy because he commanded that Images should be pulled downe in their Churches as Carion in 3. of his Chro. in the life of Leo the 3. That Paul the 2. in the beginning of his life a Venetian Pedler as Platina calls him at the end strangled by the Divell in the act of Sodomie as Melancton lib. 5. pag. 913. deprived George the King of Bohemia and stirred up the King of Hungaria to make warre against him as Omiphrius saith of him and for no other reason but because he favoured the doctrine of Iohn Husse as Bonfimus Rer Hung Dec 4. lib. 1. Pope Iulius the 2. deprived the King of Castile Pope Alexander the 6. tooke away the East Indies from the true owner and gave it to the Lusitanians the West and gave it to the Spaniard that Atabalippa might justly challenge but all in vaine Quid monstri esset iste Papa qui sic daret non sua as Montinaeus de temporali pontij monarchia cap. 5. That Pius the 5. as Genebrard at the yeare 1569. tooke away this Kingdome from the late Queene and gave it to Philip King of Spaine That Sixtus the 5. deprived Henry the 3. of France first of his Kingdome and then of his life I omit the wrongs to Henry the 2. they are noted by Matthew Paris at the yeare 1170. to have beene so shamefull that Matchaivell himselfe in the Lib. 1. Hist Florent seemes to scorne him for it Rex his flagellis tergum subjecit quorum hodie puderit quemlibet privatum And when King Iohn complained Romanis artibus emunxi Anglos argento Pope Innocentius the third tooke away his Kingdome and gave it to Philip of France as Matthew Paris at the yeare 215. I marvell not that the Pope would faine have footing in England which Innocentius the 4. called Hortum delitiarum puteum vero inexhaustum Who would not desire to have such a garden who would not wish such a well as that The Poets feigne that the River Arethusa being suddenly swallowed up into the ground runnes quite through the sea and riseth againe in Cicily But without feigning from England as from a well hath sprung golden rivers which being suddenly swallowed up did runne through the sea and rise againe at Rome in the Popes Exchequer But I marvell why Priests and Iesuites will bee his Factours whom hee useth as a fisher useth little fishes to catch great ones hee fisheth with Priests and Iesuites as baites to catch Kings and Princes and Kingdomes I remember a fable of the Ape seeing a Chesnut in the fire and knowing not how to get it spied a Spaniell by the fire-side and suddenly catcht his foote to take out the chesnut wherein these men may see their faces in a homely glasse The golden Supremacy is the chesnut perills and dangers