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A95843	The supreme povver of Christian states vindicated against the insolent pretences of Guillielmus Apollonii, or A translation of a book intituled, Grallæ, seu vere puerilis cothurnus sapientiæ, &c. Or, the stilts, or most childish chapin of knowledge upon which William Appolonius of Trever, and minister of the church of Middleburgh boasts, among such as are ignorant, in his patcht rhapsodies, which hee set forth concerning supreame power and jurisdiction in matters of religion. Against the book of the most famous Dr. Nicholaus Vedelius, intituled Of the episcopacy of Constantine the Great.; Grallæ. English.	Vedel, Nicolaus, 1596-1642,	1647 (1647)	Wing V168; Thomason E388_5; ESTC R201503	255,312	305

to sense then certainly the Stilt-walker the Metropolitan of the Walachrian Church should be very heavenly whom yet by these his patched peeces wee see to bee very earthly so that the leprosie of the earth sticks not only close to him but is also very familiar to most Kings of this heaven that if that heavenly Kingdome were not contained within compasse by the civill earthly Kingdome those Heavenly Kings would quickly destroy one another so that I may truly say that the earthly Kingdome sustaines that heavenly Kingdome or else it would fall to the ground Another fraud of his is in the other place where Christ saith my Kingdome is not of this world Christ was asked by Pilate if he were a King he confesseth that hee was a King but not of this world that i● hee would not exercise his Kingdome in this world hee addes a reason if my Kingdome were such my souldiers would fight for mee whence it appeares that Christ spoke plainly because hee said that he had such a Kingdome which hee did not exercise upon the earth as openly and properly hee did not but in Heaven when hee sat down at Gods right hand The Stilt-walker thinks that by this Kingdome of Christ is to be understood the government of the visible Church which if true then Christ had answered Pilate intricately and captiously because so taking it Christs Kingdom had been properly in the world and a part of the world yea in this Kingdome hee had his souldiers and in processe of time he got more for Kings and Emperours were made the defenders of this Kingdome and Church of Christ although then I should yeeld that in some respect the title of Christs Kingdome and of Heaven belong to the visible Church yet it were absurd in this place so to take it whereas it is here absolutely denied that this Kingdome is of this world but the visible Church chiefely that which the Walachrian deviseth is in the world and of the world and is too full of worldly corruptions And there is no lesse fraud in corrupting that place of Paul which hee preposterously cites with the Pontificians no man warring to God doth intangle himselfe with secular cares the words properly sound thus no man that warreth intangles himselfe with the affaires of this life that hee may please his Generall in which words the Apostle compares to souldiers the Preachers of the Word and also what hee saith that Elders who labour in the Word which consecrate themselves to the Ministery of the Word ought not to intangle themselves in the affaires of this life to wit in merchandizing husbandry and such like so that they intangle themselves and bee so carried away with the businesse and sweetnesse of them as with Demas to forsake their station for the love of this present world This is the plaine sense of that place in Paul how perversly it is corrupted I will now shew out of this place hee concludes that it is altogether unlawfull and unseemly for a Minister of the Word to care for the affaires of this world or any way to meddle with them which not only is repugnant to Scripture but is also a meer Popish fiction Paul indeed would not have preachers intangle themselves that is altogether involve themselves in secular businesse but not to touch them at all or totally to forbeare them hee commands no where Yet the practise of Christ and of his Apostles shew the contrary for I will ask whether fishing be a secular work of this life I think no man will deny it but the Apostles for the three yeares together that they were Christs disciples did still exercise their fishing yea they went to fishing after Christs Resurrection and who knowes whether they did not fish after the Holy Ghost was sent truly Paul himselfe after hee had long exercised his Apostleship at Corinth whilst hee was a preacher with Aquila hee exercised his mechanicall trade of making tents If Paul understood his law as this Walachrian wrests it then hee was a manifest breaker of his own law therefore it is a Popish fiction which this new Papist hath borrowed from the old ones when hee interprets these words so as if it were altogether unlawfull for preachers to meddle with secular businesse this error in length of time hath made Preachers idle and dainty yea it occasioned Antichrist for rich Christians considering with themselves that the taske of preaching was a difficult businesse and required a whole man by degrees they furnished them with so many things out of their own estates that they would have them bee altogether free from the care of things necessary belonging to their food or lively-hood For which end they built Monastries and cloystures and endowed them with great revenues in which the preaching Monkes might live plesantly and commodiously being free from all cares that so they might the more freely give themselves to their studies This institution at first though worldly yet was not evill but in processe of time covetousnesse possessed the minds of the Clergy that like spirituall harpyes they still affected and craved for more untill their covetousnesse grew to that height that the Pope alone became richer then all the Kings of the earth from which vice at last proceeded pride then lasinesse and neglect of theologicall studies and lastly all kinde of luxurie so that these Monasteries became brothell-houses and swine-styes of Sodomites all which sprung up out of the mis-understanding of that place which now the Stilt-walker goeth about to wrest against the Magistrate for because he thinks hee can by these delude ignorant people by perswading them that it is unlawfull and unseemly for preachers to meddle with secular affaires hence hee concludes as in a round that therefore it is unlawful for secular men to handle Church-matters for hee faines them to bee hogges only addicted to worldly things and of this life in which they are still intangled thus not only doth he injure godly Magistrates but impudently patroniseth his Ecclesiasticks for as it is known that many godly Magistrates have been very moderate both in mannaging of secular affaires and also matters belonging to Religion very zealous so experience teacheth that not a few preachers having neglected and contemned their duty in preaching have been so intangled with worldly businesse that as at this day it must not offend Christian eares if some preachers having broke their estates with Merchandizing and taking up money upon use have cheared godly Christians by turning bankerupts which shewes that this Walachrian is an impudent vermine who under pretence of avoiding secular affaires puts so great a difference between Civill Magistrates and Church-Men seeing he is convicted by these Walachrian examples and his own conscience that there is nothing which busie Church-men more affect then the affaires of this world Like to this is another which he is alwayes prating of The civill Power is Monarchicall the Ecclesiasticall should be alwayes Aristocratical ergo Civ●●

are placed in authority or in the government of the Kingdome to prevent the like in the future by the tye and obligation of obedience by the aforesaid Oath imposed It is further ordered that no manner of Commander of what degree soever in any the Army or Armies of the Kingdome shall receive or be paid either for any past arrears or future means to accru from the publick unto him or them respectively untill such Commander or Commanders officer or officers do produce his and their certificate respectively of taking the Oath aforesaid And it is further ordered and declared that no person or persons of what degree or quality soever shall be admitted to sue implead or shall have any other judgement sentence or decree in any court or courts Judicature or Judicatures whatsoever either spirit all or temporall within the Quarters of the confederate Catholicks before such person or persons first take the said Oath of Association and that they not taking or refusing to take the said oath of Association shall be a sufficient plea in Barre and shall abate the suit or suits of any such person or persons whatsoever And the Superiours and other persons aforesaid of secular and regular Clergie intrusted to administer the said Oath of Association and to return Rolls as before declared are injoyned as they tender the publick good of Ireland and of the Catholick cause duly and effectually to pursue and observe the contents of this order and least herein they or any of them should prove negligent those to be intrusted in authority and with the governement of the Kingdome by this Assembly are upon such failer by issuing of Commissions to such whom they shall thinke fit to trust or by some other meanes to prescribe a Course whereby the said Oath of Association shall be generally taken by all the Confederate Catholiques of Ireland in manner as is before expressed and declared Given at Killkenny the 12 of March 1647. Thursday May 13. THis morning there was a debate in the House of Commons about a Burgesse for Rippon in Yorkshire by name Solomon Swale of Grayes Inne Esquire a gentleman of a very ancient family in that County and of undoubted fidelity to the Parliament which moved the Corporation to make choice of him in his absence without any seeking of his at all and they carried it for him with so general a consent that Sir John Bourcheier his competitor had though present at the election but sixteen voices at most whereupon the Indenture was returned by the Major of the Town for Mr. Swale to the most worthy and faithfull high Sheriffe of Yorkshire who very nobly and freely signed and sealed it sending it to his undersheriffe to be returne up speedily to the House But to the affront of the Towne and the noble Sheriffe and the dishonour of the worthy gentleman elected●●e tooke the boldnesse to retard the dispatch while in the meane time some Adversaries to this election have endeavoured to null it by questioning Master Swale yesterday upon a pretended delinquency at Haberdashers Hall for passing through the Kings Quarters to a solemn funerall of the Lady Vicountesse Cambden Henry Nonell Esquire and his onely Son and Heire all at the same time interred in Cambden in Glocestershire At the performance whereof he was ingaged to be present being much trusted by the said Lady in the execution of her great Will and also in her reall estate for raising Portions and preferring her Grand-Children and accordingly had leave given him to passe by a warrant signed under the hands of the Committee for safety of both Kingdomes All which I mention to note the insolent partiall dealing of an under-officer in a busines of so high concernement as the free election of a faithfull Gentleman for the service of his Country in Parliament The Petition of the Earle of Mulgrave the Petition of the Earle of Northampton and the Petition of Mr. Cartwright were this day reade It was Ordered that the Earle of Mulgraves Petition should be referred to a Committee to consider of his losses It was Ordered in relation to Mr. Cartwrights Petition who desired ten thousand pound out of the Earle of Northamptons Composition that the said Earle of Northampton shall be referred to Goldsmiths Hall to compound for his Delinquency upon the usuall Rates It was Ordered that a Letter should be sent to Captaine Batten for the discharge of those Shipps which belonging to the Queene of Swethland he lately brought into the Downes A Committee was named to consider of the great losses of Master Bourcher and Master Challoner and to receive Petitions and consider of the whole businesse concerning Alome and Aloms Pits Ordered that a third part of the Arreares of the Officers of the North shall be payd unto them in full of their Arreares which shall be charged upon the Excise in course with allowance of eight pound in the hundred to such as shall advance it Friday May 14. IT was this day Ordered that a fortnights pay shall be added to the Souldiers six weekes pay upon the disbanding And that those who goe for Ireland shall have six weekes pay more The Ordinance was past for Indemnity of Souldiers as also of the Committees of the severall Counties for what they have done in the parsuance of the Ordinances of the Parliament Letters came from Helmby certifing the Kings expectation of the Propositions to be sent unto him to which already he hath prepared an answer and that if he could not be allowed a Secretary to transcribe his answer he would write it over himselfe as faire and as well as he could the King was heard to say that his answer was such that he hoped to be justified in it Letters were also directed by the King unto the House of Peeres representing something as is conceived concerning the Proposition Saturday May 15. By Leteers from Ireland it was this day certified that the Towne and Castle of Caterlagh is surre ●dred to the Rebells upon quarter and that they intend to advance from thence to besiege another hold call'd Trymen Our ●orse are taken into the field the Rebells intend with a running Army to sall into the English quarters and sweep away all the cattell before them There is a report that the Lord I●●he q●i● hath performed good service in Munster and taken a strong Castle from the Rebells called Cupoquine where was found some store of Ammunition and provision It is also said that Generall Preston is designed with a strong power to march into Munster to divert the proceedings of the Lord Inchequin against him In the meane time from the Headquarters at Walden it is certified that the Souldiers have made their severall returns by their officers who say that they find no distempers in the Army but many grievances It is referred to a Committee of generall officers to digest into order and method what is propounded by the whole Army this accordingly hath been done and the grievances distinctly set downe in the name of the officers and souldiers of the whole Army which hath been presented to Field Marshall Skipper to represent them to the Parliament In this they meddle with nothing but that which pertains to them as Souldiers Monday May 17. THe Committee for Ireland did this day sit for the promoting of the affaires of that Kingdome from whence we received further confirmation that Generall Preston being advanced to hinder the prosperous successe of the Lord Inchequin in the Province of Munster Owen Oneale is ordered to defend the Province of Lemster and what the Rebells doe enjoy about Kilkenny which is a flourishing Country and by some called The Garden of that Kingdome A numerous party of our Horse with some companies of Foot are marched into the Field betwixt whom and the Rebells you will shortly heare of Action The Letters from Scotland doe this day certifie that the affaires in that Kingdome doe continue in the same condition as I declared to you in my last with little or almost no alteration at all Kolkiteth continueth and repeateth his old cruelties Lievtenant-Generall Lesley doth continue still at Pearth on the foot of the hills not far from Saint Johnstons he doth what he can to incurrage and fortifie the Garrisons in the Counties of Carlile and Larue He is making great preparations to advance into those Counties for the reliefe of the poore Inhabitants and to fight with Kilkitoth who it is said expecteth daily Recruits of men and Armes from Ireland The Lord Dunfermeling is not as yet gone unto the King to Hol●●by but setteth forth from London about Thursday next The present necessities of the Kingdome of Ireland doe crave sudden and considerable supplies That which this week is most remarkable is first from England The Kings Letter to the Parliament His Answer drawn up to the Propositions And his judgement of it The Queenes Letter is the King The Desires and the Demands of the Souldiers of the Army and an Order for more Pay for them The strong Castle of Catterlagh is Ireland surrendred to the Rebells And the successe of the Lord Inchequin in Munster The preparations there of our Forces and the Designes of the Enemy The cruelty of the Arch Rebell Kolkitoch in Scotland and the preparations of Lievtenant Generall Lesley to march up the Hills and to give battell to him Printed for H. B.

led by the Genius of that wicked Destroyer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath offered violence to the Ghost of our Vedelius not without indangering the peace both of Church and State for not onely doth he rage against Vedelius but also against all Christian Magistrates in a large Booke and that so lavishly that he seemes to challenge to himselfe alone not onely the Dictatorship of ruling but of railing too he doth in generall speak evill of Magistrates but as it is thought tacitly flings all his darts against the Magistrates of Midleburgh but hee hath so cunningly contrived the matter as if hee had first casually found out the Errors and blasphemies of Vedelius which afterward bee presented to the Consistory of Midleburgh and then to the Classes of Walachria by whose intreaty hee undertook this taske forsooth unwillingly Hee hath adorned his work with a specious title to wit The Right of Magistrates in holy things as if hee were about to fight for the honour of Magistrates whereas he upbraides them every where in●uricusly with carnall violence with nullity and servility in Church-affaires So that oftentimes hee makes secular powers guilty of sacriledge and of trampling upon the blood of Christ if they offer to meddle with Ecclesiastick affaires besides what hee hath prescribed Now least this Walachrian should without controle write what hee pleaseth Philarchiae pruriginem against our famous Vedelius and all godly Magistrates I thought good to scratch with my pen his itching desire of ruling It is the part of your Highnesse to suppresse by your Authority this scab that it may not spread too farre I confesse I have in some places pulled him by the eares somewhat roughly but yet more modestly then hee deserved being no wayes desirous to wrestle with the shaddow of learning but as they are wont to doe who have the keeping of Lions they beat a Dogge that the Lion may be afraid so I thought good to beat this curre that I might keep the Lions whelps within their dens or grates Who would roare aloud other wayes but now whisper onely in corners As sure as the Sun shines this Walachrian device is borrowed from Popery and Printed to this intent that in Walachria or at least in Midleburgh Apollonius alone with a few Classick Elders and assistants might rule the rost I speak not heare out of partiality for this VVilliam Apollonius is not known to mee either by benefits or injuries let every man beleeve or not beleeve as hee pleaseth my purpose is no other then to make the device of this Apollonian Church sanctity absurd and ridiculous for it is not onely as like Popery as a Doves egge is like a Hens egg but also it intendeth the same end so that what the Pope doth openly and directly in challenging power over all secular Princes this man by an indirect way and cunning circuition doth obtain over his Magistrates and would make tryall of it if occasion served the truth of both which if I should in a short abridgement set down I hope it shal not trouble you to run over though perhaps your more serious imployments may deny you leasure to read the rest That old leven of Popery concerning the wonderfull sanctity and spirituality of the externall Ministery of the visible Church hath been trampled upon by all Orthodox men This the Pope the fatall enemy of Christ and the very Antichrist hath so dressed and polished that hee hath perswaded the world to beleeve that all Clergie-imployment is sacred and spirituall and that the Clergie themselves are all spirituall and holy Whence men were possessed with a superstitious conceit that it was neither lawfull nor possible for Lay-men to intermeddle with Eccles●astick affaires that this charge belonged by divine and inviolable right to the Clergie or spirituall men onely That this was the fruite or effect of their Vocation and confirmation which imprints a spirituall and indelible character upon the soule and body of Clergie men by the priviledge of which they are preferred in holinesse to all other Christians as being but Lay-men That this game was borrowed from the ceremonies of the Jewish Synagogue and Gentilisme is apparent even to Papists themselves if they are not blinde but whosoever are conversant among the Romish Clergie will finde that this spirituall character is of such efficacy that for it a certaine honour of holinesse is ascribed not onely to the persons themselves though never so loud but even to their vestments and I doubt mee to their very excrements Ordination Which priviledge because it ariseth from their Calling and Confirmation hence it is that from the first originall of Antichristianisme sharpe disputations have been had concerning the right of Vocation and its dignity so that every one studyed how to snatch from each other the right and prerogative of conferring this sanctity This is most clearely seen in the election and calling of the Popes For not without divine appointment did the Pope preferre himselfe to all Monarchs by this pretext of spirituality Hence arose the fatall pride * Typhus of that seat and Bishop in preferring himselfe and his chaire in holinesse before all others and chiefly in substracting from the Civill Magistrate and arrogating to himselfe the right of his Vocation as it were by an uncontrouled and divine priviledge This arrogancy was foreseen by those excellent Emperours Justinian Mauritius Lodovicus Pius the Otho's See Plati a in the lives of the Popes and chiefly by Henry the third who curbed it by divers Laws and Penalties reserving to themselves the right of election of Popes untill Pope Hildebrand thrust Henry the fourth from this right asserting it to the Church as her sacred property and so having undergone this * Apotelesma perfect work of Antichrist and willing to shew his universall dominion he compelled this Emperour to come in an humble manner to him being then at Carnossa through ice and snow these are Platina's owne words The superstitious perswasion then of spirituality wherewith men were seasoned was the first rise of Antichristian pride In vita Greg. 7 from this proceeded afterward the separation of Church-men from other Christians as Laicks which exempted them at first from the power and command of the Civill Magistrate in Ecclesiasticall businesse Hence proceeded Ecclesiastick Courts of Justice which being one Empire within another and a Kingdome within a Kingdome it could not bee avoyded but that these two powers and jurisdictions must needs dash one against the other to wit the Ecclesiastick and Civill and this fell out many times with such eager contention that the Christian world trembled at it but by Antichrists fatall obstinacy the Ecclesiastick Government in this strugling obtained the Victory That now the Pope being advanced by his two swords and three Crownes he sleights the Scepters of all Emperours and Kings This is the type of Popery to which as an antitype answers Apollonius his Walachrian government for with