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A69092	Christian liberty described in a sermon preached in the Collegiate Church at Westminster, by a minister of Suffolke. A.C.	Chapman, Alexander, 1576 or 7-1629.; Barlow, William, d. 1613.	1606 (1606)	STC 4960.5; ESTC S100899	19,010	41

would more wonder at them or detest them First from hence all obedience to magistracy it is at one blowe taken away and that very Paradox of the Anabaptistes as Eckius setteth it downe plainely established Nulli potestati obediend●m For if the magistrate commanding things indifferent bee not vpon conscience to bee obeyed then can hee commaund nothing nor is hee to bee obeyed in any thing all things beeing either commaunded by God and so the obedience to him or inhibited by God so not to be commanded by man or left indifferent by God to bee inioyed or prohibited by man Next from hēce cōmeth confusion dissentiō which God is neuer author of by the freedom of this choice in euery thing and yet I know these men will much commend their vnity but I must say with Tertul Praes 43. Confusio reuera siue schismata apud huiusmodi fere non sunt quia cū sint non apparent schismata est enim vnitas ipsa confusion and schismes be neuer with such for when they bee they make no rentes and schismes for it is their very vnity it selfe Lib. 1 Their very forme and order is to haue no order nor forme As Tacitus speaketh in his Annals of a Tumult conspiracy of the legions so will I of these Nil paucorum instinctu pariter ardescunt pariter silent there is not a dissention of one or two they altogether ryotte it but though altogether yet they ryotte it they altogether are vnruled but though altogether yet vnruled with such an vniuersall concorde in discorde tanta aequalitate constantia vt regi crederes with such an equality constancy that you would thinke they were gouerned had a discipline And this you see Tacitus maketh a note of faction in the common wealth and Tertullian of schisme or heresie in the Church Barbaris quo quis audacior saith Tacitus tanto magis fidus rebus commotis potier So will I say of these men quo quis seditiosior tanto fidelior rebus commotis potior the more seditious and discomformable the more faithfull and sounde and in disagreement of the more esteeme and reckoning I know their answere to be vsuall that their confused dissention if any of them can bee brought to acknowledge any is but in outwarde rites and toies Et differentia rituum commendat doctrinae vnitatem Alas a simple commendation Nay but rather though the censure be subiect to censure let me aduenture to say with Tertullian Pres 43. That Doctrinae index disciplina the loosenes of their discipline is a bewrayer of what sort their doctrine is Et quòd de genere conuersationis qualitas fidei aestimari potest and that from the kind of their conuersation the quality of their faith may bee iudged Hence further from this impeachment and minution of authority and establishment of euery particular mans liberty of obediēce followeth with an easy and slippery pace that Paradox which Eckius but falsely as I hope accuseth Luther of Lib de seculari potestate quod inter christianos nulla debet aut potest esse superioritas sed vnusquisque alteri aequaliter subiectus est an opinion against the lawes of God man reason sense and nature Hence next a particle of this generall and an experiment and practise first in the state ecclisiasticall by holding no superiority no praelacy no Hierarchy but equality in the ministry A baser kinde of pride not that which contemneth inferiours from a conceit of selfe-excellency but that which endureth not and maligneth a superiour from feare of punishment and priuety of selfe insufficiency a Paradox perchance well pleasing to the laity vnaduisedly not marking that beginning in the Clergy it would at length Many other obseruations of further abuses were here cut off by the time come creeping amongst themselues I will now onely bestow one further obseruation vpon our owne home-vrgers of this Christian liberty and so conclude When Iulius Agricola in his second expedition had ouercome a great part of this I le of Brittaine very cunningly with a pleasing Liberty and Licenciousnesse of life intised the ruder inhabitants to a liking and imitation of their customs the Brittaines presently taken fell in loue with all their practises their actions their habits and their sports paulatimque discessū ad delineamenta vitiorū and at length they fell also to the imitating of their vices their bathinges their banquettings and all their luxuries Idque tandem saith the story apud imperitos humanitas vocabatur cum pars seruitutis esset that at length with the vnskilfull vulgar was called humanity which as a part of their seruitude and a badge of their ouerthrowe he was accounted the most ciuill and ingenuous man who imitated the Romans best when as indeede hee was the most slaue by imitating his politique subduing aduersary In some not vnlike sort wee now entised by the faire shew of Liberty and Christian freedome do fal in great loue and liking with it paulatimque discedimus ad delineamenta vitiorum at length we come also to the imitating and practising of the faire abuses vices of it and that is called with vs Christianity Christian Liberty as that other was with them Humanity cum pars seruitutis sit when as it is a part of seruitude and we slaues in it if duely considered to the inuention of some one or two particular men and to the practise of some beginning Church and he would be accounted with vs the best reformed Christian who doth imitate it best when as hee is indeede the most slaue by imitating his politique subduing aduersary To which purpose wel obserued a late writer that the worthines of one hee nameth Caluin had wrought too much vpon other mens weakenesse To conclude I will say but that onely of these precise schismatiques Hist lib. 1. which Tacitus doth of Astrologiās Genus hominum potentibus infidum sperantibus fa●lax they be a kind of people treacherous disloyall to great men deceitful false to them that hope in them and I pray God I may not iustly adde that which followeth Genus etiam hominum quod apud nos vetabitur semper retinebitur they bee a kinde of men which alwaies shall be forbidden and yet alwaies retayned No let them goe in their remoual pernitiosior quies quam temeritas rest is more pernitious then rashnesse The God of might and mercy giue vs all ●he spirit of his holy Catholique Church that is of Liberty not licentiousnesse of freedome not loosenes of obedience not faction of vnity not diuision of wisedom iudgement not fancie singularity that all combined in the one and single diuine inspiration of it we may vnderstand our liberty rightly practise it vnabusiuely in religious liberality to the poore charitably in perfourmance of the commandementes to our power laboriously in obedience to the Magistrate and his lawes most dutifully In reuerence to the Church-canons Rites and Ceremonies most conscionably and thus in loue seruing all one another most christianly This graunt God the father the sonne and the holy ghost to whom be ascribed al power might maiesty and dominion now and for euer Amen