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A95627	A sermon preached at the primary visitation of the Most Reverend Father in God Michael Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh, primate and metropolitan of all Ireland, and lord high chancellor of the same. Held at Drogheda, August 20. 1679. / by Rich. Tenison ...	Tenison, Richard, 1640?-1705.; Boyle, Michael, 1609?-1702.	1679 (1679)	Wing T683; ESTC R184950	25,194	36

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Fortasse reum faciat Regem iniquitas imperandi innocentem verò militem ostendat Ordo serviendi The Magistrate may offend in commanding but not he who obeys the Principium actionis is in him and he must answer for it Thus should we behave our selves when what is commanded is only doubtful or indifferent we should have meekness of Judgment complying and condescending Spirits we should distrust and reject our private humours and fancies for the general quiet of the Kingdom and by our Conformity to the Rules imposed shew our Honour to the King and never resist them unless they be clearly against the revealed Law of God In such case only have we liberty to deny but even then we must refuse it with all humility and meekness patiently undergo Imprisonment or Death but never use any open resistance and thus have all Nations understood the Power and Prerogative of Princes for were there Decrees to be opposed with Force and Violence no Order or Government could be in the World And therefore the very Heathens advise Subjects to dye Tacit rather than lift up a hand against their King though he were Tyrannical and did exact unlawful things The Gods have given Princes Power to govern and nothing is left to the Subject but the Glory of Obedience let them be what they will we must obey without resistance Many are the Laws and most severe were the Punishments which they ordained to defend the Majesty and Grandeur of their Kings their Prefects and Officers if the Souldier broke the Stick with which the Centurion struck him he was put to death This Nature taught them and there is natural Allegiance due from every Subject to the Prince of the Country where he is born though that Prince did not make him swear he transgresses the Law of Nature if he denies Fealty to him and whether ever he is sworn or no he is bound to be true to his native Prince for the Fidelity of Subjects proceeds originally from the Law of Nature which is eternal and unalterable and not from the obligation of Oaths and he violates this Law who doth not pay all Honour and Subjection to that Prince in whose Country he his born and resides though he never took Oath of Allegiance or Supremacy But if my King require an Oath from me to assure him of my Fidelity I must take it and I am guilty of Perjury as well as Disloyalty if I ever swerve the least tittle from it He is the Head of the Society or Community of which I am a member to him before my Oath I owed homage by nature and no Power under Heaven can discharge me from that natural Allegiance which I owe him nor absolve me from the Oath I have taken without his consent Beside all which the Law of God has in many places enjoyned Obedience to Kings and there are not more positive and plainer Commands for any Duty than for Honour Maintenance and Obedience to Princes and we find no persons exempted from it but both Clergy and Laity are subject to it as I shall fully prove by Scripture and Antiquity and all who derogate from the Honour of their native Prince who lessen his Authority and deny his Supremacy act quite contrary to this Text and in so doing are neither good Christians nor good Subjects But they who walk exactly according to this Rule who honour the King and no way entrench upon his Prerogative but support it in its just height and exaltation they are the best Christians and the truest Subjects and consequently ought to receive all Countenance Incouragement and Protection from Princes and so I hast to the next thing 2. Who are the great Violaters of this Text and their unjust Pretences They who chiefly oppose the true Protestant Doctrine of Obedience to Secular Princes are the Papists and the Separatists in this they agree and their Principles are very destructive to Government quite contrary to the Practice of the Primitive Christians and the indispensable Rules of Scripture for the Law of God requireth all persons to obey their Kings if St. Peters words can have any influence on the Papists I need but name my Text which has no limitation in it but is directed to all men not imagining his Successors would have pretended the contrary but if they won't be concluded by him in this and other Texts let them hear what St. Paul says Ro. 13.1 Let every soul be subject unto the higher Powers if every soul must be subject the Pope and the Clergy are included and all are there commanded to obey under the dreadful penalty of Damnation But the Popes have since through Ambition and Avarice usurped a Power over Princes and the Jesuits the great Pillars of the Papal Throne have wrote much in defence of it though they can't but know that the Popes themselves observed this Rule for many hundreds of years and all the Bishops both of the East and West did exactly conform unto it L. 5. Orat in Aux Repugnare non novi dolere potero potero flere potero gemere lachrymae meae arma sunt c. says St. Amb. They claimed no Authority over them and made no resistance but with their Prayers and Tears Cum nefanda perpetimur ne verbo quidem reluctamur sed Deo remittimus ultionem Lact. l. 5. And Athanasius says Obedience to Magistrates was the universal Doctrine of the Church the antient Councils and Synods were called by the Emperours the Titles of their Acts are Sacra Synodus juxta religiosissimorum Christianissimor úmque Imperatorum nostrorum Praescriptum coacta Sacra Synodus juxta piissimorum nostrorum Imperatorum Decretum per Dei gratia m congregata Sometimes the Acts run Ex Jussu Ex Evocatione Ex Ordinatione Regum nostrorum c. They met by the Emperours Order Appointment and Writs 2 Cone Const as they acknowledge in their Letters to them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and their Acts were made Authentick by their Confirmation The Bishops humble Addresses to the Emperours for Establishing their Canons and Decres and their Ratifications and Orders for Obedience to them are frequently recorded and all the Clergy of Rome as well as other places observed their Edicts and no news then of the Popes Supremacy as is confess'd by the Bishops who met at Bononia to settle the Church in the time of Julius the Third which Power did all along both under the Law and the Gospel belong unto Princes If you look in the Old Testament you 'l find they had power over the Clergy from the first settlement of Government amongst Gods own People Aaron obeyed Moses who was King in Jesurum in the 2 Chr. 23.21 You see both Clergy and Laity entring into a Covenant of Allegiance to young King Joash and then did Kings punish spiritual persons as well as others Abiathar was removed from the high Priesthood by King Solomon and Josiah Jehoshophat and other Kings

not to believe the Popes power of deposing Indeed Emmanuel Sa wont have the King killed Voce Tyran till he be Excommunicated but then latâ sententiâ any one may be his Executioner And Suares says T is lawfull to Resist and kill your own King L. 6. c. 3 6. if you cant defend your selves otherwise from his violence and in another place he says such insurrections are no Treason but a Just war which Doctrine was defended by Dr. Petit upon the Murther of the Duke of Orleance Simanca says an heretical Prince must not only lose his Kingdom but his Children shall be debarred from the succession L. Dict. Philop. sec 2. p. 1.9 And Creswel affirms That if any King desert the Roman Religion all Divines and Canonists agree that by the Law of God Man he immediatly looses all power and dignity before the Pope give Sentence against him his subjects are free from all Oaths of Allegiance which they have taken and they may and ought if they have strength to depose him as an Apostat Heretick And says he This is the most certain Definit and undoubted opinion of the most learned men L. 6. de Reg. p. 59. Mariana says The King must be admonished to own the Popes Supremacy but if he wont they may kill him how highly does he and so does the Jesuit Ribadeneira also defend and extoll that inhuman Monk who murthered H. 3d. and calls that horrid wickedness C. 6. an admirable greatness of spirit and an Act not to be forgotten by which he had raised to himself a great and mighty name There does he Justify the Killing of Kings for the alteration of Religion and in the next chapter directs the manner how he would have them poysoned which very Book was approved of by their General the Visitor and other Grave and Learned men of the Jesuitical order It were endless to name all who maintaine this Opinion read Amphitheatrum Bonarsii and the Book De Abdicatione H. 3 and you 'l find the assassinating of Kings largly justified and in Franciscus Veronas Apology for the wicked Chastel Pars. 2. c. 2. you 'l see the Killing of Kings Vindicated with this Circumstance Non obstante decreto supradicti Concilij Constantiensis Privatis et Singulis licitum sit Reges et Principes Haereseos Tyrannidis condemnatos occidere Tho the Council of Constance decreed the Contrary yet may any Private man kill Kings and Princes condemned for Heresy and Tyranny Gretzer Burgoin Andreas Eudemons Apology for Father Garnet and many more too tedious now to mention are full of such discourses De. Pontif. Rom. Their great oracle Bellarmine cryes out Papa potest mutare Regna uni auferre atque alteri conferre c. The Pope as he is supream spiritual Prince may take a Kingdom from one and give it to another and in another place he says C. 7 if the King be Tyrannical or Heretical all agree that he may and ought to be deposed and pretends the Primitive Christians would have served them so but that they wanted strength though he well knew they abhorred such Doctrines when they were equal to their Adversaries as is fully evident from St. Cypr. Tert. St. Aug. and others which great Truth is confessed by Barclay and Tollanus and other of their writers They own it was not for want of strength the Christians did not Rebell but out of obedience to the Principles of their Religion But that Cardinals judgment prevayled more than all the Primitive Fathers he affirms all agree in it and who will contradict him seeing one Pope says Non eos Homicidas arbitramur Urb. 2 Rescrip de Occis Excom c. quos adversus Excommunicatos zelo Catholicae Matris ardentes eorum quoslibet trucidâsse Contigerit That good Pope counted them no Murtherers who out of zeal to the Catholick Church would kill those whom she Excomunicated Who will doubt this to be the Doctrine of the Roman Church when the infallible head thereof as they call him gives such great encouragement to slay all who are under that sentence or sees another Pope grant a Jubile to all Christendom for the Massacre of Paris or reads the Oration which his Holiness made upon the Murther of H. 3d which is attested by Father Warmington Sixt. Quint. who writ and distributed the copies among the Cardinalls to second which Guinard made a Book in praise of the Monk who did it and in it advised the like to be done to his successour which Ravaillac performed and was also justified in their Publick writings and the Doctrine of Deposing Princes is fully asserted in many other books dedicaed to the Pope and the greatest Cardinals and the Superiors of their Orders carrying their Approbation and Licence in the Front and not only particular persons Conc. Lat. 4. Can. 3. Tom. 28. but above a thousand of their Clergy at once invested the Pope with the Power of Excommunicating and Deposing such Princes as at any time should refuse to extirpate Hereticks And did not another Council ratifie the Deposing of Frederick the Second Conc. Lugd. T. 28. by Innocent the Fourth and their Doctors tell us plainly what may be done with them when the Pope has deprived them for which I might quote Creswell and Windeck and others who say that Subjects are bound in Conscience and by the Command of God to expel their Heretical Princes and that they hazard their Souls if they don't do it and that all Hereticks should be put to death they should be burnt or cut in pieces By which you see 't is not the opinion of one but of many and the Practice of their greatest Church-men hath been agreeable to this Doctrine I could name several of their Bishops who in this Kingdom turned their Mitres into Helmets and their Croziers into Swords and embrued their hands in the blood of the Kings good Subjects and who can tell when they will be of a better mind and more merciful disposition for their Jesuit Campian says He would have all know In Concer Eccl. anno 1583. that their Society which is spread over all the world has made a League a holy and solemn Oath that while any one of them is alive they will go on in using all ways to extirpate and root out Protestants and that they will pursue the Ruine of our Princes Person Religion and Kingdom and we have found his words true hitherto Becan l. 5. c. 16. Comp. Contr. And another of his Brethren says A Catholick Prince ought not to suffer a Heretick to live in his Dominions unless they be too numerous and strong for him or unless he fears some Heretical Prince will invade him for it And in the preceding Chapter he says Hereticks do more disturb the Christian Peace than Murtherers or Thieves but they may justly be put to death much more may Hereticks In order to which these Kingdoms were formerly given