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A04031	A sermon vpon the words of Saint Paul, Let euerie soule be subiect vnto the higher powers wherein the Popes soueraigntie ouer princes, amongst other errors, is briefly but sufficiently refuted, and the supremacie of the King, by cleare euidence and strong proofe auerred, to the silencing of the aduersarie, and satisfaction of the indifferent Christian, not blinded with partialitie and preiudicate opinion / by Thomas Ingmethorpe.	Ingmethorpe, Thomas.	1619 (1619)	STC 14088.5; ESTC S121083	20,575	38

headlong into a hot burning fire and shunning an imagined Scylla fall ouer helmet and crest into an essentiall Charybdis For assuredly as the Popes blessing when it is at the best and poured out in his fuliest horn is scarce worth a good shoebuckle so his curse though with bell booke and candle is but as a fillip or fleabiting in effect whereas disobedience to the King doth bring the offenders to vndoubted ruine as here for the present so eternally in the world to come Spem pretio non emam Sannio in Terence as simple as he was yet would not buy a pig in a poke according to the prouerb for so he knew he might haply be cheated and disburse his money to his owne disaduantage But these be so sottish nay stupid that they sticke not wilfully to aduenture all their wealth temporall and eternal in a ship that hath a maine breach in the bottome and so is no sooner lanched out from the shore into the deepe but it sinkes streight and is sure to miscarie without hope of remedy They might do far better and shew more discretion a great deale to answer the Popes solliciters in that wicked motion as Demosthenes did the harlot Lais in another vnreasonable demand Tanti poenitere non emo 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 We list not buy a rue-bargaine so deare He hath good lucke if he run not into forfeiture that seals an obligation and neuer takes notice of the condition he may well come to beshrew himselfe and sit downe with losse that strikes hands before he be throughtly made acquainted with the match he is not like to win the game that playes his cardes at randon as they be dealt without so much as looking whether he followeth sute or no And are not they worthy to perish with Antichrist that embrace his tyrannicall vsurpation as a chiefe article of their Creed and therefore not onely inwardly to be assented vnto In their Cases of conscience the 55. Article but openly to be professed though death ensue before they haue well searched whether it be proportionable to the analogy of faith expressed in the Scriptures the onely authentical and self-complete rule of all true Catholicisme It will not serue their turne before God to say such and such learned men so informed vs no more then it did the Iewes which gaue their voices to Christs crucifying that the Scribes and Pharisees and high Priest had induced them so to do They would be loth to cut their coate after anothers measure or to bespeake their shooes by anothers last for so they might be made either too straite and wring them or ouer wide and not fit them What maruell then if they stray from the right faith who frame their iudgement to the opinion of other of knowledge perhaps profound enough and neuer examine whether it be answerable to the platforme of sound doctrine Truth is not pinned to the schoole doores nor tyed to the girdle of great Clearkes but is confined onely within the limits of the holy Scripture And as no gold was accounted holy without the Temple so there is no doctrine to be reckoned Catholicke but what hath his warrant and ground there If all that take vpon them the name of Teachers in the Church were ipso facto inspired of God and Orthodoxall the danger were not so great nor the caution so needfull but since all is not gold that glistereth nor euerie one that pretends well intends well but there be swarmes of false Prophets abroad in the world such as can say one thing and thinke another carrie bread in the one hand and a stone in the other such as in painted boxes for whosesome Triacle sell ranke poyson vnder a pleasant baite hide a deadly hooke and vpon counterfeit mettall set a right stampe Scorpions that haue amiable faces but stinging tailes Crocodiles that vnder teares can shrowd treason Virgilian Sinons Dicebant bene sed mente alta praua struebant 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a metaphor taken from foundations of houses which are laid deepe Epicharmus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cicero that vnder a smooth tale can bring in a Troian horse Homericall hypocrites that can speake well but dissemble deeply doubtlesse in matters of Religion especially in this controuersed point of highest consequence they cannot be ouer-cautelous and circumspect And truly hence it is that we daily see so many ouerseene and seduced because they practise not the precept of the wittie Poet in being mistrustfull nor follow the counsell of the sententious Orator in not being ouer-credulous nor take warning of the Diuine both Euangelist and Apostle in not beleeuing euerie spirit 1. Iob. 4. Wherefore I reade them as they tender their owne welfare and soules health not to suffer themselues longer like hooded hawkes to be caried blindfolded they wot not whither as Solomons foole was led to the stockes Prouerb 7. but to trie before they trust and not to follow the opinion of any man how Encyclopaedian soeuer Nullius addicti iurare in verba magiftri till they haue throughly sisted and bolted it and by due proofe and disquisition found it to be floure not bran good ware not raffe In which behalfe forasmuch as the small Tract following promiseth to minister no small furtherance vnto them it shall not be amisse without longer prologue or further prefacing to referre them vnto it Onely I request them to peruse it with indifferencie all factious affection set aside and then in Gods name let them iudge and doe as they see cause I can but perswade it lieth in them whether they will yeeld or no. In the meane while good Reader I bid thee heartily farewell At Stainton in the streete in the Bishopricke of Durrham Nouemb. 5. Ann. 1618. Thine in Christ Iesus Tho. Ingmethorpe The summe of this Sermon for memorie sake may be abstracted into this Tetrastich ACtum est de Papa perijt suprema potestas Quam supra Reges vendicat ensiferos Diuina siquidem Scriptura teste bicornem Constituit Mitram post Diadema Deus In English ALas for you Sir Pope Your supreme powre proues voide To Kings 't is due by right Whom long it hath annoide A SERMON VPON THE WORDS OF SAINT PAVL Let euerie soule be subiect vnto the higher powers Rom. 13.1 OF all doctrinall positions set abroach in the schoole of Antichrist men brethren and fathers well beloued in the Lord there is not a more erroneous paradoxe estranged nay abhorrent from all both diuine and humane literature then that which giues the Bishop of Rome preheminence ouer Kings and Emperours Innocent 3. in decretal aduanceth the Pope in state aboue the Emperour as much as the Sunne in brightnesse surmounts the Moone and as gold in value exceeds lead Gelas dist 95. Howbeit as among the Philosophers there was not an opinion so absurd but there were euer some auditors as absurd to entertaine it so as harsh an assertion as this

Paul shewes that Christians may be subiect to an heathen Magistrate but proues not that a Christian may play the Magistrate himselfe is no sound collection of a iudicious mind but a friuolous suggestion of a light braine for if Christians with safe conscience may be subiect to an heathen Magistrate why not rather I report me to you to one that is a Christian better qualified And if it be lawfull for a Christian to be a subiect why not a King since subiection seemeth more to preiudicate the libertie of the Gospel then to reigne beare rule Much might be said in consutation of these phantasticks but because I see they rather need to be purged for phrensie then informed by diuinitie I leaue disputing the case longer with them and at this time onely for their healths sake put thē in mind of Anticyra Naniget Anticyras where for sayling thither they may be sure of Helleborus enough to scoure their humorous braines withall And if they thinke much to be seene arriue and land there let them by my aduice hold on their course till they come to Vtopia or some such Vdemien coast For there if any where it is likely they may find entertainment and obtaine licence to erect their new fangled architecture the confused chaos and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 platforme of their turbulent and tumultuous Anarchy Sure sober and discreet Christians who besides the light of nature haue the Canon of Gods word to direct them will none of it Againe this marres the market of the Romane Clergie who chalenge an exemption from all earthly powers as a legacie bequeathed them of God by vertue of their spirituall function For whereas Saint Paul exacteth obedience of all men none of any vocation excepted as by the tenour of his speech is more then euident it argueth plainly that by the authoritie of Saint Paul which is agreed of all sides to be canonicall and authentick Clerks if they be men do owe subiection to the Magistrate no lesse then lay men The inference is not mine that ye should suspect it as new fangled and partiall It is the ancient Fathers owne of whom I haue borrowed it and from whom the Church of Rome would seeme to swarue in none of her Theoremes Chrysost hom 23. in epist ad Romanes and proceedings Chrysostome in his 23. Homily vpon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes out of the same words now in hand maketh the same deduction that by that generall precept of the Apostle all are concluded vnder subiection to the Magistrate Priests to vse his owne terms as wel as secular men Theophyl in cap. 13. epist ad Romanos Theophylact as he traceth the footsteps of Chrysostome in most of his expositions so in this he iumpeth iust with him and followeth him to a haire To whom subscribeth Theodoret In cap. 13. ep ad Rom. In Epist ad Roman Epist lib. 3. cap. 100. neither doth Oecumenius vary from them Pope Gregory the first maketh vp a part in the same harmony howsoeuer the later Popes sing the cleane contrarie note But it is no newes to heare Popes contradict one another the Musicke of the Papacie is compact almost if not altogether of such discords which make a melody fit for hell and Diuels to daunce by the measures thereof Saint Bernard though he saw not all things Ad Senoneos Arcbiepiscop epist 42. about the yeare 1140. by reason of the blindnesse of his time wherewith he was ouerwhelmed as he is taxed in the Prouerb Bernardus non vidit omnia yet as thicke as the mist was he could descry this interpretation for true through it and not onely condescended to it himselfe but laboured by strong perswasion to possesse others also and that Eugenius a Bishop of Rome himselfe amongst the rest with apprehension of the same And if these gray haires these old Fathers had all held their peace the case is so clearely resolued in holy Scripture and by practise of the Church so abundantly ratified and confirmed that none but such as haue lost their eies or wilfully close them against the light of apparent proofe can chuse but see it To beginne with the Priests of the old Testament that they were euer subiect to the Prince and vnder his Coram nobis it is frankly and freely confessed by Doctors of their owne that I shall not need to spend any time nor to bestow any paines about the further prouing of that point And for the Gospell that by it the state of Princes was neither abated nor altered but remained still the same it was before and so the Princes hand no more restrained from his Clergy then from his other subiects it may also by many manifest testimonies of the new Testamēt vnauoidably be euinced You cannot be ignorant how that Christ charged the Scribes and high Priests as well as others will all duty to Caesar the right and interest of God which in all things and at all times and of all persons ought to be foreprised and kept inuiolate safe reserued And for his owne part when he was conuented arraigned and condemned by the Romane Magistrate Ioh. 19. though but a deputie he was so farre off from excepting against him as one that transgressed the bounds went beyond the limits of his authority in medling with him both a Priest and a Prophet that he dutifully submitted himselfe vnto his will ingenuously agnized his power ouer him to be from heauen notwithstanding his iudgement against him was most iniurious and wrongfull And if Christ had freed his Apostles from the iurisdiction of the Magistrate would Saint Paul think you wittingly haue forfeited and betraied his right Act. 25. when of his owne accord he appealed to Cesar and made his personall appearance and apologie before his tribunall seate vnrequired No no it is well knowne Saint Paul was of that puissant spirit and vndanted courage that rather then he would haue so done he would haue incurred vndergone any euen the sharpest penaltie yea though he had bene thereunto by authoritie vrged and prouoked And whom I pray doth Saint Peter warne 1. Pet. 2. to submit themselues vnto the King as vnto the supereminent were they not his fellow Elders as well as the rest of the faithful whom a little after he importuneth to feed the flocke of God 1. Pet. 5. As for the title of kingly Priesthood attributed by Saint Peter to the Church of Christ 1. Pet. 2. it maketh nothing against this if it be construed aright For it must not be vnderstood of the kingdoms of this world as though the Apostles meaning had bin that Priests which in former times were subiect to the King were now by meanes of the Gospell become kings within themselues and may do as they list without controulment and feare of law Dorm fol. 40. as Dorman that drowsie Endymion and his Louanian consort dreame in their sleep but the Church