A14241:13
A speech delivered in the castle-chamber at Dublin, the XXII. of November, anno 1622…
A speech delivered in the castle-chamber at Dublin, the XXII. of November, anno 1622 At the censuring of certain officers, who refused to take the Oath of Supremacy. By James Bishop of Meath.A speech delivered in the castle-chamber at Dublin, the XXII. of November, anno 1622 At the censuring of certaine officers, who refused to take the Oath of Supremacie. By Iames Bishop of Meath.
London: printed by Robert for Partners of the Irish Stock, 1631London: printed by Robert for Partners of the Irish Stocke, 1631
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And howsoever by this means we make both Prince and Priest to be in their several places Custodes utriusque tabulae, Keepers of both Gods tables: yet do we not hereby any way confound both of their offices together. for though the matter wherein their government is exercised may be the same; yet is the form and manner of governing therein always different. the one reaching to the outward man only, the other to the inward: the one binding or loosing the soul, the other laying hold on the body and the things belonging thereunto: the one having special reference to the judgement of the world to come, the other respecting the present retaining or loosing of some of the comforts of this life.
And howsoever by this meanes we make both Prince and Priest to bee in their severall places Custodes utriusque tabulae, Keepers of both Gods tables: yet do we not hereby any way confound both of their offices together. for though the matter wherein their government is exercised may be the same; yet is the forme and manner of governing therein alwaies different. the one reaching to the outward man onely, the other to the inward: the one binding or loosing the soule, the other laying hold on the body and the things belonging thereunto: the one having speciall reference to the iudgement of the world to come, the other respecting the present retaining or loosing of some of the comforts of this life.
That there is such a *civill government as this in causes spiritual or Ecclesiastical, no man of judgement can deny. For must not Heresy (for example) be acknowledged to be a cause merely spiritual or Ecclesiastical? and yet by what power is an Heretic put to death? The officers of the Church have no ⟨p. 7⟩authority to take away the life of any man: it must be done therefore per brachium secular; and consequently it must be yielded without contradiction, that the temporal Magistrate doth exercise therein a part of his civill government, in punishing a crime that is of it own nature spiritual or Ecclesiastical.