Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	king_n	power_n	successor_n	2,893	5	9.1968	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02435	A description of the Church of Christ, with her peculiar priuiledges, and also of her commons, and entercommoners With some oppositions and answers of defence, for the maintenance of the truth which shee professeth: against certaine Anabaptisticall and erronious opinions, verie hurtfull and dangerous to weake Christians. Maintained and practised by one Master Iohn Smith, sometimes a preacher in Lincolneshire, and a companie of English people with him now at Amsterdam in Holland. Whome he hath there with himselfe rebaptised. By I.H.	Etherington, John, fl. 1641-1645.	1610 (1610)	STC 12567; ESTC S118987	75,210	130

not apparrell Cesar may forbid God forbiddeth not Cesar may commaund Where there is no law there is libertie wee were in bondage once indeede when shaddowes were in place but now we are freed and set at liberty by the Son who is free and the very substance is in him God commaundeth all times for prayers and supplications 2. Thes 5.15 Cesar one time forbidding no time breaketh no law for euery one is contained in all And so in all other things that are not eyther commaunded or forbidden of God and in obeying Cesar therin wee giue vnto Cesar the thinges that are Cesars whereas otherwise if we obey him not wee are guilty of the breach of the morall law which saieth Thou shalt loue thy neighbour as thy selfe And so breaking this one great cōmandement we are guilty of that other the greatest of all Thou shalt loue thy Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soule c. For although God doth not appoint and commaund Cesar in all what lawes hee shall make yet doth hee confirme all those lawes which hee doth made which are not contrary to his owne lawes and commandeth obedience thereto at the handes of all subiects to their Kings and gouernours and all other their superiours bee they good or bad of what profession soeuer he be whether Prophet or Priest or Bishop true of false so he haue power he must be obeyed or else we are guilty of the wole law of God Rom. 13.1 for all the powers that be as one saith are ordayned of God And therefore whosoeuer hee be that lyeth in prison or suffereth any punishment whatsoeuer for disobeying of any of these his gouernours in any of those lawes or Canons not opposite to Gods lawes he suffereth as an euill doer and so depriueth himselfe of that liberty which the Apostle exhorteth to saying Stand fast in the liberty wherin Christ had made you free and be not entangled againe Gal. 5.1 c. If you doe well saith one who will harme you 1. Pet. 3.13 The daes are past long a goe wherein there was a law which said Touch not tast not handle not c. wherwith consciences might be defiled but thanks bee to God who hath freed vs through Iesus Christ our Lord that whether wee eate or eate not tough or touch not obserue or obserue not wee offend not so that wee haue knowledge neither God nor our consciences so that withall we take heede and make not this liberty a cloake for sinne It is a good garment for a Saint but not for a sinner for hee takes liberty there-vnder 1. Pet. 1 6 to runne into all kind of riot and excesse But we as we must giue vnto Cesar the things that are Cesars So wee must giue vnto God the things that are Gods And in those things which neither God nor Cesar doth require but is in our owne liberty to take our leaue as to eate and drinke to put on to buy and the like heerein wee must not exceed least it ouercome and rule our affections and so wee turne our liberty to sin much rather let vs forbeare finding them not expedient for though all thinges are lawfull as one saith yet all things are not expedient 1. Cor. 6.12 I will not be brought saith hee vnder the power of any thing And looke on the saith he in another place who walke so as ye haue vs for an example Philip. 3.17.18.19.20 for many walke of whome I haue told you often and now tell you weeping who are enemies to the Cresse of Christ whose end is dānation whose God their belly and glory to their shame which minde earthly things but our conuersation is in hēauen And therefore let vs giue vnto God the things that are Gods and to Cesar the things that are Cesars And if Cesar should require any thing which belongeth to God let vs giue him our liues if we had ten thousand before hee should haue it 1. Pet. 3.17 and then we should not suffer as euill doers but for righteousnesse sake These things look vnto you that run from country to country and you also that stay at home and trouble the proceedings of Sion Know this that yee suffer as euill doers and cause others also to doe the like by following your steppes But some man perhaps will say Obiection I could almost finde in my heart to obey Cesar the King but I cannot abide these Prelates the Bishops to obey them canst thou not indeed Take loue into thy breast and then thou shalt see what thou canst doe I but thou wilt say Hee is no Cesar not yet a lawfull gouernour his calling and power is Antichristian and it came from the beast The Pope of Rome who receiued not his power from God but from the great red Dragon the diuell Reu. 13.2 Answere Well I aunswere Heere thou art deceiued two wayes first whereas thou saiest that our Bishops receiue their callings power from the beast the Pope of Rome is vntrue In former times indeede they did but now they receiue their callings and power from Caesar our King who hath authority to determine and appoint Titus 3.1 euery publique calling in all his kingdomes 1. Pet. 3.13.14 tending to the common-wealth of all his subiects as well for the feeding of their soules as for the preseruation of their bodies and goods And this is a charge laide vpon him by God himselfe as euery housholder is bound to prouide to his power all things necessary for his houshold both for soule and body And as the King is bound to see all his great houshold prouided for to his power and to place ouer them the best and fittest for the purpose I mean for soule and body So he may giue power and authority to all sorts of them to performe the will of God and to see his owne lawes kept and executed without resistance or disturbance Secondly whereas thou saiest that the beast the Pope receiued his power from the great red Dragon the diuell Thou saist true but thou shalt see if thou wilt looke well vpon the matter how thou doest deceiue thy selfe For tell mee who was that great red Dragon was it the diuell himselfe alone or was it the Emperour in whom the diuell dwelt Reu. 12.3 who is said to haue seuen heads and ten hornes wherewith the diuell alone is neuer described but the Emperour it was that gaue him his power and his Throane and great authority in whom the diuell dwelt as he doth in all such like bloudy Tyrants And as he hath done in the beast the Dragons successour in more cruell malice and deceit aboue forty of his two and forty moneths Ren. 13.5 wherein power was giuen him to doe But tell me who gaue the Emperour his power was it not God Christ our Lord saith to the Emperours Deputy Pilat Thou couldst haue no power saith he except it were giuen thee from