Selected quad for the lemma: authority_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
authority_n	peter_n	pope_n	successor_n	2,110	5	8.9988	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05479	Twelue sermons viz. 1 A Christian exhortation to innocent anger. 2 The calling of Moses. ... 11 12 The sinners looking-glasse. Preached by Thomas Bastard ...	Bastard, Thomas, 1565 or 6-1618.; Bastard, Thomas, 1565 or 6-1618. Five sermons. aut	1615 (1615)	STC 1561; ESTC S101574	96,705	150

note to whom our Lord speaketh For hee doth not instruct the Magistrates or rulers in their duty which were not present to his Sermon For hee speaketh to his Disciples and the people which had no authority and singling them out a Vobis dico I say to you So the Disciples and the multitude which beare no office are forbidden to reuenge priuate injury offered Fourthly Christs Disciples and the multitude did dreame of an externall and politicall kingdome of the Messiah which should be armed with externall and kingly power and authority and vanquish their enemies but CHRIST here foretelleth that they must looke for no such thing no such bodily Sauiour but rather prepare themselues to suffer smitings on the cheekes and spoyle of goods and bitter injuries and reproach Neyther should-they receiue assistance of the Magistrates themselues which are called the Shieldes of the earth but rather haue layd vpon their backes by them also most grieuous and heauy burthens Fiftly and lastly CHRIST setteth downe heere the forme of his kingdome which is spirituall and heauenly For to the eies of the world his kingdome appeareth not If my Kingdome were of this world then would my Ministers fight for mee that I should not be deliuered to the Iewes Different from this estate are earthly kingdomes which are ordered vnder wholesome defence of Lawes and Authority and power temporall which yet as we haue shewed is the ordinance of God Therefore he which is a Free-denizon of heauen and of the House and Family of God may be also a citizen in an earthly corporation and estate as S. Paul proued himselfe a citizen of Rome and appealed to Caesars Iudgement seate Acts 25. 10. I cannot forbeare to speake whether the Pharises peruerted with falser glossing the law of Moses or our aduersaries the words of Christ. Saint Peter from whom the Pope challengeth his high Supremacie could not finde exemption from the Magistrate allowed him out of these words of Christ but was contented to be vnder authoritatiue correction of heathen rulers so were all the Apostles but Peters successors haue shaken off all authority of Christian Magistrates I pray you of what Scripture sauoreth this Stile To be iudged of none Well let vs graunt the Pope this liberty to be free of all soueraignty temporall and sithence it must needs so be let all the shauen Priests haue immunity from all Secular power And not onely challenge this prerogatiue when the Magistrate may seeme to offer them injustice and wrong but in cases in which themselues stand guilty of most notorious crimes But whence hath he learned to be aboue all authoritie Nay who gaue the Beast with the great Horne power to push Kings out of their Thrones to depose the Magistrate to stop the ordinary course of Iustice to maintaine the subjects in disobedience to assoyle them of their oathes of allegeance and how was it found an act meritorious to murder kings a point of highest godlines to lay wicked hands vpon the annoynted ministers of God If there be any light in the word of God if any truth in the truth hence may we know that man of sinne which is an aduersary and exalteth himselfe aboue all that is God For if the Magistrates be Gods on earth as Christ himselfe saith and shall be shewed the Pope extolling himselfe aboue all Authority of earthly Princes aduanceth himselfe aboue all that is God on earth And if Christ be the King of Heauen which flatly denyeth his kingdome to be of this world The Pope by joyning to the spirituall the temporall sword exalteth himselfe aboue all that is God in Heauen Well I I leaue you to consider further This I dare say hee will take no blowes on the cheeke For our present matter in hand wee stand by these assured that the Magistrates authority is warranted by God and to this end to punish the doers of euill and therefore it is lawfull by authority of Gods word for any that is wronged to seeke that ordinance for redresse onely we are forbidden to auenge our selues Therefore the Widow did not offend which sought the injust Iudge Now priuate reuengings draw friends on both sides and parties and confederacies and so the resisting of the euill is a cause to spread it further But when the Magistrate punisheth no man taketh part no man resisteth no man is offended onely the euill is taken away and the Delinquent by exemplary justice done made a terrour to all offendours But you will say Vengeance is mine saith the Lord. True But God himselfe saith That they which beare rule are Gods And Christ himselfe so interprets that Scripture Therefore when they strike God striketh when they kill God killeth they haue his Sword they haue his Ordinance they haue his Seate they haue a speciall name they haue a speciall annointing from him Therefore they are free from offending when they kill offendours or euill doers of that Law which saith Thou shalt not kill And that commandement of not resisting euill bindeth not them nay rather they highly sinne against God if they resist it not We haue it then most euident what Christ intendeth when he saith Resist not euill For when wee haue receiued wrongs and are destitute of helpe from the Magistrate then ought wee not to auenge our selues and by priuate resistance requite euill with euill but to compose our selues to meekenesse and patience in forbearing to forgiue our enemies and not onely to temper from all outward force but to quench all inward and inordinate heate burning to reuenge We must keepe the peace of Christ either by publique resisting or priuate forbearing And rather suffer the losse of our liues than to haue the sweet fruit of quiet patience destroyed in vs. If spittings smitings woundings killings might shake our hope or take away the comforts of Gods spirit who could be Christs Disciples We may keepe GODS peace in warre no tumult no fire or sword of our enemies can take it from vs. For him wee serue for sauing our soules and for an euerlasting deliuerance And shall we forsake him for an houres paine and a blow on our cheekes Hee that striketh our shadow toucheth not our body And hee that killeth the body toucheth not the soule Must the followers of Christ goe to Heauen by a common way Shall those constant Patients which are in the diet of Saluation feare taking some bitternesse in their potion or letting a little bloud They write that Archimedes had his mind so fixed on a few Mathematicall lines which he drew in the dust that hee attended not while the Citty was fired about his eares But how many thousands of professours of Christ can wee name whose Faith hath beene so fixed in God that they haue despised the cruell siege and battery which the enemies of CHRIST haue laid to their flesh and bloud But because this Doctrine soundeth vnreasonable to eares of