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A56215	The sword of Christian magistracy supported, or, A vindication of the Christian magistrates authority under the Gospell, to punish idolatry, apostacy, heresie, blasphemy, and obstinate schism, with corporall, and in some cases with capitall punishments ... by William Prinne of Lincolns Inne, Esquire.	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1653 (1653)	Wing P4099; ESTC R15969	222,705	186

out his Vineyard to other husbandmen which shal render him the fruits in due season which Parable was experimentably verified in the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jews by the Romans And it is added Whosoever shal fall on this stone Christ shal be broken but on whomsoever it shal fal IT SHAL GRIND HIM TO POWDER Mat. 22. 2. to 8. The Kingdom of Heaven is like unto a certain King which made a marriage for his son and sent his servants to cal them that were bidden to the wedding but they would not come c. And the remnant took his servants and intreated them spitefully and slew them But when the King heard thereof he was wroth and sent forth his armies and DESTROYED THOSE MURDERERS and burnt up their City Really verified in the Jews too To which I shal subjoyn Rev. 11. 17 18. We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty which art and wast and art to come because thou hast taken unto thee thy great power and hast reigned And the time is come thou shouldest DESTROY THEM WHICH CORRUPT THE EARTH Compared with Rev. 17. 5. 16. where it is thus prophecyed of the destruction of the whore of Babylon the great the mother of fornications abominations of the earth The ten horns which thou sawst upon the beast which are 10. Kings these shal hate the whore and make her desolate and naked and SHAL EAT HER FLESH BURN HER WITH FIRE for God hath put it into their hearts TO FULFIL HIS WIL. And Rev. 19. 19 20 21. And I saw the beast and the Kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sate on the horse And the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast them that worshipped his image These both were cast into A LAKE WHICH BURNETH WITH FIRE BRIMSTONE And the remnant WERE SLAIN WITH THE SWORD of him that sate upon the horse which sword proceeded out of his mouth and all the fouls were filled with their flesh From all these Parabolical Expressions in the New Testament it self of things to be acted by God the Father by Jesus Christ himself his servants the Magistrates under the Gospel I shal draw these Conclusions necessarily flowing from them First That God the Father and Jesus Christ are altogether as rigorous and severe if not far more ridged and mercilesse against their professed Enemies Antichristian Opposers Persecuters and false Prophets under the Gospel as they were under the Law which these Texts together with Heb. 2. 1 2. and c. 10. 26. to 32. and Rev. 6. 10. to the end undeniably manifest Secondly That such as those shall be punished with capital and corporal punishments even under the Gospel by Christ his Ministers Soldiers Revengers who bear his Sword who are principally orthodox Christian Kings and Magistrates as these several expressions manifest Slay them before my face He will miserably destroy these wicked men and murderers burn up their City grind them to powder thou shalt destroy them which corrupt the earth The ten hornes shal make the whore desolate and naked and shal eat her flesh and burn her with fier And the beast and false prophet were taken and cast into a lake which burneth with fier and brimstone the ground of the ancient Writ De Haeretico comburendo and of burning Hereticks and the rest were slain with the sword and all the fouls were filled with their flesh If any Object that the sword wherewith those last are said to be slain is nothing else but the sword of the Spirit and preaching of the Word because it is said that this sword proceeded out of the mouth of him that sate upon the horse which they further confirm by Isa 11. 4. He shal smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and by the breath of his lips shal he slay the wicked 2 Thes 2. 3. And then shal that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shal consume with the Spirit of his mouth and destroy with the brightnesse of his comming concluding hence That God doth all by the power of his Word even his punishments and destructions he executes by the Word I answer That the Sword proceeding out of the mouth of him that sate upon the horse in this Text is not the meer preaching of the Word and Gospel as is pretended but Christs denouncing of Sentence of Judgement and executing the same upon them not as a Preacher but as a Judge this is clear by Rev. 17. 2. Come hither and I wil shew thee the Judgment of the great whore c. Rev. 18. 8. Shee shall bee utterly burnt with fier for strong is the Lord who JVDGETH her Rev. 16. 21 22. Rejoyce over her thou heaven and ye holy Apostles and Prophets for God hath avenged you on her And a mighty Angel took up a stone like a great milstone and cast it into the sea saying Thus with violence shal the great City Babylon be thrown down and shal be found no more at all c. Rev. 20. 1 2 4 5. I heard a voyce of much people in heaven saying Allelujah salvation honor and power unto the Lord our God That SAT ON THE THRONE as a Judge For true and righteous are his JVDGEMENTS for he hath JVDGED the great where which did corrupt the earth with her fornications and hath avenged the blood of his Saints at her hands c. It follows in the very next words to those objected And I saw an Angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomlesse pit and a great chain in his hand And he layd hold on the Dragon the old serpent which is the Devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years and cast him into the bottomlesse pit and shut him up c. And I saw THRONES and they sate upon them and JUDGEMENT was given unto them c. And Verse 10 11 12 c. And the Devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false Prophet are and shal be tormented day and night for ever and ever And I saw a great white Throne and him that sate on it c. And I saw the dead smal and great stand before God And I saw the Books opened and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the Books according to their works c. By all which it is undeniable that the sword of the mouth wherewith those were slain was only Christs Sentence of Judgement and Execution passed upon the whore the false Prophet beast c. by himself sitting as a Judge or King upon his Throne of Judgment and his executioners not the preaching of the Word by himself or his Ministers as a Prophet preaching out of a Pulpit And in this sense Judges and Magistrates when they passe sentence of death