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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97180	The devilish conspiracy, hellish treason, heathenish condemnation, and damnable murder committed and executed by the Iewes against ... Christ their king ... As it was delivered in a sermon on the 4 Feb. 1648 ... out of some part of the gospel appointed by the Church of England to be read on that day.	Warner, John, 1581-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing W902; Thomason E550_16	37,074	47

people the creator and maker of the King as it appears he is by the Text hath power to destroy his owne creature if he faile in the end of his creation Answ Saint Peter writing here to the Jewes who held their Royall Government 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be divine and immediate from God and to stand in force without the election or ordination of man might call the Heathen dominion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an humane ordinance or creature for so creature sometimes notes what is heathenish or not heavenly and if so then the Argument of the Apostle holds the more strong for Ch and all Christian Kings being the Apostle commands the subjection not resistance the obedience not murdering of such humane creatures as Heathenish Kings 2. In some part and in some degrees the jurisdiction of the best Kings for extent may be humane of man but that concludes not that the power of managing the Sword is simply humane and not divine for as Saint Paul and Saint Peter spake by and from the Spirit infallible truth so Saint Paul expresly professeth Rom. 13. that this power of the Sword is in the King the Supreme as Saint Peter here stiles him and that to be not from man humane but from God divine 3. Were the Kingly Office an humane creature yet the person or manhood of the King is not such his person or manhood is Gods creature so that from this Text taken in their owne sense the most that can be inforced were that they might in some cases dethrone whom they had exalted but kill him the person the man they cannot they may not for this God made and not they Object But nature and reason teach us to defend our selves and to kill what would destroy us rather then to be killed Resp 2 Cor. 20. the wisdome and reason of worldly men is foolishnesse with God and the naturall man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishnesse unto him 1 Cor. 2.14 Secondly although nature and reason in the generall dictates so much unto us yet nature and reason have laid some restraints upon this Maxime in respect of Persons for suppose the head of a man intoxicated or distracted should endeavour the hanging or drowning the body might the body to preserve it selfe destroy this head and the King in respect of his Subjects hath the like relation and therefore is so called both in Gods and our Lawes the Head of the People Thirdly but can there be a better Expounder of the Law of nature or reason then God himselfe in this case which if you grant then I pray go through the whole Booke of God both in the Old and New Testament and tell me if God hath not every where injoyned subjection and forbad even resistance against the worst Kings 2. Whether throughout the Bible those that were led by Gods Spirit did not follow this rule strictly as David to Saul c 3. Tell me whether you find the least print of any precept or counsell given to any Subject to put their King to death 4. Whether ever any Subjects mentioned in all Gods Book ever pleaded any Text or good example in warranty or excuse of such an act 5. Whether for the most part all Offenders in this kind have not throughout Gods Booke and Law received condigne punishment from heaven or earth or both and if all this holds true and good I cannot but wonder that men that Scriptures should forsake Scriptures and betake themselves to reason and nature when as still it cannot be denied that the Scripture of God is the best Expositor of nature and reason Object But vox Populi vox Dei what all the People say may be interpreted to be as the voice of God 2. Heare Pilat as well as divers Texts in the Gospels thy Nation John 18.35 which may be expounded the people of the Jewes in generall they have delivered thee unto me Resp Had this been really and absolutely true that all the Jewes had delivered Christ to death yet it could not have justified the act any more then the number of Sinners can make a sin just and lawfull 2. Though in this case of Ch it be said the People or Nation yet no more could rightly strictly be thereby understood than that those who were then present or who conspired delivered him to be slaine and this was not all the people of the Jewes it is therfore too unjustly too figuratively charged upon all when it is done but by a few of them all Object But you 'l say it was done by the Councell the Representative of all Resp This Councell by money corruption and usurpation had a great deale inlarged their power 2. But had their power or priviledge been greater it could neither make good evill nor evill good 3. But to the point if you consider what Ch the King had done for the people and how the people loved him you will easily collect from severall passages in the Gospels that the voice of the people was not for killing him And if you will yet presse that the voice of the People of God was for it and that is as the voice of God I must answer that if all be such as call themselves so then the Conspirators Numb 16. and then these Jewes that acted against the Lords Anointed were the people of God for these so stiled themselves the holy yea Numb 16.3 the word Holy may be rendered Saints And these are they who shall put him to death They shall put him to death which Translation by the leave of the learned and judicious I would gladly change and for this they shall I would read they will in stead of put to death I would render it they will kill and murder him for although for the most part future tenses are rendred indifferently by shall or will yet here to take away all shadow or plea from the malice of the act by laying it on the determinate counsell of God as Acts 4.28 I would read not they shall but they will 2. Not put to death but kill or slay for a lawfull Judge may put to death a Malefactor without staine or guilt of sinne but if the Party executed were innocent and the Judge not vested with just authority the man is truly and rightly said to be murdered And indeed I know not upon what cause or slip the same word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here is Englished by put to death and in other Texts as Mat. 21.39 by slay John 5.16 John 8.44 by Murder And all other Scriptures that speake of Christs death in relation to the Actors render it by kill slay or murder But if any aske the Question why not imprison or secure his Person as to Jo Baptist or banish him as to John the Apostle I must answer 1. that generally when Tyrants Usurpers of rule begin they scarce ever end but as here in killing for usurpation and unjust possession