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A62249	The dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion, or, An answer to a book entituled, Sions groans for her distressed, &c. offered to the King's Majesty, Parliament, and people wherein is pretended to be proved by Scripture, reason, and authority of fifteen ancients, that equal protection under different perswasions, is the undoubted right of Christian liberty : but hereby confuted, wherein the power and proceedings of the Kings Majesty and the church are vindicated.	H. S. (Henry Savage), 1604?-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing S760; ESTC R34021	70,693	96

his subjects who bears the same relation to a Master of a family school or society as the whole does to a part But say they if Magistrates as such have such an authority then all Magistrates in all Nations have the same power Then if we lived in Turkey we must receive the Alcoran and be worshippers of Mahomet if in Spatu be Papists as in Hen. 8. his daies sometimes Protestants as in Edw. 6. his daies c. Ans This is the very argument of the Papists in Calvino Turcismo l. 4. c. 10. and improved by Champnaeus But it s answered by Mason de Ministerio Anglicano l. 3. c. 5. And hereunto I further say That as all Magistrates in all Nations have power in matters of Religion so they have the same power but not the same skill to govern nor the same Rule to go by in governing as for instance ones Rule is his will another's is the Law and of those that are limitted by Laws some rule by some Laws others by other Laws different from them So 1. in matters of Religion Magistrates do rule according to the book delivered unto them some have only the book of Nature put into their hands and these have a faculty thereby given them to rule and order Religion according to that such hath the Turk and all unconverted Magistrates Some have the Book of the Old Testament delivered into their hands and those were sometimes to rule according to that So Deut. 17. 18. it is said that when the King sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom be shall write him a copy of the Law in a book out of that which is before the Priests and Levites and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the daies of his life And in 2 Chron. 23. 11. it is said that they brought out the Kings son and put upon him the crown and gave him the Testimony and made him King c. Some have the book of the New Testament put into their hands and these are to order matters of Religion according to this such are all Christian Kings Princes and Governours Now whereas they would infer that therefore we must receive the ALCORAN be Papists and I know not what according to the sole will of our Governours whatever perswasion they be of This is not so for albeit whatsoever they enjoyn according or not contrariant to these Books be firm and inviolable yet whatsoever they determine without or against these Books is void so that the Turk hath not a stable and inviolable power given him to impose the ALCORAN and to enjoyn worship to Mahomet in as much as no such rule is given by the book of Nature delivered unto him Nature dictates no such thing and therefore such a thing must be given by God himself who is above Nature or else it must be acknowledged to be as it is indeed a meer Imposture The Kings of Israel had power given them to Rule by the Book of the Law in matters of Religion But they that did set up Idolatry contrary to the contents of that Book did abuse their power and in that regard their Injunctions were of no force The King of Spain hath the book of the New Testament put into his hands and consequently the moral part of the Old Testament but he permitting Idolatry and giving up his power into the Popes hands whose Vassal he becomes as all Popish Princes do he abuses this power If any other Prince does the like he is not to be followed therein He is neverthelesse passively to be obeyed that is a Christian-Subject is not to resist him but he is to submit to such punishment as he shall inflict upon him in as much as an errour in the understanding upon which proceeds the abuse of his power which is accidental does not make void his power which is essential to him and whereunto every soul is subject in foro externo The Spirit of God sayes in the same breath Fear God honour the King He who doth any thing by command from the King contrary to the command of God does not fear God and he that rebelleth or resisteth for it is all one the King upon any pretence whatsoever doth not honour the King but despise him yea and resist the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Rom. 13. The same may be said of the Turks forbidding a man to believe in Christ or any thing of absolute necessity to salvation wherein he is not to be obeyed in as much as it is not a thing contrary to the Law of Nature but of the Institution of the God of Nature that we believe in God and in him whom he hath sent Jesus Christ his Son 2. Secondly they say that since our Saviour tells us that all power is given him in heaven and in earth if the Magistrates have any such power it is committed to them from the Lord Jesus Christ and written in the New Testament I answer That no power could be given to Christ which he had not before being God eternal and therefore we must say that all power was in Christ naturally and essentially But there 's a power given him which he had not but by gift dispensatorily as he is the Mediatour which is nothing else but a Rule which he observes in the salvation of men as a thing added to his essential power Now infidel Kings receive their power from Christs natural and essential power only being not bound to believe in Christ nor to observe the Rules he gives till revealed unto them but to observe the Law of Nature given in Paradise according to which they and their subjects infidels shall be judged Wherefore I hope they will not send us to find this in the New Testament Though they should I have a text for them there too Rom. 1. 19 20 21. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them Kings that believe receive their power not from Christs natural and essential power onely but from his dispensatorie power as he is Mediatour and great Lawgiver to his Church by which power he does not take away the former but establish it rather Let them shew me where he takes it away If they do they must shew me a contradiction to the words of the Apostle who saies Rom. 13. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers Oh but these were heathen Magistrates say they Whereunto I answer that if every soul must be subject to Heathen Magistrates much more then to those that believe in Christ who came not to destroy but to rectify and perfect the Law of Nature 3. The third thing that they say will fall to the ground upon what has been already spoken viz. That the Apostles themselves refused to be obedient to their Rulers Act. 4. 19 20. When they were commanded to forbear that which they judged to be a part of the worship of

the Gnosticks he sate in the Temple of God called God by the Emperour Claudius who caused a Statue to be erected by liber between the two Bridges with this Inscription Simont Deo sancto to Simon the holy God and he had all rites of divine worship performed to him by the Samaritans Yea those that hold the Popes only to be Antichrist are driven to say That they are so as far only as they work by signs and lying wonders in the vertue and power of Simon Magus and if they will have a dominion and rule joyned to it then it must be so far forth as they in their actings resemble that Dominatio Romana or Roman Rule and Domination And this is called Harlot a female for Dominatio vertus and potentia are Feminines And it is observable that the Caliphs or Saracenical Popes who vested themselves in all power spiritual and temporal are of the Feminine Gender Whose power as are and were most of the Eastern Governments was Tyrannical set up by Mahomet who compiled his divellish doctrine beginning his Empire about the same time that Boniface the third assumed his Antichristian Title beginning his Empire there being but eleven years between them Tyrannical Government and Governours are as Birds of prey amongst which sort of Birds the female is ever the largest boldest and most morose Insomuch that a cast of Sacres once set upon an Eagle and having buffetted and wearied him a good made him descend to the earth by the force of their blows The Faulconer proud hereof bragged of it before Him of the Ottomans who took Constantinople who caused their necks to be wrung off for enterprizing upon their King Which may very fitly be applyed to the men of this Generation who may justly be called Sacres Quasi quodvis Sacrum aucupantes imo Sacram Majestatem debellantes who not contented to prey upon the persons and estates of other of their fellow Subjects seize upon Majesty it self accounting themselves the only Sacri Saints which ought to possess the Earth upon the account of Grace as the Pope and his party does in ordine ad spiritualia both of them fitly resembling the madness of Thrasilaus or as some say Thrasimene the Athenian who made account that all the ships which came into the Haven were his own and would be very angry with those that went about to reclaim him from so sweet an errour These are like Mariners that sail from the same Port contrary wayes in the world to make Proselytes but meet together in the Antipodes The Popes pretend to Sanctitas when in many things it is mera fatuitas as his Holinesse was sometimes stiled by the Emperour in Goldastus so the men of this generation pretend to Holinesse when as the Devil sends them strong delusions to believe a lye and 't were happy for some of them did they all but believe it who are as like their fathers Stork Stubner and Muntzer as one egg is like another This Nicholas Stork and Mark Stubner born in Germany did like Simon Magus endeavour by divers artifices to gain upon the unwary multitude This by learning and a certain acumen in expounding of Scriptures the other ignorant of letters by popular eloquence Enthusiasms and fame of secret conference with God Both these with their great pomp and cunning no man knows what became of Neverthelesse the third of them viz. Muntzer failed not to make the highest improvement of the fruit of this new Gospel imprinted in the minds of the people by Stubner and Stork The Fanaticks took occasion of dividing themselves into parts and of renting the Church from Luther's book of Christian Liberty first set forth in 1520. Wherein they reading that a Christian man was Lord of all things and subject to no man these words were wrested to a wrong sense by men impatient of their own and others quiet and thereupon first in private and obscure Cottages next in open and eminent places the cruel government of Kings their pillaging of their Subjects was objected in the presence of the People Liberty acquired to all under the Kingdom of Jesus Christ was boasted of complaints were made not onely of the tyranny of the Bishop of Rome but of smaller matters tolerated by the first reformers of the Church And by this means the two pillars of publick order were weakened viz. the dignity of the Magistracy and the reverence and respect of the ministry and the authority of both Hereupon thoughts were had and endeavours used for the setting up of a New and more perfect Church governed by a new kinde of Policy and of initiating it's Disciples by a new Baptism And least that the respect had to their former Baptism should hinder it they declaimed against Infant-Baptism as vain and unlawful as being given to such as were not capable pretending that this Sacrament was not to be administred to any but men of full age and such as were at their own disposal And that this upstart Church might take the deeper root these new Doctors pretended a practice of godlinesse in themselves and endeavoured to inculcate the same into others I sence the ordinary themes of their private and publick meetings were that sin was to be had in detestation the flesh to be kept under and the Spirit stirred up duties of charity to be practised the Crosse of our Lord to be born fastings were often to be held mean garments and moderate diet to be used the dresse of the whole body to be composed rather unto neglect then elegancy and that few words were to be used It is a wonder to see how far by this juggling the common enemy of mankinde transforming himself into an angel of light promoted his own kingdom and how obnoxious these new Gospellers rendred even good men by this feigned scheme and form of godlinesse These new Doctors viz. Muntzer and his companions little moved by the exhortations or invectives of Luther or the threatnings of the civil Magistrate tumult the more for them complaining that Luther and others 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 savoured of nought but carnal things saying that they had onely broken off some boughs of Antichristianism leaving the tree and root entire which as it ought they would have to be cut up And when they found no shelter for their errours in the word of God they fly to new arts of defending themselves and their errours they brag of Enthusiasms and secret inspirations inculcating into the people that man was to live by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God and that therefore we are not to search after wisdome in books onely and writings but that we should give diligence according to the prescript of the Apostle that all prophecy Hence every Fishmonger almost brag'd of the spirit feigned revelations invented Enthusiasms after the example of Stork and Muntzer opened the pulpits to Coblers and Cummin sellers and whatsoever the spirit of errour dictated to any of them they obtruded upon