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A95843	The supreme povver of Christian states vindicated against the insolent pretences of Guillielmus Apollonii, or A translation of a book intituled, Grallæ, seu vere puerilis cothurnus sapientiæ, &c. Or, the stilts, or most childish chapin of knowledge upon which William Appolonius of Trever, and minister of the church of Middleburgh boasts, among such as are ignorant, in his patcht rhapsodies, which hee set forth concerning supreame power and jurisdiction in matters of religion. Against the book of the most famous Dr. Nicholaus Vedelius, intituled Of the episcopacy of Constantine the Great.; Grallæ. English.	Vedel, Nicolaus, 1596-1642,	1647 (1647)	Wing V168; Thomason E388_5; ESTC R201503	255,312	305

to be if it was absolutely unlawfull for women to prophesie neither doth he speak of any private speaking at home for it was not required there that she should in that case be alwaies covered Then it is certain that this subtle difference of preaching sanctitie was not known to the Apostles that the Pastor alone should preach in publike by speciall sanctity and authoritatively but not others who did this in private He placeth wonderfull sanctitie in the right of Calling but in this also he deviates from the old Levites they were born Levites and if particularly they were selected to the priesthood or to any office of speciall priviledge this was done commonly by the Magistrates not by the Levites Moses a Magistrate Num. 20.28 made Aaron the High-priest he put on his robes and took them off and set up Eleazar after him There were many famous Priests but God preferred the Magistrate They say that he did this exrraordinarily as a Prophet but this the Scripture doth not affirm but by not shewing the cause of a matter of such importance intimates that this difference is nothing So David did order the Leviticall ministery 1 King 22.26.35 Solomon thrust Abiathar from his priesthood and set up Sadoc in his stead neither was then religion decayed nor is he said to have taken advise of the Levites but this he did of his own authority neither had he done this if he had supposed that in it there was so great danger of sacriledge If then the Levites had no peculiar priviledge of calling the new Walachrian Papist did ill to borrow this from them Of the same nature is their priviledge of Judicature and Censuring which he calls the Legislative power and of the Keyes This also was not peculiar to the Levites but had under God its generall originall from the Magistrates So Moses Deut. 17.9.12 Joshuah David Solomon Jehosophat Josias all Magistrates not ecclesiastick Levites ordained ecclesiastick lawes God gave indeed to the Levites and to the High-Priest power to judge by Moses yet not apart from the Magistrates but jointly with them yea because twice he puts the secular Judge in the last place it is not unlikely that he place the principal right of Judicature in the Magistrate from whom the power of punishing depended So that this new Levite is a plain perverter of Levitical priviledge who under pretence of a Levitical custome goeth about to thrust Magistrates from the legislative judicatory power in Church-matters when on the contrary we see that God by an expresse command hath in point of Judicature joyned the Magistrate with the Levites Nor were the Apostles of any other mind who admitted the whole Church which consisted of Lay-men in all weighty matters of the Church both of Calling Making of Lawes and Censuring Act. 15. so that they gave them power also of Decision which they had not done had they conceived that it was altogether unlawfull for the Magistrate Now rests the right of Administring the Sacraments which with Apollonius is of such precise sanctity that it is to him as Vrim and Thummim or the Holy of holies from which not only he debars Elders and Deacons as well as carnall Magistrates but also the Proponents themselves under pain of sacriledge so that in this he placeth the heighth of his authoritative and potestative preaching which is with the priviledge of administring the Sacraments as he wrote to the English In this fiction truly he hath plainly forsaken the old Leviticall priviledge for in this they had no speciall right seeing the Passeover at first was killed by any one in his own family Circumcision was administred at home by the father Josh 5. 1 Cor. 10. or Joshua the Magistrate did it by publike authority all did gather and eat Manna they all did drink of the Rock that followed them they were all baptized in the sea and cloud These were the spirituall Sacraments of the Old Testament which were common to all nor had the Levites alone any speciall right in these but by processe of time it fell out that the administration of these was solemnly performed by the Levites But this was rather brought in by custome then by Gods law which seems rather to be against it As the Walachrian here forsakes his old Levites so he cannot claim the Apostles for him in this precisenesse in that the power of Baptizing was of lesse esteem among them then of Preaching for Paul saith Christ hath not sent me to baptize but to preach he also thanks God that he did not baptize many How much is this from the Walachrian Divinity Calvin himself out of Austin proveth that presently after the Apostles Lay-men baptized which Christians had not done so quiekly had they suspected that the precise and sacred right consisted in this The like reason is of administring the Supper the precise right of which so far as I can perceive came from Popery where the Supper was turned into an Idol If in the right of administring this Sacrament there did consist so much sanctity and precisenesse as the Stilt-walker feigns the Holy Ghost had done imprudently in saying nothing of a matter of such importance in Scripture but rather the contrary It 's commonly alleadged that Christ instituted the first Supper took bread brake and distributed it likewise the wine Because Christ was Pastor and Doctor of his Church hence they take it for a sure law that none but the Pastor not a Doctor must administer the Supper I have shewed already that this ground of the Stilt-walkers is imperfect and now again I shew it Christ washed the Apostles feet refelled the Scribes and Pharisees objections explained the parables and obscure passages of Religion he prayed for all the elect Must therefore no man but the Pastor wash the Apostles feet refell objections explain the doubts of Religion pray c. Christ used to pray at feasts must therefore hence a law be made that in weddings and feasts none must pray but the pastor If the Stilt-walker too curiously affect this example he will be suspected that he desires to borrow also from Papists this gluttonous Spiritualty among whom it is an old custom that the Pastor should sit down first at the feast and by right of Spirituality sit next to the bride Christ did many things upon occasion which are not lawes for us to imitate except it be expressed that this example is so and no otherwise to be followed which the Scripture in this circumstance never doth no more then that the Supper must be administred at night 1 Cor. 11. or in unleavened bread because Christ did both Besides in that place of Paul concerning the institution of the Supper there is no such thing found but rather the contrary For Paul wrote not this properly to the Bishops only but to the whole body of the Church for he saith that he delivers to them the institution of celebrating the Supper which he received

not I will make thee a God to Moses but contrarily I will make Moses a God to thee whence wee see that God from the beginning did not purpose to commit the supream care of the world and of the Church to church-men but to secular Magistrates for hee knew that things would not be well guided by church-men as appears by Aaron who when Moses was absent but 40. dayes was of such a soft and effeminate spirit that presently upon the prayers and menaces of the people turned the whole worship into Idolatry this was the cause that when Christ was asked of the Apostles concerning government hee permitted it to Magistrates but denied it precisely to church-men so that in this famous title of God all church-men are subject to the civill powers and all civill powers are to rule the church-men for these are called only Angels but they gods who will not confesse men to bee subordinate to Gods and Gods to have superiority over men I doubt not but Apollonius will here murmur with himselfe that the Prophet did so unwisely bestow this title upon Magistrates when out of the principles of Walachrian divinity this title of God belongs rather to church-men than to Magistrates for these as sheep should be subject to their ecclesiastick pastors Magistrates are only earthly Kings but cleargy-men are beavenly Magistrates are Legats of God the Creator church-men of Christ the Mediator exalted lastly Magistrates are carnall and worldly but churchmen are spirituall and holy who seeth not from hence that churchmen come neerer to God than Magistrates and that therefore the name of God belongs more justly to them So that wee need not doubt but in time the Stilt-walker will mend this magnificat as his predecessor the Pope did who not being content with the titles of Bishop pastor and president in which the Walachrian for the time rejoyceth hath assumed to himselfe also the title of God so that now hee is stiled our lord god the Pope but that our proud Ministers may not rise to this height among protestants I hope the Magistrate will take care whilst hee shall consider that hee alone by divine gift and right doth possesse this title of God which bee cannot without sacriledge impart to Ministers by which also is admonished that hee is subject to none but to God only and that there is nothing so spirituall so holy and so heavenly under his jurisdiction if it be humane but that it is subject to his power which will more appear by that famous place of Paul where not only hee is honoured with the name of God but also is endowed with the priviledge of Divine preheminence Among other elogies 2 Pet. 2.13 Rom. 13 1 that is notable one which is given to the Magistrate by Peter and chiefly by Paul where the great dignity of the civill power upon earth is described which hee placeth in three 1. That there is no supereminent power armed with the sword which is not subordinate to God and by him ordained for he saith that all powers which bear the sword are ordained by God and hee that resisteth them resisteth the Ordinance of God therefore every such by what name soever it is called bearing the sword hath God for its author so that the Apostle doth not permit any man to enquire who or what hee is that useth this power nor how hee hath attained to it nor indeed how hee useth it but absolutely commands to give obedience civill whether to the King as chiefe or to governours it was then known to the Apostles that the Emperors by fraud and violence invaded the Empire and that they used their power tyrannically against Christians so that if this generall rule had suffered any exception he would have mentioned it but both the Apostles do absolutely make this law That whosoever possesseth the sword he is ordained by God nor must any doubt of his power This did Abraham and Isaac well understand when they came within the jurisdiction of Abimelech Perhaps the fear of God is not in this place They doubted of the Kings piety and justice but yet they prepared themselves to obey even till death They will kill me for thy sake say they Thou shalt say thou 〈◊〉 my sister So Pompey when he went out of his own ship into the King of Egypt's barge in which he was treacherously murthered he rehearsed this sentence Whosoever entreth into the house of a Tyrant he is his servant though he entred a filee-man This then is sure wheresoever there is a superior power bearing the ●●●●d no man ought to enquire how he hath obtained it which is the form of it how he useth it at least not too curiously o● with an intent to resist For however the faults of his government are not from God but are displeasing to him yet the civil order is still from God So that whosoever out of his own private motion resisteth this he resisteth God himself and hasteneth vengeance upon himself The other is That he subjects every soul to the higher Powers Origen ●y every soul understands the Naturall man but he trifles Paul understands every man which in Scripture is ordinary Act. 3. 27 for every man hath a soul Now the Apostle said rather every 〈◊〉 then every body because men in respect of their bodies differ much but in respect of their souls they are all uniform Whence Chrysostome upon this place Though he be an Apostle though a Prophet though an Evangelist this subjection doth not overthrow piety Whence in appears that no man upon what pretence soever who is under anothers jurisdiction can free himselfe from the government of the Civil Magistrate whether he be Clergy or Lay rich or poor learned or unlearned no condition excuseth him from obedience These named famous Patriarks and as it appeared afterward more excellent then King Abimilech himself yet confessed humbly that even to death they were subject whilst they were under his jurisdiction Who more worthy then Christ yet he subjected himself to Caesar and Pilate impious Magistrates It is then an unworthy thing for any man to exempt himself from the Civil power under pretence of sanctity or religion or any prerogative for this is flat repugnant to Pauls generall maxime That every soule should be subject none excepted The third thing is That he commands subiection in all and obedience to Magistrates so that he will not have them resisted not only for punishment but also sor consoience because he that resisteth the Magistrate resisteth the ordinance of God and hasteneth judgement against himself which to do is against a good conscience All these are emphaticall and shew how absolute the Civil power is over all and in all things because absolutely it commands all without exception to be subject and absolutely commands subjection without any restriction Wherefore if there had been so many cases in which subjection was not to be given to Magistrates suppose in spirituall and ecclesiastick matters