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A91609	A brief treatise containing a full discovery 1. Of Cæsars politique state, or civill government, 2. Of the divine politique state, or kingdome of Christ Jesus, given him of his father. 3. Of the devilish politique state or kingdome of Antichrist. Laid open in the essentiall and main circumstantiall parts of each body or state by substantiall and fundamentall reasons and principles of policy both divine and humane, and confirmed by holy Scripture. Whereby the great and intolerable grievances of Christ Jesus and his subjects are made knowne: also how honourable magistracy and civill government is, and how farre it extends, without intrenching upon the prerogative of Christ, doth evidently appear in this treatise. Humbley presented to the serious consideration of the Kings most excellent Majesty, and the high court of Parliament now assembled. By Michael Quintine.	Quintyne, Michael.	1641 (1641)	Wing Q227; Thomason E163_7; ESTC R649	13,409	27

A BRIEF TREATISE containing a full DISCOVERY 1. Of Caesars politique state or civill Government 2. Of the Divine politique state or Kingdome of Christ Jesus given him of his Father 3. Of the devilish politique state or kingdome of Antichrist Laid open in the essentiall and main circumstantiall parts of each body or state by substantiall and fundamentall reasons and principles of policy both divine and humane and confirmed by holy Scripture Whereby the great and intolerable grievances of Christ Jesus and his subjects are made knowne Also how honourable Magistracy and civill Government is and how farre it extends without intrenching upon the prerogative of Christ doth evidently appear in this Treatise Humbly presented to the serious consideration of the Kings most excellent Majesty and the High Court of Parliament now assembled By Michael Quintine Matth. 22.21 Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods 2 Thess 2.8 9. And then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his comming London printed 1641. TO THE MOST HIGH COVRT OF Parliament the Right Honourable the Lords and Barons and the Honourable House of COMMONS to all and every of them now assembled be a full blessing of wisdom and right spirit from the glorious Trinity sutable to their callings and the weighty occasions that concerne them therein ACcording to my undoubted duty in discharging my Conscience of fulfilling the will of Iesus Christ I doe present to both Houses of this Honourable Court the greatest and most generall cause of the particular grievances of Christ Iesus and his servants the upright the innocent and tender in conscience which as it did in speciall manner concerne my Sovereigne Lord the King from whose hand it might most seasonably have been cast upon the consideration of this high Court from whence onely do issue all politicke acts statute-lawes and ordinances concerning matters Ecclesiasticall and Civill within his Majesties Realme of England I procured to be presented to his Highnesse owne hand in Ianuary last 1640. The copy of the passages therein conteined lest those should sleep I have here again recited and do present them unto you accept peruse them as you see cause And this be pleased to take notice of as the Lawes of Divine and Civill Policie admit not of two heads in one body so likewise doth not the transcendent and glorious Kingdome of Christ which is above the humane element admit of Civill Lawmakers in confining conscience and disposing of matters thereto belonging the same Scripture and reason which denieth Caesar to sit on Christs throne denieth you power of making Lawes for the ordering the Lawes thereof who shall increase or diminish the liberties Lawes and privileges of the Gospel of Christs Kingdom but they must incurre the curse and who shall be wiser than his maker but to his owne destruction The cause aforesaid of all grievances of Christ and his servants is oppression of conscience otherwise conscionable oppression for so it is taken although it be impossible being oppression so to be the root from whence it springeth the tree and every part of it is discovered by the following passages to which I referre you And that you may not be found false in the trust committed to you by the King and Countrey for the ordering of the affaires of this Land for the peace and welfare of the Church of God and likewise of the King and Common-wealth let it be your speciall care to remove and repeal all things and statutes tending to the bondage of conscience be not wiser than the Trinity in continuing and establishing penall acts and statutes to bring people under conformity in externall worship if you consider from whence every good and spirituall gift is who it is that giveth light what it is that is acceptable to him to whom all worship is due and that Law Do unto all as you would they should do unto you yee cannot neither would ye go about Antichristian-like to make yokes for conscience it is most Papisticall and why will ye do what yee condemne your selves in others do not correct Tyrants with tyranny but overcome evill with good if you fear Papists wil be treacherous to State Common-wealth let them have a civill providence over them for prevention and in case they or any of them prove so as some prove naught and treacherous of all Religions let them have civill correclion for it is that not conscience keepeth people in generall within bounds of Civility and leave the cutting off or rooting out of errours in matters spirituall to the free use of the sword of Gods Spirit which is sharper than a two-edged sword and fear yee not but in case of liberty of conscience true Religion which onely is of God will have the upper hand and fullest approbation of all civilly disposed persons if it be not Caesars due to sit on the Ecclesiasticall Throne nor any mans beside look you to it how you set or continue any person thereon and except God had consecrated and set apart a parcell of the earthly revenues for spirituall uses how dare ye powers of the earth to do it or to allow of it but to avoid tediousnesse I commend you to the serious minding of the following passages hoping you will not slight what is substantially appliable to your selves by the injunction of the will of the Lord Almighty lest yee be found resisters of God and so I remain yours in all due service even to my power and life Michael Quintyne To the Kings most Excellent Majestie WHereas your most submissive and faithfull subject hath in some measure perceived and in the following Treatise substantially discovered the way of greatest deceit wherein God and the King are insufferably and most subtilly deprived of their due and doth in the freedome and strength of fidelity in the sight of all hazards of good successe humbly present it unto your most Excellent Majestie His just and humble request is that your Highnesse will be gratiously pleased to accept of it accordingly and now the Scales of this your Kingdome are in use let it be truly weighed not cast by and as it is found in the ballance for the main scope and substance thereof even so let it be done to your poor subject who during life shall heartily pray for your long happy and most prosperous reigne Michael Quintyne TO THE KINGS most Excellent Majesty Gods greatest and most speciall Officer and Minister within his Majesties Dominions in place of Authority and power of Justice be a full blessing from the blessed Trinity of a right and suteable spirit for his high Calling with all truly desireable issues thereof IN the cause of Heavens right no man is injoyned silence but may move the case before the greatest of men on earth Matth. 10.31 3● who are but men in person though Gods anointed Gods

in place of Government to whom with God belongeth a due to be rendered Matth. 22.21 Rom. 13 7 Let not place of honour as it hath been in times past be an occasion of pride and forgetfulnesse whereby men have forgotten that they were men and the remembrance of their Master his cause and servants the upright and innocent but examine consider and scorne not the reall demonstration and reasonable motion in the case of greatest wrong put upon the Trinity and the whole Host of Heaven and your Majesties dignity and honour of civill Government for reliefe wherein if you do not your part let your neglect rest with your selfe for I will present it to you with my life in my hand accept it as you please The Kingdome of the Gospel the divine politique state the Ecclesiasticall Government or visible Church which was given to Christ Jesus by his Father is by the Kingdom of Darknesse the false Ecclesiasticall state and false Church together with the deluded and abused assistance of your own civil state the honorable Ordinance of God utterly defaced trodden under foot excluded and banished your Dominions to the greatest dishonour and undervaluing of the Trinity the power wisdom and goodnesse thereof represented and expressed in the contrivance and establishment of the said Kingdome of Christ to the greatest destruction desolation disconsolation and losse of conscionable and saintlike persons and to the great overthrow of your owne subjects and decay or strength in your owne Dominions To prove the truth of this cause is not hard the Lawes and Rules of the policy of Divinity and Humanity jumpe home to it neither will the Lawes and Rules of devilish policy be able to contrary it although they may dazzle and cloud it All bodies of policy as well Ecclesiasticall as Civil true and false as all other things do consist of matter and forme by the quality of which two essentiall parts all politique bodies transcendent different and contrary in nature are reasonably and substantially distinguished and knowne one from the other and all bodies politique of one nature whether Ecclesiasticall true false or civill are distinguished one from another by the extent limitation and confines of those two forenamed essentiall parts The realty and truth of this Rule will appear in the incontradictable and undeniable discovery and manifestation of each politique body and Kingdom in an essentiall way Every body and state of policy consisteth of like or one and the same essentiall and circumstantiall parts in respect of name and number the difference or means of distinction lieth in the transcendent different and contrary qualities of those parts Circumstantiall differences are of consequence the misplacing misapplying and misusing of any such part in any body of policy deserveth reproof and disclamation of the members or subjects of any such body but essentiall differences misplacing misapplying and misusing any such parts is intolerable and incommunicable and requireth separation the truth of all these things will be most fully proved by humane and naturall reason and holy Scripture is setting forth the severall kindes of bodies of policy in their essentiall and main circumstantiall parts That there is a true and false Ecclesiasticall state I need not stand to prove but refer it to the severall definitions and full demonstration of them justifiable from Scripture Lawes of all policy and common experience for all Europe granteth the same and most forreigne and domestique wars and jars are more concerning Ecclesiasticall affairs than all the matters in the earth besides according as Christ prophetically speaketh Matth. 24. 5 6 7. The whole earth is filled with the cry Lo here Lo there the voice of greatest deceivers of which speciall care is to be had for the avoiding them Matth. 24.23 24 25 26 27 28. And that the world in generall and most especially my native King and his Dominions may not continue in contention which is the readiest way to confusion and to be made a prey to strangers about which is the true Church or about circumstances thereof I have with heart in hand yea heart in hand undertaken and shall essentially and fully make it appear from the Rule of divine and humane wisdom and policy that it is impossible for any nationall Church to be the true Church of Christ or to be righted by force of Armes in case it were really so either by the King in way of offence or by his subjects in way or defence and why should not great ones be as ready to try and prove the truth hereof as to kill me in wrath which no way accomplisheth Gods will in righteousnesse Iam 1.20 But what Effects shall be expected of Creatures lifted up above their Element but actions of pride and scorne in oblivion of God and man and what Lawes of Divinity shall rule the Potentates of the Earth who make Lawes and confines for the same the glory of high powers is mercy and the grace of humanity is to be humble and faultlesse not cowardly and murderous and that I may briefly come at and accomplish the performance of what I have undertaken even essentially to discover the Church of Christ to be trodden under foot and made desolate by on Antichristian and false Ecclesiasticall state through the assistance of the civill state obteined by delusion and deceivablenesse of unrighreousnesse in all the Kingdoms of the Earth I have thought it necessary to begin with a discovery of the Civil State in the essentiall parts of it the circumstantiall ones also and the use of the whole Civill State or body of humanity wheresoever thou dwellest in any measure of truth and realty thou art Gods Ordinance the off-spring of the second Table of the Morall Law of God the Image of Innocency in the first Creation in man towards man thou art the Parent of all Nations in whole honour and dishonour is length and shortnesse of dayes The subject or material part of the consistance of this body of Civility is Mankindle in generall conteined within the limits and confines of any such body The formall or part of life which giveth being to this Civil politique body is the Kingly or Regal Civil politique Power by which any member hath any politique motion actively or passively by which also any Law belonging thereto hath any vigour or current The quality of both these essentiall parts is meerly civill and humane and such as have relation to this state concerneth them onely in temporall affairs for the civill ordering and governing their persons and estates according to the Law of equity between man and man To prove the matter and forme of this Civil body politique to be as aforesaid the reason of all unions and bodies in the world serveth hand pat to do it for the matter and forme of every body is comprehended within it selfe neither without either of those two parts can the body well or ill subist the Creatour Parent and Institutour can be no part of the Creature