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B15167	A plaine exposition vpon the whole thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth chapters of the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes Wherein the text is diligently and methodically resolued, the sense giuen, and many doctrines thence gathered, are by liuely vses applied for the benefit of Gods children. Performed with much varietie, and conuenient breuitie, by Elnathan Parr Bachelor in Diuinity, and preacher of Gods word. To which is prefixed an alphabeticall table, containing the chiefe points and doctrines handled in the booke.	Parr, Elnathan, d. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 19321; ESTC S114077	263,450	369

that blessed Saint our Noble Queene Elizabeth And of this our most gratious King Iames hath beene a pregnant example God grant he may alwaies so be Amen When the King commands Vse 3 see thou obey for if thou refuse thou fightest against God himselfe resisting his ordinance so the Lord himselfe interprets namely himselfe to be opposed when the commands of Magistrates are not obeyed o See Exod. 16.8 Pretend not conscience Num 16.11 1 Sam. 8.7 or religion for thy refusall Thy conscience thou saist smites thee if thou submit to orders Ecclesiasticall commanded but for disobeying the Magistrate and resisting the ordinance of God thy conscience smites thee not Take heed this is the way to plucke vpon thy selfe the wrath of God to thy condemnation VERSE 3. For Rulers are not a terrour to goed workes but to the euill wilt thou then not be afraid of the power doe that which is good and thou shalt haue praise of the same 4. For he is the Minister of God to thee for good THe occasion and order of this Text may be from the latter part of the second verse but the Argument is principally to be applied to the precept in the first verse So Chrisostome and Caluin The Argument is taken from the end for which powers were ordained which is the good of mankind in these two branches Reward and punishment the sinewes of gouerment Thus That which is ordained for the singular good of Man is to be obeyed submitted vnto and not resisted But Powers or Magistrates were so ordained For there can be nothing better then that good men should be rewarded and euill men punished This Argument is first set downe in these words For Rulers are not a terror to good workes but to euill and afterward repeated to the end of the 4. verse Rulers This word is so generall that it extendeth it selfe to domesticke gouernors but here is to be vnderstood only of them which haue the power of the sword whether they be supreme or subordinate Are not a terror to good workes but to euill We must feare God and the King and authority languisheth where it is not feared But yet Rulers are not that is ought not to be a terrour To good workes workes for workers the effect for the cause but to ill workes that is workers the Apostle so speaking because men are to be rewarded or punished according to their workes Good and ill workes Not so Theologically as a good worke that is done of faith of a sincere minde and for the glory of God ill works contrarilie for the Magistrate cannot iudge of this but ciuilly good or euill which are according or contrary to the lawes diuine humane positiue municipall of Kingdomes Cities and Corporations whereby the conuenient and necessary discipline of euery State is established This is repeated in the words following and the repetition elegantly set forth by a Rhetoricall communication whereby both parts are declared first that Rulers are not a terrour to the good Secondly that they are a terrour to the euill The first in these words Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power doe that which is good and thou shalt haue praise of the same verse 4. For he is the Minister of God to thee for good The second in the words following to the end of the 4. verse The first hath two parts A Question and an Answer The Question Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power As if Paul called vnto him a fearefull and carefull subiect who studied so to liue as that he might not offend the Ruler nor come within the dint of his sword The Answer Doe that which is good c. Where we haue an aduice exhortation or praecept and the reason The Aduice Doe good that is obey and resist not He meaneth not the profession of Christianity for that bred hatred but such good as was so in the iudgement of the Heathen themselues which is a ciuill conuersation agreeing to the lawes of the State wherein we liue The Reason And thou shalt haue praise of the same The fruit of subiection is praise a sweet fruit and of all exceedingly desired though it may be deserued but of a few Praise is here largely taken as Tehillah in the Hebrew implying not onely immunity of punishment as a verball commendation but a partaking of all liberties freedomes priuiledges commodities of a good subiect according to the lawes This is confirmed for better assurance and incouragement from the end why Magistrates were ordained which is the good of man as before He is the Minister of God to thee for good He is the Minister of God The word which is ordinarily giuen to Ministers of the word is here giuen to the Ministers of the sword There is a great agreement betweene them in regard of the Lord whom they serue which is one and the same euen the Lord Iesus and in regard of the common end of both their Ministeries which is the good of men But there is also great difference in regard of the obiect and the manner The ciuill Magistrate is for the Naturall Morall Ciuill and Spirituall good by the power of the sword The Minister of the Word is for the Spirituall good not by Law or force but by preaching the word administring the Sacraments and execution of Ecclesiasticall discipline vnto which also reacheth the power of the Magistrate not to execute them in his owne person but to see them executed For good What good For naturall good that thy life and safety may be preserued For Morall that thou maist bee brought from vice to vertue Ciuill that thou maiest safely enioy thy possessions and that society and publike honesty may be defended and maintained For Spirituall establishing the true worship of God as the keeper of the first Table of the Law To thee euen thee which art a Christian also who of all others wert least in safety if there were no Rulers nor Lawes Magistrates are ordained for the praise and good Doctr. of the good and them which liue in order Prou. 14.35 The Kings fauour is toward a wise seruant And 16.13 Righteous lips are the delight of Kings and they loue him that speaketh right 1 Pet. 2.14 Gouernours are sent for the praise of them which doe well Of this Dauid is an example Psal 101.6 Mine eyes shall be vpon the faithfull in the Land c. But many liue in order and doe good Obiect which yet receiue no praise but vexation How is the Magistrate then for their good It is thus answered by one a Anselmus in locum Si bonus nutritor tuus Answ si malus tentator tuus est Nutrimenta libenter accipe sic etiam tentationem vt aurum probere If he be a good Magistrate he is thy nourisher if an ill one he is thy prouer take thy nourishment willingly and also thy triall that thou mayest be proued to bee gold And thus by another b

of it The Gospell of which are three things set downe First the administring cause thereof which is Saint Paul according to My Gospell not the History of the Gospell written or dictated by Paul but according to the Doctrine of the Gospell preached by Paul and the rest of the Apostles or written vnto the Romanes in this Epistle wherein indeed the summe of the Gospell is contayned Secondly The materiall cause of it The preaching of Iesus Christ For Christ is the scope and summe of the Gospell and as Paul desired to know nothing but Christ crucified and gloried in nothing else so he preached nothing else Vnlesse wee would expound the words actiuely Heb. 2.3 according to that which was preached by our Sauiour Christ according vnto that in the Epistle to the Hebrewes where the Doctrine of saluation is called the Word spoken by the Lord. Thirdly The formall cause The Reuelation of the Mystery kept secret since the world began but now made manifest and knowne Concerning which wee may here note foure things First to whom it is now manifested and made knowne to all Nations before there was a great silence of the Gospell it being shadowed with many types and figures but now such veyles are taken away there is a Reuelation and manifesting of it before it was knowne to the Iewes onely but now to all Nations Secondly the meanes whereby it was made knowne the Scriptures of the Prophets For to him that is to Christ giue all the Prophets witnesse Act. 10.43 Act 26.22 and therefore Saint Paul in his preaching said none other things then those which were spoken by Moses and the Prophets and when he came to Rome he expounded and testified vnto them the Kingdome of God perswading them concerning Iesus both out of the Law of Moses and out of the Prophets Act 28.23 Thirdly the Authority The Commandement of God set forth by another of his attributes Euerlasting without beginning and without end Fourthly the end of the manifesting and publishing of the Gospell for the obedience of Faith not onely that wee should know it and taste of it but beleeue it and obey it The second Attribute in the description of God is his Wisedome v. 27. set forth by this Exclusiue Only To God only Wise So 1. Tim. 1.17 the onely wise God and Iude v. 25. the only wise God our Sauiour which exclusiue is to be added to all his Attributes 1. Tim. 6.15 1. Tim. 6.16 Reuel 15.4 as Onely Potentate Onely hath immortality Onely Holy There are many wise men and women so the Angels But men by institution and meanes and Angels and men by participation and the Gift of God and in part But God is wise absolutely Hieron in locum infinitely and by Nature being the Fountaine and Ocean from whence the drops and small streames of wisedome are deri●●ed vnto the Creatures The publishing and preaching the Gospell to all Nations Obser was by the Commandement of the Euerlasting God who is omnipotent and Onely wise As no other wisedome and power could haue so brought it to passe so though the Deuill Tyrants Infidels Atheists Papists and all wicked men ioyne their power and cunning they shall neuer be able to roote it out This is our comfort though our enemies be strong and wise yet our God is stronger and wiser then they 2 From the meanes by whom wee are to giue glory to God which is by our Lord Iesus Christ so Colos 3.17 Giuing thanks to God and the Father by Him For our spirituall sacrifices are acceptable to God by Iesus Christ as Saint Peter speaketh 1. Pet. 2.5 3 From the continuance of performing this duty for euer 4 From the Affection wherewith Paul glorifies God which is vehement testified in this word Amen God is specially to bee glorified of his Church Doctr. for his power and wisedome in confirming of his Elect by the Gospell Ephes 3.20.21 Now to him that is able to doe exceeding abundantly aboue all that we aske or thinke according to the power that worketh in vs. Vnto him be glory in the Church by Christ Iesus throughout all ages world without end Amen Iude v. 24.25 Now to him that is able to keepe you from falling and to preserue you faultlesse before the presence of his glory with exceeding ioy To the onely wise God our Sauiour bee glory and maiesty dominion and power now and euer Amen REVELATION 5.13.14 Blessing Honour Glory and Power be vnto him that sitteth vpon the Throne and vnto the Lambe for euer and euer And let the whole Church in Heauen and Earth fall downe worship and say Amen Amen Amen