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The fanatick in his colours, or, The rise, heighth, and fall of faction and rebellion, from 1648 unto 1661 with an appendix concerning allegiance, government and order / by T.F.
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the King c. I wonder the Papists before this time did not purge the 13th to the Romans as being more Lutheran then Catholick and others besides them may blush and be ashamed to wrest as they do that Scripture 1. Quere Though it be over all persons must this obedience be in all things Answer Kings sometimes bid what God forbids in that case our Apostle enjoyns to obey God rather all consent to this Acts 5. 29. Princes must be obeyed but inter limites disciplinae within the bounds of Religion if their command Tert. cross Gods Peters rule must over-rule Deo magis quam hominibus it must be in things agreeable to the mind and will of God 2. Qu. May there be resistance and may the Subject disobey in such a case Answ Though he cannot obey actually he must passively the Kings wil must be done aut à nobis aut de nobis either of us or on us either we must be patients or agents patients when he is tyrannous and wicked and agents when he is good and godly The Apostle saith not Be subject to Christian and holy Governours but indefinitly to Potentates not to the good and curteous but to the froward 1 Pet. 2. 18. Si bonus nutritor est tuus si malus tentator tuus est if a good King he is thy nurse receive thy nourishment with obedience if evil he is thy tempter receive thy triall with patience But this I intend to speak fully of in the sixth Chapter 3. Qu. Whether the Princes power extends to all causes as well as over all persons Answ It is part of the Kings stile In all causes in spirituall as well as temporall in both he must be obeyed so he countermand not God none will doubt this if he consider the doings of Josiah his Authority in Ecclesiasticall causes The state of this question is very significantly laid down in that speech of Constantine to his Bishops Vos intra Ecclesiam Episcopi ego extra Eusel de vita Const 4. Ecclesiam you are Bishops within the Church and I a Bishop without the Church they in the proper and internall offices of the Word Sacraments and Ecclesiastical Censures and he for outward authority and presidence theirs limited to the soul consisting in Preaching the Word his to the body in bearing the Sword Second Duty A second Duty is Reverence and this is threefold Mentis Oris Corporis Subjects must have an high esteem In thought of their Kings and hold them solo Deo Minores none above them but God Elutherius wrote to Lucius a Britain King vos estis Dei Vicarius you are Gods Vicegerent in your Kingdome against whom we are not to harbour an ill thought but have a Eccles 10. 20. Reverent esteem of them befitting their Regality Highnesse and Majesty and as the Lords Anointed Reverence in tongue Thou shalt In tongue not revile the Ruler of thy people for Subjects to rail against their Soveraign is unchristian yet used by Romanists and Separatists what Base Reproachfull Speeches have been given out against our late gratious Soveraign I tremble to think of a King that in the whole world had no Peer and yet how vilified and disgraced by black mouths and had they not wiped all shame from their faces and banisht Religion from their hearts they durst never have laid such an heap of disgraces on Gods Anointed Reverence of Body this is usual Of body in Scripture it ought to bow to a mean Magistrate but fall down to Regal Majesty Ahimaaz did to David David to Saul the Kings son to his father 2 Sam. 14. They have three special Ensigns of Honour A Crown of gold for their sublimity for which they must be Reverenced a Scepter of Righteousnesse for government for which they must be obeyed a Sword for vengeance for which Rom. 13. 4. they must be feared Honour them we ought as the * Rom. 13. 4 Ministers and * 2 Sam. 14. 17. Num. 27. 17. Ps 47. 9. Angels of God the Shepherds and Shields of his people under whose shadowing boughs Ezek. 31. 3. 6. we may sit and repose our selves A third Duty is maintenance by Third Duty way of Tribute this our Saviour did when the Ruler was a Heathen and knew not God Give to Caesar the things that are Caesars he Matth. 2. 21. His Precept saith not Date but Reddite because Tribute is a due Debt unto Caesar and if to a Painym Emperor much more to a Christian King he saith not reddite quae petit sed quae sunt illius which Principals are Honour obedience Tribute He paid Caesar Tribute and to His Practice that end willed Peter to go to the Sea and to cast in an angle and take the first fish that cometh up and in his mouth he should find a piece of twenty pence that take V. 27. and give unto them for me and thee it is observed that though our Saviour wrought many Miracles yet never any about honour or money but that of Tribute rather then that should go discharged he will work a miracle By Tribute I mean all Sesses Custom Subsidy or whatsoever else due to Kings either to sustain their States or support the publick charges of the Kingdome being his stipend or pay for he is the Minster of Rom. 13. 6. God serving for the same purpose saith the Apostle A fourth duty that Subjects ow Fourth Duty is Prayer Saint Paul willeth and enjoyns to pray for them and that 1 Tim. 2. 1. when like Manasseh they poured out blood like water the Jews are commanded to pray for Nebuchadnezzar Jer. 29. 7. and the peace of Babylon Nebucadnezzar deserved not the name of a man but of a beast yet as a King he is called the servant Dan. 4. of the highest God in his peace they have peace Tertullian shews the love and affection In Apologet. Christians bore to their Magistrates Oramus Imperatoribus ut det Deus illis vitam prolixam imperium tutum aulam securam exercitus fortes orbem pacatum Senatum fidelem c. we pray for the Emperors that God would give them a long life a safe Government a sure dwelling valiant Souldiers a peaceable world a faithfull counsel c. and yet the Christians then were as sheep appointed for the slaughter their Rivers died with blood as August saith alii De Civit Dei 22. c. 6. ferro perempti alii flammis exusti alii flagris verberati alii vectibus perforati alii cruciati patibulo alii vivi decoriati alii vinculis mancipati alii linguis privati and so goes on some slain with the sword some burnt with fire some scourged with whips some stabb'd with forks some fastned to the gibbets some drown'd in the Sea some their skins pulled off their tongues cut out some stoned to death killed with cold starved with hunger and the like yet then