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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89341	The necessity of Christian subjection. Demonstrated, and proved by the doctrine of Christ, and the Apostles; the practice of primitive Christians, the rules of religion, cases of conscience, and consent of latter orthodox divines, that the power of the King is not of humane, but of divine right; and that God onely is the efficient cause thereof. Whereunto is added, an appendix of all the chief objections that malice it selfe could lay upon His Majestie, with a full answer to every particular objection. Also a tract intituled, Christus Dei, wherein is proved that our Soveraign Lord the King is not onely major singulis, but major universis.	Morton, Thomas, 1564-1659.; Jones, John, d. 1600.	1643 (1643)	Wing M2844; Thomason E62_18; Thomason E93_11; ESTC R571	28,546	41

OXFORD 1643. CHRISTVS DEI OR A Theologicall Discourse wherein is proved that Regall Power is not of Humane but of Divine Right and that God only is the Efficient cause thereof and not the People Preface 1 THere is a Book come forth of late barely intituled Observations upon some of His Majesties late Answers and Expresses without any name of the Author or place where it was printed Wherein the Observer so I must call him not knowing him by any other name aimes chiefly and directly to prove that the Hereditary Regall and Monarchicall power of our now present dread Soveraigne King Charles is inferiour and subject to the power of the now present Parliament 2 Which to evince he undertakes to lay down the originall foundation of all Regall power whatsoever according to the efficient finall causes thereof And having made the finall cause to be the safety of the people together with their Civill or Politicall happinesse he also makes the efficient cause to be not God but only the people and the instrumentall cause of conveying and deriving this Regall Power to be not any divine law nor nothing else amongst Christians but the meere humane pactions and Agreements of the Politick body of the people And then arguing by a rule in nature that quicquid efficit tale est magis tale he issueth out this just infe●ence as he calleth it that though the King be singulis major yet he is universis minor and therefore inferior and subject in power to the Parliament 3 Having perused this discourse and finding it to be most injurious to Regall Power or Monarchy contrary to the true principles of State and Divinity or Orthodox Christian Doctrine I thought I might do my King and Country good service to confute these desperate and more than dangerous Positions by declaring and proving the true Originall foundation according to the finall and efficient causes of Regall or Monarchicall Power which with Gods good helpe I hope to do perspicuosly in the few ensuing Paragraphes SECT 1. Of the Primary Finall cause as also of the efficient cause of all Civill Societies or Republiques Because whatsoever is done is done for some end or purpose without which it should not have been done nor had a being therfore it is the constant Doctrine of all Philosophers that the end is the chief and Principall of all causes and therefore for methods sake I will begin with it Now to find out the Primary end of all Civill Societies or Commonwealths we that are Christians must reflect attentively upon those words of the holy Ghost Pro. 16.4 Universa propter semet ipsum operatus est Dominus By which we are ascertained that God Almighty created not only all other Creatures but all man-kind also as for their Primary end for himselfe and his own Praise and glory And as for man in particular God created him to his owne image and likeness endowing him with an understanding and a wil that he might know how to honour and love his Creator and by such love honour might finally become happy in the fruition of his eternall unspeakable and inestimable glory in heaven for means whereto first God dictated certaine Divine precepts and principles unto man imprinted them with his very creation upon his natural reason for which cause they are called divine natural Laws written in every mans heart saith St. Paul Rom. 2.15 that every man might be equally capable to know them and equally obliged to obey them Secondly God infused into him Faith hope and Charity and other supernaturall virtues all tending to this conducement that man following them as his guides might through his obedience to God attain to his owne salvation Thirdly to binde man more strongly to his subjection and to make it appeare more illustriously unto him that therein principally consisted his Welfare as the very End and Center for and to which he was created He gave him an expresse divine Law not to eate of the tree in the midst of Paradise upon pain of death Fourthly by Revelation he instructed him in many particular sacred formes and Rites of exteriour divine worship as sacrifice and other for though we read not any where in holy Writ that Adam offered Sacrifice no more than we doe of Isaac yet we read there that Cain and Abel did and that Abraham and Iacob did But it cnnot be imagined that Cain and Abel were the first Inventors of this most religious and divine worship no more than that Isaac dd neglect it but by Paternall tradition and example they received it from Adam 3. All which duely considered it will appeare evidently that the primary end for which all men are created is to serve honour love obey and worship God From whence it followes that this being mans highest and principallest concerne it ought also to be his highest and pincipallest care to attend to it But most certaine it is that men living divided and scattered over the face of the world without the instruction and assistance one of another cannot possibly performe this for every particular mans behoofe as is requisite And therefore from this finall cause arose primarily a necessity amongst men to unite and combine themselves into civill Societies and Common-wealths This end could not be prefixed by men but men were created for this end by God And therefore this is the primary spirituall supernaturall and divine finall cause of all Republikes to which every other end must be but secondary subordinate and subservient 4 And from hence it followeth further that since on the one side no naturall agent can by it's naturall power compasse the attaining of a supernaturall end and on the other side Civill Societies ought not to be instituted in vaine we must needs conclude that the Primary efficient cause of all Common-wealths is only God PARAGR 2. Of the Secondary finall Cause and also the only Efficient Cause of all Civill Societies and Republiques 1 Every Creature in the world strives to preserve its own kind We see what paines and Care Beasts and Birds take to reare their younglings Trees and Plants beare fruits and seeds to produce the like when they are perished Yea the inanimate Creatures according to their predominant Element and mixture strive every one to obtaine and enjoy their Center And all this not only for their own particular but also for the harmonious Accommodation and preservation of the Vniverse the great and most excellent work of nature wherein she doth nothing in vaine But in vaine had man been if he also had not been provided of necessary meanes towards the Preservation of his kind For which cause God said it was not good for man to be alone and therefore gave him a Woman to be his Helper that so by meanes of generation he might propagate his ofspring to the worlds end 2 This Preservation then of mankind is the maine naturall and secondary end of man And to ths end God gave him his blessing