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A74698	Logoi Ōraioi. Three seasonable sermons the first preach't at St. Mary's in Cambridge, May 31. 1642. The others designed for publick auditories, but prevented. / By Tho. Stephens, M.A.	Stephens, Thomas, fl. 1648-1677.	1660 (1660)	Thomason E1839_2; ESTC R210165	57,540	136

to the deadly stroak of the enemies to secure the person of their Emperors Others leaping alive into their Funeral piles as if they could do them no later no greater service But I will name no more lest their dust fly in our eyes so blinde and eclipse the glory of Christians For let me seriously put the question Are we Christions Do we know the vertue of in Oath What think we then of that solemn Oath of our Allegiance An Oath which can receive no dispensation no absolution from what power soever Are we Protestants Nay one step farther yet are we Protestors What think we then of that branch of the late Protestation that I will maintain the establisht doctrine of the Church as it stands in opposition to Popery and Popish Innovations I conceive this mainly material to the work in hand therefore give me leave a while to insist upon it What is the doctrine of the School of Jesuits Bellarmines position will fully tell us non licere Christianis tolerare regem haereticum c. Princes falling into Apostacie from the faith or heresie in the faith lose all dominion over their Subjects and our own Countriman Parsons goes a little farther that the People if they can gather strength sufficient ought to depose such an unworthy Governour and like apt Scholars they will learn their lesson quickly for thus a Jacobine with an Assassination shall soon make good in practise what their School hath taught them Thus without much straining they make good the Text Those there work their pleasure because there was no King in Israel these here will have no King because they might the more freely work their pleasure Contrary to this is established doctrine of the Church of England in the 37th Article The Kings Majesty his the chief power in this Realm of England and his other Dominions and is not nor ought to be subject to any Jurisdiction whatsoever but may and must restrain with the sword the Stubborne and Evil doers Farr different it seems from that he is tobe restrained by Stubborne and Evil-doers upon a pretence of his evill doing To which purpose are those six parts of the homily against Rebellion so full and apposite that we must either disclaim them from being the interpreters of the Doctrine of our Church or sit down convinc'd in the manifest truth of this assertion To these I shall and the Testimony of some unquestioned Divines amongst us purposely avoiding the authority of such who are amongst some men perhaps unworthily suspected lest their names prove a blemish to the Calendar Bishop Cranmer in his Necessary Erudition for Christian Men A work composed by him and other Divines of Henry the Eight and printed long since by the same King upon the fifth Commandement declares that by it we are bound not to withdraw our Fealty Truths Love and Obedience from our Princes for what cause soever it be nor yet for any cause may we conspire against his Person nor do any thing towards the hindrance or hurt thereof or of his Estate Not long after Bishop Hooper upon the same commandement determines that if he be naught that rules the place he is in it is the Order and work of God so if thou put a difference between the Office it self which is good and the Officer which is evill it shall keep thee in a religious fear that thou reverence a good and godly Government in a bad Governour Bishop Latimer a Companion of them both in a Sermon upon Twelfday tells us that we may for nothing in the World observe the Universality rebell against the Ordinance of God that is the Magistrate All these three glorious Saints did in their Actions consirme their Doctrine and in the days of Queen Mary received the triumphant crown of Martyrdom obeying her in suffering for that which their consciences would not give them leave actually to perform Next them comes that painfull and Reverend Bishop Jewel who dispuring the Case with Harding drawes issue in the story Chilperick of France whom the Nobles deposed the people were contented with it and then Pope confirmed it rebellion as well strengthened as we could wish yet did his Succcessor Pepin scarce ever with quiet injoy the Kingdom and of the nine Generations which were all that of that race succeeeded hardly one was found which went down into the grave in peace Dr. Humpheryes Sermons upon Abisha's story 1 Sam. 26. are so full to our cause in hand that I should do him wrong to cite any part of him and not spin it put to a just Treatise I referr yee to the book it self as also to Bishop Bancrofts English-Scottzing Bishop King in his 35. Lecture on Jonas makes it the very case of the Brownist who in his reformation would tread Conscience Obedience Religion and Duty both to God and Man under foot Whereupon the Reverend Bishop Davenant in his twelfth determined Question tells us induant quam venlint pietatis larvan● isti Magistratuum marke that Magistratuum not Religionum reformatores Albiniani tamen Nigriani out Cassiani rectius audient quam Christiani Let them mask under what cloak they will Religion may be their plea but Rebellion is their practise I shall forbear the envy of naming such as are still alive amongst us of whom Bishop Morton is not the least But one passage of the Reverend Primate of Armagh in a speech in the Castle Chamber may not be forborne because of the Universality of the position There is nothing so contrary to the nature of Soveraignty which I hope we still allow our Kings if not how fell they from it as to have any Superiour power to over-rule them Qui Rex est Regem Maxime non habeat I forbear Seravia because although one of our Church yet a stranger born and the Learned Erwin of Scotland their works will testify sufficiently Yet if you desire to know the consentient opinion of the Protestant Divines take Calvin in his 25. Sect. of his 4. book of Institutions Beza in his exposition on the 13. to to the Rom. and the Harmony of them all in the confession of the Helvetian Divines in the 19. Sect. Article 25. They have prepared against Sophistications in their Anathema there is put in both the palam and the Arte too whosoever openly by offence as well as cunningly pretending defence shall do it there is a damnamus past upon him there is sentence given by the Church against him acquit him who will These are men whose names will tell you never were yet suspected for a Malignant Party Should we blot out these from the Catalogue of the Churchy I fear we had but a poor Charter for our Religion if we esteem them as they are Protestants I wonder how we can make so brave a flourish with this late taken Protestation in our hats and banish the genuine interpretation from our hearts If then there be any here with whom that sacred name of Majesty like a high

authority was now a setting that the holy Spirit records three stories unparalleld by any place of Scripture And lest the cause of all might be mistaken four times in these four Chapters the same words are again repeated In those dayes when those were acted there was no King in Israel First Micah from a converted theife turns a superstitious innovator He made an Idol of the Silver before or else he would never have stolne it but now emptying his soul of one Divel he gives another free entertainment Should our true service of God Almighty be half so dear I fear his Temples would not be so well customed But what he got lightly he spends as liberally Out go the eleven hundred Shekells quantum nummorum servat in arca tantum habet fidei his religion was as high prized as his mony could purchase Gods house was not enough for him he must have an house of Gods an Ephod and a Teraphim 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 pretty new found Dieties which must preserve their maker give a well-being to him who but just now gave them their being The Old Woman his mother a sex well skilled in such new-fangled religions she likes very well of this new stamp'd devotion and gives a blessing to him who brought a curse upon her and all her family But what shall we do for a Priest to officiate to his golden vanity Oh! Micah's very good at creating His reverence cannot onely consecrate a God but ordain his Minister too Holy orders are very cheap where religion it self is at a loss A God of gold cannot easily want servants there will be some Chryses some Calchis left Rather then fail his Son shall be consecrated the Hebrew word if you look in your margins to the 5th verse of the 17. Chap of this b●ok is he filled the hand of his Son ingagement enough to this following service once fill the hand and you have heart and all We would not care so much for consecration if the golden breastplate did not accompany it Yet least his new born piety may want some specious pretence a poor Journey-man Levite is heard of such one as God curses 1 Sam. 2.36 That he shall come and crowch and say put me into the Priests office that I may eat a morsell of bread Such a Titivillitius I say upon high way of acquaintance shall be content for 10. Shekells of Silver a suit of cloaths and victuals besides to covenant to serve this Idol-God thus is our Familist confirmed in his new moulded Frame of devotion his independent congregation and all this while there was no King in Israel Next come your Danites and there is a Tribe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is danger in a multitude they have hands as well to practise as heads to plot their mischiefs A private thiefe may abound with spoiles but when a whole army turnes pillagers that Country must needs be desolate Well! what fair mask did their vice borrow to cover this insolence Their Country forsooth was too little for them their climate was too cold Five Brethren must be sent out for spies to discover the fatness of the land that they might come and tast of the cup which flowed with milk and honey These as they pass by Micah's house hear the Levites voice which sojourned there sure he had good lungs that his tongue could so easily take acquaintance with the high-way travellers Ten pound a year will be soon talked out if he speak so loud but hearing him they must needs hear something from him An exhortation from him will crown the work which they are in hand with an act of blood if the pulpit bless it must needs carry the Lord with it He bids them go in peace incouragement enough for them to prepare for waar Laish is their next stage a quiet careless secure people qui damna nec metuunt nec parant as free from fearing danger as intending of it With these glad tidings they return and inrich the Danites ears They now most truely make up Jacobs their Fathers prophesie Gen. 49.17 they turne Serpents by the way and Adders in the path Albertus tells us the Nature of the Creature is to fly from a cloathed man but to set upon him if they find him naked The Maacathites and Geshurites which live amongst them are armed men let them alone 't is dangerous medling with them but secure Laish had neither strength nor men to aid it the Zidonians were at a farr distance six hundred fighting men well appointed might do good service there The land is very good why sit you still arise make hast enter and possess it But Micahs house affoorded them so good entertainment in their first journal hat they 'l not balk it now in their second progress We have found idolatry upon Mount Ephraim say the spies an Ephod and a Teraphim a graven Image and a molten Image fine golden Idols all of Micah's making let us invite them on this journey with us And there is a Levite too no doubt but he will be content to follow his golden Gods and then assuredly we shall go and prosper Well! however they loved their Idolls well or else they would never have built high places to them afterward sure I am they loved the gold better Micah's house is rifled his Oratory spoil'd his guardian Gods could not now defend themselves Sacriledge and Burglary are met together and that false hireling Levite whom he took for his Priest and Father proves his betrayer He stands to make good the passage amongst the armed men in the gate En filii tunicam his linnen Ephod is turned into a coat of Male and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his place he changed but not his office He thought it safer offending with a multitude a Tribe in Israel or two factious Towns of that one Tribe Zorah Eshtaol may well secure an Idoll Priest who goes triumphing in the midst of the Cutthroats If his Mr. Micah come crying after for restitution he may be answered in the wolves language to the Crane who plucked the sheepsbone out of his throat Away thou fool thank me thou hast thy head which I might have so easily snapped off when I had thy long bill in my mouth Speak softly Micah these are angry fellows and if thou talk much of thy Gods thou maist loose thy Life and all Our next work is to plunder Laish to put all the inhabitants to the sword and fire the City And all this while there was no King in Israel Lastly that no society neither of Families Tribes or Cities might be cleer whilst the Danites are bathing themselves in innocent blood the Citizens of Gibeah are acting a wickedness farr more horrid much more barbarous A poor Levite of Mount Ephraim whom love and charity had reconciled to his offending Concubine takes a weary journey after her to Bethlem Juda and overtaking her he was so far from putting her to the shame which the publick

their Minister hee 'l serve them in it Although we for ought find when they were settled where they would be they casheer'd him Jonathan was consecrated in his stead 'T is so with us Religion is a good cloak though many times Covetousness and Sacriledg are hid under it Dionysius pluckes off Aesculapius his golden beard in Apollo's Temple not out of fear of Idolatry least the people should fall down and worship it but that he alone might adore it when it was locked up safe in his own Coffers Thus all the holiness of some of our Reformers has ere now proved but sacra fames auri a religious itch their fingers have had to be telling the Gold of the Sanctuary which hath constantly proved an Achans wedge corrupted and consumed the heap to which 't was laid Thus the Danites story that 's made up too and in all this we have done that which is right in our own eyes The Last is the rape in Gibeah but in sins of that nature we scorne to have patterns set us wee 'l out do all examples that which once was said of Rome is now more true of England illic impune peccare licet we dare sin without controul else what mean those scandalous adulterous incestuous copulations acted as if it were in despight quam ingeniosa est haec nequitia under the nose of those Courts which formerly have punished them But closer yet this Ephraimite was a Levite which travailed thus patiently after his offending Concubines but returning among the Benjamites he finds them so far estranged from civil hospitality that pro disco damnum lust back'd with violence is their most friendly salutations None here I hope will deny but the Ministers in the Gospell are espoused to their severall Congregations God Almighty is the Father which gives them in this mysticall Marriage Where after much pains and patience long suffering and meekness they have travailed to reclaim their errors and call them back to their first Loves if they pass by the Benjamites those ravenous wolves which love to devour the prey and devide the spoyl Gen. 49.27 't is well if they finde high-way respect and not be cudgeld out of that too The Lyons courtesie goes a great way now I assure you when he did no injury More likely the young Children of the Bethlemites will meet them in the streets and cry go up thou bald head go up thou bald head but for their Concubines the benefices every man must be better acquainted with them They will lie with them that is Know them one after another make their severall impropriation of them and that all night so long till they have made a custome of it So that in the morning when this poor Concubine returnes to her Lord the Levite she shall neither have life or heat to comfort him If a poor old Sojourner one that hath enough to do to secure his own head from violence amongst them shall take these traveilers under his roof to protect them from the fury of the Citizens he runs the same danger with them and well if the prostituting of his own Daughter can quit him from their hands Gods mercy to his Church is such that he hath alwaies raised up some to vindicate the reputation of it yet sometimes they are so far overborne that good Obediah that Patron of the Prophets is every hour in danger of his own destruction 1 Kings 18. And whotsoever shall be so religious as to undertake their Patronage although he plead not for Bigamy plurality of Concubines the old Ephraimite here did not so but only that they may quietly enjoy the freedom of the place with what the Law of God and nature gives them yet this very plea may indanger the prostitution of his own Daughter the publication of his own Estate Thus the Gibeonites story that 's made up too and in all this we have done that which is right in our own eyes You see the effects are come home to us within our doors but the cause you will tell me fails For in these dayes we have a King in this our Israel And God be blessed that in these dayes we have a King may the dayes of this King in himself and his Royall race indure for ever Yet let me tell you there is no great difference between having no King and a King no whit obey'd Or if any be the latter is the most extreme if malum culpae exceed that of poenae for so we alter it from a punishment of God to a sin of our own When every churlish Nabal shall refuse to let distressed David enter commons with his own day-labourers and partake of such provision as he had made for his sheep-sherers denying the least portion of his Estate to Davids use when the security of all his Estate consist in Davids protection And if Ahimelech the Priest which has scarce bread enough to put in his own belly shall feed him with some few loaves of the Sanctuary and so refresh and strengthen him with a little Consecrated bread although in the mean time he fast himself for it it shall be cause enough for some treacherous Doeg to inform against him and the next news will be Sauls command to his foot men his Militia to turne and slay the Priests of the Lord because their hands are with David When every reviling Shimei as he passes by the high-way may freely and without controul curse the Lords Anointed Nay more throw stones and durt upon him bespatter his unblemisht name and poyson his reputation with malitious and false slandours disscourses of most dangerous Consequences When Achitophel his own bosome Friend and choicest Counsellour shall provoke all Israel against him and put down Joab the Captain of the Kings Host and set set up Amasa in his room When Sheba the Benjamite neither Priest nor Prophet shall dare to blow the Trumpet in the high way renounce David and send every man of Israel to their tents When the King and all his Servants shall be forced from Jerusalem that Royall City and receive no entertainment as he passes by Bahurim till he come to Mahanaim far off where old Barzillay remembers his Duty and performs his allegiance better If these scattered drops do fore-token a black storm a coming if these thick mists which fall so fast may easily convince us that our Suns a setting we need not go farr to seek a cause for those forenamed Insolencies I am amazed Sirs when I behold the purest times of our Religious Forefathers and see those blessed Martyrs even when they were dressed up in flames and accompanied Eliah to heaven in a charret of fire when they were grinding between the teeth of Lions when they were driven to the tops of Mountains like so many sheep to the slaughter when their ingenuous Torturers were overcome at their own art and could invent no punishment answerable to their patience Then at their hower of suffering to hear them pray for