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cause_n	body_n	church_n	member_n	1,786	5	7.7946	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11802	Vox Dei	Scott, Thomas, 1580?-1626.	1623 (1623)	STC 22097A; ESTC S1715	58,947	100

graunted and evident enough Let vs then labour to finde it out for all actions and soe this are warrantable or wicked as they haue an evident cause to justifie or condemne them CAVSES are either ordinary or extraordinary Those which we call ordinary are all second causes which are readie at hande lying open to the eye of vulgar observation and proceeding by a legall common course of Nature Extraordinarie causes are either wholy hid or farther remooved so that they are not seene at all or at least not by all The highest among'st ordinarie causes for wee speake of that spheare wherein the rule of man is wholy busied and taken vp is the sovereigne or supreame Power and all other powers subordinate to it This hath conveniency and vtility as the most proper end of it's operation and ayme For though it be convenient profitable to haue such subordinate power setled yet it is not of absolute necessity that wee haue them Extraordinary causes in this classe or forme haue Necessity for their proper and direct ende and begin onely to worke when there is defect of operation in the ordinary causes as Physick is administred to helpe decayed nature and expell malignant humor Thus when Saul the supreamest amongst ordinary causes in the common wealth of Israell is slack in his office God rayseth vp David to quicken his zeale and when Ely growes olde and negligent and through indulgence suffers his sonnes to abuse their office God rayseth vp Samuel to provoke him to more dilligence And thus at all tymes in defect of ordinary pastors God hath raysed vp prophets to teach his people and to publish his judgements openly and playnely It is as I haue before noted very-vncertayn whether such promises were ever propounded on no by the King because wee never see them repeated challenged or performed by Saule to David after the worke wrougt though with the perill of their owne liues If any man object therfore that the reward propounded by the King ver 25. was the principall cause that excited David to vndertake this quarrell I doubt not to say they are much deceiued For though intisements to vertue and indowments for vertue doe well and though men come seldome to the markett where nothing but bloud and blowes are to be bought and solde yet true fortitude is not mercenary nor coulde all those words make our worthy dip his finger in bloud by vndertaking a single combat except a greater necessity call him forth then prayse or profitt or pleasure or preferment It must not be an ordinary but extraordinary cause therefore that moue's this extraordinary person and what other thing coulde that be then the present daunger wherein he beheld the church and state involved together with the desperate ingagement of the King and Kingdomes honor Hee see 's all these in hazard to receiue either a totall overthrowe or at least a violent and vnrecoverable blowe by this Blasphemer For will it not stagger true beleeuers when they see the enemy braue God as it were to his face and goe away vnpunished The wicked then encourage themselues in infidelity and with open mouth deride and discreditt the former miracles of God soe much spoken of For if God doth not every day create new worlds or confound olde enemyes or produce new miracles man will not beleeue that ever he made the world or confounded the rebellious race of idolatrbus Gyants or ever did a miracle or perhaps scarce thinke there is a God to doe such thinges At least that he is not the true God except he marcheth away with the conquerour For prosperity and externall glory so bewicheth and dazeleth the eyes and judgements of mortall men as they cannot suspect guilded falshood nor embrace ragged truth And therefore Rabshakeh comming agaynst Ierusalem by the commaunde of Sanacherib King of Ashur elevated with his former victories crye's out with an open and jmpudent mouth and demaunds of the Israelites wherein they trust and put confidence that they doe not presently render themselues to the mercy of his Master where sayth he is the God of Hamah and of Arpad where is the God of Sepharuaim or how haue they deliuered Samaria out of my hands whoe is he among all the Gods of these lands that hath deliuered their Country out of my hand that the Lord should deliver Ierusalem out of my hands The text sayth the Blasphemer receiued no answere till God stopt his mouth with a miracle For all then and there were colde benumde and silent as persons decayed in spirit and fitted for that defection and forreigne Captiuity and subjection which not long after followed But our Champions heart burne's more hott in this place with zeale and indignation to see and heare the boasting and blaspheming enemy rayle agaynst the God of Israell of whose loue and power David had large experience and whose name by way of thankfulnes he had extraordinary cause to defend from dishonor whilst he had power make 's him begin the onsett as it were to this conquest by conquering his priuate feares his brothers frownes and the cavelling exceptions of all other envious beholders with this bolde and braue demaund what haue I now done Is there not a cause And thus much of the cause or matter here mentioned to shew that it was a cause of necessity which compeld ' his vndertaking for Is there not a cause hauing reference to nothing els then to the publique perill and common calamity of the church and state threatned by this idolatrous Champion Which is a cause more then sufficient to compell him that is a true member of the mysticall body of Christ to shew his Spirituall life by strugling for the generall liberty The conclusions therefore from hence deduced are these following CONCLVSION 1. First there must bee an apparant cause of necessitie to justify every extraordinary action or vndertaking performed by a priuate person APriuate Person is hee that hath noe direct or publique calling to the action he vndertake's In which sense a publique person in one kind may be a priuate person in an other respect Aron is a publique person to sacrifice but not to rule and Vzziah is a publique person to gouerne but not to sacrifice A magistrate is a publique person but not for all actions for if he take vpon him to administer the Sacraments he therein becomes a priuate person Nay when he doeth any acte of Iustice without a Law he then laye's by the prerogatiue and dignity of a publique person and acts the parte of a priuate man Because the lawe is the instrument sword of the publique magistrate without which to strike is to Tyrannize and without which to converse in any puplique busines is to become priuate Thus wee see Mayors other subordinate officers who are shadowes types of the supreame goeing abroad without their Swords Maces the ensignes of their offices become priuate for the present time till they assume those types

Thou shouldst haue done this quoth Augustus without my privity now to doe it would not become Some services are only acceptable when they are acted they are first to be done and then are wee to aske leaue for doeing of them when the apparant necessity may pleade our pardon Henry the eight concluded peace with France vpon these conditions that the King of France shoulde pay him a certaine summe of money vpon payment whereof he should restore Bolloigne to the French and in the meane time all things were to stand as then they stood without alteration Presently after Chatilion Captaine of Mountpeaisier begun to rayse a Bastilion which might annoy and endaunger Bolloigne this being obserued by the Lord Grey then Governour of Bolloigne who saw the intent of the enemy how vpon advantage of the commissioners ●versight in composing the articles of agreement great disadvantage might befall the Kings towne and a ready way be made for the enemy to enter by fraud without money which he could not otherwise enter by force without payment of a great summe agreed on He with his troopes fell vpon the enemyes workes and razed it to the ground and this was accounted good service being once done though against the articles because necessity vrged it to repayre an oversight when if he had stayd for commission or sought one to warrant his worke he might haue bene prevented in the worke and that would never haue bene graunted by publique warrant which he sought and so on all sides he should haue beene blamed I know some write that he had warrant vnderhand brought him by worde of mouth by Sir Tho Palmer let this be graunted yet by the King as King that is with his councells consent and by publique instrument he was not only not warranted to doe it but prohibited from doeing it which yet being done was accounted the best peece of service that ever he did Heare the Lord de la N●ve to this purpose in an other passage Solon sayd that in a division a good citizen ought not to stand still but to take the better part in respect of his Band to the Common-wealth But say saith he our Country were not devided but overthrowne Say it were not in perill only to be but almost alltogether lost Should wee in the midst of so great disorders thinke it wisdome and allegiance and piety to sitt with our armes crosse-folded till our throats be cut our lawes religion and state altred when reason bids vs throwe them abroad and bestirre vs nimbly for the suddayne safegaurd and rescue of all shall I meet with Incendiaries who see to set the Countrey one fier and not stopp them but stay for a commision shall the Father of a Family be seene madly to 〈◊〉 his owne house over his eares and kill himselfe whilst the wife children and servants obediently looke on and weepe but dare not offer to hinder it shall it be sinne in them to stay him from such a foule fact to hollde his hands to desire him to be better advised to cast on water I think none will be so madde as once to affirme it Then doubtles our combatant David may kill Goliah an enemy of God and the state though Saul send 's not for him and might after the fact justify himselfe with this speech of his to his brother What haue I now done Is their not a cause CONCLVSION 3. A third Conclusion from hence deduced is that negligence in a case of Necessity that is where the safety of our Prince or our Country or our Religion is in daunger argue's the negligent of cowardice luke-warmenes slavery or treachery AS before wee haue seene the care on member hath of an other in mutuall love a kinde of commutatiue justice so wee may behold how all the members apply themselues especially for the safeguard of the most principall members Insomuch at if the head or heart be aymed at the hand enterposeth it selfe to defend these parts and rather receiue's the wound it selfe then suffers the blowe to touch them In extrema necessitate magis licet de serere filios quam parentes quos nullo modo deserere licet propter be neficia Th Aqua 22. q. 31. A. 34. m. The reason is because the conservation of the whole body consisteth in the vitall noble and principall parts so that if through the eyes defect any mischaunce happen's to it self or to any part of the body especially to the head or to the heart it shall not be blamed alone but the eare and every member shall pertake both of the shame and detryment Because it is judged not a perticular but a generall neglect since if all had not bene equally negligent the vigillancy of some one had giuen warning to the rest and soe the daunger had bene avoyded Bodyes pollitique are best seene in bodyes naturall and what is here orderly cannot be there absurde Cicero is a member a servaunt a childe of the Common-wealth yet is he truly what he is called the father of the Common-wealth The eldest of a family is by nature in place of a King to the rest Yet in case of necessity in age or sicknes or the like infirmity the youngest may both governe and provide for the elder as young Storcks feeding the olde and as gratious children novrishing and informing their decrepid and ignorant parents In defect of Kings Preists haue governed and in case of necessity Vzziah being remoued for leprosie Ionathan his sonn reignes in his stead Yea at such extraordinary times Women haue stept to the helme so carefull is nature so carefull is pollicy so carefull is grace for the preservation of the whole that they reject not the helpe of any nor trusts hazards the securing of all vpon one though that one seeme never so dilligent or able Which laudable custome to prevent generall inconvenience arising from perticular neglect of some speciall duty whereby the publique may be indangered they say the Cranes vse by naturall instinct For notwithstanding they haue one of their owne Company that keepe 's watch whilst all the rest sleepe yet that they may not seeme securely to hazard all vpon the dilligence and trust of one all that sleepe stand vpon one legge hold a stone in the other foote whose weight may keepe them waking at least make them perticulerly watchfull and wary against all feares and daungers whch may suddenly invade them in generall Soe in Armyes the Per-due giue 's notice to the Sentinell the Sentinell to the Corporall the Corporall to the Captaine ank court of guarde Who being too weake to resist the daunger giue 's alarum to the whole body Now if any surprise be made the fault is imputed as well to the Generall who perhaps notwithstanding ordered and commaunded all things well on his part as to the sleeping Sentinell whose personall neglect lost the liue's and honors of so many And therefore it concerne's all to be watchfull and to doe their best for the