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cause_n	body_n	motion_n	nature_n	2,722	5	5.9141	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44244	Against disloyalty fower sermons preach'd in the times of the late troubles / by Barten Holyday., D.D., Arch=deacon of Oxford, and chaplain to His late Majesty, Charles the First, of blessed memory.	Holyday, Barten, 1593-1661.	1661 (1661)	Wing H2530; ESTC R43257	56,607	145

〈◊〉 that if they spake any thing against the King or the High Priest it was presently beleev'd And he will tell us that they were Enemies to Kings that they were of power to disturbe their Kings to raise warre to doe mischief that is to be peace-breakers with extream devotion And he will tell us how they perplex'd their King Hircanus how they broke his Son King Alexander how they aw'd his Widow Queen Alexandre who was glad to be rul'd by them that so she might seem to rule others how they occasion'd quarrel about the Crown between his Sons who to end their difference but to begin their misery choosing the Roman for their Judge found him become their King and their Country at once with their Kingdome unexpectedly layd prostrate into a Province This was the work and reward of notorious zeal They sound the power but the Roman found the plot Nay these were they who not onely thus enthraled their Jerusalem but at last destroyd it whiles they would acknowledge no Lord but the Lord of Lords the Almighty professing that they never feard the destruction of Their City the destruction of God's City Yet the World now sees that neither they nor their Jerusalem is to be seen except the ruines of them as a witnesse And that whiles by Rebellion they labour'd to save their City for God God has abandond both it and them to His Enemy to Their Enemy Mahomet There is no art but must be allow'd some Principles which must be the ground-worke of superstructions so that the ground of art is not art but nature And surely in the Art in the high wisdome of Monarchy no more sure no more necessary that is no more natural foundation can be laid then this the sword may not be drawn nor sheath'd without supreame command And where shall such supremacy be found but in a King Shall persons not annointed be above or equal to the Lord 's annointed Behold Royalty in the Originals of Nature Is it not the power of a Father enlarged For some then to affirme that a King though greater then his Subjects divided is lesse then they when they are Unised what is it but to say that the Patriarch Jacob had indeed Authority over his twelve Sons considerd single but that they when United had Authority over Him A most unnatural assertion and as full of vanity as of falsehood Belike such new Vtopians would have a Round of Government as some the like in the Church not unlike the motion of a Wheele in which every spoak becomes uppermost in his turne But have we not learned that a King is the Head and the People the Body politique And has not Nature committed the Peace so the safety of the Body to the wisdome of the Head without whose direction the motion of the parts is but commotion Number which with order is a cause of Peace is without it too sure an argument of errour when a people runs into a tumult may it be call'd an Assembly or a great misrule Which degree of disorder as it commonly begins not without much mistake so does it goe on with much more mischief Such was the sedition of the Jewes against Paul when they cryed out away with such a fellow from the Earth The mischief was they violated his Person the mistake was they thought he had violated the Temple supposing he had brought certain Greeks into it and so polluted it On which supposal for a while the upvoare was so loud that the accusation it self could not be heard as if the outcry of the tumult had striv'd to exceed the malice of it and did continue with such outrage that authority arm'd with the Souldier was fain to be the violent Peace-maker Indeed that is usually the unhappy and necessary conclusion of sedition Thus Ephraim who would not be pacified by words so provok'd Jephtha that allmost a whole Tribe became the example as of the fin so of the punishment Thus Absolon provok'd suffer'd the justice of a Father whose tendernesse Alas bewaild his own Victory and his peace So that it fares with such fire-brands of a Kingdome as it did with those that cast the innocents into Nebuchadnezzar's Furnace they being the surest fuell of those flames Peace then must be kept the Bond of Peace and the Unity of the Spirit in that bond Is not this in the best extent of this blessing the Church in the Common-wealth as some phrase it Compare Peace with Unity and is not Peace the Larger Is it not the Bond Wee must not then make this bond too short Yet has it been the Witt and Mistake of some to make the Church a House and the Commonwealth the Hangings which ought to be fitted to the House But this similitude seems to be fitted more to their Aime then to the Truth And surely we may admire that such Authors the Authors of this comparison such overseers as the overseers of this building would be so overseen as to make that which is narrower contain that which is larger Themselves making the Church to contain only the Good but the Commonwealth to contain both Good and Bad More congruous it had been though not exact to have made the Common-wealth the Outside of the Church for that had been to grant it to be of more Capacity then the Church and to be what it is intended to be the Defence of the Church the Outside of a building being contrived by art to make void the violence of storme and Age. Yet this comparison were not exact the outside receiving its forme from the house it selfe where as the Church does not give forme to the Common-wealth but receives from it a devout Defence Otherwise the Common-wealth should still vary as the Church whereas we see in a long experience that the Jewish Church and the Christian though so different have yet in their severall ages subsisted and flourish'd under the like Outward rule Monarchique Government To settle the Church then as some now would upon the flat of a Presbytery and then to affirme that it must give forme to the Common-wealth what is it from such premises but dangerously and unjustly to inferre the degrading of Monarchy into Popular Goverment We may then more obviously yet truly liken the Civill State to Bulwarkes and the Church to a City for as when the fortifications are wonne the Citty is soon lost so when the Bond of Peace the Lawes of a Nation are broken the Unity of the Spirit the Doctrine of Religion will be quickly dissolv'd But surely the bond of Peace should be made surer and though by Practice some have somewhat weaken'd it yet have some by Doctrine somewhat weakned their own practice Conscience is a new Edition of Man's workes and words usually presenting them corrected and amended What the zeale of Knox was that is what his lise was let his Life witnesse What Doctrine his Death preach'd let his friends tell us who write his Life and they