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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A76378	Logoi apologetikoi. Foure apologicall tracts exhibited to the supreme, self-made authority, now erected in, under the Commons name of England. Wherein is proved, that their unparallel'd acts in beheading the most Christian King, nulling the regall office, disclaiming the knowne heire, Charles the II. and declaring it treason to refell their errours, are diametrically opposite to the Scriptures, the greatest opprobrie to Christianity that ever was in the world; and, without true repentance, will either make England not Christian, or no English nation. / By T.B. a conscientious and orthodox divine.	T. B., conscientious and orthodox divine.	1649 (1649)	Wing B186; Thomason E558_8; ESTC R5037	19,646	35

is high time then to stir with tongue pen c. even for you also ye learned and holy Assembly of Divines high time Who value Relgion and have any courage for the truth fear not to die the sword with your bloud and turne the edge thereof with your bones Cause there is and who observe that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therefore looketh backward and forward may find it just enough First in the former verse The Gentiles are convicted by our good works this work therefore as first in the Law should be well done that they may glorifie God in the day of visitation Secondly in this verse The Lord is the Author of such ordinance and not the people Obedience therefore ought Rom. 13. 1. to be pay'd for the Lords sake according to his will not their rule Thirdly in the next verse Magistrates are ordained for the punishment of the bad but to reward the good For thepunishment therefore of evil doers and the praise of them that do well let the higher powers be handled reverently Bring these together He is a dishonour to God a scandall to his profession and an offence to the very Ethnicks that professing the Gospel by his works dissolves the Law which Christ came to fulfil Non ex verbis dogmata verum ex ipsis rebus vita Gentiles judicare consueverunt For it was not the Gentiles custome to judge In Tit. 2. 9. Serm. 4. our tenets by words in deeds and life it was so Saint Chrisostome And do not the Jewes Turks Heathens and all sorts of Christians that are not in order with the prime abetters of Antichristian Democratie object our grosse breach of nature And well may For if Christ be Lord of Lorde and King of Kings 1 Tim. 6. 15. they that in the name of the people deposed beheaded their most Christian King that assume the Supreme Authority as the peoples Representatives proclaime the right Heire to the Kingdome CHARLES the Second and all that adhere to Him Traytours do so much as in them lieth to overthrow the dominion of Jesus Wisdome saith by me Kings reigne Prov. 8. 15. Jesuited Anabaptists Franchified consistorians and Scotized zelots will have the people constitute their King Lucifer would be exalted above God and these are high to dethrone Christ Take heed Christ is a stone and rock of offence Who fall foule on him on them falling he grindes to powder Ob. 'T is Objected the King was a Tyrant c. Sol. A Tyrant and his mercies over all His works Non bene conveniunt Yet grant that King Charls the First of blessed memory had been a Tyrant an Infidell too were not we by the law of God of Nature and Nations bound to acknowledg Him as King Gods Vicegerent and our dread Soveraigne But He next under Christ was the greatest defender in the world of the true Catholike faith His conversation every way answerable to His profession and His wisdome sufficient to be in all causes Ecclesiasticall and Civil Supreme Moderatour In both fortunes the same still In His life and death He so well trod the steps of our Jesus Master that His parallel since Christ will not be found in the Chronicles of the Kings Who then fell from Him either in respect to His person or in obedience to His just Commands cryed up a Malignant party to the taking away of His life and still pursue their bloudy designe against His successour and all faithfull Subjects have denied the Lordship of our Saviour and without repentance provoked Gods wrath to the ruine of their owne soules Rom. 13. 2. Can ye remember the Oath of Allegiance of Supremacy the Protestation your Covenant also to maintaine His Majesties Royall Person and Dignity And may ye think it stands with Protestants to turn Priscillianists or be forsworn under a colour of Religion Can ye make use of the Kings Coine with a quiet Conscience and not learne of our Saviour by the image there to give Caesar his right Can ye read Carolus Det gratia Charls by the grace of God King c. and yet thrust God from the throne and set up a supremacy Gratia Populi By the grace of the People Who hath bewitched you that having eyes ye see not nor heare with your ears nor perceive with your understanding The Lord enlighten your minds and direct your judgements conforme your wils and mollifie your hearts that ye fall not into a reprobate sense bound therefore to obey God rather then man I dare not assent to them that raised and maintained forces which at Edge-bill Brandford Gloucester Newbury the first Banbury Listithyel Where His Majestie was in Person Newbury the second and Nazeby Fight for the Lords sake endeavoured to destroy the Annointed of the Lord which when afterwards His Majestie went from Oxford unto them kept Him almost three years Prisoner then accused tried condemned and on the thirtieth of January 1648. beheaded Him which have now made an Act to deprive the late King's Heires of the Crowne Voted Regality uselesse erected a Free-state stiled the Commons the supreme Authority of this Nation and declared it Treason to thwart their proceedings any way Stand amaz'd ye Heavens and tremble O Earth I am a Christian and Orthodox no blind Zelot nor Apostate In arcanum corum ne ingreditor anima mea Into their secret let not my soul come my glory be not thou joyned with their assembly For whose anger was vehement and furour cruell Abraham pronounceth cursed Gen. 49. 6 7. Yet I according to my vow shall ever be ready in their assistance who having Authority expect a blessing of God and would not be upbraided with the unfaithfulnesse of the Manichees to hunt those Foxes that pretending to support Cant. 2. 15. undermine the Church The most zealous of them are Adamites Catharists Donatists Libertines Anabaptists Antinomians Brownists to whom Supremacy is Popery and Magistracy under God and the King Tyrannie Had they not a noli me tangere on the lip their discovery would be difficult For as S. Bernard saith boni videri non esse mali non videri sed esse volunt they will seeme and not be good and not seeme and be evil Oves habitu astu vulpes aciu lupi Bern. in cant Ser. 66. sheep in habit in wilinesse foxes wolves in cruelty So cruell and prevalent that if God prevent not they 'le still uphold the power they have purchased to equall the Crowne and the Coulter That they will or make England as waste as the Palatinate in Jermany My heart bleeds to mind whereto these men tend and wherein our Religion suffers by them Obedience unto Superiours was wont to Apologize before Tyrants for Christianity But obstinacy now in Rebellion preparation in tollerating all manner of impieties to sustaine it indignam infidelibus calumniandi ansam proebet unworthily gives the Infidels cause to calumniate Christians and despite Chrysost Christ our Lord. Whereat the world must