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cause_n	faith_n	justification_n	sanctification_n	2,253	5	11.1405	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64899	The great Antichrist by J.V. ...	Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652.	1643 (1643)	Wing V310; ESTC R20945	14,480	25

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I exhort first of all that prayers be made for Kings but certaine Brownists of these times will not pray for the King but revile him in their prayers Secondly the doctrine against a Women Preachers I suffer not a Woman to teach nor to usurpe authority but saith Isay b Women rule over you Thirdly the doctrine of obedience to c superiours but now Servants run away from their Masters without their consent and rise up against them in the publick cause doe these induce sound doctrine Fourthly the doctrine of justification by faith which Pelagians of old and the Papists now deny Fifthly sanctification Rom. 6. 1. which Gnostikes and Nicolaitans formerly now Familists and Antinomians deny Sixthly the doctrine of predestination without foresight Rom. 9. 1. which Papists and Arminians oppose Seventhly the doctrine of subjection to Kings though they be Heathens and Tyrants which d Gnostikes of old and now Anabaptists and Brownists oppose they can live without a King though Saint Paul saith Rom. 13. 1. Let every soule be subject but these men thinke they have no soules because they would have no King in Israel that they may do that which is right in their owne eyes Iudges 21. ult. The Christians of Rome paid tribute and custome to Nero and Trajan Tyrants but these rob the King of his due and yet they say pro Rege they say Kings of old were anoynted therefore the people was subject as to Gods ordinance but now it is not so To which I answer e with the Jew no King the sonne of a King was anoynted except in case of division about the right as Solomon when Adoniah would be King but the Kingdome came by succession as every mans inheritance descends from his fathers Againe they say The Kings of Jury made no such covenant as our Kings do I answer with the same Jew the contrary appears in the example of Ioash and Iehoiada who made a covenant betweene the King and the people and though Ioash were an Apostate and a Tyrant yet the Traitours and murderers of the King were cut off by his sonne that reigned after him the King and Kings sonne will never forget to punish Traytours as appeares in the example of David f on his death bed who forgot not Shimeie's curse Moreover they say a King is a humane creature and therefore may be removed by man I answer He is an ordinance humane that is taken out of Men not from Angells yet by Gods appointment he is supreame g 1 Pet. 2. 13. and all inferiours are appointed by him but the supreame powers as Kings and Emperors are h appointed of God Roman 13. 1. The Jewes had a Grand Councell of seventy one Elders Numb. 11. Gather to mee seventy men of the Elders and Moses who was King was above them all {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Talmud Sanhed Perek 1. The lesser Sanhedrin was of two hundred and thirty sometimes they go not forth to warre nor gather the Councell of the Tribes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} but by the Grand Councell of seventy one They judge not the King at all {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} he goeth not forth of his Palace to mourne for the dead c. in Deut. 17. thou shalt set a King over thee the King then is supreame they ride not on his Horse nor sit on his Throne to rule yet the booke of the Law is with him when he goes to warre or sits in judgment There were three companies of Iudges in Jerusalem at the doore of the mount of the House in the Court and in a paved Chamber where the Grand Councell sate of seventy and the King from whence was no appeale Deut. 17. Talmud Sanhed Perek 11. Lastly the doctrine of indifferent things they cannot indure no Ceremonies but their owne inventions yet the primitive Christians though differing in Ceremonies of meats and dayes lived in mutuall charity Rom. 14. 1. 2. The use of this is already made by the blessed Apostle Rom. 16. 17. I beseech you brethren marke them that cause divisions and i scandalls to make many stumble and fall contrary to the sound doctrine yee have received and avoyd them for they serve not the Lord Iesus as they pretend but their owne bellyes what care they if they can eate and drinke and fare deliciously every day if flockes or heards of poore mens be driven away and they undone for ever and by faire words they deceive the hearts of the simple not of the wise who see plainly their hypocrisie but like Absolom they steale away the hearts of the Kings well-minded Subjects by lyes But I would have you saith Saint Paul simple in evill and wise in that which is good to hold fast the poynts of sound doctrine forenamed and the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly who is Satan but he that will not endure sound doctrine as is plaine by the coherence who is all for Warre and bloud but the God of peace shall subdue these Satans and bruise them to powder and that shortly this God of peace be with you that hold fast the doctrine yee have received and follow not such as heap to themselves teachers like waves of the Sea tossed with every wind of doctrine and they heap up k to themselves they have their peculiar teachers one of Paul another of Apollo of Cephas c. a great presumption in these men David had Ira the Jairite for his Priest and Kings and Nobles have theirs and now there must be a parity all the Vulgar sort must have their teachers according to their owne lusts and private humours having itching and restlesse eares weary of hearing the truth and therefore they turne to fables wherein they still itch after novelties This is the first cause of these perillous times The opinions of men I come now to their vices 4. Their selfwill in those wayes they are lovers of their l owne wills Gen. 49. 5. like Simeon and Levi they are brethren in evill instruments of cruelty are in their habitations or their m Swords are instruments of cruelty to shed bloud under the cloake of Religion as Sectaries do Into their secret councell my soule come thou not if my body be forced and my goods yet in n their association my heart be thou not united for in their wrath they killed a man one man of ten thousand the Prince of the Land and however this ONE be yet alive by miracle yet many noble Lords Gentlemen have perished bin taken neither have these men rested here but in their rage have digged down not a Wall but Walls of Cities and fortified Townes and not onely o houghed Oxen but slaine them and driven away Sheepe and Oxen robbing and spoyling and all this in their p selfwill these two brethren were disswaded by the other ten but they