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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55727	Tandem bona causa triumphet, or, Scotlands late misery bewailed, and the honour and loyalty of this ancient kingdom, asserted in a sermon preached before His Majesties High Commissioner, and the Honourable Parliament of the kingdom of Scotland, at Edinburgh the 17 day of February, 1661 / by Mr. John Paterson, Minister of the Gospel at Aberdene.	Paterson, John, 1604?-1679.; Paradise, John.	1661 (1661)	Wing P328; ESTC R17861	15,450	27

restoring Our Native KING to his just Rights Royal Dignity and Power after such a sad and long Exile by a pack of false greedy ambitious hypocritical cruel Bloody Murtherers and Traitors who called themselves Saints and that in despight of all the Enemies of the Royal Family and Interest who were not few And if any have yet a Bone in their Stomack against the KING His Family and Authority time will try for it is not all Gold that Glisters Mal-contents will discover themselves one way or another For fairded Loyalty will soon be rubbed off when occasion offereth But let Honor and Happiness attend all that are cordially Loyal 6. To close Let it not seem Presumption nor Vanity in such a poor weak man as I am to say that in my humble opinion GOD is calling upon KING and PARLIAMENT to do two things First To break off all unjust illegall and Tyrannical chains which wicked and evil men have made and fastened about the Neck of this poor Kingdom and in this his MAJESTIES Commissioner and this Honorable Court of PARLIAMENT have made a very considerable and noble Progress to their eternal memory Secondly I humbly conceive that GOD calleth to KING and PARLIAMENT to make a Chain First A Chain of Justice for all such who upon clear evidences shall be found guilty of the Plotting Contriving or Acting in that Vnparalelled Murther of the late KING the betraying or selling his MAJESTY and the Ancient Honor and Liberty of this Nation Secondly A Chain of new Laws or the reviving of Ancient Laws if they can be by more severe and terrible Sanctions for preventing the like Treachery Disloyalty and Vsurpation in time coming Ex malis moribus oriuntur bonae leges Thirdly A chain of Regulation in reference to Church-Government Remember my words it is the regulation of Church-Government by Civil Authority I speak of I mean that Church-Government be not suffered by the Civil Power the KING and PARLIAMENT to run without its own Channel nor to be excentrick to Church Matters but that it may be kepet within its own Banks I shall not use that Argument which some calls a Fallacy that is to reason from the faults of Governours against the Government from the outstretching of a Government to the overturning of a Government and yet that Argument was made use of in Anno 1638. But I may very lawfully and justly without Fallacy in all equity Argue from the outstretching of a Government or from the abuse of it to the Regulation of it and putting of it within its own Channel I think that all Church-Government should be so Regulated by the KING and PARLIAMENT that it be not suffered to cope with the Supream Authority of a Nation much less to counteract thereto least of all to overtop the Supream Authority that is Popish I think that Church-Government should be so regulated that there be not in one Kingdom two Supream Coordinat Powers to clash one upon another and to distract and rent the Spirits of the Subjects so that they know not whom to obey Whether the KING and the Supream Civil Power or the Supream Church Power Did not the Business of 1648. speak out this too clearly when the PARLIAMENT ordered one thing and the Church the contrary This should be remeaded by the KING and PARLIAMENT I am no Stats-man yet I take it to be beyond an Ordinary Wit to make two Coordinat Supream Powers in one Land consisting with the Safety and Peace thereof especially a Nation that is Monarchicall I conceive that too many lay a wrong Foundation in reference to this matter whereupon they build wrong Superstructures for they look upon the State Civil and Ecclesiastick as upon two severall distinct independent Bodies while as they are not two Bodies but two parts of one and the same Politick Body under one Chief and Supream Civil Governour And although the Supream Civil Authority ought not to meddle immediatly with Things meerly Spiritual Such as the Preaching of the Word Administration of the Sacraments the exercise of the Keys these things being committed by CHRIST to the Minister of the Gospel yet it is proper for the Supream Civil Magistrate to meddle with Things that are Ecclesiastick to see the Church in His Dominions rightly Constituted and rightly Governed For in reference to the external Regiment of the Church the Supream Gubernative Power is in the Supream Magistrate And therefore the Reformation of Religion without the consent much less contrary to the Will of a Supream Christian Magistrate hath no warrantable Precedent in GODS Word but the very contrary is holden out there See Deuter. chap. 29. vers 10 11 12. Josh chap. 24. vers 25. 2 King chap. 23. 2 Chron. chap. 15. vers 8.12 2 Chron. chap. 29. vers 3.10 2 Chron. chap. 34. vers 31.32 Ezra chap. 10. vers 3.5 compared with chap. 2. vers 7. And severall other places of Scripture wherein the Chief Magistrate conourreth or rather according to his Place and Power goeth before the people But we find no where in Scripture the people reforming without the conourrence of the Supream Magistrate even in the times of their worst Kings And any who will deny that it so in the beginning of Christian Magistracy will shew themselves ignorants in Antiquity And is it not more suitable and agreeable to Reason more for the Honor Safety and Stability of a Church and the Government thereof and for the advancement of Religion and piety in a Land that the Church depend rather upon the KING and Supream Magistrate than upon popularity the natural product whereof is coufusion and tumult as the breathing and wind of factions and schismaticall Spirits bloweth upon these waters It is my humble opinion that there ought to be such a chain of Regulation put about Church-Government as it shall not be lawfull for the Church to prescribe restrictions and limitations to the KING before his admission to the Exercise of his Royal Power such a chain of Regulation as it may not be lawfull to the Church to declare against the KING to state Quarrels in matters of War to purge Armies and least of all to exclude the KINGS Interest out of the state of the Quarrel to force the KING to subscribe Papers and Declarations contrary to his will such a chain of Regulation that it shall not be lawfull for Ministers to protest against the Magistrates Lawfull Power in raising all fensible Parsons in the Kingdom for the just and necessary Defence thereof and calling that necessary Duty a Sin and a conjunction with the Malignant Party a Principle and Practice inconsistant with the Safety of any Nation a Protestation and Practice to be abhorred by all Modest and Loyal-men Clearly contrary to the Law of GOD of Nature of Nations A Principle and Practice never heard of since the beginning of the VVorld in any Story Sacred or Profane● A Principle which ought to be well adverted that the like may be preveened in time coming A Principle and Practice to be Stigmatized as well as the Remonstrauce Such a chain of Regulation as may lay a Restraint upon Ministers from starting or venting Questions Principles or Tenets destructive to the Supream Civil Authority or which may have any tendency to unsettle Authority and to shake the Peace of a Nation such as the Doctrine of opposing and resisting of KINGS by their own Subjects through Force of Arms the crying down the Authority and Actings of a Free PARLIAMENT Popular Reformation the laying too much Stresse upon any Humane Draught whatsoever as if it were the Basis and Foundation of Religion or making any thing the rule of Faith VVorship and Religious Practice but the VVord of GOD. All which may and ought to be done with due respect and tendernesse too and preservation of the Just Power Liberty and Authority of the Church according to the Holy Scripture taken in its Native and Genuine Sense and according to the Antient Primitive and Apostolick Practice and for the advancement of Godlinesse and Peace both in Church and State Lastly I humbly conceive GOD calleth KING and PARLIAMENT to make a chain of Power which may gird the Laws about and make them effectuall by a vigorous Execution for a Law without Execution is but a Bee without a Sting And there can be no Law really executed without Power And therefore these who did wrest the Militia out of the Late Martyred KING'S hands did in effect destroy all Law and Justice by robbing the KING of the Sword the choisest Flowre and Strength of the Crown Necessity Duty Safety the Peace and Quiet of the Land the putting Law and Justice to a lively Execution calleth for Power that so Popery and Profanity Violence Robbery and Oppression in the Land Schism in the Church Ruptures in the State Mutinies Insurrections Plottings and Contrivances to involve the Nation in new Troubles by Mal-contents may be timely preveened and kept under for though the face of the VVaters appear smooth for the present there is some stirrngs at the Bottom by these who have put on a present Mask of Loyalty but are ready to pull off when they can see their Opportunity I crave Pardon for my boldnesse in offering my rash Thoughts to His MAJESTIES Commissioners GRACE and to his High and Honourable Court in matters of so great Concernment but I may say I do it in all humility and from a principle of Loyalty and Love to my SOVERAIGN the KING to the Country and to my Mother Church let Men construct it as they list and so I end Giving Glory to the FATHER SON and HOLY GHOST Amen GOD SAVE THE KING FINIS