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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56562	The magistrates authority asserted, in a sermon, preached at the cathedral in Norwich by James Paston ...	Paston, James, d. 1722?	1673 (1673)	Wing P666; ESTC R13819	15,825	32

THE Magistrates Authority ASSERTED In A SERMON Preached at the Cathedral in NORWICH By JAMES PASTON M.A. Rector of Tinningham in Suffolk 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every Ordnance of man for the Lords sake LONDON Printed by J. D. and are to be sold by Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Pauls Church-yard 1673. To the Right Worshipful Robert Bendish Esq Mayor of the City of NORWICH SIR NOthing but your Importunity could have been sufficiently prevalent to make this Discourse appear in publick for I am so conscious of my own Inabilities that I should have thought your Candour and Zeal for the good of the Church and Nation had imposed too much upon your Judgment when you moved me to let you print it but that all men give so full Encomiums of your worth that I must have no small stock of Infidelity to doubt it Such as it is I here humbly present you with and desire it may have its designed end that it may promote Unity and Peace and perswade men not to put that asunder in Practice which God hath joyned in Precept namely Fear to Himself and Honour to his Vice-gerents into the number of which your Merits have worthily promoted you and made you Representative in that great and noble City unto him who is Representative to the great King of Heaven And therefore although the World may blame my Presumption in this Action yet it cannot accuse my Obedience since it is to your Commands and especially since those Commands descended so low as to become Requests and thereby rendred themselves the more obliging which since they have given me the boldness to venture these following pages abroad I beg that of you which your native Generosity will prompt you to vouchsafe namely your Patronage of them and hereby you will honour Your Servant in Christ JAMES PASTON To the Reader READER I Beg no more at your hands than commmon Charity will oblige you to grant namely to believe me who never gave you cause to do otherwise in telling you that this following Discourse had not been committed to the Press but upon the importunity of the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Norwich and some other Friends whose Judgment I have cause to esteem above mine own If you will accuse me for my Concession although unwillingly obtained I confess I have only this to plead in my excuse that my intentions were honest I am ready also to concur with any Man whose opinion it is that the Subject might have been much better handled by some more able and judicious Advocate and for this reason have I been so long strugling since I preached it against the Arguments used by my Friends before I would yeild being very loth to appear in publick so early Therefore as I hope you will not doubt of my veracity so neither will I question your good-nature till I have just cause but will believe you will pardon a fault committed with so much reluctancy As for the Discourse it self the Composure of it is too mean for any mans envy and the design of it too good for any Mans scorn and therefore I promise my self-security ROM XIII V. Wherefore ye must needs be subject not only for wrath but also for Conscience sake ORDER is a thing so necessary to the preservation of the Universe that should this be dissolved all things would soon relapse and degenerate into that Chaos out of which the great Creator at first raised them The Earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and confusion like a cloud overspread and concealed the greatest glories till the God of Order divided things from things and ranked every being into its fitting place giving to the Sun Moon and Stars their proper spheres the Earth that situation from whence it shall never be moved and setting bars and bounds to the fluctuations of the Sea and prescribing limits to its boisterous and insulting waves and then did the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speak the Wisdom and Glory of its Maker And as the most wise Creator saw this necessary in the greater World so likewise in the Microcosm Man the Epitome thereof Ordering therefore a Superiority and Inferiority between the Soul and the Body making the one capable of ruling the other of being ruled nay giving to every member its due place and office and uniting them by that need they have of each others help and support And accordingly has Nature taught the most barbarous Nations to order their Bodies Politick and in the Sacred Writ we no sooner read of Man but we read of Dominion and Subjection nay the grand Council of Heaven had them in design together for at the same time that God said Let us make Man in our Image and after our likeness he also said and let him have Dominion and therefore so soon as that Blessing Increase and Multiply began to be effectual every man was King and Priest in his own Family and many Families combined into Nations and were ordered into ranks and degrees And this was taught not onely by the Documents of Nature but also by the God of Nature himself who when he chose a peculiar People he instituted a Government of King and Priest and led them by the hand of Moses and Aaron A King to rule and a Priest whose lips should preserve knowledge his divine Wisdom knowing that all could not be equal but that every man must keep that order and observe that station wherein Providence has placed him Wherefore ye must needs be subject Nor did Christianity lay level the goodly Symetry of this glorious Fabrick or reduce the beauty of Order into the ruinous heap of its pristine Confusion and therefore the Apostle uses the same kind of Arguing to perswade us to Subjection and Obedience in the going Chap. v. 4. and so on telling us that as we have many members in one Body and all members have not the same Office so we being many are one body in Christ but yet not equal but every one members one of another Having then said he gifts differing according to the Grace that is given us whether Prophecy let us prophesy according to the proportion of Faith or Ministry let us wait on our ministring or he that teacheth on teaching or he that exhorteth on exhortation he that giveth let him do it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with liberality he that ruleth with diligence By these and some other Duties which he presseth in the following verses he sufficiently intimates that we should endeavour to live peaceably with all men by keeping every one in his due order this is the way and means to it Wherefore ye must needs be subject not onely for wrath but also for Conscience sake Which words of the Apostle are a Conclusion and inference from what had been premised in the foregoing part of the Chapter in the beginning whereof he layes down this injunction Let every Soul be subject