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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27115	The royal charter granted unto kings, by God himself and collected out of his Holy Word, in both Testaments / by T.B. ... ; whereunto is added by the same author, a short treatise, wherein Episcopacy is proved to be jure divino.	Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1649 (1649)	Wing B1514; ESTC R17476	64,496	181

have those who are apt enough to make arguments with our Saviour bearing this conclusion then are the children free Mat. 17.26 but few that will imitate his peaceable example to fish for money rather then offend the higher powers Mat. 17.27 ●nd if you conjecture that our Saviour ●id this meerly for quietnesse sake behold the question rightly stated Is it ●awfull to give tribute to Cesar or not Mat. ●2 17 seriously propounded Master we ●now that thou art true and therefore we ●ope thou wilt not deceive us with a ●ie and teachest the way of God in truth 〈◊〉 and therefore thou wilt not cause us ●o erre through the deceiveablenesse of ●nrighteousnesse neither carest thou for ●ny man and therefore thou wilt not ●e afraid to speak the truth thou regar●est not the persons of men therefore fea●ing only God thou wilt boldly faith●ully without partiality or fear plainly ●ell us whether it be lawfull or not ●learly determined and concluded upon Da Caesari quae sunt Caesaris Mat. 22.21 If Christian liberty should loose the ●eignes of Civill government then Christ would never have acknowledged Pilates power to have been of God John 19.11 If subjection unto Kings were a hinderance to the propagation of the Gospel then Saint Peter would never have exhorted the Christians to submit themselves to every ordinance of man 1 Pet. 2.9 We have too many submitters now-adayes unto every ordinance of men but they are not unto such ordinances whereof the King is Supreme 1 Pet. 2 13. Object It is better to obey God then man and therefore for his sake we cannot obey every ordinance of man Sol. The Apostle doth not in this place discourse of obedience but of submission obedience is to be given to things only lawfull submission is to be given to any ordinance whatsoever though not for the things sake which is commanded yet propter Dominum for the Lords sake who doth command so absolute submission where God commands one thing and the King commands another thing We may refuse his will and there is perfect obedience when God commands one thing and the King commands the contrary we may not resist his authority and therein is true submission and this the Apostle doth not only assure us to be the will of God but puts this well doing in the stead of knowledge and wisdome whereby the ignorance of foolish men may be ●ut to silence 1 Pet. 2.15 when freedom ●ands of tiptoes her coat is too short ●o cover her malitiousnesse therefore the Apostle exhorts us to behave our ●elves As free but not using our liberty as a ●loak for malitiousnesse 1 Pet. 2.16 If Christian liberty did break the ●choole of civill Government then ●aint Paul would never have been ●uch a Schoole-master to the Romans Rom. 13. Let every soul be subject to the ●igher powers an excellent rule for ●ur obedience every soul no exem●tion by greatnesse or holinesse or ●ny by-respect whatsoever but if he ●ave a soul let him be subject to the higher ●owers if two powers clash one against another here we know which to stick ●o in our obedience that is which is ●ighest and that Saint Peter plainly tels ●s is the King whether to the King as Supreme 1 Pet. 2.13 There is no power but ●f God the powers that be are of God who●oever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall ●eceive to themselves damnation vers. 2. What Christian then can have his con●cience so misled as to resist those powers out of conscience when the Apostle plainly tels us verse 1. We must needs be subject not onely for wrath that is fo● fear of them but also for conscience sak● because God commanded it There were Anti-monarchists and Anti-dignitarians even in the Apostle● time but if it had been laudable or agreeable to Christian liberty the Sain●Jude in his Epistle verse 8. would never have called the despisers of Domini●● and evill speakers of Dignities filthy dreamers and defilers of the flesh as he put them so we find them both together he never would have compared them to bruit beasts verse 10. he never would have pronounced woes unto them as unto the goers into the wayes of Cain greedy runners after the errour of Balaam for reward and perishers as in the gain-saying of Corah ver. 11. he would never have compared them to clouds without water carried about with wind to fruitlesse withered trees twice dead plucked up by the roots to raging waves of the Sea foaming out their owne shame wandering stars to whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever verse 12 13. he never would have described them unto you so fully to be Murmurers Complainers walkers after their own lusts widemouth'd speakers of great swelling words having of mens persons in admiration by reason of advantage separatists sensuall and though they pretend never so much unto it having not the spirit verse 16.19 Christian liberty frees from the ceremoney of the Law not from the substance of the Gospel whereof we see submission subjection unto Kings is a great part thereof The Romane yoke and the Romans hands which held the plough ploughing upon the Christians backs and made long furrowes and for a long time were both adverse to the propogation of Christs Gospel yet during all that time neither Christ nor any of his Disciples ever attempted either the change of the one or the displaying of the other and shall we thinke our selves more wise then he who is the wisdome of the Father or better advised then by him who is the everlasting councellour or that any mans doctrine can settle us in more peace and quietnesse then he who is princeps pacis the Prince of peace will you have more Orthodox Fathers then the Apostles or the Children of this generation to be wiser then the Fathers of old Christ and his Apostles with all the antient Fathers taught and subscribed to this doctrine First Christ Da Caesari quae sunt Caesaris then Saint Paul Render to all their due tribute to whom tribute is due custome to whom custome fea● to whom fear honour to whom honour and all to Cesar Then Saint Peter submit your selves c. Fear God honour the King c. sic passim in Scripturis Dear Christians are we better pleased with the glittering tinsell of a painted Baby from a Pedlers shop then with the rich and inestimable Jewels of Divine truth will we suffer our selves to be cosened with the guilded slips of errour and what enthusiasmes every pretended spirit if not every Cobler Weaver Groome or Coach-man shall dictate who are but velut igneae and velut flatus as it were of fire or as it were a mighty and rushing winde but nothing sensible some hot exhalations of the braine set on fire by the continuall motion and agitation of the tongue Good God have we thus learnt Christ Is this the fruit of so clear a Gospel and

but if Episcopacy be Anti-Christian then the gates of Hel have not only prevailed against it a long time but all along As all Judgements are given in the Kings name and all records run Rege presente though the King be not there in person but in power so the universall and un-interrupted and continued and generally received Discipline of his holy Catholick Church which Church we are bound to believe by the Apostolical Creed is Christo presente Ergo Jure Divino though Christ be not there in person but in power which power he conferr'd upon those who were to be his successours which were called Apostles as my Father sent me so send I you and he that heareth y●u heareth me and loe I will be with you alwayes unto the end of the world surely this Discipline of one over many call it what you will is to descend and continue unto the end of the world Object But it may be objected How can you prove that Christ commanded any such thing or that Christ gave to the Apostles any such power as to make successors in their steads with a warrant for it to continue from age to age Sol. Where do you find that Christ gave the Sacrament to any but his Disciples drike ye all of this but they were all Apostles to whom he said so where did you find that Christ administred the Sacrament or commanded it to be administred unto any Lay-men or women therefore is not the Sacrament given unto them Jure Divino because the words were left out in the conveyance when there grew a disputation concerning Divorcements Christ sends us to the Originall Sic autem not fuit ab initio if Christs rule be good then the Bishops are well enough for they may say concerning Episcopacy I mean one over many and that safely too sic erat ab origine some are very unwilling that this Episcopacy should be intaild by Christ upon his Apostles and their successours out of these words Mat. 28.20 I will be with you alwaies to the end of the world they will not have it to mean in their successours but the meaning to be this I will be with you alwayes unto the end of the world that is to say in the efficacy and power of my word and Gospel to all ages why may it not signifie this and that too that it doth one is no argument but that it may do both God made all things in number weight and measure and will you ●●●ike his word shall sensus factus thrust out sensus destinatus out of the Scriptures the first Ministers of the Gospel must adequate to the first Minister of the Law and behold the same method observed in both their institutions what difference is there between Christs words to his Disciples I am with you alwayes unto the end of the world Mat. 28.20 and Gods words unto Aaron at his setting him a part for the High Priests office This shall be a Statute for ever unto thee and to thy seed after thee Exod. 28.43 Certainly if the Gospel be nothing else but the Law revealed and the Law be nothing else but the Gospel hidden whatsoever is written or said of the Ministers of the one must needs have reference also to the Ministers of the other and I shall desire you to look a little back upon the words which God said to Aaron when God speakes of the seed of Aaron he only maketh mention of the seed after him but when he speakes of the Statute he saith it shall be for ever if I do not flatter my own judgement that tels me that this Statute of High Priest-hood or Episcopacy call it what you will must have heires after the seed of Abraham is expired and did not the Catholick Church all along call the receiving of the holy Ghost the order of Priest-hood did ever any record above seven years date call it making of Ministers and why are they angry with the word Priest is it because the Prophet Isaiah Prophecying of the glory of Christs Church tels us we shall be named Priests of the Lord but that men shall call us Ministers of God Isay 61 6. If the Ministration of the Law be glorious shall not the Ministration of the Gospel be much more glorious 2 Cor. 1.3 and shall the Ministers of the same Gospel be lesse glorious when you see a man that cannot abide to see anothers glory you may be sure he is no kin to him or very far off so you may be assured that these are no true sons of the Church nor no right children who thinke a Chaire too great state for their fathers to sit in In the Apostles time these Bishops or if you will Superintendents which are all one in signification only a good Greek word chang'd by Mr John Calvin into a bad Latin word were stiled Embassadours of the Almighty Stars of Heaven Angels of the Church ●c but now these Embassadours are ●sed like vagabonds these Stars are ●ot Stars but fallings and the Angels ●re no where to be found bu● ascending ●nd descending Jacobs Ladder whilst ●his reputation was given unto the Church and to its officers the stones ●f its building were in unity but as it ●s now it seemes no otherwise then as a Corps kept under ground seemingly in●ire but once touch'd soon fals to dust and ashes Never was there such a monster as this ruling and thus consti●uted Pre●bytery the father of it Rebel●ion the mother Insurrection the midwife Sacriledge the nurse Covetousnesse the milke Schism the coats Armour the rattle Drums a Bloudy Sword the corrall Money the babies it delights to play withall it grows up to be a stripling and goes to school to a Councel of War its lesson is on the Trumpet its fescue a Pistoll its going out of school in ranke and file its play-dayes the dayes of Battaile and blackmunday the day of Judgement it comes of age and is Married with a Solemn League and Covenant it begets children like it self whose blessing upon them is the power of the Sword an● whose Imposition of hands are broke● pates this monster cries downe th●● truely Antient Catholick and Apostollick power which the Bishops exercised and then take it up againe and use it themselves in a higher nature then eve● any Bishops or Apostles themselves did or durst have done even to the excommunication and deposement of their Kings to the delivering of them up unto Satan and to Hang-men if they stood but in their way to whom the Apostles taught submission how faulty so ever they were and if not obedience yet submission to every one of their ordinances if not for their own sakes yet for the Lords sake and for Conscience sake these men cry down the same authority as Popish whilst they exalt themselves above all that are called Gods in a higher manner then ever any Pope of Rome ever yet did we will begin with this Monster in the very place of its Nativity