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conscience_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	1,861	5	9.7674	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27454	The original of kingly and ecclesiastical government by T.B. ...	Barlow, Thomas, 1607-1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing B1513A; Wing B196; ESTC R37045	57,729	118

a hand but an axe must be laid to the root of the tall Cedar of our Libanus yea they must be rooted up like the names of Taronius they will not leave so much as a stump of Nebuchadnezzers tree chain'd to the earth up must all root and branch till all the royal branches lie like sprey upon the ground these men had rather be destroyed themselves than say the Lords Anointed is not to be destroyed Go ye blind Zelots hearken to your Wives and let them perswade you to disobedience and the Devil them as Eve did Adam and the Devil her behold the objects she presents unto your view how good they seem how fair they look how pleasant they are to thine eye how wise you think you sha●●●e how full of knowledg when poor wretches you shall find all these promises tu●ned into Fig-leaves to hide your nakedness all these golden Apples of Palestine once toucht evaporated into stench and blindness and that your disobedience hath given you nothing but curses and brought you nothing but sorrows and Death upon your selves and children and profited you nothing but the turning of an Edom into a Wilderness till you be glad to eat the herbs of the field and by the same fault fall into the same punishment with our neighbours of Germany dye with grass in your mouths These things fell upon Adam for his disobedience unto God and the like will fall upon us the sons of Adam for our disobedience unto Gods Anointed O then let us not by any means lift up our hands against the Lords Anointed lest like Adam we fall from our state of innocence and be guilty guilty of all the blood that hath and shall be spilt upon this Land guilty of the tears of so many fatherless children and widowes and if we will not be obedient unto a Prince of men guilty of all the eternal thraldom and submission unto a Prince of Devils take then the advice of the wise Solomon Prov. 30.32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thy self or if thou hast thought evil lay thy hand upon thy mouth Fear God honour the King have nothing to do with them that are subject unto charge for their destruction commeth suddainly and so will yours Let no man deceive himself he who is not good in his particular calling can never be good in his general calling He is no good man that is no good servant and if he be no good subject he is no goo● Christian he that honoureth not the King doth never fear God and except he obeys both he obeys neither CHAP. VIII Whether Kings now adays are to be had in the same veneration and esteem as Kings were under the Law by reason of our Christian liberty CErtainly the murmuring of Co●ah Dathan and Abiram with their complices Thou seekest to make thy self altogether a Prince over us the Lord is among us we are all alike holy unto the Lord and therefore Moses and Aaron must be no more excellent than the rest of the people was no prophesie to be fulfilled in these our days for if it had surely our Saviour would never have paid tribute for himself and Peter Mat. 17.27 which was a symbole of their subjection to heathen pagans for this cause pay ye tribute Rom. 13.6 we have those who are apt enough to mak● 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 than offend the higher powers Mat. 17.27 And if you conjecture that our Saviour did this meerly for quietness sake behold the question● rightly stated Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not Mat. 22.17 seriously propounded Master we know that thou art true an● therefore we hope thou wilt not deceive us with a lye and teachest the way of God in truth and therefore thou wilt not cause us to err through the deceiveableness of unrighteousness neither carest thou for any man and therefore thou wilt not be afraid to speak the truth thou regardest not the persons of men therefore fearing only God thou wilt boldly and faithfully without partiality or fear plainly tell us whether it be lawful or not clearly determined and concluded upon Da Caesari quae sunt Caesaris Mat. 22.21 If Christian liberty should loose the reigns of Civil 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-adays 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 than 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 lawful 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 comman●s 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 submisson and this the Apostle doth not only assure us to be the will of God but puts this well doing in the stead of knowledg and wisdom whereby the ignorance of foolish men may be put to silence 1 Pet. 2.15 when fre●dom stan●s on tiptoes her coat is too short to cover her maliciousness therefore the Apostle exhorts us to behave our selves As free but not using our liberty as a cloak for maliciousness 1 Pet. 2.16 If Christian liberty did break the School of civil Government then Saint Paul would never have been such a School-master to the Romans Rom. 13. Let every Soul be subject to the higher powers an excellent rule for our obedience every soul no exemption by greatness or holiness or any by-respect whatsoever but if he have a soul let him be subject to the higher powers if two powers clash one against another here we know which to stick to in our obedience that is which is highest and that Saint Peter plainly t●lls us is the King whether to the King as Supreme 1 Pet. 2.13 There is no power but of God the powers that be are of God whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation v. 2. What Christian then can have his conscience so misled as to resist those powers out of conscience when the Apostle plainly tells us v. 1. We must needs be subject not only for wrath that is for fear of them but also for conscience sake

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 tells us we shall be named Priests of the Lord but that men shall call us Ministers of God Isa. 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 less 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 ass●red that these are no true sons of the Church no●●o right Children who think a Chair too great state for their Fathers to sit in In the Apostles time these Bishops or if you will Superintendents which are all in one signification only a good Greek word chang'd by Mr. John Calvin into a bad Latin word were stiled Embassadors of the Almighty Stars of Heaven Angels of the Church c. but now these Embassadours are used like Vagabonds these Stars are not Stars but fallings and the Angels are no where to be found but ascending and descending Jacobs Ladder whilst this reputation was given unto the Church and its Officers the Stones of its building were in unity but as it is now it seems no otherwise than as a Corps kept under ground seemingly intire but once touch'd soon falls to dust and ashes Never was there such a Monster as this ruling and thus constituted Presbytery the Father of it Rebellion the Mother Insurrection the Midwife Sacriledge the Nurse Covetousness the Milk Schism the Coats Armour the Rattle Drums a Bloudy Sword the Coral Money the Babies that it delights to play withal it grows up to be a stripling and goes to School to a Council of War its Lesson is on the Trumpet its Fescue a Pistol its going out of School in Rank and File its Play-daies the daies of Battail and Black-munday the day of Judgment 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 and whose Imposition of hands are broken pates This Monster cries down this truly Ancient Catholick and Apostolick power which the Bishops exercised and then takes it up again and uses it themselves in a higher nature than ever 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 than ever any Pope of Rome ever yet did We will begin with this Monster in the very place of its Nativity and so observe him all along through the whole tract of time we will consider how it dealt with the first Prince under whose Dominions it pullulated which was under the Prince and Bishop of Geneva and these two were both nullified in the same person as they were both here in England by the same Parliament verifying that Maxim of ours with that fore-running of theirs No Bishop No King and then we will shew you how they dealt with our Princes here at home where ever they had a power viz. with Mary Queen of Scots and James and Charles the First Kings of England and of Scotland both and then usurp a power themselves higher than Popes or Kings Calvin with his gladiators having expuls'd the Prince and Bishop of Geneva set● up a Government so high and unexpected that the people would have nothing to do either with him or his Government and thereupon they banished him the City Calvin in exile bethinks himself how he might appease their fury and give them satisfaction and be invited in again Calvinus de tristibus thinks it his best course of endearing himself unto the people to make them sharers with him in the Government whereupon he invented his new fangle of Lay-Elders and so all parties were agreed In comes Mr. John Calvin whilst he was scarce warm in his seat I shall present you with a story of him and of his demeanour of himself towards the temporal Throne There was a Noble-man of Italy who liked the Reformation which he had begun so well that he forsook his Religion and Country sold his Lands and Fortune converted all into money and took Sanctuary in Geneva as soon as he came there great rejoycing and insulting there was that their cause was honoured with so high a Convert The grand Seigniour falls a building directing his Masons he found one of them something more sawcy than to what his Lordship in his own Country had been accustomed little thinking that where there was promised so large a respect of souls there had been so little respect of persons this Noble-man hereupon gives this Mason a gentle tap upon the head the Mason flies upon him like a Dr●●●● 〈◊〉 shakes him by the 〈◊〉 my Lord not being used to such course salutations stabs him with his Dagger thinking nothing less but that so high a provocation would have pleaded his indempnity no such matter my Lord was soon laid hold on and brought to his Trial Calvin upon the Tribunal not as a Temporal Judge in such cases take heed of him but only to be asked his opinion in cases of Conscience the Delinquent pleads for himself tells them how insolently he was provoked and wonders considering such provocation he should be questioned for so vile a varlet Hereupon Mr. Calvin soon starts up and tells him that with God whose seat they held there was no respect of persons and for ought he knew that man whom he despls'd to death was as near and dear to God and his favour as himself their Laws knew no such distinction as Man-slaughter and Murder but they were regulated by the Divine Law that told them that the man that sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed that there was no exemption by greatness nor buying it off by favour the Noble-man replyed that he had not been long enough amongst them to be acquainted with their Laws it was answered that the Law of nature did forbid that of which he could not be ignorant all this was well enough My Lord told them how hard a case it would be that a man out of his love and liking to the place and manners should seek to it as a sanctuary for his conscience and so soon find it his grave that he was heartily sorry for what he had done and would give any satisfaction to his wife and children that the Court