Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	law_n	soul_n	4,073	5	4.9506	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56328	The Trojan horse of the Presbyteriall government vnbowelled wherein is contained, I. The power of the Presbyterian government, II. The persons in whom this power is placed, III. The exercise of the Presbyterian power in Scotland, and the lawes there imposed on the peoples necks.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1646 (1646)	Wing P427; ESTC R5914	15,875	25

or Ecclesiasticall within the Realme 2. Booke of Discipline Chap. 12. The Princes and Magistrates not being exemed and these that are placed in the Ecclesiasticall Estate rightly ruling and governing God shall be glorified c. 2. Booke of Discipline Chap. 13. If any man shall wonder how these insolent claimes can stand with their former expressions in favour of the Civill Magistrate let him know that there be two Texts in their Booke of Discipline that will open this mystery and reconcile the contradiction The first The Magistrate neither ought to preach minister the Sacraments nor execute the Censures of the Kirke nor yet prescribe any rule how it should be done but command the Ministers to observe the rule commanded in the Word and punish the Transgressors by Civill meanes The Ministers exerce not the Civill Jurisdiction but teach the Magistrate how it should be exercised according to the Word Chap. 1. By this it appeares that all the power they allow the Civill Magistrate in Church-affaires is onely to be the Executioner of their Decrees The second Although Kings and Princes that be godly sometimes by their own Authority when the Kirk is corrupted and all things out of order place Ministers and restore the true servants of the Lord after the example of some godly Kings of Juda and divers godly Emperours and Kings also in the light of the New Testament yet where the Ministery of the Kirk is once lawfully constitute and they that are placed doe their office faithfully all godly Princes and Magistrates ought to heare and obey their voice and reverence the Majesty of the Son of God speaking in them 2. Booke of Dis. Chap. 10. This Text I confesse is fast and loose For who shall be Judge whether the Church be corrupted and all things out of order or whether the Ministery be lawfully constitute and the Office faithfully discharged Shall the King Their Practise shewes that they will not allow that Shall the Ministery be Judge Then the power given to Princes in a corrupted Church is just nothing For sure the Ministers will not condemne themselves If any thing of certainty can be made out of this Oracle it is this That the Presbyterian Government must be supposed to be the onely orderly Government and all the proceedings of it just and Kings and Princes may claim a power to cast out any other Government and set up that but when that is once up they must then bee content with what the Assembly will allow them 5 To their Doctrine that it is unlawfull to resist the Civill Magistrate they give these bounds while he doth his duty and governeth as he ought To disobey or resist any that God hath placed in Authority whilest they passe not over the bounds of their office we confesse or affirme to be sin Large Confes. Art 15. We confesse and avow that such as resist the supreame Power doing that thing which appertaineth to his charge doe resist Gods Ordinance and therefore cannot be guiltlesse Large Confes. Art 25. From these premisses I thinke the inference is good that if the supreame power passe the bounds of his Office if he doe not that thing which appertaineth to his charge if he doe the contrary if he mis-governe then they hold resistance to be no sinne nor the Subjects that resist him to be guilty of resisting Gods Ordinance It may be that the generall disaffection to Regall Power in these distractions may render some men lesse apprehensive of the dangerous consequences of this Doctrine and the former Claimes as supposing them to have no other drift then to clip the wings of Royall Prerogative But this is a grosse and dangerous mistake and whosoever shal be envested with that Civill Power which shal be taken from the King be it the Parliament or whosoever else must looke to succeed him in the heavy enmity which this Presbyterian Power will exercise against the Civill Power when it doth not comply with them in what hands soever it be placed For these incroachments of theirs are not upon the King as distinguished from other Magistrates but upon the Civill Magistrate in common whosoever he be as appeares plainly by the former Testimonies So that if they have a minde to call a generall Assembly though the King and Parliament finde it needlesse or in regard of circumstances of time place or distempered affections in the Ministers or People inexpedient or dangerous they will over-rule though to the highest disservice of the State and must be obeyed If they agree upon any Ecclesiasticall Constitutions and Canons though the King and Parliament judge them never so contrary to the Lawes tending to the hurt of the Kingdome yet must they yeeld to this Presbyterian Power If the King and Parliament make any Lawes concerning the affaires of the Church which are not to their liking they may repeals them The King and Parliament must be Subject not onely to their generall Assembly but in subordination to that to the Dictates of every petty Parochiall Session where their personall residence and abode shall be Lastly If the King and Parliament will governe contrary to their will and pleasure their principles will allow them to incite the people to resist them After so rank a crop of weeds pernicious to Civill power I know not what regard will be had to the gleanings which yet would not be lost 6 Therefore if the Civill Migistrate punish not with death such as in their judgement deserve it they order that the Church may excommunicate the offender not onely for his crime but as suspect to have corrupted the Temporall Judge If no remedy by them can be found that is by the Magistrates then justly may the Church pronounce the offender excommunicate as one suspect besides his crime to have corrupted the Judges revengers of blood Order of excommunication in the Psalm Booke So that if the Civill Judges thinke not fit to proceed against every one whom they hold a capitall offender not only the reputed offender shall be excomunicate but in the publication of the Sentence the Judges shall be openly defamed as corrupt and that upon a suspition thus weakly grounded 7 They determine that the Temporall Magistrate is bound to punish Adultery with death by Gods own Law It is cleerly knowne to us that N. somtimes baptized in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost and so reputed and counted for a Christian hath fearefully fallen from the society of Christs body by committing of cruell and wilfull murther or by committing filthy Adultery c. which crime by the Law of God deserveth death Order of Excom. in the Psalm Book Blasphemy adultery murder perjury and other crimes capital worthy of death ought not properly to fall under censure of the Kirk because all such open transgressors of Gods Law ought to be taken away by the Civil Sword 1. Book of Discip. Head 7. Marriage once lawfully contracted may not be dissolved at mans

pleasure as our Master CHRIST JESUS doth witnesse unlesse adultery be committed which being sufficiently proved in presence of the Civill Magistrate the innocent if they so require ought to be pronounced free and the offender ought to suffer death as God hath commanded 1. Booke of Discip. Head 9. SECT. of Marriage If this be true then for ought I see we are bound to all the Judicialls of Moses as well as to this which is one of them as namely to punish theft not with death but restitution besides many other touching inheritances purchases and other temporal things which would cause infinit changes and confusions in our Temporall Lawes 8. They hold it unlawfull for the Civill Magistrate to pardon capitall offenders In the feare of God we signifie unto your Honours That whosoever perswades you that ye may pardon where God commandeth death deceives your soules and provokes you to offend Gods Majesty 1 Booke of Discip. Head 9. This puts such a tye upon Princes as robs them of the exercise of their noblest vertue mercy inclines offenders to be desperate and in such distracted times as this may prove destructive to the Kingdome 9. They exact it as a duty of a Christian Magistrate that if need require hee maintaine the Ministery with his owne Rents It pertaines to the Office of a Christian Magistrate to see that sufficient provision be made for the Ministery the Schooles and the Poore and if they have not sufficient to await upon their charges to supply their indigence even with their owne Rents if need require 2. Booke of Discipline Chap. 10. Compare but this with the power which the Presbyterians claime over the Civill Magistrate and it will appeare that their Discipline will allow them to be Judges whether need require that the Ministery should be maintained out of the Kings Rents and if they finde that it doe then to pronounce that it is his office and duty to make the allowance and to compell him to doe his office by the Churches censures and warrant his Subjects to take Armes against him if he shall obstinately refuse This is a compendious way for them to cut themselves large Cantells out of the Kings Revenues 10. They distinguish the object of Civill and Ecclesiasticall power not by the matter it selfe which may be the same in both but by the divers ends proposed by the severall powers The Magistrate commandeth externall things for externall peace and quietnesse amongst the Subjects the Minister handleth externall things onely for conscience-cause 2. Booke of Discip. Chap. 1. Here both the Minister and Magistrate deale with the same externall things and the difference is onely in the end So that by their Platform they may deal with all Civil Causes for a Spirituall end which the Pope usually expresses with this clause In ordine ad bonum Spirituale and these men to the same effect In ordine ad bonum Ecclesiae But both he and they doe by this distinction usurp upon the Civill Magistrate Of the Persons in whom this Power is placed THis power is in the Scottish Platforme put into the hands partly of the Ministers of the Parishes throughout the Kingdom who admit no Superiority of one over another but a parity and equality of all and partly of Lay-Elders who meddle not with the administration of the Word and Sacraments but are chosen by the people out of every Parish to joyne with the Ministers in the Government of the Kirk and all Government and Discipline is exercised joyntly by them by plurality of voices in the severall Parishes by the Ministers and Lay-Elders of the same who are subordinate to a Classis made up of the Ministers and Elders of the Parishes within the bounds thereof as the severall Classes are to the Provinciall Assembly consisting of Ministers and Elders chosen out of every Classis within the Province and Provinciall Assemblies are in like manner subordinate to the Nationall Assembly consisting of such a number of Ministers and Lay-Elders as the same Assembly shall thinke fit chosen out of all the Provinces of the Kingdome and this Nationall Assembly since Oecumenicall Councells cannot be hoped for acknowledgeth no Superiour upon earth All these points if things so much acknowledged need it are proved by these ensuing Authorities The parity of Ministers As to Bishops if the name {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} be properly taken they are all one with the Ministers 2. Booke of Dis. Chap. 11. The conjunction of Lay-Elders with them in the Government It is not necessary that all Elders be also Teachers of the Word 2. Booke of Dis. Chap. 6. Their office is as well severally as conjunctly to watch diligently upon the flock committed to their charge both publikely and privately that no corruption of Religion or manners enter therein Ib. Their principall Office is to hold Assemblies with the Pastors and Doctors who are also of their number for establishing of good order and execution of Discipline unto the which Assemblies all persons are subject that remaine within their bounds Ib. In assembling the people neither they without the Ministers nor the Ministers without them may attempt any thing Psalm Book Tit. Of the Elders c. The Pastors or Ministers chiefe office standeth in preaching the Word of God and ministring the Sacraments so that in consultations judgements elections and other politicall affairs his counsell rather then authority taketh place Ibid. Titl of the Ministers office and duty The Elders being elected must be admonished of their office which is to assist the Ministers in all publique affaires of the Kirk to wit in determining and judging causes in giving admonition to the licentious liver in having respect to the manners and conversation of all men within their charge Yea the Seniors ought to take heed to the like manners diligence and study of their Ministers If he be worthy of admonition they must admonish him of correction they must correct him c. 1 Booke of Discip. 8. Head Of the election of Elders c. Their election by the people Men of best knowledge in Gods Word and cleanest life men faithfull and of most honest conversation that can be found in the Kirk must be nominate to be in election and their names must be publiquely read to the whole Kirk by the Minister giving them advertisement that from amongst them must be chosen Elders and Deacons Ibidem If any man know other of better qualities within the Kirk then these that be nominated let them be put in election that the Kirk may have the choice Ibid. It pertaineth to the people and to every severall Congregation to elect their Minister 1 Booke of Discipline 4 Head Of Ministers c. And because this order which Gods Word craves cannot stand with Patronages and presentation to Benefices used in the Popes Kirk we desire all them that truely feare God earnestly to consider that for as much as the names of Patronages and Benefices together with the