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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65563	Six sermons preached in Ireland in difficult times by Edward, Lord Bishop of Cork and Ross.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1695 (1695)	Wing W1521; ESTC R38253	107,257	296

takes the Forfeiture or actually executes the Sentence of the Law in this world than in the case of doing violence to the Lives of others So far is this our Lords Speech true even as to the Event also that perhaps not one Murderer in ten dies the death of other men The sum then of what our Lord avows to back his Rebuke or the Check he gave St. Peter is this That all those who of their own accord and without due Authority attempt or take away the Life of another are before God guilty of Murder and deserve the Punishment thereof which is to fall by the Hand of Justice And for the asserting hereof I do not think it is possible I will not say to urge but even to devise any Evidence of such advantageous circumstances as this in the Text I will therefore press it more distinctly It has ever generally been esteemed lawful to repel Force with Force Now we see our Lord was here most forcibly seised and that as was evident in order to suffer all the Violence and Cruelty which Malice could exercise upon him yet never before appeared such Innocence and Holiness in humane Nature as from his very Conception and Cradle had shone in him Whether the Powers which commanded his Seisure were just or no we will not now examine it is most sure their use of their Power against him was the unjustest of any Instance assignable from the foundation of World Further St. Peter was one of our Lords Followers and if the Holy Jesus had had an House Menials Add hereto the Person in whose defence he drew was so extraordinary that not only his Words but even his Presence might seem to warrant any act that was capable of being good if done in his behalf Lastly even himself and his Brethren were in danger from that Rabble as well as his Master What a multitude of concurrent circumstances are there here to justifie St. Peters act Especially I say his own defence the defence of his Brethren nay the defence of God himself in humane Nature and all in a most just Cause against Power more unjustly and more hellishly used than ever any Power was or could be on the face of the Earth and both before and in the behalf of a person vested with Power paramount to all under Heaven Good God! can there be ever Case again like to this so much I say as imagined Yet for all this Peter is chid for his attempt Put up thy Sword into its place for they that take the Sword shall perish with the Sword No Cause then so just which can warrant private men to attempt the Life of others without Authority from them to whom God has entrusted the Power of the Sword For the further evidencing hereof I will lay down and make good the seven following Conclusions First God alone originally and sovereignly hath the power of humane Life and Death Of the truth whereof there needs no other as indeed there can no more solid reason be given than this that he alone gave or could give Life at first and still he alone preserves and continues or indeed can continue it Mille viae Mortis there are a thousand ways of extinguishing Life but either the Gift of it or the Continuance of it is alone from God We poor mortals are so far from being able to give Life to any thing that we do not yet know what it is That we live we know what Life is we know not but daily Experience in our Friends and selves teacheth us the the very preserving it in being when given at least to the term we would is beyond the power of Art Industry Strength or even that little Omnipotent as it is too usually looked upon Money it self A minute of it cannot be purchased by all the Treasures on or under Earth Psal xlix 8 9. The Redemption of the Soul that is the prorogation of Life as there the phrase most certainly signifies is precious and it ceaseth for ever None can give to God a Ransome for it that he should live for ever and not see Death Any and all the least retrievals from it are of God alone and proper to his Almighty Power Psal lxviii 20. He is the God of Salvation even in this kind and to God the Lord belong the Issues from Death Now seeing it was he alone who when he had formed the Body of the first Man breathed into him the Breath of Life so that Man became a living Soul seeing also it is he whose Visitation preserveth mans Spirit how can it in Reason or Justice be conceived that any besides him should have Sovereign Power of Life and Death How should any have right to take away what neither they by themselves nor by any principal from whence they derive could ever give God therefore alone I say has original and sovereign power of Life and Death 2. The derivative Power hereof in every Kingdom or Commonwealth is immediately in the supreme Magistrate alone that is God has in every such publick Body committed this Power to none immediately but to those whom therein he has made Supreme By the Supreme Magistrate in every Nation I mean that Civil Power whose acts are not under the Controll of another so that they may be annull'd or Summa Potestas Civilis illa dicitur cujus actus alterius juri non subsunt ita ut alterius voluntatis humanae arbitrio irriti possint reddi Grot. de Jur. Bell. par l. 1. c. 3. §. 7. made void at the pleasure of other humane Will Now such Magistrates the Apostle St. Paul uses to style Powers Rom. xiii 1 2. Tit. iii. 1. And touching such Power or which is the same for he there uses the terms Powers and Rulers indifferently for one another touching such Ruler he says expresly ver 4. He is the Minister of God Gods Agent or Vicegerent a Revenger to execute wrath upon every one that doth evil He is the Minister of God to wit He alone immediately within his Territories and no other but from by or under him Nor can there be a greater proof hereof than our Lords Practice here in the Text. Might any person not being Supreme Magistrate claim to himself a right to take the Sword how is it possible that St. Peter should have been reprehensible in drawing his Sword in the circumstances he did upon the mixed multitude of Jews and Romans sent by the Authority of the Sanhedrim and Roman Prefect If there had been any Power of this nature in any private person not derived from the Supreme Power certainly he could not have wanted it in the present juncture Yet you hear how solemnly and severely our Lord reprehends him for the Attempt And as neer as Christ was to his Death at the time of this Event in the Text before he departed out of the world he put another Seal to this truth When Pilate after our Lords first Arraignment before him and