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A28149 The Saints freedom from tyranny vindicated, or, The power of pagan caesars and antichristian kings examined and they condemned by the prophets and apostles, as no magistrates of God to be obeyed by saints for the Lords sake : being the coppy of an answer to a private letter, wherein the civil power of Satan and antichristian states is soberly debated ... / by a lover of truth. A. B. 1667 (1667) Wing B29; ESTC R12371 31,204 42

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THE Saints Freedom From TYRANNY VINDICATED OR The Power of Pagan Caesars and Antichristian Kings Examined and they Condemned by the Prophets and Apostles as no Magistrates of God to be obeyed by Saints for the Lords sake Being The Coppy of an Answer to a Private Letter wherein the Civil Power of Pagan and Antichristian States is soberly debated and the chief or main Arguments for Saints Subjection to them is answered with much Love Brevity and Plainness and now brought forth for the Consideration of others By a Lover of TRUTH Jam. 4. 12. There is one Lawgiver who is able to Save and to Destroy Isa 1. 26 27. And I will restore thy Judges as at the first and thy Counsellours as at the beginning c. Isa 10. 27. Ezek. 21. 26 27. Zech. 14. 9. London Printed in the Year 1667. The Epistle to the Reader Courteous Reader DIvine Commands put into Act or Gods revealed Will and Psa 19. 1 ● c. Laws put into Execution gave Being Vsefulness and Beauty to the whole Creation when Gods Will is done by Men on Eearth as by the Angels in Heaven Gods Mat. 6. 10. Kingdom Rule and Government is then come in this World as promised prayed for and expected by Believers When Jehovah had perfected his six days work of the Creation Gen. 1. 31. he looked over all that he had made and saw that it was very good but Mans disobedience to that Law which God gave to him brought Gen. 3. 17 18 19. the Curse upon Man and upon the Ground for Mans sake so that darkness disorder sorrow and death hath been the fruits of Mans sin This Curse was in some measure abated and restrained by Gods grace in the promised Messias and when God had freely chosen and called Abraham and promised to him That the Gen. 12. 1 2 3. Mat. 1. 1. Exod. 19 4 5 c. Exod. 20. 1 ● 3 c. and Ch. p. 21. 22 23 24 25 c. Messias in the flesh should come of his Seed God after gathered Israel into Covenant with himself and besides the Ceremonial Law for Worship God also renewed the Morral Law or Law of Nature by the hand of Moses that Israel had written Laws for the well ordering of every P●rson and Family whether as Members of Families Church or State Under this Divine Government for Bodies and Souls Israel enjoyed the presence and protection of Deut. 4. 5 ● c. 2 Chron. 18. 2. God Almighty in the midst of Brutish Heathen States When Israel kept close to Gods Laws and Government in Church and State God kept close to Israel and was their safety peace and glory But as Adam at first Israel after in their time brake Covenant Jer. 2. 17 18 19. with God and God gave them up into the hands of beastly bruitish-heathen Kings or States to make them know what a sad and bitter thing it was to depart from God Israel became Gods visible People by visible Covenant as a ●hurch and as a State wherein they Exod. 24. 3 4 5 c. Jer. 3. 14. Ezek 16. 38 Hos 1. 2 promised Obedience and Subjection in the way of a Marriage Covenant between Man and Wife and in that sence the Lord so often charged Israel and Judah for adultery whoredom and breaking the Bond of Wedlock and at last gave them a Bill of Divorce and Jer. 3. 8. ●os 2. 2. left his visible Protection of them In the latter part of the Jewish oppressed State God fulfilled Old Jacob's Prophesie of Christ and Gen. 49. 10. sent forth his Son Jesus Christ into the World and laid the Government upon his Shoulders When Christ was invested into his Mediatory Isa 9. 6. Authority he founded the New Testament State or the Mat. 16. 17 18. Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Heaven or the Heavenly Kingdom Rule and Government of God upon Earth in visible Believers and as King ordained Laws Ordinances Officers and Government Mat. 16. 19 20. and 26. 26 27 c. and 28. 18 19. 20. Mat. 9. 15. to his Disciples or Followers professing him or his Soveraignty and separated from the World In that time that He the Bridegroom was with his Bride on Earth the Disciples had a taste and earnest of this his Kingdom Dominion and Government which in his time he will more manifest in this world in greater Power 1 Tim. ● 15. 2 Thes 2. 7. 1 John 2. 19. 2 Thes 2. 3 4 v. 9. 10. Rev. 13. 8. and Glory The Mistery of Iniquity began early to appear in the Apostles times and there were then many Antichrists but the Antichrist after arose as a Curse and Judgment upon the formal hyyocritical professing Party in the Christian Church or State Christ by the Spirit in the Apostles did reveal or fore-shew the Rise and Tyranny of the apostate state Note yet was no moving cause of the Apostacy but fore-shewed the effect rather to deter than encourage to sin Vnder the 2 King 24 2 Luke 21 20 21 22 23 24. Dan. 7. 25. Rev. 17. 6. yoak of Heathen Tyranny the Jewish State was wasted and destroyed and under Antichristian Tyranny the Christian Churches and Saints have been much worn out but by the Saints long darkness and Bondage they have been like Israel in Egypt Naturalized to Servi●ude and taught to subject to oppressing Tyrants as the Ordinance of God and as lawful Magistrates set over them by God But still God and his Word abides the same that it was and God hath promised to Redeem his Sion and Restore his Polittical Government Isa 1. 26 27. 11. 1. to 9. in Justice Judgement and Righteousness in the Earth under the Peaceable Kingdom and Rule of Jesus the Christ. It 's therefore the Saints Priviledge and Duty to pray for this and to seek for a thorow Reformation in the State as in the Church Note Where Mat. 6. 10. Worship is National Purity in the Church cannot long stand with Corruption in State This is that Generation-Truth which this Author labours to demonstrate and bring forth into Victory and only appeals to the Word and Law of God the great only and infallible Isa 8. 20. 2 Tim. 3. 16 17. Judge in all Cases for Faith and Manners Providence brought this Coppy to my hand and upon the serious perusal of it I took my self bound to give my assistance to bring it forth to the View of others not questioning but the Subject it self will gain acceptance with all People who desire so to live and walk with God on Earth that they may Reign with Jesus Christ in Glory This is the utmost end of him who waits and prayes for Sions promised Redemp●ion A B. THE Saints Freedom from Tyranny Vindicated c. SIR YOur Return upon the Paper I sent you came to my hand the which I thankfully receive and acknowledge that you exceeded my expectation I am not altogether