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A35696	Jus Cæsaris et ecclesiæ vere dictæ or, A treatise wherein independency, presbytery, the power of kings, and of the church, or of the brethren in ecclesiastical concerns, government and discipline of the church : and wherein also the use of liturgies, tolleration, connivence, conventicles or private assemblies, excomminication, election of popes, bishops, priests what and whom are meant by the term church, 18 Matthew are discoursed : and how I Cor. 14. 32. generally misunderstand is rightly expounded : wherein also the popes power over princes, and the liberty of the press, are discoursed / by William Denton ...	Denton, William, 1605-1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing D1066; ESTC R9164	326,898	268

p. 369. taken away these words is no Riddle their Excuse is ready at hand viz. That they are not in the New Testament but of many other words which are found in the Breviaries and not in the New Testament it is said they come ex Traditione Apostolicâ and so they will tell us that however the Evangelists do not affirm it yet it comes by Tradition that old and bold Imposture that these words were directed to Peter Now then here ought to be some distinction by which there may appear a difference between this Tradition and the others which when it is made yet all will be too little to excuse that for many hundred years it was not so read and consequently so believed of all Catholicks for so many Ages that it was spoken particularly to Peter Dic Ecclesiae So that they must needs equivocate in the Noun Church and interpret it Dic tibi ipsi i.e. Tell it to thy self To this purpose we have a more signal corruption not of their Breviary but of the Gospel it self For in the Gospel Translated into Persian by Xauerius it is added after Dic Ecclesiae and if he refuse to hear the Church then tell it Romano Pontisici to the Pope of Rome and if he refuse to hear him let him be an Heathen c. yea yet farther it will be a Sence so palpably wrested to understand by the Church one sole Person and that not so much because the Noun it self cannot bear it as for that Christ himself interpreting it in the words immediately following saith Vbi sunt duo vel tres Where there are two or three gathered together c. So that it is apparently cleared that he understood by the Church a Congregation of two or three at the least assembled in his Name But grant them what they vehemently contend for viz. That Christ said to Peter himself Tell the Church yet for that very reason Peter himself was sent unto some other persons constituting a Church and therefore by the Term Church Peter could not possibly be meant or intended § It is objected out of John 9.12 That the Scribes and Pharisees did in Christs time thrust such as they deemed Offenders out of their Synagogue which they will needs have to be Excommunication and that the same power was bequeathed unto the Church Christian is Mat. 15.20 That they did so may be true but that they had good warrant so to do out of Moses I find not A Separation of the Leper from the Company of men and of the unclean from coming near the Holy Places are things Moses prescribeth but Excommunication no where that I know of A Bastard might not enter into the Congregation of the Lord unto the Tenth Generation Deut. 23.2 Nor yet the Ammonites or Moabites v. 23. But the Children of the Edomites and Egyptians were received in the Third Generation v. 8. Aliens were not admitted to be of the Number of the Lords People and any Uncleanness of the Flesh did separate for a season the Jews themselves from approaching near to the Congregation or Tabernacle of God but neither of these is Excommunication The Strangers which were not yet admitted could not be rejected the Natural Insirmities and Uncleanness of the Body as Leprosie Pollution Touching of the Dead c. are made Remembrances of our Corruption not Causes of Excommunication For greater Sins committed God appointed Corporal punishments for Wrongs he required Recompence for smaller Matters he accepted Sacrifices of Confession and Repentance other Censures in Moses I know none at least that will amount unto Excommunication The casting of Men out of their Synagogues was first devised by the Pharisees to serve their proud and aspiring humor for that the chiefest power of the Sword was translated unto Strangers and the highest Dignity remained unto the Sadduces Jos Antiq. lib. 18. c. 20. and though sharply pursued by them against Christ and his Disciples yet was it no spiritual course but rather a temporal loss of all such Honours Offices Priviledges and Freedoms as the parties had in Church or State where they lived and a plain adjudging them to imprisonment Scourging and such other Chastisements as the Synedrion by their Laws might and did inflict unto which I presume no Ministers of the Gospel will pretend or lay any claim St. John reports c. 19. v 38. That Joseph of Arimathea was Christs Disciple but secretly for fear of the Jews And c. 12.42 That many of the chief Rulers believed on him but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him lest they should be cast out of their Synagogue now Believers in Christ could be in no dread or fear of the Spiritual Curse and Excommunication of the Pharisees for that they excommunicated themselves when they forsook the Jewish Church and became Christians they better understood their Interest in Christ than so wherefore this casting out of the Synagogue if not wholly Civil yet at least was intermixed with the Civil Regiment and the terror thereof wholly proceeded from the power of the Sword confirmed by God to the Council and Elders of that Commonwealth which the Pastors of Christs Church may not usurp nor challenge unless the Civil Magistrate do Counsel and Authorize their Doings and if so yet questioned by some As for that other Phrase viz. He shall be cut off from the midst of his People so often used in the Law and so often and strongly insisted upon by some to express a kind of Excommunication and Anathematization I must take leave to dissent from them also that are so perswaded of the Sence of this Exposition Moses himself not the Rabbins is the best Expositor and out of him not out of them Proofs are to be sought In Levit. 18. God threatning Incest Adultery Sodomy Buggary and Offering Children unto Moloch concludeth v. 29 that whosoever shall commit any of these Abominations shall be cut off from among the People i.e. shall die the death as is expressed Levit. 20.3 4 17. Whoever shall give his Children unto Moloch shall die the death the People of the Land shall stone him to death and if the People of the Land kill him not then will I set my face against that Man and his Family and cut him off So for Incest they shall be cut off in the sight of their People i.e. openly put to death So likewise for any wilful breach of Gods Law The person that doth ought presumptuously c. therefore shall he be cut off from among his People i.e. suffer death When this kind of Speech is referred to the Magistrate then Execution is enjoyned when to God then it is a Commination denounced that he will plague and root them out and their Remembrances from the People of God Nahum 3. Jer. 11.22 23. Ezek. 14.8 13 21. Ezek. 21.28 The Separation mentioned Ezra 10.8 11 12. And Nehemiah's chasing away some that married strange Wives Nehem. 13. were joyned with Forfeitures of all their Goods

of Humane Authority then there are no things left for the exercise of Christian Liberty but only things indifferent among which Liturgies may be reckoned which Liberty if invaded or infringed by any Humane Authority A great Gospel priviledge is thereby infringed which ought not to be Then I must retort on them also and return their own Weapons upon themselves if every restraint in things indifferent be injurious to Christian Liberty then themselves are no less Injurious by their Negative Restraint viz. use no Liturgy wear not cross not kneel not c. like that Col. 2.1 touch not taste not handle not then they would have the World believe our Church is by her positive restraint unto the use of our Liturgies and Ceremonies therewith used let themselves be Judged whether it is more Injurious to Christian Liberty Publick Authority by mature advice Commanding what may be forborn or Private Spirits through humourous dislikes or at best not upon any demonstrative reasons forbidding what may be used the whole Church Imposing the use Or a few Dissenters requiring the forbearance of such things as are otherwise and in themselves equally indifferent for use or for forbearance Besides if I am not much mistaken the true Nature of Evangelical Liberty as intimated before consists chiefly if not wholly about things of a higher strain and Nature than of matters Indifferent and it will be very hard to prove by any one plain Text of Scripture without Wresting the Liberty so much contended for to be their Gospel and inviolable right when the Power of the Magistrate doth interpose Pro or Con. For if indifferent things be the only subject matter both of Publick Christian Authority and of Christian Private Liberty in every Individual Christian whereon to exercise themselves then the whole Gitt of the Contest will be whether Publick Authority or every Private Person be to be Indulged and Obeyed Judge even ye your selves Judge § Now the best way to my apprehension to understand what the Apostles in their Writings do mean and intend by the Words and Terms of Liberty and Freedom will be to consider them with their opposites viz. Bondage and Servitude and this St. Paul doth as in other of his Epistles so most fully and most plainly in his Epistle to the Galatians where he pursues these two opposite Terms Allegorically under the two Titles of two Mothers the one viz. Agar a Servant gendring unto Bondage the other viz. Sarah a Free Woman gendring unto Freedom thereby signifying the Two Testaments viz. the Covenant of Works and the Covenant of Grace and thereby shewing that the Jews in respect of the Christian Church of the New Testament were as Children differing nothing from Servants but were under Tutors and Governours and in Bondage under the Rudiments of the World i.e. the Law or Ministry of Moses so called in respect of a more full and clear Doctrine in the Ministry of the New Testament Now the Law is a grievous Yoak which none can bear because First it did bind the Church of the Old Testament to the Observation of many and those very costly and burthensome Ceremonies and Sacrifices Secondly because it did bind every Offender to everlasting death Gen. 2.17.3 Gal. 13.3 it is a Yoak as it increaseth Sin not casually but occasionally and as it is the strength of it 1 Cor. 15.56 5. Rom. 20.7 8. and whose property it is to gender unto Bondage But after the fullness of time was come and Christ had Redeemed them that were under the Law they did then receive the Adoption of Sons God had sent forth the Spirit of his Son into their Hearts they were then no more Servants but Sons i. e. such as enjoy the liberty of Sons and were Free indeed because the Son had made them Free John 8.36 so Agar which typifieth the Law is in Bondage with her Children but Jerusalem which is above and typifieth the Gospel is free Gal. 4.25 26. Now Christian Liberty consists first in our being delivered from the Curse of the Law for the breach thereof and from the Obligation of the Law whereby it binds us to bring perfect righteousness in our Own Persons according unto do this and live Secondly From the Observation of the Ceremonial Law of Moses Col. 2.16 Thirdly It delivers from the Tyranny and Dominion of Sin For Sin shall not have Dominion over you for ye are not under the Law but under Grace Rom. 6.14 Fourthly Christian Liberty is to have a freedom in good things we are delivered from our Enemies that we may serve God in righteousness and holiness before him all the daies of our lives without sear Luke 1.47 75. and Paul saith where the Spirit is there is Liberty Cor. 12.3 17. Fifthly It consists in the free use of all the Creatures of God Whatever is sold in the Shambles that Ea● asking no Questions for Conscience sake 1 Cor. 10.25 27. I have perused these and divers others if not all the places of Scripture urged by several of the Synagogue of the Libertines whereby they lay claim unto their exhorbitant dearly beloved and much Idolized Liberty to do what they list without controle or Inspection into their Actings in and about Holy things and do and whosoever shall soberly and seriously consider them together with their Contexts shall find them all to Center into their own one and the same most naturall and genuine sence and meaning viz. that by Liberty and Freedom in them mentioned is mainly if not meerly meant the Liberty from the Yoak Bondage and Curse of the Law it being a Spiritual liberty in all the parts of it freeing the true Christian from the Servitude of Sin and from all other Yoaks of Spiritual Bondage wherewith Sin hath intangled us and from which Christ the Author of this Liberty hath redeemed us and that the Law of this Liberty is the Gospel and that neither in the Texts of Scripture urged by this Author nor in any other that I know of is there any one Syllable of force to support the Liberty that this Author seems to plead for that is Impeached or Contradicted by the Imposition of sound Orthodox Liturgies Mostly all the Texts wherein Liberty and Freedom are but Named are generally Mustred up as a Cloud of Witnesses to shadow and shelter the Pleaders for their fancyed Liberty that under the pretence and umbrage of them and their corrupt glosses upon them they may with the better grace deny obedience to the Lawful Magistrate in Lawful things in and about the Worship of God and so use or rather abuse their true Gospel Liberty which no man can take from them for a Cloak to cover their Non-compliance with the Lawful Commands of the Civil Magistrate which indeed are the Commands of the National Church which to do is certainly not to approve themselves unto God Workmen that need not be ashamed rightly dividing the word of Truth 2 Tim. 2.15 but by thus perverting and shaping Texts of