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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29573	An apologie of John, Earl of Bristol consisting of two tracts : in the first, he setteth down those motives and tyes of religion, oaths, laws, loyalty, and gratitude, which obliged him to adhere unto the King in the late unhappy wars in England : in the second, he vindicateth his honour and innocency from having in any kind deserved that injurious and merciless censure, of being excepted from pardon or mercy, either in life or fortunes.	Bristol, John Digby, Earl of, 1580-1654.	1657 (1657)	Wing B4789; ESTC R9292	74,883	107

Gods extraordinary Judgements are not to be made Rules or Patterns of ordinary Government But God hath given us a written law in the Scripture and by the constant precepts contained in them we are to be guided and not by the extraordinary Examples recited in them Of which we may boldly say That as it is most certain they were not wicked how severe soever they may seem because God commanded them so it is as certain it were wickedness in us to imitate them not having Gods especial Command for them which will not now be pretended unto by any The Cases of Eglon Zimri Jehu c. are justified by Gods being the Commander of them and Sin is nothing but an Obliquitie from Gods will But it is Gods revealed and declared Will which is to be our rule God is pleased to declare * That the Father shall not die for the sin of the Son nor the Son for the sin of the Father But every one shall bear his own iniquity This is his revealed Law by which we are to govern our selves Yet God in his secret yet most just Judgement will have Achan with his Wife and Children and all belonging unto him to be stoned to death the like of Corah and divers others which particular Judgements of God we ought to fear and reverence but not to draw from them Example or watrant against the Commandement or declared Law of God But in the whole old Testament I conceive there will not be found any one Precept or toleration of hostile Resistance nor any Example the extraordinary Cases excepted countenancing Disobedience to the lawful Supreme Magistrate But so much to the contrary That there is no Duty next after the fearing honouring and serving of God more inculcated than the fearing obeying and honouring of the King as his Vicegerent Dixi vos Di● est is * I said ye are Gods * The Kings Throne is called the Throne of God the Judgement of the Supreme Magistrate the Judgement of God and most of the Attributes of God are applyed unto them And for the new Testament The Precepts therein against Resistance are not only much more positive and direct but the punishments of much a higher nature For the punishments of the old Testament are no where explicitly beyond death whereas S. Paul saith * That He that resisteth the Powers ordained by God procureth to himself Damnation Our Saviour Mar. 12.17 commandeth us out of his own mouth to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods Now I must clearly profess That before the War was actually and hostilely entred into my Conscience was in great suspension and doubt that those ways and Courses which were pursued tended not only not to give unto Caesar what belonged unto Caesar but to take from him that which undoubtedly and undeniably was his as likewise to take from God that which belonged unto him by applying that which had for many hundred years been dedicated and appropriated unto him and his Service to common uses which hath in all times and even amongst Heathen been known by the name of Sacrilege And which divers grave and learned Divines of that way as Dr. Burgesse and Mr. White of Dorchester by name in the beginning of the Parliament told me That they would never a●●ent unto or approve the applying the Revenue of the Church unto temporal uses They conceived they might be better imployed than they were for the maintenance of Preaching Ministers and other pious uses But to be taken from the Church and applyed to prophane uses I am sure their Opinions were then against it For the former of taking from the King what was his I was too much confirmed by the 19. Propositions of Grocers Hall which were sent unto the King some moneths before I withdrew my self from Parliament As likewise by divers other particulars denied unto the King which were as undoubtedly his as the Crown And for the second of taking from God what belonged unto him I wish my doubts had not been so well confirmed by the use that hath been made of the Lands and Revenue of the Church to be made in great part the Hire of Forein Forces against their Prince and the rest to satisfie the Usury of the said wages So that those antient devout Dedications intended for a perpetual Maintenance of Gods Church and his Ministers have by way of Commutation Change been applyed to the pious uses of Usury and the maintenance of a Civil war But our Saviours Command being clear and positive to give unto Caesar what belonged to Caesar I did conceive That Honour Fealty Loyalty and Obedience did as much belong unto him as Tribute Service and other Regalities of his Crown All which I had by Oaths legally established and by lawfull Authority administred unto me sworn more than ten times to King James to belong unto him and to his lawfull Heirs and Successors and often likewise unto King Charls And that I would in them bear to him Faith and true Alleagiance Now whether the said 19. Propositions which are here unto annexed And many o●her things which as occasion shall be offered will be instanced in might not administer unto me a just Scruple of Conscience of swerving from this plain precept of our Saviour of giving unto Caesar what belonged unto him and unto God the things that are Gods I shall remit to any Christian of what Profession soever he shall be Our Saviour doth further confirm this his Precept by his own Example of paying Tribute-money though he might have exempted himself from it as being no Stranger Yet Mat. 17.27 Notwithstanding saith he lest we should offend them Go to the Sea and cast in an Angle c. So that he would rather do a Miracle than do that which might seem to be like Sedition or Disobedience St. Paul in the 13 chap. of his Epistle to the Romans 1 2 3 4 verses telleth us That we may not resist the Powers ordained over us by God And he that resisteth this Ordinance shall receive to himself Damnation And verse the 15. That we must be subject not only for wrath but for Conscience sake Now that the King is this Power ordained over us by God I never heard any doubt made by any of his just rightfull Title In all the Acts of Parliaments which have been by the Houses offered unto him for his Royal Assent since his coming unto the Crown it is acknowledged We your Majesties most humble and most faithfull Subjects And if we ackowledge our selves his Subjects we doe therein acknowledge him our Soveraign And in the beginning of every Parliament both in the House of Peers and in the House of Commons before they take their Seat and Place in Parliament they do by Oath declare and testify in their Conscience That the Kings Highnesse is the only Supreme Governour of this Realm and all other his Countries and