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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03631	[Godly and most necessary annotations in ye .xiij. chapyter too the Romaynes]	Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1551 (1551)	STC 13756; ESTC S116553	16,386	64

powers take awaye and vsurpe euery mans goods he careth not howe Not remēbryng the iudgemente and terrible dampnation of god for his so doing and that it is his bounden duetie too suffer and beare suche neades and necessities as god layeth vpon vs for our synnes And that vpon payne of hell fyre noo manne shoulde reuenge hys owne wronges but commend him selfe to god who can and wyll heare the prayers of the poore in theyr troubles and neades And that they shoulde offer theyr supplycatyons to the Kynges Maiestye and to suche other as be appointed for the redresse of suche oppressyon and wronges and not too take weapons armoure and force agaynste GOD and hys ordynaunces In case the Kynges Maiestye and the rest appoynted too see poore mennes causes redressyd wyll not hearken too theyr clamoure doutles the Ire vengeaunce of god wyll punysshe them and so much the rather if the people quietly and obediently cōmend their causes vnto him y ● whych yf they do not they perishe eternally For there is no traytoure nor sedityous man can be saued but obediente quiet men shall inherit the kingdom of heauen and suche as suffer wrong and not such as do wrong or intend to reuenge by strengthe they● own wrongs Therfore to kep● the people of thys diocese from the displeasure of god and thei● kyng and my selfe from euerlasting dampnatiō I require yo● most dilygently to teache them this Chapiter euerie weke o● part of it the Saterday at E 〈…〉 song the other the Sonday 〈…〉 the morning praier and y ● thir● part the sonday at Euensong Thus fare ye al wel god ye● vs grace all well too dyscharg our offices cōmended vnto v● ¶ Yours wyth all my heart brother and felowpreacher Ihon Gloucestr● ¶ Annotations in y e .xiij. Chapiter to y ● Romaines ¶ The Prologe THE office and duetye of a christian man is conteined in twoo partes The firste that he use himselfe aryght and reuerently with God The second that he vse hym comely and honestly w t man In the Epistle to y e Romaines from y e beginning Sainct Paul hath fullye and sufficyently declared the vnty and offyce of man towards god towards the end he declareth how we may honestly do our duetyes towardes men ●othe these offices must dilygentlye be knowen and exercised And because a Ciuyle and outwarde lyfe seme it neuer so honest is mere and verye hipocrisie and can not please god except the mynd and soule inwardly be well affected towards hym I thinke it conuenyent brieuely to declare wherin Sainct Paule in this Epystle doth put the religyon of the heart of man towardes GOD and then we hall the better descend vnto suche dutys and offices as appertaineth to al maner of persons as well publyque as pryuate Fyrste Sainte Paule perceyueth that in grace and promises of God can no● be knowen of man vntyll suche tyme a 〈…〉 he be brought to acknowledge and dyspleasure of his sinnes The phisition an 〈…〉 phisicke be vnprofytable vntoo suche a 〈…〉 knowe not that they be sicke as Christ● sayd I came not to call the iust but synn●●s to repentaunce Therfore we must know the wounde of our soules and th● syckenes of synne before we can get any profyt by the grace of God We must confesse that all men and women except Christ are borne the chylderne of ire an● of goddes dyspleasure and that we bea● aboute in vs synne that alwayes repu●neth the spiryt whereby we are acertayned that we be alwayes subiect vnto sy as Sainte Paule sayth he concluded ● men vndersinne because he might ha 〈…〉 mercy vpon al. Seing we be al sinners the reward of sinne is death Saint Paules conclusyon where he saythe we ar● borne al the chylderne of Gods dysplesure is true Nowe then may we be de●●uered from thys great Ire and dysple●sure By the mercy of god the father rewardes vs that fyrste loued vs we loued hym whiles we were yet his enemyes But what is that where with all we may be annexed and reconciled vnto god by hys mercye when there is noo good thyng in vs but all fylthy and sinnefull It is Iesus Christ y ● sonne of god moste ●erebeloued in whome the father is con●ented and by whom he is reconciled vn to all synners that repent and beleue his ●romyses for the merites and shedynge of Christes blud his derebeloued sonne After that we se and perceyue so great a mercy and pitie of our heauenly father y ● would not fanoure nor spare hys onelye sonne to die for our redemptiō but gaue hym to the most cruell and vyle death of ●e crosse for vs how shuld not we trust 〈◊〉 so mercyfull a father in all oure troubles and aduersityes whether they be of ●●die or soule Whye should we not call onely vpon so mercifull a god If we do 〈…〉 us amend our liues beleue his promy●●● study a better life we shal not one●● ve saued by his mercy but also glad to ●●●ue hym and walke before him in inno ●●●cie and purenes of life and also obedi●●tly and quyetly in the world yeue re●●rence loue to all persons accordingly to whom honoure honoure to whome loue loue to whō iustyce iustice to whō mercy mercy Vntoo this christian quyetnes reuerence loue and feare doth all the scripture exhorte vs and chiefly thys presente xiii chapiter to the Romaynes For the vnderstanding wherof the better I note at the beginning a certain dyuersitie and difference of persons There be and euer hath bene some publike persons some pryuate persons Publyke persons be those that beare ony offyce rule regiment or Dominion in a cōmon wealth as a kyng with all his iustyces Maires Sheriffes Baylynes Constables and other Priuate persons be such as be subiectes and vnder these officers These two persons must be diuersely vsed and the duety that is due vnto y ● one is not due vnto the other in ciuell respectes And seing we must lyue with bothe these persons and states appointed to be in the world by almighty God Saincte Paul in this chapiter is very diligent to teache and instructe vs howe we shoulde lyue accordingly in trueth and honestye towardes them bothe ¶ The diuision of the chapiter Partes 1 ¶ Why the superyoure powers should be obeyed 2 How we be debtors of loue to the publyke person Magistrate to the pryuate person that is a subiecte indyfferentlye 3 Conteyneth an exhortatyon to innocencie and honestie of life that the truth being once knowen and receiued euery man shuld abstayn and kepe him self frō filthynes and vncleane lyfe ☞ The first part concerning the obedyence of y e Magystrates LEt euery soule submit him selfe vnto y e autoritie of the higher powers SAint Paul pronounceth generallye that euerye soule that is too say euery man shuld be obedyent vnto the hygher power In a kyngdom and monarchie where one is appoynted to rule all the

to the worde of God whose officers they be In case they doo although the Subiectes maye not nor vpon payne of eternall dampnatyon ought not by force nor violence to resyst the offycer in hys high power yet he shuld and is bond to thyncke hym selfe that God can and wil as wel reuenge the abuse of his office in him as punysshe the subiecte for the dysobedyence of his ordinaunces towardes the hygher power If it be true that Sainte Paul sayeth the hygher power to be the ordinaūnce of god it is verye damnable iniquitie that for any priuate affection or other iniust oppressyons for ony man to depose the magistrates from their places and honoure appoynted by god or els priuilie or openly craftely or violentli to go about to chaunge or alter y ● state and ordynaunce of God and there wythall God is soore offended ●s it doth appere by the grudynge and murmurynge of the People agaynste Moses in the deserte the whyche thoughtes and conspiryces of the people agaynste their Magistrate and gouernoure the Lorde punysshed wyth deathe and kylled theym all before they came too the lande of Canaan For euen as Kynges and Magystrates be appoynted and ordeyned of God ▪ euen soo be they alsoo defended by hym as it appeared by Dauid Iosaphat and other And the sedition and treason redounded alwaies too the destruction of y e people at lengthe as it is to be seene in Absolō Architophel Catilme Brutus Cassius and other that destroyed not onely the selues but also people by suche treason and disobedience against y ● ordynaūce ▪ and appoyntment of god as ye maye see here by the texte of Sayncte Paule that folowyth which is his seconde cause why the higher powers shulde be obeyed And as he sayd first they shulde be obeyed because theyr place and autoritye is the ordynaunce of god so now in hys seconde cause he sheweth what great daunger perill it is too resyste and dysobaye Goddes ordyaunces And they that resyst shal receiue to thē selfes damnation As thoughe he hadde sayde lest ye shulde thynke it a lyghte thyng and but a trisfelyng matter to wythstand and dysobeye the magistrates vnderst and ye y ● in your so doing ye withstand and fight against god and therfore ye prouoke iudgement and vengeaūce agaynst your selfes be culpable and gylty of gods euerlastynge dyspleasure yf ye repent not and yeue ouer your obstinate disobedyent rebelly on Here Saynte Paule hath set furth the end and successe of sedytion treason conspyracie rebellyon too saye destructyon both of bodye and soule Whoo is hable to contende and fighte wyth God and ouercome him Is not he onely almightye and onely strength Absolon with a thousand traitours against one true subiecte preuailed not against his father Dauyd but dyed the death of a traytoure Euen so dyd those whom before I named And as S. Paule speketh he●e so speaketh Christ to Peter He y ● striketh with the swerd shal perish by the swerde if gods word be trewe as it can not be false all such as do by thought word or dede intend to trouble vnquiet chaunge aulter moue or resyste the ordinaunce of god which is the Magystrates and hygher powers must nedes of necessite perysshe as well in this worlde as in the world to come excepte they repente and ceasse from doynge of yuell Nowe goyth Saynt Paule fourth wyth the terte For rulers be not to be feared of such as do well but of suche as do cuyll By these wordes Saynt Paul declareth two thynges Fyrste he warneth the Magystrate of hys offyce leaste when he shall perceyue it to be y ● ordynaunce of god and that no man should more resiste and contrary it thē to resyste and contrarye God shuld ware arrogante proude and beginne to fauour and flatter hym selfe to mouche vnder the title and pretence of Gods power But God forbyd sayeth Saynte Paule that the magystrate shoulde thynke ony suche thynge he shoulde remember rather that he is appoynted to hys place to defende helpe and preserue souche as be good and punysshe souche as be noughte and euyll Thys commaundemente dyd GOD commaunde to the hygher powers in the commune wealthe of the Israelites and that they should not lyfte vp theyr hertes aboue their brothers but to vse indyfferencie and iustice wyth all indifferently wythout exceptyon of persons as ye maye reade in the holy scripture The second parte of Sainte Paules wordes commendith y e magistrates for their vtilitye cōmoditye in y ● cōmune wealth bycause that by their autoritye yuel doers amonge the people are punyshed corrected that honeste true men may lyue in rest and quietnes And for thys commodytie and necessarie vse we be bound to obey them For through their diligence labour paynes vnder God we eate heare the word of god laboure brynge vp youth householdes be in quietnes the goodes ther of with Cities townes and villages of the realme These commodities be great and worthy of thankes specially to god and then to the hygher power Saint Paule foloweth his purpose with these wordes Wylte thou be Wyth out feare of y e hygher power do well then and so shalt thou be praysed of them Where as before he said y e high power was a fear to euil doers in these words he sheweth how mē may be w tout fear of the magistrates to saye if men do wel for well doing pleaseth goddes order and goddes order beyng pleased feareth not nor punyssheth y e weldoer And where as Saint Paule speaketh of feare to the hygher power we muste vnderstand that fear is of two sortes One is yf loue and good wyll anexed and knyt wyth reuerence and loue and this fear is onely in godly and vertuous men that delyte too be ordered and ruled after the order appoyntment of God The other feare is annexed wyth spyte hatred enuye and dysdayne that wyssheth there were no order lawe nor Magistrates and those that be to destroy them or to brynge theym out of credyte and estymatyon amonge the people This feare is wicked and dampnable and a testymonye of an yuel and cursed conscyence and forbydden here in thys Place by Saincte Paule Sainte Paule contynueth in the cōmendatyon of the magistrates saying For he is the mynyster of God for thy wealth Here Sainte Paule addeth an other commendatyon of the hygher power the whych consysteth in twoo members wherfore he shoulde be obeyed The fyrste is because he is the Mynyster of God The seconde because he was instytuted and appoynted by God for the wealth and commodyte of the subiecte In thys that Saint Paule calleth hym the mynister of God he putteth the subiecte in mynd agayne that whoo so euer contempne or dysobeye the hygher power contempnyth and dysobeyeth GOD. And so sayeth Christe who soo contempnyth suche as I appointe and sende contemnyth me And the same saide God vnto Moses They