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A35698 Some remarks recommended unto ecclesiasticks of all perswasions Denton, William, 1605-1691. 1690 (1690) Wing D1068; ESTC R14 74,373 48

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God and remember that the Redeemer of the oppressed is mighty and never more ready to avenge the Cause of the innocent and oppressed than when it is most neglected by his Vice-gerents Ahab and Jezabel exercised in Israel Authority without controul Who should punish the oppression of Naboth the Lord takes the Cause into his own Hand and causeth Dogs to lick hhis Blood in the very place where they licked the innocent Blood of Naboth and the Dogs did eat the Flesh of Jezabel that cursed Woman by the wall of Jezreel so there is Blood for Blood and an utter extinction of Ahab's posterity 1 Kings 21. lege Taleonis M. B. in his Sermon before his Majesty on the 2 Pet. 3.16 lays down for a sure Rule That it is the Duty of private men to submit their Judgments in matters of Religion to the Determinations of those whom God hath constituted to be their Spiritual Guides and Governours unless it manifestly appears that such Determinations are contrary to God's Word pag. 6. And so we are if any * Apollos Minister of Caesarea and of Iconia was an Eloquent Man mighty in the Scripture instructed in the way of the Lord servent in the Spirit why spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord and spake boldly in the Synagogue and yet Aquila and Priscilla his Wife Tent-makers when they heard him took him home and expounded to him the way of God more perfectly Acts 18.24 25 26. private Man teach another any Truths and to believe the private Man before any Spiritual Guides or Governours that preach and teach Untruths and every Man for himself is the proper Judge of what is taught The Apostles themselves tho' infallible submitted their Doctrines to the Judgment of their Disciples Judge ye Acts 4.19 1 Cor. 10.15 and so must our Guides and Governors which he would insinuate here to be the Clergy i. e. Bishops and Priests if so he will be mistaken they are only Officers in the Church to Teach Baptize c. but the Church in the truest sense i. e. the whole Congregation of the Faithful is to govern its own Body and the Officers thereof not the Officers the Church which will not please The Ecclesiastical Politician declares That it is absolutely necessary to the Peace and Government of the World that the Supreme Magistrate of every Commonwealth should be vested with a Power to Govern and Conduct the Consciences of Subjects in Affairs of Religion pag. 10. How is it possible that the Supreme Magistrate and our Spiritual Guides and Governors should both have the guide of our Consciences And that Peace and Tranquillity of Commonwealth being the prime and most important end of Government can never be sufficiently secured unless Religion be subject to the Authority of the Supreme Power pag. 11. And unless Princes have Power to bind their Subjects to that Religion that they apprehend most advantageous to publick Peace and Tranquillity and restrain those Religious mistakes that tend to its subversion they are no better than Statues and Images of Authority pag. 12. For it is clear if this Ecclesiastical Polititian may be believed that a Prince is endued with a Power to conduct Religion and that must be subject to his Dominion as well as other Affairs of State pag. 13. The consequence of which Doctrines are That if Nebuchadnezzar erect his prodigious Idol and upon pain of a fiery Furnace require all to Worship it all People Nations and Languages must presently be upon their Faces and for their warrant for so doing he assures them That in Cases and Disputes of publick concernment private Men are not properly sui Juris they have no Power over their own Actions they are not to be directed by their own Judgments or determined by their own Wills but by the Commands and Determinations of the publick Conscience And if there be any sin in the command he that imposed it shall answer for it and not I whose Duty is to obey the commands of Authority will warrant my Obedience my Obedience will hallow or at least excuse my Action and so secure me from Sin if not from Error because I follow the best Guide and most probable Direction I am capable of and tho' I may mistake my Integrity shall perserve my Innocence In all doubtful and disputable Cases it is better to err with Authority than to be in the right against it and therefore in all such matters their Commands are the Supreme Rule of Conscience not only because the danger of a little Error and so it is if it be disputable is over-weighed by the importance of the great Duty of Obedience but because they are the fittest Judges pag. 308 309. What is this but down-right asserting the abominable Papal Doctrines of Probability and of blind Obedience brave Doctrines for a Tory Church of England Man to Preach and Print impuné Good God! whether are we posting I thank God I have been taught better things viz. Every one of us shall give account of himself to God Rom. 14.12 The soul that sinneth it shall die Ezek. 28.20 The soul of the publick conscience shall not be put to death for the sins of the private nor the souls of private consciences be put to death for the sins of the publick but every man shall be put to death for his own sin Deut. 24.16 Daw-Divines to Print that the publick Conscience shall stand between the private Conscience sinning by his Command and the Judgment of the great Day and excuse from Sin I thank God that I have been taught by true Church of England Men indeed that God never created Men nor ever endued them with Conscisciences or gave them Talents of Reason or Judgment subject and enslaved to the Judgment Conscience or Reason of others but hath endued and trusted every Man with his own proper Talent of Conscience Reason and Judgment to chuse for himself according to which only he shall be judged and stand or fall at the Day of Judgment and not according to any publick Conscience There would be very little need of Priests if blind Obedience ought to prevail and not our own free choice He proceeds and tells us That God hath appointed the Magistrates to be his Trustees and Officials here upon Earth to act and determine in moral Virtues and pious Devotions according to all accidents and emergencies of Affairs to assign new particulars of the Divine Law to declare new bounds of right and wrong which the Law of God neither doth nor can limit pag. 18. That it s absolutely necessary to the Peace and Happiness of Kingdoms that there be set up a more severe Government over Mens Consciences and Religions and Perswasions than over their Vices and Immoralities Preface to his Eccl. Pol. p. 53. And that Princes may with less bazard give liberty to Mens Vices and Debaucheries than to their Consciences pag. 55. I have heard it also preached before the King That it is better to