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A76378	Logoi apologetikoi. Foure apologicall tracts exhibited to the supreme, self-made authority, now erected in, under the Commons name of England. Wherein is proved, that their unparallel'd acts in beheading the most Christian King, nulling the regall office, disclaiming the knowne heire, Charles the II. and declaring it treason to refell their errours, are diametrically opposite to the Scriptures, the greatest opprobrie to Christianity that ever was in the world; and, without true repentance, will either make England not Christian, or no English nation. / By T.B. a conscientious and orthodox divine.	T. B., conscientious and orthodox divine.	1649 (1649)	Wing B186; Thomason E558_8; ESTC R5037	19,646	35

is high time then to stir with tongue pen c. even for you also ye learned and holy Assembly of Divines high time Who value Relgion and have any courage for the truth fear not to die the sword with your bloud and turne the edge thereof with your bones Cause there is and who observe that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therefore looketh backward and forward may find it just enough First in the former verse The Gentiles are convicted by our good works this work therefore as first in the Law should be well done that they may glorifie God in the day of visitation Secondly in this verse The Lord is the Author of such ordinance and not the people Obedience therefore ought Rom. 13. 1. to be pay'd for the Lords sake according to his will not their rule Thirdly in the next verse Magistrates are ordained for the punishment of the bad but to reward the good For thepunishment therefore of evil doers and the praise of them that do well let the higher powers be handled reverently Bring these together He is a dishonour to God a scandall to his profession and an offence to the very Ethnicks that professing the Gospel by his works dissolves the Law which Christ came to fulfil Non ex verbis dogmata verum ex ipsis rebus vita Gentiles judicare consueverunt For it was not the Gentiles custome to judge In Tit. 2. 9. Serm. 4. our tenets by words in deeds and life it was so Saint Chrisostome And do not the Jewes Turks Heathens and all sorts of Christians that are not in order with the prime abetters of Antichristian Democratie object our grosse breach of nature And well may For if Christ be Lord of Lorde and King of Kings 1 Tim. 6. 15. they that in the name of the people deposed beheaded their most Christian King that assume the Supreme Authority as the peoples Representatives proclaime the right Heire to the Kingdome CHARLES the Second and all that adhere to Him Traytours do so much as in them lieth to overthrow the dominion of Jesus Wisdome saith by me Kings reigne Prov. 8. 15. Jesuited Anabaptists Franchified consistorians and Scotized zelots will have the people constitute their King Lucifer would be exalted above God and these are high to dethrone Christ Take heed Christ is a stone and rock of offence Who fall foule on him on them falling he grindes to powder Ob. 'T is Objected the King was a Tyrant c. Sol. A Tyrant and his mercies over all His works Non bene conveniunt Yet grant that King Charls the First of blessed memory had been a Tyrant an Infidell too were not we by the law of God of Nature and Nations bound to acknowledg Him as King Gods Vicegerent and our dread Soveraigne But He next under Christ was the greatest defender in the world of the true Catholike faith His conversation every way answerable to His profession and His wisdome sufficient to be in all causes Ecclesiasticall and Civil Supreme Moderatour In both fortunes the same still In His life and death He so well trod the steps of our Jesus Master that His parallel since Christ will not be found in the Chronicles of the Kings Who then fell from Him either in respect to His person or in obedience to His just Commands cryed up a Malignant party to the taking away of His life and still pursue their bloudy designe against His successour and all faithfull Subjects have denied the Lordship of our Saviour and without repentance provoked Gods wrath to the ruine of their owne soules Rom. 13. 2. Can ye remember the Oath of Allegiance of Supremacy the Protestation your Covenant also to maintaine His Majesties Royall Person and Dignity And may ye think it stands with Protestants to turn Priscillianists or be forsworn under a colour of Religion Can ye make use of the Kings Coine with a quiet Conscience and not learne of our Saviour by the image there to give Caesar his right Can ye read Carolus Det gratia Charls by the grace of God King c. and yet thrust God from the throne and set up a supremacy Gratia Populi By the grace of the People Who hath bewitched you that having eyes ye see not nor heare with your ears nor perceive with your understanding The Lord enlighten your minds and direct your judgements conforme your wils and mollifie your hearts that ye fall not into a reprobate sense bound therefore to obey God rather then man I dare not assent to them that raised and maintained forces which at Edge-bill Brandford Gloucester Newbury the first Banbury Listithyel Where His Majestie was in Person Newbury the second and Nazeby Fight for the Lords sake endeavoured to destroy the Annointed of the Lord which when afterwards His Majestie went from Oxford unto them kept Him almost three years Prisoner then accused tried condemned and on the thirtieth of January 1648. beheaded Him which have now made an Act to deprive the late King's Heires of the Crowne Voted Regality uselesse erected a Free-state stiled the Commons the supreme Authority of this Nation and declared it Treason to thwart their proceedings any way Stand amaz'd ye Heavens and tremble O Earth I am a Christian and Orthodox no blind Zelot nor Apostate In arcanum corum ne ingreditor anima mea Into their secret let not my soul come my glory be not thou joyned with their assembly For whose anger was vehement and furour cruell Abraham pronounceth cursed Gen. 49. 6 7. Yet I according to my vow shall ever be ready in their assistance who having Authority expect a blessing of God and would not be upbraided with the unfaithfulnesse of the Manichees to hunt those Foxes that pretending to support Cant. 2. 15. undermine the Church The most zealous of them are Adamites Catharists Donatists Libertines Anabaptists Antinomians Brownists to whom Supremacy is Popery and Magistracy under God and the King Tyrannie Had they not a noli me tangere on the lip their discovery would be difficult For as S. Bernard saith boni videri non esse mali non videri sed esse volunt they will seeme and not be good and not seeme and be evil Oves habitu astu vulpes aciu lupi Bern. in cant Ser. 66. sheep in habit in wilinesse foxes wolves in cruelty So cruell and prevalent that if God prevent not they 'le still uphold the power they have purchased to equall the Crowne and the Coulter That they will or make England as waste as the Palatinate in Jermany My heart bleeds to mind whereto these men tend and wherein our Religion suffers by them Obedience unto Superiours was wont to Apologize before Tyrants for Christianity But obstinacy now in Rebellion preparation in tollerating all manner of impieties to sustaine it indignam infidelibus calumniandi ansam proebet unworthily gives the Infidels cause to calumniate Christians and despite Chrysost Christ our Lord. Whereat the world must

absolute within his circuite as the master in his family Good God what a world of Supremacy shall we have Knoxes pupils governe the people teach them to regulate the Nobles and both make the King nothing Such doctrine as most adverse to the Scriptures and Lawes of the Kingdome whosoever vented before these times were found worthy to be rewarded at Tyburne Yee then excludes none Not the Queene She hath no such priviledge no nor any save the King of the Royall Progeny nor the Nobles nor Favourites nor Delagates much lesse those that are in office by them Who come not within the verge of Regality are exterminated the lists of Christianity Christ hath no Kingdome if he be not King nor are ye his and not under his polity No sound Christians then that countenanced the people and the meanest of the people too with foule hands to touch the Lords Annointed But with those hands who beheaded Him and by their force dis-inherit His a●● the high despisers of Christ the Lord. For no man contemnes potestatem humanum the power of man nisi qui priùs divinam contempsit who hath not first contemned the power of God Because the feare of God and honour of the King verse 17. are so united as not to be separated and both prime in the two Tables of the Decalogue Disobedience to either makes all that follows after nothing That the Lord is dishonoured when the King is rejected is plaine For the conspiratours with Chorab were in conspiracy against Jehovah Numbers 27. 3. And the Israelites that withstood Samuel withstood the Lord. 1 Sam. 8. 7. Nor that without a dire judgement In the following verses they are slaves and plundred to the purpose verse 11 12 13. Who resist Authority acquire to themselves damnation Rom. 13. 2. Either temporall here or eternall hereafter v. 4. Indeed 't is usuall and not unholsome for the hands sometimes to rub the head yet for the feete to spurne at it is to throw the whole body downe That is not so much naturall as this much against Nature Were there a parity betwixt every Member in the body of man what decency or state would the●e be That epitome of beauty now could be no other save a lump of rudenesse then Can we possibly suppose no superiours no inferiours and not imagine every one in his humour and that the humour of every one would bring all into confusion God is the God of order and he will have us orderly or not have us his They are within the compasse of Manicheisme that admit no Magistrates Bucananists they that set up and pull them down at pleasure Brownists that like no subordination save in female captives to themselves Aerians that will not submit unto Bishops Papists that subject Kings to the Episcopall See of Rome I am astonished and see not how to decipher Commons and Supreme To unite them would reconcile contradictories Humorists they that loving superiority take it not of God nor by humane Ordinance In an innate pride expecting the dependency of others will be without dependency themselves Strange Monsters these and the peace of our Church finds and feels store of them Contumacious ye must be obeyed For ye will because ye will controul and your provision shews ye had rather not be or be no Christians then be denied Witnesse your unparallel'd Act of Regicide your other of disclaiming His most Sacred Majestie the King and your other making it Treason to reprove your errours What ye have done must be buried in silence or the Speaker shall be sent silenc'd into his grave God saith Cry aloud spare not lift up thy voyce like a Trumpet and shew my people their transgression Isa 58. 1. Ye say if thou speak or stir a Traitor thou and shalt die the death God may destroy soul and body your Omnipotency cannot Royalists therfore according to our Saviours counsel fearing him will never be afraid of you What Antiquity and Authority ye and your Teachers have for your undoing-doings I see not Unlesse ye will misconstrue St Gregories saying of Mauritius the Emperour in an Epistle to Theodore Deus ei dominari non solùm militibus sed etiam Lib 3 Ep. 54. sacerdotibus concessit Which without pointing and not regarding the Fathers sense may for you be read thus God hath not only made the Souldiers but the Priests also to rule over him This is as good for you as any thing I can allow and if this be heeded 't is bad enough For the truth is St Gregory there tels that God hath given the Emperour dominion not only over the Souldiers but over the Priests also If better proof be produced on your side ye shall gain the victorie and we will sustein the losse I am that I am by the grace of God a knowing Christian and therfore most strictly tied to the order of Christs Kingdom For me to hand the bringing in a contra-distinct member of Government viz Democracy to his Church were Apostacy from the same It cannot stand with the honour of the Lord to applaud the nullifying of his Ordinance for the peoples sake Your deposing and beheading of Gods Vicegerent your arming against his right Heir and pronouncing it Treason to assist Him is no authority for me to subscribe your Acts. Lord who have hitherto for thy sake been constant to thy expresse command enable us ever I humbly beseech thee to be zealous for and firm to thy truth Let not any losse either of goods libertie or life fright us from that obedience wherein we are disciplined by thy Word Thy Word may not be lengthened nor shortned may thy Word be Whereto we are tied hold us sure to it From the sin of taking from or adding too Good Lord deliver us True Christians do not lengthen nor dare they shorten the Law The fifth Precept binds every one of what kind soever Jew or Gentile unto obedience to Superiours They know that who transgresse here never go home with their submission If others promise gain by shaking off this yoke they answer the principall will be lost For if he love not God that hates his neighbour how can he obey God that disobeyes his Ruler On this ground what e're they be Princes Lords or Commons Judges or inferiour Officers Arch-Bishops Bishops Priests or Deacons each one of every degree meet in one centre of Loyaltie unto Cesar Nor will any of them go a sinister way to get immunity nor think themselves in bondage because they are in obedience Nay to be alwaies in obedience that they may never be in bondage is their wisdom The Word is true and they have faith therein Who resist receive damnation Yet not so much the fear of judgement as the hatred of disloyaltie ties them Before truth they see carried the perfection of virtue Who fail in that look not after this Shew ye therfore and every one whereto ye tend If unto peace be sure to keep the tearms of peace Let