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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85688	Vox cœli, containing maxims of pious policy: wherein severall cases of conscience are briefly discussed; as I. In what subject the supream power of a nation doth reside. II. What is the extent of that power, and in what causes it doth appear, with the due restrictions and limitations thereof according to the Gospell. III. What obedience is due unto that power from all persons, superiour and inferiour, with other cases of great weight, very necessary to reconcile our late differences judiciously stated and impartially ballanced in the scale of the sanctuary. / By Enoch Grey minist	Grey, Enoch.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1968; Thomason E565_20; ESTC R202336	50,311	67

ad exemplum that 't is a corruption in those kingdoms which favour the vices of any person noble o● ignoble that 't is a servill State wherein the nobility is either so timerous or so besotted with affection or favour to a bad King that they will rather indulge him in vice or tyranny then be perswaded to discharge their duty and conscience to God or good men that Princes themselves are very unhappy beyondall men might they be permitted to do what they list and none be admitted to censure them To conclude this Argument where there is a good cause where there is sufficient authority what difficulties should discourage that heart weaken that hand faithfully set skilfully exercised in the Lords service what said Nehemiah whe● his enemies plotted and his friends feared shall such a man as I flee saith hee Who is there that being as I am a publick person called to so publick a work wherein the Lords honour is so much concerned would goe into the Temple to save his life I will not goe in The Lord to encourage Zorobabel in his service against all opposition tells him that he would be a wall of fire round about Jerusalem unwalled and the glory in the midst of her a wall round about for security for protection of fire to the destruction of all her enemies that should rise up against her and in the midst should not only be his glory presence and power to strengthen to encourage their spirits but to present and render their persons and actions amiable and honorable to the world to Angells and to good men Oh that the spirit of life from God may enter into the body of this State that this Parliament once so interested in the affections of the people generally whose hearts were pinned upon their lips whose purses and lives freely were engaged for them may by their last actions recover their lost honors It was said of Br●tus Nemo primum contemptior Romae suit Nemo minus postea It was a pretious speech of his who being demanded by a Prince the yeers of his age hee answered but forty five when he was indeed seventy five from the time of his naturall birth because saith he Annos m●●tis nunquam vit● nominabo those yeers spent in the service of the world the flesh and the lusts of his own heart wherein hee was a slave to sin to self and lived without Christ hee esteemed not in the number of the yeers of his life hee called them the yeers of death wee should not account our selves really alive untill wee live to the honour and for the service of the Lord Jesus Christ Oh that every member of this House did act his part faithfully sincerely as member of a new elected Parliament as a member of the body of Christ as a new man Non sumus noti nisi ●enati such as act conscionably for God shall bee had by him and his Saints in everlasting honour h●● will not forget their labours not their hazards nor their love yea the posterities and families of such as stand in the breach who repair the wasts of former ages who restore the foundations of future generations shall bee had in precious esteem as a blot of eternall infamy will remain upon those noble or ignoble who disowne the Lords service and pluck their shoulders from his yoak To encourage you therefore in this honourable service for God and the Cities of our God let the eye of your faith bee intent upon these four considerations as grounds of present and future confidence 1. Those State-miracles and great wonders which the Lord of Hoasts hath done in and for this Nation and by this Parliament the mercies wee have received although the fruits of faith and prayer yet have exceeded infinitely our thoughts imaginations but the greatest mercies are yet to receive precious was the faith and strong was the argument of that woman If the Lord would have destroyed us would hee at this time note that have shewed us all these things It 's my argument I think 't is invincible one mercy is an engagement unto another in falling thou shalt surely fall it was a Divine prediction 2. Though the sins of the Land be many yet the Lords controversie is not at this time with his Saints but with the inhabitants of Babylon whatever the sins of the Saints be he will pardon will save his servants but ruine his enemies Israel hath not been forsaken nor Judah of his God of the Lord of Hoasts though the Land was filled with sin against the holy one of Israel this is the time of the Lords vengeance but he wil render unto Babylon her recompence Wee live in that period of time wherein time shall have end or be no more in that sense that John meant it the time of the rage of the enemies the reign of Antichrist The Kingdomes of this world shall be the Lords and his Christs his enemies shall be his foot-stool and the pride of all opposite glory shall be stained the heavens and the earth shaken that the Lord may overthrow the thrones of Kingdoms and destroy the strength thereof The most high God rules 〈◊〉 the Kingdoms of men and times thrones and Dominions are his prerogative they have their periods unto a time or times the dividing of time and then the judgement sits this time is at hand 3. Should the Lord prosper his enemies himself should be the greatest loser and suffer most in his own honour For 1. These enemies would blaspheme his name and tyrannize the more over his Saints who should be as sheep appointed for the slaughter they would reproach the footsteps of the Lords anointed and in derision say Where is now their God they would with despightfull heart confederate to their ruine and conspire to cut them off from being a Nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance their sword wil make no distinction between a Presbyterian and an Independent if the image of God bee in either it is his grace which they despise but the Lord who hath reproved Kings will also Princes for the sakes of his servants 2. The Lord should lose the honor of the high praise of the Saints how can they sing the Lords song under captive enemies The Lords sacrifice is an abomination to an Aegyptian for a time he may suffer Aegyptians to oppresse and Assyrians to rule with rigour but when the Lord by these afflictions hath humbled their hearts refined them and fitted them for deliverance ingaged their spirits in his service what men or powers now stand in opposition to interrupt the motion of his grace even the greatest mountains shall melt before him his name shall be then known unto his adversaries and the Nations tremble at his presence 4. And lastly The Lord hath prepared a remedy to administer proportionable and sutable to our disease hee hath

Member of Parliament or to any Person indempnified thereby for any demer it since this Session or to any receipts of mony out of the Publike Treasure A cause as much your Honours as mine 〈◊〉 Jesus Christs rather then either yours or mine 〈◊〉 might be finished in four houres time in a select C●●mittee if once appointed for Audience thereof which in 8 years space I never could obtain although some Honorable Members have expressed their deep se●s● of the extremity of my oppression that prejudice which I have sustained by this delay and therefore I beleeve it impossible that so just a cause should miscarry in the hands of so just a Parliament My earnest prayer for your Honours shall bee that the splendor of this Representative may by the highest Acts of sincere Reformation of Religion of impartiall Administration of Justice dazle the eyes of all Europe that your Power and greatnesse thereby may bee rendered formidable to all your adversaries Domestick and Forain by Sea and Land in England and Ireland that the people of these Nations by your Pious Prudent Righteous and Resolved indeavours may be assured ut Pacem summam obtinebimus in Patria cum ipso Deo nobis inter not ubi nullum erit bellum nulla contradictio which is the hearts desire of Your Honours in all humility devoted in the highest Services for the Gospell ENO GREY To his Excellency THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX Lord Generall of all the Parliaments Forces in England and Wales And the Right Honourable OLIVER CRUMWELL Lord Lievtenant of Ireland Commander in chief of all the Parliaments Forces there With the Generall Councell of Warre Grace Mercy and Peace be Multiplyed Right Honorable and Honorable THe hearts of such who truly fear the Lord in this our Israel cannot but be towards you who have jeoparded your lives to the death in the high places of the field what Titus acknowledged in his success against Jerusalem the same may we in yours De●s vobiscum in liberand● hoc regn● pugnavit he who hath called you unto fitted you for this service hath united your spirits mutually to affect to effect one end that you are ut manus ut mens Angli● as Hector Aen●● of Troy whereby the Publick hath gained much both Peace Liberty although your selves as yet little for magis mor●● quam mummorum causa doe you ingage England unworthy the affections of such Worthies this Generation much degenerating that should you respect the opinions of man concerning you more then the affection of God unto you who observes all men all things a heathen but a speach becomming a Christian you would repent of all that good afforded them But whatever is the estimation of the world you are the glory of God in his Churches apud deum major est qui melior ille melior qui in virtutib●● praestat The Crown of his Saints yea Sanctorum amor delici● Luther tells us there be Miracula Ocularia and Auricularia Ages to come will admire our mercies in such renowned instruments should we unworthily forget you or your acts which deserve to bee had in eternall 〈…〉 not wee of this Nation variable in our affections 〈…〉 in our judgements wee could not but honour 〈…〉 your Physicall Prescriptions upon the Prudenti●●● Observance of the Causes 〈◊〉 and P●ognost it is of the Malady of this State for spent by the Kings evill administred in the most desperate Paroxysm of our great Body Politick effectuall through the Lords blessing to the absolute cure of the Nation the Remedy being powerfull not only to remove what at present doth distemper this State but to prevent what in future may occasion a Perillous Relapse ut ●●hil defi●it quod ad salutem sufficit These acts of your doe publish your Honours your Humilities doe crown your Graces thereby you deserving rather then desiring the praise of your vertues your vertues And because your Prudence as well as your Courage the wise and Omnipotent God hath prospered to the healing of the Nations I shall humbly beseech you to improve both for the advance of Religion in the power and purity thereof and maintenance of Justice amongst us ●●●gal the evills threatning this Nation in the deformation of the one or in the Non or Mal-administration of the other may he prevented and removed The Lord beat your enemies as smal as the dust and stamps them as the mire of the street give you courage to pursue them and not to turn again untill you have consumed them the Lord be the shield of your help the Sword of your Excellency that by his strength you may run through a Troup by his help you may scale a wall that your feet may be 〈◊〉 Hinds feet and a how of Steel be broken by your Arms the Eternall God be your refuge and underneath you be his everlasting Arms that the Enemy may be thrust out from before you in England in Ireland that he may say destroy them that you may return from Ireland with as many victories by your Armies as good security to your persons as much rejoycing to your friends as great confusion to your Enemies as you did from Scotland that all there all here all elsewhere that do conspire agaist you even the multitudes of the great and ●ervible ones may be as chaffe that passeth away and perish●●● in an instant sodainly as the Lord hath said so prayeth Your Honours humble Servant in the service of the Lord Jesus Christ Eno. Grey To the Reader Courteous Reader THe Health of our Body Politick is preserved by our Laws the ligaments of all civill Societies when grounded upon the infallible Principells of Equity the intention of Parliament and Army in their late transactions I know many that feare the Lord and conscientious of their wayes are much dissatisfied in their judgements about the proceedings of both yet I fear self-love and self-interest perturbates the minds distempers the affections of too many who demurre and scruple against apparent reason unto publick prejudice Had wee a sense of the last years judgment in our punishment from Heaven by unseasonable weather the effects of which wee are like to feel many years upon the Land and cry of the People for a King we would now hold our peace at the presence of the great God and suffer our lips no longer to sin nor our mouths to speake foolishly It is our duty to stand upon our Watch-tower to observe the motions of Divine Providence in the mutati●●s it the 〈◊〉 in this last age wherein all promises and Prophecies shall be accomplished the integrity of Noah consisted in his sidelity in his Generation when degenerate and our sincerity is discerned by a pious temporizing I hate these who have lascivientia ingenia wanton wits and mercenary soules who Mancipate their judgements to the opinions and Errors of others because great in person and power As I would abhor to justifie the wicked so would I

yet they cannot assure themselves or others that they have not failed in one circumstantiall thereabouts wherefore it is against all justice and reason that humane laws subject to defects and errours should binde absolutely as divine commands do we see all Law-makers are 〈◊〉 in their acts to impose their Lawes with restrictions or amplifications to interpose interpretations and modifications their lawes being subject to ambiguities Hence humane laws should be administred with indulgence to those that 〈◊〉 in some especiall case or ambiguity of conscience and 〈◊〉 reason may allow a dispensasion as in case the end of the law be not violated in case such breach be without just offence to any and lastly in case it be without contempt of that authority prescribing and ordaining that laws in such cases the Magistrate may yea must indulge or he is Tyrannicall Suppose a Magistrate commands in time of Warre that no man upon paine of death open the Gates of a City to any person if after this strict order some eminent and well affected Citizen should desire admission and the Gate should be opened to let in such a person no danger being eminent and no perill like to invade the whole by the security of this part of the body here is a violation a breach of the latter and Grammaticall construction of the law but without the breach of conscience without the contempt of authority without just offence or dammage to any without breath of the equity the sense and the end of that law which was that the City and every part and member thereof be p●rserved in safety in which case such a person cannot in justice suffer Fundamentall lawes respect punishment only 〈◊〉 because so good so just a law is disobeyed and that end thereby intended is frustrated Obedience only is 〈◊〉 and ultimately respected therein because without it the foundations would suddenly be out of course wherefore those commands of the magistrate that tend to the necessary good to the absolute preservation of humane societies i● peace pi●ty and justice those commands are primitively divine formally good finally lawfull and cannot be violated without sinne although the Magistrate should define no penalty impose no punishment upon such transgression the law in these cases respecting due obedience in full satisfaction to the justice thereof rather their submission to the censure subjection to the punishment inflicted in case of wilfull disobedience and obstinace violation Fourthly That the Grounds Rules and Foundations of Justice must be of things lawful possible to be observed within our power and tending to general good to order and peace to liberty and stability Hence those acts in some persons cases and times unlawfull and unjust the same in other cases and thries may truly be proved just è contra 〈◊〉 acts in some persons cases and times just may in others be unjust Shines who cursed and abused David his act was treasonable an act 〈…〉 ●●serving death by the law of God and man yet upon his submission David not only promised him pardon but by 〈◊〉 and covenant solemnly engaged before God to passe by the fault to take off the punishment of this sinne which 〈◊〉 upon better consideration and more serious thoughts he and that without perjury broke giving an absolute charge and command to Solomon his sonne to put Shimei to death and hold him no longer guiltlesse which decree Solomon accordingly did execute returning all the wickednesse of Shimei against David upon his owne head Joab was a man of bloud a man deserving death yet 〈◊〉 was forced to indulge him so farre in his sinne as to continue him in his honour untill the Lord tendred an opportunity and gave him power to be avenged on him to the ●●most Such Oaths Covenants Protestations and Declarations ●●deliberately and rashly made such honour and indulgence 〈◊〉 i● conferred or continued to Delinquent persons deserving death condemned by the decree of God such oaths are 〈◊〉 justly broken then with justice and honour to God or 〈◊〉 and respect to a Republick they can be kept If a man should sweare to save the life of a murtherer such an oath not onely may but must be broken because the Lord hath positively determined that no satisfaction shall be taken for the life of a murtherer neither can the land be cleansed from bloud but by the bloud of him who shed it The inconsiderate 〈◊〉 of making and taking what cannot possibly and without sinne be performed must solemnly and seriously be repented of before the God of Heaven by States and by private persons Such circumstances may intervene which may render that oath unlawfull which at first was lawfull impossible to be kept which before was possible and in such cases the Lord doth disingage us and the binding power thereof doth cease Oaths are conditionall as was Abrahams servants the oath of the Spies to Rahab of Solomon to Ad●n●jah and binde not unless that condition be performed If a State do binde themselves or others by an oath to defend the Person and power of a Prince maintaining Religion and Justice preserving their Lawes and Liberties this oath must be kept the Prince performing those conditions but in case he be a profest enemy to Religion an Adversary to Justice and by no wayes of love or favour can be gained to Patronage the Lawes and Liberties of his People but still he plots and conspires against the lives of those that are most loyall most faithfull such oaths are no longer binding It is absurd against all reason the light of nature the laws of Nations to imagine that any oath should binde a People to deliver their Sword into a Tyrants or Murtherers hands when they know it is desired only to murther them or to be avenged upon them Such oaths as cannot be kept with the Peace and stability of Nations all Casuists acknowledge leave no obligation upon the conscience because Reason and Rule is the bond of Justice The Covenant was only a civill bond wherein we engaged out of respect to the publick peace and safety of the Nation Is the Nation by any one act in hazard Nay ●s not this peace rather secured have not the Parliament wisely layed the Axe to the root of our distempers Plutarch reports of Lys●nder that he cared neither for promise or oath longer then they would serve the accomplishment of his owne ends Did not Cbarles the ninth of France the same and what History can Parallel the Acts of the late KING herein better one should perish then a Nation Ma●asses bloud-guiltinesse reflected upon all Israel indulgence to any deserving death layes a foundation of future miserie and emboldens that delinquent in his impiety No politick law in a Kingdome must dispense with the Positive Law of God that Law enacted by himselfe for the preservation of humane societies from violence He that sheddeth bloud by man shall his bloud be shed by man not by a private person but