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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	king_n	life_n	son_n	6,489	5	5.0532	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74636	New errors made palpable by an old light, or a cheap and easie method to cure the dissentions of the time by a septuagint of conclusions, composed and experimented by Anthony Norwood, Esquire.	Norwood, Anthony.	1652 (1652)	Thomason E1291_2	16,822	45

I finde no fault in the Man It was the councell then that gave the condemning sentence against him Wee have a Law and by that Law he ought to dye was the instrumental vote that sent him an innocent to the meritorious Cross Which councel had he not been conscious that it had lawfully a power over him his submission thereunto had been a sinne against himselfe because it was in his power to summon Legions of Angels to his protection And had he sinned his suffering had not beene efficacious to Mans salvation Something may be said why this example of our Saviours is not altogether pertinent to this purpose As first in respect of that saying of the Jewes wherein they disclaime any lawfulness in themselves to put any man to death from whence it may be alledged that our Saviour suffered not under the authority of the Jewish Councell but Pilates jurisdiction Which is thus answered It is apparent that the sentence of death was passed upon him by the councel and that was it which gave Pilate power over his life And that that Nation had liberty to try offending natives by their own Lawes is not less evident Whereby it seemes to me that they bring a conquered Nation the allegeance betweene the Emperour and them was regulated and circumscribed by reciprocall capitulations and conditionall Covenants by which the executing power was reserved to the Emperiall Officer otherwise the Leviticall Law by which the Israelites were forbidden to suffer a blasphemer to live would have justified them no less in the execution then in passing the sentence And therefore although the executing power was consentatively in Pilate for which cause our Saviour may be said to suffer under him yet was it authoritatively from that Magistracy which did yeeld to those conditions and that may still be the Common-councell of his own Nation Againe whereas we say that the supreme authority is solely and independently in the Eldership of associated Christians it may be objected that this example will not make good the assertion because we finde that Priests Pharisees and Scribes were mixed with the Elders of the people in that councell by which he was condemned To this we reply that The people of Israel being admonished to make themselves Judges and Officers in all their Tribes and the Priesthood not being infeoffed by God with any judiciary authority nor the orders of Scribes and Pharisees constituted by him if we should say that these Priests Scribes and Pharisees were made members of that councell by the election of the people it would be a long while before any thing could be produced to prove the contrary Besides in matters hard to be judged the people were directed to enquire of the Priests and Levites they might therefore be called by the Elders of the people to assist in their National Councels as it hath been the custom in England for the Judges at Law and yet not have therein a condemnatory power And this seems to be intendment of the Text for after the High Priest had voted his answer to be blasphemous he refers the sentence to the Councel and they thereupon condemn him to be guilty of death Deut. 16. 18. Levit. 17. 9. Marke 14. 64. This was the case of that immaculate Lamb who being to be offered up an expiation for sin was careful to preserve himself without spot that man might be cleansed from the deep stain of his deadly pollutions by that his underservedly bleeding Oblation Christ the anointed and just one was sentenced to death by the unjust verdict of the Elders of of his own Nation and yet he having power to resist submitted to the killing condemnation because he knew it was not unjust so to do Here we have an example beyond examples a president equal to a precept He is safe that can repose upon this Rock seeing God hath made me a member I will not scruple to obey such an authority as had power over my head He did not expostulate the unjustnesse of the sentence nor will I so much esteem of my own worth above his merits as to think that any priviledge or prerogative can exempt me from being under the lash of the like authority So long as live in a society I must be under some government and it ought to be such as I may safely submit to Not meerly for the benefit sake for if I goe no further my obedience exceeds not the gratitude of sensuall Beasts but like a Christian for conscience sake Not my fancy but my duty must guide me to be obedient I cannot erre by my submission to a lawful authority And I shall hardly be perswaded that being incorporated into a Christian Society any Magistracy can have so lawfull a power over me as the Eldership or paternall Councel of my own Nation till I know upon whose judgement I may rely with better security then upon my allseeing and no sinning Saviours He was a King a Priest and a Prophet who having a certaine and infallible knowledge of all things taught us by his example to be obedient to the determinations of nationall councels And what pretenders soever there be to Prophecy Priesthood or Kingship who dare trust to their own conceptions rather then to the path which he who only can be their Saviour hath troden out to them they are not likely ever to come to the place that hee hath provided for those who follow and beleeve in him for he that thinks himselfe wiser then God cannot put any confidence in God Adam sins and in him all Mankinde To free Man from the punishment due for sin Christ is promised God to shadow forth the designed Christian Church forms to himselfe a Church of the children of Israel for whose sakes the Idolatrous Kings of Canaan are destroyed by Gods appointment The Jsraelites desire God is displeased yet gives them Kings reserving the choice to himselfe These Kings are types of him who was to suffer for sinne Some of these Kings are by Gods direction doomed to death for sinning By Gods predeterminate counsell the Kingship and Priesthood of Israel met both in him who was preordeined to be a sacrifice for sin and Christ not without the consent of his Father together with his life gives up the power of both to a councell of his own Nation By his death the Law by which those Kings and Priests were constituted is abolished and all those made Kings and Priests to God the father who by a true and lively faith can lay hold upon his sons incarnation passion and resurrection Thus were Adams posterity brought from bondage to liberty from death to life And whether the substance of the precedent propositions may not be reasonably collected from this exemplary progress to mans salvation I leave to be determined by any ingenuous Christian who will contemplate these circumstances in his sober selfe-denying and peace-projecting solitudes Rev. 1. 6. To conclude I am not so wise in my own conceit as to thinke it impossible for me to be mistaken It may be that my own blindness hath made me venter thus boldly into publique but I would be loath that that should lead any other man into the same error If therefore through the want of judgement I have in any thing herein by me published swarved from the truth I I doe humbly request and shall thinke my selfe extreamely happy to have my misapprehensions laid open by some ingenious and more knowing pen which being done let me undergoe the severest of censures if I be found in the number of those who hate to be reformed FINIS

therein constituted then although the collective body of the Fatherhood be independent yet independency ceaseth as to any individuall Member But the Members of a Commonwealth are equally bound to submit to the Lawes therein constituted Therefore as to any individuall Members of a Commonwealth independency ceaseth after association LXIII If every individuall Member of a Common-wealth be equally lyable to the penalties of the Lawes therein constituted then for the same cause that any one may be put to death for the same may any other But every individual member of a Common-wealth is equally lyable to the Lawes therein constituted Therefore for the same cause that any one may be put to death for the same may any other LXIV If the Lawmaker may decree him to death who acts any thing by which the established government of a Commonwealth may be indangered and if the legislative power be solely in the Fatherhood then much more may they order him to death who acts any thing destructive to that authority by which only such government can be established But Lawmakers may decree him to death who acts any thing by which the established government of a Commonwealth may be indangered and the legislative power is solely in the Fatherhood Therefore much more may they order him to death by whom anything is acted destructive to that authority by which onely such government can be established LXV If the setting up of the Kings of Israel is not so clearely approved by God as the punishing of their offending Kings by death then it is more reasonable to conclude from what was demonstrated by God to that Nation that offending Kings ought to be punished then that the setting up of Kings is necessarily injoyned But the setting up of Kings hath not so cleare an approbation from God in that Nation as the punishing of their offending Kings 2 Kings 9. ch 2 Kings 10. 30. Therefore from what was demonstrated by God to the children of Israel it is more reasonable to conclude that peccant Kings ought to be punished then that all Nations ought to be governed by Kings LXVI If by the gifts of grace and nature the Fatherhood of a Christian association have from God a sole independent and supreme authority and if a Christian Fatherhood Eldership and Presbytery do signifie all one and the same thing then in such associations Presbyterian Government instituted by God is not to be found but iu the personal or representative Assembly of the Fatherhood But by the gifts of Grace and Nature the Fatherhood of a Christian association hath from God a sole independent and supreme authority and a Christian Fatherhood Eldership and Presbytery do signifie all one the same thing Therefore unlesse it be in the personal or representative Assembly of the Fatherhood Presbyterian Government instituted by God is not to be found in a Christian Commonwealth and they who pretending for Presbyterian Government do quarrel with the representative Assembly of the Fatherhood do contend with that for which they seem to contend LXVII If in the established Government of a populous Commonwealth it be prudentially necessary that there be Governours of different qualifications to whom those who are subordinate ought to be in subjection and if where such Governours are there necessarily must be priority and inferiority and degrees of both then in such a Commonwealth the native parity and equality of the individual subordinate members must be superceded But in the established government of a populous Commonwealth it is prudentially necessary that there be Governours of different qualifications to whom those who are subordinate ought to be in subjection and wheresoever such Governours are there necessarily must be priority and inferiority and degrees of both Therefore the parity and equality of the individual subordinate members must necessarily be superceded in the established Government of of a populous Commonwealth LXVIII If the Fatherhood of a Christian Association hath from God by the gifts of Grace and Nature a sole and independent power in all causes as well spiritual as temporal then all Oathes and Covenants destructive to their interests are sinful and void But the Fatherhood of a Christian Common-wealth hath from God by the gifts of Grace and Nature a sole and independent power in all causes as well Ecclesiastical as Civil Therefore all such oaths and covenants are sinful and void as are destructive to their interests LXIX If it be inconsistent with the paternal Prerogative to have sharers with them in government then if any member of a christian association do voluntarily vow allegeance to any other power be it forraign or domestique his vow is sinful and the covenant void But it is inconsistent with the paternal Prerogative to have sharers with them in government Therefore if any member of a Christian association do vow allegeance to any other power be it forraine or domestique his vow is sinfull and the covenant void LXX If nationall Covenants be grounded upon a humane Law and if the supreame legislative power ought to be obeyed as well in their abrogating as in their making of Lawes then if the Law upon which a Covenant is grounded be taken away the Covenant loseth its force But nationall Covenants are grounded upon a humane Law and the supreme legislative power ought to be obeyed as well in their abrogating as in their constituting of Lawes Therefore all such covenants lose their force if the Law upon which they are grounded bee taken away Truth is best discerned when in her playnest dress I have therefore clothed these my conceptions in this home-span attyre that the sense and intendment of the conclusions may be obvious to the meanest capacity wherein did I conceive the least inconsistency with even and upright reason they should sooner have felt the flames then seen the light But lest I may therein seeme to some to savor too much of an affected singularity I will close up the propositions with our Saviours example then which none is more proper for a Christian Mans imitation and direction and from thence it seems to me that the most materiall of the precedent inferences may rationally bee deducted Amongst the Evangelists who being particularly inspired wrote the story of his life and passion it is recorded that hee bestowed a chiding upon Peter for opposing the Officers and Souldiers of the Common-councell of his own Nation in the defence of him his Master when they came to lay violent hands upon him And that hee himselfe as Man thought it no sinne to submit his own body even to death the same Councell judging him guilty of a Crime meriting so severe a punishment It was the authority of this Councell to which our Saviour laid down the dearest of his earthly interests not to the power of Pilate for he washed the blood from off his guiltless hands and had the power been solely in him made his desire to save him manifest by pleading for his life and justifying his spotless innocence saying