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A64478	A discourse concerning the basis and original of government with the absolute and indispensable necessity of it : wherein the excellency of monarchy above any other kind is evidently demonstrated : as it was delivered by way of charge to the grand-jury, at a quarter-sessions of the peace held at Ipswich in the county of Suffolk / by F.T., Esq., one of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county.	Theobald, Francis, Sir, d. 1670.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.	1667 (1667)	Wing T849; ESTC R10094	25,159	44

causes them to walk more regularly Laws you know have generally in them a double power Directive and Coercive the first sets down the duty the second appoints the penalty for non-performance of the duty Now 't is the latter only which lewd and licentious men are affected with the fear of punishment is that which scares them into some handsome outward Conformity when-as they have no principle of Ingenuity from within inclining them to it The penalty I say of the Law is that which hales them like a Bear unto the Stake out of the broad way of destruction wherein they were posting apace into the narrow Street mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles called Strait I mean Goodness and Virtue Government 't is the Pruning hook to lop off all the luxuriant excrescencies of Vice and to pare away the superfluity of naughtiness The Sons of Anak Men of Giant-like Lusts the mighty Nimrods that are grown so audacious and incorrigible in their wicked practices that like a Titan-brood they even threaten Heaven it self with an over-daring impudence and would if it were in their power dethrone God Almighty were it not for these Manacles of Government and Law wherewith these unruly persons are tyed they would run up and down and make havock of all good men yea these prodigies of Impiety Devils incarnate I may call them would so rage and so fearfully terrifie and haunt good men that were they not bound down by the strong Cords of the Law there would be no place of safety for men in the world no rest for the soles of their Feet no more than there was for that winged Mercury Noah's Dove I mean the Emblem of Innocency which was sent out by him to make a discovery of the drowned World in the time of the Flood I say were it not for this Curb of Government Murders Adulteries Incests Rapes Robberies Perjuries Witchcrafts and Blasphemies would ride in Triumph up and down in every Town of the Country and thorough-out the Kingdome so as it might be said of them as of Gad Behold a Troop cometh yea all kind of Villanies Outrages and savage Cruelty would overflow the Nation and the face of the Earth would be covered with blood as it was once with water Were it not for Government I say we should all be a Company of Ismaels Wild-men our hands would be against every man and every mans hand against us all the several Counties of the Kingdome would be but as so many Dens of Wild Beasts Cruelty would insolently strut it up and down in every place with her Writ of Privilege in her hand No mans Life Goods or Wife could be secured What I pray you do you think would become of Propriety the Guardian and Tutelar-Angel of Commerce and Traffick were it not for this Enclosure Would not all things lye wast and common Would not every Mans Lands and Goods become the possession of the strongest So that our Patrimony and all that we enjoy in the World if we sold it but for a Mess of Pottage the price of Esau's Birth-right we should hardly think we made an ill bargain And as St. Augustine saith well Talle Jura Imperatorum quis audet dicere Mea est illa villa aut Meus est iste servus aut Domus haec mea est Take away Government and none dare say These Lands are mine this Servant is mine or I have right to this house And as for Women what think you of them If they be such as resolve to preserve inviolably the choise Jewel of their Chastity who would rather choose to dye than live an Example of dishonour to the rest of their Sex What rage and fury would beastly libidinous men exercise towards such who like Lightning would rend most where they find most resistance and would vent their angry passions upon them in as high a manner as Cruelty could invent and at last bereave them of their Lives whom they could not bereave of their Honour The men of Gibeah will abuse the Levite's Wife yea and professedly too abuse her to Death And what do you think of Life it self if there were no Government Would it not be a Burthen to us for to live and to be born a Misfortune Life certainly would be but an empty flat Parenthesis of time a very Wilderness we should be in continual fear of being assassmated Men would be afraid to abide in their own houses for fear that ravenous savage Beasts should come and become Cut-throats and Cannibals to them much less durst they venture abroad or if they did What pannick fears would seize upon them every step they took how would they tremble and quake as if they trod upon Ice or as if they were doomed to the old Tryal of Ordeel Our Lives would but as the Scripture phrase is hang before us just as Dumaris his pointed Sword which hung over his head while he was at his Banquet only by a single hair so that there would be no comfort at all in ones Life And indeed I know not how there should for as the Spanish Proverb is Que Quien teme la muerte no goza la vida He that fears Death doth not enjoy his Life And in fine to say no more Were there no Government there would necessarily ensue a general Confusion of all things we should be as the Fishes of the Sea the greater destroying the smaller And as it is said by that Rabbi in Pirke Avoth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vnless there were Magistracy one would devour another alive But I shall not need to dilate further upon this Subject The rise and ground of Government and likewise the necessity of it you do I suppose fully understand Blessed be God we here in this Nation have Government and that the best too which is the next thing Gentlemen that I would make appear to you as that which may be of use to you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by way of preparing you to the main and principal business I aim at Now that Monarchy which is the Establish'd Government among us is the most Excellent Government God Nature Art and Experience will sufficiently demonstrate First I say God He is the sole Monarch of all the World he is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords as the Scripture styles him He ruleth in the Kingdom of Men and giveth it to whomsoever he will Monarchy was the Government which God made choice of to set up among his people First in Moses then in the Judges then in the Kings In the several Changes of the Names of the Jewish Government God still avoided Polyarchy When Captains but one Moses in Temporals one Aaron in Spirituals when Judges but one Othniel when Priests but one Eli when Prophets but one Samuel and when for their own ease they joyned others in Commission with them they presently degenerated and became corrupt for the Elders of Israel complained that they turned aside after Lucre took Bribes and perverted Judgment

as if their Tongues were to pronounce some Funeral and the Universal Lamentation that was made for his departed Royal Presence did loudly proclaim his present Royal departure And yet these men shall I say or rather Monsters of Men were so impudent as they publickly justified in the Face of Death and Judgment so horrid and detestable a Crime from the Dictates of their private Conscience and their following of God as they term'd it O horrid Blasphemy Who can hear this and not stand astonished If Conscience should be held a sufficient Plea it would open a Gap to all manner of Licentiousness for why may not such a one that hath a plausible Knack of cheating the common sort of People with the fair Shew of Conscience under the pretence thereof make Claim to a Liberty for to run into Excess and Riot and to commit all kind of Wickedness with greediness and think they are very hardly dealt with if they be denyed it and therefore it 's no great wonder that in those times of Anarchical-Confusion some men who were intoxicated with Principles of Libertinisme should make this Proposition viz. That nothing might be Punished with Death but Murder A thing that I can never think of without Horrour and Amazement that Men should be so loose and given over to such a reprobate sense as to Contend to have Iniquity established by a Law It is confess'd by most Men that are the strongest Assertors of Liberty of Conscience that men which are guilty of Offences against the Second Table should be restrained by Punishment and What satisfactory rational Accompt can be given why the same Care should not be taken for the preventing the Breach of the First Table which hath respect unto those Duties which we owe unto God Hath not Conscience Influence upon both Is not Gods Glory concerned in one as well as the other Or are the things of God less precious than the things of Men But I know it will be objected That no Man hath Dominion over the Conscience but God alone 't is he only that exercises Soveraignity therein But in Answer to this I would fain know Whether the Supreme Lord hath not delegated power to some men and invested them with Authority to Check and Control the Exorbitant Practises and Expressions of such persons who break out in things which manifestly tend to the dishonour of His Name and the Peace of the Church Or otherwise all Ordinances Order and Government would be trampled under foot Religion would be Banished quite out of the Land and the habitable World turned into an Hell And if this were not so how comes it to pass that under the Law the false Prophet and the Brother that spake to the People to turn them away from the Lord their God were put to Death Deut. 13. And was not the Blasphemer stoned to Death Levit. 24. 14. God you know many times Plagued Judah and at last carried it into Captivity because of their tolerating of Errour and Idolatry and if you consult Josephus the Jewish Historian you will find that the toleration of divers Sects among them was the Procatarctick Cause of their utter Overthrow But Gentlemen You have another sort of Men that can find in their hearts to come to Church but they are afraid lest they should be too curious in matters of God's Worship and should be thought to Complement with God Almighty who is a Spirit and looks for the heart in such performances Crassam rusticitatem pro sanctitate habent as those did that St. Jerome complains of in his time they think God is best served in a slovenly manner they deal by God Almighty as they do by some of their familiar friends whom they meet with as they are walking abroad they do not stop their Course to give them a formal Salutation by Crindging Bowing and putting off their Hats but only give them a nod as they pass along or haply may mutter out that trite and thredbare Complement of Your Servant in that Transitory posture So I say you shall have them do with God when they come into his House to Worship him they think a careless Dress or Address of themselves is best becoming and so serve God hand over head as I may say or as you have it Lev. 26. 21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at all Adventures for the Word signifies so as well as Contrary which our Translation renders it But you shall have these men plead for themselves and say that External Devotion doth not suite with these Evangelical times But were they thoroughly acquainted with the Gospel which they so much talk of and so little practise they would find that this fond Conceit of theirs is sufficiently Confuted by our Saviours Practice Did not he lift up his Eyes to Heaven when he prayed for Lazarus and fell on his Face when he prayed in his Agony St. Paul as himself saith bowed his Knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ But these men when they come into God's House the Place of His Sacred Presence you shall have them presently Clap on their Hats and sit on their Breeches in Time of Prayer What a shame is this The very Heathens shewed more reverence in the Worshipping of their Idol Gods for I read in Plutarch That they adored the Deity that beareth the Name of Honour with the head bare And how rude those Sedentary persons are who cannot find in their hearts to kneel or stand in time of Prayer will sufficiently appear if you consider what you read in Levit. 19. 32. viz. Thou shalt rise up before the Hoarie-head If such Honour is required to be done to Old Men then sure it will follow We should much more rise up before the Ancient of Dayes when we are Worshipping of him Religion would lose that Native Veneration that is due to it if it were not Accompanied with outward decent gestures of the Body But me-thinks I may speak to these Men that are so irreverent and profane in their Carriage to God in the words of the Prophet Malachy offer it now unto thy Governour will he be pleased with thee or accept thy Person No I warrant you I durst Appeal to these persons Whether they would do the same in their Addresses to any of us that are in Commission of the Peace And yet are they thus sawcy with God Almighty who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords as if they were hail fellow well met with him I speak the more vehemently concerning this Miscarriage because such persons deserve a severe reproof and if any such be here present I shall only say this to them which is a certain Truth although it be pungens and not ungens viz. That the Covering of their Heads is a Discovering of their Singularity and Folly or rather their foolish Singularity But Gent. I shall now speak more particularly to the Articles you are to enquire of though I shall not spend time in Enumerating of