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The break-neck of presumptuousnesse in sinning applyable unto the occasions of these times.
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Wing B4338; ESTC R20115
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from God raise an Alarm of Warre and hostile resistance We adde that Popish Arguments doe more hurt then their Armes those fastning onely upon the body these upon the soule 2. Religion pretended But yet onely pretended against the Article of Christian Religion both Ancient and Moderne in our Church which is Loyaltie and Subjection to our Prince We say first that as there is no Article of Religion concerning Morality more strictly commonly and expresly taught in Scripture then Loyaltie of Subjection to Princes so was the same Article as absolutely professed and practiced by the whole Church Christian Their profession wee have in the Apologies which were written in the name of the whole Church of Christ to remove all jealousies of Princes and conceit of the least disloyaltie which is made most manifest and indeed admirable above all other professed subjects in the world by these three contestations First avouching against the Heathen themselves saying Est nobis magis Imperator quà m vobis That is in true sense We Christians professe more the Right Imperiall then you doe Another giveth the reason Quia vos conscios tantum metuit is nos conscientiam In effect thus The Loyaltie of your hearts O you Heathens is but onely that which you would be loth any man should know besides your selves because but humane and so farre onely as your temporall occasions shall enforce but we Christians professe subjection to Emperours in our consciences and in obedience unto God although there were no rod or sword of Majesty to keep us in awe according to the expresse doctrine of the Apostle A third and with him divers others almost in the same termes Herein doth Christian Religion excell all other because touching subjection their profession is Occidi potius quà m occidere To be killed in obeying the Civil power rather then to kill in making resistance Their principles we shal point out by by According to this Primitive Church have our English Protestants alwayes protested by their oath to the Article of Supremacie by the Church her Article of Subjection it self by her published Homilies all authorized by the Statutes of the Kingdome besides the priviledged Books of Protestant Divines against the Romish principles We make bold herein to demand of you First Why your Doctrine of Resistance being altogether repugnant to the doctrine of obedience to Soveraignty should not be judged a new heresie Secondly after you had taken that Oath subscribed to that Article read and allowed of the Homilies and consented to the condemnation of former Romish principles as contradictory to Orthodox Religion without exception how you could receive a contrary oath and not think that in stead of wholsome meat you had taken Hen-bane 3. Ostentation of Zealousnesse in your profession Having a great influence in persons prone to be seduced yet we think you know out of the writings of Josephus that there was before his time among the Jews a sect called Zelots tumultuous spirits and of extreme insolencie in disturbing all Orders as well Religious as Politique to whom if you joyne the Anabaptistical Separatists you will acknowledge that there is a zeale no better then Ignis fatuus in animating men to draw the sword as Peter was precipitate in drawing his But whereas your doctrine is rather to resist by active disobedience then as Loyal Subjects with passive obedience to suffer unjustly tell us in your ingenuity whether sort expresseth the greater zeale 4. Assurance of happinesse upon the death in that quarrell This the lesse true it is the more damnable it must be to the quarellous and in it self more execrable Sure we are that the Apostles expresse words concerning the resisters of Soveraignty are that they shall receive to themselves {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by which both ancient and moderne authours and among these as wel Papists as Protestants understood that judgment of God which is called in the strict sense damnation as it is said of unworthy receiving the blessed Sacrament to inferre an eating and drinking of a mans own damnation and otherwise it cannot be expressed without violence to the text wherein the subject is charged to obedience as it is the Ordinance of God Rom. 13. as he will answer in conscience to God where again Subjection for Conscience sake towards God is opposite to subjection for wraths sake and to the feare of vengeance by the sword of Magistracy faine would we now know of our zealots why did any of their Doctours wrest the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} to signify rather the judgement of man then of God if not to lessen the guiltinesse of the party that should resist wherein the diminishing of guiltinesse cannot but be a confession thereof in part for say we pray you if contrarily that which we have under a prohibition against resistance had been delivered upon a precept of resisting of power in case of defence of Religion whether then this word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} should not have rung in your eares an utter condemnation and that alone might not more clearly have concluded your cause then all other Scripture which could ever possibly be alleadged for the defence thereof The last point followeth The application of all your arguments from Scriptures concerning resistance by Armes against Usurpers Tyrants or Enemies to Religion is by you in this cause against a King in right and hereditary possession without contradiction legall against a Myrrour of clemency for deservings of the Kingdom gracious above his Predecessours for Religion established exemplary beyond comparison and vowing himself for the preservation thereof And now then deliberate with your selves whether your misparalleling of these examples with our King be not a most impious wresting of Holy Scripture and injurious detraction from his Majesty But here I seeme to heare some one of you interrupting me with a non confido yea whereas that his engagement is to the whole Kingdome of Protestants without exception even as he will be accounted a King and as he expects Gods blessing upon himself and his posterity and yet will ye stand upon a Non confido Will you make him a Devil After our thus ending the warrantin Scriptum est it is written we are to examine the two consequences thereof First If thou be the Sonne of God then cast thy selfe down for he hath given his Angels charge c. If thou be the Sonne of God Is this question of the devil devilish also Could he be ignorant what Christ was Yes why not Devil though he be an Angelical spirit yet is he a creature of finite apprehension and his knowledge but experimentall and that he had not the absolute knowledge thereof in this case as the most of the Fathers have thought our observation may satisfie in terming Christ onely {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Son of God which might agree to any regenerate child of God I have not this note