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duty_n	according_a	law_n	nature_n	1,115	5	5.3946	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45421	Of resisting the lavvfull magistrate under colour of religion and appendant to it, of the word keima, rendred damnation, Rom. 13, reprinted : also, [brace] of zelots among the Jewes, of taking up the crosse, a vindication of Christs reprehending St. Peter, from the exceptions of Mr. Marshall.	Hammond, Henry, 1605-1660.; Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1644 (1644)	Wing H557A; ESTC R40544	68,836	64

finall destruction of the Jewes by Titus 'T is affirm'd of this {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} that it was {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. e. among you in your Land in the midst of you as that phrase frequently signifies in the new Test. by which is marked out some remarkable thing which was fallen out among the Jewes as that time when Peter wrote to which time that the raving of the Zealots endured is apparent by mention of them Act. 21. 20. Act. 22. 3. and that by their stirres these Christian Jewes of the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} or the dispersion to whom he writes had beene first scattered abroad may be conjectured by Act. 8. 1. This may suffice for a conjecture which whether it stand or fall will not be much concernant to the businesse which occasioned this {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} To conclude this historicall uneven discourse I shall onely annex these few animadversions by way of corollary 1. That this law or power or custome or liberty of Zealots was never of force but among the Jewes 2. That the originall and ground of it among them is to be fetcht from hence that among that people God immediately presided and reserved many things to be manag'd and ruled by his peculiar and extraordinary incitation and impulsion not by any rule of standing publicke law that so that Common-wealth might be truly capable of that title which Josephus bestowed on it none of the kinds of humane Governments but {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the government of God 3. That it followes not from hence that all things which were by the Jewes themselves done under pretence of this right and passed unpunished were therefore well done but onely those which were undertaken by men truly incited by God such as Phineez and Elias for that priviledge is not therefore stil'd zeli privati of private zeale because private men by their owne incitation {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as that is opposed to Gods did what they did but because they did it without legall processe or publike judicature And though I should be so scepticall as not to dare peremptorily to affirme that nothing was well done or justifiable in that kinde but what they did who were truly and immediately incited to it by God yet should I not be so cowardly as to doubt but that all those Jewes were so bound to observe those examples of Phineez and Ellas that if they were not immediately incited by God yet they should not dare to exceed the limits of those patterns commended by God either in respect of the manner of doing or matter of the action In one of which you shall finde all the examples mentioned in the New Testament except that of Christ to have miscarried And therefore I hope no man will be so unjust to the charitable designe of this Paper so treacherous to his Readers so unkinde to his owne Soule as to borrow from these premises new hints of arguments to susteine a desperate cause by his pretence of zeale for that would be to extract Rosacre out of Treacle poyson from that which was designed for antidote And he must withall resolve that if the practice of Christ first mentioned be his president he must also prescribe to Christs power or if any of the other New Testament examples he must be content to fall under their condemnation for not one of them that I ever yet heard of was excused by any 4. That this Sect of Zealots when they thus got together into a body was by the Jewes themselves among whom the priviledge of Zealots was yet in force taken for the most unlawfull yea pernicious and fatall most eminently destructive to that Common-wealth as appeares by Josephus and Bertram and that those things which they did under pretence of law and colour of zeale were violations of law and meere sacriledge 5. That all use of this liberty all imitation of that Jewish priviledge of Zealots in the Old Testament is cleerly interdicted all Christians First because the written word is the onely Oracle wherein God constantly reveales himselfe to Christians now under the new Testament neither are any other incitations to be expected from God but what in the Gospell or New Test. the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the administration of the Spirit as preaching the Gospell is call'd doth yeild or afford us what is more then this yea though it come to us from the Pulpit savours of enthusiasmes and seducing spirits Secondly because Christ hath both by his doctrine and example commended to his Disciples all manner of meeknesse and Saint Peter the meeke and quiet spirit as most precious in Gods sight under the Gospell and this a grace most directly contrary to that Spirit of Zealots yea and hath forbidden all private revenge of injuries done not onely to our selves but God referring all to the Magistrate whom Saint Paul calls {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Rom. 13. 4. the minister of God to execute wrath or an executioner for wrath and therefore himselfe medled not with the woman taken in Adultery Thirdly because he interdicted James and John the use of this power adding a reprehension and words emphaticall to this purpose he turned and rebuked them saying you know not what spirit you are of intimating the Christian spirit to be very distant from that of the Zealots among the Jewes I shall adde no more but my prayer that as many as have zeale may have it according to knowledge and that knowledge according to the directions of the Gospell Of taking up the Crosse MAny places of the New Testament there are that require this duty of a Christian of which I thinke I may truly say that 't is a duty never so much as in kinde required before by God in the Old Testament nor by the lawes of nature or Canons of any other Religion and so a peculiar Christian duty the chiefe places are these Matth. 16. 24. If any man will come after me let him deny himselfe and takeup his Crosse c. and in the same words in the parallel places Mark 8. 34. and Luk. 9. 23. So againe to him who desired to be put in a course by Christ to inherit eternall life Mark 10. 21. in the close Come take up the Crosse and follow me In all these places 't is a duty of plaine command yet somewhat farther Mat. 10. 38. He that taketh not his Crosse and followeth not after me is not worthy of me and in Luk. 14. 27. the words are most punctuall and of unlimited extent from whence 't will be hard for any man to obtaine any dispensation or excuse {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} whosoever doth not beare his Crosse and come after me cannot be my Disciple No man will be exempted from the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and no Christian it seemes can be