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The fanatick in his colours, or, The rise, heighth, and fall of faction and rebellion, from 1648 unto 1661 with an appendix concerning allegiance, government and order / by T.F.
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the King c. I wonder the Papists before this time did not purge the 13th to the Romans as being more Lutheran then Catholick and others besides them may blush and be ashamed to wrest as they do that Scripture 1. Quere Though it be over all persons must this obedience be in all things Answer Kings sometimes bid what God forbids in that case our Apostle enjoyns to obey God rather all consent to this Acts 5. 29. Princes must be obeyed but inter limites disciplinae within the bounds of Religion if their command Tert. cross Gods Peters rule must over-rule Deo magis quam hominibus it must be in things agreeable to the mind and will of God 2. Qu. May there be resistance and may the Subject disobey in such a case Answ Though he cannot obey actually he must passively the Kings wil must be done aut à nobis aut de nobis either of us or on us either we must be patients or agents patients when he is tyrannous and wicked and agents when he is good and godly The Apostle saith not Be subject to Christian and holy Governours but indefinitly to Potentates not to the good and curteous but to the froward 1 Pet. 2. 18. Si bonus nutritor est tuus si malus tentator tuus est if a good King he is thy nurse receive thy nourishment with obedience if evil he is thy tempter receive thy triall with patience But this I intend to speak fully of in the sixth Chapter 3. Qu. Whether the Princes power extends to all causes as well as over all persons Answ It is part of the Kings stile In all causes in spirituall as well as temporall in both he must be obeyed so he countermand not God none will doubt this if he consider the doings of Josiah his Authority in Ecclesiasticall causes The state of this question is very significantly laid down in that speech of Constantine to his Bishops Vos intra Ecclesiam Episcopi ego extra Eusel de vita Const 4. Ecclesiam you are Bishops within the Church and I a Bishop without the Church they in the proper and internall offices of the Word Sacraments and Ecclesiastical Censures and he for outward authority and presidence theirs limited to the soul consisting in Preaching the Word his to the body in bearing the Sword Second Duty A second Duty is Reverence and this is threefold Mentis Oris Corporis Subjects must have an high esteem In thought of their Kings and hold them solo Deo Minores none above them but God Elutherius wrote to Lucius a Britain King vos estis Dei Vicarius you are Gods Vicegerent in your Kingdome against whom we are not to harbour an ill thought but have a Eccles 10. 20. Reverent esteem of them befitting their Regality Highnesse and Majesty and as the Lords Anointed Reverence in tongue Thou shalt In tongue not revile the Ruler of thy people for Subjects to rail against their Soveraign is unchristian yet used by Romanists and Separatists what Base Reproachfull Speeches have been given out against our late gratious Soveraign I tremble to think of a King that in the whole world had no Peer and yet how vilified and disgraced by black mouths and had they not wiped all shame from their faces and banisht Religion from their hearts they durst never have laid such an heap of disgraces on Gods Anointed Reverence of Body this is usual Of body in Scripture it ought to bow to a mean Magistrate but fall down to Regal Majesty Ahimaaz did to David David to Saul the Kings son to his father 2 Sam. 14. They have three special Ensigns of Honour A Crown of gold for their sublimity for which they must be Reverenced a Scepter of Righteousnesse for government for which they must be obeyed a Sword for vengeance for which Rom. 13. 4. they must be feared Honour them we ought as the * Rom. 13. 4 Ministers and * 2 Sam. 14. 17. Num. 27. 17. Ps 47. 9. Angels of God the Shepherds and Shields of his people under whose shadowing boughs Ezek. 31. 3. 6. we may sit and repose our selves A third Duty is maintenance by Third Duty way of Tribute this our Saviour did when the Ruler was a Heathen and knew not God Give to Caesar the things that are Caesars he Matth. 2. 21. His Precept saith not Date but Reddite because Tribute is a due Debt unto Caesar and if to a Painym Emperor much more to a Christian King he saith not reddite quae petit sed quae sunt illius which Principals are Honour obedience Tribute He paid Caesar Tribute and to His Practice that end willed Peter to go to the Sea and to cast in an angle and take the first fish that cometh up and in his mouth he should find a piece of twenty pence that take V. 27. and give unto them for me and thee it is observed that though our Saviour wrought many Miracles yet never any about honour or money but that of Tribute rather then that should go discharged he will work a miracle By Tribute I mean all Sesses Custom Subsidy or whatsoever else due to Kings either to sustain their States or support the publick charges of the Kingdome being his stipend or pay for he is the Minster of Rom. 13. 6. God serving for the same purpose saith the Apostle A fourth duty that Subjects ow Fourth Duty is Prayer Saint Paul willeth and enjoyns to pray for them and that 1 Tim. 2. 1. when like Manasseh they poured out blood like water the Jews are commanded to pray for Nebuchadnezzar Jer. 29. 7. and the peace of Babylon Nebucadnezzar deserved not the name of a man but of a beast yet as a King he is called the servant Dan. 4. of the highest God in his peace they have peace Tertullian shews the love and affection In Apologet. Christians bore to their Magistrates Oramus Imperatoribus ut det Deus illis vitam prolixam imperium tutum aulam securam exercitus fortes orbem pacatum Senatum fidelem c. we pray for the Emperors that God would give them a long life a safe Government a sure dwelling valiant Souldiers a peaceable world a faithfull counsel c. and yet the Christians then were as sheep appointed for the slaughter their Rivers died with blood as August saith alii De Civit Dei 22. c. 6. ferro perempti alii flammis exusti alii flagris verberati alii vectibus perforati alii cruciati patibulo alii vivi decoriati alii vinculis mancipati alii linguis privati and so goes on some slain with the sword some burnt with fire some scourged with whips some stabb'd with forks some fastned to the gibbets some drown'd in the Sea some their skins pulled off their tongues cut out some stoned to death killed with cold starved with hunger and the like yet then
Arguments of disobedience when the Apostle tells you you must needs obey not Rom. 13. 5. Observe the words Must needs obey onely for wrath but for conscience sake you must needs obey because all powers are of God because it is a sin to disobey because temporal and eternal judgement accompanieth this sin necessary ex necessitate finis praecepti for thereby we do that which is acceptable to God enjoyning obedience and that which is profitable to our selves enjoying Government That 1 Tim. 2. 2. we lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty And this must be for conscience For conscience sake sake saith the Apostle tuta conscientia praestari possunt quae propter conscientiam praestanda sunt a man may do that with a safe conscience which he must do for conscience and therefore they are far from good men seem what they will that pretend conscience for their disobedience to the Civil Magistrate the freedome you talk of if any must be spiritual liberi Iohn 8. 36. quia liberati because made free by Christ a discharge from the whole bondage of the Law sin and Sathan and not a liberty to do what every man list and live under no obedience Gods people notwithstanding their liberty must perform duty to whom duty belongs 3. Ob. The Kings of Judah were figures of Christ and figures are now ceas'd and abolish'd Answ It s true in part they were shadows and figures yet more then figures for the Levitical Priesthood took an end but the Political Government hath no end for the office of Kings is established 1 Pet. 2. 13. Honour the King and God hath promised to his A blessing to the Church in the New Testament Isa 49. 23. Church in Gospel-times That Kings shall be their nursing fathers Queens their nursing mothers Isa 49. 23. S. Paul counsels to pray for Kings and all that are in authority 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. Why should any study Arguments against those from whom so much good hath proceeded they maintain the Church and the Church maintains them they hold up the Crown of Religion and Religion strengthens their Crowns I might alledge the happy Government of many well disposed Kings The piety of Antonius pius Antonius Pius is very commendable for his gratious Decree that none should accuse a Christian because he was a Christian Constantius the father Constantius of Constantine made more reckoning of those that professed Christianity then all his treasures Jovianus after Julian refused to be Jovianus Emperor unlesse he might govern Christians Great Constantine had Constantine that name not so much for his greatnesse in authority as godlinesse I will not insist on the happy Theodosius and many others too many to be named and glorious Reigns of David Solomon before his prevarication Hezekiah Josiah those that make them onely shadows have not the least shadow of Reason or any substance of Honesty 4. Ob. With God there is no respect of persons Jam. 2. 1. Rom. 2. 11. and this is often repeated Eph. 6. 9. Col. 3. 25. 1 Pet. 1. 17. and many other places Answ By person is not meant the substance but the quality viz. whatsoever is about or without a man as birth education honour wealth and the like God respects Acts 10. 34. not any because they are high or low rich or poor but in every Nation whosoever he be he that feareth him and worketh righteousnesse is accepted with him and in this sense no respecter of persons in giving favour and forgiving faults he regards not the rich more then the poore the Jew more then the Gentile a man of peace more then a man of war nor Peter a Jew born more then Cornelius an Alien I confesse all are fellows in respect Jam. 2. 1. Part. Answ of grace and the common faith but all are not fellows in respect of authority place but this answers it self Have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ in respect of persons in a word it is a common saying Nec regna socium ferre nec tedae sciunt Love and Lordship can abide no fellowship That common-Weal where many will rule except sub ordinately is like Plinies Amphisbena a Serpent which had an head at each end of her body and while both strive which should be the Master head the body is miserably torn When one comforted a poor widow which had lately lost her husband for that he was an unthrift and unkind replied although he were but a bad husband he was an husband and such an one is better then none for the commodities of Government are so great that a very bad husband to the Common wealth is better then none the Anabaptists in their confusion and disorders contrary to their own Doctrine thought it Sleidan Com. best to choose a head a King and so they did and a worthy one a renowned Tailor John Berold CHAP. V. The Duty of Subjects and how it consists in Obedience Reverence Maintenance Prayer for them SAint Peter names one which 1 Pet. 2. 17. includes others Fear God Honour the King the fear of God is a fit Introduction to the Kings Honour they are homines Deo secundi next to God the fearers of God Tert. Honour the King most we must Honour him for God himself honoureth him in stiling him by his name God and the King have interchangeably borrowed names God is a King in heaven the King a God on earth he must therefore be honoured Saint Paul names but one too and that is subjection including Rom. 13. 1. the whole duty of Subjects 1. Obedience and that general none exempted for that universal note every soul omnis anima Rom. 13. 1. confutes the seditious Papist and tumultuous Anabaptist The Papist would exempt Clergy Bilson against the Jes p. 118. Epist. l. 2. Epist 100 men from obedience to secular powers a Doctrine not heard of till 1000 years after Christ Gregory the Great one of the most learned Popes saith That power over all men is given to my Lord Mauritius the Emperor and lest any should imagine Priests exempted he saith in the same place and to the same person Sacerdotes meos luce manui commisi Howsoever the Popish Clergy hold themselves free from obedience to the Civil Magistrate yet Christ aliter jussit aliter gessit and the best interpreter Bern in Rom. 13. of Gods Law our Saviour shews both by precept and practice It lies on all persons That Clergy men ow subjection and Loyalty to the Secular John 19. 11. power Our Saviour who was a Priest and Prophet submitted himself to the Roman Magistrate confessing the Presidents power from heaven The Apostle Paul did tread in his Masters steps appealed unto Caesar and appeared Act. 25. before Caesar as his lawfull Governor and Saint Peter exhorts all 1 Pet. 2. 13. men to submit to Gods Ordinance Whether to