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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29197	A fair warning for England to take heed of the Presbyterian government of Scotland as being of all others the most injurious to the civil magistrates, most oppressive to the subject, most pernicious to both : as also the sinfulnesse and wickednesse of the covenant to introduce that government upon the Church of England / by Dr. John Brumhall [sic], Lord Arch-Bishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland.; Fair warning to take heed of the Scotish discipline	Bramhall, John, 1594-1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4220; ESTC R4624	33,023	44

their Subjects They allow them some sort of judgement over Ecclesiastical persons in their civill capacities for it is little according to their rules which ever is not Ecclesiasticall or may not be reduced to Ecclesiasticall But over Ecclesiastick persons as they are Ecclesiasticks or in Ecclesiasticall matters they ascribe unto them no judgment in the world They say it cannot stand with the Word of God that no Christian Prince ever claimed nor can claime to himself such a power If the Magistrate will be contented to wave his Power in Ecclesiasticall matters and over Ecclesiasticall persons as they are such and give them leave to do what they list and say what they list in their Pulpits in their Consistories in their Synods and permit them to rule the whole Commonwealth in order to the advancement of the Kingdome of Christ. If he will be contented to become a subordinate Minister to their Assemblies to see their decrees executed then it may be they will become his good Masters and permit him to injoy a part of his civill power When Sovereigns are made but accessaries and inferiours do become principals when stronger obligations are devised than those of a Subject to his Sovereign it is time for the Magistrate to look to himself these are prognosticks of insuing storms the avant curriers of seditious tumults When Supremacy lights into strange and obscure hands it can hardly contain it self within any bounds Before our Disciplinarians be well warmed in their Ecclesiasticall Supremacy they are beginning or rather they have already made a good progresse in the invasion of the temporall Supremacy also CHAP. VII That the Disciplinarians cheat the Magistrate of his Civill Power in order to Religion THat is their sixt incroachment upon the Magistrate and the verticall point of Jesuitism Consider first how many civil causes they have drawn directly into their Consistories and made them of Ecclesiasticall cognisance as fraud in bargaining false weights and measures oppressing one another c. and in the case of Ministers bribery pe●jury theft fighting usury c. Secondly Consider that all offences whatsoever are made cognoscible in their Consistories in case of scandall yea even such as are punishable by the civill Sword with death If the civill Sword foolishly spare the life of the offender yet may not the Kirk be negligent in their office which is to excommunicate the wicked Thirdly They ascribe unto their Ministers a liberty and power to direct the Magistrate even in the Managerie of civill Affairs To governe the Commonwealth and to establish civill Laws is proper to the Magistrate To interpret the Word of God and from thence to shew the Magistrate his duty how he ought to governe the Commonwealth and how he ought to use the Sword is comprehended in the office of the Minister for the holy Scripture is profitable to shew what is the best governement of the Commonwealth And again all the duties of the second Table as well as the first between King and Subject Parents and Children Husbands and Wives Masters and servants c. are in difficult cases a subject of cognisance and judgement to the Assemblies of the Kirk Thus they are risen up from a judgment of direction to a judgement of Jurisdiction And if any perso●s Magistrates or others dare act contrary to this judgement of the Assembly as the Parliament and Committee of Estates did in Scotland in the late expedition they make it to be an unlawfu●l ingagement a sinfu●l War contrary to the Testimonies of Gods servants and decree the parties so offending to be suspended from the communion and from their offices in the Kirk I confesse Ministers do well to exhort Christians to be care●ull honest industrious in their speciall callings but for them to meddle pragmatically with the mysteries of particular Trad●s and much more with the mysteries of State which never came within the compasse of their shallow capacities is a most audacious insolence and an insufferable presumption They may as well teach the Pilot how to steer his course in a tempest or the Physician how to cure the distempers of his patient But their high●st cheat is that Jesuiticall invention in ordi● ad spiritualia they assume a power in worldly affairs indirectly and in order to the advancement of the Kingdome of Christ. The Ecclesiasticall Ministry is conversant spiritually about civill things Again must not duties to God whereof the securing of Religion is a main one have the Supreame and first place duties to the King a subordinate and second place The case was this The Parliament levied forces to ●ree their Kings out of prison A meet civill duty But the Commissioners of the Assembly declare against it unlesse the King will first give assurance under hand and seal by solemne oath that he will establish the Covenant the Presbyterian Discipline c. in all his Dominions and never indeavour any change thereof least otherwise his liberty might bring their bygone proceedings about the League and Covenant into question there is their power in ordine ad spiritualia The Parliament will restore to the King his negative voice A meer civill thing The Commissioners of the Church oppose it because of the gre●t dangers that may thereby come to Religion The Parliament name Officers and Commanders for the Army A meer civil thing The Church will not allow them because they want such qualifications as Gods word requires that is to say in plain terms because they were not their confidents Was there ever Church challenged such an omnipotence as this Nothing in this world is so civil or political wherein they do not interest themselves in order to the advancement of the kingdom of Christ. Upon this ground their Synod enacted that no Scotish merchants should from thenceforth traffique in any of the dominions of the King of Spain until his Majesty had procured from that King some relaxation of the rigour of the Inquisition upon pain of excommunication As likewise that the Munday market at Ed●nburgh should be abolished It seems they thought it ministered some occasion to the breach of the Sabba●h The Merchants petitioned the King to maintain the liberty of their trade He grants their request but could not protect them for the Church prosecuted the poor merchants with their censuers untill they promised to give over the Spanish trade so soon as they had perfected their accounts and payed their Creditors in those parts But the Shoemakers who were most interested in the Munday markets with their tumults and threatenings comp●lled the Ministers to retract whereupon it became a jest in the City that the Souters could obtain more at the Ministers hands than the King So they may meddle with the Spanish trade or Munday markets or any thing in order to Religion Upon this ground they assume to themselves a power to ratifie Acts of Parliament So the assembly at Edenburgh enacted That the Acts made in the