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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63517	The true Englishman, humbly proposing something to rid us of the plot in the state and of contentions in the church wherein is shown how our King may be the happy healer of nations / by a Philopolite ; and published by his neighbour, Philotheus.	Philopolite.	1680 (1680)	Wing T2697; ESTC R34079	69,739	140

this question to thy self How will this when this is done agree with me Shall I have no occasion to repent of it Yet a very little while and I am dead and gone and all things at an end What then do I care for more than this that my present action whatever it be may be the proper action of one that is reasonable whose end is the Common good who in all things is ruled and governed by the same Law of Right and Reason by which God himself is Section III. Come we next to the most holy Oracles which we call the Scriptures of the Old and New Testament they declare yet more fully the same things For God made that Supernatural Revelation of himself now written for us not because there was fault in the Natural or to lessen either our Obligation or our Regard thereto But to shew us he had been graciously erecting upon the Eternal Foundation Natural Truths and Duties for our greater knowledge and better practising of those things Which he therefore did because we had weakned and darkned our selves by Sin so that this further Grace became necessary to us In these Divine Oracles you will find that God 1 Made the World out of nothing and Adam the first Man 2 That God made Man in his own * Gen. 1.26.5.1 Image that he was † Eccl. 7.27 upright and set as Lord ‖ Gen. 1.26 over his works The former confirms that whereon God's Right to us is founded That our Self-possession is subordinate to his possession i. e. that we are more his than our own The latter expresseth the Being the Business and the Happiness of Man wherein Self-possession lieth or when it is that we are truly our own Man as to Moral liberty and safety which is then only when we 1 Use and enjoy our selves as made by God i. e. as his Created ones 2 When with our selves we enjoy God i. e. His own Image 3 When we are sincerely good in heart and life i. e. Vpright 4 When we keep just Empire over all things made which are inferiour to that in us which constitutes us Men i. e. in one sense To be Lords over his Works Man's Fall hath not varied the matter the same is now his Being his Business and Happiness as was before only this having sinned he must now do he must receive he must enjoy and expect all that I have said not only as a Created but also as a Redeemed Man i. e. in and through the Mediator Jesus Christ the Saviour God and Man or God manifest in the flesh He must be All and in All Coloss 3.11 in assistances unto us and in our acceptance with God Which yet is so far from lessening what I before said that this Mediator hath farther obliged Man thereto For appearing in our Nature he hath shewed these are perfective of it and by his own practice among us possible to it He also came not to destroy but to fulfil them which he admirably did in his Sermon on the Mount c. He gave many great and precious Promises to this very end 2 Pet. 1.4 That we might be made partakers of the Divine Nature He gave Precepts to sanctifie us and prayed that we might be one with God his Father He as the Catachist tells us lived a holy yet a Heb. 4.15 an afflicted life and b 1 Pet. 3.18 died for our sins upon the Cross c Matt. 28.6 Rom. 4.15 rose out of the Grave d Act. 1.9 Eph. ● 8 ascended into Heaven where he now sits to make e Heb. 7.25 Intercession And as he promised sent the Spirit the Eternal Spiration from Father and Son And what is all this for the f 2 Cor. 5.14 15. Rom. 8.32 Phil. 4.19 Tit. 3.7 Texts on the Margent when piously and diligently consulted will tell you It was not to change our work or happiness but to bring us to know Eternal Truth and practice Eternal Duty better compleating what was fore-told of him Isaiah 61.1 2 3. so as that it might well be said as it is John 8.36 If the Son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed Section IV. What is said in the next preceding Section equally concerns Societies of Men their Being their Business and Happiness as also God's right to them is the same which I would evidence if I could think it were doubted by any who grant it with respect to a single man One main design of our Saviour was to bring Societies and Kingdoms unto his Father He sends forth his Twelve St. Matt. 10. directs them unto houses and declares to Zacheus that having called him Salvation was come unto his house He Commissionates his Disciples St. Matt. 28. to go and teach all Nations baptizing them c. i.e. to mark them out for his and bring them to Covenant so to be One Reason as some have thought of Circumcision being to the Males only was because of them were the Heads of Tribes and Families to be and in the Apostles administration of Baptism where the Governour was baptized his House is baptized with him And St. Peter is express that the Gospel's design is to make a chosen Generation a royal Priesthood an holy Nation a peculiar People c. Chap. 2.9 of his first Epistle Many Duties are required which cannot be performed but in Society And so great a part of the Scripture is either Precept Prohibition Promise Threatning Form of Prayer or Praise or Example c. bearing relation to men in Society as puts it past doubt that no single man is more obliged to be the Lord's than they as also that God is most desirous they would be his These holy Oracles largely represent the sorts and frequently inculcate the practice of those Vertues and Duties our Humanity obligeth us to express to others Such as to obey Magistrates Parents Natural and Civil not to provoke their Children to have Natural affection to them to deal bona fide with them to make provision for them to be kindly affectionate one to another to be pitiful and courteous and merciful to render a reason when out Faith or Practice is questioned c. to propose fairly unto mutual consideration matters of greatest advantage to each other that it may appear we treat each other like Men and propose for Common good Thus the Apostles as common Doctors of the World proposed to all things perspicuous and manifest of themselves that every one might by bare reading learn them and see their obligation to observe them in their conduciveness to Common benefit I will mention as instance two Precepts given by St. Paul the one to the Thessalonians in his first Epistle to them chap. 4. ver 11. And that ye study or contend to be quiet and to do your own business The other is that to the Corinthians in his first Epistle to them chap. 16. ver 14. Let all your things be done in Charity Which