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A08552	The Christian conflict a treatise, shewing the difficulties and duties of this conflict, with the armour, and speciall graces to be exercised by Christian souldiers. Particularly applied to magistrates, ministers, husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants. The case of vsury and depopulation, and the errours of antinomists occasionally also discussed. Preached in the lecture of Kettering in the county of Northampton, and with some enlargement published by Ioseph Bentham, rector of the Church of Broughton in the same county.	Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.	1635 (1635)	STC 1887; ESTC S113626	266,437	390

the loyall lawes of nature For this end and purpose 1. As parents should conscionably and continually be carefull to procure honour and esteeme in their children towards them By often and earnest sound and sincere prayer to God for them and for that vertue By due and discreete safe and seasonable correction And by grave and sober carriage and behaviour 2. So that you may procure purchase and preserve this righteous religious and remarkable grace in your selves 1. Ply the throne of grace for and labour incessantly to plant and preserve to compasse and cherish that difficult but divine grace true humility 2. And accurately acquaint your selves with and acquire with all assiduity the knowledge of Gods ordinance and of that authority which parents have from God whose command and charge it is that you should honour your parents First I know that all superiours are meant and called by the name father 1. Both to incitate and intice all inferiours to obedience by a name so sweete and favoury so amiable and authenticall nature having taught to obey fathers 2. As also to give superiours an inkling to behave themselves like fathers and not like raging bedlams Secondly I know that superiours or parents duties are included in that commandement although not expressed as in the fourth precept 1. For superiours are or ought to be observers and keepers of both tables and therfore their duties are implied in each 2. And the enjoyning of duties to inferiours inforceth a charge upon them the law being two edged by the nature of relation they therefore are commanded to honour inferiours although not with reverence yet with good usage Thirdly yet the duties of inferiours of children are rather named and expressed then of superiours and parents 1. Not onely because inferiours and underlings are more skillfull and mindfull of their parents duties then their owne this being a common sin to be skillfull in other mens duties and not our owne 2. Not onely because greater inconveniences may accrew and discommodities grow by neglect of inferiours duties as by their unrulinesse stubbornenesse and rebellion then by the tartnesse and tyranny of superiours 3. But also because inferiours are more hardly and with more difficulty brought either to the knowledge or practise of their offices then superiours 4. Or to teach them precisely to practise and performe their duties diligently to their betters although they should frustrate their expectation and faile in theirs to them 5. As also to manifest and make knowne that all sins committed against fellowes or inferiours equals or underlings are not so noysome and notorious not so great and grievous but farre lesse then against superiours the defacing of whom is a defacing of the image of God the overthrowing and overturning the order and ornament the state and stability of the world Secondly In yeelding obedience unto your parents thus did Isaack Gen. 22. 7 8. thus did Ioseph Gen. 37. 13. thus did the daughters of Revel Exod. 2. 16. thus all wise and vertuous children doe Pro. 13. 1. and thus all of you are bound to doe Pro. 6. 20. 21. 23. ●2 Ephes 6. 1. First Take heed therefore unto your selves That you doe not refuse or despise their instructions That you doe not denie them service and observance Matth. 21. 27. That you rest not in saying without doing Matth. 21. 30. That you doe not obey them unwillingly retchlessely and deceitfully That you do not undertake or enterprize any thing in matters of weight as in marriage without their consent councell advice authority leave and liking Iudg. 14. 2. That you doe not refuse resist or withstand their chastisements and corrections Deut. 21. 18. For in dealing thus undutifully and disobediently 1. To your parents prejudice you should promulgate and proclaime That their example was evill and behaviour bad in the sight of you their children That their lacke of instruction Eccles 30. 2. their lack of correction Eccles 30. from v. 1. to 14. Pro. 29 15 17. and lacke of care and conscience towards you was greate and grievous That their license and over much liberty given and granted to you Eccles 30. 7 9 10 11. their sloth ease and idlenesse and your nice dainty and tender education 1 Sam. 2. 23. 1 King 1. 5 6. hath beene insufferable and intollerable 2. And to your owne disgrace and disadvantage you manifest and make knowne That you too much accommodate your selves to the counsell and company of vile and wicked men And that you shamefully and sinfully wittingly and wilfully erroniously and irreligiously are ignorant of mistaking and mis-understanding the Word of God especially such Scriptures as these Gen. 2. 24. which is meant in regard of cohabitation Luk. 14. 26. which is onely a comparative speech shewing that wee must love them lesse c. 2. And be perswaded in things lawfull to obey your parents 1. Commandements although they may seeme unpleasing and unprofitable you owing your selves much more your service unto them you being in regard of your bodies the goods of your parents Ex. 21. 7. Iob 1. 12 18. And although your parents preferre you above servans yet while you are under age you are in condition as servants and put as directly if not more under your parents as servants are Gal. 4. 1 2. 2. Counsels be content to eate drink weare lodge and bee imployed in any trade of life your parents will for if parents are to order their children concerning their vowes and marriages much more their callings But they are to order their children in marriage Ex. 34. 16. Deut. 7. 3. 1 Cor. 7. 38. so that 1. Parents may in some case command and charge their children to take in marriage parties thus or thus qualified Gē 28. 1 2 2. Yea frustrate and make voide contracts secretly made by children without or against their consent leave or good liking Exod. 22. 17. Numb 30. 6. Deut. 22. 28. 3. And marriages made without or against the same although they are civill are not divine being repugnant to and against Gods commandement Children are to have their choice to their content yet not without parents direction in being their owne carvers for in so doing 1. They oft commit adultery in not being able to waite and expect a good election for lust 2. And they are guilty of rebellion in a high degree 3. And corrections yeelding obedience to the same without rebellion or resistance not standing at the staves end with them Heb. 12. 9. The parties corrected were to lie downe in token of their patience submitting to their deserved chastisements Deut. 25. 2. Children obey therfore your parents 1. Whether they be naturall and you their sons for thus did Saul 1 Sam. 9. 3 4 5. thus did David 1 Sam. 17. 15 20 22 34. and thus did the sons of Rechab Ier. 35. 6. or daughters for thus did Rebekah Gen. 24. 15. and the daughters of Revel Gen. 2. 16 2. Whether they be parents by marriage and you their sonnes For

obedience of the Law For even the regenerate or justified are debters not to the flesh to live after the flesh but to the Spirit to mortifie the deeds of the flesh Rom. 8. 12. Cha●ierus saith It is ●●nifest by the things fore-going Tom. 3. lib. 1 cap. 6. Th. 4. that an exceeding great inj●●y i● d 〈…〉 u● wh●● w●e are said to denie that wee are b 〈…〉 to the Law before God Wherefore if Bellarmine doth know those which say that the saithfull are subject to u● law before GOD and that Th. 5. the Decalogue of Moses doth n 〈…〉 belong to us hee sha●● have us not adversaries but follo 〈…〉 i● disputing boldly against such Againe The fulfilling of the Law can by 〈…〉 meanes bee accounted by the part but by the whole For the whole life not some one moment thereof is bound and it is bound to all not to one Hence the saying of Iames Hee is Ibid. l. 11. cap. 11. Th. 16. guilty of all which offendeth in one Neither can it otherwise bee understood because hee is not guilty of murther who doth onely steale but of theft onely Yet hee is guiltie of the breach of that whole Law part whereof is Th●● shalt not steale and another part whereof Tho● shalt not kill Now whereas the adverse Antinomist will I suppose reply all this is not Scripture I do confesse that these words in so many letters and syllables are not in the Scripture Yet I dare avow that this doctrine of the Lawes binding the regenerate to obedience being the doctrine not onely of our Church but of all other Christian Churches some few contentious Sectaries excepted who deserve not the name of a Church and of all sound solid and substantiall Divines is the expresse doctrine of sacred Scripture And that it is so I will now manifest and make perspicuous by pregnant places in the New Testament Mat. 5. 18 19 21 c. Christ 〈…〉 not to destroy the Law c. Yea he confirmes the continuance of it in every iot● or tittle till the heavens be no more and presseth punctually to a precise particular observation of it Rom. 3. 31. Do we then make void the Law through faith God forbid yea in establish the Law Faith therefore doth not evacuate but establish the Decalogue Rom. 7 7. By the Law we come to the knowledge of our sinnes Rom. 7. 22. 25. S. Paul delighted in the Law of God with his mind he served the law of God 1 Cor. 9. 21. Being not without law to God but under the law to Christ. Eph 6. 1 2. Children obey your parents Honour thy father c. 1 Tim. 1. 5. The end of the commandement is charity out of a pure heart and of a good conscience and of ●aith unfained Iam. 2. 8. If you fulfill the royall law of liberty c. S. Iam●s shewes what Law namely the Decalogue Do not comm●● adultery c. Vers 11. 1 Ioh. 2. 4. He that saith I know him and keepeth not his commandements is a lyar 1 Iohn 3. 4. Sinne is the transgression of the Law Hence I conclude 1. That if ever the Law bound the regenerate to obedience which I suppose they will acknowledge it still doth Mat. 5. 18. Rom. 3. 31. 2. That since Christ Iesus the best expounder of Scripture doth so copiously confirme and corroborate the Morall Law in his Sermon on the Mount doth peremptorily pronounce that the breach thereof doth defile a man Mar. 7. 20 21 c. and so often inculcate that the keeping of the commandements is a sure and infallible signe of our love to him Ioh. 14. 15. 21. 23. 24. and of his love to us Ioh. 15. 10. 3. Since faith doth not supplant but strengthen the law 4. Since the holy men of God doe often urge and presse to do the duties commanded in the Law in their Epistles which they would not have done had not regenerate Christiane bee● bound to the obedience of the same 5. Since the Apostle S. Paul acknowledged that he served the Law of God with his mind and that he was under the Law to Christ 6. Since the Law of God hath not relinquished its regality and regiment being stiled by the Holy Ghost the royall Law 7. Since by the Law we come to the knowledge of sinne yea and all sinne is the transgression of the Law 8. Since the carelesse contemners and transgressours of Gods Law have no communion with God not s●ving knowledge of him 9. Since the end of the commandement i● charity c. therefore the Law is no enemy to purity of heart ●●ith unfained or Christian liberty this being the royall Law of liberty I may warrantably conclude against the absurd and erroneous ambiguous Antinomists That the Law of God doth binde the conscience of the regenerate Christian to obedience Furthermore because I suppose these cavillers will carpe against all these allegations as insufficient and weake because in none of them we are said to be bound by the Law to obedience I will therefore shew them these expresse words in sacred Scripture if that will satisfie and salve their seduced soules 1 Corinth 7. 15. A brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases namely to performe matrimoniall duties to unbelieveing yoke-fellowes which will depart from and forsake them Vers 27. Art then bound to a wife Seeke not to be loosed Vers 39. The wife is bound by the Law as long as her husband liveth Hence I inferre That since the Law of God doth binde the believing husband and wife to performe all manner of matrimoniall duties to their unbelieving yoke-fellowes which are pleased to dwell with them and that since the husband and wife being regenerate are bound by the Law each to other so long as they live together therefore that part of the Law which doth comprise and comprehend the duties of husbands and wives each to other namely the fift and seventh commandements doth bind the conscience of the regenerate to obedience therefore either all the Morall Law doth bind or els that this branch of the second Table is more authenticall and of more absolute authority not only than all the second Table besides but also than the first Table yet our Saviour saith the second is but like unto the first stiling it the first and great commandement Mat. 22. 38. Oh that I could perswade them to take notice how they confront contradict contend against the concordant confessions of the reformed Churches the sound solid and substantiall truths taught and defended by the ancient and moderne Worthies and the infallible and unde●iable truth of Gods Word Oh that men would cordially consider that such vile and vicious positions make men unfit not onely for Christian but also for common commerce and company with mankind For how can Kings and Princes be se●●red from rebellion of such subjects How can masters and fathers be assured of reverence and obedience from such children and servants

duties as namely A souldier-like courage in standing stoutly against every brunt choosing rather to stand and die then stirre and yeeld A watchfull vigilance by which heedfull souldiers stand to receive their enemies whensoever they assault Perseverance standing still with armour firmely fastened expecting fresh assaults and more conflicts And a constant abiding in ones proper place and a setled standing in ones ranke not going or gadding into each others place not starting aside or straggling abroad art experience and w●rlike discipline teaching that it is a shelter and safeguard to have the rankes well kept expert Captaines therefore and experienced souldiers are confidently carefull that neither themselves nor other step aside but that every souldier keepe his ranke and sile as they are ranged Stand we therefore stedfast remaine without removing rest without retiring in the true Church whereof we are members wherein the Lords banner is blessedly and bountifully peaceably and plentifully displayed confidently and couragiously continuing constant in retaining our pious profession not starting or straggling from the same for gaine or griefe for feare or favour for profit or perill by schismaticall or hereticall separations by timerous and temerarious temporizing by apostaticall revolts and backslidings straggling souldiers loosing the succour and safeguard of their captaines and the aidefull assistance of their fellow souldiers Stand we also stable and studiously observe resolutely rest upon and religiously obey we Christ Iesus our Commander in those stations and standing places performing in them such particular duties which are prescribed to our severall and speciall functions by our gracious Generall and supreme Soveraigne of whom we may say more truely then was said of Cyrus whose diligence Car. Chron. lib. 2. was such that he did not like a negligent family governour to give commandements in generall saying let some fetch water let some cut wood but that he give commandements to particular persons by name and remembred their names Thus Christ our Captaine in his holy and heavenly Word hath assigned and appointed select and speciall duties to all and every one of his servants and souldiers severally in his proper and particular place and station in which we must assiduously abide 1 Cor. 7. 20. carefully and conscionably dutifully and diligently serving the Ser. 89. de Barbar non tim Lord in the severall functions of our particular callings Christs precepts and Christians defence saith Saint Ambrose 1. For we must every one be accountable to our Lord for such duties which belong and appertaine to our particular places 2. In these the gifts and graces bestowed upon us are best exercised and manifestly revealed 3. For thus doing we deck adorne and beautifie the Church and body of Christ we stablish and strengthen the same 4. And we have the Lords peculiar promise of protection in our distinct and proper places Psal 91. 11. SECT 2. Parents in their places 1. PArents obey we the charge and command of Christ our Chiefetaine and Captaine in our particular callings Of these duties see before page SECT 3. Children in their reverencing and obeying gratifie their Parents how and why 2. CHildren doe you carefully and Christianly carry your selves in this your calling wherein Christ hath ranged and ranked you First In reverencing your parents thus did Ioseph bowing himselfe to his sicke and aged father Gen. 48. 12. Thus did reachlesse and rebellious Absolom 2 Sam. 14. 33. as well as wise and vertuous Salomon 1 King 2 19. This being of absolute necessity enjoyned by the Lord himselfe Levit. 19 3. and generally practised by the best and most Mal. 1. 6. Heb. 12. 9. A sonne honoureth his father c. We give them reverence First put away therefore farre from you O you children all manner of irreverent and irreligious thoughts speeches and gestures towards your parents and be not you 1. Mockers and deriders of them for in so doing you are certainely accursed Pro. 30. 17. Gen. 9. 21. 27. 2. The eye that mocketh his father c. 2. Be not despisers and contemners of them this being a capitall crimson and crying abomination Ezek. 22. 7. In thee they c. Deut. 27. 16. Cursed c. 3. Bee not you cursers of your parents for they who are such are children of death Exod. 21. 17. Levit. 20. 9. every one that curseth c. Pro. 20. 20. His lamp● c. Considering that such or any the like cursed and contemptible unchristian and unreverent behaviour of children towards parents 1. Is not onely occasioned by parents lack of often and earnest prayer for their children by their light lascivious and lewd behaviour in words and gestures and by their lack of correction their indulgence dandling and cockering them as we see in Adonijah Absolom and Elies sons Secondly But also it is occasioned by and argueth in children 1. Much pernitious privie pride sinfull and shamefull selfe-love 2. And abundance of ignorance of Gods ordinance and unacquaintednesse with the meaning of Gods law Secondly And be perswaded to reverence and rightly respect your parents 1. For the very countenance of parents ought to be reverent amiable yea and terrible if we offend them 2. For they are your betters yea so much that no image so represents to a man God in a family as a father 3. For whosoever will not reverence their parents will hardly honour any other superiour 4. Yea the dimne and duskie eye of nature presseth and Contra mare perswadeth hereunto Witnesse Tertullians testimony of the people of Pontus their love to be such that they did eate the dead carkesses of their parents thinking their owne bellies to be the fittest sepulchers for them Witnesse the precise practise of the Lacedemonians reverencing age and authority by all meanes and Ciceroes councell in his offices to youth to honour and reverence the more ancient 5. And in the fift Commandement naturall parents are specified and specially named rather then other superiours although they are intended 1. Not onely to shew and signifie that all governours should be fatherly affected towards their inferiours 2. Not onely because they were first in planting of policie and propagating posterity 3. Not onely because to this rule the rest should bee fashioned 4. But also because this is most acceptable and amiable 5. And because the contempt and carelesse keeping hereof is most against nature Reverence therefore and respect your parents If you bee rich your parents poore releeve them yet with reverence not as if you gave an almes to a beggar with an high heart but as a termer or tenant holding in Knights service payes reliefe unto his Lord not of benevolence but of duty If you be wise learned and politique your parents simple unlearned and ignorant counsell advise instruct and admonish them yet with reverence practise all your performances doe all your duties unto your parents with reverence Gods gifts and goodnesse to you may not cause or incourage you to vitiate and violate to infring or breake

their sallies surprisalls stands and stratagems in their fighting or forbearing in their marching Z●zom Hist Eccl. lib. 6. Chap. 6. and other military proceedings Answerable hereunto was the speech of valiant Valentinian It was O you souldiers saith he in your power to choose me to governe but n●w I am chosen of you it is in my power onely to elect not in yours to choose him partner of the Empire whom you desire Moreover it is meete that you who are now subject to my governement to be quiet and for me who am Emperour to consider what is to be done Aemilius the Romane Generall likewise Car. Chro● lib. 2. said publikely to the people that had they chosen a man more fit he would have obeyed but if they would have him to bee Captaine hee desired that the army would obey him and not take the office of the Generall to themselves nor hinder him with their curiosity and fables The souldiers of Tamerlane durst not turne their backes in fight it being contrary to his leave and liking The souldiers of the famous Romane Scipio were so obsequious and obedient to him their Generall that at his wish and willing charge and commanding they would adventure upon and attempt imminent yea unconceaveable difficulties and dangers so as not onely to encounter with much hazard and little hope upon uneven and unequall termes fierce and furious foes but also violently to throw and tumble themselves from of the tops of steepe and cragg● rockes and mountaines Atto 〈…〉 s actor 〈…〉 esse 〈…〉 Spem retulit 〈…〉 plures serva 〈…〉 The Persian souldiers were so faithfull to Zerxes that many of them speedily and voluntarily cast themselves into the sea to safeguard and preserve him Hector Mochint●s●h a Scottish rebell had two hundred such faithfull Captaines that life and liberty being offered to them after their apprehension and arraignement as they were going to the gallowes conditionally that they would declare and tell where Hector was they answered they could not tell and if they could yet they would not by any paine or terrour of death bee induced to breake their faith or betray their Marian Franc. de ●●ri master Those licentious Locusts and luxurious Loyalists the Iesuites at the will and command of their barbarous and bloudy unnaturall and irreligious Superiours murther Facinus 〈◊〉 Marian. lib. 1. c. ● and massacre the Lords annointed ones Kings and Princes as a most memorable enterprise The servants of Absolom and the soulders of Abimelech do as they are directed put in execution what by them as their commanders was enjoyned Iudg. 9 49. 2 Sam. 13. 27. The young men of Ioab and Abner at their assigning and appointment arose and acted such sad and sorrowfull parts in that terrible and cruell tragedy where each man sheathed his sword in his fellowes side so that they fell downe dead together 2 Sam. 2. 16. Yea disobedience and unfaithfullnesse of souldiers to their Chiefetaines and Leaders is so odious and opprobrious so criminous and culpable that by the law of armes such are to suffer even death it selfe which hath beene executed upon delinquents not onely by renowned Commanders for faults oftentimes Knol T●rk Hist not many and meane Witnesse Charles Count Maunsfelt who in his wars against the Turkes hanged an Hungarian horseman because he refused to carry a faggot to damne up the trenches at Stragoniam a Flens Tamerlano queritur pauper●ula ma●no Vnum è militibus lac rapuisse sibi Innumer as jubet ille slatim consistere tu●mas Raptorem lactis qu crat ut illasui Intento at tetricus rescindit pectora ferro Qud justa an fuerit neone querela sciat Dick. Spec. Frag. Knols Turk Hist Moris Hist of Ireland Stowe And Tamerlane the great who put a souldier to death for stealing a little milke from a maid at her complaint contrary to his military precepts But also by enemies themselves who having made use of and taken advantage by the trecheries and treasons of such unfaithfull and fraudulent fellowes have rightly repayed them with losse of life as a condigne and convenient recompense for such false-hearted execrable and abhorred persons Witnesse the strange and dreadfull death of Nicholas Kereischen who by the commandement of Selimus was put into a hogshead of nailes with this inscription Heere receive the reward of thy avarice and treason Gynto thou hast sold for gold if thou be not faithfull to Maximilian thy Lord neither wilt thou be to me Witnesse the death of Parese Foster-brother to Kildare who having the custody of Mainoth in Ireland betrayed it to Breretan for reward which was faithfully paid and then presently the untrusty traytor beheaded Canute the Dane commanded the traytor Edrike of Stroton Earle of Mercia to be put to death who by flight had purposely betrayed Edmund the King with the English into his hands according to his treacherous promise In the Barons wars against King Iohn they sent into France for Lewis the son of the French King to whom they Stowe in King Iohn joyned against their Soveraigne c. The Vicount of Melin who came with the Prince into England before his death at London told the Barons that if Lewis did get the Kingdome he would banish out of the Realme for ever all those which now doe take his part and persecute King Iohn as Traytors to their King Thomas Gourney and Iohn Maltravers the more Stowe R. 3. then barbarous murderers of Edward the second had also a condigne reward for their trechery Banister who betrayed Stowe his master the Duke of Buckingham to Richard the third His son and heire waxed mad died in a boare-stie his eldest daughter was stricken with leprosie his second son made lame his youngest drowned in a small puddle himselfe in his old age arraigned for murder and for a thousand pound promised by King Richard received not one farthing the King telling him that hee which would be so untrue to so good a master would be false to all other Worthy to this purpose is the saying of Philip King of Macedon If any Athenian living in Athens doth say that he prefers me before his countrey him verily would I buy with much money but not thinke him worthy my friendship But if any for his countrey sake shall hate me him will I impugne as a castle a strong wall and bulwarke yet admire his vertue and reckon the city happy in having such a one Bee we therefore who are the servants and souldiers of the Lord Iesus dutifull and diligent observant and obedient firme and faithfull in our generall and particular stations and standings to the precepts and prescriptions the doctrines and directions the instructions and injunctions to the royall rules and divine commandements of our Supreme Soveraigne and chiefe Commander Christ Iesus Ephes 6. 14. Stand therefore The word there used is a word of conflict implying not one onely but many and divers