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duty_n	master_n	parent_n	superior_n	1,280	5	11.2870	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20688	Innovations unjustly charged upon the present church and state. Or An ansvver to the most materiall passages of a libellous pamphlet made by Mr. Henry Burton, and intituled An apologie of an appeale, &c. By Christopher Dow, B.D.	Dow, Christopher, B.D.	1637 (1637)	STC 7090; ESTC S110117	134,547	244

and disobedient sons and servants that shall dare to take upon them to be their owne Carvers in their liberty with contempt of those whom the Law of God and Nature commands them to honour and obey But this plaister seemes too narrow for his sore for he addes gladly would they restraine them but they may not they dare not for feare of being brought to the Assizes there to be punished No may not dare not Surely a man by this may sweare Mr. Burton never read the Declaration or if hee did is very dull of understanding or very willing to mistake For I would demand when ever Mr. Burton or any man else knew a father or master bound over or brought to the Assizes for restraining his sonne or servant or where this danger is intimated It saith indeed That the Iustices of Assize shall see that no man doe trouble or molest any of his Majesties loyall and dutifull people in or for their lawfull recreation having first done their duty to God and continuing in obedience to his Majesty and his Lawes c. But what is all this to parents and masters shall they lose their authority and government over their children and servants God forbid Were that true then indeed farewell all obedience to Superiours whose first modell and foundation is laid in private families But God bee thanked there is no such thing Neither 1. in the Book wherein the names of servants or children are not once mentioned but the persons for whom the liberty is granted supposed to be sui juris Nor 2. in the intention of it for all that is spoken is of publike hindrance and molestation by the publike Magistrate or Officer whose office ordinarily and in such cases is not exercised inter privatos parietes within private walls at least not without expresse order to that purpose So that every man is still free and hath as full power to order his family and to prescribe bounds to his children and servants liberty as before Yea they may if they please as too many use to doe in this case notwithstanding the Declaration prove Tyrants in the exercise of their authority But why doe I bring reason to the confutation of so grosse a slander when it is reason enough to convince it of false-hood that in all this noise hee cannot bring the least shew of reason for it That which he brings of a story of three Apprentises upon the occasion of reading the Book so M. p. 62. Burton will have it and I list not to contradict him in such trifles going to a Taverne spending sixe shillings there and concluding to runne from their Masters and after executing it All this if malice did not make men ridiculously blind might be and yet the Book or the reading of it no cause of it otherwise than the Gospel that perfect law of liberty whereby men are freed Iam. 1. 25. from the bondage of the ceremoniall Law may Gal. 5. 13. be used as an occasion to the flesh and cloake of maliciousnesse that is not by any defect or fault in 1 Pet 2. 16. it but by the corruption and perversenesse of men And there may and be some no doubt that in like manner doe abuse this Booke and turne the liberty granted into licentiousnesse which was piously and charitably intended for the honest comfort and refreshment of labouring persons For where doth the Book give liberty to any much lesse to servants and such as are under others of tipling or drunkennesse or of going to Taverns or Alehouses on Sundayes Declar. p. 8. When the preventing of filthy tiplings and drunkennesse was one end of giving liberty of the use of more honest and manly refreshments If any shall say that the Wakes and setting up of May-poles are not without drunkennesse and disorders My answere is that however the Book is not in fault which expressely commands all Iustices and other Officers to whom it belongs to prevent and punish those and all other disorders among which we may reckon that for one For servants to turne rebels to their Masters under pretence of this liberty granted And if they to whom this charge by His Majesties Royall Command is given faile in their duty the blame must bee laid upon them and let Mr. Burton in such case turne his invectives a Gods name against them and not against the Booke to the blasting of His Majesties pious and Christian intentions who is farre from robbing either God of his worship or his subjects of the obedience which is due to them from their servants and children and so no violater either of the fourth or fifth Commandement And so I passe to my fourth Proposition CHAP. XII Ministers commanded by His Majesty to reade the Book They may and ought to obey The matter of the Book not unlawfull Things unlawfully commanded may sometimes be lawfully obeyed What things are required to justifie a subjects refusing a Superiours Command Refusers to reade the Book justly punished The punishment inflicted not exceeding the offence Not without good warrant THat the reading of the Booke by Ministers in their severall Congregations was enjoyned and intended by His Majesty and that it is a thing that may lawfuly bee done by them Both these are denied by Mr. Burton and the p. 55. latter brought as a reason to the former thus The thing is unlawfull As tending to the publike p. 56. dishonour of God c. Therefore the King did not nor can any honest man imagine that he should ever intend to command it This is a common fetch of his and it is very prety to passe a false sentence upon his Majesties just and pious actions and then to charge those actions upon others that so hee may the more freely vent his invectives against them and yet seeme in the midst of this his great seeming-zeale to retaine his dutifull and loyall respect of his Majesties honour If a man should deale with Mr. Burton in the like kinde and say he did not traduce his Majesties government incense the people to sedition and raile upon his Superiours the Governours of the Church for that were against the duty of a Christian of a subject of a Minister and against his Oath of Allegiance and his often protestations of loyalty to his Royall Majesty c. Therefore though such things have gone abroad under his name surely they were none of his hee never intended nor was Authour of so foule and wicked practises If I say a man should speake thus as any man might do and yet not as he hath his Sacred Majesties falsely censure his actions in the least there is Argumentum ad hominem no man of reason and discretion but would think this to be no excuse but rather an aggravation of his fault so long as the evidences of that wherewith he is charged are so plaine and convincing that they leave no place for doubting for what other construction can bee made of