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A01880 How superior powers oght to be obeyd of their subiects and wherin they may lawfully by Gods Worde be disobeyed and resisted. Wherin also is declared the cause of all this present miserie in England, and the onely way to remedy the same. By Christopher Goodman. Goodman, Christopher, 1520?-1603. 1558 (1558) STC 12020; ESTC S103263 98,447 240

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followe that he hath constitute no lawes or ordinances to our destruction so longe as we shall be founde obedient vnto them Then is there no power that ruleth accordinge to these lawes which either can or will cōmande vs anie thīge tēdinge to our destructiō But if anie so do by Gods permission because of our synnes ād rebellion towardes him for which cause onelie he suffreth wicked Princes to be our Gouernours it is deare brethren to drawe vs to repentaunce and knowledge of our synnes and not that we shulde forsake the Lawes of our God and to contynew in our wonted rebellion by yelding to the vngodlie commandments of wicked men CHAP. XII ¶ How muche the comon people owe to God for his benefits receaued what obedience he requirethe how farre they are charged what thinges they haue promised and how ignoraunce maye not excuse them ALL these thinges being well considered it is an easie matter for all maner of subiectes to knowe what libertie belongeth vnto them by the worde of God whiche they maye lawfullie clayme as their owne possessiō and are likewise bounde at all tymes to practise wherin also appeareth what thinges are prohibited vnto them whiche they maye in no case exercise Yf you therfore be Gods subiectes and people and he your Lorde God and louinge Father who is aboue all powers ād Princes ād hath made no Lawes but such as are for your preseruation and singuler comforte then without all controuersie there maye be nothinge lawfull for you by anie commandment of man whiche your Lorde God in anie case forbiddeth and nothinge vnlawfull or forbidden to you whiche he commandeth whither it appartayne to the firste Table or the Seconde Which rule if ye obserue you maye be assured to please God like as by doinge the contrarie ye shall purchase his heauie wrathe and indignation For no mā can serue two Maisters at once but he shall hate the one ād loue the other And in hatinge your firste and chief Lorde to obeye and please man beholde your impietie is intolerable prefarringe vile mā his creature to the Almightie God and creator of all How muche we are bownde to his Maiestie our owne conscience doth beare vs witnesse whiche can not deny but that we haue receauid of him alone our liffe mouing and being our wisedome strēgthe bewtie riches childrē ād all thīges that are good ād profitable in whose power we may do all thīges ād with out hī all fleshe is turned to dust ād powder Remember the example of the worthie Captayne and Prince Moyses whō God chose to delyuer his people from Egypt who woulde not charge thē with anie thinge at any tyme whiche the Lorde his God had not commanded euermore speakinge on this wise These are the statutes and preceptes of the Lorde Thus sayth the Lorde and Heare ô Israel the voyce of the Lord c. In so muche as he had this for his onlie shilde agaynste the murmuring people It is not agaynst Aaron and me that ye murmure but against the Lorde which beīg chosen and appoynted of the Lorde did onely execute his will and commandementes Yea as for them selues they cōfessed that they were nothinge As for vs sayde Moyses what are we meaninge but earth ād asshes the creaturs of God nothinge differinge from others sauing for that auctoritie wherunto they were called ād the obediēce which they shewed in executīge not their owne willes but the will and pleasure of God And why but because they knew they were the people of God with whō they were charged and beinge his people how it behoueth them to be ruled by no other Lawes and ordinances then by such as God had geuen them Wherfore if Moyses and Aaron Gods electe and chosen seruants had no more power ouer the people then his expresse comandement permit and that the people so far and no farther were bownd to obeye them how can we assure our selues that we offende not Gods Maiestie whose people we woulde be called whē witheout his worde yea cōtrary to his expresse cōmandemēt we satisfie the requestes and statutes of vngodly rulers For as Moyses coulde cōmande nothīge but frō the mouthe of the Lorde so coulde the people obey nothing but that whiche proceaded from his mouthe also aswell because they were his people as for that they had opromised with one voyce and consent before God ād Moyses whē the Lorde commanded him to say on this wise to the people You haue seene what I haue done to the Egyptians and how I haue caried you vpon the winges of Egels and led you forthe to me Yf therfore ye will diligētlye heare my voice and obserue my cōmandement you shal be my propre people before all nations For myne is the earthe And you shal be vnto me a kyngely Priesthod and an holy people Whiche wordes when Moses had pronounced before the whole people they all to gether with one accord āswered Whatsoeuer the Lorde shall speake that will we do And Moyses praised them or God rather by moyses sainge They did well in so answering And therfore promised to rayse them vp a Prophet like to him c. And this was the couenant onlye that God made with them before he gaue them the Lawe in wrytinge and the promes that they made to obserue the same Lawe that they might therby be his deare and chosen people This example ought neuer to departe from the eyes of all such as are or woulde be Gods people Wherin as in a most clere glasse it dothe appeare how they are bownd to God what God requireth of them and what they haue promised to him For as the Lorde God required nothinge of the Israelits but that whiche was their duetie to do and he by his exceadinge benefits in delyueringe them from their enimies had well deserued euen so he byndeth thē to nothinge but to obeye him Nether did they promisse anie farther saynge We will do all thinges not what Moyses or Aaron or anie other after them shall of them selues commande but whatsoeuer our Lorde God shall speake that will we do More then this God required not nether were they bownde any farther but to the Lawes of God onely whiche they promised for them and their posteritie to obserue And God for that cause blessed them aboue all nations with his vnspeakable benefits So are we no lesse bownde to obeye the self same God of Israel whom we also professe in Christe Iesu our Moyses and Captayne by whom we are not onely delyuered from bodely seruitude but from the moste vile and dangerous bondage of Satan through synne our spirituall enemie To this worthiest delyuerer also haue we in Baptisme promised no lese yea muche more obedience because of the more abundance of graces which by him we haue receaued And besides this are moste straightly charged so to do Not by the voyce of anie earthly creature but by the mouth of God the