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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85688	Vox cœli, containing maxims of pious policy: wherein severall cases of conscience are briefly discussed; as I. In what subject the supream power of a nation doth reside. II. What is the extent of that power, and in what causes it doth appear, with the due restrictions and limitations thereof according to the Gospell. III. What obedience is due unto that power from all persons, superiour and inferiour, with other cases of great weight, very necessary to reconcile our late differences judiciously stated and impartially ballanced in the scale of the sanctuary. / By Enoch Grey minist	Grey, Enoch.	1649 (1649)	Wing G1968; Thomason E565_20; ESTC R202336	50,311	67

Member of Parliament or to any Person indempnified thereby for any demer it since this Session or to any receipts of mony out of the Publike Treasure A cause as much your Honours as mine 〈◊〉 Jesus Christs rather then either yours or mine 〈◊〉 might be finished in four houres time in a select C●●mittee if once appointed for Audience thereof which in 8 years space I never could obtain although some Honorable Members have expressed their deep se●s● of the extremity of my oppression that prejudice which I have sustained by this delay and therefore I beleeve it impossible that so just a cause should miscarry in the hands of so just a Parliament My earnest prayer for your Honours shall bee that the splendor of this Representative may by the highest Acts of sincere Reformation of Religion of impartiall Administration of Justice dazle the eyes of all Europe that your Power and greatnesse thereby may bee rendered formidable to all your adversaries Domestick and Forain by Sea and Land in England and Ireland that the people of these Nations by your Pious Prudent Righteous and Resolved indeavours may be assured ut Pacem summam obtinebimus in Patria cum ipso Deo nobis inter not ubi nullum erit bellum nulla contradictio which is the hearts desire of Your Honours in all humility devoted in the highest Services for the Gospell ENO GREY To his Excellency THOMAS Lord FAIRFAX Lord Generall of all the Parliaments Forces in England and Wales And the Right Honourable OLIVER CRUMWELL Lord Lievtenant of Ireland Commander in chief of all the Parliaments Forces there With the Generall Councell of Warre Grace Mercy and Peace be Multiplyed Right Honorable and Honorable THe hearts of such who truly fear the Lord in this our Israel cannot but be towards you who have jeoparded your lives to the death in the high places of the field what Titus acknowledged in his success against Jerusalem the same may we in yours De●s vobiscum in liberand● hoc regn● pugnavit he who hath called you unto fitted you for this service hath united your spirits mutually to affect to effect one end that you are ut manus ut mens Angli● as Hector Aen●● of Troy whereby the Publick hath gained much both Peace Liberty although your selves as yet little for magis mor●● quam mummorum causa doe you ingage England unworthy the affections of such Worthies this Generation much degenerating that should you respect the opinions of man concerning you more then the affection of God unto you who observes all men all things a heathen but a speach becomming a Christian you would repent of all that good afforded them But whatever is the estimation of the world you are the glory of God in his Churches apud deum major est qui melior ille melior qui in virtutib●● praestat The Crown of his Saints yea Sanctorum amor delici● Luther tells us there be Miracula Ocularia and Auricularia Ages to come will admire our mercies in such renowned instruments should we unworthily forget you or your acts which deserve to bee had in eternall 〈…〉 not wee of this Nation variable in our affections 〈…〉 in our judgements wee could not but honour 〈…〉 your Physicall Prescriptions upon the Prudenti●●● Observance of the Causes 〈◊〉 and P●ognost it is of the Malady of this State for spent by the Kings evill administred in the most desperate Paroxysm of our great Body Politick effectuall through the Lords blessing to the absolute cure of the Nation the Remedy being powerfull not only to remove what at present doth distemper this State but to prevent what in future may occasion a Perillous Relapse ut ●●hil defi●it quod ad salutem sufficit These acts of your doe publish your Honours your Humilities doe crown your Graces thereby you deserving rather then desiring the praise of your vertues your vertues And because your Prudence as well as your Courage the wise and Omnipotent God hath prospered to the healing of the Nations I shall humbly beseech you to improve both for the advance of Religion in the power and purity thereof and maintenance of Justice amongst us ●●●gal the evills threatning this Nation in the deformation of the one or in the Non or Mal-administration of the other may he prevented and removed The Lord beat your enemies as smal as the dust and stamps them as the mire of the street give you courage to pursue them and not to turn again untill you have consumed them the Lord be the shield of your help the Sword of your Excellency that by his strength you may run through a Troup by his help you may scale a wall that your feet may be 〈◊〉 Hinds feet and a how of Steel be broken by your Arms the Eternall God be your refuge and underneath you be his everlasting Arms that the Enemy may be thrust out from before you in England in Ireland that he may say destroy them that you may return from Ireland with as many victories by your Armies as good security to your persons as much rejoycing to your friends as great confusion to your Enemies as you did from Scotland that all there all here all elsewhere that do conspire agaist you even the multitudes of the great and ●ervible ones may be as chaffe that passeth away and perish●●● in an instant sodainly as the Lord hath said so prayeth Your Honours humble Servant in the service of the Lord Jesus Christ Eno. Grey To the Reader Courteous Reader THe Health of our Body Politick is preserved by our Laws the ligaments of all civill Societies when grounded upon the infallible Principells of Equity the intention of Parliament and Army in their late transactions I know many that feare the Lord and conscientious of their wayes are much dissatisfied in their judgements about the proceedings of both yet I fear self-love and self-interest perturbates the minds distempers the affections of too many who demurre and scruple against apparent reason unto publick prejudice Had wee a sense of the last years judgment in our punishment from Heaven by unseasonable weather the effects of which wee are like to feel many years upon the Land and cry of the People for a King we would now hold our peace at the presence of the great God and suffer our lips no longer to sin nor our mouths to speake foolishly It is our duty to stand upon our Watch-tower to observe the motions of Divine Providence in the mutati●●s it the 〈◊〉 in this last age wherein all promises and Prophecies shall be accomplished the integrity of Noah consisted in his sidelity in his Generation when degenerate and our sincerity is discerned by a pious temporizing I hate these who have lascivientia ingenia wanton wits and mercenary soules who Mancipate their judgements to the opinions and Errors of others because great in person and power As I would abhor to justifie the wicked so would I

speciall controversie with a Nation and some great judgment to in flict he leaveth such persons to the power of such corruptions against the strength of all humble advice and counsell to the contrary that thereby he may make a way to his wrath But now if the Lord ingage with us let enemies consederate let Nations associate their power shall be broken their counsell shall not stand saith the Prophet For the Lord is with us all such as are incensed against us shall be as nothing all that war against us saith the same Prophet shall perish for God is with us The Lord when he gave the charge of Israel to Joshua tells him that he would be with him and would not ●ail him nor forsake him only he chargeth him to be strong and very couragious that he might observe to doe all that is written in the Law for then should he make his way prosperous then should ●e have good successe Gods presence and blessing whithersoever he went in all his actions and undertakings Now 2 That cause is good which is begun by rule 〈◊〉 carried on by the same measure with an uniforme and constant motion to holy and honourable ends if any Act be done to please man out of feare or favour unto any or if it be done out of private selfe or sinister respect to personall ends and interest honour or estate those acts are odious in the sight of God and will be dreadfull against the souls of such men when God awakens conscience The sinners in Zion are afraid fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites who among us shal dwell with the devouring fire who among us shall dwell with the everlasting burnings If done with respect to the honour of God only such acts are acceptable Secondly Good if uniforme if our motions he straight without deflectibility constant and permanent without instability The Apostle tells us that such as are like waves rouling and swelling by the motion of the winde such shall never excell never receive wisdome whereby to excell 〈◊〉 the hands of God Such whose mindes are fixed upon severall objects interests and ends whereby their wil● are possessed with an habituall and native flectibility to one object at one time with some deflectibility in respect unto some other at another time divers from what before they intended these are double minded and therefore unstable in all their wayes as we see in Bala●● ●e durst not but obey the command of God and yet inclined to gratifie the humours of B●la●k to obtaine his owne covetous ends and to attaine the same by his sinfull wits ●e undermines the divine will of God It is a fatall simplicity preceding destruction for our owne ends to gratifie to comply with enemies to God such persons must needs be man of uncertain mindes and various resolutions Thirdly I● our eye be upon the Rule upon that w●y wherein the Lord would have us walke to beginne to continue therein in a counter motion to the sinnes of the 〈◊〉 with the remotion of such corruptions discovered by the word by the holinesse and righteousnesse of divine 〈◊〉 crossing our corrupt ends 〈◊〉 and interests to which 〈◊〉 our hearts 〈◊〉 ●lu●d such a●●● are good But 〈…〉 of ou● hearts be so strong and 〈…〉 stumble and fal that we take offence displeasure at the truths of God discovered or the works and providence of God administred because unsuitable to our wils to our interests this case is very dangerous God will never owne it nor us therein Secondly the strength of your authority that would bee considered in the next place Potestat juxta necessitatem habitat is a Pythagorian Maxim violent necessities have enforced private persons to publick actions when against all law as w●● see in the cases of Hester and of Jehojadah It is an everlasting Rule in politicks that no State can admit any law or priviledge whatsoever but the same at some times and in cases of necessitie and urgency must be violated Wise men in the consideration of the Acts of States-men should respect the reasons and the ends of their acts more then the acts themselves the reason of State lies in the publicke safety the J●● Reipubl cae is the bond of Parliament and viv● Ratio manifesta equi●as is the very anima legis and the fundamentall of all imperiall lawes in all Kingdom● and Common-wealths This is a maxime in Theologie as well as in morality that the law is good because it is just The affairs of State should not bee managed by custome by the opinions or affections of men by the private ends or interests of any but by Religion by Reason by Conscience the rules of all acts being divine and all humane motions must be sutable to the decrees of God of natures law to the rules of equity and for the welfare of the Republicke and the necessity of law is to be weighed in the scale of preservation of publicke peace of liberty of profit and of the safety of the whole before respect unto any private person honor or advantage The strict and grammaticall construction of Law bindes not a private person in a publick case If my neighbours house be on a fire I may pull down the house next it rather then endanger a City or street a servant may by violence pluck his Master out of doors in case his person be in perill by fire What Jury will condemn a man that steals a loa●e of bread to save his owne and his childrens life if hee could not obtaine it by begging If a Patient be sick and his Physitian forbids him wine or strong water this patient and his friends will be very respective and strict in the due observance of that rule But now in case of a swoone though the Patient desire it not yea deny it refuse it being insensible of his state and of that necessity his friends force him to take quantum sufficit notwithstanding the order to the contrary This Physitian being rationall neither can nor will be offended therewith the necessity of his patient being of more force in this present case then his former prescription was in the other which although it did not expresly except any yet necessarily did imply an exception in this case that inhibition onely respecting this end the life and health of the patient which by no other meanes at this time could be provided for but by such a violation the like may be said in such cases wherein the safety of a State consisteth Never State had more pressing necessities then you now in respect of your own security your persons posterities honours and estates yet more in respect of your friends who have been firm to you hitherto and most of all in respect to the people in generall much dissatisfied to the souldier who is discontented and should thereupon forsake you what dangers must necessarily invade you your wisdomes understand you had need be active