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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26203	Englands common-wealth shewing the liberties of the people, the priviledges of Parliament, and the rights of souldiery : with epistles to the persons mentioned ... / written by John Audley ...	Audley, John, Preacher of the Gospel.	1652 (1652)	Wing A4202; ESTC R1402	34,551	48

The love of God knowes no relations where men love not God that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ Religion rebukes all manner of transgressions in all sorts of men A mans neighbour is as himself and he loves his neighbour as himselfe Diligit in proximo quod in se ipso diligit diligit proximum candem ob causam propter quam diligit scipsum He properly loves his neighbour as himself who in his neighbour loveth God and Christ whom he loveth in himselfe and who loveth his neighbour for Christs sake for whose cause he loveth himselfe God and Christ in himselfe and in his neighbour is the rule of his love to both Where the image of Christ shines more in his neighbour he loveth him more then himselfe but Christ he loveth most And seeing the image of Christ defaced in his neighbour or by him he loveth him lesse for the greater love that he bears to God Like Levi's son who said to his Father and to his Mother I have not seen him neither did he acknowledge his brethren nor know his own children for they have observed thy word and kept thy Covenant Deut. 33. 8 9. For that respect they bare to God and Christ above themselves They mortified all inordinate Affections they had to their own kindred hating their own life to follow Christ Luk. 14. 26. And thus David did who loved perfectly hated Gods enemies with perfect hatred Psal. 139. 22. and punished those who hated God whom they ought to have loved A Slanderer an high-looker a proud hearted man I will not suffer he that worketh deceit shall not dwell in my house he that telleth lyes shall not tarry in my sight Psal. 101. 5 6 7. The Properties of Freedome The first sort of these Freedomes is Naturall and in perfect Nature it was perfect Freedome Then man loved God for that man saw in the perfect nature of God and had man persevered in that perfect state man had been perfectly free to this day The second sort of Freedome is Con-naturall For though men be free-borne yet are they borne under the Lawes of their Nation and the lawes of our Nation do not annihilate but only determine our naturall freedome The third sort of Freedome is ad-naturall because Religion addeth some thing to Nature to regulate and to order mans Freedome The Law of God gives directions to perfect the freedome of Nature and of the Nation and sometimes gives reproofes to correct the imperfectnesse of them both As men failed touching the law of Nature so they fell under the Law of Nations and as men failed of the law of their Nation so they fell under the law of God and as their sin was greater so they fell under the sorer rebuke and punishment and greater offenders the rather stood in need of the blood of Christ ad redemptionem to make a Purgation Of the spirit of Christ ad resipiscentiam to make them know their sin and to repent of it Of the Rod In correctionem for a reproofe among men for their scandalous offences against themselves against the people and against God And when the sword of the spirit did not cut men off from their transgressions but they brake all bands then Nature took the help of Lawes and men appealed for justice to them that bare the sword to defend their naturall Liberties and for recovering their Nationall Freedome did with the sword of the Magistrate punish offenders against God and the People and the rather when transgressors continued impenitent implacable and irreconcileable The consequences of Freedome The Lawes of Nature Nation and of God are subordinate one to another God is above the people and the people above a mans selfe Personall and private interest must give place to the Publike Interest of the People and of the Commonwealth And in the Cause of God Who is above all thy interest and the Peoples interest also must give way to the glory of God Wherefore in the punishment of evill doers private-pitty must give way to publike-safety of the people fearing God Pereat unus potiùs quàm unitas It is expedient for us that one man should die for the People that the whole Nation perish not John 11. 15. What here Caiaphas said in his policy Christian Magistrates must doe in piety For thus God himself took part with Nature punishing Caine for shedding Abels blood Gen. 4. Burning Sodom and Gomorrah for injury don to righteous Lot by that wicked people Gen. 19. Bringing in the stood upon the world of the ungodly and saving Noah A Preacher of righteousnesse 2 Pet. 2. 5. Helps of Freedome First God himselfe hath prescribed to all people Lawes to keep up Nature in Freedome and to rebuke the unnaturall Gen. 9. 6. who so sheds mans blood by man shall his blood be shed not by force and violence but by course of Law It is a Law of God that respects not the persons of man his blood must be shed for the blood shed by him who ever he be Numb. 35. 30. No satisfaction may bee taken for him After this Nature began to helpe it selfe among the people as in case of Adultery it is said It is an iniquity to be punished by the Judges Job 31. 9. 11. Then men made Covenants with one another and bound them each to other with Oaths and Protestations As between Laban and Jacob Gen. 31. 48. and between Abraham and the families of Escol Aner and Mamre Gen. 14. 13. and this in order to preserve the peace of their families and to recover their rights from that people that should infringe them Hereupon when Lot was taken captive by Chederlaomer Abraham and his confederates made warre upon and recovered Lot out of their hands vers. 12 14 16. Also Jonathan made a Covenant with David because he loved him as his owne soule 1 Sam. 18. 3. and secured him against Saul his father chap. 20. 4. entred a Covenant of the Lord that whatsoever Davids soule desired he would doe it for him vers. 12 13 16 17. David sware him v. 23. The Lord is between me and thee for ever 41. Afterwards it became a matter of Religion in all sorts of Men and Nations to keep their Covenants Leagues and Oathes between them made and in case of breach they did right themselves by punishing the offenders even as Israel did justice on his brother Benjamin and the men of Gibeah for the rapine and murder committed upon the Levites wife against that brother-hood that was between them Judges 20. or else if they could not right themselves and recover their liberties they did appeale to God to doe them justice as Jer. 15. 15. Oh Lord thou knowest remember me visit me and revenge me of my persecutors And David to Saul The Lord judge between me and thee and the Lord avenge me of thee 1 Sam. 24. 12. Thus Jephtah when he and the children of Israel stood for their

the living and of our just State It hath been said objection 7 Pray for your enemies Yea we pray for our enemies in pitty to them yet not to prosper them but that they may be kept from evil-doing Againe we must discerne between our enemies and Christs enemies for we may not bid God speed to Christs enemies who bring not his Doctrine Joh. 10. 11. Jehosaphat had this warning Thou shouldest not love them that hate the Lord 2 Chron. 19. 2. yea David hated them that hate God rightfore as though they were his enemies Psal. 139. 21 22. and he often prayed against them Be not mercifull O Lord to wicked transgressours Psal. 59. 5. or to such as offend of malicious wickednesse Also we must discerne between our owne private enemies and the Common enemies of our Country Omnes omnium Charitates patria complectitur Cicer. 3 Offic. Private interests are all comprehended in the Publick he deserves no pitty who pitties not the Common-wealth although there be a pretence of pitty to the enemies of our Country A publick spirit loves Christ afore his Country and his Country above himselfe and if above himselfe then above the enemies of Christ and of his Country much more alwayes preferring his Country and the welfare of them that love Christ therein above the enemies of his Country who ever they be both in our Prayers and Praises in our Counsels and in all our services of Peace and Warre for the King and the Parliament are Majores singulis yet they are Minores Vniversis see vox militaris and as totum universum est majus suis partibus A rotten member must not be spared in pitty to the whole Ense recidendum est nè pars sincera trahatur True it is in common infirmities the rule is Forgive and it shall be forgiven you Luk. 6. 37. for Love covers a multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4. 8. In crying sins and in criminall cases the Law is Thou shalt smite them thou shalt utterly destroy them and shalt shew them no favour Deut. 7. 2. In case of ignorance we pray for our enemies Father forgive them they know not what they doe Luk. 23. 34. But in case they offend of malice we pray against our enemies Let death seize upon them let them goe downe quicke into hell for wickednesse is in their dwellings and amongst them Psal. 55. 15. You have power on your side objection 8 and your profits by the State and no marvell you speake for them I never received reward from the State to speake for them yet I have cause in duty and thankfulnesse to speake for them in as much as I have received from them and if I speake for them yet I speake the truth of them They put the late King to death 1. Not privily as Zimri slew his Master but they brought him forth to his Triall publikely and legally had he had any thing to say in his owne defence for clearing himselfe of the Crimes charged against him 2. Nor did they this as Zimri slew his Master in his drunkennesse a personall sinne against God and himselfe 1 King 16. 9 10. but they did it for his sins against the Nation and this English people even as King Joash who was slaine on his Bed for cruelty and ingratitude against the Sons of Jehoiada the Priest who had anointed him King 2 Chron. 24 25. And as King Amon who was slaine on his Bed by his Servants for his open Idolatry 2 Chron. 33. 21 22 23 24. 3. They put him not to death pretending a jealousie without cause as Saul would have slaine his Sonne Jonathan for pleading for David and would have killed David for that as long as David liveth nor Jonathan nor his Kingdome should be established 1 Sam. 20. 30. 33. 4. Not for small matters as the Corinthians went to Law 1 Cor. 6 1 2. 5. Not for a seeming cause as Saul for his rash vowes sake would have put Jonathan his Sonne to death had not the people rescued him 1 Sam. 14. 24. 27 43 44 45. but it was for a cause reall great open and manifest a breach of Trust and of his Covenant with his people for setting up his Standard and warring against the Parliament who desired and endeavoured to punish evil-doers whom he favoured A publike Nationall Offence True I doe honour this State and if mine enemy should write a Booke against me for so doing I should binde it to my shoulder for God hath honoured them with many succesfull Victories over their enemies and with much love of persons well-affected to God and Christ who also doe returne their honour to God and to the People that did chuse them making the welfare and common good of the People their supreame Law being true Keepers of the Liberties and peace of the People and needs must I speake write and pray for their peace Let them all prosper that love them Touch not mine Anointed objection 9 and doe my Prophets no harme Psal. 105. 14 15. and how then dare any man touch or harme a King This question hath been 〈◊〉 moved and as often answered but I say it were rather 〈◊〉 asked How dare any man touch or harme his Prophets and his People which both are his anoynted there not to be touched or harmed no not by Kings themselves for God reprooveth Kings for their sakes ver. 14. For Kings are not therefore the Lords anoynted because outwardly anoynted by men Oleum est tantum signum judicium Ja Rex But the Lords prophets and people were inwardly anoynted and sanctified to be the Lords vide Geneva notes in margin for the Saints in Christ have this honour to execute the judgement written against wicked Rulers with a two edged sword in their hands to bind their Kings in chaines and their Nobles in fetters of iron Psal. 149. 6 7 8. Yea objection 10 but these were Heathen Kings as it is said To execute vengeance on the Heathen and corrections upon the people vers. 7. What difference between heathens by Nationall profession and heathens by un-christian conversation for what do heathens more then they In their works they deny him Tit. 1. 16. They eate up my people as men eate bread Psa. 53. 5. and so do these Kings who cease to be Christian in their deeds Yea and judgements are written against unchristian Kings as against heathen Kings and other sinfull men if yee shall doe wickedly yee shall be consumed both yee and your King 1 Sam. 12. ult. For their thus sining is the case of those circumcised who became uncircumcised forsook the holy Covenant joyned themselves to the Heathen and were sold to doe mischeife In the dayes of Antiochus 1 Macchab. 1. 16. Christian Kings in name turn Heathens when they break asunder all bonds of Nature Nation and Religion too And they become punished as heathen Princes be When Nebuchadnezzar in his pride became a beast his own people turned him out among the beasts untill he should acknowledge the God of heaven that rules in the Kingdome of men and gives it to whomsoever he pleaseth Dan. 4. 17 18 20 34. To the Valiant Commanders and Watchfull Souldiers Epist. GEntle and contentfull Souldiers It was an old Question of one Hetruscus Whether a Christian may in any case go to war It s answered he may for to doe justice and judgement is more acceptable then sacrifice Prov. 2● 3. And it s answered by Osorius de Nobilit Christian lib. 3. Respublica non possit stabiliri nisi armorum praesidio qui militem ●ollit Rempublicam funditus evertit Christus poli●eias non eripuit sed in melius instruit The Common-wealth cannot be stablished unlesse it be guarded with Armes Take away the Souldier and yee overturne the Commonwealth Christ would not abolish Civil Governments but forme them for the better he neither tooke the axe from the Judges nor did Paul deny the sword to the Magistrates nor did John Baptist disarme the Souldiers but prescribed them lawes of innocency and moderation Do violence to no man and be content with your wages Lu. 3. 13. yea Paul cals the Magistrate a Minister of God to thee for good thou doing well and saith he bears the sword to execute wrath upon them that doe evill Rom. 13. 4 5. Indeed it were much to be wished by every Christian that a●l men may contain themselves from doing evil that there were not this occasion given for punishment for war for thy people shall be all righteous then thy officers shall be peace thine exactors righteousnesse the Lord will hasten it in his time Isa. 16. 17 21. But since that time is not yet and this cannot yet be yee must remember That Nation and Kingdome that will not serve thee God and his people shall be wasted v. 12. impetus hostium est armis depellendus civium audacia est ferro reprimenda The boldnesse of vice must be reprooved with the couragiousnesse of vertue Our fathers of old were led by the spirit for the rebuking malefactors and we know that vengeance in a private matter becomes valour in the case of a Commonwealth Patience in personall injuryes does in Nationall wrongs assume a magnanimity invincible as Joshua did and it was a fruit of their peace with God When our fathers undertook Sanctissima Bella contra sceleratos most holy wars against notorious offenders for what peace so long as Jezabels whoredoms and her witchcrafts are so many 2 King 9. 22. The end of war upon the wicked should be the quietnesse and peace of those that are godly and honest Humbly acquaint your selves with God and be at peace among your selves Couragiously follow the Captaine of your salvation patiently carry his crosse after him faithfully commit the safe-keeping of your souls in weldoing to him and let us pray also for the peace of Englands Common-wealth Amen FINIS Sect. 1. Sect. 2. August Sect. 3. Destroy Sect. 4. Sect. 5. Sect. 6. Sect. 7. Ames Cas. li 5. cap. 22. Vrsin Sect. 8. Sect. 9. Sect. 10. Sect. 11. Sect. 12. Sect. 13. Sect. 14. Sect. 15. Answ ☞ Ans. Ans. 2. Ans. Ans. Answ Ans. Ans. Ans.