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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94736	Iehovah iireh: or, Gods providence in delivering the godly. Opened in two sermons in the citie of Bristoll, on the day of publike thanksgiving in that citie, March 14. 1642. For the deliverance of that citie from the invasion without, and the plot of malignants within the city, intended to have been acted the Tuesday night before. With a short narration of that bloody and abominable plot. Preached by Iohn Tombes, B.D. It is this two and twentieth day of Aprill, Anno Dom. 1643. ordered by the Committee of the House of Commons in Parliament concerning printing, that this booke intituled, Johovah Jireh, or Gods providence in delivering the godly, be printed. John White.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.; England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons. aut	1643 (1643)	Wing T1809; Thomason E100_31	25,023	33

the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience And they that are ruled by Satan must needs doe what hurt they can to godly persons When the Devill entred into Judas his heart he could not stay but goes out presently about his worke of betraying his master John 13. 27. no sooner have they a Commission from Satan but they are presently ready to execute it And therefore it cannot bee but that while the godly live among the unjust they should be under temptations Applic. For application of this Truth we may be informed in the reason of the present mischievous carriage of unjust men towards the godly why they now tempt them not onely by perswasions to sinne with them but also by scorning contemning and injurious dealing yea and as the present experience proves it true by mischievous Plots to destroy them and to root them out of the Land of the living The late example of their practises which occasioned this dayes solemnity is a most remarkable Instance of the malignity of spirit that is in the hearts of wicked men against godly persons What the plot was you have heard from the relation read to you I hope you thereby sufficiently apprehend the certainty and manner of it from their owne confessions the mischievousnesse of it how great it would have beene if it had taken effect and by something in the relation as the securing of some persons and houses by privy markes who were like themselves and the destinating of others to a panolethrie it appeares that it was carried with a hatred and enmity against godly persons whom they have branded with the name of Round-heads I deny not but it hath beene alleadged that the reason of this plot was loyalty to the King that they might expell out of the Citie those that rebell against him and admit his forces into it concerning this matter it is needfull something be spoken The constant Protestation of the Commanders and Souldiers here is That they will maintaine to the utmost of their power with their life and fortunes the Kings majesties royall person honour and estate If any shall keepe this Citie against the King undoubtedly that person should be made an example by some heavy end I hope none here have any such thoughts or purposes but that their ends are right to protect it for the King and not against the King But it will be said How can that be sith it is against his will his command is to the contrary Concerning this thus much is said that even by the judgement of those persons against whom lies no exception it hath been granted that sometimes it may not bee rebellion to resist the personall will and command of the King I will alleadge three instances The first out of a Booke intituled The true difference betweene Christian subjection and Antichristian Rebellion composed by Thomas Bilson afterwards Bishop of Winchester and in great power at Court in King James his dayes dedicated to Queene Elizabeth and for ought can be gathered by the frequent Printing of it and the preferment of the Author adjudged Orthodox In it there are these words If a Prince should goe about to subject his kingdome to a forraine realme or change the forme of the Commonwealth from imperie to Tyranny or neglect the Lawes established by common consent of Prince and people to execute his owne pleasure in these and other cases which might be named if the Nobles and Commons joyne together to defend their ancient and accustomed liberty Regiment and Lawes they may not well be accounted Rebels And a little after As I said then so I say now the law of God giveth no man leave to resist his Prince but I never said that Kingdomes and Common-wealths might not proportion their states as they thought best by their publike Lawes which afterward the Princes themselves may not violate By superiour Powers ordained of God wee understand not onely Princes but all politicke states and regiments somewhere the people somewhere the Nobles having the same interest to the Sword that Princes have in their kingdomes And in kingdomes where Princes beare rule by the Sword we doe not meane the Princes private will against his Lawes but his Precept derived from his Lawes and agreeing with his Lawes which though it be wicked yet may it not be resisted of any subject with armed violence Marry when Princes offer their subjects not justice but force and despise all lawes to practise their lusts not every nor any private man may take the sword to redresse the Prince but if the Lawes of the Land appoint the Nobles as next to the King to assist him in doing right and with-hold him from doing wrong then bee they licensed by mans Law and so not prohibited by Gods to interpose themselves for the safeguard of equity and innocency and by all lawfull and needfull meanes to procure the Prince to be reformed But in no case deprived where the Scepter is inherited The second instance is in King James who in his answer to Cardinall Peron his Oration to the three estates of France speakes of the Protestants in France who had sundry times in the dayes of Francis the second Charles the ninth and Henry the third Kings of France taken up Armes against the oppression of the Guisian faction at Court maintained by those Kings as of the Kings best subjects and that their civill warres was not taking up armes against their King it was but standing on their Guard which the event proved to be true The third instance is the Act of Parliament confirming the Treaty with the Scots Commissioners passed by our present King this very Parliament in which it was enacted That the Scots Covenanters who had seized on Edenborough Castle raised an Army in Scotland against the Kings will and entred England therewith were neverthelesse on September 7. 1641. to bee declared in all Churches of this kingdome of England no Rebells from which also they were acquitted by our present King in their Parliament of Scotland But it will bee said that though things are carried never so violently or unjustly yet Christians are taught to suffer not to resist Answ. It is true wee may not resist Authority but suffer under it though proceeding unjustly We are forbidden to resist not only the supreame but also the meanest person in authority proceeding according to authority that is in a way of law judicially though the proceedings be unjust yet while the proceedings are according to authority there is no resistance allowed but by suffering But if so be that the proceeding be by meere violence spoyling men of their goods destroying restrayning their persons without any legall charge surely Gods Law hath not debarred men of the use of the Law of nature which directs a man to defend though not to revenge himselfe against violence suppose a Prince should take with him a company of robbers and cut-throates and set upon a Subject by the high way I would have it