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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26752	A discourse on my Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury's and my Lord Bishop of London's letters to the clergy touching catechising, and the sacrament of the Supper with what is required of churchwardens and ministers in reference to obstinate recusants : also a defence of excommunication, as used by the Church of England against such : preached March the 9th and 16th in the parish church of St. Swithins / by William Basset ...	Basset, William, 1644-1695.	1684 (1684)	Wing B1052; ESTC R9117	26,279	41

A DISCOURSE ON MY Lord Arch-Bishop of CANTERBVRY's AND MY Lord Bishop of LONDON's LETTERS TO THE CLERGY TOUCHING CATECHISING AND THE Sacrament of the Supper WITH What is Required of CHURCHWARDENS and MINISTERS in Reference to Obstinate RECVSANTS Also a Defence of EXCOMMUNICATION as used by the Church of ENGLAND against such PREACHED March the 9th and 16th in the Parish Church of St. Swithins By WILLIAM BASSET Rector of St. Swithin and St. Mary Bothaw London London Printed for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleetstreet 1684. 1 Epist Pet. 2. 13. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lord's sake whether it be to the King as Supreme TIME was when this and all other Scriptures which teach us our Duties to Superiors in Church and State have been treated as Malignants being miserably rack'd and tortur'd to make 'em speak the Language of a Common-wealth And that Reformation so much talk'd of ought to have begun with the Reformation of this and divers other Texts which stand so stubborn and irreconcileable Enemies to all opposition of Kings and Monarchical Governments I have met with them who have dealt with this very Scripture as some would perswade the Devil doth with the Bodies of Witches molding 'em to the forms of Beasts that in terrible Appearances they may infatuate and destroy There is one in his Appeal to Fairfax and his Army looking on this place as a Spy that came to discover the nakedness of his Pamphlet deals with it as Hanun did with David's Ambassadors shave its beard and cut its clothes to its buttocks then send it away with Shame and Ignominy He flyes to the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which literally rendered is to every Humane Creature and because it follows whether to the King he concludes that the King is an Humane Creature that is as he explains it a Creature of the People who have Power over the work of their own hands and may unmake him at pleasure by stripping him of that Regal Authority and Power which they gave him Much like his gloss on Rom. 13. 1. Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers i. e. saith he to the Lower House viz. the Commons who are the Fountain and Original of all Power whence that of Kings and Nobles do spring and Non dat quod non habet it cannot give more than it hath it self and what it doth give it may recal again Principles fit to debauch the most wretched Libels and suited to the mouths of none but a Scotch Cargelyte and so meet to be spoke in no place as at Scaffolds and Gibbets where they come to receive a just Recompence for such confounding and destructive Tenents But it is a common rule in expounding Scripture that that cannot be the meaning of one Text which is contradictory to another But this sense is contradictory not only to many Particulars but to the concurrent Doctrine and Practice of Christ his Apostles and all Apostolick Men. Nor can that be a due and regular Deduction from a Text which directly contradicts the very scope and design of the place it is deduced from but such is the case before us For it is the very business and design of this and the following Verses to ingage our Submission to Every Ordinance of man whether to the King as Supreme or to them that are sent by him Therefore to conclude from hence that Kings may be resisted and deposed makes the same Scripture to contradict it self viz. That we must submit and yet may resist 'em obey and yet depose ' em Therefore we must seek for some more Natural and honest Explication 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Order and Government or to that disposition of Civil Government which is in every Nation including all the particular Ordinances Statutes and Constitutions of a Society And it is called an Humane Creature Quòd ab hominibus ordinetur constituatur because it is ordain'd or appointed by Men but yet not without a Divine Sanction in that God himself Commands us to be subject to it Now Monarchy is the first and most Noble Government in the World being founded originally in Families the first of all Societies For Monarch as the word imports is the sole Governor in a Society and therefore is agreeable to a Paterfamilias a King and an Emperor who have in themselves the same Power over their Subjects so far as they are not limited by a Superior Power as the Paterfamilias by a King and Kings by an Emperor which limitation so far as it reaches destroys the Notion of Monarch in the lesser and transfers it to the greater Where there is only one Family or if many so far as one is independent so far the Paterfamilias the Father or Head of it is a Monarch Where there is a collection of several Families into one Body the chief is a Monarch still but yet disterenced from a Paterfamilias by the Title of King And where several Kingdoms are United and Subject to one Head that Head hath the Title of Monarch in common with the other but is distinguished from both by the Title of Emperor Whence it is said of Nimrod Gen. 10. 10. that the beginning of his Kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar implying that the Families of those places being United under him made up a Kingdom and gave him the Title and Dignity of a King And at the Confusion of Babel when the World was divided into many Bodies according to the number of Tongues and Languages every Captain was really a King or sole Ruler of that Body Whence we read Gen. 14. 9. of Nine Kings joyned together in one Battel The degeneracy of which Government into Aristocracy and base Democracy was a Creature not existent from the beginning but arose like the Mule from the Unnatural conjunction of an Horse and an Ass and scarce ever obtain'd in any place but by a Rebellion Therefore it was perhaps from the Nature of the Government as well as that it was at this time the Government of the World that St. Peter proceeds from Government it self viz. the Ordinance of man to the Form and Modus of it which is Monarchical to the King as Supreme Had some Men as much to Plead for Commonwealth Free State or Parliament they would long since have boasted the jus Divinum of ' em 2. Having found the meaning of this Ordinance of man we shall observe the Command to submit to it for it is spoke Imperatively 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Be ye subject But we have no Precept or Example to the contrary and therefore must yield either Active or Passive Obedience Which is agreeable to the Doctrine and Practice of our Blessed Saviour who paid Tribute rather than make a Disturbance He submitted to the High Priest and Jewish Synedrium to an Heathen Pilat and the most unjust and unreasonable Sentence This was not