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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48944	The honour of the magistrate asserted In a sermon preached at the assizes holden at Lincoln on Monday, March the 23. 1673/4. By Thomas Lodington, M.A. Sometimes fellow of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, and now rector of Welby in the county of Lincoln.	Lodington, Thomas, 1621-1692.	1674 (1674)	Wing L2812A; ESTC R217723	19,040	35

against the Lord the same is justly to be brought against all seditious and rebellious persons that rise up against their lawful Prince And seeing Rulers are called Gods the Devil is an unfit Instrument and wicked artifices are undue means to advance any person to any especially supreme Authority The Devil's counsel and assistance to make man equal with God succeeded ill to the Protoplasts for in stead of being advanced to equality with God they were levelled with the Devil both in Sin and Misery But if any ambitious Spirits shall try the experiment and prosper where they owe their advancement there they ●●ll pay their homage Such will prove if gods those of the ●●er Region Diabolical Deities to torment oppress tyrannize over the People And now my Lords and you Gentlemen of the Magistracy the matter requires that I make my Application to you as to the Persons treated of in the Psalm and advanced in the Text. But I should transgress the limits of my own duty should I take upon me to admonish you of yours For though I stand here in the place of God and am of those who are Ambassadors for Christ and might therefore use great boldness of Speech yet I must remember the Text advances you much higher and ranks you with God himself and so sets you far above the reach of my Instructions As I have therefore my Lords and Gentlemen by warrant and authority of the Text set you in the place of God I shall address unto you as unto Gods in behalf of my self and this People with out humble Petitions and Supplications That you will be Gods to us to defend us in our just rights both Religious and Civil to execute justice and judgment for the preservation of Truth and Peace amongst us Religion is the chief thing in our esteem and must have the first place in our Petition Civil affaires will succeed better when Religious are first secured 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ante omnia sit tibi cura rerum divinarum was a Maxime in the Politicks of the Heathen We call not for Innovations in Religion but for the Presevation of it as now by Law established being fully satisfied in it both as to Substantials and Circumstantials The Doctrine Discipline Government and Ceremonies of this Church of England are agreeable to the Holy Scriptures And Religion is in no other Church professed in greater purity than in this of ours and this some of the Reverend Fathers of our Church eminent for Piety and Learning have to the Glory of our C●… declared dying That the True Reformed Christian Religion 〈◊〉 it is now by Law established in this Kingdom be preserved and we be protected and incouraged in the profession and practice of it is our earnest Petition Our blessed Saviour in his Personal sufferings was crucified betwixt two Theives ●●t they were only sufferers with him not actors in his suffering Now in his Mystical Body the Church he suffers betwixt two sorts of People which had they power I fear scarce either of them would deserve a softer name and these are not sufferers with Christ but actors in his Suffering The one sort are those who by their many corrupt and erroneous doctrines complained of and not reformed did force our Fore-Fathers to use such lawful meanes as the Constitution of this Kingdom put into their hands to reform Religion and to depart from their Communion The other are those who like unskilful Physicians never leave purging till with the Corrupt humor of the body they take away the Life also These without any lawful Authority or any pretense thereto withdraw from our Communion because as they think we have not withdrawn far enough from the Church of Rome These two Factions though distant from each other in their heads holding opinions dissonant if not contrary yet like Sampson's Foxes are joyned together by the tayles to draw lighted firebrands into our Church and State to destroy both They are like Herod and Pilate enemies to each other but easily made friends to become both greater enemies against Christ The latter take their measures for their Confidences and Insolences from the growing hopes of the former by whom they are thought to have been at first formed and now secretly abetted So that if the one be held within due bounds the other is not like to prove a dangerous Enemy The Papists are the more formidable Enemy as having a settled Church under a government and being counselled and aided by men of great parts Learning and Interests and large Conscience and chiefly from that pretense they have to Jurisdiction in this Kingdom of which they make great use to gain Proselytes and to hold weak Converts A fatal thing it has been as a person of learning and honour observes to the City of Rome to usurp over the World first by holding in a temporal subjection all the Countries of her neighbour Princes since by bringing into thraldom the Hearts and Consciences of Christians First by intruding upon the inheritance of men then by encroaching upon the heritage of Christ's own purchase To speak of the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome would be too long a discourse to insert here and too great a digression from the matter before us I 'le onely say this The Title of Vniversal Bishop of the Church was given to the Bishop of Rome by an Emperor who ascended the Throne by treason and murder and made that Bishop although the Title had been lately not only disclaimed but bitterly declaimed against by his almost immediate Predecessor Head of the Church that he might abett and assist him who had made himself Head of the State And for his Jurisdiction in England it was gotten partly by intrusion and usurpation and partly by imposing upon the facile nature of some in high place which having been in several ages since complained of and declared against was at last justly cast out not by Popular fury and faction but by the deliberate Counsel of pious and learned Divines in Convocation assembled by the express Authority of the King then reigning and ratified by the three Estates in Parliament The Protection we crave against these men is not against their arguments but their cruelties They do without cause complain of our sanguinary Laws against them but we have too much cause to complain of their sanguinary Doctrines which as occasion has served have been put in practise by barbarous and savage cruelties against us We know in what account the reformed Christian stands with them and how persons so reputed are dealt with by them which makes us justly dread the thoughts of coming again under their power and to beg of you my Lords that Protection which the Law provides for us If they shall please to call this Persecution as they are apt enough to cry out not as we say before they are hurt but if they may not hurt us and to call that Persecution against them when their hands are tyed that