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An apology for the laws ecclesiastical established that command our publick exercise in religion and a serious enquiry whether penalties be reasonably determined against recusancy / by William Starkey ...
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Starkey, William, 1620 or 21-1684.
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labour will not be in vain if some of our wel-wishing Friends of more moderate Tempers will deign the favour of a look upon these weak Endeavours If they be not informed yet they will be more fully confirmed in the practice of those Duties that are required at all our hands when most agreeable to the Law of Nature and the Rules of the Gospel But to our Reasoning and Arguing we must call in the Magistrates Sword to assist all without this will be little effectual to reduce that general Vniformity desired which will prove the beauty and glory both of this Church and Nation To you therefore I am constrained in this necessity for our full Releif to make my humble Address that are our RVLERS and in Authority appointed by God for our good It is evident your Concern by your Offices is to carry on this great design and are not barely to have respect to the Notion but to the Execution of Righteousness and so you are not only to animadvert severely upon Transgressors of moral natural necessary and divine Laws but upon those that break the positive particular human Ordinances that you have in Your Wisdom deliberately and justly established among us If persons were so well disposed as Counsels or Monitions might perswade all to be good from the Pulpit or in the Closet then no need to urge any Rigour from either Bench or Barr but our unhappy Necessities require this at Your hands who are Ministers of Remunerative Justice to shew your selves as well a Terrour to them that do evil as a Countenance to them that do well You see what a lamentable success your Lenity hath had hitherto it must be Severity must do your business Your method of leading this People must be now like God leading his Israel from Aegypt to Canaan the Conduct must not be only as in the day to lead them by a Cloud but in this night it must be by a Pillar of Fire The eyes of these People have too long been daubed up with Hony they must at last be opened with Gall better to suffer some smart and Cure them than suffer them through blindness to run headlong into the pit Breath then at last fresh life into the languishing Laws of a fainting Kingdom by an impartial Execution Offer unto God the sacrifice of Righteousness and take all care that Justice and Judgment may be executed in the midst of us Remember Lenity and Indulgence are Encouragements to the Transgressour and Cruelty and Grievances to the Innocent If you conceal and smother Disorder if you wink at Wickedness and countenance Disobedience Oh sad Consequences both your selves and your wholsome Laws are dishonoured and slighted You are injurious to the Offender while his heart is hardned because for his sin he is not corrected You offend the Righteous when he is scandalized You hurt your weak Neighbour for he is stagger'd if not perverted You hurt your own Souls for you are perjured yea You are injurious to GOD by Indulgence to Recusancy for his Worship is undervalued and contemned For your own for the Laws for the Offenders for the Righteous for your weak Neighbour for Religion for Gods sake let there be no more halting no longer connivance be found in the midst of us Execute true Judgment without partiality and if we cannot have that Obedience to the Laws which is justly required let the Offender feel that just Vengeance which is threatned Then and not till then we may hope to see the two standing Ordinances MAGISTRACY and MINISTERY will be reverenced and respected which as yet are but mocked at and despised Then we may hope the Laws about the publick Exercise of Religion will find obligation and observance which as yet are let loose and weakned and from too many meet with scorn and contempt Then we shall once again see the Faith of the Gospel openly professed by every Believer which now is concealed in most Congregations as if men had cause thereof to be ashamed Then and not till then will the Church of England recover her attractive comliness and beauty which is now much defaced and loathed Then Vniformity the Glory of a Believing Nation which hath been too long banisht will be brought back with joy into every Congregation Then there will be no more running into Corners but the Tribes of our Israel will unanimously go up to the House of their God unto their Testimony to give thanks unto the Name of the LORD Then shall God be glorified in all the Assemblies of his Saints by open Confession which he knows is my earnest endeavour and design in my constant prayer in the Name of the Lord JESUS To whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost be glory and honour now and for ever Amen A Catalogue of some Books Printed for and Sold by H. 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that attend upon our Election we have reason to think him most likely to be a Blessing that comes in Peace to be set over us by a rightful Succession But if any will wilfully still oppose that likes Election better than Succession let such remember There was a time when all the Tribes met and every Tacit Consent was then included to choose Him and to make our David King That he was not more Eminently born than made Chief Ruler among us And that by Election as well as Succession Supremacy doth justly belong unto him And Chosen HE was prudently freely and by universal Consent But other Governours we have Inferiour and Subordinate appointed and allowed of by Him which because the Church is in the Kingdom must be of two sorts Ecclesiastical and Civil that the People may live quietly in godliness and honesty The Chief of both sorts of these subordinate Governours He that is Supream convenes to his assistance deliberately to consult and advise and determine both in making Laws and Execution And by this Determination and Concurrence of our Governours no Person can justly fear to suffer by a precipitate Rage or Tumult of a Popular Fury or the unreasonable Impositions of an arbitrary Tyranny So if soberly it be considered If any Governours can be said in all the World certainly ours of England must be acknowledged to be set over us and appointed by God And were the Learned Hugo Grotius that Master of Reason alive he would conclude the Government of England both in Church and State the best in all the World And if any Governours under Heaven can be said to be allowed and approved of by God over any Society ours or England must in reason be concluded to be so undoubtedly not only from their reasonable Constitution which is most convenient but from that extraordinary care and love that God hath declared towards them from their Miraculous Restitution which if we consider cannot be said to be done by the power of Man but by the over-ruling Spirit of God Gods love and liking of Persons and Nations is more seen by deliverance of them than by their continued preservation He was more eminently known to be Israels God by bringing them out of Egypts Bondage and the Babylonish Captivity than by bringing them into the Land of Canaan The turning again the Captivity of Zion must force the Heathen to say The Lord hath done great things for them and taken great care of them And for us that have felt the misery of Old and seen of late the Deliverance and Restitution of our Zion the Heathen would rise up in Judgment against us if we should not say It was the Lords doing It is his mind and purpose declared by this Miraculous Restitution That this People of England should be led like Sheep by the hand of Moses and Aaron Thus Governours are appointed over every Society and ours of England over us especially by the dictates of Reason and appointment of God CHAP. II. That Governours thus appointed are to aiâ— and contrive for the good of the Society and deliberately to determine and publish Laws And Subjects are obliged to submit to those Laws accordingly Section I. Governours are to contrive for the Publick good and welfare Section II. To promote Publick good they must take care to establish Laws Section III. Laws must have their Rectitude and oblige to what is Just Section IV. Deliberation is requisite before determination of Laws Section V. After Deliberation there must be a Publication Section VI. To Governours Laws thus Established Subjects ought to submit with willingness and Ours of England ought to submit especially SECT I. 1. GOD in whom we live move and have our being hath so sweetly and wisely disposed of this Systeme of Creatures to his own Glory that every Creature hath a natural inclination and propensity to the preservation and welfare of its Fellow Creatures and out of that love and propensity they freely communicate according to their ability what is good and beneficial And this Communicative Love is diffused as an active principle to cement compact and uphold every part of this admirable Structure in that glorious frame and order in which now it stands so as every Creature seems to loose of its own nature when it ceaseth to incline to this Natural operation For who so blind but must perceive that amidst Inanimate Creatures freely and chearfully the Sun imparts its light the Heavens their kindly influence the Clouds their refreshing Rain the Fire its warmth the Earth its increase In Sensitive Creatures Birds and Beasts are gracious and helpful to their fellow Creatures of the same species and joyn in Company and Bodies to that end and call their Fellows to the same common food and affright them from open snare and danger But this inclination in the Creatures receives the measure and limits of its activity according to the different principles faculties and endowments they have to operate withal So every Creature the more perfect it is and the more it hath of Gods likeness the more it discovers this propensity of activity and readiness to communicate what is comfortable and suitable to the nature of its Fellow Creatures Man therefore that hath most of Gods likeness hath the greatest propensity to this goodness and is naturally addicted to shew it by communicating of what is most beneficial to them most willingly who are like God and himself and are in greatest Capacity to receive and disposed to make the best improvements of this Communication Now among Men it is to be supposed That Governours are or should be most like God who fills the Earth with his goodness he openeth his hand and fills all things living with plenteousness As Gods Deputies they ought to be most ready and active from an heavenly providence to impart what is beneficial to them that are under them They are not set up aloft like liveless dead Idols for men to gaze on to admire and Idolize and yet continue useless neither see nor hear nor regard nor contrive for the good and comfort of others But as living Images of that benificent God whom they represent out of a gracious providence they are to be contriving directing and acting for the good of them under them praesunt ut prosint above and over others to benefit others not minding their private advantage but are elevated to have the more Heavenly influence for the publick good of the Community over which they are placed Non Dominandi cupiditate imperant sed efficio consulendi Their office like Shepheards is not barely to fleece but to feed the Flock Patres patriae not only to defend and maintain the People but are to direct and order them Ministers of God for good Rom. 13.4 For compleat good being to watch over their Souls for good while they carefully endeavour that the People under them may lead contented lives full of all peace in all godliness and honesty If any such be