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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43842	Pithanelogia, or, A perswasive to conformity by way of a letter to the dissenting brethren / by a country minister.	Hinckley, John, 1617?-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing H2047; ESTC R29478	103,888	196

have Titus circumcised He well knew that the confronting of establishments is not only to throw down the battlements but even to undermine the very foundations of the Church Et utinam probè expenderent sayes Calvin I wish that such persons as stand for an unlimited liberty and cast off the yoke of subjection would seriously lay to heart Epist ad Questiones circa disciplinam Ecclesiae p. 461. how by his meanes they contrive the ruine and desolation of the Church 30. You say 't was otherwise in the Law there every pin every circumstance in Gods worship was prescribed but there is this difference in the Law we were little children under the pedagogy of it now we are adulti A Camer p. 369. and injoy the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free CHAP. XIV Good Subjects may lawfully declare or swear that 't is not lawful to take up Arms against the King THE next Mountain in your way which you have not faith enough to remove is that you cannot declare it to be unlawful upon any pretence to take up Arms against the King And this suggests one true reason why some of you are so inveterately bent against the Lyturgy Take it in the words of our Martyr'd Soveraign One of the greatest faults some men found with the Common-Prayer-Book I beleive was this p. 285. that it taught them to pray so oft for me to which petitions they had not loyalty enough to say Amen This is such a Shibboleth that some of your lisping tongues are not able to pronounce And this discovers that the main spring or primum mobile of your hearts hurries you another way And herein we are the more confirm'd since many of you have chosen to flitt your habitations and expose your wives and children to the mercy of the Parishes wherein they dwell rather than take that oath of fidelity which in effect is no more than the oath of Allegiance in other termes which the wisdom of the Parliament thought fit in these times of danger to impose upon you that they might make a tryal how your pulse beates or how you stand affected to the Kings welfare and the Kingdoms peace Whether you are likely to follow the right line of David or revolt into the tents of Jereboam And I wish that former manners had not occasioned this Law Who is ignorant that one Sinon within the walls is more dangerous than a whole Armado without one Doeg or Achitophel at home than Armies of professed enemies abroad therefore 't is a Proverb in some Countryes God deliver us from our friends that is such as do salute and stab us under the fifth rib at the same time And may not Kings in such a case use lawful means and take security even by the Ordale of an oath to distinguish chaff from wheat bran from flower who are Israelites indeed such as will obey Gods Vicegerent for Consciscience sake and such as are Subjects in an abusive signification per Antiphrasin because they will be no longer subject than his command doth comply with their own wills If he cross them let him look to himself To your Tents O Israel we have no part in David Now although such persons as these are who can never be good Christians because ill Subjects will make as little Conscience of oaths as they do of their allegiance yet the best of Kings have bound their Subjects unto them by this kind of ligature 1 Chron. 11.3 When David came to the Crown the Elders of Israel came to him to Haebron and made a Covenant with him there And when Solomon succeeded his Father 1 Chron. 29.24 all the Princes and mighty men submitted themselves unto Solomon the King or as it is in the Hebrew they gave their hand under Solomon which was the custome Gen. 24.9 or manner of swearing among the Hebrews Ephes 8.2 as is apparent by Eliazar putting his hand under Abrahams thigh and swearing to him The Annotators therefore do with good reason understand Solomon speaking of this oath of fidelity Icounsel thee to keep the Kings commandment that in regard of the oath of God Hence it is that some of the more sober dissenters amongst you being convinced of this truth and foreseeing the scandal they should gain had they refused have submitted to the present oath unto whom I could make this address Go on my brethren mastering and subduing all the remaining difficulties until ye arrive both at the Penand the Pulpit I hope that you having pass'd this Iron-gate you 'l make no stop until we all meet in Navi Ecclesiae in the body of the Temple that we may not be Almost but Altogether such Subjects Christians Ministers as may most advance our Masters service Rumpantur ilia let their bowels like Judas's gush forth who rather like Devils gnash with their teeth than with Angels rejoyce at the return and reception of such brotherly coadjutors That 's a poor surmise that we are afraid lest your glory should eclipse our names No your glory shall be ours As Saint Paul rejoyced at the flourishing of the Romans Rom. 1.8 that it was spoken of through the world so the lustre of your parts industry piety and integrity shall be so farre from offending my weak eyes that I shall exult with joy that my Master is so well provided with servants that I am the meanest of those that wait at his Altar and of the lowest form in the school of the Prophets But I must break off this delightsome theme and come to that more unpleasing task of reasoning with those who refuse to give this assurance of their loyalty to their Prince Sirs where 's the Thorne that pricks you Are you troubled that your distinctions are cut off that your old Avenews and Postern-Gates are in this Declaration and oath now shut up Are there not Evasions or starting-holes left open Are you to be so cloister'd up that you can make no excursions 'T is no wonder if men sweat that are so strait lac'd if the waters roar that are penn'd up with such dams Le ts look back and see what pretences there were for an unnatural warre p. 141. I may usher in this discourse as Jerom did his concerning the Arrians Claudite aures qui audituri estis ne tantae impietatis vocibus polluamini 10. Some thought it a sufficient ground of warre to remove evil Counsellors that is all faithful Hushai's from the King All loyal souls that trembled at listing up their hands against the Lords anointed were cursed with bell book and candle Curse ye Meroz c. 20. Others told us they might fight against the King if it were for the cause of Religion to purge the Church from idolatry and superstition Master Baxter seemes to go this way in his Book of rest as if Nero and Claudius had been Saints and there had been no idolatry or superstition in theird ayes when Saint Paul and Sain