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head_n	aaron_n	anoint_a	beard_n	19	3	10.2775	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27115	The royal charter granted unto kings, by God himself and collected out of his Holy Word, in both Testaments / by T.B. ... ; whereunto is added by the same author, a short treatise, wherein Episcopacy is proved to be jure divino.	Bayly, Thomas, d. 1657?	1649 (1649)	Wing B1514; ESTC R17476	64,496	181

though he defiled Vriahs bed and cloaked adultery with murther should the Priest Peers Prophets or people offer to depose Solomon because he had brought strange Wives into the Land and as strange Religion into the Church shall Elias entice A●abs subjects to Rebellion because he suffered Jezebell to put Naboth to death and killed the Lords Prophets shall Peter take vengeance upon Herod because he put him in prison beheaded John the Baptist and killed James shall Reuben be no Patriarch becuse he was unstable as water shall Simeon and Levi lose their Patriarchal dignity because they were brethren in iniquity instruments of cruelty because in their anger they slew a man and in their self-will digged down a wall shall Judith be deposed from his rule and government for making a bargain with a Harlot upon the high way shall Issacher not be numbred amongst the other twelve because he was none of the wisest no reason they were Patriarchs as well as the rest which was the immediate government before Kings and indeed were Princes themselves princeps Dei es inter nos Gen. 23.6 Thou art a mighty Prince amongst us and thus much shall suffice and I hope sufficient to shew that no faults or pret●nces whatsoever can make it lawfull to depose or so much as to touch the Lords Anointed CHAP. VII What is meant by touching the Lords Anointed or stretching forth the hand against the Lords Anointed NOt dare to touch the Lords Anointed is an awfull reverence and a supposed difference to be kept between every Subject and his Soveraign especially in point of violence A Mother doubting the discretion of her Children and being to leave some curious looking-glasse in a place doth not command her children that they should not break it but that they should not touch it knowing full well that if they have the liberty to meddle with it in the least degree they may break it before they are aware and destroy it when they think least of any such matter So God is very chary of his King wherein he beholds the representation of himself and knowing him to be but brittle and though the most refined earth yet but glasse he commands his people that they should not touch his Anointed knowing that if they were permitted but to tamper with him in the least degree their rude hands may break it in peeces when they doe but think to set it right A touch is but of one man though but with one of his fingers yet this must not be Nolite tangere it is not said ne tangete wherein only the act of touching is forbidden but Nolite tangere whereby the will is also prohibited how wary should we be in touching when the Lord is so cautious in his prohibition Now stretching forth the hand may signifie a combination of many into one confederacy the hand being a part of the body composed of five members one and all but this must not be a most unhappy instrument is that hand that turns it self into the bowels of its own body if the head break out be chance the hands must not presently be in the head clawing with invenom'd nails the corruption there lest that itching desire turn into smart in the end lest when the peaceable day springing from one high shall happily visit us that now sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death we then see our bloudy hands and this once happy Kingdome the only pillow whereon peace had laid her head streamed like the Aegyptian Rivers all with bloud in a word by touching the Lords Anointed or by stretching forth the hand against him is meant any kind of violence that is used against sacred Majesty and the signification thereof is of a large extent for we stretch forth our hands when we doe but lift up our heels in scorne against him Who so lifteth up his heel Psalm 41.9 Secondly we stretch forth our hands against the Lords Anointed when wee doe but raise up Armes in our own defence Whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God and draweth damnation upon himself Rom. 3. Thirdly We stretch forth our hands against the Lords Anointed when wee stretch not our tongue and voice when we hear of any traiterous plots or conspiracies against the Lords Anointed and so bring such conspiracies to light It is a foul thing to hear the voice of conspiracy and not to ●tter ●● Lev. 5.1 as good lay thy hand upon the Lords Anointed as lay thy hand upon thy mouth conceal the treason Fourthly We stretch forth our hands against the Lords Anointed when we doe not stretch forth our hands for the Lords Anointed when we see him assaulted with any danger or traiterous opposings Should a man see his own Father feircely assaulted and should not presently run into his rescue but should suffer him to be slain before his face would we not equally exclaim against him with the murtherers Qui non Vetat peccare Quum potest jubet he bids that doth not forbid with all his power ●like a true son such outrages and vio●●nces to be committed against the Fa●●er of his Country Fifthly We touch the Lords Anoin●ed when we touch his Crown and dig●ity intrench upon his Regalia hold or withhold his sons or daughters kill or ●ake prisoners his men of Warre Wee must take heed of defacing the garment as well as of hurting the person for they are both Sacred the precious Oyntment wet not Aarons head alone but it ran down upon his beard and down unto the skirts of his garment making all Sacred that was about him such touchings therefore are worse then when we touch the person with the greatest violence for then the Anointed are most touched when they are touched where the Anointing is which is their State and Crown dearer to them then their lives touch both the murder of the person is but a consequence to the deposement of the dignity Sixthly We touch the Lords Anointed when we take away his revenue and livelyhood from him the Devil thought that he had stretched forth his hand exceedingly against Job touch'd and touch'd him to the quick when he had procured Gods permission that the Sabeans and Caldeans should take away his Oxen and Asses his Sheep and Camels and plundred him of all he had God called this a destruction unto Job Job 2.3 and that before ever a hand was stretch'd forth to touch either his bone or his flesh Seventhly Is there no stroke but what the hand gives Yes the tongue can strike as well as the best Jere tels us so Venite percutiamus eum lingua come let us smite him with the tongue Jer. 18 18. and David said His tongue was a two-edged sword There is saith Solomon that speaketh and that waiteth too like the piercing of a sword It is bad enough in any or against any man but worst of all against the Lords Anointed for it is said Thou shalt not revile the Gods nor speak evil of

and so observe him all along through the whole tract of time we will consider how it dealt with the first Prince under whose Dominions it pullulated which was under the Prince and Bishop of Geneva and these two were both nullified in the same person as they were both here in England by the same Parliament verefying that max●m of ours with that fore-running of theirs No Bishop No King and then we will shew you how they dealt with our Princes here at home where ever they had a power viz. with Mary Queen of Scots and James and Charls the First Kings of England and of Scotland both and then usurpe a power themselves higher then Popes or Kings Calvin with his gladiators having expuls'd the Prince and Bishop of Geneva sets up a government so high and unexpected that the people would have nothing to do either with him or his government and thereupon they banished him the City Calvin in exile bethinkes himselfe how he might appease their fury and give them satisfaction and be invited in again Calvinus de tristibus thinks it his best course of endearing himself unto the people to make them sharers with him in the government whereupon he invented his new fangle of Lay-Elders and so all parties were agreed In comes Mr John Calvin whilst he was scarce warme in his seat I shall present you with a story of him and of his demeanour of himself towards the temporall Throne There was a Noble-man of Italy who liked the Reformation which he had begun so well that he forsook his Religion and Country sold his Lands and fortune converted all into money and took sanctuary in Geneva as soon as he came there great rejoycing insulting there was that their cause was honored with so high a convert The grand Seigniour fals a building directing his Masons he found one of them something more sawcy then to what his Lordship in his own Country had been accustomed little thinking that where there was promised so large a respect of souls there had been so little respect of persons this Noble-man hereupon gives this Mason a gentle tap upon the head the Mason flies upon him like a Dragon and fhakes him by the beard my Lord not being used to such course salutations stabs him with his dagger thinking nothing lesse but that so high a provocation would have pleaded his indempnity no such matter my Lord was soon ●aid hold on and brought to his triall Calvin upon the tribunall not as a ●emporall Judge in such cases take ●eed of him but only to be asked his opinion in cases of Conscience the Delinquent pleads for himself tels them ●ow insolently he was provoked and wonders considering such provocation he should be questioned for so vile a ●arlet Hereupon Mr Calvin soon starts up and tels him that with God whose seat they held there was no respect of persons and for ought he knew that man whom he despis'd to death was as near and dear to God and his favour as himself their Laws knew no such distinction as man-slaughter and murder but they were regulated by the Divine Law that told them that the man that shed mans bloud by man shall his bloud be shed that there was no exemption by greatnesse nor buying it off by favour the Noble-man replied that he had not been long enough amongst them to be acquainted with their Laws it was answered that the law of Nature did forbid that of which he could not be ignorant all this was well enough My Lord told them how hard a case it would be for a man out of his love and liking to the place and manners should seeke to it as a sanctuary for his conscience and so soon find it his grave that he was heartily sorry for what he had done and would give any satisfaction to his wife and children that the Court should order or his estate allow h● intended the man no hurt before such rough hands shook him out of himself that he knew not what he did and therefore he humbly begg'd their pardon assuring the● for the future that his waies should be so directly answerable to those paths they walked in that he would not by Gods grace hereafter step aside the temporall Judges wonne with his humble and submisse behaviour began to relent and desired Mr Calvin to abate a little of his rigour for the reasons before mentioned assuring him that his case was no common case and therefore it ought to have respect accordingly hereupon there grew a hot dispute between the spirituall and the temporall Judges Calvin remained stiffe in his opinion and would not be bent to the least mercy the Nobleman thought to throw one graine of reason more into the ballance that should turne the scales and that should be taken out of a consideration had of their own good for saith he if you shed my bloud hand over head without any the least respect had to my years to my birth to my education to the little time I had of being acquainted with your Laws nor to the provocation it self nor to the suddennesse of the action nor to the surprize of all my senses nor to the satisfation I would have given nor ro the repentance of my very soul who will come amongst you what Lord or Gentleman will live within your wals wherefore if you will have no consideration of me yet consider your selves consider what a blow it wil give to your Religion how many this very thing will stave off from ever having any thing to do with you by this time they were all prone to mercy but Calvin alone who stands up and cries fiat justitia ruat Caelum neither could he be brought to give his opinion that the Jury as we call them might not passe upon him but out went the Jury and contrary to their owne Law hearing the Noble-mans plea and observing well the inclination of the Bench in generall they brought in their verdict not guilty whereupon the Noble-man was acquitted hereupon John Calvin rises from the Bench and whilst the rest proceeded to their matters cals all the Ministers within the Wals and liberties of Geneva who appear before the Judgement sets with white wans in their hands which they laid down telling them that with those wans they laid down their offices protesting that they would never preach the Gospel to a people whose humane Laws should run contrary to the Laws Divine and suddenly turned about and took their leave which being acted with so much gravity wrought so much upon the beholders that they presently sent for them back againe and hanged the Noble-man This story I have read in their own History in Geneva then which my thoughts were then as they are still that never any Pope of Rome did act as Pope of Rome or so much as claime halfe that authority over the Civill Magistrate as this anti-pope did virtually act and yet was not ashamed to make lesser matters then this the