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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77844	The magistrates commission from heaven. Declared in a sermon preached in Laurencejury, London, the 28. day of Sept. 1644. at the election of the Lord Major. / By Anthony Burgesse, sometimes fellow of Immanuel Colledge in Cambridge; now pastour of Sutton Coldfield in Warwick shire, and a member of the Assembly. Imprimatur Thomas Gataker.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1644 (1644)	Wing B5650; Thomason E14_18a	18,261	25

THE MAGISTRATES COMMISSION FROM HEAVEN Declared In a SERMON preached in Laurence jury London the 28. day of Sept. 1644. at the Election of the Lord Major By Anthony Burgesse sometimes Fellow of Immanuel Colledge in Cambridge now Pastour of Sutton Coldfield in Warwick shire and a Member of the Assembly Imprimatur THOMAS GATAKER LONDON Printed by George Miller for Thomas Vnderhill at the Bible in Woodstreet 1644. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE Sr John Wollaston Knight Lord Major AND To the Right Honourable Thomas Atkin Esquire Lord Major Elect of the Citie of London Right Honourable IT is a serious and grave resolution of CALVIN Calvin in 1. Epist in Tim. cap. 2. Tenendum est illud principium c. That principle and maxime is firmely to be kept viz. That Magistrates are appointed by God to safeguard and preserve Religion and publike honesty even as the earth is ordained to bring forth fruit for nourishment and therefore as when we pray for our daily bread we also intreat God to make the earth fertile and fruitfull so when we pray that Christs Kingdome may come we also beseech God to raise up Magistrates that may preserve and propagate his truth But as the earth is many times cursed because of the sins of the inhabitants thereof so God for the iniquities of a Nation raiseth up Governours in his wrath to be a scourge to them All which sheweth the great necessitie of that injunction to pray for Kings and those in Authoritie that we may live a quiet and godly life under them and this is the intent of the future discourse which by your Command is now published that otherwise had been buried in silence I have not launcht into that great question De jure Magistratus circa sacra though I have spoken a little obiter of it The Magistracie and Ministry have their distinct bounds and yet are mutually to help each other Quamdiu Respublicae manent hospitia Ecclesiae tamdiu sint mansurae As long as Common-wealths are Innes like that in Bethlehem to lodge Christ in so long they will abide and flourish I have adventured to joyne you both in the Dedication of this Sermon partly because you both did incourage to the publishing of it and partly because the Lord hath raised you both up in the place of Authority The one being almost at his races end and the other beginning his journey The one having found the experience of Gods Protection in the managing of that Office which is surrounded with so many discouragements and the other needing all provocations not to faint in such a publike worke The Lord so blesse your Honours in this publike Service that the whole Citie yea whole Kingdome may praise God for your Fidelitie Prudence and Piety therein Your Lordships to serve you ANTHONY BURGESSE THE MAGISTRATES COMMISSION FROM HEAVEN ROMANES 13.4 For he is the Minister of God to thee for good WHat the Father Gregory Nazianzen said of Moses that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Ocean of Divinitie the same may be said of Paul for doe but view this particular Epistle to the Romanes you shall see in the former part of it that he hath a Medulla or a Synopsis as I may so say purioris theologiae he hath a Synopsis of the pure and exact Divinitie of Originall sinne of Sanctification of Justification and of Election In the twelfth Chapter you may see Pauls Ethicks and Morals wherein the efficient cause of Actions is made not with Aristotle mans power but the grace of God and the end not mans glory but the glory of God And in the fourteenth Chapter there you have Paul a Casuist determining cases with a great deale of circumspection and caution And then in this Chapter here you have Pauls politicks The beginning of this Chapter is the Magistrates Magna Charta or his Commission sealed from Heaven whereby he may be incouraged to goe through his office notwithstanding all men that dispute about lawfulnesse of Magistracie and notwithstanding all the discouragements that he shall meet with in the practice of it there being nothing more necessary to a Magistrate then to be informed of this that his Calling is of God and that God hath a peculiar providence over such It is related of Frederick Duke of Saxonie when he was almost discouraged by the popish doctrine about Magistracie and the office of a governour at last when Luther writ a booke De magistratu and the Duke had read it he lifts up his hands to Heaven thanking God that at last he was convinced the state of Magistracie he lived in to be pleasing to God and that he might in it doe him a great deale of service Now the Apostle he deales very exactly and methodically about a Magistrate First he laies downe a generall Proposition at the 1. verse Let every soul be subject to the higher powers or unto the high powers for it is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Greek and this translating of it Higher powers is periculose saies Beza as if none but higher powers were to have obedience Let every soule be subject this brings in Papists Monks the whole Clergie of Poperie It brings in all spirituall men as they call them whatsoever And as for that same evasion Let every soule Omnis anima id est animalis homo as they cite it out of Origen it is very ridiculous And as vain is that of others who say he speakes here of Ecclesiasticall power for he gives a sword and tribute to this power which cannot be understood of Ecclesiasticall power So you have then the Proposition laid downe and this he backs with many Arguments First from the efficient Cause The powers that be are of God how this is to be understood I shall show you anon in the Text only thus when he sayes there is no power but of God it is not to be understood permissivè or ordinativè or directivè for so sin and evill and wickednesse or the devill these are of God by way of permission and by way of ordering and directing But the Apostle meanes more He is of God approbativè mandativè by way of approbation and by way of command as I shall show you anon And the Apostle laieth it downe both affirmatively and negatively That there is no power but of God This is more then affirmatively for some might think though the kingdome and power of Israel was of God yet notwithstanding is the power of the Romane Emperours of God and then amongst Romane Emperours the Christians might have thought though Titus and Vespatian these that were called diliciae generis humani the darlings of mankind yet was Domitian and Tiberius Nero of God He answereth There is no power but of God that is the first Argument The second Argument is brought from the contrary Whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God This place you know is frequently brought by Court Divines against the Parliaments defensive warre but