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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64478	A discourse concerning the basis and original of government with the absolute and indispensable necessity of it : wherein the excellency of monarchy above any other kind is evidently demonstrated : as it was delivered by way of charge to the grand-jury, at a quarter-sessions of the peace held at Ipswich in the county of Suffolk / by F.T., Esq., one of His Majesty's justices of the peace for the said county.	Theobald, Francis, Sir, d. 1670.; Thynne, Francis, 1545?-1608.	1667 (1667)	Wing T849; ESTC R10094	25,159	44

as if their Tongues were to pronounce some Funeral and the Universal Lamentation that was made for his departed Royal Presence did loudly proclaim his present Royal departure And yet these men shall I say or rather Monsters of Men were so impudent as they publickly justified in the Face of Death and Judgment so horrid and detestable a Crime from the Dictates of their private Conscience and their following of God as they term'd it O horrid Blasphemy Who can hear this and not stand astonished If Conscience should be held a sufficient Plea it would open a Gap to all manner of Licentiousness for why may not such a one that hath a plausible Knack of cheating the common sort of People with the fair Shew of Conscience under the pretence thereof make Claim to a Liberty for to run into Excess and Riot and to commit all kind of Wickedness with greediness and think they are very hardly dealt with if they be denyed it and therefore it 's no great wonder that in those times of Anarchical-Confusion some men who were intoxicated with Principles of Libertinisme should make this Proposition viz. That nothing might be Punished with Death but Murder A thing that I can never think of without Horrour and Amazement that Men should be so loose and given over to such a reprobate sense as to Contend to have Iniquity established by a Law It is confess'd by most Men that are the strongest Assertors of Liberty of Conscience that men which are guilty of Offences against the Second Table should be restrained by Punishment and What satisfactory rational Accompt can be given why the same Care should not be taken for the preventing the Breach of the First Table which hath respect unto those Duties which we owe unto God Hath not Conscience Influence upon both Is not Gods Glory concerned in one as well as the other Or are the things of God less precious than the things of Men But I know it will be objected That no Man hath Dominion over the Conscience but God alone 't is he only that exercises Soveraignity therein But in Answer to this I would fain know Whether the Supreme Lord hath not delegated power to some men and invested them with Authority to Check and Control the Exorbitant Practises and Expressions of such persons who break out in things which manifestly tend to the dishonour of His Name and the Peace of the Church Or otherwise all Ordinances Order and Government would be trampled under foot Religion would be Banished quite out of the Land and the habitable World turned into an Hell And if this were not so how comes it to pass that under the Law the false Prophet and the Brother that spake to the People to turn them away from the Lord their God were put to Death Deut. 13. And was not the Blasphemer stoned to Death Levit. 24. 14. God you know many times Plagued Judah and at last carried it into Captivity because of their tolerating of Errour and Idolatry and if you consult Josephus the Jewish Historian you will find that the toleration of divers Sects among them was the Procatarctick Cause of their utter Overthrow But Gentlemen You have another sort of Men that can find in their hearts to come to Church but they are afraid lest they should be too curious in matters of God's Worship and should be thought to Complement with God Almighty who is a Spirit and looks for the heart in such performances Crassam rusticitatem pro sanctitate habent as those did that St. Jerome complains of in his time they think God is best served in a slovenly manner they deal by God Almighty as they do by some of their familiar friends whom they meet with as they are walking abroad they do not stop their Course to give them a formal Salutation by Crindging Bowing and putting off their Hats but only give them a nod as they pass along or haply may mutter out that trite and thredbare Complement of Your Servant in that Transitory posture So I say you shall have them do with God when they come into his House to Worship him they think a careless Dress or Address of themselves is best becoming and so serve God hand over head as I may say or as you have it Lev. 26. 21 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 at all Adventures for the Word signifies so as well as Contrary which our Translation renders it But you shall have these men plead for themselves and say that External Devotion doth not suite with these Evangelical times But were they thoroughly acquainted with the Gospel which they so much talk of and so little practise they would find that this fond Conceit of theirs is sufficiently Confuted by our Saviours Practice Did not he lift up his Eyes to Heaven when he prayed for Lazarus and fell on his Face when he prayed in his Agony St. Paul as himself saith bowed his Knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ But these men when they come into God's House the Place of His Sacred Presence you shall have them presently Clap on their Hats and sit on their Breeches in Time of Prayer What a shame is this The very Heathens shewed more reverence in the Worshipping of their Idol Gods for I read in Plutarch That they adored the Deity that beareth the Name of Honour with the head bare And how rude those Sedentary persons are who cannot find in their hearts to kneel or stand in time of Prayer will sufficiently appear if you consider what you read in Levit. 19. 32. viz. Thou shalt rise up before the Hoarie-head If such Honour is required to be done to Old Men then sure it will follow We should much more rise up before the Ancient of Dayes when we are Worshipping of him Religion would lose that Native Veneration that is due to it if it were not Accompanied with outward decent gestures of the Body But me-thinks I may speak to these Men that are so irreverent and profane in their Carriage to God in the words of the Prophet Malachy offer it now unto thy Governour will he be pleased with thee or accept thy Person No I warrant you I durst Appeal to these persons Whether they would do the same in their Addresses to any of us that are in Commission of the Peace And yet are they thus sawcy with God Almighty who is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords as if they were hail fellow well met with him I speak the more vehemently concerning this Miscarriage because such persons deserve a severe reproof and if any such be here present I shall only say this to them which is a certain Truth although it be pungens and not ungens viz. That the Covering of their Heads is a Discovering of their Singularity and Folly or rather their foolish Singularity But Gent. I shall now speak more particularly to the Articles you are to enquire of though I shall not spend time in Enumerating of