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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95657	Pseudeleutheria. Or Lawlesse liberty. Set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Major of London, &c. in Pauls, Aug. 16. 1646. / By Edvvard Terry, Minister of the Word, and pastor of the church at Great-Greenford in the country of Middlesex. Sept. 11. 1646. Imprimatur. John Downame.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1646 (1646)	Wing T781; Thomason E356_11; ESTC R201136	37,931	42

and an inferiority a command and a subjection a mastery and a Dominion in every order of men specially designed The body Politike is very fitly compared unto a naturall body which must not be all head or hand or foot but distinguished into superior and inferior parts for every member to doe its particular office The Heart or Soule sitting in the middest of the body as a King upon his Throne and according to the dictates of the heart the tongue speakes the eyes looke the feete move the hands stir c. Now a body Politike may most fitly be resembled to this Naturall body wherein there are parts as the Apostle speakes more and lesse honourable 1. Cor. 12. yet all tending to the mutuall decency service and succour of the fame body The Aegyptians made an Eie and a Scepter the Embleme by which they figured their government a Scepter for Jurisdiction and power an Eie for watchfulnesse and discretion And certainely a Kingdome without order and government is like the body of that fayned Giant Polyphemus without an eie or rather like a body without an head or which most fitly resembles it like that confused Chaos before the Creation where heighth and depth light and darkenesse were mingled together In the beginning therefore when heaven and earth were first made God established a superiority and rule in other creatures after their kinde and afterwards in man So Gen. 1. 16. God made two great lights the greater to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night he made the starres also And one starre to differ from another in glory 1. Cor. 15. 41. And presently after when he had created man he invested him immediately with imperiall authority to subduethe earth and to rule in it v. 28. And to what other end is it called the host of Heaven Gen. 2. 1. but to shew how that Metaphor is taken from an Army where there must be superiority and subordination command and obedience without both which it cannot subsist For if the spirit and soule of obedience be taken away what can follow but Ataxie and Confusion Reason 2. Secondly there must be Government and Discipline for necessities sake to curbe and restraine all tumultuous and heady spirits all offensive and disordered persons whether in Church or Common-wealth The Lawes of God were first written in the fleshy tables of mans heart but sin did either blot or wear them out thence Then the wisedome of God thought fit to write them upon tables of stone that they might be lasting durable permanent But these Lawes of God thus written and commended and commanded unto man where slighted and neglected and forsaken by him and therefore Irenaus well observes in his first booke against heresies that therefore God appointed Kingdomes and men to rule in them because man forsaking God did wax feirce lawlesse masterlesse and being not sufficiently awed by the feare of the Lord God therefore put upon them the feare of man that fearing humane Lawes they should not devoure destroy consume one another as the fishes of the Sea and the beasts of the wildernesse and the fowles of the aire doe And for this reason there is an absolute necessity of Lawes to curbe and restraine and to keepe people under obedience for were it not for these our beds would not be suffered to lie under us our meate would be pulled out of our mouths our clothes would be torne off our backes rapine and violence would destroy us Vse Now for application this being so as it must needs be granted to be truth What just cause have all people who live under good Lawes to blesse God for them To one who asked the question why the City Sparta had no wals t was answered that the Citizens had good weapons in their hands unanimity in their hearts and to both these good Lawes to order them We want no weapons and these sad times have made almost every one amongst us a man of war And would to God that we had just cause to boast of unity and mutuall agreement amongst our selves But for good Lawes certainly we of this Nation have as great cause to be thankfull as any people under the Cope of Heaven ever had And oh that we had as just cause to prayse God for their due execution likewise But alas we have not Oh justice how faintly doest thou draw thy breath while thou sufferest so many desperate sinners and so many dangerous seducing Schismaticks to march boldly by thee and not bidst them stand Alas how doth the whole Land stinke of that beastly sin of drunkennesse that sin which robs a man of himselfe and leaves a beast in the skin of a man That sin which is like the serpent that stings two waies for it kills the body and slaies the soule too yet how doe those Tents of wickednesse those Thrones wherein Satan dwells those unnecessary tipling houses which so multiply Transgressors and transgressions amongst men increase amongst us How doe Pride and Luxury strive for the upper end of the table How doth the very breath of most desperate swearers and blasphemers even poyson the very aire of the Kingdome wherein we live And how doth the stone out of the Wall and the Beame in the Chamber cry out aloud against oppression And how hath the Error of Religion made many amongst us so wanton that they know not what to have nor what to hold Surely as the Prophet Isaiah complaines Isai. 24. 20. The transgression of the earth of this earth whereon we live lies heavy upon it And now O justice how doest thou degenerate from thy selfe while thou sufferest thy sword for want of drawing to rust or else for feare or for some other ●ie respects to be lock't up in the scabbard I am not come hither to declame against the administration of justice in this honorable City this City so renowned for exemplary government the world over though I must tell you that if I knew any just cause to invite me hereunto I should not spare But this I am sure of that there is an intollerable an unanswerable fault some where when so much wickednesse goes unpunished when so many errors schismes heresies some of which destroy as the rest doe blast the profession of Religion are suffered amongst us though we have lifted up our hands unto the most high God in a solemne League and Covenant to the contrarie Or if they meet with any rebuke from some it is but such a one as that too-too much indulgent Ely who brought up his sonnes to bring downe his house gave his sonnes 1 Sam. 2. 23. saying why doe you so or such things A strange thing in Ely to punish the Thefts Rapines Sacriledge Adulters Incests of his sonnes with why doe you so what was this but to shave that head which deserved to be cut off Doubtles as I find it excellently observed to my hand it is with sins in the soule as with humors in the body a

them Ro. 5. 19. Their Persons infected their Nature but our nature ever since infects our persons Ne mali fiant times nascuntur We are borne bad as well as become so our sin sticking more close to our nature then our skin doth to our flesh And it is no marvell now if our nature so marvellously corrupted be ready to break every branch of the tree of Good which God commands and of the tree of Evill which God forbids this sinfull corruption being like a violent stream which the longer and further it runnes from the fountaine runnes with the greater violence After the flood when the people began to multiply they grew heady exorbitant violent unruly little lesse then mad for they went about an impossible worke to build a towre whose top might reach to heaven Gen. 11. And God there sayth of them v. 6. that they would be restrayned in nothing they imagined to doe that is if they were let alone therefore Almighty God caused their tumultuous action then begun in Pride to end in Confusion In whose example that rebellious spirit which is in every one by nature is drawne out to the very life And doubtlesse were it not for these bands and cords in my Text and for those hookes and bitts which God hath put in the jawes and nostrils of men they would be more unruly more untamed then all the creatures of the world beside Man being estranged from the wombe is ready to goe astray as soone as he is borne Ps. 58. 3. Being of a disobedient and a gainsaying spirit There is a pertinent story to this purpose which Valerius as I remember relates of a Roman who had very long and voluntarily confined himselfe within the walls of Rome and with very much content but afterwards when he was commanded not to goe forth the gates of that City that place which before was his Paradise now by reason of that word of restraint became his Prison And Reason It must needes be thus because rebellion and disobedience is ●●naturall as kindly to man in generall as the very flesh and bones he carries about him Adam left it as a Patrimony as an inheritance unto all his Posterity and Eue gave perversnes in her milke every one naturally harbours a Rebell in his breast Nitimur in verita● which causeth him to thinke forbidden fruit most faire forbidden pleasures most sweet forbidden waies most secure This made the blessed Apostle himselfe sadly to complaine Rom. 7. 23. of a law in his members rebelling against the law of his mind I see a law in my members that is sin ruling like a law in my members in the faculties of my soule and body or like a law governing and ruling my actions Rebelling against the law of my minde that is against that renued spirituall part in me which like a Law too commands me another way Vse I shall not adde much by way of inference or use in the application of this particular because that which I might here insert will fall into that which followes from this text But I beseech you give me leave before I proceed to let fall a very sad complaint and to leave a most just reproofe behind me A complaint and reproofe of some particulars which former times were scarcely acquainted withall A complaint and reproofe of the Preachings and Printings and actings of thousands at this time in this Kingdome a very lively comment on this particular in my text Bo●●Deus ad qu● tempora reservati sumus Good God in what times doe we live when so much lawlesse unwarrantable unjustifiable liberty is taken by men to doe what they please without controll Oh how hath the Pulpit been abused since the hedge hath been downe about our Church by a liberty which without doubt Posterity will not beleeve could be taken at such a time at this when he that pleaseth consecrates himselfe when the lowest among the people without any lawfull Call or Commission take upon them to be publique Teachers of others For an outward call or commission I am sure they have none and if they have an extraordinary and an immediate call from God which would manifest it selfe in more then ordinary guifts let them make this appeare and we will hold our peace and moreover we will reverence them and lay our selves at their feete as they in the fourth of the Acts and 34. 35. verses when they had sold their possessions brought the money and laid it downe at the foote of the Apostles But till they can make this appeare I know not with whom more fitly to compare them then with those vagabond Jewes ●●●ists which tooke upon them great matters to dispossesse those which were troubled with evill spirits Acts 19. 13. and there were seven sonnes of 〈…〉 which did so verse 14. and the evill spirit answered and said to them Jesus I know and Paul I know but who are yee The Devils could easily espie the want of Commission in the sonnes of Sc●va when they adjured him by the name of Jesus whom Paul preached saying Jesus I acknowledge and Paul I know but who are ye● As if he had said your warrant is not good your 〈…〉 are not strong enough to remove me And doubtlesse there are no such chaines of Authority no such linkes of iron to binde the Nobles and Princes of the earth and to restraine Devills as in those tongues which God hath armed from above and enabled and set apart and sent cut in his service Or these which before we named are like those mockers of the true Prophets for they want no slighting nor reviling tearmes for them those mockers mentioned Jer. 23. 25. who call the people together and tell them they have dreamed they have dreamed when they deliver dreames indeed Now as Pauls spirit was stirred up at Athens so should the spirits of all godly honest and Orthodox Ministers and people be now stirred up in England when we doe further consider how that all those ancient and damnable heresies recorded by Irenaeus and Epiphanius which we hoped had been long since buried in forgetfullnesse are rack't up againe out of their corruption and preached by some and applauded by others and defended by more And no marvel for they are a people in generall to give a breife character of them that shall doe them no wrong of proud uneven unquiet untractable unpeaceable uncharitable spirits differing and dissenting much amongst themselves carried away headlong by the violence of their owne wills which they improperly and by misconceiving call their consciences whose wills are very much too hard for their understandings which makes them so wedded to their owne conceivings that you may assoone remove Rocks from their places as these from their conclusions and therefore nor fit to be disputed withall being like mil-horses in the evening just there where they began their morning circuit having two generall all replies for all objections as if you proove a thing plainely by Scripture their usuall answere