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A90660	The loyal non-conformist, or, The religious subject, yielding to God his due, and to Cæsar his right being a discourse from the pulpit touching true gospel worship and due subjection to magistrates / now printed, as it was preached (for the most part) in the month of August, 1662, by T.P.P---N-C.	T. P., P---N-C.	1644 (1644)	Wing P203B; ESTC R42780	86,090	259

must pray for Magistracy and Magistrates pray to God to maintain and uphold the Office his own Ordinance and to inspire and guide and preserve and bless the Officers both Supream and Subordinate to whom he hath committed the Sword to be born by them whom he hath invested with Power and Authority over us that are the Powers ordained of God We must pray for the continuance and support of Magistracy with respect to the honour of God whose Ordinance it is for his own Glory in opposition to unruly Libertines and antimagistratical spirits that defie this Ordinance of God And we are to pray for the upholding of Magistracy with respect to our selves in regard of the necessity and utility of this Ordinance in as much as it is ordained for our good And we must pray for Magistates for those whom God hath set over us to govern us that under them we may lead a quiet and peaceable life 1 Tim. 2.3 2. in all godliness and honesty 2. We must contribute toward the support of the Powers which God hath ordained by a chearful payment of such Tribute or Customes as are legally and reasonably required of us for necessary supplies Render to all their dues Rom. 13.7 Tribute to whom Tribute Custome to whom Custome belongs Counsel 5 5. Let us honour Magistracy having a high esteem of the higher Powers acknowledging their Office to be God's Ordinance and a jurisdiction delegated from God himself who invests Government with Majesty I have said ye are Gods Magistrates are God his Lieutenants as it were his Deputies and so bear his Title therefore their Calling is honourable and they must be honoured But this will fall in under the notion of Subjection to which the Apostle here exhorteth from the consideration of the Authority of Magistracy and that is it which I shall hereafter speak of The second Doctrinal conclusion from the Text is this Doct. 2 2. That every Christian must be subject to the powers ordained of God In handling this point I shall by way of Explication shew 1. What is the import of this tearm Subjection 2. To whom Subjection must be yielded 3. Who must be subject 4. I shall open the duty Subjection endeavouring to give you the true state of it Quest 1 Quest 1. What doth this tearm Subjection import or what is it to subject Answ Ans Subjicere is to lay or put under as it is said David brought forth the people that were in Rabba subjecit serres c. and put them under Sawes and harrows of Iron subjected them to such grievous punishments but the * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Greek word here in the Text signifies something further than to be under or to be put under it signifies an orderly subjection to be put in order under another Let every soul be subordinate to the higher Powers i. e. Subject in his place and order The word being of a middle voice may be translated either passively or actively but here it must be of an active signification for it is an exhortation to the performance of a duty Let every soul be subject according to God his Ordinance who hath by his Ordination and Command subjected every Soul to the higher powers so that here is noted a willing orderly subjection And the word is a general word comprehending all other duties and services it notes the whole duty of an inferiour estate particularly it implies due reverence and a ready full obedience without resistance or reluctancy Quest 2 Quest 2. To whom must this subjection be yielded Answ Ans To the higher Powers and to all the powers that are ordained of God to Magistrates supream and subordinate Supream powers are intended principally but not only we read elsewhere of Principalities and Powers Tit. 3 1 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The former word notes those that have a primary more immediate and more plenary power under God for administrations in their Dominions as Kings and cheif Governours The other word signifies such as exercise Authority under them deriving power from them to act as Governours by delegation There are Kings 1 Pet. 2.12 as supream and Governours sent by them These are the object of this duty of subjection or subjectum cui the subject to whom subjection must be yielded and we are to look not only at the persons that bear Rule have Power and are in Authority but also and more especially at the Order Office and Calling it self Quest 3 Quest 3. Who must be subject Answ Answ The Text saith Every Soul 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in our proposition it is every Christian All persons under Government of whatsoever age rank capacity calling quality or condition all must be subject to Magistrates to the powers supream and subordinate Quest 4 Quest 4. What is the duty here called for in the expression of the Text Answ Answ A willing and orderly subjection Subjection implies which implies Reverence and Obedience 1. Reverence 1 Reverence which is a kind of honour and observance joyned with some awe and special humility and submission of the mind and body exhibited by an inferiour to a Superiour having a regard to his person and place and worth and words and actions This Reverence must be inward and outward 1. 1. Inward Inward Reverence of the heart The Apostle saith that the Law is spiritual it is so in every Commandment it reacheth the inward man Thus in this point of honouring Superiours there is a Law laid upon the heart This inward reverence is to have a due estimation of their Superiority and Authority and in acknowledgement thereof to have due respect to them in our hearts to have them in high account and to stand in awe of them Contrary to this inward reverence is a sleighting and despising of Superiours as those children of Belial despised Saul 1 Sam. 10.27 and those impure Hereticks which the Apostle speaks of Jude 8. are said to despise Dominions Now we are to honor Magistrates in our hearts as they are in God's place esteeming them to be higher and worthier than others and standing in awe of them Prov. 24.21 Fear God and the King The Lord magnified Joshua in the fight of all Israel and they feared him Josh 4.14 i. e. reverenced him as they feared Moses c. The people said unto David Thou art worth ten thousand of us 2 Sam. 18.3 they had a reverend high esteem of him The Church accounted King Josiah the breath of their Nostrils Sam. 4.20 he was precious in their account 2. There must be outward reverence 2 Outward which is an expression of the mind in reverend and lowly speeches and gestures 1. We must speak reverently and respectively of In speech and especially to Magistrates Aaron though the Elder Brother and High-Priest honoureth Moses with the Title of Lord he being by Gods appointment the Captain-General and Chief Magistrate Governour of the

powers is to resist the Ordinance of God and so to resist God himself and this wounds the Conscience and layes us under a fear of God his revenging Justice A Christian is bound to perform civil duties upon grounds of Religion God's Command binds the Conscience to keep men's righteous Laws Here is another Argument from the rule of Justice which is 7 Arg. ab aequo to render to every one his due and here he reckons up four particulars of civil ob●dience according to the degrees of civil powers or the several Orders and Offices of men in power Render tribute to whom tribute is due viz. to the Prince his Treasurers Custome to whom custome is due To the Prince his Farmers and Collectours Fear to whom fear is due viz. to the Prince his Deputies to Governours Judges Justices Officers sent by him while they act in their places under him according to the Prince his declared will and the power derived to them and vested in them by the Laws as they are Ministers of Justice Lastly render honour to whom honour is due viz. to the Person and Authority of the Prince or cheif Ruler as Saint Peter commands honour the King Now Tribute is that which is charged upon and paid out of a man's possession and estate Custome is properly that which is paid out of Merchandize or Traffick exported or imported Fear is an acknowledgment of the power ordained by God and a care not to offend it lest we incur blame and punishment Honour is a due inward affection toward him whom we judg worthy of reverence and respect either for his vertue or for the eminency of his place or for his beneficence toward us or upon some other just consideration and an outward due signification and testification of our inward reverence and respect toward him honour is due to the powers especially the higher powers because of their Office and Place as to our civil Parents by vertue of God's command Honour thy Father Honour comprehends reverence fear subjection obedience love and thankfulness Thus I have dispatched the Doctrinal part of this my discourse I have stated the duty of subjection to Magistrates telling you that it imports mainly reverence and obedience and shewing you what reverence is and what it is to obey Now whereas I assigned this limitation of our universal obedience viz. it must be in the Lord in all things according to the mind of God only so far as God his Word gives us command or allowance to act This is the limitation which the Scripture suggesteth and in many place holdeth forth and therefore cannot be justly offensive to any nor will it offend any good Magistrate who acknowledgeth God to be his Superiour and the Supream Law-giver and desires that God should be honoured above all And whereas touching the binding power of humane Laws in the Conscience I determined That the Laws of men bind not the Conscience directly and immediately nor universally and unlimitedly nor absolutely as the Laws of God do but only by the intervention of God's Command and as they are grounded upon and derived from and agreeable to the Eternal Law the Law of God and I concluded That no voice but God's Voice is to be heard in the Conscience as commanding there and binding indispensibly to obedience This determination is warranted by Scripture and therefore not to be quarrelled with Concerning the whole I shall shew you what was the sence and Conscience of our late King Charles the First as he expresseth himself in that Book of his Entituled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Portraiture of his Sacred Majesty his words are these I have often declared how little I desire that my Lawes and Scepter should entrench on God his Soveraignty who is the onely King of mens Consciences and yet he hath laid such restraint upon men as commands them to be subject for Conscience sake giving no men liberty to break the Law established further then with meekness and patience they are contented to suffer the penalty annexed rather than perturb the publick peace And again Next to fear God is honour the King next to it not before it Thus our late Soveraign I now come to a word or two of Application Application The first Use shall be for Confutation 1 Confutation First of Papists and Popish Doctrine Of Papists 1. Of that horrible and hellish Doctrine That it is lawful and meritorious to murther Princes in the quarrel of Religion justifying abetting and applauding the heinousest Treasons against the highest Powers upon earth Doth God say Let every Soul be subject to the higher Powers and shall the Pope teach Subjects to murther their Princes and to blow up Parliaments c. for the advantage of the Catholick Cause as they call it Doubtless saith a learned Divine The Romish Religion is the most horrid Rebel in the world 2. There is another false absurd idle Doctrine of theirs hereby confuted viz. this That the Pope and his Bishops and Clergy who call themselves Spiritual are exempted from subjection to civil Magistrates both as to their persons in the tryal of Ecclesiastical Civil and Criminal Causes and as to their purses and possessions in paying Tributes Whereas the Apostle here chargeth every Soul to be subject to the higher powers to the powers ordained of God and Christ we read paid tribute for himself and Peter Act. 25.11 and Paul pleaded before the civil Magistrate and we know that Aaron the high Priest was subject to Moses the chief Magistrate yet these men as if they were higher than high Priests and before Peter and better than Apostles must forsooth be exempted from subjection to any civil Powers Secondly Our Text and Doctrine serves for Confutation of Donatists and Millenaries and Quakers and some Anabaptists who look for the abolishing of all Magistracy that Christ alone may reign among the Saints who cry down Magistrates and deny that they have any coercive punitive Power that cry up an equality and parity among Christians holding that Christians need no Magistrates and that they need not be subject to any And why so What do they plead for this opinion of theirs and for their denial of subjection i. e. reverence and obedience to Magistrates Object They say that they are the Lord his Freemen and that it is against Christian liberty for Christians to be under the power of any but Christ who is their only King who hath made them free and that they must not be the servants of men Answ The Liberty unto which Christ doth free his people in this life is inward and spiritual Gospel liberty is a liberty from sin a liberty unto duty a liberty to serve God in our order place and station a liberty from the yoke of Ceremonies c. and surely civil subjection to Superiours is not inconsistent with such spiritual liberty Indeed the Apostle Paul discourseth largely of Christian liberty and yet he doth more than