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A47255 A dialogue between two friends occasioned by the late revolution of affairs, and the oath of allegiance by W.K. ... Kennett, White, 1660-1728. 1689 (1689) Wing K300; ESTC R16675 26,148 42

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As 't is more safe and prudent to bear with a little uneasiness in a particular Member conditionally it endanger not the other parts than hazard the Health of the whole Body by churlish Physick to redress that Tollerable Inconvenience The Duties of Obedience the Gospel enjoyns is to lawful Authority not to illegal or imposed Jurisdiction not an Arbitrary Power It condemns not our desending our selves from apparent Ruine and Destruction and permits us to dispute our Rights with our Princes without that infamous Character of Rebels Besides Rom. 13. was written on purpose to confute that fond Opinion of the Jews before mentioned that they were so immediately in Covenant with God that no Foreiner had Authority to oblige them to obedience This the Apostle condemns by a positive Command to the contrary saying Let every scul be subject to the higher powers and withal shews them the Reasonableness of this Precept because the powers that be whether Pagan or Jewish are ordained of God inferring that they living under the Ordinance of God are obliged to be subject unto it Verse the Second he illustrates the heinousness of the sin of opposing Lawful Authority in the Execution of Legal Commands both from the Ordinance it self and the punishment due to the Transgression of it And perswades persons in these Christian Circumstances who were daily violating the Established Laws of the Empire patiently to suffer and quietly submit to the Legal Execution of the Laws Because opposition made by such persons was resisting the Ordinance of God the punishment of which is Damnation He farther Illustrates that this was the end why Rulers were Ordained their Business and chief Occupation being to punish such Violaters of the Laws as lived in an open Contempt and Transgression of them And therefore plainly tells them they must be subject there 's a necessity laid upon them not only for fear wrath compulsion or punishment the alone Obligations that had power to keep the Jews in Subjection but also for Conscience sake And for the same Reason enjoyns them to pay Tribute Render therefore to all their due tribute to whom tribute is due custom to whom custom fear to whom fear honour to whom honour From hence 't is clear and manifest the Apostle did not command those Christians to subject themselves to an unlimited or Arbitrary Power but to render Obedience to the express and publick Laws of the Empire because these Laws only could determine how much Tribute Fear or Honour Superiors challenged and Inferiors ought to pay The same Doctrine also St. Peter teaches 1 Epist. 2. where observing the Heathens distinguished not between the Jews converted to the Christian Religion and those which retained the Mosaic Principles who for the above-mentioned Cause became the most obstinate turbulent factious and seditious People imaginable upon all occasions exerting their utmost endeavours to raise Tumults and embroil the State in Civil wars The Apostle to dehort the Christians from the Belief and Practice of that wicked Principle earnestly perswades them not to follow the Example of that obstinate and head-strong People but by their regular and meek Behaviour quiet and candid Carriage to approve themselves to the Heathen Governours by submitting to the Ordinance of Man for the Lord's sake That is Render all due Allegiance not only to Jewish but Heathen Governours even to Claudius Drusus in whose Reign the Ancients affirm this Epistle to be written though the Emperour Claudius were elected to the Imperial Throne by the Pretorian Band in opposition to the Design both of City and Senate This very Doctrine also St. Paul commands Titus to teach his Flock Chap. 3. ver 1. And those parallel places those most express and positive Commands Colos. 3. 18 22. Wives submit your selves to your own Husbands Servants in all things obey your masters are only Transcripts of this Doctrine For neither Wives nor Servants are obliged to obey or stigmatiz'd as disobedient for refusing to execute the illegal or wicked Commands of their Husbands and Masters Neither have the latter Power or Legal Authority to correct or punish such Disobedience Jac. If this be the Genuine Sense the Natural Signification of these places of Scripture how came the Primitive Fathers to interpret them in another Sense And why doth St. Paul affirm 2 Cor. 10. 4. that the weapons of Christians are not carnal Will. This is the very Doctrine those Fathers delivered as is evident from the Epistles of St. Polycarp and the Apologies of Justin Martyr Athenagoras and Tertullian to free the Christian Religion from those Aspersions of Sedition and Rebellion the Heathens accused it of and to justifie the Loyalty and Obedience of Christians to the Powers and Magistrates under which they lived Thus Till the Conversion of Constantine the Great to the Christian Faith the Evangelical Doctrine was always in opposition to the Established Laws of the Empire And in all Cases when the Divine Precepts were inconsistent with the Laws Established in the Empire the Christian Religion taught its Votaries quietly to submit and patiently to suffer the punishment due to the Transgression of these Laws without resistance or calumniating Language to take up their Cross and follow their Saviour This the Primitive Fathers did not only frequently inculcate to their Auditors but manifested their Doctrine as is evident from their Works very often by their own Sufferings But when the aforesaid Emperour had setled the Christian Religion and added the Civil Sanction viz. Established its Precepts as the Laws Imperial the Doctrine of the Gospel as to the suffering part was much altered In all former Mutations or Changes in the Government of the Empire the Christian Pastors constantly exhorted their Flocks to obey the Supream Powers not to calumniate or speak evil of Dignities but patiently to submit to the most barbarous Cruelties But when the Evangelical Doctrine and Discipline was Established by Law and Constantius the Emperour persecuted the Orthodox Clergy St. Hillary that Pious and Learned Father roundly tells the Emperour of his impious and unchristian Actions And when Julian Apostatized from the Faith banished the Gospel demolished the Churches and scoffingly told the Christians their Doctrine was to suffer an Eminent Man of that Age writ a Tract approved as Orthodox Doctrine by that Catholick and Renown'd Bishop Athanasius which tartly inform'd the Emperour That the Christian Religion when Established by Law allowed its Votaries to justifie their Rights and was not to be trampled upon ruined and destroyed to gratifie the Humour of an Ambitious and Idolatrous Prince That of St. Paul has no Relation to our present Discourse the Weapons there mentioned are no Shields or Bucklers against the Hostile Attempts of our Adversaries but such as the Church is invested with for the punishment of Criminal Members such as Excommunication Censures c. So that 't is clear and evident those places of Holy Writ that enjoyns Obedience to Superiors however express or emphatical in