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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90261	Puritano-Iesuitismus, the Puritan turn'd Jesuite; or rather, out-vying him in those diabolicall and dangerous positions, of the deposition of kings; from the yeare 1536. untill this present time; extracted out of the most ancient and authentick authours. By that reverend divine, Doctour Ovven, Batchelour of Divinity. Shewing their concord in the matter, their discord in the manner of their sedition.; Herod and Pilate reconciled	Owen, David, d. 1623.	1643 (1643)	Wing O704B; Thomason E114_21; ESTC R6680	35,844	56

and fall like other Princes Wherefore Nathan the man of God must reprove David i 2 Sam. 12.7 that hee may repent and bee saved And the Sages Iudges and Nobles without feare or flattery must advise and direct Roboam k 1 Reg. 12.7 Other attempts against Kings the King of Kings hath neither commanded in his law Apolog. David cap. 10. nor permitted in his Gospell David saith Ambrose nullis legibus tenebatur c. David though hee were an adulterer and an homicide was tied to no law for Kings are free from bonds and can by no compulsion of law bee drawne to punishment being freed by the power of Government Thus farre Ambr. Saul the first King of Israel was rather a monster then a man after the Spirit of God had forsaken him and the evill Spirit was come upon him m 1 Sam. 16.14 There were not many sinnes against God Man or Nature wherein hee trangressed not yet his excesse was punished neither by the Sacerdotall Synod nor the secular Senate Who can lay his hand on the Lords annointed and bee guiltlesse n 1 Sam. 16.9 The very Annointment was the cause of Sauls immunity from all humane coercion as Augustine affirmeth Aug. contr lit Petil. l. 2. 〈◊〉 48. Quaero si non habebat Saul sacramenti sanctitatem quid in eo David venerabatur If Saul had not the holinesse of the Sacrament I aske what it was that David reverenced in him hee honoured Saul for the sacred and holy unction while hee lived and revenged his death Yea hee was troubled and trembled at the heart because hee had cut off a lap of Sauls garment Loe Saul had no innocency and yet hee had holinesse not of life but of unction So farre Augustine Who questioned David for his murther and adultery who censured Solomon for his idolatry though their crimes were capitall by the law of God After that Kingdome was divided all the Kings of Israel and most of the Kings of Iudah were notorious Idolaters yet during those Kingdomes which endured above 200. yeares no Priest did chalenge no States-men did claime power from the highest to punish or depose their Princes And the Prophets perswaded all men to obey and endure those idolatrous Princes whose impiety they reproved with the losse of their lives Christ fled when the people would have made him a King a Joh. 6.15 Hee payed tribute for himselfe and Peter b Matth. 17.27 When the question was propounded concerning the Emperours subsidy hee concluded for Caesar c Matth. 22.21 And standing to receive the judgement of death before Pilate hee acknowledged his power to be of God d Ioh. 19.15 This Saviour of Mankind whose actions should bee our instruction did never attempt to change that Government or to displace those Governours which were directly repugnant to the scope of Information that hee aimed at Iohn Baptist did indeed reprove King Herod with a Non licet e Mark 6.18 but he taught not the souldiers to leave his service or by strife and impatience to wind themselves out of the band of allegiance wherein the law had left them and the Gospell found them f Luk. 3.14 The Apostle delivered unto the Church the doctrine of obedience and patience which they had learned by the precept and observed by the practise of our Lord CHRIST Peter commandeth obedience to all manner of men in authority g 1 Pet. 2.15 Paul forbiddeth resistance against any power h Rom. 13.1.2.3.4 Iudc 8. And Saint Jude maketh it blasphemy to revile government or to speake evill of Governours i. If therefore an Angell from heaven preach otherwise then they have delivered let him bee accursed k Gal. 1.8 The second Chapter proveth the same by the Fathers of the first 300. yeares THe true Church which had the Spirit of understanding to discerne the voice of Christ from the voice of a stranger never taught never practised never used or approved other weapons then salt teares and humble prayers against the Paganisme Heresie Apostacy and Tyranny of earthly Kings Iustinus Martyr Tertullian and Cyprian shall beare witnesse for 300. yeares wherein the Kings and Potentates of the earth bathed themselves in the bloud of innocents and professed enmity against Christ and his servants Ad inquisitionem vestram Christianos nos esse profitemur c. At your inquisition we professe our selves to be Christians though wee know death to bee the guerdon of our profession saith Iustine Martyr to the Emperour Antoninus Secund. Apolog ad Ant. Imp. p. 113. did wee expect an earthly Kingdome wee would deny our religion that escaping death wee might in time attaine our expectation But we feare not persecution which have not our hope fixed on the things of this life because we are certainely perswaded that wee must die As for the preservation of publike peace we Christians yeeld to you O Emperour more helpe and assistance then other men For wee teach that no evill doer no covetous man nor seditious that lieth in wait for bloud can have accesse to God And that every man doth passe to life or death according to the merit of his deeds Thus farre hee We saith Tertullian tō Scapula the Viceroy of Carthage are defamed Tertull. lib. ad Scap. for seditious against the Imperiall Majesty Yet were the Christians never found to be Albinians Nigrians or Cassians Albinus Niger and Cassius were Traytours against Marcus Antonius Commodus Pertinax and Severus the Emperours but they that sware by the Emperours diety the very day before they that vowed and offered sacrifice for the Emperours health are found to be the Emperours enemies A Christian is enemy to no man much lesse to the Emperour knowing that the Emperiall Majesty is ordained of God and therefore necessarily to bee loved reverenced and honoured whose prosperity together with the welfare of al the Roman Empire they desire so long as the world standeth We doe therefore honour the Emperour in such sort as is lawfull for us and expedient for him wee reverence him as a mortall man next unto God of whom hee holdeth all his authority onely subject to God and so wee make him soveraigne overall in that wee make him subject but to God alone So farre Tertullian Saint Cyprian sheweth many good reasons for the patience of the Saints in his booke against Demetrianus God saith hee is the revenger of his servants when they are annoyed Wherefore no Christian when hee is apprehended doth resist or revenge himselfe against your unjust violence though the number of our people bee very great The confidence wee have that God will reward doth confirme our Patience the guiltlesse give way to the guilty the innocent rest content with their undeserved punishment and tortures being certainly assured that the wrong done to us shall not bee unrewarded The more injury we suffer the more just and grievous shall Gods vengeance be on them that persecute us