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A81982	Davids three mighties: or Sovereignties three champions: being the three prime reformers of the Protestant religion, Luther, Calvin, Tindal. Faithfully cited, and affectionately presented to all the misled people of England, for their instruction and direction, how to deport themselves in the unhappy division betwixt the King and them. That yet at the last by the light of these three glorious professors of the Gospel, they may the better discern both their owne errors, and the impostures of their false teachers. Other renowned worthies since the Reformation have done honourably in the defence of sovereignty, howbeit they attained not unto the first three, 2 Sam. 23. v.18.23.		1644 (1644)	Wing D378; Thomason E42_1; ESTC R11742	28,856	41

remaineth that noble and divine power which the Lord hath by his word given to the Ministers of his righteousnesse and judgement and therefore that hee ought of his Subjects to be had in as great reverence and estimation so much as pertaineth to publicke obedience as they would have the best King if he were given them Sect. 26. First I would have the readers to perceive and diligently marke that providence and singular doings of God which is in the Scripture not without cause so oft rehearsed unto us in distributing of Kingdomes and making Kings whom it pleaseth him in Daniel 2.21 it is said The Lord changeth times and courses of times he casteth away and maketh Kings Again that ●he living may know that the Highest is mighty in the Kingdom ●f men and he shall give it to whom he will with which manner of sentences whereas the whole Scripture aboundeth yet the same Prophesie of Daniel specially swarmeth full now what manner of King was Nebuchadnezzar he that conquered J●●usalem it is sufficiently knowne namely a strange invader and destroyer of other Yet in Ezekel 29 19. the Lord affirmeth that he gave him the land of Egypt for the service that he had d me to him in wasting it And Daniel said to him Dan. 2.37 Thou King of Kings to whom the King of Heavens hath given a mighty and strong and glorious Kingdome to thee I say he hath given it and all the lands where dwell the children of men the beasts of the wood and foules of the aire he hath delivered them into thy hand hath made thee beare rule over them Again he said to his son Belsasar Dan. 5.18 The Highest God hath given to Nebuchadnezer thy fathers Kingdome and Royalty honour and glory and by reason of the royalty that he gave him all peoples tribes and languages were trembling and fearfull at his sight when we heare that a King is ordained of God let us therefore call to remembrance those heavenly warnings concerning the honour and fearing of a King then we shall not doubt to account a most wicked Tyrant in the same place wherein the Lord hath vouchsafed to set him Samuel when he gave warning to the people of Israel 1 Sam. 8.12 what manner of things they should suffer at the hands of their Kings said This shall be the right of the King that shall reign over you he shall take your sonnes and put them to his chariot to make them his horsemen and to plow his land and reap his crop and to make instruments of war He shall take your daughters that they may be his dressers of oyntments his Cookes and Bakers your lands your vineyards and your best olive plants he shall take away and give to his bondservants he shall take tithes of your seeds and vineyards and shall give them to his Eunuches and bondservants he shall take away your bondmen your bondwomen and your asses and set them to his work yea and he shall take tythes of you flocks and ye shall be his bondservants Verily Kings should not have done this or right whom the Law did very well instruct to all continuance but it was called a right over the people which it behooved them of necessity to obey and they might not resist it as if Samuel had said the wilfulnesse of Kings shall run to such licentiousnesse which it shall not be your part to resist to whom this onely thing shall be left to obey their commandements and hearken to their words Sect. 27. But chiefly there is in Jeremy a notable place and worthy to be remembred which although it be somewhat long yet I will be content to rehearse because it most plainly determineth this whole question Jerm 27.3 I have made the earth and men saith the Lord and the living creatures that are on the face of the earth in my great strength and stretched out arme and I will deliver it to him whom it pleaseth in mine eyes and now therefore I have given al these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezar my Servant and all Nations and great Kings shall serve him till the time shall come of that land and it shall be that a Nation and a Kingdome that hath not served the King of Babel I will visit that Nation in sword famine and pestilence wherefore serve ye the King of Babel and live We see with how great obedience the Lord willed that cruell and proud Tyrant to be honoured for no other reason but because he possessed the Kingdome and the same was by the heavenly decree that he was set in the Throne of the Kingdome and taken up into Kingly Majesty which it was unlawfull to violate If we have this continually before our mindes and eyes that even the worst Kings are ordained by the same decree by which the authority of Kings is stablished the seditious thoughts shall never come into our minde that a King is to be handled according to his deservings and that it is not meet that we should shew our selves Subjects to him that doth not on his behalfe shew himselfe a King to us Sect. 28. In vaine shall any man object that this was a peculiar commandement to the Israelites for it is to be noted with what reason the Lord confirmeth it I have given saith he the Kingdome to Nebuchadnezzar wherefore serve yee him and live To whomsoever therefore it shall be certaine that the Kingdome is gi●en let us not doubt that he is to be obeyed and so soone as the Lord advanceth any man to the royall Estate he therein declareth his will to us that he will have him reigne for thereof are generall testimonies of the Scripture Solomon in the 28. Chap. Many Princes are because of the wickednesse of the people Againe Job in the 12. Chapter He taketh away subjection from Kings and girdeth them againe with the girdle But this being confessed there remaineth nothing but that we must serve and live There is also in Jeremy the Prophet another commandement of the Lord wherein he commanded his people to seeke the peace of Babylon whither they had been led away captive ●nd to pray to him for it because in the peace of it should bee their peace Behold the Israelites being spoyled of their goods plucked out of their houses led away into exile and cast into miserable bondage are commanded to pray for the safety of the Conquerer not as in o her places we are commanded to pray for our persecuters but that the Kingdome may be preserved to himselfe and quiet that they themselves may live prosperously under him So David being already appointed King by the ordinance of God and anointed with his holy oyle when he was without any his deserving unworthyly persecuted of Saul yet the head of him that laid wait for his life he esteemed holy which the Lord hath hallowed with the honour of Kingdome far be it from me said he that I should before the Lord doe this thing to my Lord the

anointed of the Lord that I should lay my hand upon him because he is the anointed of the Lord. Againe who shall lay his hand upon the anointed of the Lord and shall be innocent So sure as the Lord liveth unlesse the Lord strike him or his day be come that he dye or he goe downe into battell far be it from me that I should lay my hand upon the anointed of the Lord. Sect. 29. Finally we owe this affection of reverence yea and devotion to all our Rulers of what sort soever they bee which I doe therefore the oftner repeat that we may learn not to search what the men themselves be but take this for sufficient that by the will of the Lord they beare that personage in which the Lord himselfe hath imprinted and ingraved an inviolable Majesty But thou wilt say Rulers owe mutuall dutyes to their Subjects that I have already confessed but if thou thereupon conclude that obediences are to be rendred to none but to just Governours thou art a foolish reasoner for husbands also are bound to their wives and parents to their children with mutuall duties let parents and husbands depart from their dutie let parents shew themselves so hard and unpleasable to their children whom they are forbidden to provoke to anger that with their peevishnesse they do unmeasurably weary them let the husbands most despitefully use their wives whom they are commanded to love to spare them as weak vessells shall yet therefore either children be disobedient to their parents or ●ives to their husbands But they are subject both to evill parents and husbands and such as doe not their duty yea when as all ought rather to endeavour themselves not to looke behind them to the bag hangi●g on their backe that is not to enquire one of anothers duties but every man set before him that which is his owne duty this ought chiefly to have place among those that are under the power of other wherefore if we be unmercifully tormented of a cruell Prince if we be ravenously spoy●ed of a covetous or riotous Prince if we be neglected of a slothfull Prince finally if we be vexed for godlinesse sake of a wicked and ungodly Prince let us first call to minde the remembrance of our sinnes which undoubtedly are chastised with such scourges of the Lord thereby humility shall bridle our impatience let us then also call to minde this thought that it pertaineth not to us to remedy such evills but this only is left for us that we crave the helpe of the Lord in whose hand are the hearts of Kings and the bowings of Kingdomes he is the God that shall stand in the assembly of Gods and shall in the midst judge the gods from whose face all Kings shall fall and be broken and all the Judges of the earth that shall not have kissed his anointed that have written unjust lawes to oppresse the poore in judgement and doe violence to the cause of the humble to make widowes a prey and rob the fatherlesse Sect. 30. And here both his marveilous goodnesse and power and providence sheweth it selfe for sometime of his servants he raiseth up open revengers and furnisheth them with his commandement to take vengeance of their unjust government and to deliver his people many wayes oppressed out of miserable distresse sometime he directeth to the same end the rage of men that extend and goe about another thing So hee delivered the people of Israel out of the tyranny of Pharaoh by Moses and out of the violence Chusam King of Syria by Othoniel and out of other thraldomes by other Kings or Judges So he tamed the pride of Tyrus by the Egyptians the insolence of the Egyptians by the Assyrians the fiercenesse of the Assyrians by the Chaldees the boldnesse of Babylon by the Medians and by the Persians when Cyrus had subdued the Medians and the fulnesse of the Kings of Judah and Israel and their wicked obstinacy towards his so many benefits he did beat downe and bring to distresse sometime by the Assyrians sometime by the Babylonians albeit not all after one manner for the first sort of men when they were by the lawfull calling of God sent to doe such acts in taking armor against Kings they did not violate that Majesty which is planted in Kings by the ordinance of God but being armed from heaven they subdued the lesser power with the greater like as it is lawfull for Kings to punish their Lords under them but these latter sort although they were directed by the hand of God whither it pleased him and they unwittingly did his worke yet purposed in their mindes nothing but mischiefe Sect. 31. But howsoever the very doings of men be judged yet the Lord did as well execute his work by them when he did break the bloudy Scepters of proud Kings and overthrew their intolerable governments Let Princes hear and be afraid but we in the meane time must take great heed that we doe not despise or offend that authority of Magistrates full of reverend Majesty which God hath stablished with most weighty decrees although it remaine with most unworthy men and which doe with their wickednesse so much as in them is defile it for though the correcting of unbridled government be the revengement of the Lord let us not by and by thinke that it is committed to us to whom there is given no other commandement but to obey and suffer I speake alway of private men for if there be at this time any Magistrates for the people constituted for the moderating of the lust of Kings such as in old time were the Ephori that were set against the Kings of Lacedemonia or the Tribunes of the people against the Roman Consuls or the Demarchy against the Senate of Athens and the same power also which peradventure as things are now the three Estates have in every Realme when they hold their principall assemblies I doe so not forbid them according to their office to withstand the outraging licentiousnesse of Kings that I affirme that if they winke at Kings wilfully raging over and treading down the poore Communalty their dissembling is not without wicked breach of falth because they deceitfully betray the liberty of the people whereof they know themselves to be appointed pro●ectours or defen● ours by the ordinance of God This ●estimony I co●●eive to be as compleat an● opposite as can ●e desired only for me●s perve●ting the l●●ter part of the last ci●ed paragraphes from those words I speak alway of private men c. to the end of that Sect ha●h 〈…〉 both the honour of that teste● amongst loyall subjects and the validity of that testimony in so honourable a cause as t is now produced in but with Gods assistance I trust I shall vindicate both by this candid explication of those words and cleare manifestation of their true sco● e and intent I speake alway of private men saies Calvin but in what case and of

DAVIDS THREE MIGHTIES OR SOVEREIGNTIES THREE CHAMPIONS Being the three prime Reformers of the Protestant Religion Luther Calvin Tindal Faithfully cited and affectionately presented to all the misled People of England for their instruction and direction how to deport themselves in the unhappy division betwixt the King and them That yet at the last by the light of these three Glorious Professors of the Gospel they may the better discern both their owne errors and the impostures of their false Teachers Other Renowned Worthies since the Reformation have done honourably in the defence of Sovereignty Howbeit they attained not unto the first three 2 Sam. 23. v. 18.23 OXFORD Printed by Leonard Lychfield Printer to the University 1643. To the Seduced People of England VVHen the Princes and people of Judah hurried with their sinnes and driven on by their false Prophets were in the ready way to utter ruine the Lord called unto them by his Prophet to make a stand and looke about them advising them for their safety and quiet in the midst of their distempers to aske for the old paths where the good way was and to walke therein and so they should finde rest to their soules Ierem. 6. To tell you that the Princes and People of this Nation too many of them at least are in the like dangerous condition upon the like cause and by the like instruments were to tell you not what you dream but what this whole Nation feels and groanes under and therefore to call upon you to use the like meanes for your deliverance and presevation cannot but be a likely way of doing you much good if you have but so much grace as to hearken thereunto But as it was Judah's grand error if not the complement of her iniquity to refuse to walke in the ancient paths and in the way whereunto the Prophets invited them and to chuse rather to walke in new paths in a way not cast up wherein their lying prophets had misled them Ierem. 6.16 cap. 18. v. 15. so I pray God it bee not Englands We have multitudes of us come neare very neare that desperate obstinacy a good while since witnesse the imprisoning so many grave orthodox Divines that have ever walked in those ancient paths themselves without turning to the right hand or to the left and have done their best to lead their people with them and witnesse also the suppressing so many excellent Sermons books and tractates some in the Presse others at their first comming forth composed and framed wholly for the misled peoples information that they might see the error of their new wayes and returne to their old paths of duty and loyalty to God and their Sovereigne But thankes be to the Lord we are not all delivered up to that stupendious blindenesse and hardnesse of heart Nay my hope and charity doe as yet perswade my faith to beleeve that hundreds of this Kingdome if not thousands even of those seduced wretches that have gone out in this present horrid Rebellion against our most Gracious King have gone out like those two hundred in Absalons Rebellion against King David 2 Sam. 15. In the simplicity of their hearts and had they been suffered to have knowne what some Divines were willing and ready to have imparted unto them they themselves would have suffered as much as any rather then have acted in that villany And for their sakes it is that I adventure the publishing these three Worthies opinions concerning the duty of Subjects to their Sovereigne though wicked and tyrannicall that by the truth and soundnes of these first Reformers of the true Protestant Religion the falsenesse and rottennesse of our new Reformers as they would be reputed may the more easilie be discovered and that by their acknowledging such an indispensible through obedience to be due to the worst of Princes these deceived ones may at the last bee shamed out of their Rebellion against the best I could have produced in this cause above threescore witnesses of the most famously renowned for learning and piety that ever the Reformed Churches brought forth but some considerable reasons perswaded me to content my selfe and to hope I may satisfie others with urging only these three First because God himselfe prescribes that number of witnesses as sufficient for the establishing of truth Deut. 19.15 Matth. 18.16 and with whom Gods word is of power that number of witnesses prescribed in his word cannot but be so of prevalency especially when their testimonies are grounded upon Gods word as these three are Secondly the multiplying of witnesses would have proved over chargeable to those for whose sake the vindicating of this cause by this fair way of tryall is principally undertaken I meane the common sort of people who though they can be content poore soules many of them to buy the truth Proverb 23.23 yet being they may not sell it againe divers will not and some cannot though they would be at the cost to give any great rate for it of how great concernment soever it be and he were unworthy to partake of that price that Christ paid for mens soules that would not consult the best he could for the soules of the poore as well as of the rich all being alike pretious in our Redeemers sight Thirdly the poore Printers are a little to be considered in these prest oppressing times for those few of them that are so honest and valiant as to dare to print ought that savours of loyalty and duty to their Sovereigne are so hunted and persecuted from place to place both by day and night that to imploy them in ought that would long detaine them were to betray them and perhaps those that set them on worke Lastly I would not willingly prevent my good friend Mr. Catford whom as I finde by his Epistle before the Exhortation to Peace to have taken this very way of conviction and to have made so fair a progresse therein that had not the inspired Colonell had better information thereof then he had lately a revelation of conquering after so often running away that worke intended had beene long since finished so it is yet hoped and earnestly desired that he may have liberty to perfect the same These reasons prevailed with me to urge only the testimonies of Three and why I made choice of these three let the testimonies themselves be perused and they will speake enough to silence that demand Read then and when ye are converted strengthen your brethren which that ye may be and doe is and shall be the constant prayer of Your constant Brother DOctor Martin Luther that glorious day-starre of the blessed Reformation that third Elias that burning and shining light of the Gospell Tom. 1. in decla pop de praecept 4. Although they speaking of Sovereigne Princes exact upon and oppresse the Country people or their Citizens or their Priests yet they are to be borne with no otherwise then as the hand of the Lord pressing hard upon our sinnes

out of the Catalogue then any other mans upon which consideration he adv●s●d them all to conceive no otherwise of his case then they did of their owne who were more liable to the same forme of proceeding ●ut every man c●using rather to pr●s●rve his owne life by silence then presen●ly to draw upon h●mselfe the danger which as yet concerned him little and perhaps would never come neare him the Tyrants interpreting silence as consent condemned him forthwith and compelled him to drinke poyson After the death of Theremanes the Thirty began to use such outrage as excelled their former villanies for having three thousand as they thought firme unto them they robbed all others without scare or shame dispoyling them of lands and goods and caused them to fly into banishment for safeguard of their lives He that would read more of those thirty Tyrants as how they ran into the very depth of all mischiefes when they had done such as they saw there was little hope left them of going backward as also how far the remainder of the three thousand which had communicated with the tyrannicall faction of the Thirty in their wickednesses did proceed in their barbarous practises and what just doome ceased upon that whole faction may at his leasure read on where I breake off but this which I have transcribed may suffice to have shewed how little thanks they are worthy of from Parliaments that urge the practise of the Athenian Demarchy for their patern And indeed which is the second thing observable in those words of Calvin that Calvin himselfe considered that such a comparison or resemblance of the power of the three estates in Parliament to the power of such popular Magistrates constituted for the moderating of the lust of Kings as the Ephori Tribunes or Demarchy were c. was either not justifiable or not acceptable or both and therefore he ascribes to the three Estates they being such popular Magistrates and having such power only with a peradventure and as things are now and doth not say positively that they have such power or that the Lawes of those Realmes wherein they are doe give them that power No had he affirmed it hee had fouly mistaken for t is knowne to every Soilus that all the three Estates in this Realme other Realmes I meddle not with were never accounted populares Magistratus popular Magistrates or Magistrates on the behalfe of the people neither were they reputed as intrusted with the peoples liberty only one estate of the three viz. the House of Commons hath been and still is so reputed by the most how justly is disputable Besides we of this Realme have lived to see one of the three Estates that Calvin speakes of viz. the Lords Spirituall quite excluded from having any power at all in our principall Assemblies which I am perswaded Calvin himselfe as great an enemy as he is rendred to that estate would never have approved further then by submitting to their power and authority that did it which all good Subjects are bound unto had it been only for the perilousnesse of the example whereby others hereafter may perhaps be encouraged to attempt the excluding of one Estate more from that honourable Court or for the danger of our Religion it selfe that being more easie to be corrupted by P●pists Anabaptists Brownists or other Heretickes through thei● false and subtill suggestions to that honourable Assembly when they that either are or should be the most able propugners thereof are excluded from that place where a word seasonably spoken by them might be of more force and validity then a thousand spoken afterwards in another place But take in Calvins If and his Peradventure and all and let it be supposed that there are now such popular Magistrates for the moderating of the lust of Kings as the very Ephori or the Dema●chy were themselves in old time and that the three Esta●es in those Kingdomes wherein they are established have the s●me power when they hold their principall Assembles for that restriction must not be omitted yet what does Calvin from thence infer Only this I doe so not forbid them saith he according to their office to withstand or hinder or come b●tween his word is intrudere the outraging licentiousnesse of Kings that I affirme that if they winke or connive at Kings impotenter grassantibus or wildly wilfully or outragiously treading downe and insulting over the poore Communalty their dissembling is not without wicked breach of faith because they dec●itfully betray the liberty of the people whereof they know themselves to be appointed Tuters Defenders or Protectors by the ordinance of God So that all which Calvin alowes any po●ular Magistrates constituted for the moderating of the lust of Kings if there be any such now in these times and all that by name be attributes to the three Estates when they are assembled were they such popular Magistrates as they are not is this and this alone That when Kings are outragiously licentious so that they doe to the poore Communalty even what they pleas● treading them down and insulting over them then they ou●ht to doe their utmost so far as their duty obligeth them and the Law permits to hinder them from so doing and not to wink at them or dissem●le with them as for ex●mple If any King of our owne Kingdom should outragiously and cruelly oppresse the Communalty by illegall taxes and other unjust impositions according to his owne lust and pleasure if when the Houses of Parliament be convene they should not according to their duty informe the King of the oppression which the people groane under and the illegallity thereof and with all humblenesse advise him to the contrary yea and do their u●most by propounding to him good and wholesome Lawes and by using all other just and lawfull meanes to hinder him from going on in such courses but rather either yeeld to the making of some Acts for the further satisfying of the Kings licentiousnesse or connive at him and dissemble with him to the approving of what he had formerly done they might then indeed be thought to deale perfidiously and to betray the liberty of the people which God even by calling of them to that Assembly as Members thereof summoned by his Vicegerents Writ hath appointed them to maintaine and defend so as is before mentioned But here is not one word let fall or one syllable whispered that doth in any wise approve correcting or taking vengeance on such Kings no nor calling them to an account much lesse of taking up Armes against them unlesse Calvins last clause Whereof they know themselves to be appointed Protecters or Defenders by the Ordinance of God be hideously perverted contrary to Gods Ordinance as inforcing That because some are appointed by God to be Protecters or Defenders of the liberty of the Common-people therefore they that are such may protect and defend them by open violence and force of Armes against their Sovereigne as though there