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A78145 Reformed religion, or, Right Christianity described in its excellency, and usefulness in the whole life of man by a Protestant-Christian. Barker, Matthew, 1619-1698. 1689 (1689) Wing B777aA; ESTC R42840 61,592 137

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Government doth set him His Will is still guided by Judgment and his Policy is always directed to the Welfare not Destruction of the People He is always resolved to do Good yet as wisely as he can yet he trusts not to humane Policy observing how often God makes the Wisdom of the Wise of no Effect He is also a studious maintainer of Peace both at Home and Abroad he knowing well the mischief and misery of Civil or Foreign War. He will never obtain that by Strife which he can have by Peace If he draw the Sword it is not Avarice or Ambition or private Revenge that do unsheath it yet because he knows that he bears not the Sword in vain he draws it when the Honour Wealth or Safety of the People calls for it He is always careful that what Blood is spilt may not lie at his door and therefore will not give just Provocations and be first in Quarrels and will never advance his own Greatness upon the spoil of others He is one who gives not himself to Wine or strong Drink Lest he forget the Law of God or pervert the Judgment of any of the Afflicted which was the advice of Bathsheba to King Solomon Again He doth nothing Momentous in his Government without deliberate Counsel as knowing that In the multitude of Counselors there is safety and chooseth Men of the greatest Wisdom Integrity and Experience to be his Counsellors He also doth seek to Cherish Preserve and Multiply the People as knowing the true saying of Solomon In the multitude of the people there is Honour but in the want of people is the Destruction of the Prince Prov. 14. 28. And Joabs Prayer for David The Lord thy God add to the People how many soever they be an hundred-fold 2 Sam. 24. 3. The Candor of his Government doth Invite and Unite people to it but the Rigour of it drives them not away from it whereby the publick Revenue is encreased and the empty Houses filled with Inhabitants and his Quiver being filled with People he need not fear his Enemy in the Gate Further He sets before him the Example not of Tyrants and Usurpers but of the Wisest and Best of Governours to be his Pattern will not follow that which is wicked and unjust though it hath had success yet wisely observes what Rocks others have split ●pon to avoid them and by what Methods good Designs have prospered to imitate them Again If he hath Persons of differing Judg●ents in Religion under his Government as it is impossible to have all men of the same ●ind He spreads the Wing of his favoura●●e Protection over them all so far as may stand with the publick Peace He knowing that those who may differ in some matters of Religion may yet be good Subjects faithful to the Government and useful to the Publick Our differences in some matters of Religion being to God and our own Consciences saith a late Writer He therefore disowns those principles which lead to Cruelty upon that account yet he will wisely distinguish between men of Turbulent Spirits and such as peaceably dissent through scruple of Conscience he well knowing that every man in Religion ought to be well satisfied in his own mind and that Conscience is not in our own power and that a forced Religion cannot be accepted of God. And as he himself would not be imposed upon so neither doth he think it equal with respect to others For as a Magistrate may be a good Governour to the People though he differs from them i● Religion so he knows they may be good Subjects to him though therein differing from him Neither will he suffer one part of th● people to destroy the other because not all o● the same opinion in case they live innocently to one another and are useful to th● Government and profitable to the Nation when both hands may be working for the publick Good and in his Service he will no● suffer the right Hand to cut off the left b● comprehends all useful persons in his Government yet he stands not indifferent to a Religions or Opinions in Religion if they tend to Atheism Blasphemy and plain Idolatry or are destructive of Morality or humane Society or the known or fundamental Principles of Christianity or the Civil Government or are repugnant to the Laws of Nature in such cases he will make a difference but in other things he shews forbearance wherein men truly Pious may differ from one another Again He seeks to satisfie the Minds of all his People by doing things that are Rational Just and Good but Men of restless Spirits whom nothing will content he restrains their Power for the preserving the publick Peace Moreover He will not judge of a whole Party by the Miscarriages of some as to comprehend them all under the same Guilt but will defend the Innocent while he doth correct the Guilty that every one may bear his own Burthen and not anothers Lastly Which is the greatest of all he is a Man fearing God and though he is as a Temporal God on Earth yet he knows there is a Supream God in Heaven and though now he Judgeth others yet that he himself must come to Judgment And in Religion he is really before God what he seems to be before Men. He commands not his Religion but is commanded by it and follows not Machiavils advice to the young Prince That to seem Religious may be to his advantage but to be really so may be to his prejudice And as his place is higher and more capacious of Service than other Mens so he knows his account will be greater and though he now stands above them yet then must stand level with them and therefore doth not only seek the outward welfare of the People but the progress of true Religion to the saving of their Souls and seeks the Honour of that God that hath put Honour upon him For this end he doth countenance and encourage a good Ministry to teach the People and reflects the greatest Honour upon them who are most diligent and faithful He upholdeth Universities and Schools of Learning that there may not want Men of ability to defend the Truth and that the Church may be furnished with an able Orthodox Ministry to instruct the People and seeks to suppress that Vice and Wickedness which may provoke God and bring down his Judgments upon him and the Nation And he being a Christian Magistrate knows that Christ is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and that by him Kings Reign and Princes decree Judgments He therefore Kisseth the Son lays his Government at his Feet submits to his Scepter propagates his Kingdom and upholds whatever is truly Christian against all which is truly Antichristian either in Doctrine or Worship and derogatory to his Crown The Motto we know upon our Kings Coin in England is Christo auspice Regno and the Emperor Jovinian chose for his Motto Scopus vitae Christus and Charles the