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A35696	Jus Cæsaris et ecclesiæ vere dictæ or, A treatise wherein independency, presbytery, the power of kings, and of the church, or of the brethren in ecclesiastical concerns, government and discipline of the church : and wherein also the use of liturgies, tolleration, connivence, conventicles or private assemblies, excomminication, election of popes, bishops, priests what and whom are meant by the term church, 18 Matthew are discoursed : and how I Cor. 14. 32. generally misunderstand is rightly expounded : wherein also the popes power over princes, and the liberty of the press, are discoursed / by William Denton ...	Denton, William, 1605-1691.	1681 (1681)	Wing D1066; ESTC R9164	326,898	268

Preachings they did censure the affairs of the State and Council convocate general Assemblies without his Licence conclude what they thought good not once desiring his Allowance and Approbation and in their Synods Presbyteries and particular Sessions meddle with every thing upon colour of scandal Besides divers other disorders which at an other time he would propound and have reformed else it was vain to think of any agreement or that the same being made could stand and continue any while Whilest these conferences lasted these just complaints of the King were verifyed and made good by all the Presbyteries in the person of Mr. David Blake one of the Ministers of St. Andrews with whom they sided and whom they defended to their utmost This David Blake in a Sermon uttered divers spightful speeches against the King and Queen the Lords of the Council and Session and had called the Queen of England an Atheist a Woman of no Religion of which her Ambassador complaining to the King he was cited to appear before the Council 10. Novemb. Mr. Andrew Melvil accompanying him to Edenburgh did labour to make this a common cause giving out that the same was done only as a preparative against the Ministers to bring their Doctrine under the censure and controulment of the King and Council and so far he prevailed with the Commissioners of the Church as they sent certain of their number to entreat the deserting of the Diet saying it would be ill taken to draw Ministers in question upon trifling delations very trifling matters as you will see by the Articles against him when as the enemies of the truth were spared and overseen Proud Presbyters Paul himself submitted his doctrines to the Test and judgment of his Auditory Judge ye what I say and yet these insolent Priests may defame Princes Councils Parliaments and say and do what they please impune No man must say why do ye so a shrewd sign their Coyn is not currant when it will not abide the Touch-stone They farther gave out that the Ministers were troubled for the free rebuke of sin and sinners and the Scepter of Christs Kingdom sought to be overthrown The process they said intended against Mr. Blake was but a Policy to divert the Ministers from prosecuting their Suit against Popish Earles and if he should submit his doctrine to the tryal of the Council the liberties of the Church and spiritual Government of the House of God would be quite subverted and therefore they concluded that in any case a Declinator should be used and protestation made against these proceedings whereupon a Declinator was framed and presented by Blake viz. that seeing he was brought thither to be judged by his Majesty and Council for his doctrine and that his answering to the pretended accusation might import a Prejudice to the liberties of the Church and be taken for an acknowledgment of his Majesties Jurisdiction in matters meerly spiritual He was constrained in all Humility to decline that Judicatory because the Lord Jesus of whom he had the grace of his calling had given him his Word for a Rule for his Preaching and that he could not fall in the reverence of any Civil Law but in so far as he should be tryed to have passed his instructions which Tryal belonged only to the Prophets and Pastors the spirit of the Prophets being subject to them alone For this and other reasons in the said Declinator alledged He for himself and in the name of the Commissioners of the general Assembly who had subscribed the same Declinator by which it appears that Blake was not herein a single but a publick person and that these desperate Tenets were the Tenets of the whole Presbytery and not of Blake singly did humbly beseech his Majesty not to infringe the liberty of the Church but manifest his care in maintaining the same i. e. in words at length and not in figures that his Majesty would subject his Regality to their Presbytery and be to them a King indeed but yet no otherwise then the stump of Wood was to the Frogs in the Fable a quiet and tame Idol whom every Frog every waspish Presbyter may play upon and securely dance about Now let us see his Peccadilloes not only charged but strongly proved against him viz. 1o. That he affirmed in Pulpit that the popish Lords were returned into the Country with his Majesties knowledge and on his Assurance and said that in so doing he had detected the Treachery of his Heart 2ly that he had called all Kings the Devils Barnes adding that the Devil was in the Court and in the Guiders of it 3ly In his Prayer for the Queen he had used these words We must pray for her for the Fashion but we have not cause for she will never do us good so that we have little reason to pray for her 4ly That he had called the Queen of England an Atheist 5ly That he had discuss'd a suspention granted by the Lords of the Session in Pulpit and called them Miscreants and Bribers 6ly That speaking of the Nobility he said they were degenerated Godless Dissemblers and Enemies to the Church likewise speaking of the Council he called them Holy-glasses Cormorants men of no Religion 7ly That he had convocated divers Noblemen Barons and other within St. Andrews in June 1594. caused them to take Armes and divide themselves in Troops of Horse and Foot and had thereby usurped the Power of the King and Civil Magistrate The Summons being read he desired to be remitted to his own Ordinary hereby meaning the Presbytery where the Doctrine was taught contending that speeches delivered in Pulpit all be it alledged to be Treasonable could not be judged by the King till the Church by which term they always mean themselves first took cognisance thereof and thereupon delivered the Declinator The King notwithstanding in favour of him deferred farther proceedings herein till the last of November In the mean time the Commissioners for the Church took advantage of his favour and sent a Copy of the Declinator with a Letter to all the Presbyteries requiring them to subscribe the same and to commend the cause in hand in their publick and private Prayers to God using their best credit with their flocks and employing all their labours for the maintenance thereof This their stirring up of Subjects against their King extorted from the King by the advice of his Council a Proclamation discharging the said Commission as unlawful in it self and more unlawfully executed by the said Commissioners commanding six of them to depart to their several Flocks within 24 hours and not to return to act therein under pain of Rebellion Upon notice of this intended Proclamation the Commissioners resolved that since they were convened by the Warrant of Christ in a most needful and dangerous time to see unto the good of the Church ne quid ecclesia detrimenti caperet they should obey God rather than Man notwithstanding any charge that should be given

perfectly 18 Acts 24 25 26. For he knew only the Baptism of John So that it is possible that some Doctrines and some Truths may be revealed or revealed more perfectly to Auditors and sitters by than to the Priests themselves tho qualified as Apollos was besides the practice of former times even in the days of the Apostles and times of persecution nothing more common witness 20 John 19.26 Then the same day at Evening being the first day of the week when the doors were shut ergo private when the Disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews c. And after 8 days again his Disciples were within and Thomas with them then came Jesus the doors being shut c. V. 26. The Rulers of the Jews being offended at Peters Sermon for that thousands were converted thereat did imprison him and John and commanded them to preach no more in that Name adding also threatnings but Peter and John boldly answered whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judg ye for we cannot but speak the things we have heard and seen whereupon they being farther threatned and let go they did not desist but went to their own company and having prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spake the Word of God with boldness 4 Acts 1.2.17.19.20.23.31 And it came to pass that a whol year they assembled themselves with the Church and taught much People 11. Acts 26. K. Herod having persecuted the Christians killed James and imprisoned Peter whom an Angel delivered on the prayers of the Church assembled in the House of Mary the Mother of John where many were gathered together praying 12. Acts 2.3.12 Upon the first day of the week when the Disciples came together to break bread Paul preached unto them continuing his speech until Midnight there being many lights in the upper Chamber whereby it is apparent that Paul did not only teach publickly in the Temple but also from House to House not ceasing to warn every one night and day with tears 20 Acts. 7.8.20.31 Paul having escaped shipwrack and being upon Melita many came to him unto his Lodging to whom he expounded and testified the Kingdom of God c. and Paul dwelt two whol years in his own hired house and received all that came in unto him preaching the Kingdom of God and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ with all confidence no man forbidding him 28. Acts 1.23.30.31 The application is easie and obvious without a Comment times of persecution can be no objection here nor alter the case if lawful then under Perscutors and Enemies of the Gospel nay a duty injoyned certainly much more lawful now under the Nursing Fathers and Mothers of the Church Reasons of State only can have room here either pro or con Conventicles of such nature being so far from being against Scripture that they are warranted thereby both by Precept and Example of Christ and his Apostles and of the most pure and primitive times which may be a Document at least and caution to all in Authority that they do not hand over head and without due consideration suppress all Conventicles promiscuously as if Conventicles and Schism and Conspiracy were termini convertibiles least by mistake or inadvertency they act over again the Priests of old the Captain of the Temple and the Sadduces or those lewd fellows of the baser sort who upon such like occasions being grieved that the Apostles taught the People and preached through Jesus the resurrection of the dead accusing them for turning the world upside down by acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar came upon them laid hands on them put them in prison and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the Name of Jesus But Peter filled with the Holy Ghost and John answered them boldly saying whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judg ye 4. Acts 18.19 And being let go no fault having been found in them for so congregating and so preaching they went to their own Company and after report made of all that the Chief Priests and Elders had said unto them they lift up their voices with one accord and applied and said with David Why did the Heathen rage and the People imagine vain things the Kings of the Earth stood up and the Rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ V. 25.26 When many signs and wonders were wrought among the People by the Apostles few men daring to joyn themselves to them the temper and complexion of many in these our days I doubt but the People magnified them the High Priest with his Sect of Sadduces being filled with indignation imprisoned them whom the Angel of the Lord delivered miraculously by night the doors being shut with command to stand and speak in the Temple to the People all the words of this life and they were sound so teaching when by the command of the High Priest that the Captain of the Temple with his Officers seized them in the Temple and brought them without violence for they feared the People least they should have been stoned before the Council who tho cut to the heart at the stout and resolute answers and deportment of the Apostles yet waved the counsel given to slay them and followed the advice of Gamaliel a Pharisee a Doctor of Law had in reputation among all the People who cautioned them to take heed what they did to these Men invited thereunto by the example of Theudas and Judas of Galilee who advised to refrain from these Men and let them alone upon this grand reason because if this counsel or this work be of Men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it least happily ye be found even to fight against God to whom they all agreed yet not without beating and commanding them that they should not speak in the Name of Jesus and yet they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ in the Temple and in every House 5. Acts 12.42 When Christ was ascending up to Jerusalem and being come even at the descent of the Mount of Olives the whole multitude of Disciples rejoyced and praised God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen whereat the Pharisees being offended said Master rebuke thy Disciples but instead of silencing them he rebuked the Pharisees and said unto them I tell you that if these should hold their peace the stones would immediately cry out 19. Luke 37.40 If our Separatists our Schismaticks falsly so miscalled do so assemble contrary to Decrees of Caesar yet it is not without strict Precepts and great Examples of Christ the Lord Paramount and of his Apostles If Paul that great Apostle 1. Rom. 11.12 did long to see the Romans that he might be comforted together with

this Nature which concern chiefly if not meerly Polity and Regulations Rites and Ceremonies ought to be so Charitable one towards another as to believe that they all holding fast as they all do the main Principles and Doctrines of the Gospel that they err only by misconstruction and that each others Errors are not concerning Fundamentals but Discipline only and those also purae negationis and not pravae dispositionis and therefore may live peacibly and holily here under either Government and may hereafter meet in the presence of God and see his Face with Comfort whosoever should submit to other § Consider again that those Churches which were Founded and Governed by the Apostles themselves and where they Preached and Resided were not exempt from Imperfections perhaps as great if not greater than those now in the Church of England whereof the Epistle to the Gal. gives a clear Testimony but more clearly 1 Cor. 1.12 and 1 Cor. 3.4 5. As to their Charity they are Taxed that some of them adhered to Paul some to Cephas others to Apollos with a Schism and express Renting of the Seamless Coat of Christ. And as for Opinions and Doctrines there were some that denyed the Resurrection 1 Cor. 15.12 As for Peace and Concord they drew their Pleadings and Differences before the Tribunals of Insidels 1 Cor. 11.8.9 1 Cor. 6. As for manners they had Fornication among them and such as was not so much as named amongst the Gentiles 1 Cor. 5.12 As for Customs the Supper of the Lord was converted into Banquets where some were Drunk and others Hungry nay there were Heresies and Schisms among them also 1 Cor. 11.20 21. c. And all this while the Apostle acknowledgeth them to be a true Church and a Body of Christ and did not silence himself but continued labouring by his Preachments Fastings and Prayers to amend them and yet he lived under a Government Averse even to Christianity it self How ought we then to stand fast and comply and dispence with some irregularities in the Church where God by his singular Grace hath setled us altho in the Government thereof there have been and still are Imperfections and Abuses which are also by tract of time converted into marvellous grievances For reason of State and of good Government its good to be observant of all established Sanctions and tho many Novelties of Reformations do arise yet to accommodate our selves with readiness unto them howbeit we do not much approve of them because things of Custom have their Remedies but Innovations are never without their mischiefs against which it is very hard to find a Remedy § Edification in the Indisputable truths of Faith and in the Indispensable duties of Life being the main end and Objects of Church Government and Discipline its Honour enough for Episcopal Government to enforce Gods Commandements only there being no necessity of enjoyning more than what the Apostles did in plain and perspicuous terms without making use of obscure Allegorical and Metaphorical Expressions for Exorbitant Powers for Excommunication Censures and God knows what Yet Be it as some Dissenters would have it that all Men professing the Gospel of Jesus Christ have an undoubted Right and Priviledge to Assemble and Associate together to Pray Preach and Perform Gospel Ordinances without Assenting or Consenting nay contrary to the Approbation and Commands of the Civil Magistrate nay and that by a Paramount Power derived even from Christ himself and all this not without the Warrant of this Demonstration that except it had been and were still so the Gospel could never have been Preached to all Nations then mortal Enemies to Christ and his Gospel nor could yet be Preached where the unknown God is only Worshipped Be it so as in truth it is so that the Preachers of the Word of Salvation and the Administrators of the Sacraments being things Commanded them by God ought not to be forbidden by men and are so far exempt from Humane Law that the Prohibition of them is of no Force or Virtue it being in such Cases better to obey God than Men. 5 Act. 22. and for that no Mans right ought to be denyed him either in things Civil or Spiritual for fear they should abuse it for that then no mans right shall be preserved safe unto him Be it so I say even as they would have it yet as surely and as undoubtedly the Caesars have their Patent their Charter and Charge from the same Paramount Power for the Countenancing and Propagating the Gospel and supervising the Professors thereof and they have a Pastorship to give an Account of as well as those of the Clergy and therefore they ought to be as scrupulously careful and as Zealously watchful as themselves Was it not Prophesied of David a King 34 Ezek. 23. I will set up one Shepherd over them and he shall Feed them even my Servant David he shall Feed them and he shall be their Shepherd and I the Lord will be their God and my Servant David a Prince among them v. 24. and was he not taken accordingly from the Sheepfold to Feed Jacob his People and Israel his Inheritance and he Fed them according to the Integrity of his Heart and guided them by the Skilfulness of his Hands 78 Psal 70.71 72. Besides were this Objection of greater Force than in truth it is yet it hath no place in this Kingdom for that such Liberty of Assembling is not only not denyed but permitted Countenanced nay Commanded and Churches separated for that very end and purpose only that what Talents what Light soever the Complainants may have they may not hide them under a Bushel or in a Conventicle but may manifest them publickly to all Commers But if under this their great Gospel Priviledge and under the Shelter of indiscreet Niceties they will meet in Private and thereby give a jealous State great Cause only to suspect that they do it that thereby they may the more opportunely Foster and Foment a Party Averse to present Established Constitutions of Church and State then certainly Caesar hath as undoubted a Gospel Power and right to Prevent Inhibit and punish Transgressors If their Doctrine be sound and good why should they not have Churches if not why should they be permitted in Corners Look but a little back and consider if the late times have not given too great cause of fears and jealousies to a Wise and Christian State to use all just endeavours to prevent the like for the Future Consider also what moved our fore-fathers to make severe and Sanguinary Laws against Papists was it not because they were troublers of our Israel working like Moles under Ground endeavouring the Ruin of our Church and State If some may be suffered tho but by Connivence to break thro small Laws both themselves and others will thereby be encouraged to set the greater at nought Herein I desire to be rightly understood not as if I Pleaded for a general Tolleration nothing less

before shewing that the Apostles had jurisdiction over Prophets Evangelists Presbyters and Deacons and I think will not be denied Then the Canons stiled Apostolical say Canon 38. let the Presbyters and Deacons do nothing without the knowledge or consent of the Bishop he is the man that is trusted with the Lords People and that must render an account of their Souls Ignatius Bishop of Antioch almost 30 years in the Apostles times agreeth fully with that Canon saying do nothing neither Presbyter nor Deacon without the Bishop neither let any thing seem orderly without his liking for it is unlawful and displeasing unto God And again without the Bishop let no man do any thing that pertaineth to the Church Ignat. ep 3. ad Magnes Ibid. ep 7. ad Smyrneos Cencil Ancyran can 13. Laodicens 56. Aralatens c. 19. Tolet. 1. c. 20. by which it plainly appears that in the purest times Bishops were both Pastors of the Churches and Governours of the Presbyters in every City that believed so long as they ruled well and were instead of the Apostles and as their Successors they had charge of ordaining others for the work of the Ministry and guiding the Keys with the advice and Consent of the Brethren and Church there Congregated § Christ being now ascended in triumph into Heaven the eleven Apostles returned from Mount Olivet unto Jerusalem where they continued with one accord in Prayer and Supplication with the Women and Mary the Mother of Jesus and with his Brethren and Peter standing up in the midst of the Disciples the number of Names together being about 120. moved that of these Men which had companied with them all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out amongst them one might be ordained in the room of Judas to be a witness with them of his Resurrection and they appointed two Joseph called Barsabas who was surnamed Justus and Matthias And they prayed and said thou Lord which knowest the hearts of all men shew whether of these two thou hast chosen that he may take part of this Ministry and Apostleship from which Judas by transgression fell that he might go to his own place And they gave forth their lots and the lot fell upon Matthias and he was numbred with the eleven Apostles 1. Acts 12. c. It s observable that this being the first and most considerable action that the Apostles together with those Disciples who had given their Names to Christ did after his Ascension and before the Holy Ghost had been powered out upon them they did not go about it without taking the other Disciples which were Laicks into their Council and making them partakers of the Facts for when they had prayed they cast Lots The like the Apostles did when there grew a'murmuring for the neglect of the Grecian Widdows they called the Multitude of the Disciples directing them to look out seven men of honest report full of the Holy Ghost and Wisdome c. And the saying pleased the whole Multitude and they chose Steven and the rest whom they set before the Apostles who laid their hands on them 2. Acts 2.3.4.5.6 so that upon the whole matter the choice and election of those seven Deacons was committed by the whole Chorus of the Apostles unto the Multitude they had their concern their part to act in it Paul being in danger of being killed by the Jews at Jerusalem the Brethren having notice thereof brought him down to Caesarea and sent him forth to Tarsus 9. Acts. 30. News being brought to the Apostles and Brethren that were at Jerusalem of the Conversion of Cornelius when Peter came up to Hierusalen they that were of the Circumcision the Brethren there contended with him saying thou wentest in to men uncircumcised and didst eat with them 11. Acts 23. by which it is manifest that the Brethren the Church that then was at Jerusalem by their own right did impose a kind of necessity on Peter Prince of the Apostles and Pope of Rome in the esteem of Romanists to vindicate himself by rehearsing the whole matter and he as humbly without standing upon his Apostolical Dignity or Papal Authority did give the Body of the Church satisfaction and then had their approbation also by their saying then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life v. 18. When Peter was miraculously delivered out of Prison by an Angel he came to the House of Mary where many were gathered together praying 12. Acts 12. and spake unto them saying go shew these things unto James president of the Church at Jerusalem and to the Brethren v. 17. and that ex aequo that the whole Body might sympathize and participate of the joy and might not be held in suspence between Hope and Fear In the Church at Antioch famous for Prophets and Teachers as they were ministring to the Lord and fasting the holy Ghost said to the whole Congregation seperate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them and when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them by the Elders they sent them away 13. Acts 1.2.3 Paul and Barnabas having been persecuted from Iconium returned to Antioch and having gathered the Church together they rehearsed all that God had done with them and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles 14. Acts 27.15 Acts 1. In the Church of Antioch there being a great dissention raised by certain men which came down from Judea concerning Circumcision with whom Paul and Barnabas had had no small disputation they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain other of them should go up to Jerusalem unto the Apostles and Elders about this question where they were received of the Church and of the Apostles and Elders and they declared all things that God had done with them and after Peter had spoken all the Multitude kept silence and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul declaring it c. and it pleased the Apostles and Elders with the whole Church to send chosen men of their own Company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas and wrote Letters by them the title of which Letters was the Apostles and Elders and Brethren send greeting unto the Brethren c. It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and unto us to lay upon you no greater Burthen than these necessary things c. when they came to Antioch and when they had gathered the Multitude together they delivered the Epistle and Judas and Silas being Prophets also themselves exhorted the Brethren and confirmed them 32. and afterwards were let go in peace from the Brethren unto the Apostles 33. and Paul chose Silas and departed being recommended by the Brethren unto the Grace of God 40. And the Brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Baeraea 17. Acts 10. And the Brethren sent away Paul to go as it were by Sea v. 14. and Paul took his leave of the Brethren 18. Acts 18. and when he had landed

in vogue and as prevalent amongst them as ever And is it now time a day to plead for favors connivences and Indulgences for such a Generation of such Hellish-minded and Principled men after so many more fresh diabolical contrivances and plottings now in agitation against King and Kingdom Laws Liberties Religion what not And suffer our selves to be wheedled into compliance and association with them upon what C. H. H. and E. C. write or what Rome dreads men famous indeed in their Generation the one for Antient Noble Birth the other for plotting his own and the King and Kingdoms ruine but he was snared by the work of his own hands and in the Net that he made was his own foot taken and so let all the implacable and irreconcileable Enemies of God and the King be snared Very pretty a very fine whim to make all England as very Mungril-Christians as Rome it self like those of Samaria who feared God yet served Idols and like those of Israel who swear by the Lord and Melcom their right hand of Fellowship being but the right hand of falsehood Psalm 144.8 11. that they may be snares and traps unto us Is this the way for the Sons of God to purifie themselves even ●s he is pure and to be perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect 1 John 3.3 Is it not rather to toss us to and fro like Children and to carry us about with every wind of Doctrine by the slight of men and cunning craftiness whereby they lye in wait to deceive Eph. c. 14. is it not rather to pervert the right wayes of the Lord and to invite us to joyn in Abominations with other men Is this the right way and method to hold the Mystery of Faith 〈…〉 consciences And to keep our selves unspotted of the world 1 Tim. ● ● 2 James 15 16 17. and pure by not pertaking of other mens sins 2 Timothy 5.22 Whence is this wisdom which is not pure but Sensual Earthly Devillish No better than Jeroboam's Politick device of setting up two Calves in Dan and Bethel The narrow rules of the Apostles viz. to abstain from all 〈◊〉 of evel to resist unto blood striving against sin will not allow 〈◊〉 d●●bing with such untempered Morter 〈◊〉 the ill consequences and fruits of this wisdom this Politick 〈…〉 First We hazzard our selves and Posterity to Infection 〈…〉 5 6 13. A little Leaven leaveneth the whole lump 2. Unto the ●●ath of God Come out of her my People that ye be not partakers of her ●●ns and that ye receive not of her Plagues Apoc. 18.4 3. We hazard and encourage even the Papalins themselves to obstinate Impiety 4. We blemish our own sincerity and heavenly-mindedness 5. Quantum in nobis we encourage others to the like Linsey-wolsey-medly-mongril-worship Saints of old were more scrupulous more wary David would not sit with vain Persons neither would he go in with Dissemblers but hated the Congregation of evil doers and would not sit with the wicked Psalm 26.4 5. so Jeremy sate not in the Assembly of Mockers nor rejoyced Jer. 15.17 The Lord himself commanded that if any Person Son Brother Daughter the Wife of thy bosom or thy Friend which is as thy own soul shall intice to Idolatry as by sad experience we know they dayly do Importunately Indefatigably or any City shall set up a new Worship the one shall he killed the other destroyed Deut. 13.6.9.13.15 and the undoubted Precept is to separate the pretious from the vile and let them return unto thee but return thou not to them Jer. 15.19 the Gospel confirms the same is it possible that righteousness can have Fellowship with unrighteousness or that light should have communion with darkness Or can Christ have concord with Belial Or can the Temple of God have Agreement with Idols 2 Cor. 6.15 which Temple we are wherefore come out from among them and be separate v. 16.17 And in truth what is it less or other than to have Fellowship with Devils 1 Cor. 10.20 David expelled not courted the Idolatrous Jebusites out of Jerusalem 2 Sam. 5.8 Asa put Maacha his Mother from her Regiment because she was an Idolatress and brake down her Idols 2 Chron. 15.16 the Law was Thou shalt make no Covenant with them nor with their Gods they shall not dwell in thy Land lest they make thee sin against me Exod. 23.32 33. Deut. 7.2 3 4. Where Gods Ark is there Dagon shall be thrust out of his place and fall down before it Sam. 1.5 To Conclude this point having treated more fully of this Subject elsewhere Have we not had above an hundred years experience of their incessant evil Machinations and deportments towards us and our Religion Have they ever been quiet Was Queen Elizabeth ever five years without a design against her Life Was King James free from their Conspiracies either here or in Scotland Do they not boast at this very day that notwithstanding all that hath been done discovered and executed that still their Plot drives on and boast that it is so deeply laid that it cannot be discovered nor prevented Besides what security can they possibly give for their peaceable deportment They are Devotees sworn to another Forreign Head and Oaths made to us are not of any force to oblige them according to their own Maxim Nulla Fides servanda cum Haereticis and therefore we have no reason to confide in them but to secure our selves Do they not compass Sea and Land and dayly pervert the right wayes of the Lord by making divers Proselytes and them thereby two fold more the Children of Hell than they were before Have they changed their Principles Or are their Contrivances and Plottings against Church and State even at this very day less numerous or less dangerous than at any time heretofore Can we be so blind as not to see not to perceive that they are playing their old Games over again and that they will Iterate and Reiterate them again and again as from Age to Age they have hitherto successively done And is it not then profound reason of State in us and pure Religion to boot to give this Crudele genus these unreasonable blood-thirsty men more Countenance more freedom more power amongst us by nourishing them in our bosoms qui vult decipi decipiatur my Prayer shall be from this ill kind of men Libera nos Domine and I do not doubt but that all true and sincere English Protestants having Souls Bodies and Estates to save loving God their King and their Country will think themselves highly oblidged by all these obligations and Tenures to the best of their power and knowledge to maintain the true Protestant Established Religion which stands Diametrically opposite to all the forementioned abominable Errors and will not hazard their Temporal Estates much less the Eternal wellfare of their immortal Souls by a sinful compliance and Kings and Princes least of all for that there is no Prince nor Nation that