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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86931	A plea for Christian magistracie: or, An answer to some passages in Mr. Gillespies sermon, against Mr. Coleman. As also to the brotherly examination of some passages of Mr. Colemans late printed sermon, upon Job 11.20. In which the reverend and learned commissioner affirmeth, he hath endeavoured to strike at the root of all church government. VVherein the argumentative part of the controversie is calmely and mildly, without any personall reflections, prosecuted. / By William Hussey, minister of the Gospell, at Chesilhurst in Kent.	Hussey, William, minister of Chiselhurst.	1645 (1645)	Wing H3819; Thomason E313_7; ESTC R200474	46,951	61

Ghost and is denied to belong to God man doth in no sense belong to Christ the person of Christ is God and man no consideration of Christ but as God man nothing can be said of Christ as second Person in Trinity in opposition to mediator but in opposition to man there may as before But here something hath the shew of an argument that Christ hath two Kingdomes one as God other as Mediator and that is taken from the continuation hee hath a Kingdome that he shall lay downe unto God his Father there is another that he shall retaine together with God the Father the first he hath over the Church only the second over all the world here is something said but doth it appeare that the Kingdome that hee shall lay downe to God his Father is not over all the world The laying open of this businesse will solve the whole knot and lay the vanity thereof to the view of all the world Christ hath a Kingdome which he will lay downe to God his Father which Kingdom is also called eternall 2 Pet. 1.11 which is understood of the Kingdome of grace for he said they should make their calling and election sure then they should never fall for so an entrance shall be made into the everlasting Kingdome of our Lord and Saviour Jesus in this Kingdom he is sovereigne Lord to none but those unto whom he is also a Saviour now the word Kingdome is taken divers waies sometimes for the subjects of the Kingdome and in that sense those that are the elect of God shall evermore be made subject to the government of Christ sometime for the manner of administration and so Christ in the day of judgement shall lay downe all the office of mediatorship and that government by which now and in the last day not the Church only but all the world shall be judged Rom. 2.16 God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ and this is called the Kingdome of Christ because by his mediation hath obtained from the Father that he shall not judge any man according to rigor but as they are in or out of Christ all deferring of judgement from the wicked is in and for Christ which otherwise the justice of God would not allow all the admission of us into the presence of God is by the humanity of Christ all conveying of grace to us is by Christ he is to us wisdome righteousnesse sanctification redemption but when he hath overcome all his enemies and presented all his elect to God his Father and judged all that are out of him to eternall condemnation then shall all that dispensation of justice cease which is therefore called the Kingdome of Christ because by his Gospell all shall be judged and by him and for him all that reigne for ever with God shall be presented to him Now this is not so to be understood as saith Calvin as if God the Father were idle while Christ reigned that Majesty which God bestowed on Christ was not convenient for bare man but in the nature that he was humbled he was exalted by the Father and he gave him a name before whom every knee should bow Phil. 2.9.10 in the government of the world he is as it were the Vicar of his Father it cannot be that the Father should be idle while he is imployed seeing he is the wisdome of the Father and of the same essence with him but the Scripture doth tell us that Christ hath the government of heaven and earth instead of the Father that wee should not thinke of any other Lord and governour but him that we should looke for salvation only in him we acknowledge God to bee governour but in the face of the man Christ but then when Christ shall give up the Kingdome which he hath received he shall not spoyle himself of his Kingdome but transferre it from his humane nature to his divine because wee shall then have accesse to God whither our infirmity will not now permit us to come then the vaile being removed we shall see God reigning in glory without the mediation of the manhood of Christ Now it is true none are in pace Domini Regis but the Church nor all them neither if ye speake of the visible Church but shall not men be judged by Christ for not knowing God and for disobedience to the Gospell it is plaine z. Thess they shall and the theeves and disobedient transgressours are under government aswell as more legall and better subjects But grant that the Kingdome of Christ were in and over his Church only which will never bee prooved nor dare I ever grant but rethoricè yet what is this for your different government from the civill Christs Kingdome is administred in dextra Dei and you sayd Mr. Coleman must proove if the civill Magistrate will be but King under Christ his deputation may not the like be required of you Mr. Gillespie I pray proove any commission issuing out from the Kingly office of Christ Christ had three offices his Priestly office finished in offering himselfe his Kingly office we read how it came to him sitting at the right hand of his Father but any commission for any man to governe under him in that Kingdome we read none Tanta Majestas non convenit Christo homini sayth Calvin upon 1. Cor. 15. And therefore if the kingdome be such as man cannot enjoy it is such as man cannot execute and when Christ sayd His kingdome was not of this world be sayth he had other maner of creatures then men he could procure many Angels though one were enough to vindicate that kingdome It is plaine Christ did delegate officers to execute his propheticall office and granted a commission to his Apostles to last to the end of the world but his Kingly office he executeth by the right hand of his Father where he sitteth at the right hand of the Majesty on high his prophesie he executed himselfe on earth as a man and when he left the earth deputed officers to execute that office in his absence till he returne to judge in the last day obedience is due as well to a Prophet as to a King nay Kings themselves ought to obay the voyce of Prophets Our Saviour telleth the Disciples sent but to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel Matth. 10. That he that despiseth them despiseth him if he will beare it let us content our selves Paul was an elect vessel to carry the name of Christ before Kings accordingly he doth in the name of Christ direct Kings to doe their offices as the instruments of God and commandeth their subjects to obey them the very word instrument doth implie that they are in the hand of God and therefore though instrumenta animalia nay rationalia and so capable of an instruction yet if they worke not according to the minde of God the right hand of God will rule them where Christ also sitteth in majesty If Christ had three offices

shouldst say I have made Abraham rich But no Logicke to prove government to be established by Christ in the Church different from civill The argument of the covenant is too low to be thought on in this Discourse we are now in an higher region then the words of the covenant we are about Gods word we hope there is nothing in the covenant contrary to Gods word if there be that must be thought on in another consideration we may not leave enquiring into the word of God for feare of the oath this were a point equall to the highest of Popish tyranny The fourth rule A Christian Magistrate is a Governour in the Church Mr. Gillespie denieth not this I know not if the Christian Magistrate governeth in the Church what use there should be of any Governour beside him I thought that the Church having no officers in it but such as Christ had set up had elected elders by the appointment of Jesus Christ and that by your opinion Christ had beene the King of the Church and had set up his kingdome and set officers in his Church and those had been officers in the Church which Christ had appointed in it and none other if the Church be Christs Kingdome surely such as governe in it must receive commission from him under the same apprehension as he is King which is as he is Mediator their commission to governe in the Church must be in this forme Christ the Mediator King of his Church doth appoint Kings and civill Magistrates to governe under him or otherwise they cannot governe in the Church if the Church be the Kingdome of Christ for it cannot be imagined that Christs Kingdome is capable of any mixture as humane governments are if Christ be a King he hath Lawes not out of the consent of the people but he can and doth dare leges unto which all the world is subject Rom. 2.16 Judge all the world according to my Gospel 2. Thes 7.8 Jesus Christ shall come with his mighty Angels in flaming fire rendring vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospell of our Lord Jesus Christ the Gospell is the Gospell of Christ and the law by which Christ will judge all the world if all the world be under the law of Christ then the Kingdome of Christ must needs reach over all the world 2. Christ at his resurrection declared mightily to be the Son of God Rom. 14. Act. 2.36 Let the house of Israel confesse that God hath made the same Jesus whom yee have crucified both Lord and Christ Mr. Gillespie confesseth That this day have I begotten thee in the 2 Psalm is to be understood of the stating him in his Kingdome which he prooveth out of Act. 13.33 If so see in the 2. Psal 8. Aske of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost part of the earth for thy possession Where ye see God giveth unto Christ all the earth for his inheritance and further commandeth Kings to serve him and therefore is called under the appellation of the Lambe tha● can agree to Christ but only as a Mediator King of Kings and Lord of Lords and in 1 Tim. 6.15 our Lord Jesus Christ is said to bee the only Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords Jesus Christ be names that agree to him only Mediator 3. The Kingdome of Christ is as ample as his Prophesie but the Prophesie of Christ is extended to all Nations as may appeare by the Commission Goe teach all Nations the doctrine which they must teach commands now commands have alwaies power and authority annexed to compell obedience or otherwise they are but vaine commands verball and frustrate 4. No calling can admit the appellation of pious and godly which is not under Christ and this is that enrichment of which St. Paul speaketh of 1 Cor. 1.5 where hee telleth them they were enriched in all things in Christ and v. 30 Christ is said to be made unto us wisdome righteousnesse sanctification and redemption no holinesse without Christ all our holinesse doth consist in our obedience to Christ if therefore Kings may bee called holy if their offices may be accounted holy offices or not sinfull they must be held off and under Christ without whom they cannot be pleasing to God Ps 72.11 All Kings shall fall downe before him all Nations shall doe him service upon which Calvin hath these words In ecclesia grege Christi esse regibus locum ques hic David non exarmat gladio nec diademate spoliat ut admittat in ecclesiam sed cum sua dignitate venturos esse dicit ut se coram Christo prosternant Kings have place in the Church and flocke of Christ whom David here doth neither disarme of their sword nor spoile of their crowne to admit them into the Church but saith that they shall come with their dignity and cast themselves downe before Christ 5. That office which Christ hath declared to be of God and bounded and limited in his Gospell that office is held under Christ as mediator but the Civill Magistrate is so Rom. 13.4 he is the Minister of God a revenger to execute wrath on them that doe evill thus far Christ hath to doe with the Civill Magistrate to declare the minde of God concerning him and to command every soule to be subject to him here is as much and more from Christ then Mr. Gillespie will ever finde out for his Church officers for all the Scripture of the New Testament came from the Propheticall office of Christ and he was promised at the giving of the Law Deut. 18.15 and thus Peter Act. 3. and Stephen Acts 7. preached and John 4.25 the woman of Samaria knew that the Messia should teach all things what Paul preached was in the name of Christ for he was a vessell to carry the name of Christ before the Gentiles and Kings Acts 9.15 if Kings are not beholding to Christ for their offices they are for the obedience of their subjects without which the office of a Civill Magistrate is little worth 6. The Civill Magistrates office and Christs office both Kingdoms over the same subjects either the office of the Mediators Kingdome is superiors inferior or coordinate I leave to any Christian to determine but it may be it will be answered that the Civill Magistrate and Christ are conversant about divers kindes of objects though they be the same persons that are under Christ and the King yet it is in divers considerations to divers ends and by divers means for the ends Christs ends and the Kings ends are both one 1 Tim. 2.2 that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty as for divers means that the officers of the Church use when that censure or Church government which is talked of is proved out of 1 Cor. 5. Mat. 18. or any place of Scripture it shall be answered God willing I passe by Mr. Gillespies businesse