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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91650	A renuntiation and declaration of the ministers of Congregational churches and publick preachers of the same judgment, living in, and about the city of London: against the late horrid insurrection and rebellion acted in the said city.	Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673.	1661 (1661)	Wing R1042; Thomason E1055_18; ESTC R203388	3,424	11

A RENUNTIATION AND Declaration OF THE MINISTERS OF Congregational Churches AND PUBLICK PREACHERS Of the same JUDGMENT Living in and about The CITY of LONDON Against the late Horrid INSURRECTION and REBELLION Acted in the said CITY LONDON Printed by Peter Cole and Edward Cole Printers and Book-sellers at the Sign of the Printing-press in Cornhil neer the Royal Exchange 1661. A RENVNTIATION and DECLARATION of the Ministers of Congregational Churches and Publick Preachers of the same Judgment livingin and about the City of LONDON against the late Horrid Insurrection and Rebellion Acted in the said City THere hath been of late a Rebellion so Impious and Prodigiously daring Acted upon so open and great a Stage as this Famous and Populous City and before the Sun of Gospel light shining round about us as that the Noise thereof cannot but make its own report not only throughout all Christendom but even to the Ends of the Earth and fill the most Barbarous and Inhumane of Nations that shall hear of it with astonishment to the highest Scandal of Christian Religion Yea and let down the hateful Memory thereof to all Ages to come As that which perhaps cannot be Paralelled except by those at Munster of the same principle in the former Age. And this Grand iniquity having through the Artifice of Satan been falsely and most uncharitably charged on those at least as the favorers of it whom some will needs stile the Independent Party We therefore hold our selves Necessitated to make this true and sincere Renuntiation of and Protestation against so horrid a Fact and Principle they were Acted by as both highly Derogatory to Christ and most Pernitious to his Saints To Christ In that his Kingdom the Coming of which is by Him so closely annexed to the Hallowing of Gods Name is on the contrary perverted to the greatest Dishonor to him and the Prophaning of his Name and a perfect Contradiction to all those Principles which he left behind him And that divine and Heavenly seed the Image of Christ laid by God in the Souls of all his Children the eminent fruits whereof are lowliness of Heart Self-denial Peaceableness with the like is hereby turned into a Root of such Bitterness and unto so swollen a Self-Assuming As under the Title of Saints as such and in the Name of Jesus Christ to take to themselves the Titles of all the Kingdoms of the World and in the Face of the full exercise of the Dominion thereof to Pronounce the Titles of all Earthly Potentates actually and absolutely void Whom from the Apostles times and at this day he hath continued as his own Ordinance and unto whom he hath commanded Saints as Saints and by so much the more because Saints for Conscience sake to be Subject And who we are sure according to the Ordination of God shall continue TO the Destruction of the true Babylon Rev. 17. And yet to make all the Reformed Churches to be Spiritual Babilon and all Governments of the World to be Civil Babilon and all alike from hence forth to be destroy'd And to turn Meetings for Religious Worship which ought only to Assemble in the Name of Christ and as to such ends only have the promise of his presence into Consultations and Designments for the diustrbance and destruction of those States which yet by Christ do Reign and under whose Indulgence and Protection they live And then to render Faith by which Believers overcome the World and absolute Folly which this hath done yea and a daring Madness Manifest to all Men. And For Vain and Sorry Man or any company of the Sons of Men To rise up and Designedly to say within themselves we will go to such and such a City and from such or such a time erect a new Throne for Jesus Christ the Son of God from thence to Reign over all the world And then to think to invite him from Heaven and in the Clouds to bring him to the Ancient of daies Dan. 7. and so to give him possession of that Kingdom All which are the sole soveraign Prerogatives of God the Father to give Thine is the Kingdom and of Christ the Son Rev. 11. to take to himself that great Power and Reign And again to under take that which can be no other then the Immediate Act and Work of Christ himself to Create new Heavens and new Earth and to fill the world with Righteousness which I create saith the Lord And must needs be judged a far greater work then the first creating of the old World and never to be set up by outward Violence To make all this a Cause And the cause of Religion by the power of force and Blood thus to obtain a worldly Dominion and Power over all means Estates and Lives What an high Presumption is all this and Derogation to the Glory of Christ Nor can there be any principle more Pernitious to the Saints themselves dispersed throughout the Nations of the World Seeing the Wrath of Princes and Governors in all Dominions might thereby be enflamed and Their Sword whetted against them And it ingageth also these men themselves or any others with whom this wicked perswasion shal prevail to Destroy the whol Body of Saints and others Promiscuously as enemies to the Kingdom of Christ if not of this Opinion As if that Jesus Christ who is Lord over all and Rich unto all having so long expected the accomplishment of His Kingdom were so impatiently desirous of a Kingdom of Saints to be set up in the World that to advance it though but in a few he regarded not the thousands of thousands of the People of God that are in the World and who in their Consciences stand ingaged to oppose it Neither is this Protestation now made against such principles and proceedings other in the Tendency and Drift thereof then what some years since such of us as had opportunity thereunto did by letters declare unto divers in this Kingdom whose principles then were comparatively modest for which we have ever since been openly reproached personally by Name in writings and otherwise as is well known And again in a Meeting at the Savoy above two years since of Persons sent from one hundred and twenty Churches of our way in the Confession of Faith there by them agreed upon It was as concerning Magistrates in the general Unanimously declared as followeth Chap. 24. Of the Civil Magistrate I GOD the supream Lord and King of all the World hath ordained civil Magistrates to be under him over the people for his own glory and the publick good And to this end hath armed them with the power of the Sword for the Defence and Incouragement of them that do good and for the punishment of evil-doers II It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the Office of a Magistrate when called thereunto in the management whereof as they ought especially to maintain Justice and Peace according to the wholsome Laws of each Common-wealth so for that end they may lawfully now under the New Testament wage war upon just and necessary occasion III. Although the Magistrate is bound to incourage promote and protect the professors and profession of the Gospel and to manage and order civil administrations in a due subserviency to the interest of Christ in the world and to that end to take care that men of corrupt minds and conversations do not licentiously publish and divulge Blasphemy and Errors in their own Nature subverting the Faith and inevitably destroying the souls of them that receive them Yet in such differences about the Doctrines of the Gospel or waies of the worship of God is may befal men exercising a good conscience manifesting it in their conversation and holding the foundation not disturbing others in their waies or worship that differ from them there is no warrant for the Magistrate under the Gospel to abridge them of their liberty IV. It is the duty of people to pray for Magistrates to honor their persons to pay them Tribute and other dues to obey their lawful commands and to be subject to their Authority for conscience sake Infidelity or difference in Religion doth not make void the Magistrates just and legal Authority nor free the people from their obedience to him from which Ecclesiastical persons are not exempted much less hath the Pope any power or jurisdiction over them in their dominions or over any of their people and least of all to deprive them of their dominions or lives if he shall judge them to be Haereticks or upon any other pretence whatsoever And accordingly we cease not to pour out hearty Prayers for all sorts of Blessings spiritual and temporal upon the Person and Government of his Majesty both in our Congregations Families and Retirements and through Gods Grace according to our Duties shall continue so to do our selves and to perswade others thereunto and to live quietly and peaceably in all Godliness and Honesty To conclude all We have a far greater and sadder occasion to utter of these late attempts and Resolutions what Jacob did of that fatal Execution by Simeon and Levi upon a whol City the order of the words being only inverted Gen. 49. The Instruments of cruelty are in their Habitations which ver 6. is termed Assembly Cursed be their Anger for it was feirce and their Wrath for it was cruel And we each one say O my Soul come not thou into their secret unto their Assembly mine Honor be not thou united but let God divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel Joseph Caryll George Griffiths Richard Kentish Robert Bragg Ralph Venning John Oxenbridg Philip Nye John Roe Thomas VVeld Samuel Slater George Cockayne Thomas Goodwin Thomas Brooks Carn Helm John Hodges John Bachiler Seth VVood. VViliam Greenhill Mathew Barker Thomas Malory John Loder John Yates Th. Owen Nathaniel Mather VVilliam Stoughton January 1660. FINIS