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A66445	The blovdy tenent, of persecution, for cause of conscience, discussed, in a conference betweene trvth and peace vvho, in all tender affection, present to the high court of Parliament, as the result of their discourse, these, amongst other passages, of highest consideration.	Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.; Cotton, John, 1584-1652.	1644 (1644)	Wing W2758; ESTC R2405	232,471	275

obedience Which doctrine all such must necessarily hold however most loath to owne it that hold the Magistrate Guardian of both Tables and consequently such an one as is inabled to judge yea and to demonstrate to all men the worship of God yea and being thus Governor and Head of the Church he must necessarily be a part of it himselfe which when by Heresie he falls from though it may be by Truth miscalled Heresie he falls from his calling of Magistracy and is utterly disabled from his pretended guardianship and government of the Church Lastly we may remember the practice of the Lord Iesus and his followers commanding and practising obedience to the Higher Powers though we finde not one Civill Magistate a Christian in all the first Churches But contrarily the civill Magistrate at that time was the bloody Beast made up as Daniel seemes to imply concerning the Romane State Dan. 7. 7. of the Lion the Beare and the Leopard Rev. 13. 2. CHAP. CXV Peace BY these waights wee may try the waight of that commonly received and not questioned opinion viz. That the civill state and the spirituall the Church and Commonweale they are like Hippocrates twinnes they are borne together grow up together laugh together weepe together sicken and die together Truth A witty yet a most dangerous Fiction of the Father of ●ies who hardned in Rebellion against God perswades Gods people to drinke downe such deadly poison though he knowes the truth of these five particulars which I shall reminde you of First many flourishing States in the World have beene and are at this day which heare not of Iesus Christ and therefore have not the presence and concurrence of a Church of Christ with them Secondly there have beene many thousands of Gods people who in their personall estate and life of grace were awake to God but in respect of Church estate they knew no other then a Church of dead stones the Parish Church or though some light be of late come in through some cranny yet they seeke not after or least of all are joyned to any true Church of God consisting of living and beleeving stones So that by these New English Ministers principles not onely is the doore of calling to Magistracy shut against naturall and unregenerate men though excellently ●itted for civill offices but also against the best and ablest servants of God except they be entred into Church estate so that thousands of Gods owne people excellently qualified not knowing or not entring into such a Church estate shall not be accounted fit for civill services Thirdly admit that a civill Magistrate be neither a member of a true Church of Christ if any bee in his dominions nor in his person feare God yet may he possibly give free permission without molestation yea and sometimes incouragement and assistance to the service and Church of God Thus wee finde Abraham permitted to build and set up an Altar to his God wheresoever hee came amongst the idolatrous Nations in the Land of Canaan Thus Cyrus proclaims liberty to all the people of God in his Dominions freely to goe up and build the Temple of God at Ierusalem and Artaxerxes after him confirmed it Thus the Romane Emperours and Governours under him permitted the Church of God the Iewes in the Lord Christs time their Temple and Worship although in Civill things they were subject to the Romanes Fourthly the Scriptures of Truth and the Records of Time concurre in this that the first Churches of Christ Iesus the lights patternes and presidents to all succeeding Ages were gathered and governed without the aid assistance or countenance of any Civill Authoritie from which they suffered great persecutions for the name of the Lord Iesus professed amongst them The Nations Rulers and Kings of the Earth tumultuously rage against the Lord and his Anointed Psal. 2. 1. 2. Yet vers 6. it hath pleased the Father to set the Lord Iesus King upon his holy Hill of Zion Christ Iesus would not be pleased to make use of the Civill Magistrate to assist him in his Spirituall Kingdome nor would he yet be daunted or discouraged in his Servants by all their threats and terreurs for Love is strong as death and the coales thereof give a most vehement flame and are not quenched by all the waters and flouds of mightiest opposition Cant. 8. Christ Church is like a chaste and loving wife in whose heart is fixed her Husbands love who hath found the tendernesse of his love towards her and hath been made fruitfull by him and therefore seekes she not the smiles nor feares the frownes of all the Emperours in the World to bring her Christ unto her or keep him from her Lastly we finde in the tyrannicall usurpations of the Romish Antichrist the 10 hornes which some of good note conceive to be the 10 Kingdomes into which the Romane Empire was quartred and divided are expresly said Revel 17. 13. to have one minde to give their power and strength unto the Beast yea ver 17. their Kingdome unto the Beast untill the Words of God shall be fulfilled whence it followes that all those Nations that are guilded over with the name of Christ have under that mask or viz●rd as some Executioners and Tormentors in the Inquisition use to torment persecuted the Lord Iesus Christ either with a more open grosse and bloody or with a more subtle secret and gentle violence Let us cast our eyes about turne over the Records and examine the experience of past and present Generations and see if all particular observations amount not to this summe viz. that the great whore hath committed fornication with the Kings of the Earth and made drunke thereof Nations with the cup of the wine of her fornications In which drunkennes and whoredome as whores use to practice she hath robbed the Kings and Nations of their power and strength and Iesabel like having procured the Kings names and seales she drinks drunk Revel 17. with the blood of Naboth who because he dares not part with his rightfull inheritance in the land of Canaan the blessed land of promise and salvation in Christ as a Traitour to the civill State and Blasphemer against God she under the colour of a day of humiliation in Prayer and Fasting stones to death CHAP. CXVI Peace DEare Truth how art thou hidden from the eyes of men in these mysteries how should men weep abundantly with Iohn that the Lambe may please to open these blessed seale● unto them Truth O that Men more prized their makers feare ● then should they be more acquainted with their Makers councells for his Secret is with them that feare him Psal. 25. I passe on to a second Difference The Kings of Israel and Iudah were all solemnly annointed with oyle Psal. 39. 20. I have found David my servant with my holy 〈◊〉 have I annointed him Whence the Kings of Israel and Iudah were