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A26410 A fannaticks addresse humbly presented to the King and his peers, and also to his people in their representative, the Commons House of Parliament ... discovering to them, the innocency of his actings in the midst of the late revolutions of governments in this nation ... / by Henry Adis ... Adis, Henry. 1661 (1661) Wing A577; ESTC R20288 14,003 17

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we shall not in the least resist him violently nor by force of Arms oppose him but shall patiently suffer under him the penalties for our not obeying him And as we own him so we shall receive own and obey Actively or Passively all others his Civil Magistrates set up and sent by him for the punishment of Evil Doers and the praise of them that do well according to 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. And this we shall do in the singleness of our Souls without Evasions Equivocations or mental Reservations Secondly As we do own Magistracy to be of God so we cannot look upon our selves to be concerned in the affairs of this or any other Nation so as to have to do with Government as to our own particulars although we were indowed with such Qualications and Estates as might render us Capable thereof because we look upon our selves to be a People chosen out of the World and such as shall be hated of the World Joh. 15. 19. and for the sake and Name of Christ shall be Haled before Kings Rulers Governonrs Magistrates and Councils of this World as he himself hath foretold us Mat. 10. 17 18. Mark 13. 9. For all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall Suffer Persecution 2 Tim. 3. 12. And therefore we look upon it to be our Duties to behave our selves as Pilgrimes and strangers on Earth as the Flock of God gone before us did and were Heb. 11. 13. 1 Pet. 2. 11. And to sit loose to the things of this World and to use the World as if we used it not and as not abusing it 1 Cor. 7. 30 31. but that our Moderation therein and in all things may be known to all men because the Lord is at hand Phil. 4. 15. And not Martha-like to be too much Cumbred with the things of this World but with Mary to look after that one thing necessary and to choose that good Part which shall not be taken from us Luke 10. 41 42. And as we are Risen with Christ so to seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth at the right ha●d of the Father Col. 3. 1. And so to lay up for our selves Treasures in Heaven where neither Rust nor Moth do corrupt and where Thieves cannot break thorow nor steal Mat. 6. 20. Thirdly We shall and do own the Parliament of England convened and gathered together by the Kings Writs to be the Lawful and onely Lawful Assembly of the Nation for the Confirming Establishing Making and Repealing of Laws and Statutes for the better well-being of the Nation in Civil things but we cannot find from the Word of God any Warrant for the greatest of Men or Councils either Civil or Ecclesiastical to Alter or Abrogate any of the Laws of God made by that great Council of Heaven or to prescribe any other kind or manner of Worship then what the great Jehovah in his Magna Charta the Holy Scriptures of Truth hath Established Rratified and Confirmed by Miracles Signs and Wonders and divers Gifts of the Holy Ghost according to his own Will Heb. 2. 4. And in which the Flock of God gone before us Acted who continued stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship and in Breaking of Bread and Prayer Acts 2. 42. to which Directory onely we both do must and shall conform to and none other And if by the hands of the Rude Multitude by your continued Tolleration or otherwise by your Appointments we shall therein or therefore perish we perish Yet I cannot but by the way let you know That for some time past I have observed and taken special notice that when Parliaments have gone about that work of Setling and Ordering of Matters concerning the Worship and Service of God their Designes have Suddenly been Blasted their Councils confounded and their Enemies Forreign or Domestick Increased by which means they have been forced to leave that work or else by the hands of those that called them or by the Armies Force they have been violently dispersed And now I shall Really Inform you of our Resolutions herein and shall declare That if this great Assembly shall go on to Intermedle with the Regulating of our Consciences as to the Worship and Service of our God or give it into the hands of the Church-men of England so to do we shall not by force of Armes nor the least Violence Oppose them nor Comply with any that shall Oppose them neither shall we Resolve to Conform to them in the least in what is Inconsistent with the Laws of our God left us in Scripture Record But under our penalties for our refusals we shall with Israel of old groan under such Egyptian Bondage And we question not but that the Captain of our Salvation in his own due time by a mighty hand and a stretched out Arm will release and relieve us to the comfort of his poor Oppressed Suffering ones and to the confusion of His and His Peoples Enemies And with Israel of old we shall resolve to stand still and behold the Salvation of our God which he will work for us let our Sufferings be under you or them what they will for our not Actually obeying mans Traditions Fourthly We look upon it to be our bounden Duty notwithstanding though we Suffer for it by the hands of Men yet to follow the Direction of King Jesus the Captain of our Salvation who himself was made perfect through Sufferings Heb. 2. 10. Who that his own Flock might the better avoid that great Danger of Forswearing either by Ignorance Forgetfulness Mistakings or by reason of Fear Favour or Affection he perswadeth them not to Swear at all Mat. 5. 34. who also telleth us Mat. 5. 20. T●● Except our Righteousness shall Exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees we shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven And therefore in Vers. 37. he requireth that our Yea should be Yea and our Nay Nay and he addeth this as a Reason for saith he Whatsoever is more then this cometh of Evil or of that Evil one as much as if he should have said when you either assert or deny a thing you shall do it with such singleness of heart and such sincerity of Soul being in me or in my Way Order or Worship as that you shall not cause the Name of God nor his Gospel to be Blasphemed or Evil spoken off by reason of your deceitful denyals or affirmings but that you speak the Truth in me who a● made of my Father unto you both Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption And so am become to you the Lord your Righteousness Iere. 23. 6. who as I judge doth not tye us distinctly to the Circumstance of the termes Yea and Nay but to the substance of the Verity or Truth of the thing asserted although the termes may differ as do his own who saith Verily verily I say unto you John 3. 3. who also useth the same Expression above twenty times in that Gospel by