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A76378	Logoi apologetikoi. Foure apologicall tracts exhibited to the supreme, self-made authority, now erected in, under the Commons name of England. Wherein is proved, that their unparallel'd acts in beheading the most Christian King, nulling the regall office, disclaiming the knowne heire, Charles the II. and declaring it treason to refell their errours, are diametrically opposite to the Scriptures, the greatest opprobrie to Christianity that ever was in the world; and, without true repentance, will either make England not Christian, or no English nation. / By T.B. a conscientious and orthodox divine.	T. B., conscientious and orthodox divine.	1649 (1649)	Wing B186; Thomason E558_8; ESTC R5037	19,646	35

briefe Pe● me Reges r●gnant sayes Wisdome by me doe Kings Raigne Prov. 8. 15. Christ by their persons they by his power And Solomon had ' great reason to say so For if the people could make a King it had not been King Solomon but Adonij●● the King Because the faces of all Israel were on him that he should raign 1 King 2. 15. Solomon there excludes all Pope Presbytery States People Commons None share with Wisdome in the Creation of Kings who shared not with the Word in the Creation of things Irenaeus saith Cujus jussu nascuntur homines hujus jussu Reges Irenae adv Haeres l. 5. c. 20. constituuntur God who ereated Men constituted Kings Tertullian affirmes the like Iudè potestas undè Spiritus Tert. in Apol. cont Gent. c. 30 Athan. Se● de beat Virg. whence the Soul is Soveraigoty is thence St. Athan●sius holds us to it Christ receiving the throne of David Transtulit dedit sacris Christianorum Regibus transferred and gave it to the sacred Kings of the Christians So doth S. Augustine Quia solus verus Deus ipse dat regna urrena bonis malu because God is the only true God he gives earthly Kingdomes to good and bad As if we might so well deny him to be the only true God as rob him of this prerogative 'T was usuall for holy Bishops writing unto Emperours or Kings to wish them grace health happinesse In ●o per quem regesregnant in him by whom Kings Raign Were all the Fathers in the severall Counsels adduced no believing Christian would ever bring humane Act or humane Vote or humane Power to justle the sec●et and sole disposing of God in the supremacy of a King All this while the Text is not wrested no singular sense introduced The Object remaines still humane as executed by an humane instrument and upon an Object humane God hath his due Cesar his The King is acknowledged and from God the King Humane His person His power Divine Whos 's Anointed He is I 'le hold Him sacred as his And if this be Treason I shall live and die a Traitour and so will true Christians all Nor am I a Court-parasite herein The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Popish Independents Presbyterian and Parochian Soveraignes shall shall never justifie me I grant the people no more then a capacitie and desire to be Governed Passively in submission they set up but may create no power actively The Opinion of the Manichees totally subverting the humane Ordinance of God I utterly renounce as diametrically opposite to the truth Not any State can ever be wel conditioned for peace and safety where is no Union with an actuall Government by and in one Supreme So doe I the Romanists Puritans Bucananists Brownists that interpose the people betwixt God and the King As if they were the Kings Origen and His power lasted but ad placitum whil●● he pleaseth them or they affect him As I keep no correspondence with those I abhor Nich●laitan community and Anabaptisticall parity Both destructive to the Order of the Church and State both And though these Humours swell high in this Kingdome yet I am confident that who invested the King will not suffer his power to be alwayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in vaine Not thriving unto the first properity it may at last appeare to the comfort of the Loyall and terrour of the Rebels I find no ground for despaire The Spirit of God tells that according to the curse of Jotham after three years were expired a fire from Abimelech devoured Sichem and a fire from Sichem devoured Abimelech Iudg. 9. So let them who ever make head and will persist against my Lord the King soone perish by the Head they make and their Head with and by them Blessed S●viour indue me and every one under this persecuti●n with sufficient grace to possesse our soules in patience Not leaving our works to be done let us leave thy worke unto thy selfe In the race th●● hast set before us uphold us running as is prescribed and we have that for example Whether we live or not to see a peaceable Kingdome here enable us to keep thy peace initiated in us Doe thy will on us whatever it be and that we may enjoy eternall peace in thy Kingdome of glory we beseech thee to heare us good Lord. True Christians in obscure and equivocall phrases observing the general truth permit not their Expositions to swerve thee from analogy thereof Knowing obedience morall and Princes Gods derivatives dare not straine a Text to maintaine a falling thence If S. Peter call S. Pauls higher power ordained of God an humane Ordinance they search for a reason of the variation Who are not of ability to reach that will yet grant no contradiction because one is the Spirit that inspired both More peircing eyes looking far and neer determine it Divinely given and humanely received Apprehending God the Donor they conclude the Ordinance his Yet what he so bestowes as collated on man for the Government of men makes his Ordinance humane The cumulative or communicative power of the people is usurpation so is the reductive and coercive That neither of them may be inferred hence is their thesis Nor doe they say that soveraignty is by extraordinary revelation no humane act intervening immediately from God The designation of an individuall person by lawfull way manifested election succession conquest c. is not denyed men The conferring and joyning of power on and to the subject they hold primarily from God He the constituent and no other Nor this in one and not another in all and every one What S. Paul and S. Peter speak universally they fear not to affirme of good and bad Whence it is that neither the infidelity nor the tyranny of a King can force them from their allegeance Wherein the Heathen as Darius Cyrus Artaxerxes command agreeable to the Law of God they shall be so we●l as Constantinus Valentinianus Theodosius by them obeyed They stand to this and doubt not For who will overthrow it must produce a new Bible Persisting therein they are bold and zealous for the blessing Because the Apostle accurseth him who preacheth the contrary Doctrine Heed this every one who have offended betimes amend your fault Though vengeance comes with leaden feet yet not without iron hands The Lord will tear and tear the disobedient in pieces For the Angels sake repent that they may rejoyce For the Saints sake repent that their bloud may not cry For your Soules sake repent that they may not live in eternall death For the Gospels sake repent that it may not be longer evill spoken of If ye be of Christs Kingdome appear as his Subjects Submit ye to every humane Ordinance for the Lords sake I have discharged my Conscience for the Lords sake if I perish I perish for the Lords sake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

beleeve the professed Justitiaries aime I am sure and the event shewes that the resisting of Regall power is not the way to convert or reforme No such way in the Laws of the Kingdome and in the Gospel no such What 's edified in Monarchy is demolished by Anarchy 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. For 't is well known that peace subsists not without Authority nor can the essence of a Kingdome well be without peace Nay Religion seemes lost when the people are at a loose Or how shall a Pagan deeme our profession right when in a confusion of opinions too many contradict the principles of Christianity So he that would be a good Christian doubts what Christian to be For this cause even that Religion may flourish in peace I by the divine assistance shall never forget my Allegiance And when I can no way else fully fully I will expresse it unto the Lord in my prayers Because I know that this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Blessed Lord restore the right Heire of this Crowne to His Kingdome and proper Dignities Turne the hearts of those which are against unto Him and returne Him in safety and peace unto us Be so propitious that under Him we may live a quiet and Godly life to thy glory and our comfort In thy mercy look upon us blot all our sinnes out of thy remembrance and from thy heavie judgements good Lord deliver us I beseech you animadvert what summarily I shall represent in this Character And God grant that seeing ye may have will to enjoy the truth True Christians if through ignorance or infirmities they chance to give a scandall at home or abroad of purpose will never Because thereby they may to the dishonour of the Lord both thrust some from that are in and keep others off that would come to the truth Whereof at the first planting they were and still are suspected they be resolved to clear themselves before the world from the least tincture of disobedience And so constant thereto that the prime seminatours of this calumnie the Jewes and other enemies of the Gospel might be evicted by seeing such unchangable sincerity For it being the glory of God they aime at 't is their zeale to have the very Infidels glorifie him either here willingly by their conversion or hereafter by acknowledging his justice in their confusion In this they are superiour to their adversaries and conquer them who would be their tormentours Having good counsell for an honest conversation they want no faith to hold them to it And so close that who back-bite them as evill doers may magnifie God in the day of visitation Beleevers apprehend this and having the knowledge will not be without the practice Ye would of that kind be esteem'd all Let the Apostle therefore have his desire follow his advice put to silence the ignorance of folish men For the Gospel sake because ye are Christians for the Lords sake whose Christians ye are submit ye TRACT II. Yee IN the first verse of the former Chapter this Epistle is directed to the Elect that dwell here and there as strangers Understand thereby the Church-militant For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are those that be in a strange soile And such we account the Saints on Earth They have no continuing Citie here but seeke one to come Heb. 13. 14. Whose conversations are in heaven be pilgrims in this world So Jacob stiled himself Gen. 47. 9. and so did David Psal 119. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dispersion also suits well with the Church that is not confined to any certaine place but scattered over the face of the earth Whom Christ congregateth such are the sonnes of God Jobn 11. 52. Ab Oriente ad Occidentem binc inde colligendi from the East unto the West hence and thence gathered The dispersed of Israel Psal 147. 2. and Isa 56. 8. are secundum spiritum the houshold of the Lord. They therefore that restraine ye to the Jewes onely in my opinion mistake the Text. For though St. Peu● were the Apostle of the Jewes and did for the most part 〈◊〉 in J●d●● yet it cannot be gainsay'd that he in penning had regard of the whole Church And if we observe the tenth verse of this Chapter or the third of the fourth it 's apparent that he includeth the converts of the Gentiles I blame not thier piety who here point out the Jewes But doe ye what ye can all your sophistrie shall never carry you off hence without Rebellion The sense being thus generall 't is evident Yee reacheth so farre as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every soule Rom. 13. 1. Every one exempteth none Jew and Gentile Ecclesiastike and Laike Whosoever ye are or whatsoever ye would be ye must be subject every one 'T is certaine our Saviour when he said givee to Caesar the things that are Caesars spake as well of the high Priests Scribes Pharises Patriarch Peters and the Selfe-made Representatives as of the people Jews and Pagans Mat. 22. 21. Luke 20. 25. Wee for our parts dedicated by Baptisme taught in the word and fed at the Eucharist have offered our selves living sacrifices to the Lord. Whose Covenanted we are his observants we ought to be Satis praescriptum babemus saith Tertullian we Christians Tertul. de Idol c. 15. have it sufficiently prescribed in omni nos obsequio esse oportere subditos that we in all obsequie ought to be subject unto Magistrates both Princes and Powers Sive Apostolus sive Evangelista sive Propheta sive qusquis Chrys in Rom. 13. Ser. 23. Aug. in Psal 118. Ser. 31. Bern. in Fp. 42. tandem fueris Whosoever thou art whether Apostle or Evangelist or Prophet thou owest this subjection so Saint Chrisostome Saint Augustine Saint Bernard c. concur in this Whosever thou art implies Christian ever If the Apostles Evangelists Prophets or any else were not freed from subjection how dare ye who call your selves the Commons of England render your selves the Su●●●●e Authority Doth ambition and covetousnesse m●●● 〈◊〉 presume or are ye Apostates or Atheist● ye Survey Antiquity and your Independency will no where be found nor your Democraticall Presbyterie S. Paul appealed unto Caesar Acts 25. 11. The Martyrs Confessours and devout Bishops never pleaded immunity from superiours against their persecutours Nor can the Bishop of Rome in his usurpation nor ye and your Sectaries in yours quit your selves of Antichristianisme Nor are ye whatsoever is pretended so far as ye make the simple people beleeve from Popery herein What Bellarmine urgeth for his Holinesse of Rome ye Bellar. de Pontif. Rom. l. 5. c. 1. argue for your selves If directly ye may not ye will indirectly be Supreme Your Proachers too aspire unto that height all Temporalis potestas Spirituali meritò subjicitur 't is very meet say they the Temporall power should stoop unto the Spirituall Every one therfore contends to be so