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prince_n	duke_n	emperor_n	saxony_n	2,316	5	11.6515	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70084	Truth maintained, or, Positions delivered in a sermon at the Savoy since traduced for dangerous, now asserted for sovnd and safe / by Thomas Fvller.	Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.; Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661. Sermon of reformation.	1643 (1643)	Wing F2475; ESTC R222778	73,801	126

the peeces thereof together And now since the Monopoly of the Popish Clergy ingrossing all matters of Religion to themselves is dissolved it is fit Protestant Ministers lawfull propriety in their calling should justly be maintained I Thus you may take off many honest Labourers in the Vineyard Farre be it from me especially if they be skilfull-Labourers such as will prune the Vines not pluck them up by the roots But this and what you say of those to whom God hath held out his Scepter is nothing to the purpose except you could prove where God in the Scripture hires or cals private men to make a publike Reformation EXAMINER And whereas you tell us that the supreame Power alone hath the lawfull calling as appeares in the Kings of Judah I answer that if so the Parliament were now in a dangerous K praemunire for you know that is suspended from us and yet our state goes on in their worke enabled as they say by their fundamentall power and constitution I shall not here dispute the emanations of this power in ordinances votes and orders they have made it appeare in their owne declarations onely this I read of an ordinance made by the Nobles and Elders of Israel those Lords L and Commons That whosoever would not come according to the Counsell which was taken for Reformations all his substance should be forfeited Here is no King of Judah's hand nor a Cyrus King of Persias but an ordinance of their owne to their owne people onely they have King Cyru's writ for their assembling and consulting Had Christ M and his Apostles waited in their Reformation for the consent of the Roman Magistrate the supreame Power they had not made that holy expedition they did Had Luther and Zuniglius N and Oecolampadius staid for the Emperours Reformation they had not shed halfe that light in the Germane hemisphere There was a time when God tooke part of the spirit of Moses and put it upon O the Elders TREATIS K If so the Parliament were now in a dangerous Praemunire I will not marre a meane Divine of him to make a meaner States-man by medling with matters in the Common-wealth I that maintaine that every man must stay in his calling will not step out of mine owne Let the differences betwixt our Soveraigne and his Subjects which consist in points of State be debated by the Politicians on either side the questions in law be argued respectively by their learned Counsell and the controversies in Religion be dispuputed by their severall Divines But alas such is our misery when all is done the finall decision is devolved to the Souldiers sword on either side and God send the best cause the best successe L Onely this I read of an Ordinance made by the Nobles and Elders of Israel those Lords and Commons By your favour it was a compleat act of state as confirmed by the royall Assent True there was no King of Judah's hand unto it because at that time Judah had no King and who can expect that the Sunne should shine at midnight when there is none in that Horizon Reasonable men will then be contented with the Moon-shine and see that here For Zerobabel shining with borrowed beames and a reflected light from the Persian King in which respect he is stiled Hag. 1. 14. the Governour of Judah concurred to this Ordinance by his approbation thereof Besides this there was also a triple consent of the Persian Kings First the grand and generall grant from Cyrus Ezra 1. 3. which still stood in full force as confirmed by Darius Ezra 6. 12. whereby the Jewes being authorized to re-build the Temple were also by the same enabled to settle Gods service in the best manner by what wholsome lawes they thought fitting Secondly a particular implicite grant in that the Persian King knowing thereof did not forbid it when it was in his power had it beene his pleasure and such a not opposing amounts to a consent Lastly they had a large expresse command from King Artaxerxes to Ezra chap. 7. ver. 26. And whosoever will not doe the law of thy God and the law of the King let judgement be executed speedily upon him whether it be unto death or unto banishment or to confiscation of goods or to imprisonment And now Sir I have the lesse cause to be offended with you for citing mangled and dismembred peeces in my Sermon seeing the Scripture it selfe finds as little favour from your hand for had you compared on place thereof with another you could not but have seen the Persian Kings consent to this Reformation Yea so observant were the Jewes of the Persian Kings that at the first issuing forth of their prohibition to that purpose they instantly desisted building the Temple having their soules so well managed and mouthed with the reines of loyalty that their Kings negative voyce checkt and stopt them as they were running full speed in so good an imployment so little doth the instance alleadged advantage your cause M Had Christ and his Apostles waited in their Reformation for the consent of the Roman Magistrate I answer First Christ and his Apostles were Christ and his Apostles I meane extraordinary persons immediately inspired Secondly the Reformation they brought was mainly materiall indeed being the Gospell without which there was no salvation Thirdly because they had not the Emperours consent to their Reformation they pacified his displeased sword by preferring their necks unto it not repining at the dearnesse of the purchase to buy the safety of their soules with the losse of their lives all the Jury of the Apostles John onely accepted followed their Master to Martyrdome and hence we truly deduced the patterne of passive obedience N Had Luther and Zuniglius and Oecolampadius stayed for the Emperours Reformation Luther was a Minister and so had his share in reforming so farre as to propagate the truth and confute falshoods by his pen preaching and disputations What he did more then this was done by the flat command at lest free consent of Frederick Duke of Saxony under whom Luther lived This Duke owing homage but not subjection to the Emperour counted himself and was reputed of others absolutein his owne Dominions as invested with the power of life and death to coine money make offensive and defensive leagues and the like And although this wary Prince long poised himself betwixt feare of the Emperor and love of the truth yet he always either publikely defended Luther or privately concealed him till at last having outgrowne his fears he fell boldly to publike reforming As for the states of Zurich and Basil wherein Zuniglius and Oecolampadius lived as those Cities in one Relation are but members of the Helvetian Common-wealth so in another capacity they are intire bodies of themselves and in these states the Magistrates did stamp the Character of civill authority on that Reformation which these Ministers did first set on foot by their preaching But if any extravagant action of