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A15077	A sermon preached in Christ-Church in Oxford, the 12. day of May 1622. By Christopher White, Batchelour of Diuinity, and student of Christ-Church	White, Christopher, d. 1637.	1622 (1622)	STC 25378; ESTC S119901	10,398	30

fellow-Apostles by Christ himselfe Matt. 22.21 and the foundation of all commands the Law which was giuen by God himselfe first in generall termes Honour thy father and thy mother Exod. 20. and afterward enlarged That man that will doe presumptuously nor hearken vnto the Priest Deut. 17.12 or vnto the Iudge that man shall die But doth this command vrge at all times and on all occasions what if the Prince be wicked idolatrous The vices of the man abridge not his power and therefore not the Apostles command If this might haue beene a sufficient plea against obedience S. Paul might haue spared this precept since Nero was the power to whom these Romans were subiect Or to omit all othercases that may be made what if his command be contrary to religion yea an army bee raysed for the extirpation of true religion This is the true touchstone of subiection and heere if euer may a subiect renounce all obedience to his KIng For now is there power against power man against God and the subiect of both left to follow either man or God This is a wonderfull strait from which whilest some labour to escape by the ship-wracke of their faith they turne traitors to God others by taking the sword in hand though but to defend become rebels to their King That is their stile Whether God be to be obeied rather then man should need no proofe amongst any that confesse a God and therefore when a Christian heares the commaund of a Prince pressing him to what God hath expresly forbidden Nature prompts him his answer I must obey God and this hath the Apostles practise ratified who counted this their safe warrant for not yeelding to the High Priests iniunctions Obedire oportet Deo magis quam hominibus we ought to obey God rather then man August de verbis Domini ser 6. rather indeed in respect of the danger that attends in the disobeying of either for Hi carcerem as S. Augustine Ille gehennam minatur these threaten imprisonment onely God hell fire They a temporall He an eternall death There is no shifting then of Gods command without the penaltie of eternall death and therefore he must be obeyed euen against the King That 's my resolution in the first case But what if the King presse by violence to draw thee from that obedience wilt thou maintaine it by violence Wee haue indeed the Iesuites instructions for it yea Comoz letter to Parry and the Popes encouragement to it I spare the quotations because there comes not a Booke of theirs wherin if occasion be giuen they forbeare to expresse it Hospin Hist Iesuit l. 4. c. 1. Anticotton or compendiously to refer you to some see Hospin and Anticotton A doctrine of which when the Society is challenged for they are ashamed and labour to cleere themselues against their written testimonies as appeares in Anticotton And yet I can not but with griefe speak it we finde euen in some Reformed Bookes the Iesuites penne Their names deserue to bee branded that broach such positions weigh those of Pareus Par in Rom. 13. dub 4. Bishops and Pastors may and ought to resist their vniust Magistrates 1. Concl. not with the sword but the word of God Pareus his false doctrines and wicked positions concerning Higher powers reproouing their notorious impiety and iniustice and reducing them to their office according to the word of God and the Law and dehuering them if stubborne to Satan That Priests should tell Princes their faults Replic we grant but when they can vse discretion fitting so grand a businesse when they desire to infinuate into them by their owne teares not enforce vpon them Gods command Spirituall force is the mother of all other but not farther to bee insisted vpon by mee at this time because our occasion was from what followeth Subdinon priuati 2. Concl. sed in Magistratu inferiori constituts c. Subiects such as are inferiour Magistrates may by armes defend themselues lawfully the Common-weale and true Religion against the superiour Magistrates These superior Magistrates are such Replic we may presume in whom the supreme power resides and then you may see how directly it thwarts the Apostles rule For those other Magistrates are subiects It is not lawfull for subiects 3. Concl. which are meerely priuate men to take armes without a lawfull calling neither to inuade a tyrant before danger nor to defend themselues against them in danger nor to reuenge themselues after danger if they may be defended by the ordinary power If then they faile of this condition Replic there is a time when they may right themselues we shall not need to collect it he addes it in the following conclusion If a tyrant presse on his subiects 4. Concl. as if he were latro and stuprator and they can not escape by flight or any other ordinary meanes it is lawfull for to defend themselues and theirs as against a priuate extortioner How far short these conclusions come of the Iesuites positions I referre to your trial by comparing them And yet is not he the only man that maintaineth the Buchanan and the fayned Iunius Brutus are infamous for this foctrin I could name others But this may suffice that there is scarce any of them who are eager for the Presbyterie and are fit instructours in this point for subiects of a free Monarch and therfore no maruell if our eares bee tainted with such doctrine That which I conceiue in this case for truth is that no subiects may vpon any occasion take armes or vse any violence against the supreame power no not in defence of religion Whosoeuer resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God Rom. 13.2 sayth S. Paul in the 2. verse Which place may well serue to confirme Princes power ouer their subiects in this case for this rule was giuen to them who suffered vnder a Tyrant and that for religion It is a vaine and idle exception which Pareus takes at this Some arguments drawn from the power of Maiesty saying such places are bent against priuate men who vsurpesuch power ouer superiours for euery Common-wealth consists but of two sorts in the generall Prince and People superiours and subiects those who partake not of the Supremacy as in an Oligarchie are priuate men if where the power is deuided one take the sword against the other this is as hee is a part of the supreame power Other arguments that may bee drawne à parte potestatum I forbeare because they haue all their strength from the Apostles reason and til lthat be weighed we cannot auoide their shifts If we reflect vpon subiects we shall find that their hands are tied by precepts which lay hold on them as they take on thē to be zealous Christians Mat. 5.44 Rom. 12.17 Christs Pray for them that persecute you and the Apostles Recompence to no man euill lfor euill are not such priuate vertues