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rest_n	creation_n	day_n	sabbath_n	5,972	5	9.9010	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77289	The authority of God over men, in the law cleared, shewing that its no persecution for the magistrate as Jehovah's deputy, in Jehovah's name, to enforce it on the people, but that he is bound to do the same. Written by an unworthy witness to the law and government of God, John Brayne.	Brayne, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing B4318; Thomason E725_17; ESTC R206773	12,890	15

judicial but in the Law ceremonial the Judicial Law held out his authority power and rule onely as a Lord over men which men despising dye more justly for then for opposing the authority of all the men on earth 3 This of the Law is an honor due to God from his creating man and from man as his creature in natures state by created light Quest 5. Whether the first Table belong to the Magistrate now or not or onely the second Table Resp Jam. 2.10 says He that breaks the Law in one point is guilty of all and Moses says Cursed be he confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them Jam. 2.7 11. 2 Judgement of things in the second Table is not to be executed without the use of Commands of the first 1 A man in difficult cases cannot be satisfied but by an Oath Heb. 6.16 an oath is the end of all strife Jer. 4 2. Thou shalt swear the Lord lives in righteousness which shews the oath of God is not to be ministred to unrighteous Law and proceeds again it must be in judgement which cannot be if the commands of the first Table pertain not to the Magistrate 2 As an oath is to be ministred in judgement Command 3. so that oath must be in the name of God or the Plaintiff is not to receive his testimony yea indeed it can be no oath Command the first is hence proved to be of necessary use in judgement 3 It must not be by the name of an idol God that the Magistrate professing Gods word ought not to receive for God will cut off the name of Idols out of the Land Command second is concerned also in judgement 4 And whereas it ought to be the Magistrates care that the people under him live a godly and sober life in all righteousness ond honesty it proves from 1 Tim. 2.2 1 A necessity of the seventh day Sabbath to be observed the fourth Command 2 And if the Law of Moses by which the people are to live or be judgeed be read to them every Sabbath day Act. 15.21 3 That the remembrance of the Creation and Rest with thanks to the Creator be continued that God may sanctifie them and as a school-master bring men to Christ 4 That the servant the Oxe the Ass may rest and not be destroyed with labour and toil the merciless master otherwise would burthen them withal yea and destroy them Christ tells us The Sabbath was made for man not man for the Sabbath Mark 2.27 5 Without this what profanation wickednesses and abominations would the people suddenly run into and be before God worse then heathens who observed days to their idol gods 6 The seventh day is the signe of the Covenant of God so that if that be neglected the Covenant is not signed yea God punished the breach of Sabbaths the neglect of Sabbaths severely and blessed in all abundance the observance of them and annexed many promises If Magistrates now have nothing to do to put in execution the Commands of the second Table 1 Then they have nought to do to punish Witches Sorcerers or other Covenanters with Satan because these sin against the first Command in denying God and against the third in taking the name of God in vain 2 Gal. 5.19 20. Idolatry and Witchcraft are numbred together as a work of the flesh with adultery fornication murther Object Ver. 20. Heresie is exprest and that pertains not to the civil Magistrate to punish Resp This Heresie as here a work of the flesh is limited to a denyal of God or the rule and the authority of God indeed a dividing himself from God and his Law under which the natural man ought to be the Apostle in this Epistle treating mainly of the Law and the state of man as under the same or as it ought to be under the same for those under the curse ought to be under the rule of the Law though the time and opportunity is denyed them and this kinde of heresie concerns the Magistrate as the punishment of witchcraft or murther doth and distinct from the heresies 2 Pet. 2.1 speaks of calling them damnable heresies that is denying Christ that bought them which is brought into the Church and come not under the Magistrates cognizance to punish with the sword And thus you see how the four Commands of the first Table concern the Magistrate as much as the six last of the second Table yea so as he that confirmeth not all the words of the Law to do them is accursed and he that breaks one is guilty of all for the authority of the Law is in the first Command acknowledged or made void in the owning or the denyal of it as containing the Kingship and the supremacy of God as Lawgiver this begets obedience The power of the Law is from the name of God contained in the third Command this begets fear The sanctification of the people by the Law is from the observation of the fourt Command this begets holiness The second Command is for the preservation of the power and the authority of the Law and for preventing unholiness a not glorifying God as God So that the second Table disjoyned from the first in the hand of man is mans setting up of himself and casting down the authority and power of God and is the greatest of all abominations and the greatest of all other violence done to God O let not humane power and authority ever come to rule by the divine Law of God this is indeed to set themselves in the Throne of God will not God hold him guiltless takes his name in vain and shall he be guiltless takes his throne his honor his name his law and glory from him It is no less dangerous to rule by our authority then not to rule by Gods law Gods law is not to be administred but in his name and by that authority is of God without desperate and high rebellion God is to be in the law and judgement as Kings were in their law and judgement shall men have that over you which you think too great to give to God How little is God beholding to you who will not admit him his soveraignty in his own law over his creatures Object But is not an inforcing a Covenant with God and a putting men to death for idolatry persecution and an oppressing the Consciences of men Resp 1 The enforcement is not of man but God man is but Gods minister therein as in the other parts of his ministery 2 Conscience is inexcusable before God from the things made proving the invisibility of God against Idols and idolatry as Rom. 1.19 20. 3 The Law hath a light more strongly convincing Conscience then the natural light by which it is bound to the living God from idols by which man is inexcusable before men and so he that hath the law and yet worships idols justly is judged to dye thereby Note it is not mental idolatry but manual or