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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80811	The magistrates authority, in matters of religion; and the souls immortality, vindicated in two sermons preach'd at York. / By Christopher Cartvvright, B.D. and Minister of Gods Word there.	Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.; Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.	1647 (1647)	Wing C692; Thomason E401_32; ESTC R201801	22,915	44

by the Parable of a draw-net Mat. 13.47 50. Thus the Doctrine being sufficiently confirmed and the Objections made against it answered let us come to the Uses of it Vse 1 And 1. It serves to convince and recliam if it may be those that are of the contrary opinion and to teach and admonish all to beware of that opinion It is an opinion injurious unto God injurions to his vicegerent injurious to his people 1. Injurious unto God opposing his ordinance 2. Injurious to Gods vicegerent the Magistrate devesting him of that power wherewith God hath invested him 3. Injurious unto Gods people depriving them of that benefit which they might and should have by the Magistrate and for want thereof exposing them to great and manifold inconveniences Vse 2 2. To confute the Papists who though they seem to give unto the Magistrate this power yet indeed they withhold it from him For they make him only a Vassal to the Pope and those of that Hierarchy to execute their Canons and Decrees to punish such as they have pronounced Hereticks and to cause that doctrine which they propound to be embraced and those rites which they enjoyn what ever they be to be observed Whereas if private persons must prove all things and hold fast that which is good 1 Thes 5.21 then much more must Magistrates do it Though they must not do things of themselves but must advise with godly and able Ministers and be instructed and directed by them out of Gods Word yet must they not tye themselves to the dictates of men but must have the book of God the holy Scripture continually with them and exercise themselves diligently therein and by it try things Deut. 17.18 19 20. before either they receive them themselves or cause others to submit unto them Vse 3 3. To stir us up to pray continually unto God in the behalf of our Magistrates that they may be enlightned by his Spirit to discern of things that differ that so they may be able to use their power aright to edification and not to destruction for the supporting of the truth not for the suppressing of it and that they may be incited and stirred up to do it Thus the Apostle exhorts and requires us to pray and make supplications as for all so more especially for Kings and those that are in authority that under them we may lead a peaceable and a quiet life in all godliness and honesty 1 Tim. 2.2 We may see and it is worthy to be observed that according as the Kings and Rulers of Gods people were good or bad so Religion either flourished or decayed under Asa Jehosaphat Hezekiah and Josiah it flourished Under Rehoboam Ahas Manasses c. it decayed Vse 4 4. To stir us up to praise and glorifie God for such Magistrates when any good doth accrew unto the Church by them As we must honour the Magistrates themselves so much the more by how much the more they put forth themselves and exercise their authority for the preserving and maintaining of Religion and for the procuring of the welfare and happiness of the Church as they did Jehoiada the high Priest who had been Tutor to King Joash in his non-age and carryed himself worthily in that place of dignity and power at his death they did him the honour to bury him among the Kings because he had done good in Israel both towards God and towards his house 2 Chron. 24.16 So chiefly our care must be to acknowledg the good hand of God upon us in vouchsafing to give us such Magistrates and to make them so instrumental to our good and to give him the praise and glory of all The King granted me said Nehemiah according to the good hand of my God upon me Nehemiah 2.8 So of Ezra it is said that the King granted him all his request viz. which he made in the behalf of Ierusalem and the service of God according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him Ezra 7.6 And having rehearsed the decree that the King had made and the commission that he had given him concerning the worship of God and the affairs of the Church he breaketh out into this doxology Blessed be the Lord God of our fathers who hath put such a thing as this in the Kings heart to beautifie the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem And hath extended mercy unto me before the King and his Counsellors and before all the Kings mighty Princes and I was strengthned as the hand of the Lord my God was upon me Ezra 7.27 28. ECCLES 12.7 Then shal the dust return to the earth as it was and the Spirit shal return to God that gave it IN the beginning of this Chapter Solomon bids Remember thy Creator in the daies of thy youth and he shews why every one ought to have this care viz. because in old age we can neither be so serviceable neither can our service be so acceptable this is signified in those words before the evil daies come and the years draw nigh wherein thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them the daies of old age are evil daies i. e. full of trouble and sorrow in which sense Iacob said that his daies were evil Gen. 47.9 Old age is subject to diseases and distempers Senectus ipsa morbus it is it self a disease And therefore also the years of old age are years wherein a man hath no pleasure see Psal 90.10 and 2 Sam. 19.35 And are we then in old age fit to do God service Or is it fit to put off the serving of God until old age Shal we think that God wil have pleasure in that service which we put off till those years come wherein we our selves have no pleasure Solomon having thus generally set forth in the first verse how unmeet it is and unreasonable to cast off the remembrance of God until old age come he goes on in the next five verses to describe old age and to set forth the troublesome and uncomfortable condition of it more particularly the description is very elegant but allegorical and therefore obscure I may not now stand to explain it but must come to the 7. ver which I am to insist on wherein he shews what old age tends to and what follows upon it viz. death and judgment Then shal the dust return c. Then viz. when old age hath worn and weakned the body and dissolved the frame and temperature of it Shal the dust i. e. the body which was made of dust Gen. 2.7 Return to the earth as it was According to that Gen. 3.19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the ground or earth for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return And the Spirit i. e. the soul as the word Spirit is taken 1 Cor. 6.20 and so in other places Shal return unto God viz. as the Chaldee Paraphrast dothwel interpret