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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	authority_n	divine_a	infallible_a	2,602	5	9.2547	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37045	Heaven upon earth in the serene tranquillity and calm composure, in the sweet peace and solid joy of a good conscience sprinkled with the blood of Jesus and exercised always to be void of offence toward God and toward men : brought down and holden forth in XXII very searching sermons on several texts of Scripture ... / by James Durham.	Durham, James, 1622-1658.; J. C.	1685 (1685)	Wing D2815; ESTC R24930	306,755	418

we must all appear or ●e made manifest before the judgement seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body whether commanded by Superiours or not according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad And more particularly Rom. 14. v. 12. So then every one of us shall give an account of himself not another for him to God and Gal. 6. v. 4 and 5. But let every man prove his own work a●d then shall he have rejoycing in himself alone and not in another For every man shall bear his own burden And 1 Cor. 3. v. 8. And every man shall receive his own reward according to his own Labour And indeed these Teachers by their flattering the Soveraign Powers put them to make a very heavy reckoning by their pretending to gratifie them lay on them a great and insupportable burden Which when well considered will be found very much to embitter all the sweet of that exhorbitant and incompetent power granted to them I would have none to think that by any thing said I design in the least to derogat from lawful Authority and the civil Magistrat any thing that is due thereunto God forbid I should I heartilie acknowledge Magistracy to be the ordinance of God Rom. 13. v. 1 4. And Magistrats to be by Office Ministers of God to us for good to whom for begetting and maintaining a just aw dread and veneration of them he hath imparted and communicated some of his own names or stiles calling them Gods even such as are his Le●vetennants Vicegerents and Representers on earth and would beseech and obtest that all of us may render as unto God the things that are Gods so to Cesar the things that are Cesars As to fear God so to honourthe King that every soul be subject to the higher powers subject not only for wrath but for conscience sake That we all submit our selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supream or unto Governours as unto them that are sin by him for the punishment of evil doors and the praise of them that do well For so is the will of God that with well doing we may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men That we be subject to principalities and powers and obey Magistrates And that first of all supplications prayers and intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for Kings all that are in authority that We may lead a quiet and peacable life in all godliness and honesty Cheerfully allowing to them all that the Scriptures of the old new Testaments and the Consessions of Faith of the Reformed Churches of Christ allow unto them and whoever have taught or held or do teach and hold the contrary whatever be their pretentions and professions are not only not true Presbyterians but in so far not true Protestants yea not true Christians but the disgrace shame and reproach of Presbyterie Protestanis●e and Christianity so far as in them lyes for their way hath a manifest tendency to fasten such unworthy imputations on these interesis though they can cause no inherent blemishes in them no more then fogs and mists can do in the Sun a●beit they may eclipse and obscure its glory Let us make the supposition that the Apostles of our Lord had taught such Doctrine as some very few one or two have of late taught and do still teach which yet we cannot with any shadow of truth make For these divinly and infallibly inspited persons could teach no such Doctrine What ground of jealousie and prejudice would it have given to all the Secular Powers of the World against the Gospel of Christ As if the design of it had been to ru●ne all Civil Authority and to instigat its disciples to root out all Civil Magistrats and Rulers how would it have set them on and not without some reason with implacable fury to have by all means stiffled the Gospel-Christian Church in the very Infancy and Cradle thereof whereas the Doctrine of Christ and His Apostles teaching no such thing but most clearly convincingly and fully the contrary it made the Civil powers their persecuting its P●reossors utterly in excusable and their sufferings by them to be truly ●ous and it is worthy observation that the time wherein our Lord Christ and his Apostles Paul and Peter gave these fore mentioned Commands and Instructions to Christians relating to their duty to the Superiour Civil Powers was when Tiberius Cal●gula Claudi us and Nero were Roman Emperours none o● whom were the best nor near the best even of Pagan Emperours and some of them were very Monsters of men Only it would be carefully looked to that foundations be not shaken and put out of course and that ancient boundaries and land-marks be not removed which no Christian Civil Soveraigns in Kingdoms or Common wealths keeping them selves in the Line of due and just Subordination to the Majesty of God the great and absolute Superiour and Soveraign the King of Kings by and under whom all Kings reign will allow of or give way unto whatever un-hallowed Hobbists profanely and impiously suggest to the contrary Whose principles whatever they pretend to grant to the Civil Soveraigns of Kingdoms and Common-wealths are a manifest tendencle to the unhinging and utter dissolving of all government For let us in short but suppose these four things which Hobbs very Magisterially tanquam ex tripode dictats and takes fore granted in his forcited book 1. That all Religion is bottomed on human Authoritie and precariously borrowed from the will and pleasure of men and hath no divine authoritie of its own whereby as ingenious and acute Sir Charles Wo●sly in his unreason ablness of athiesm sayes an inrode is made upon its best desence for indeed sayeth he it will never be kept up with any other interest in the Consciences of men and where it is not supported by conscience it is ever tottering and yeilds to the blasts of every humane pleasure if once sayeth the same learned Gentleman it be taken foregranted that the Scripturs have no authoritie but what the Civil Power gives them they will soon come upon a divine account to have none at all adly That the Apostles could not make their writings obligatory Canons without the help of the Sov●aign 〈◊〉 Powers and that therefore the Scripture of the new Testament is the only law there where the Civil Power makes it so as if forsooth the Divine Authority stamped thereon by the absolute Soveraign by the great and infallible Legis lator carried with it no immediat obligati on the Consciences of Men to whom it comes to receive and obey it as his Law Whosoever besteveth sayeth Sir Charles Woolsl● That it is in the power of every state whether the Gospel shall be authentick or not he must needs throw off all divine respect to it and be in a very fair way to