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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

God and his Law Quest 3. Whether when the people have Covenanted with God in the Law the Magistrate be not to put in execution the punishments for the breaches made by the people of the Covenant Joshua 7.15 Resp 1. Or else he bears the sword in vain Rom. 13.4 Deut. 17.2 2 Or else the whole Nation are defiled by the sin and so the punishment becomes universal Deut. 13.12 13 14 15 16. 3 The Scriptures require that the soul sins against the Law shall dye Ezek. 18.4 4 Or the Nation will become abominable and in stead of being a people of God be a people of Satan for by punishment of sin according to the Law sin was said so to be put away from among them and not else the sin else remaining Deut. 13.5 one man as pitch defiling another 5 In Covenant keeping was great reward so in Covenant breaking was death the wages of sin is death Rom. 6.23 Ezek. 18.29 Yet saith the house of Israel The way of the Lord is not equal O house of Israel are not my way equal are not your ways unequal compare Gods with ours and his ways are equal ours unequal There are three grounds by which the Magistrate hath warrant to force the Law of God on a Nation which are all binding to the now Magistracy 1. Is the ground that the creature stands bound to God by for his Creation as it retains a knowledge of God thereby so that man is without excuse by the creation for making any similitude of God because in the things are made the invisible things of God are seen Rom. 1.19 20 which inexecusableness is before God onely 2 The Law being added sin abounded Rom. 5.20 Gal. 3.19 the Law was added because of transgression so that after the receiving and owning of the Law sin abounds not in quantity but in quality also a man dyes more justly for sinning against Law then without Law for offending Gods then mans Laws for breaking the Law after the Covenant then before as Paul says Rom. 7.7 I had not known sin but by the Law and 1 Cor. 15.56 the power of sin is the Law and Rom. 5.13 where is no Law is no transgression imputed 3 A people desiring the knowledge of God and enjoyment of his name but are denyed by such as rule over them and after by the outstretched arm of God are redeemed from them are by a special means called to a setting up of Gods Law and government as a debt to their Redeemer I. Thus Exod. 20.2 I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the house of bondage out of the Land of Egypt c. Note the Antichristian estate is the Land of Egypt to us as Egypt was to the Israelites Rev. 11.8 and the house of bondage in respect of the illegal yoaks William the bastard laid on this Nation which were full of tyranny and oppression who destroyed the fundamental Law of the Nation and on all differences with the Barons his posterity promised restoration of them who then knew no better Now God never delivered this Nation from the house of bondage and Land of Egypt in this kinde until now now there is a freedom from others and a tye to God that he be made king that hath delivered them See how Israel observs Gedeon Judges 8.22 23. The men of Israel said unto Gedeon Rule thou over us and thy sons also for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian And Gedeon said unto them I will not rule over you nor shall my sons rule over you the Lord shall rule over you It shews that a people are bound to set up him to rule over them that delivered them from their enemies and I hope the men delivered of this Nation will say God delivered them Deut. 29.16 17. Yea the late power could not this power I know will not say they delivered the Nation from the bondage on it spiritual or corporal but that it was God delivered it what now hinders that God who ought to reign is not set up in the Land to rule Yea I believe the very enemy for our deliverance sake will say as Nebuchadnezzar seeing his idolatry scorned and the worshippers of the true God preserved as Dan. 3.28 and ver 29. I make a decree that every people Nation and language which speak any thing amiss against the God of Shadrach Meshach and Abednege shall be cut in pieces and their houses shall be made a dunghil because there is no other God that can deliver in this sort So that it appears Gods deliverance of a people from evil and idolatrous powers is a ground by which that people so delivered are bound to own God his rule and Law they being therefore freed that they may honor him and obey him as in the deliverance of his people Israel Luke 1.74 75. 2 King 17.35 36 37 38 39. Quest 4. But what are the enforcements God authorizeth the Magistrate with in setting up his Law 1 Exod. 19.5 Keep my Covenant then shall ye be a peculiar treasure to me above all people for all the earth is mine if not see Lev. 26.15 25. Deut. 5.2 3 mark the Covenant is no less tyed to the keeping of the judgements Deut. 7.12 then to the keeping of the commands ver 9. 2 As in 2 King 11.17 A Covenant is made after general apostacy to Baal that the people will be the people of the Lord. 3 All the people small and great have the words of the Covenant read to them and they stand to it 2 King 23.2 3. 4 2 Chron. 15.12 13 they entred into a Covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers and who would not seek the Lord God of their fathers whether man or woman small or great should be put to death 2 Chron. 34.31 32. Josia made a Covenant before the Lord to walk after the Lord to keep his Commands his testimonies and his statutes and he caused all that were in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it I beseech you consider if mortal men made Kings adjudge men to death for denying their supremacy doth not man more justly dye for denying Gods was it Treason to declare any other King in a Nation then he that is Legally such How much more doth he deserve death that sets up another King then God over men by Idols Was the counterfeting the Broad-Seal Treason how then to swear by the name of the most high falsly or in a way God owns not Object O but this was in a civil way onely that Kings were so honored Res 1 God in the Law as King is only acknowledged as supreme in the State as issuing forth all power from himself to men in which he not men reigns as of the contrary not to submit to the rule and authority of God is as the Israelites to reject God or Christ and chuse Saul or Barabbas or the Bramble to rule over them 2 The worship of God was not contained in the Law

THE Authority of GOD over MEN In the LAW CLEARED Shewing that it s 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 LONDON Printed for Rich. Moone and are to be sold at the seven stars in Pauls Church-yard neer the great north door 1653. To the Supreme Authority of the Nation The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England Right Honourable THe fear of God and love of your souls makes me set before you the words of Moses Deut. 27.27 Cursed be he confirmeth not all the words of this Law to do them and all the people shall say Amen which signifies that God will stir up the people against men for not confirming the Law all the Law and that there is a curse follows the not confirming of it I have out of desire of your satisfaction and encouragement answered some objections which may beget high thoughts exalting themselves against God the Lord I hope will remove the hinderances cause delay in his work and make the way plain before yee and deliver you from reasoning with flesh and blood about prudential honors profit and pleasure of the world and the Lord answer all your Questions according to his counsel upon your Consciences And first the Lord season your thoughts with that of God when the people would be under humane Authority as the Gentiles 1 Sam. 8.7 they have not rejected thee but me signifying that if men would set up Gods Law by humane Authority they yet reject God from reigning over them the divine Law administred by humane Authority since the types of Christ as the Kings of Iudah were are past and he come is abomination and worse then Deut. 22.9 sowing the field with divers seeds ver 10. or plowing with an Oxe and an Ass ver 11. or wearing a garment of linnen and woolen O consider Magistracy ruling under God is higher and more honorable then that that is of it self without God But let us see what are the hinderances that God should not reign over us From the Soak neer Winton October 1653. The Authority of GOD over MEN in the LAW cleered Question I. THe first Question is whether the now Magistrate may enjoyn the people under his power to Covenant with God in the Law as the Jews did To the answering whereof I shall premise these Queries it 's not whether men may but 1 It s whether God may not inforce a people to Covenant with him and whether since the fall all people before they can be a people to God are not to submit to his enforcement 2 Whether God in giving the Law hath not made use of this enforcement as well on the Gentiles as the Jews Rom. 3.29 7.1 Paul writes to the Romans Gentiles shewing that the Law had dominion over them whiles they lived as a husband over a wife and the Reason because they knew the Law the knowledge of it actually enjoyns obedience to it in Gentiles as well as Jews Gal. 3.13 who are Gentiles are said to be under the rule of the Law v. 23. he saith They were kept under the Law until Faith came v. 24. and was their school master to bring them to Christ Eph. 2.12 the evil estate of the Gentiles was set out in this not onely that they were without Christ but that as we this day they were Aliens from the Commonweal of Israel that is the government of God in the Law judicial And strangers from the Covenants 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not the Covenant as of the Gospel-Covenant onely but Covenants of Law and Gospel Gal. 4.24 Abrams two sons are the two Covenants the one Ismael by Hagar which is Sinai in Arabia the Law-Covenant the other the Gospel-Covenant which is Isaac by the free woman Sarah which is Jerusalem from above Now these Covenants are the Covenants of promise the promises of the Law being onely made to the people under the Law-Covenant and those of the Gospel to the people under the Gospel-Covenant because by the Covenants they are Gods and God is so theirs as the tenor of the Covenant reveals him Lastly hence as we are without the Covenant this day so we are without God in the world that is in the world estate and as without God therein so without hope which is no less true in English mens estate now then in the Ephesians when they were Gentiles c. Again writing to Timothy whose father was a Greek 1 Tim. 1.9 the Law was made for men without Law viz. the Heathens as well as Jews 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for disobedient Command 5. for the ungodly Command 1. for the unholy and prophane Command 3. for murderers and manslayers Command 6. for whoremongers and them that defile themselves with mankinde Command 7. for men-stealers Command 8. for perjured persons Command 3. for Lyars Command 9. Now that he speaks of the Law and its rule is cleer in that he applies himself to the making of the Law which was for judgement and rule of the Jewish Nation and in them of all that know and own the Law for Gods Again he goeth but to the ninth Command as being onely punishable by the Judge the tenth being reserved to God to judge the transgressions thereof at last That that is remarkable in this Text is this 1 That he saith indefinitely it was made for such even for such Gentile sinners as well as Jews and no more for the one then for the other for God is no respecter of persons 2 Such offences are committed among us and such offenders are abiding with us and the Law was made for them not onely to shew them their sin and let them al●ne in it but to punish them for it and judge them by it 3 By the Law cleerly the Apostle understands not the ten commands onely but the whole judicial Law its Statutes and judgements Quest 2. Whether God having thus laid the Law on all that know it it be not the duty of the Magistrate who is Gods vicegerent to see the people under his power to submit to the same As the Law and Covenant enjoyn 1 Not doing it as an act of his own but as Gods Minister Rom 13.4 2 Not subjecting the people to himself but Gods obedience Judges 8.22 23. 3 Not respecting his own will but Gods command Rom. 13.5 if ever now men ought to be subject to such a Magistrate for Conscience and he that will not in such a work let him suffer the execution of Gods wrath he bears not the sword in vain to suffer men to stand out in sin against God and his Law 4 Shall any plead Conscience whether they will submit to the Law of God in the outward man as to a rule of life or whether they will be Gods people or whether they will own the true God under so much knowledge of