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A30054 Some seasonable considerations for the good people of Connecticut Bulkeley, Gershom, 1636-1713. 1694 (1694) Wing B5401A; ESTC R224014 26,221 63

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Conscience is not a Phantasy nor an Affection but a Judgment He therefore that will keep a good Conscience must be furnished with good and sound Principles Innocent Nature and the Scripture are the only Magaziens of good Principles Innocent Nature we cannot now boast of but though we may make a good use of the Reliques of the Light of Nature and indeed better than we do yet we must now go to the Scriptures and be beholding to them for sound Principles There we shall find the best Ethicks and in my Opinion the best Politicks too far better sure than either Morellius or Matchiavell can teach My Principles and I think agreeable to the Scriptures teach me these things I st That Allegiance to our Prince is a moral and necessary Duty It is an indispensible Duty plainly and frequently commanded there Prov. 24. 21. Fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Eccles 8. 2. I counsel thee to keep the Kings command and that in regard of the Oath of God Thus Christ in his own Person hath taught us if we be his Disciples Mat. 22. 21. Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's ann to God the things that are God's The Apostles of Christ tread in the steps of their Master and studiously vindicate the Christian Religion from this Scandal by the diligent and fervent pressing of the same Doctrine so Paul Rom. 13. 1 2 5. Let every Soul be subject to the higher Powers for there is no Power but of God c. whosoever therefore resists the Power resists the Ordinance of God and they that resist receive to themselves Damnation Wherefore you must needs be subject not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake How is it then that some of our Deputies say They must resist and oppose they are bound in Conscience to do it 'T is true a false God is in truth no God An Idol is nothing in the World so a false usurped pretended Authority is not of God ànd so is in truth no Authority 't is but àn Idol there is no Obedience due to it and if the King be such an one they say something But all lawful Authority is of God and he that resists resists God He that disobeys the King as King or exercising his Kingly Office disobeys God Hence the true Christian Religion and Conscience toward God if we have any do necessitate us to yeild Obedience to the King and his Ministers We must needs be subject not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake So Peter 1 Pet. 2. 13 14 15. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supream or to Governors as to those that are sent by him c. for so is the Will of God that by well-doing you may put to silence the Ignorance of foolish men And vers 17. Fear God honour the King We must do it for the Lords sake and such as despise Governments being presumptuous and self-willed and are not afraid to speak evil of Dignities they are the spots and blemishes of Religion and reckoned among the worst of men 2 Pet. 2. 10 13. Jude 8. 12. The Kings Person is sacred he is a God upon Earth and therefore to be feared and his Ministers as such are Honourable Who can stretch forth his Hand against the Lords anointed and be guiltless says David who when he had but cut off the lap or skirt of Saul's Garment his heart smote him I have said ye are Gods and Children of the most High Psal 82. 6. Yea and this is a part of the Doctrine according to Godliness commanded to be taught by Ministers of the Word of God Tit. 3. 1. Pút them in mind to be subject to Principalities and Powers to obey Magistrates And to my knowledge this Doctrine hath been preached in Connecticut forty Years ago and more and then it was accounted sound Doctrine but now it s too much forgotten and too little practised yea now it seems this sound Doctrine will not be endured 't is not a season to preach it because it cannot at least will not be born We want John Baptist to preach Repentance and to turn the Disobedient to the Wisdom of the Just It was a Man of Belial who said We have no part in David c. and that lift up his Hand against the King 2 Sam. 20. 1. 21. 2dly That true Réligion comprises both Tables of the Law Though it doth distinguish them yet it doth not seperate them Love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart c. and Love thy Neighbour as thy self Upon these two hang all the Law and the Prophets So ●ear the Lord and the King Render to Caesar c. and Render to God c. Fear God and Honour the King God hath all along joyned these together it is not for us to put them asunder we offer Violence to Religion if we do So James 1. 16 17. If a Man seem to be Religio●● and bridles not his Tongue he deceives his own heart that Man's Religion is vain pure Religion and undefiled before God is to visit the Fatherless and Widdow c. That is true Religion draws Righteousness and Mercy the Duties of the second Table along with it and is evidenced by them The Fifth Commànd is the Command of God as well as the rest of the ten and he that is a Transgressor of thàt is a Transgressor of all He that said Fear God hath also said Honour the King If therefore a man say he fears God and yet dishonours the King he deceives his own heart he should not believe himself for his fear of God is vain And so says Paul 2 Tim. 3. 4 5. In the latter days perilous Times shall come for men shall be Traitorous Heady High-minded ç. having a form of Godliness but denying the Power thereof The fear of God will without doubt produce a regard to Man and bind the hands from unlàwful Violence without other Manacles When Joseph's Brethren having so greatly injured him as they had done were fallen into his hands that he could easily have revenged himself upon them as he pleased yet says he This do and live for I fear God How much more may any Man doing nothing but his Duty promise himself Security among those that fear God But we have seen that of late in Connecticut which if Abraham himself had been here would have made him say as once he did to Abimelech Because I thought surely the fear of God is not in this place 3dly That the second Command or Table of the Lâw is like to the first Mat. 22. 38 39. Man is the Image of God being made in his likeness and the King is the Image of God by way of Eminency He is a created Ray of the divine Majesty and Soveraignity the next and immediate Deputy of God among men to whom God hath lent his own Throne and