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A42126 Loyalty essential to Christianity being a sermon preached the thirtieth of June, 1685 upon the occasion of the news of the damnable rebellion in the west and in the course of the constant lecture in the parish church of Dedham in Essex / by Thomas Grey. Grey, Thomas. 1685 (1685) Wing G1971; ESTC R23956 18,382 32

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a Lawful Power Secondly As a further proof of the Proposition I will examine how the Doctrine of Loyalty is established by the followers of the same Jesus and who no doubt being guided by his infallible Spirit delivered the Precepts of his Religion according to his mind whose it was St. Paul Rom. 13. 1 2 Let every soul be subject to the higher powers for there is no power but of God the powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation or if instead of Damnation there it should be read Judgment and that too be understood only of the Magistrate as some would persuade viz. That if the King catch those that resist he will hang them yet such a Prediction or Threatning or if it be less viz. a determination but of the natural tendency of such practises to lead to a shameful and untimely Death by the hand of Justice yet that sure delivered after an Apostolical Judgment upon the whole Cause is sufficient to deter any thinking Man from them But if it be indeed Eternal Damnation as this alone Reason proves because 't is a Punishment assigned for Resisting or Despising an Ordinance of God which is here threatned to those that shall resist Lawful Powers that is enough to prove obedience and submission to them a necessary Duty in Christian Religion The same Apostle also in another place viz. 2 Cor. 10. 4. tells us That the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God The Holy Jesus that gave such gifts to men of wonderful and miraculous Abilities never delegated to any of his followers the Power of controuling or resisting Magistrates which yet he could as easily have done S. Peter that with one word struck dead Ananias and Saphira Act. 5. must yet be obedient to the Decree of his Crucifixion and S. Paul that struck Elymas blind Acts 13. and did such mighty Wonders upon other occasions must yet make use of none of his Powers against Ananias Felix or Nero no Miracles to be wrought to oppose any Judicial Sentences of Magistrates The wisdom of Heaven had taken others and quite contrary measures for the founding and preserving his Church in the World St. Peter also 1 Epist 2. 13. Preaches the same Doctrine submit your self to every ordinance of man and founds it upon the Injunctions of the Holy Jesus for the Lords sake And continues the Obligation to the several Subordinations of Magistrates Ver. 14. Adding Ver. 15. that this was the will of God for the Glory and Honour of his Religion And Ver. 20. he puts the Case of unjust suffering from or oppression by Governors and directs the carriage of all Christians in such a Case If you be buffeted for your faults and take it patiently What glory is it but if you do well and suffer for it you take it patiently This is acceptable with God St. Jude also in his Epistle sharply reproves those that despise dominions and speak evil of dignities Ver. 8. denouncing God's severest Judgments against the Gnostick Hereticks for this among other of their impieties And the afore-named Apostle St. Peter in his second Epistle Chap. 2. Ver. 1. speaking of damnable Heresies afterward Ver. 10. mentions those that despise Government and are not afraid to speak evil of Dignities I shall think now that you truly believe this Doctrine of Submission to Governors abundantly proved to be a Necessary and Essential part of Christian Religion by the concurring testimonies of the sacred Pages when I have only added that Rebellion and Sedition Heresie and Schism which are Disobediences to Governors in Church and State are ranked by the Holy Ghost among the works of the Flesh viz. as that is opposed to the Spiritual and Holy Doctrine of the Gospel Gal. 5. 19 20 Now the works of the flesh are manifest i. e. notoriously known to be impure and contrary to the commands of Jesus such as these Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Seditions Heresies Murders Drunkenness c. Now we may see by the companions which the Spirit of God has assigned to Seditions and Heresies that these are of the same Immoral and Damnable nature with the other And the Apostle affirms of these Ver. 21 That they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God And Ver. 24. He pronounces of these with the rest that they are utterly inconsistent with Christs Religion For they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts And now for a Conclusion to all this suffer me to repeat to you that numerous Catalogue of Prodigious Impieties in men which the same Apostle St. Paul in his second Epistle to Timothy Chap. 3. foretells should over-run the World in the latter days in the midst almost of which you will find Traytors to be reckoned Men shall be Lovers of their own selves Covetous Boasters Proud Blasphemers Disobedient to Parents Vnthankful Vnholy without Natural Affection Truce-breakers false Accusers Incontinent Fierce Despisers of those that are Good Traytors Heady High-minded Lovers of Pleasure more than Lovers of God having a form of Godliness but denying the Power of it Enough it is sure to affright any man that has but a tolerable value for the Holy Book from ever being a Traytor to his Prince when he shall but consider what company the Holy Scriptures have placed such guilty and miserable Wretches with Thirdly The Divine Original of Sovereign Power proves subjection to it a necessary portion of that Religion which has God for its Author And it is a Conclusive Argument that that Religion never came from Heaven that teaches or encourages any opposition of that Authority which God himself has set up in the World For if Satan be not divided against Satan most certainly then the Wisdom of Almighty God is always consistent with it self And moreover all the greatest confusions that could happen in the World would be fastned upon the wise Governor of it if when he had ordained Powers and Sovereignty among men he should allow or encourage the resisting of them Now that the Origine of Sovereign Power is from God is evident from many places of Holy Writ Hence Kings are called Gods Psal 82. 6 And the Children of the most Highest Not only as being concerned in his especial care maintenance and provision but also as partaking of his Authority and having that in them which is an emanation from and resemblance of his own Government of the World And Prov. 8. 15 By me Kings Reign and Princes Decree Justice And the Prophet Daniel Chap. 2. 21. tells Nebuchadnezzar That 't is God that setteth up Kings And therefore they are called the Lords Anointed And St. Paul in the fore-quoted place affirms the Powers that be to be Ordained of God and that they which resist the Power resist the Ordinance of God which 't is evident that nothing that comes from God