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soul_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	4,907	5	10.4011	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50551	Jus regium, or, The just and solid foundations of monarchy in general and more especially of the monarchy of Scotland, maintain'd against Buchannan, Naphtali, Dolman, Milton, &c.	Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.	1684 (1684)	Wing M163; ESTC R945	87,343	224

proceed to do what they first abhorred really To these I must recommend the History of Hazael who when the Prophet foretold him 2 King 8. 12 13. That he should slay their young men with the sword dash their Children and rip up their Women with child answered him am I a dog that I should do such things and yet he really did what he had so excerated The moderation likewise of these modest pretenders to Self-defence and Defensive Arms will appear by the bloody Doctrine of their great Rabbies Buchannan not only allows but invites Subjects to murder their King And Lex Rex Pag. 313. tells us That it is a sin against Gods Command to be Passively Subject to an unjust Sentence and that it is an Act of Grace and Virtue to resist the Magistrate violently when he does him wrong and after that horrid Civil War was ended the Author of Nahptali doth justifie it pag. 16 and 17 in these words Combinations for assistance in violent opposition of the Magistrates when the ends of Government are preverted which must be referr'd to the discretion of them who mind Insurrection are necessary by the Law of Nature of Charity and in order to Gods Glory and for violation of this Duty of delivering the oppressed from Magistrates Judgment comes upon People From which he proceeds Pag. 18 and 19. do assert that not only the power of self-defence but vindicative and reforming power is in any part of the People against the whole and against all Magistrates and if they use it not Judgment comes on supposing their capacity probable to bear them forth and they shall be punish'd for their connivance and not acting in way of vindication of Crimes and reforming Abuses Before I enter upon those Arguments which the Scripture furnishes us with against these Rebellious Principles I must crave leave to say 1. That Defensive Arms seem to me very clearly inconsistent with that Mortification Submission and Patience which is recommended by our Blessed Saviour in all the strain of the new Testament and how will these People give their Coat to a Stranger or hold up their other Cheek to him when they will rise even in Rebellion against their Native Prince 2. As the taking up of Arms is inconsistent with the temper requir'd in a Christian so it seems a very unsuitable mean for effectuating the end for which it is design'd since Religion being a Conviction of what we owe to God how can that be comanded which should be perswaded and how can Arms become Arguments Or how can External Force influence immaterial Substances such as are the Souls of Men. And we may as well think to awake a mans Conscience by Drums or to perswade his Judgment by Musquets and therefore the Apostle speaks only of spiritual Arms in this our Warfare The Sword of the Spirit and the Helmet of Salvation c. But good God how could the extravagancy of forcing the Magistrate by Arms in Defence of Religion enter into Mens heads When it is unlawful even for the Magistrate himself to force Religion by Arms. And as Subjects should not be by the King forced to Religion so if they use Force against the King the pretext of Religion tho specious should not defend them And therefore when the sons of Zebedee desired fire from Heaven upon those who oppos'd even our Saviour he told them that they knew not what Spirit they were of 3. It seems very derogatory to the power of Almighty God that he should need humane assistance and it is a lessening of the great esteem that we ought to have for the energy force and reasonableness of the Christian Religion that it needs to be forc'd upon men by Arms as if it were not able to force its own way This Mahomet needed for his Cheats but our Blessed Saviour needs not for his Divine Precepts and therefore when Peter offered to fight for him our Saviour checkt him commanding him to put up his Sword and to perswade him the more effectually assures him That all they who take the Sword shall perish by it and that his Kingdom was not of this World and so he needed no such worldly help but if he pleas'd to call for Legions of Angels his Omnipotent Father would send them and sure Angels are fitter and abler Instruments to carry on such a work of Reformation than Rebellious Regiments of Horse and Dragoons 4. Our blessed Saviour foreseeing that Mans Corruption would in spite of Christianity prompt him to resist he therefore did command by the Apostle Paul Rom. 13. v. 1. and 2. Let every Soul be Subject to the higher Power 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 In which Text it is very remarkable that the Apostle urges this Christian duty of submission as being a mark of mans immediate dependence upon God and as that which when contemned brings eternal damnation And whereas it is pretended that this Text commands only submission to Magistrates whilst they Act Piously and Vertuously because only in so far they are Gods Vicegerents but forbids not resistance to their impious commands It is answered that the Text has no such limitation and we must have so much respect to the Scripture as to think that if God Almighty had design'd to allow such an opposition he would have warranted it in as clear Terms as he commanded the submission and the reason why this submission is commanded is not because the Power is rightly us'd but because the Power is ordained of God And we see that St. Paul himself did think that the power should be reverenc'd even when abus'd for when the High Priest was Injuring him he acknowledged that he was obliged not to speak evil of the Rulers of his People Acts 23. 2. And if this place of Scripture and the submission therein commanded were so to be limited we behoved likewise so to limit the fifth Commandment and not to honour our Parents except when they are Pious nor to obey them if they vex or trouble us and St. Paul having written this Epistle to those who were then living under that monstrous Emperour Caius did clearly design that the Christian Religion was to be admired for commanding Subjects not only to obey good Princes but even submitting peaceably to Tyrants And suitable to this Doctrine are these Texts Heb. ch 12. v. 9. We had Fathers of our flesh who corrected and chastened us after their own pleasure and we gave them reverence and lest we might think that Text rather a Narration than a Command it is told us Peter 2. v. 18. Servants be subject to your Masters with all fear not only to the good and gentle but also to the froward for this is thanks-worthy if a man for conscience toward God do endure grief And v. 20. If when ye do well and