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The loyall convert
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Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644.
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higher Powers for there is no power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God whosoever therefore râ—sisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation This Power this King to whom S. Paul commandeth this subjection was Nero the bloody persecutor of all that honoured the blessed Name of Jesus Christ Gods Command should be a sufficient Argument {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} is enough But when he adds a Reason too he answers all Objections But when he threatens a punishment no lesse then damnation upon the resistance thereof he hath used all means to perswade a necessitie of obedience Let every soule be subject Not equall much lesse superiour And what is taking up of Armes but an implyed supposition of at least equalitie What are the hopes of conquest but an Ambition of Superioritie What is condemning judging or deposing but Supremacie For it is against the nature of an Inferiour to condemne judge or depose a Superiour And lest the Rebellious should confine his obedience to a good Prince the next words reply For there is no Power but of God Power in it selfe is neither good nor evill but as it is in subjecto the person If an evill King an evill Power if a good King a good Power God sends the one in Mercy and we must be subject the other in Judgement and we must be subject in things lawfull actively in things unlawfull passively If a good King he must have our praise and our plyance If an evill King he must have our Prayers and our Patience He that resisteth the Power whether good or evill for all power is of God resists an Ordinance of God Ordinances of men are not resisted without ruine and whosoever resisteth shall receive but what {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} damnation to themselves Now compare this place with thâ—t 1. Cor. 11. 29. He that shall eat this Bread drink this cup of the Lord unworthily eateth and drinketh What {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} damnation to himself If then there be proportion betwixt the Sin and the Punishment you may hereby gather the heynousnesse of disobedience the punishment whereof is the very same with his that is guilty of the Body blood of our Lord to the one for not discerning the Lords Body to the other for not discerning the Lords Annoynted The Lords Annoynted And who is he None but the regenerate Christ is not Christ to any to whom Jesus is not Jesus Gods Word answers your silly Objection not I was not Saul Gods Annoynted Was not Cyrus Gods Annoynted and many more whom God acknowledges so yet wicked Kings Cyrus is mine Annointed yet he hath not known me The first example for our Obedience the Old Testament proposeth to our imitation Dan. 3. 16. Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babylon sets up a golden Image Shadrach Meshach and Abednego were commanded to fall down worship it The King a knowne Pagan commands grosse Idolatry did these men conspire Or being Rulers of the Province of Babel did they invite the Jewes into a Rebellion did these to strengthen their own Faction blast their Soveraignes Name with Tyranny and Faganisme Did they endeavour by Scandals and impious Aspersions to render him odious to his people Did they encourage their Provinces to take up Arms for the defence of their Liberties or Religion Did they seize upon or stop his Revenues or annihilate his Power did they estrange themselves from his Presence Murther his Messengers Or would they have slighted his gracious Offers No being called by their Prince they came being commanded to give actuall obedience to his unlawfull commands observe the modestie of their first answer We are not carefull to answer thee in this matter and being urged maâ—ke their pious Resolution in the second Be it knowne O King we will not serve thy Gods nor worship the golden Image which thou hast set up The King threatens the Fornace they yeeld their bodies to the Fornane say God whom we serve wil deliver us out of thy hands and not he will deliver Thee into our hands They expect deliverance rather in their passive Obedience then in their actuall resistance But they were few in number and their Forces not considerable Admit that which all Histories deny Was not God as able to subdue Him with so few as to deliver them from so many Had their weaknesse lesse Reason for the Cause of Gods apparent dishonour to expect a miraculous assistance in those daies of frequent miracles then we after so long a cessation of Miacles Gods glory will not be vindicated by unlawfull means or unwarrantable proceedings I but we take up Armes not against the King but against his evill Counsellours Adherents ye meane A rare distinction And tell me whose power have his Adherents The Kings By which appeares ye take up Armes against the Kings power He that resisteth the power it is not said the Prince shall receive damation Againe Where the word of a King is there is power God joyned the King and his power and who dare separate them They that take up Armes against the Parliaments power you say take up Armes against the Parliament doe not they then that take up Armes against the Kings power by the same reason take up Armes against the King Now look back upon your intricate distinction and blush But if the King betray the Trust reposed in him by his Subjects they may suspend their obedience and resist him Kings are Gods Vicegerents cannot be compelled to give an accompt to any but to God Against thee against thee only have I sinned That is to thee to thee only must I give an accompt Though I have sinned against â—riah by my Act and against my people by my Example yet against Thee have I only sinned You cannot deprive or limit them in what you never gave them God gave them their Power and who are thou that darest resist it By me Kings Raigne But his Crown was set upon his Head by his Subjects upon such and such conditions Why was the penaltie upon the faile not expressed them Coronation is but a humane Ceremonie And was he not Proclaimed before he was crowned Proclaimed But what A King And did not you at the same instant by relative consequence proclaime your selves Subjects And shall Subjects condition with their King or will Kings bind themselves to their Subjects upon the sorfeiture of their power after they have received their Regall Authoritie But the King hath by Writ given his power to his Parliament and therefore what they doe they doe by vertue of his Power The King by his Writ gives not away his power but communicates it By the vertue of which Writ they are called ad tractandum consulendum de arduis Regni to treat and advise
THE LOYALL CONVERT VIRO Improbus haec tam culta novalia miles habebit Barbarus has segetes HOM. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} OXFORD Printed by Henry Hall 1644. To the Honest-hearted READER READER IHere protest before the Searcher of all hearts that I have no End either of Faction or Relation in this ensuing Treatise I am no Papist no Sectarie but a true Lover of Reformation Peace My Pen declines all bitternesse of Spirit all deceitfulnesse of heart and I may safely in this particular with saint PAVL say I speake the truth in Christ and lye not my Conscience bearing me witnesse in the holy Ghost that I neither walke nor write in craftinesse nor handle the holy Scriptures deceitfully Therefore if thy Cause be Iesus Christ in the name of Iesus Christ I adjure thee to lay aside all wilfull ignorance all prejudice all private respects and Interests and all uncharitable censures Deale faithfully with thy Soul and suffer wholesome admonitions Search the severall Scriptures herein contained and where they open a Gate climbe not thou over a Stile Consult with Reason herein exerciz'd and where it finds a mouth find thou an eare And let Truth prosper though thou perish and let God be glorified although in thy Confusion THE LOYALL CONVERT THe kingdome of England that hath for many Ages continued the happiest Nation on the habitable earth enjoying the highest blessings that heaven can give or earth receive the fruition of the Gospell which setled a firme Peace which Peace occasion'd a full Plentie under the gracious Government of wise and famous Princes over a thriving and well-contented People insomuch that shee became the Earths Paradise and the Worlds Wonder is now the Nurcerie of all Sects her Peace is violated her Plentie wasting her Government distempered her People discontented and unnaturally embroyl'd in her owne Blood not knowing the way nor affecting the meanes of Peace insomuch that shee is now become the By-word of the Earth and the scorne of Nations The Cause and ground of these our Nationall Combustions are these our nationall Transgressions which unnaturally sprung from the neglect of that Truth we once had and from the abuse of that Peace we now want Which taking occasion of some differences betwixt His Majestie and his two Houses of Parliament hath divided our Kingdome within it selfe which had so divided it selfe from that God who blest it with so firme a Truth so setled a Peace and so sweet an Unitie At that sinne brought this division so this division sharpned with mutuall Jealousies brought in the Sword When the Lyon râ—â—res who trembles not And when Judgement 〈◊〉 who is not troubled Among the rest I who brought some Faggors to this Combustion stood astonisht and amazed to whom the mischiefe was farre more manifest then the Remedy At last I laid my hand upon my heart and concluded It was the hand of God Where being plundered in my understanding I began to make a scrutinie where the first Breach was made that let in all these Miseries I found the whole Kingdome now contructed into a Parliament which consisted of three Estates A King a House of Peeres and a House of Commons by the Wisdome and Unitie whereof all things conducible to the Weale-publique were to be advised upon presented and established I found this Unitie dis-joynted and growne to variance even to Blood The King and his Adherents on the one party and his two Houses and their Adherents on the other The presence of this division was the true Protestant Religion which both protested to maintaine the Libertie of the Subject which both protested to preserve the priviledges of Parliament which both promise to protect Yet neverthelesse the first never more profaned the second never more interrupted the third never more violated Standing amazed at this Riddle I turned mine eyes upon his Majesty and there I viewed the Lords Annointed sworne to maintaine the established Lawes of this Kingdome I turned mine eyes upon the two Houses and in them I beheld the Interest of my Countrey sworne to obey his Majestie as their supreme Governour I heard a Romanstranoe cryed from the two Houses I read it I approved it I inclined unto it A Declaration from his Majesty I read it I applauded it I adhered to the justnesse of it The Parliaments Answer I turned to the Parliament His Majesties Reply I returned to his Majestie Thus tost and turned as a Weathercâ—â—k to my own weaknesse I resolved it impossible to serve two Masters I fled to Reason Reason could not satisfie me I fled to Policies Policie could not resolve me at length finding no Councellour but that which first I should have sought I hyed me to the Book of God as the Great Oracle and ushering my Inquest with Prayor Humiliation I opened the sacred leaves which not by chance presented to my first eye the 20 of the Proverbs v. 2. The fear of a King is as the roaring of a Lyon who so provoketh him to Anger sinneth against his own soule Now I began to search and found as many places to that purpose as would swell this Sheet into a Volume so that in a very short space I was so furnished with such strict Precopts backt with such strong Examples that my Judgement was enlightned and my wavering Conscience so throughly convinced that by the Grace of that Power which directed me neither feare nor any By-respects shall ever hereafter remove me unlesse some cleaner light direct me But above all the Rest a Precept and an Example out of the Old Testament strongly confirmed by a Precept and an Example out of the New setled my opinion and established my Resolution The first Precept out of the Old Jeremy 27. v. 6. Where it pleased God to owne Nebuchadnezzar his servant although a a known Pagan a profest Idolater and a fierce Porsecuter of all Gods Children concerning whom he saith v. 8. They that serve not the King of Babylon and that will not put their necks under his Yoak I will punish them with the Sword Pamine and the Pestilence till I have consumed them v. 9. Therefore hearken not to your Diviners and Prophets that say unto you You shall not serve the King of Babylon for they prophosio a lye unto you v. 10. But the nations that shall serve the King of Babylon and bring their necks under his Yoak those will I let remain in their own land saith the Lord and they shall till it and dwell therein Can there be a stricter Precept or could there be a more impious Prince And yet this Precept and yet this Prince must be obeyed nay sub paena too Upon the paine of Gods high wrath fully exprest in Famine Sword and Pestilence not onely upon the People but upon the Priests also that shall perswade them unto disobedience The second Precept is enjoyned us out of the New Testament Rom. 13. 1. Let every soule be subject to the