Selected quad for the lemma: soul_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
soul_n	ordinance_n	power_n	resist_v	4,907	5	10.4011	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81372	Vindiciæ magistratuum. or, a sober plea for subjection to present government. According to the command and special direction of God himself, in his holy scriptures. / By the meanest of the Lord's tenderers of his great honour, and weal of his saints.	C. D.	1658 (1658)	Wing D12; Thomason E2120_1; ESTC R210149	85,481	128

thi● censure upon had not the honour of God and tru● Christian duty more then ambition to have bee● this way taken notice of thus exposed it My purpose therefore was not if I could to compose affectedly but plainly which the truly Christian a whose like I chiefly aim will best like and ye● with Augustine I can say Ita stylo moderabor ut huic operi in Dei voluntate peragendo nec ea● quae supersint dicam l. 17. de Civit. Dei cap 1. nec ea quae satis sunt prae termittam My care hath been according to m● ability so to temper my style that neither thing superfluous should be inserted Si cui legere non placet nemo comp●lli● invi●um was Hierom's mind Jul Caesar nor things necessa●● omitted For the Critical and Captious I nev●● yet thought them worthy the notice there are Boo●● enough already extant that will fit their humou● of less importance but if they will needs be bar●ing at me let them know I am professedly a stra●ger to them and therefore I neither care nor wo●der Jacta est alea as the Emperour said I ha●● put it to the hazard I value their applause a censure alike Jewel against Harding faults will escape a man betwixt his fingers let him look to it never so narrowly said a worthy Defender of the truth Some plain Soloecisms and harsh expressions have been found in Tullies own works Aug. and many more no doubt in mine which is not written to teach but to practise more But lest I should be upbraided most of all with the City of Myndus for making my Porch too big I conclude assuring thee Reader that all these things were duly weighed before hand and how I should incur almost every mans displeasure and * Viz. That I am a Court Sycophant That I cite Popish and Prophane Authors That I am fallen from my Profession That I write this to get Honours and Riches and an hundred such uncharitable imputations But O! my God I appeal to thee who hast given me mercy to be faithfull 1 Cor. 4.3 Job 34.29 censure But while I was musing hereon the fire brake out it was so much on my heart lest I should be sinfully silent in this general distemper that I could no ways longer conceal it and be faithfull The Lord Jesus for whose sake I am now entred upon the Stage in this Iron Age bless these my unbyassed endeavours to the honour of his Name the taking off some unchristian imputations which by imprudence and lustfull exorbitancies have sullied the bright face of Religion and the settlement of some sober heart or other in their most Christian duty towards Authority Amen C. D. Vindiciae Magistratuum OR A sober Plea for Subjection to the present Governours and Government NOt Syllogistically to enwrap my Grounds and Reasons for submission to present Authority In legendis libris non quaeramus scientiam sed saporem saith Beru from the understanding of the meanest capacity nor with flowers of Oratory strains of Wit or elaborated Sentences to deck the Truth whose nakedness is beauty far above all give me leave immediately to aver which surely were enough if I should say no more Argu ∣ ment That it is our Duty to obey the Powers and Authorities under whom we live Because it is the Lords express will and command that we should do so For proof of this I find the Holy Ghost in his declarative will the holy Scriptures thus energetically delivering it Rom. 13. Let every soul be subject unto 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 Wherefore ye must needs be subject not onely for wrath but also for conscience sake vers 1 2 3 c. Let me crave your patience a little in the breaking open this Text and see how each word affords us a most manifest proof of our assertion In these verses c. the Apostle having before forbidden to recompence evil and to avenge our selves V. 12. teacheth that Magistrates are set up of God to be his Ministers for that end and therefore we ought to reverence and obey Governours which are so helpfull to mankind Wilson Now the reasons that moved Paul to make as it were a set Treatise touching the honour due unto Rulers are First to stop the mouthes of such as affirm the Gospel of Christ to be an enemy to Authority Pet. Martyr as Christians were slandered in the Apostles time Secondly in respect of the Jews who being free-born of Abraham and Gods peculiar people did seek to shake off the yoke of the Romans that were now their Lords Thirdly Because it might seem to be far unmeet for the faithfull who are governed by Gods Spirit to be ruled by heathenish Governours And Fourthly to meet with such as imagine that Christian liberty and civil Magistracy could not stand together and that we need not be subject to politick Laws because Paul had written before that we are not under the Law c. Therefore that God might have his glory before the face of the world by his professing people that publickly owned his Son the Lord Jesus Christ Mayer in his Preface to Rom. who was every where so much contemned his suffering at Jerusalem fresh in their memories Suetonius Dr. Lightfoot Harmony fol. 122 c. Willets Synop. q. 3. an 1. Afflicti suppliciis Christiani genus hominum superstitionis nova maleficae Tacitus Annals lib. 15. cap. 10. his doctrine called Nova malefica by the Rabbins and Philosophers of that idolatrous time And Nero then Emperour of Rome seeking to cast infamy upon the Professors thereof when he had wearied himself in tormenting them by fathering on them many most false imputations and aspersions as his own most cruel firing the City of Rome giving out to take off the general murmur and suspicion of the people That it was the Christians whose seditious principles saith he is that no Jurisdiction on earth is to be owned c. Our most prudent and wary Apostle sends this Epistle to the converted Romans and Jews then in Rome with this especial direction and caution as to their deportment towards the civil Authority which he imperatively delivers Let every soul be subject to the higher Powers This as to the occasion Let every soul be subject Every soul It is an Hebrew Synecdoche as some observe the Soul for the whole Man Leigh Wilson so Gen. 46.26 Acts 27.37 which word our Apostle doth use rather then man to teach us that the subjection required must be voluntary Note and not of compulsion And every soul without exception of what condition sex or age soever Dutch Annotat. even as many as have souls must yield this subjection Origen would by a nice distinction except