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spirit_n	aaron_n	call_v	holy_a	201	3	5.4396	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85986	The libertine school'd, or A vindication of the magistrates power in religious matters. In ansvver to some fallacious quæries scattered about the city of Limrick, by a nameless author, about the 15th of December, 1656. And for detection of those mysterious designs so vigorously fomented, if not begun among us, by romish engineers, and Jesuitick emissaries, under notionall disguises ... (politicæ uti & ecclesiasticæ. axiom. Arabic.) Published, by Claudus Gilbert, B.D. and minister of the Gospel at Limrick in Ireland.	Gilbert, Claudius, d. 1696?	1657 (1657)	Wing G702; Thomason E923_4; ESTC R202210	61,982	75

THE Libertine School'd OR A VINDICATION OF THE Magistrates Power in Religious matters IN ANSWER TO SOME FALLACIOUS QUAERIES Scattered about the City of Limrick by a Nameless AUTHOR about the 15th of December 1656. And for Detection of those Mysterious Designs so vigorously fomented if not begun among us by Romish Engineers and Jesuitick Emissaries under Notionall Disguises Published By Claudius Gilbert B. D. and Minister of the Gospel at Limrick in IRELAND Rom. 13. 1 2 3 4 5 6. Let every soul be subject c. Zech. 13. 2 3 4 5 6. And I will cause the Prophets and unclean spirits to pass out of the Land c. Isa. 49. 23. And Kings shall be thy uursing Fathers c. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Magistratus in terra Coarctionis haeres quodvis improbum pudefaciens Judic. 18. 7. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Dei timor Principium Sapientiae Politicae uti Ecclesiasticae Axiom Arabic London Printed for Francis Tyton at the three Daggers in Fleetstreet 1657. TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE Lord HENRY CROMWELL Commander in Chief of the Forces in IRELAND And to the Right Honourable HIS Highnesses Councel FOR THE Affairs of IRELAND Right Honourable THe Glory of the latter daies consists very much in their godly Magistrates and the Glory of those Magistrates in their promoting of Christs Glory When the Lords Spirit would give an abstract of heaven on earth he promises Kings and Queens for nursing Fathers and Mothers to his Church Thus Portion and Protection are assured to his people on the most honourable and happy tearms The Lord himself is pleased to put his own Name upon those persons to whom he gives a providentiall Commission to act in his Name with civil Authority in the managing of his interest on earth He hath said Ye are Gods by a providentiall voice that ye might act like God and for God in subordination to his providence Such Shields of the earth belong unto him in a peculiar way which are made by him and must act for him in a peculiar manner He needs no instruments about any work yet is he pleased to honour instruments about his greatest work It s Your Honour to be employed by him he makes it Your Happiness to be faithfull to him That he will employ Ministers of his Word to instruct his Church it 's from his Grace that he doth intrust Magistrates with his Sword for the protection of his Church it 's for his Glory Both Jewell and Case mans Soul and Body were framed by him as God of Nature both Soul and Body were by his Sonne redeemed as the God of all Grace Both the internall and externall man do need his Spirit for the good of both Magistrates and Ministers are called to Office and blessed therein by the same Spirit Moses and Aaron were joined of old in ordering Christs Law Zerubabell and Joshua were not severed in the restoring thereof Though Primitive Churches wanted for a season the Magistrates help yet in due season were they made partakers of that Royall favour They wanted them first that Gods glory might not on mistake be given to man they had them again that the same Glory might not be still abused by man No sooner did Antichrist make incroachments on Christs Ministry but he usurped as fast on his Magistracy he swallowed up that as the two horned Beast Ecclesiastically and he subdued this as the ten horned Beast Politically Christ recovered both from Antichristian Yoke in his great Reformation as both had been usurped from him by Antichristian defection When he took care to purifie his Church in its Ministry he shewed no less care about the Magistracy As some of both sorts have witnessed for him in a sackcloth condition so some of both sorts shall witness of him in a seasonable ascension When he gives his people Pastors after his own heart he gives them Rulers to govern in his waies Thus he acts by men after the manner of men because he deals with men in the things of God The world is his great house that must be well taught but it 's through sinne a discomposed house that needs a good Rule Gods interest is such in faithfull Rulers that Satan will be still attempting all means to blast their faithfulness if he cannot keep them from doing Gods work he will use instruments to marre that very work Much of it appeared in former experiences and we see it too sadly in these latter daies Good men shall be seduced to betray Gods work yea and perswaded that it 's Satans work That which the Lord doth tender with most zeal Error will perswade to slight with most neglect If God put much stress on the first Table of his Law Error will take it off from the Magistrates care What many other parts have sadly bewailed we finde now much cause to bemoan afresh That spirit that once disturbed Germany is gotten too deeply into our bowels Christs Ministers were first struck at by that hand which reached the next blow to the Magistrates Those Foxes and Wolves that would worry Christs Flock cannot bear good will to faithfull Shepherds They would first debauch the spirits of men and then their bodies will be surely theirs The Ministers first shall be Antichristian and the Magistrates shall bear that title next Munster had once many fair warnings but the things of their peace were hid from their eyes If we gain wisdom by our neighbours harm it 's a mercy of the choicest kinde That good hand of heaven that brought Your Honours into this wilderness hath much to do here for you and by you Israels condition in their wilderness is a most lively parallell of this Land They had Christ present in his Ordinances but wanted a heart to improve the same Signall redemptions the Lord wrought for them but his wondrous works they had soon forgotten Magistrates and Ministers he provided them but they slighted and scorned the one and the others Holy profession God called them to they soon abused it to self-exalting Moses and Aaron were easily despised when Corah and his crue had once got their hearts When Divine Ordinances were counted humane humane presumptions were counted Divine Their Levelling spirits that would equalize all soon met with a check from their Superior They sank alive into the earths bowels that bid defiance to the God of heaven The Lords jealousie maintained his servants who had zealously maintained his Name They were soon consumed by fire from Gods house who made it their work to fire Gods house They regarded not his daily provisions and they paid dear for foolish desires When the Lords servants were doing them most good they were then plotting to do them most evil Thus are they our glass and our pourtraiture that we may the better learn to mend our faults Moses had to do with a

by Inspirations Dreams Visions Oracles Paternall Traditions c. and from Moses time saw it fit to give it in writing for a sure Record to all Ages by inspiring and inditing the same upon the Spirits and by the Pens of his holy Prophets and Apostles successively in an immediate infallible and extraordinary manner Thence are we said to be built upon their doctrinal or Scriptural foundation holding forth Christ as we are properly on Christ himself the personal foundation held forth by them These Writings are called the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament containing all things needfull to the salvation of Gods Elect and the common good of man called therefore his Laws and Statutes Ordinances and Precepts Testimonies and Judgements c. being the perfect Rule of Truth and Grace faith and obedience Gods mercy and mans duty requiring from man truth mental oral and actual i. e. a due conformity of every thought word and work to that truth of God declared III. The Actual Truth of God is manifested in all his Works of Creation and Providence carrying on a constant perfect conformity to Gods intentional Truth as also to his verbal in order to his supream End his own glory by the seasonable and admirable dispensations of all his Attributes especially mercy and justice towards men and Angels in the most wise holy and powerfull preserving of all his creatures and all their actions as they were all created of nothing by the Word of his power in the space of six daies and all very good Errour then being a crooked deviation of mans judgement from the truth of God revealed will admit of several degrees and considerations according to the varieties and imports of that truth and mans deviating from it Some truth is natural some moral some spiritual about external internal and eternal things Some are Fundamental of salvation some supra fundamentall or juxta others more circumstantial and superficial Errours in Fundamentals about the perfection of God the Trinity of Divine Persons Christ the Mediatour God-man the fall of man his forlorn state his absolute need of regeneration faith repentance obedience as also of the sufficiency of Scripture of mans eternal state c. are properly called Heresies which if obstinately persisted in after due means used of reclaiming such render men unfit for Christian communion Supra-fundamental Truths are the next built on them which admit of various debates among the Learned Errours against them are dangerous but not so pernicious as the former especially if the person erring be humble and teachable Such are many points of worship discipline c. Circumstantial Truths are more external about place and time order and manner c. expressed in that usuall Verse Quis quid ubi quibus anxiliis cur quomodo quando Errours against these are bad but nothing like the former This needful explication will clear and answer to the Query The punishment for errour is not to exceed the nature of that errour and the manner of holding it whether Ecclesiastically by the Church or Civilly by the Magistrate The truth of God gives a rule for all such cases either in express words or in clear consequence to be exactly studied and observed by all persons concerned so that the ends of that punishment be attended viz. Gods honour and the publick good with the parties also as farre as may be The Church meddles not with Civil censures such as imprisoning having its proper way of Admonition Suspension Excommunication c. for its offending members Imprisonment and other corporal punishments for errours require a sufficient cause as in case of herefie endangering mens souls disturbing Gods service and the publick peace c. A godly Magistrate will be heartily glad never to meet with such occasions but when he doth as he cannot but be often forced to in this revolting age it concerns him to attend those forementioned ends with zeal and prudence lest foolish pity spoil the City and lest seeming gentleness prove real cruelty to many Destructive errours specially blasphemous ones are the malignant humours of mens consciences which endanger them and thousands besides in their eternal state Such persons especially if obstinate are the very plagues of the body Politick endangering the whole What mischiefs may not such Pests procure if without restraint as sad experience shew'd in the Familists crue whereof Henry Nichols was leader followed by Hacket Coppinger and Arthington till Hackets execution and Arthingtons recantation had repressed the fury thereof in Q Elizabeths time The Grundletonians in Yorkshire acted divers such mad pranks as Valentinus Basilides and the Carpocratians of old were wont Out of the North have we had the like Impostors of late to confirm the Proverb Omne malum ab Aquilone Such phrenetick persons had need be closely kept and look'd to for their own and others good Such mad folks cannot be kept from hurt but by being kept from company If restraint may seem to endanger their bodies they must thank themselves so long as care is taken for sutable accommodations It were to be wished that fair means might prevent that rigor but if the Patient by his folly necessitate his Chirurgion to bind and wound him who must be blamed If such belong to God he will bless that very dressing to the humbling and healing of them whether in the seventh or eleventh hour he best knows how to order it to the fulfilling of his eternal purpose on such vessels of mercy to be prepared for glory through grace Thus Manasseh that bloody wretch was changed in his prison and not till then His heart was there broken and cured wonderfully The hammer of that weighty punishment drave home to the head into his heart the many instructions of Gods Word which he had so long heard and despised being guided by the hand of Christs Spirit Thus the believing thief repented at his execution The prodigall child came not to himself till his misery justly procured was sanctified of God to the opening of his eyes England hath had experience of some late Quakers horriby blaspemous much reclaimed by the prison and lash and Ireland knows others of that tribe who are come back again to sobriety by the sense of that poverty whereinto their idle courses and ill companions had reduced them But if any such grow worse still as is the usual lot of such seducers by a dreadfull judgement of heaven it will fall on their own heads and that penalty will do others much good if it do them but little It may deter many from the like excess so that paena ad paucos proves terror ad omnes It keeps them from doing more mischief and from increasing their sins and eternal sufferings thereby Though Lions and Bears nature be not changed by their chains yet is their