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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

very thing as a speciall help to mans well being both for temporals here and a better state beyond death it self Their famous Legislators Charondas Solon Licurgus Zaleucus Plato c. their learned Philosophers Aristotle Socrates Seneca Plutarch c. their chief Poets and Orators Homer Tully Hesiod Virgill c. have many passages to that purpose they could not but observe the influence which Religion carries into the actions of men and how much providence hath been found in all Ages smiling upon those Persons and Societies who made conscience in a constant tenure of piety and justice of tendring and promoting the will and honour of the supream God Many hints thereof they have gathered out of holy Writs translated into Greek before that famous version of the LXX under Philadelphus and much used in Alexandria whither Plato and other Philosophers frequently resorted The Aegyptians also and Phaenicians and other neighbours of the Hebrews had learned much of the Patriarchs and Jews successively which they communicated to other Nations as appears by their Poeticall disguises of Scripture stories so abundant in their Works The severall Churches reformed in France Holland Switherland c. in their Confessions and Writings have unanimously owned this power of the Magistrate as of singular conducement to the suppression of evil and encouragement to the good Many of the Learned Papists * themselves though the Jesuites ascribe so much to the Pope and Councils as opposes it diametrally have in their sober mood acknowledged the foresaid Magistraticall Powers upon the said reasons to be very excellently usefull Thus the clear light of this Truth extorts acknowledgements from the very adversaries It 's so much the more sad a judgement to see so many professors of Truth prove opposers thereof These spirituall judgements so common among us are the worst of all and usually attended with temporall plagues When there was no King in Israel no Magistrate no heir of restraint to put the wicked to shame as it was at Laish Judg. 18. 7. so it fared with Gods own people they were soon exposed to desolations of all sorts 2 Chron. 15. 3 4 5. whilst every one did what was good in his own eyes very few could be found doing what was good in Gods eyes For want of such a Kingly exercise in the seat of judgement to scatter all evil with his eyes Prov. 20. 8. All kinde of evil gathered so fast that many a storm followed those dark clouds The power ordained of God for thy good saith the Apostle without exception Rom. 13. 3 4 5. is also a revenger of every evil without exception for which the Law distinguishes not we may not distinguish and if you except one sort of good or evil you may as well except the other and so null the Text and a terrour to all that do evil so that we must needs be subjects not for wrath only but also for conscience sake The conscience you see is bound though it be not forced to such an obedience As the Magistrates conscience is bound in his charge as Gods Deputy to regulate and promote every good of the externall man in Religion so is he bound in conscience to forbid and punish evil therein according to its degree As thus his conscience so is the subjects conscience bound by the Divine precept as the one in commanding so the other in obeying If any object this will bring tyranny and slavery Answer Where Gods Law is the Rule as here it ought to be there can be neither tyranny nor slavery 2. By the same reason you might deny his power about the second Table for fear of tyranny and so make him a Cipher If you say there is an Ecclesiasticall way of dealing with Christians We answer 1. All are not Christians 2. All Christians regard not Church censures 3. Christians are to be dealt with by the Church in matters of the second Table also Will you deny the Magistrates cognizance of that therefore that he may be vox praeterea nihil 4. The Church deals with offenders in its way Ecclesiastically the Magistrate in his Civilly without interfering with their respective members If any pretend conscience against either the Word of God is the Regula regulans that rules conscience and all things else Conscience is but Regula regulata which obliges not against Gods Word nor excuses from sinne David and Paul acknowledge their sins of ignorance and against a good conscience and very great Psal. 19. 12 15. Act. 26. 9 10 11. If a man suffer with an erroneous conscience it s for sinne not for conscience Is was and is still the great sinne of unregenerate conscience that it cannot be it s not subject to the Law of God Rom. 8. 7. even the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the wisest and sublimest conscience and judgement before conversion is thus fleshly and some of it remains in the best as farre as unrenewed The dictate of conscience cannot be plea for any sinne though sometimes it may lessen it it never can null sin Neitheir can any erring conscience discharge any from his duty required by Gods Word it can make none lawless as it self may not be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} without Law None therefore should plead for a generall Toleration of conscience because most mens consciences being wholly corrupt Tit. 1. 15 16 17. and the best retaining much corruption this were to plead for sinne yea to give publique allowance to sinne it were to proclaim rebellion against God to set up a Traitor in Christs seat to set up mans fallible conscience for an infallible supream Judge this were to invite the worst of men and spirits to settle among us under pretence of conscience What mischief so horrid in opinion affection or practise that such a Toleration would not countenance What if Moses by Gods command did tolerate Divorce for the hardness of their heart Christ tels us it was their sinne occasioned it the supream Law-giver may dispense therewith at his pleasure so may not any inferiour person We should not indeed be the slaves of men as Paul forbids 1 Cor. 7. 22 23. but to have our conscience bound to Gods Word and our externall man bound to the Magistrates Rule which still is to be ruled by the Word this is to be the servants of God in perfect freedom The Magistrate is bound to use all fit means of satisfying and rectifying mens consciences especially in things less clear to some but he must not neglect his duty because some will still be unsatisfied no more than the Church is to neglect theirs It 's the snare of an erroneous conscience that it sins either way it cannot avoid sin there is so much the more need that all means be endeavoured for the purging and clearing thereof It behoves the Magistrate as well as all other superiours not to make himself guilty of other mens sins