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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85177	The oppressed close prisoner in Windsor-Castle, his defiance to the father of lyes, in the strength of the God of truth. Occasioned by some late, scandalous and slanderous reports, raised and dispersed to the dishonour of that noble cause, wherein he (with others of the Lords servants) is so deeply engaged. As also, a seasonable word, concerning the higher powers: concerning the payment of taxes and tribute-money by the saints to those powers: and how far a minister of the Gospel may intermeddle in state-affairs without sin. / By Chr. Feake, in his prison-watch-tower.	Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.	1654 (1654)	Wing F572; Thomason E820_10; ESTC R202087	97,195	127

is done is by their Prayers and Intercessions Answ All this is readily and easily answered as first Ministers do not lose the priviledge of Saints when they are made Ministers by Christ and his people no more than an other officer of a Church of Saints doth lose or is deprived of the privilege of a member upon his being chosen into office So that if God gave him this privilege as a Saint of ruling governing disposing the affairs of Kingdoms he may still claim it and make use of his Commission after he is become a Minister of the New Testament And as for the second part of the Objection I acknowledge he there speaks of disposing by prayer and intercession only but this doth not in the least invalidate my Assertion because to set up and to pull down to Govern Rule and dispose the world and the Affairs of Kingdoms by prayer is one way of meddling with matters of State and an excellent way Especially if that Spirit which accompanied the first Christians be but President and predominant among those privy Councellors who meet in Christs Name to set up and to pul down according to their Commission for those whom I mentioned made notable work with that act of State and that State-policy whereby Herod and Pontius Pilate proceeded to murther the Prince of Life The Faith and Prayers of the faithful remnant have been in all ages and will bee henceforward much more dangerous to the Kings of the earth and their Affairs than the greatest quantity of Gunpowder set on fire in any Magazeen whatsoever can be to any City or Town where it is if once they spring a Mine as I may so say they overthrow whatsoever they did undermine with a more irresistable force than is imagined or beleeved For est quaedam precum omnipotentia as he said The true fervent praying against States their Laws and Government c. is meddling with a witness and yet it is hardly known who burts them but at the last day it will be known what execution hath been done upon the Empires and Monarchies of this world by the Lords people in the several exigencies of their Affairs for we know that the Affais of State Reason of State State-policy and the Laws of the Land have above all other things obstructed the deliverance of the choycest servants of the Lord from age to age I could illustrate this Point of the Ministers and peoples meddling by prayer with the things and interests of men and of the worldly Powers and in some measure shew of what excellent use it will be to overthrow the Thrones of Kingdoms c. But I refer it to the true Ministers and the few faithful Brethren in Christ to exercise themselves herein day and night as I hear they begin to do But let them remember and not forget upon any terms that Faith is the very life and soul of prayer and if you meddle with these or any Powers abroad without that you will meddle to no purpose But let no man imagin that because we have not an Answer all this while therefore we are not heard for Faith waites upon God for the bringing forth his purposes and counsels in his own time and God forbid wee should limit the holy one of Israel or prescribe to him a method or manner of proceeding in the production of those antient Decrees which are to be brought forth in the time appointed of the Father So much for this first way of meddling with State-Affairs The other Doctor of the Divinity aforesaid is also of great reputation and therefore I hope my adversaries will not turn away from his Doctrine in this matter I am bold to call him forth to plead for this Truth for his Preached and Printed Principles do very much tend in my apprehension to the justification of the practice of those Ministers of the Gospel who do or shall hereafter intermeddle in State-Affairs as becomes Ministers for no otherwise would I have any one to meddle than as becommeth him in the judgement of the spiritual man There is one notion of his in the Sermon which I mean which certainly had the preheminence of many others in his mind and judgement and which I shall transcribe in the first place and then improve it according to its natural tendency as the Lord shall help on the behalf of his own Truth and Interest so suddenly and unworthily deserted by those who seemed very stout Assertors of it not many years ago The words of Dr. O. in the Serm. on Heb. 12.27 All the PRESENT STATES OF THE WORLD are cemented together by Antichristian lime as I shall shew afterwards Unless they be so shaken as to have every cranny searched and brushed they will be no quiet habitation for the Lord Christ and his people This I find in the 14 page Again in the 25 page I find him speaking to this purpose The Heavens and the Earth of the Nations in their present constitution are directly framed to the interest of Antichrist which by notable advantages at their first moulding and continued insinuations ever since hath so riveted it self into the very fundamentals of them that no digging or mining without an Earthquake will cast up the foundation-stones thereof Yet again to the same effect p. 35. Is it not evident to him that hath but half an eie that the whole present constitution of the Governments of the Nations is so cemented with Antichristian morter from the very top to the bottom that without a thorough shaking they cannot be cleansed And a little after This onely is certain It the said shaking shall not stop nor receive its period before the interest of Antichristianity be wholly separated from the power of those Nations Thus far the other Doctor 1 Now first We see plainly or may see that he for his part meddles with States and Governments of Nations all along throughout the Sermon 2 He doth particularly declare the nature of their Constitution both foundation and superstruction shewing also how the interest of Antichrist is intermingled or interwoven in all or most of those States in Europe and that from the top to the bottom 3 He declares and foretels the shaking translating and new molding of all those States and Kingdoms 4 He affirms that every cranny must be searched for that Antichristian morter or lime and sand which doth cement the constitution of the Governments of the Nations and that this shaking searching c. shall not stop nor receive a period till the interest of Antichristianity be wholly separated from these Nations From all which and many other passages in that Sermon I do make this inference That the Ministers of the Gospel may lawfully or without sin yea must necessarily intermeddle and be imployed in searching into the Affairs of these Kingdoms and States Yea further for ought I can discern they must be imployed by their Lord and Master as the chief laborers which are to brush and clense the