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A91609	A brief treatise containing a full discovery 1. Of Cæsars politique state, or civill government, 2. Of the divine politique state, or kingdome of Christ Jesus, given him of his father. 3. Of the devilish politique state or kingdome of Antichrist. Laid open in the essentiall and main circumstantiall parts of each body or state by substantiall and fundamentall reasons and principles of policy both divine and humane, and confirmed by holy Scripture. Whereby the great and intolerable grievances of Christ Jesus and his subjects are made knowne: also how honourable magistracy and civill government is, and how farre it extends, without intrenching upon the prerogative of Christ, doth evidently appear in this treatise. Humbley presented to the serious consideration of the Kings most excellent Majesty, and the high court of Parliament now assembled. By Michael Quintine.	Quintyne, Michael.	1641 (1641)	Wing Q227; Thomason E163_7; ESTC R649	13,409	27

cf Administration of the head which in Divinity as in humanity are three to wit direction provision and protection and because humanity is inseparable from Christianity wisdom hath left civil protection to the head thereof but hath provided an Office of distribution for his subjects in necessity and tender attendance for the sicke and weake in body that his body may be as one in all things communicating according to occasion the gifts and graces which God hath given them for the building up and for divine and reasonable preservation of one another and this the holy Ghost testifieth Rom. 12.4 5 6 7 8. This also maketh it plain that the power of the disposing of Offices and execution of all Lawes and Ordinances truly Ecclesiasticall and belonging to this body of Christ which is the Church Col 1.24 is in the Church and derived from the Church as plainly witnesseth Matth 18.17 here is the state or manner of being of the house of God which is the Church 1 Tim. 3.15 of the body of parity whose members are all Kings and Priests Rev. 1.6 This is the state of the body not the body of the state which is the representation or expression of the current of the divine nature of the Church of Christ which is the expresse Image of the forme thereof and when that faileth members or Church cease to be and state all for this see the seven Churches mentioned in Rev. 2. 3. cl This circumstantiall part belonging to the being of this body declareth the matter and forme to be qualified as aforesaid The Lawes Statutes and Ordinances belonging to this body of Christ are transcending in nature those of humanity which prevent oppression and enjoyne equity and civil and reasonable use of mens persons and estates for these not onely allow the same but prevent oppression injoyne equity and command mercy and compassion yea doing good for evil in all cases belonging to soul and body thus Christ teacheth Christians Matth. 5.44 45 c. Thus the Spirit of Christ is exercised and against such there is no Law Gal. ● 22 23. In the performance of such is fulfilling the Law of Love established by the Son of God Iohn 13.34 These divine yea most heavenly Lawes c. manifestly discovereth the matter and forme of the body of Christ his Visible Church to be qualified as aforesaid to the bodies of such a constitution did the Apostles write their Epistles Devilish politique body false Ecclesiasticall state Visible Church of Antichrist or Kingdome to which belongeth the Charter bookes of humane Constitutions and Canons and all Records of Heathenish and Jewish nationall Traditions touching matters Ecclesiasticall and cases of Conscience Thou art the man of sin whose compleat image consisteth especially in the breach of the first Table of the Morall Law the fullest expression whereof is in taking Gods power from him and Christ his kingly Office from him sitting in the Temple of God which is Conscience for God dwelleth not in Temples made with hands as God and exalting thy selfe above all that is called God commanding the Conscience of mankinde in the way of politique which onely and property is publique worship for in no other sense can any sit in the Temple of God or exalt himselfe above all that is called God Thou art Babylon the great the mystery of iniquity who robbest God of his honour in usurping the Prerogative Royall of his Son for thou interposest with thy power Ecclesiasticall which snareth and captivateth all Nations in the liberties of their consciences persons personall and temporall estates thou art the City spiritually called Sodome and Egypt for no filthy person liveth that liveth not in thee and the height of thy power Egypt like opposeth God for who shall get out of thy mercilesse and more than inhumane murderous clutches thou committest sin by a Law and puttest a man to death for conscience sake thou art the devils master-peece the expresse image of devilish inhumanity Cain like spoiling the innocent and what thou canst not restore the earth cannot bear a fuller measure or pride craft and envie than thou art composed of the unlimited composition whereof is the devil himselfe thou art a body of confusion an hotch-potch without respect of good or bad rich or poor bond or free devillish humane or divine The subject or materiall part of this false Ecclesiasticall body or Kingdom of Antichrist is mankinde in generall without any respect of spiritual quality or Christian spirit and divine disposition onely with relation to an enforced and conjured profession of Christ which is of the devils putting on not Christs and being compelled it is the garment of Hypocrisie not of uprightnesse and in the fleest use is often made an Hypocrites cloak which is the very opposite quality of the material part of Christs Church but the speciall and chosen disposition of Antichrists which is justified by these Scriptures Matth. 24.5 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4 5. 2 Thess 2.10 11 12. Rev. 13.7 8. also verses 16 17. The formall part which is the politique power of the false Ecclesiasticall state or body of devilish policy is dragonish violent and compulsive commanding powers of death to seazon such as will not subject their consciences to it or rather be slavonized therein which is clean contrary to heavenly powers and is a starke enemy to humanity both personall and politique for there is none under heaven able to give light or peace or to deal for anothers conscience between God and him the contrary conceit whereof begotten by delusion and conceived by corruption of humane nature hath and will produce more unnaturall and unreasonable wars and plagues upon the earth than it can bear with a seeming to subsist that the quality of the formall part of the false Ecclesiasticall body is really such as is now proposed take these Scriptures for witnesse Rev. 13.2 and verse 7 8. also verse 15 16 17. This is the expresse image of the devil ruling in the generation of Cain and cursed seed of Adam to their utter ruine if it be not looked into in time The instrumentall meanes of the being of this body with the other main circumstantiall parts prove the quality of the forenamed essentiall parts to be as aforesaid For it is produced and effected by a compulsive powerfull proclamation conjured out of the civil powers of the earth by lying wonders and delusion Matth. 24.5 6 7. also verse 24. 2 Thess 2.8 9 10 11. Rev. 13.13 14. The state or manner of being of this body of devilish policy or which is falsely called Ecclesiasticall and divine it is most magnificently majesticall and tyrannicall full of offices of greatest superiority and highest authority Rev. 13.2 and are more for gain than administration of any good 2 Pet. 2.3 This circumstantiall part testifieth the matter and forme to be as aforesaid The Lawes Statutes and Ordinances Constitutions and Canons of this body of Antichrist are devilish and inhumane opposite to

A BRIEF TREATISE containing a full DISCOVERY 1. Of Caesars politique state or civill Government 2. Of the Divine politique state or Kingdome of Christ Jesus given him of his Father 3. Of the devilish politique state or kingdome of Antichrist Laid open in the essentiall and main circumstantiall parts of each body or state by substantiall and fundamentall reasons and principles of policy both divine and humane and confirmed by holy Scripture Whereby the great and intolerable grievances of Christ Jesus and his subjects are made knowne Also how honourable Magistracy and civill Government is and how farre it extends without intrenching upon the prerogative of Christ doth evidently appear in this Treatise Humbly presented to the serious consideration of the Kings most excellent Majesty and the High Court of Parliament now assembled By Michael Quintine Matth. 22.21 Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods 2 Thess 2.8 9. And then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his comming London printed 1641. TO THE MOST HIGH COVRT OF Parliament the Right Honourable the Lords and Barons and the Honourable House of COMMONS to all and every of them now assembled be a full blessing of wisdom and right spirit from the glorious Trinity sutable to their callings and the weighty occasions that concerne them therein ACcording to my undoubted duty in discharging my Conscience of fulfilling the will of Iesus Christ I doe present to both Houses of this Honourable Court the greatest and most generall cause of the particular grievances of Christ Iesus and his servants the upright the innocent and tender in conscience which as it did in speciall manner concerne my Sovereigne Lord the King from whose hand it might most seasonably have been cast upon the consideration of this high Court from whence onely do issue all politicke acts statute-lawes and ordinances concerning matters Ecclesiasticall and Civill within his Majesties Realme of England I procured to be presented to his Highnesse owne hand in Ianuary last 1640. The copy of the passages therein conteined lest those should sleep I have here again recited and do present them unto you accept peruse them as you see cause And this be pleased to take notice of as the Lawes of Divine and Civill Policie admit not of two heads in one body so likewise doth not the transcendent and glorious Kingdome of Christ which is above the humane element admit of Civill Lawmakers in confining conscience and disposing of matters thereto belonging the same Scripture and reason which denieth Caesar to sit on Christs throne denieth you power of making Lawes for the ordering the Lawes thereof who shall increase or diminish the liberties Lawes and privileges of the Gospel of Christs Kingdom but they must incurre the curse and who shall be wiser than his maker but to his owne destruction The cause aforesaid of all grievances of Christ and his servants is oppression of conscience otherwise conscionable oppression for so it is taken although it be impossible being oppression so to be the root from whence it springeth the tree and every part of it is discovered by the following passages to which I referre you And that you may not be found false in the trust committed to you by the King and Countrey for the ordering of the affaires of this Land for the peace and welfare of the Church of God and likewise of the King and Common-wealth let it be your speciall care to remove and repeal all things and statutes tending to the bondage of conscience be not wiser than the Trinity in continuing and establishing penall acts and statutes to bring people under conformity in externall worship if you consider from whence every good and spirituall gift is who it is that giveth light what it is that is acceptable to him to whom all worship is due and that Law Do unto all as you would they should do unto you yee cannot neither would ye go about Antichristian-like to make yokes for conscience it is most Papisticall and why will ye do what yee condemne your selves in others do not correct Tyrants with tyranny but overcome evill with good if you fear Papists wil be treacherous to State Common-wealth let them have a civill providence over them for prevention and in case they or any of them prove so as some prove naught and treacherous of all Religions let them have civill correclion for it is that not conscience keepeth people in generall within bounds of Civility and leave the cutting off or rooting out of errours in matters spirituall to the free use of the sword of Gods Spirit which is sharper than a two-edged sword and fear yee not but in case of liberty of conscience true Religion which onely is of God will have the upper hand and fullest approbation of all civilly disposed persons if it be not Caesars due to sit on the Ecclesiasticall Throne nor any mans beside look you to it how you set or continue any person thereon and except God had consecrated and set apart a parcell of the earthly revenues for spirituall uses how dare ye powers of the earth to do it or to allow of it but to avoid tediousnesse I commend you to the serious minding of the following passages hoping you will not slight what is substantially appliable to your selves by the injunction of the will of the Lord Almighty lest yee be found resisters of God and so I remain yours in all due service even to my power and life Michael Quintyne To the Kings most Excellent Majestie WHereas your most submissive and faithfull subject hath in some measure perceived and in the following Treatise substantially discovered the way of greatest deceit wherein God and the King are insufferably and most subtilly deprived of their due and doth in the freedome and strength of fidelity in the sight of all hazards of good successe humbly present it unto your most Excellent Majestie His just and humble request is that your Highnesse will be gratiously pleased to accept of it accordingly and now the Scales of this your Kingdome are in use let it be truly weighed not cast by and as it is found in the ballance for the main scope and substance thereof even so let it be done to your poor subject who during life shall heartily pray for your long happy and most prosperous reigne Michael Quintyne TO THE KINGS most Excellent Majesty Gods greatest and most speciall Officer and Minister within his Majesties Dominions in place of Authority and power of Justice be a full blessing from the blessed Trinity of a right and suteable spirit for his high Calling with all truly desireable issues thereof IN the cause of Heavens right no man is injoyned silence but may move the case before the greatest of men on earth Matth. 10.31 3● who are but men in person though Gods anointed Gods

production and platforme or institution and all other things belonging to this body are circumstantiall and serve properly to prove the quality of the essential parts to be meerly civil and humane The instrumentall meanes of the being of this body is ordinarily Victory or Conquest by force of Armes whereof onely mens bodies and goods are capable for conscience who is all the witnesses of a reasonable or unreasonable soul is free beyond the reach of the power of man to command and subdue because if a man subject his body unto the sword of the Magistrate to maintain the freedom and peculiar use of his conscience and soul as in some cases Christ adviseth Matth. 10.17 18. Also verse 28 39 and looseth the use of his body and bodily life his conscience and soul is not overcome and subdued but overcommeth which plainly proveth the quality and disposition of this body to be humane The manner of the being of this body state or platforme which was and may be when that of Christ was not and may not be it is of imparity superiority and degrees of Authority consisting of lordly and inferiour offices which are necessary for the well being thereof for what else should rule nationall and confused lumps of the cursed posterity of Adam and it is but meet that some in order of office should have a sword ready drawn to cut off intolerably uncivil and inhumane persons and to disable them in their strength and command of estate and that all uncivill and brutish persons and actions may be prevented which is the onely meanes of a peaceable and godly life all Christians are exhorted to pray for all men in Civil Government for Kings and all in place of Authority 2 Tim. 2.1 2 3 4 5 6. And this also is a meanes to distinguish and discerne the quality of the essence of this body to be as aforesaid Luke 22.24 25 26 27. The Lawes Statutes and Ordinances belonging to this body communicable between the head and members thereof and conveighed from one to another by the severall offices of the state thereof they all generally tend to the prevention of oppression and preservation of equity in the civil use of mens bodies and personall estates the truth hereof daily experience testifieth in the use of all Courts of common justice and belonging to the Laity this witnesseth the Spirit of Christ who suffered under Civill Authority approving their stately calling and the Lawes and Ordinances and the good and necessary use of them Rom. 13. This likewise proveth the quality of the essentiall parts of this body to be humane and civil onely Divine politique body true Ecclesiasticall state visible Church of Christ or Kingdome to which belongs the Gospel and all the Records of new Testament thou art the new Jerusalem the Body comprehending the substances of all Types and shadowes the perfection of all order of sacrifice the union of the fulnesse of him that filleth all things thou art the Government of the everlasting Prince the Son of David of which there shall be no end Isay 9.6 7. This is the most beautifull daughter of the first Table of the Moral Law the most perfect and fullest resemblance of the invisible bond in divine nature the compleatest use whereof the elect shall enjoy when they have put off their mortality and are all accomplished when also Christ also shall deliver up his Kingdome and government to his Father 1 Cor. 15.24 c. Which resemblance and expression of the Law written in the heart shall remain for ever and ever The subject or material part of this divine politique body and true Ecclesiasticall state of the true Son and Heire apparent of God and right Successour of the Crowne and Ecclesiasticall Throne of David the Alone Redeemer of the whole company of Gods elect the beleeving seed of Abraham both Jewes and Gentiles who brake downe the partition-wall the Jewish nationall state and set up and established a divine spirituall Kingdome capable of the Saints of all sorts whatsoever Is the sort of all mankinde which Jesus Christ pronounceth blessed Matth. 5. Such as worship God in spirit and in truth Iohn 4.23 24. without respect to Nation or Tribe Acts 10.34 35. In short it is faithfull persons beleevers reall saintlike people as the severall Epistles to the Churches nominated in the New Testament do declare to shut up the proof of this truth that the subject or materiall part of the Kingdome of Christ is as aforesaid of Christian people take also this one witnesse more Rom. 8.8 9 Here take notice reall profession giveth reall being to members and is the forme of a member but not the forme of the Church but the material quality thereof But the formall part of this divine politique body or true Ecclesiasticall state or kingdom which Christ Jesus hath upon earth which also is the life of the same is the divine regall and kingly politique power of Christ by which every member performeth every Church action whereby every Law in every Office is communicable and executed in this sense not in a personall sense speaketh Christ Matth. 18.20 1 Cor. 5.4 The quality of the two essentiall parts of this divine politique body is divine love the Fountain of all mercifull goodnesse from whence issueth every good gift toward man and the communicable benefits thereof between man and man this is the quality of wisdoms house derived from the Father and the Son and exprest by the holy Spirit proceeding from both and lively set forth in the matter and forme of the same as largely will appear by the discovery of the circumstantiall parts belonging to the being and welbeing of this body The instrumentall meanes of the being of this divine politique body or union is by agreement and free consent of love issuing from one Lord through one Faith one Spirit one Baptisme Iohn 5.12 13 There is no other instrumentall meanes of a peculiar body consistting of Volunteers and of such consisteth this Kingdome of the Lambe of God as prophetically speaketh the holy Ghost by way of proclamation Isai 55.1 Fulfilling the same in like manner speaketh the same Spirit Rev. 22.15 In this way a right Captain accomplisheth a right Band or body of Souldiers Rev. 14.4 Rev. 17.14 By instinct of nature not compulsion Birds of a Feather flocke together this main circumstantiall part belonging to the being of this body aforesaid declareth it to be the Tabernacle of God who is love 1 Ioh. 4.16 which is the prepared dwelling for persons of love Revel 21.1 2 3. The state platforme or manner of being of this Kingdom of heaven upon earth wherein the matter and forme are united and the divine Lawes and Ordinances thereof executed and performed consisteth of Offices of service not of command and authority Matth. 20.25 26 27. Luke 22.24 25 26 27. And is the perfect Embleme or representation of the most compleat current of divine and most perfect love as the onely necessary Offices