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No King but Jesus, or, The Walls of tyrannie razed and the foundations of unjust monarchy discovered to the view of all that desire to see it wherein is undeniably proved that no king is the Lords anointed but Jesus ... / by Henry Haggar.
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coming of Christ did ever bear the name of the Lords Anointed so much as in the type but onely those that were Kings and had rule over Gods own peculiar people Abrahams seed which teacheth us thus much That none are now the Lords Anointed but he onely he that is Lord and King over the house of Israel Abrahams seed which in Christ the Lord that was borne King of the Jews Mat. 22. whom God hath Anointed himself not with oyle-olive sweetly perfumed but with the oyle of gladness above his fellows Heb. 1.9 even with the Holy Spirit of wisdome and understanding and of Counsel and might and of knowledge and the fear of the Lord See Act. 10.30 with Isa. 11.2 5. he is the Lords Anointed to whom God hath given a name above every name and him hath God highly exalted and set him at the right hand of his Majesty on high far above all Principality and power and might and dominion and every name that is named not onely in this world but also in that which is to come Psa. 2.9 10 11. with Eph. 1.20 21 22. And to him hath God committed all power in Heaven and in Earth Mat. 28.10 to give commandments to the sons of men for whom he hath dyed Act. 3.22 23 24. and also to reward them that observe and do them with the things promised which is to partake of the same eternall life and glory with himself that the Father hath given him according to these Scriptures Psal. 103.17 18. Rom. 2.6 7. chap. 8.17.1 Pet. 1.3 4 Rev. 2.26.27 chap. 3.21 22 chap. 22.14 and to reward those that know him not and obey not his holy Gospel according to their works Rom. 2.8 9. To those that are contentious and obey not the truth but obey unrighteousness he will render indignation and wrath tribulation and anguish upon every soul of man that doth evil whether Jew or Gentile and will destroy them with an everlasting destruction from the presence of God and the glory of his power And this honour and glory he received from God the Father in the holy mount when Peter James John were eye-witnesses of his Majesty and that voyce they heard that came from the excellent glory saying This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased 2 Pet. 1.16 17 18. This is the Lords Anointed who is the onely King of Kings and Lord of Lords by whom Kings raigne and Princes decree Justice even all the Judges of the earth Counsel is his and sound wisdome he is understanding and he hath strength Prov. 8.14 15 16. he loves them that love him and those that seek him early shall find him But those his enemies that will not that he should Reigne over them shall be brought and slaine before him Luke 19.27 And thus have I shown and clearly proved by the Scriptures that Christ is the Lords anointed King onely and alone and none of the Kings of the Nations can have any right to such a title any otherways then the Saints and all that fear God in generall have which is by partaking of the same anointing Spirit through believing as it is written The anointing that ye have received of him abideth in you and you need not that any man teach you but as that anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth 1 John 2.27 And againe he saith We have an unction from the holy One vers. 20. and he that stablisheth us with you in Christ and hath anointed us is God who hath also sealed us and given us the earnest of his Spirit in our hearts 2 Cor. 1.21 22. and this anointing is as proper to a Begger as to a King if he be a believer and if a King be an unbeliever he hath no Right at all to it for there is no respect of persons with God but he hath chosen the poor in this world rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdome prepared for them that love him James 2.5 And he hath revealed his Truth to Babes and Sucklings and hid it from the wise and prudent Insomuch that Paul saith that none of the Princes of this world knew it For had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory 1 Cor. 2.7 8. Therefore saith James 1.9 10. Let the Brother of low degree rejoyce in that he is exalted but the Rich in that he is made low For God will raise them both up to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus Eph. 2.6 And he will make them partakers of his fulness and members of his Body of his flesh and of his Bones Chap. 5.30 Therefore let the Kings Princes and Rulers of the Nations be wise and learn to know what the Lord meaneth when he faith Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harm For he that once reproved Kings for their sakes and slew great and Famous ones for them Psal. 105.14.15 with 136.17 18. is now about to reprove all the Kings upon the face of the Earth for their sakes as I shall now make it appear by shewing Gods dedesigne against them in these last days And first The designe of God and his purpose is in this last age of the world to staine the pride of all their Glory and to bring into contempt all the honorable of the Earth Isa. 23.9 and to pour contempt upon Princes and to cause them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way and to set the poor on high from affliction and to make him families like a flock Psa. 107.40 41. Again the purpose of the Lord is to sacrifice the flesh of Kings and mighty men and the Chiefe of the Earth and to give their flesh to be meat to the fowls of Heaven Rev. 19.17 18. with Ezek. 19.17 18. where he saith They shall eat the flesh of the mighty and dâ—ink the blood of the Princes of the earth Now if the Lord will do these things to the great and mighty Kings and Princes of the earth who then can give them honour and deliver them in the day of his wrath And that the Lord will do it consider further what is written Jer. 25.31 32. A noise shall come from the ends of the Earth for the Lord hath a controversie with the Nations he will plead with all flesh he will give them that are wicked to the sword Thus saith the Lord of hosts Behold evil shall go forth from Nation to Nation This the Lord will do untill he have stained the pride of all their glory viz. untill he have taken away their Kings wherein they glory and of whom they so much boast That this is so consider the fore-going words They shall eat the flesh of Kings and Princes and mighty men and chief Captaines and of all that stand up with them against the Lord And for further confirmation of these words consider what is written Ier. 25.15 Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel to me Take the wine-cup of this fury
to pass in their appointed times for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it but it is not yet come to pass therefore we must look for other times in the last days of all viz. not the rising of false prophets but the destroying and casting of them down which the Lord will hasten The second thing is How we may know a false prophet of which I shall speak as briefly as I can because by what hath been said before they may be known 1. They will preach and prophesie in the Name of Christ very much but they say and do not see Matth. 7.21 22 23 24. If Antichrist should not come in the name of Christ he could not deceive so many for the world hath been deceived these many hundred yeers by praying and preaching in his name by them that have not obeyed his commandments nor contended for the faith as it was once delivered to the Saints Jude 3. 2. They are of a persecuting spirit for they win stir up the Magistrate to persecute others which both say and do those things commanded in Scripture which was first preached by the Lord himself and his holy Apostles and yet they cannot tell us how we shall escape if we neglect it See Heb. 2.1 2.3 3. They commonly deny Christ to be come in the flesh in effect though not in words by grounding their Religion upon the Ceremonies of the Law as is well noted in that little book of Tho. Collier's called Three Parallels one between the Priests of our times and they under the Law 4. They love to give expositions of plain places of Scripture thereby to blinde the eyes of the ignorant by darkning the counsel of God with their words without knowledge thereby endeavouring to make the people set their faith in their wisdom and not in the power of God contrary to Paul and the Apostles of Christ See 1 Cor. 2.4 5. Lastly to escape their wiles let all men try the spirits by the Words of God remember the noble Bereans Acts 17.11 12. who searched the Scriptures daily to see whether the things were so Therefore let none venture their souls upon their expositions lest they lose them but let us he sure we have a written Word of God for what we believe and for what we obey for he is a wise man that believes and obeys the sayings of Christ and not their Expositions of his sayings See Luk. 6.46 47 48 49 Consider it well and learn to be wise The next thing we are accused of is that we are those that cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine we have learned Rom. 16 17. From which place our enemies take occasion to warn the people to take heed of us and avoid our company for say they Who are they which cause these divisions and offences amongst us but these Separatists and men of a new faith To which at present I shall briefly answer thus for the clearing of it First consider when the Apostle spake these words it was sixteen hundred yeers ago Secondly to whom he spake them it was to the true Church of Christ that was then at Rome Rom. 1.7 Thirdly what doctrine it was they had learned it was the doctrine of Christ which was preached to them by Paul himself in those days and therefore he exhorteth them to mark them that laboured to cause divisions and offences contrary to it for saith he they that are such serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple vers. 18. Now what is all this to a people that never learned this doctrine but the doctrine of their Teacher or his predecessor 〈◊〉 be if it were tried by the Word of God it is so far from that which Paul speaks of that they ought to separate and divide from it Secondly the same may be said of Jude's exhortation to the Saints to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the Saints therefore it is not that which was delivered since Jude's days contrary to it but that which was delivered before in his days or else why should he say Contend for that faith which was once delivered if it were still to deliver Therefore let us make that which was first preached by Christ and his Apostles in that generation a perfect Rule of faith and obedience in this generation and let us contend earnestly for it and mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to what is written in the holy Scriptures and avoid them Lastly it is said that we are the ignorant and unlearned that wrest the Scriptures to our own destruction 2 Pet. 3.16 To which I answer If Peter meant those which are unlearned in reference to humane learning I confesse we may be some what guilty but if Peter meant humane learning then he condemns himself and the other Apostles for Acts 4.13 we read that Peter and Iohn were ignorant and unlearned men therefore he meaneth them which are ignorant and unlearned in the things of the Spirit of God which as Paul saith the naturall man perceiveth not nor any of the Princes of this world knew for all their learning 1 Cor. 2.7 8 9 10. with 14. Againe we know that the Pope his Cardinals and Jesuites want no humane learning and yet most men in England conclude that they wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction Again we know the ancient learned grave Bishops in our days wanted no Greek nor Hebrew and yet they are concluded to be Antichristian and erroneous Lastly the Apostle sheweth us plainly who he calleth unlearned 1 Cor. 14.24 where he saith If the church be come together into some place and they all speak with tongues and there come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers they will conclude they are mad but if all prophesie and there come in unlearned or unbelievers they will be convinced c. By all which we see that unbelievers are the unlearned once which wrest the Scriptures to their own distruction which indeed they must needs do if they have not heard and learned Christ and been caught by him as the truth is in Jesus Eph. 4.20 21 22. Thus having cast in my mite into the treasury towards the continuing and increasing the peace and prosperity of the Church of Christ and the Common-wealth of England I freely commit what is written to the view of all men desiring them to read and consider it seriously and trie it by the Word of God and judge impartially and if any finde profit let God have the praise and glory and let me have the prayers of all that fear God and regard not iniquity in their hearts To whom I desire while I live to remaine A loving brother and faithful servant in the service of Christ HENRY HAGGAR FINIS Christian Reader THe Author hereof hath another Treatise extant intituled The Spirit of Promise OR Those rich Treasures that so long have lien hid in Christ searched out and discovered to the Saints Wherein is undeniably proved that the holy Spirit of Promise and the gifts thereof are the Saints proper right now and may and ought to be sought after with all diligence so as be attained unto in this generation full as well as in the Apostltes Which is also to be sold by Giles Calvert at the signe or the black Spread Eagle at the west-end of Pauls