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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33531	English-law, or, A summary survey of the houshold of God on earth and that both before and under the law, and that both of Moses and the Lord Jesus : historically opening the purity and apostacy of believers in the successions of ages, to this present : together with an essay of Christian government under the regiment of our Lord and King, the one immortal, invisible, infinite, eternal, universal prince, the Prince of Peace, Emmanuel.	Cock, Charles George.	1651 (1651)	Wing C4789; ESTC R37185	322,702	228

riches and honor were but subservient to Natures ends but this strictness now accounted though the Magistrate might exact it where it could be or punish its neglect Yet assuredly to inforce it in this our Age were to debilitate and enervate the Nation for our rich people are generally so luxurious that if the weakness of the decaied stifled generative vertue choaked with excess were not opened again to operate more acutely through another kind of nutriment in the poor Nurse they would all prove Changlings to old English Valour though in such a soul the splendors of Christianity may be as excellent as in the strongest fairest and healthiest constitution This I hint onely to intimate at least to Professors what a duty is upon them to repress these excesses which are so ruinous to Nature and ought to be punished Natural men have out-gone most Modern Christians in these vertues My aim is at the manner not so much of educating babes or so called children as youth that is from seven years to eighteeen at least if not one and twenty or better five and twenty Now to this end I suppose that it is the duty of the Magistrate to Erect and Authorize at least in the head-Town of every County Schools of Vertue that is fitted with Masters to teach and instruct the youth according to their Ages and Capacities in Arts and Arms I mean by Arts Trades of all sorts and learning of all sorts atcording to Rule This provided that it is not intended that all children should contiue meerly learners till five and twenty and it is supposed that the present values rents and profits of and belonging to Inns of Court and Chancery Universities and Schools will serve for this work however so far that the defect may easily be supplied But that they should not be accounted men till that age nor to manage their own affairs much less of the Commonwealth but be under Guardianship And by Arms I mean all the exercises of the body whereby strength and agility shall be increased courage raised and yet being under a Tutor obedience nourished and Prudence established for these Academies or Schools it is requisite to have their Rules grave and strict but not ridiculous not such as flat Caps after so long disused nor Cappings of so called Fellows as was in Colledges though the rain pour down but to order such due respect as breeds an aw with love wherein there must be necessary severity not rigid peevish Tyranny the aw must express it self in a due silence as well as active diligence for the expence of spirits is great in clamorous nay talkative youth and sure would quick and ripe wits not vent so fast their store would last longer this makes many pregnant young men to be old dotards Let these have discreet Visitors or Superintendents who once every moneth shall come and view the progresses of the several years and a penalty set and that seriously this due training of youth will enable them to rule in season the want of knowing due obedience in Education renders most men unfit to govern by this means the natural abilities of all men will be tried and the vertuous eyed as fit for high imployments the care of Parents will be quieted while their children are so nigh as once in a week they may easily hear of their health and sickness and the nighness to the Parents will aw the child from such extravagancies as youth is subject to at all times but most when they are far from them whom Nature teaches to fear by degrees The habits of these Students I inforce not that they be all alike but that none be trimmed with Velvet Lace Points Ribonds or such fooleries none to wear long Hair Rings Scarfes Fringes Roses Weapon or Boots and that due and civil respects be observed among themselves according to their degrees but no fancies of Custom to be allowed as Salting Mustarding or any such lightnesses nor any trials of Wit or Strength but in the presence of a Master Thus shall both poor and rich be fitted to the service of the Commonwealth idleness will be banished and ignorance despised for all that were capable should to these Schools for a time till dismissed to Trades for necessary living by the Visitors or Superintendents for prayers among them early and late it is necessary but let the hours be apportioned for Study and Exercise and let each day be Catachistical to the knowledge of Christian Doctrine as Moral or Civil conversation But you must admit no Colledge-School or Academy to have any Priviledges of separate Jurisdiction as now or formerly they are but the inciters to Debauchery and Riot with great emulation and disturbance of the Peace The Magistrate must command Let no door be free from the knock of the Consuls Ax it will make some heady one or other at some time or other to lay the foundations of chusing Tribunes of the people Let onely their obedience to the Law be their priviledge and security onely let the Tutors be free from personal service in War or other service in Peace but for payments let them be charged upon him according to his Rate Let the books of Learning be publikely appointed by the Magistrate not at the Tutors will let not all be inforced to Latin but each to Read and Write in some measure Let times of rising be set down and also going to bed and some certain times wherein the children may recreate but by parcels not all at once which now is case of great confusion rudeness and disturbance Let the Masters interchangeably have times of respit for extraordinary occasions This will speedily give a large increase for knowledge which will make that your Magistrates in all places may be men of knowledge which will embellish the Commonwealth whereas now most Cities Towns yea I may say Counties are despised in Government for default of prudent knowing men A long Robe-man or two guide all and in this Age of interest and these mens interests so visible as aforesaid all is let run to confusion And by this will also the several Congregations be fitted with able knowing Pastors and Teachers yea honest vertuous emulation in ingenuous spirits will render almost every Member a Doctor This is seemingly a matter of great charge therefore before I proceed I will see how charges are to be born raised c. And the relief of Commonwealths in excessive burthens of people How all the Charges of the Commonwealth Fees and Fines c. are to be Assessed and raised and by what Rule And the wayes to ease Nations when grown over-numerous I Know that many will say this is good in Speculation but the Practise is difficult yea some will say impossible for you cannot get all men of one mind to it others that it is against Priviledge to inforce children from the Parents Tuition who being Guardians by Nature the Law will not may not admit any Rule to bar his Right Others

lay to heart these things First that you are in Gods stead Next that there are many vows upon the Nation for Justice and Righteousness against the then and still continued unchristian uncivil nay inhumane dealings of man with man as man with God c. You stand in the eys of all all your goings are marked and all your failings graven to Record Publick necessities your own consciences and peoples complaints have plucked forth Declarations to men as well as Covenants to God the Obligations to men are still the same if the reason be the same And for our Obligations wherein we lift up our hands to the most high God truly though the Covenant as is said be out of date that is the end of the Covenant for satisfaction to the King to draw him to an union and conjunction with his great Councel be disobliged yet the seeking of the setling of this Nation the three Nations all Nations according to the Rule of Righteousness in love peace and unity yea the drawing of them to uniformity both in Doctrine and Discipline according to the Word of God that is by the evidence of truth and the manifestation of the Spirit is still the duty of all Christians for this had been a duty had the Covenant never have been it was before it and must remain after The present Age is in the learned part very acute at least to censure all persons and then assuredly the actions of Enemies You have many who foment jealousies from the supposed Errings and delays some to one end some to another but all of beleeving the old experimented Rule of the destructiveness of popular Government from the variety and inconstancy the dilatoriness and ambiguousness of their proceedings and unsatisfiedness of so many selfish Interests as are among them this is to bring in the Government of a King again Indeed multitude of occasions makes your proceedings slow-paced Instead of particular Acts which are unsatisfactory settle a compleat body of Government you have means of supplying all indigencies for if you improve your power to evident publick good who will oppose The Royalist and all among the Parliament party agree in many just things yet uneffected Justice is the preservation as foundation of the Throne If you will raign safely walk not in any of the wayes of them that fell before you the president of their punishment as their error is too nigh at hand Let no interest deterr you from your Rule Conserve indeed the real Liberties of the people free us from all those Legerdemains the sleights of Oppression and Tyranny What was unjust gain in the King let not the State demand there depend upon follow providence as far as you will and be as remiss and so called merciful as you please but in things just and evidently conducing to common good be severe and unalterable this is righteous In things difficult and doubtful first use reason and prudence discover the interest opposing and so proceed to afflict this wil breed both fear and love Alter a good and just thing though to a more just by degrees and gently for interests have here lawful pleas but in evidently evil it 's the glory to make speed Connive not there for an hour What is here driven at is the just Reformation of all our Laws the Reduction of them to a Rule and standard of Christian Simplicity You that are of the long Robe both in and out of the house you whose knowledge both divine and humane abounds as your abilities in outward as inward excellencies Judges Councellors and Officers of all sorts look not at ancient Customes but at the common Justice of them not how they restrain particular evils but as they conduce to universal good If you will not admit the opposition of inferiors do nothing but carrying that evidence of reason as may stop the mouths of fools as well as satisfie wise men Let Godliness now in this light be the pretious gain it s the Pearl of great price Surely there are things called Law admitted practically for Law and those opposed and complained of which are so notoriously unjust and irrational so destructive to the Nation as its the admiration of all men they are not amended 't is laid onely to the charge as a matter of Interest to be obstructors see in the day the Lord opposing every evil thing lay down Self and God will stablish you To you Princes and Nobles I say learn by Gods dealings with you to see Thrones and Scepters Powers Civil and Military Riches and Honors Wisdom and all are the gifts of the Almighty Wisdom The Hand of Providence holds them forth and disposeth them as it pleaseth You have been bad Stewardes amend your wayes God hath here and there taken all away otherwhere a great part most have suffered know God is able yet to take away the remainder seek not therefore in passion to break out what ever you do carry God along with you and that not in thought but deed assuredly the judgement else will be more smart and deeper in every change le ts see the Work of God upon your hearts change Profession into Practise of Christianity idolize not the Form but acting sincerely Zeal Holiness Austerity of Life in the avoiding the very appearances of evil but exemplary in Charity and that not onely in giving much but giving well ordering the wayes not of your selves onely but of your Families so that the nobility of your souls in the excellence of graces may speak you illustrious above ancient riches the Vertues or Vices of your Progenitors The same I may say to the Gentry and men of great estate City and Country know God gives you much that you may do much for him wherein is now your excellency Titles Alas they are but like Absoloms Pillar serve but to eternize his faults and miserie Good cloathes large Retinue as Revenew if not larger and they generally idle and so necessarily vicious Coaches and horses bountiful and luxurious fare as much spent to feed and cloath ten as well would satisfie each day one hundred and for one hundred as would plentifully maintain a thousand Is God honored in all this or is the poor profited you may think it for thus did your fathers and so did you but where is the Rule the charges of the Commonwealth if but five shillings are a burthen to you who spend ten pound nay a hundred pound nay a thousand pound in waste and they that have nought follow your example thereby believing they gain credit I now shall speak one word to the Army You have followed Providence make no Selfish Interest your Idol lest Providence forsake you be assured others have many enemies but for you how few are your friends there are great engagements upon you to God who hath with such a continued course given success to your undertakings I am so far from incouraging to Mutinies as I condemn them there are just wayes use them I would

they do and go unpunished be assured the Magistrate is in the greatest fault he is or loose or lazy or both So for maintenance in this way the Magistrate may clearly setle it and ought and that onely from a publike maintenance for otherwise his people will grow pure beasts in the form and shape of men and to these he ought to setle a maintenance competent for humane industry is capable of humane satisfaction this as Teachers but as Pastors let the additionall maintenance be as Christian duty requires Now to setle it as Tythes were the What and how and where and when and to whom well setled it cannot be unlawfull that is to give a tenth but to admit it as of duty to the Minister as to the Priest to plead customes of and for Tything as well as to deny customes of not Tything are all equally absurd if throughly scanned A maintenance and that onely is agreed due by all to them that Labour in the word and Doctrine but the whole Ministery hath with us been so Generally corrupted that not onely men have made or pretended conscience to pay any Tythes to such wolves in sheepes Cloathing but from the vanity wickedness and perversness of these men of corrupt minds have questioned whither a ministry be Here is a hard task for the Magistrate for he hath been necessitated to take that power into his hands which at first himself questioned whither it were lawfull for him or not but attempting and finding no danger present the fear is now least he should not let go his hold I presume this is clear he may and will declare if he have any Religion which he approves this is most naturall that he will establish what he consents not to who can perswade himself of it all that I can say is if he be a Christian let him with all meekness and in the evidence of truth by all Christian means labour to win all but to enforce none but the wicked and disobedient to just and righteous Lawes The want of which is the great disgust of all good men but I shall not enlarge here of that The Churches power then consisting principally if not wholly in things plain and evident it is most certain that the Magistrates Power in ordinary ought not to stretch so high much less exceed that is to help where that with humane thoughts seems to come short as the Church hath hitherto held Now in this I shall speak one word to the great and weighty consideration of the Supremacy of power and whither and how there be or may be Two Supreams which will a little clear up the way for amity amongst so called Christians of all opinions First we must consider the rise of the controversie is from the word of God in all the new Testament wherein all words of saving knowledge are directed soly wholy and onely to the Elect Saints at least by calling and profession which in their season some think nay beleeve shall govern the world and at these as called out of the way of the world to a more holy and spirituall serving of him Now some suppose this was to be done onely in a Church way which both Papist Greek Church and Protestants of all sides agree that is that the Magistrate Ruling among Christians in ordinary ought to be a Christian Now saith the Church of Rome and all as a Christian he must be a member of some visible Church if so he must be subordinate to the Pope and a generall Councell saith the Pope to a generall Councell and Fathers of the Church lay the Biblers of old To a generall Councell and the Kirke say both the Lutheran and Calvinistical Divines All which place the Power of the Church Authoritatively in the Officers or Officer Supream Now those of the Congregational way of all sorts distinguish as the rest do First in that the Supream Magistrates are men and so members of Churches they are Subject to the Discipline of the respective Congregations and Churches but as Magistrates they are distinct Officers in the world for the good of all men and the peaceable and quiet Governing of those committed by God to their charge Now as a member he is inferior to the whole And as a man he is Subject to Ordinances But as a Prince he is not Subject to the Church for as the Prince cannot as Prince perform the Offices of a Pastor So neither can the Pastor Officers of one or more Churches intermeddle with the ruling power of the Prince as a Pastor or Church Officers in any of their opinions Now for Supremacy they who are Christian Princes and Pastors will not strive for the Supremacy of Power but keep their fixt places All Saints are now the Kings Priests and Prophets of the most High God But more especially the chief Magistrate in Ruling represents the Kingly Office of the Lord Christ and the Pastors and teachers the Priestly and Prophetical The Prince Governs the Commonwealth according to the Judiciall Law of the Almighty God the Law of pure righteousness laid forth in both the Testaments And the Pastors and Teachers and Elders Govern the Church in dispencing the Ordinances and Rules of the Gospel the Pastor principally if not only in Preaching of the Doctrinall part of Christianitie the brethren appointed to teach in opening the practicall part of Christianitie I know that some hold that all ought to come under the pure notion of Church Government and all Magistrates to Rule as Church Officers I allow it fit to be Queried but I presume it is the wickedness of our present age blinds our eyes that we see not all that all of them who pretend to sinceritie desire And I see not notwithstanding our variety of opinions but that all that have not the mark of the beast shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven By this it is plain there is in the Church of Christ the Lord Christs Substitutes in Governing the Nations by the materiall sword according to a Law of righteousness and Justice which man may comprehend And there is the Lord Christs Substitutes in holding forth to the severall Churches the Gospel of Love the one hath the sword of Justice the other that of the Spirit In the order of Government the Pastors and all the Saints must submit to the Supream Magistrate as to Christ the King As a Christian the Magistrate must submit to the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of Christ as a member of that body whereof Christ is the head as a member a Christian subject to the Ordinances of the Gospel As a Prince ruling justly those committed to his charge It will be thought that this admitting of the Prince subject as a member will make his power subservient to the end of that particular Congregation to which he is associated And this will breed Emulation and at last division Now let this throughly be considered in the cause