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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

Christ was and laid The same the Disciples Apostles and others use and build with and upon and in the same way according as they received light which was not all at once I pray observe that they had the spirit all but all nor any of them had all the Spirit they had their portion the grace as Paul saith which was given some in one kinde some in another therefore they first apply themselves to the Jew our saviours rule while he lived was Into the Cities of the Gentiles enter you not but go you first to the lost-sheep of the house of Israel but after a time God manifests by the vision of Peter so God taught him first after by pouring the holy Ghost upon the faithful house of a Gentile that they might be baptized and now after a disputation and satisfaction from Peter of these things they that were infallible in particulars which the spirit gave them were not knowing and sometime erred in what God yet revealed but to Peter I pray note this but now freely they preach to the Gentiles and zealous Paul of a persecutor I say no more made a preacher he goes especially to the Gentiles and with much labor and travile and with many dangers preachers Christ but the Divel is as busy as may be he feared not these men who had received the holy Ghost and had abundance of the spirit he throws his stone and hath Agents enough to roll it now the Gentiles are admitted without dispute the question is if they be not bound to Moses law I finde no question of the moral the scruples are concerning the judicial and ceremonial the first question was concerning some that taught the brethren circumcision was needful to salvation this controversie which hath filled the world so called Christian so full of controversie from that time to this present day as namely whether we be saved only through the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith or have need also as to salvation to observe the Law that by the Jew was meant of the visible law ceremonial by the Christian moral c. The wits of the world saw not then the evidence of the spirit nor would acquiesce in the resolutions of the very Apostles themselves so that the congregation at Antioch being hereby in great disturbance were enforced to send Paul and Barnabas to congregate the rest of the Apostles at Jerusalem this upon a full meeting was to receive its end and determination where being recieved of the church Apostles Elders and brethren who were called together and the matter publiquely debated before them the result of which Peter declares to the Church or multitude of believers evidencing by the letter of scripture and that of the old Testament which surely is one of Gods witnesses That the Lord in calling the Gentiles who were uncircumcised which before was the visible condition of salvation declared and testified That salvation was in Faith without any Oblation to the Law But mistake not I intend not here as if the Question were of abrogating Moses Judiciall but that Salvation was not tied to the obedience to that or the whole Law but only through the grace of the Lord Jesus which being allowed by James he gives his sentence that the believers of the Gentiles be not yet till further instruction tied up too close to the severity as their vain liberty will account it of the Jewish rigor but in those things which will cast too great an odium upon us with the Jew as participating in Idoll Sacrifices whoredome the great and ordinary delight of the Gentile and in eating any thing strangled or bloud as being a precept highly esteemed with them le ts in these write to them that they abstain to which all agreeing it seemed good to the Apostles and Elders with the whole Church to send this their resolution in letters by certain of the Church at Jerusalem together with Paul and Barnabas the stile phrase and order of which holding sorth still the pattern of Christ their Master and Teacher's meekness gentleness and lowness the Lamb dumb before the shearer and testifying their unity in Christ their head take notice of in the parts the Inscription whereof was The Apostles Elders and Brethren unto the Brethren not the Elders nor Officers but Brethren which are of the Gentiles in Antiochia Syria Cilicia send greeting in the body Forasmuch as we have heard that certain of the Church of Jerusalem or Jews have troubled and cumbred your minds saying you must be circumcised and keep the Law to whom we gave no such commandment to testifie which we send eminent men in the faith to you for it seemed good to the holy Ghost and to us to lay no more burthen upon you then these necessary things that to the end no offence be given to the Jew you abstain from things offered to Idols bloud things strangled and from fornication from which if you keep your selves you shall do well fare you wel Here was no charging willing and commanding from the sacred Synod no Authorrity of the Church urged more then the note of intimation that what was done was by them who had received the holy Ghost The issue is also considerable for these Commissioners of the Churches both of Antioch and Jerusalem comming now to Antioch I pray consider their carriage they assemble whom the Elders or Preachers no they would not tie the people to believe implicitely therefore they assemble the multitude all the believers and there they deliver the Epistle which is read with joy for the consolation This done Satan is at work again raising strife and contention betwixt Paul and Barnabas so that they parted company wherein I pray note the children of God nay the chosen vessels yea consecrated by the actual operation of the Spirit are subject more or less to humane frailties consider further Paul after this decision of that great controversie at Jerusalem yet by and by he circumcises Timothy to give content to the blindness of the Jew and was never called to account for it either at Jerusalem or Antiochia and though himself at the same time delivered the decision of the Apostles and Elders at Jerusalem to those converted to the faith of Christ in the Cities about as they travelled to establish their minds in case either the controversie concerning the Laws necessity were there raised already or might right rise afterwards by this humane Wisdom labouring to prevent a further increase of that controversie And if it be queried why they did not miraculously do it as well as heal diseases and such like Know O man that it was contrary to Gods Ordinance he appointed preaching to convert the world and miracles were Trumpets to call the people together and prepared them to receive the Word and with the Word God gave grace as he pleased and that this must be so is plain for all that saw the miracles attended not to the Word and all that did both were not