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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94740	A supplement to the Serious consideration of the oath of the Kings supremacy; published October 1660. In, first, some consideration of the oath of allegiance. Secondly, vindicating of the consideration of the oaths of the Kings supremacy and allegiance, from the exceptions of Richard Hubberthorn, Samuel Fisher, Samuel Hodgkin, and some others against them, in the points of swearing in some case, and the matters of those oaths. By John Tombes B.D.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1661 (1661)	Wing T1821; Thomason E1084_1; ESTC R207991	39,490	48

that had the Law of God amongst them and were famous in the world for their earthly wisdom and knowledge Stephen was stoned and James the Apostle killed with the sword supposed to be tares or the children of the wicked One when they were the pretious wheat of God Acts 6. 13 14. and 12. 2. The Christians that suffered in the ten persecutions were they not accused of being pestilent fellows movers of sedition turners of the world upside down enemies to Caesar Acts 24. 5 12. and 17. 6 7. when the contrary was most true and they will be found to be the faithful martyrs of Jesus So in latter times many of those that have been put to death for heresie and blasphemy are by this age acknowledged to be the Saints of God O King that our words might be acceptable to thee consider that neither thy Self nor Counsellors have the spirit of infallibility if the Apostles that had an extraordinary spirit of discerning must not pluck up the tares lest they root up the wheat also how can any Prince on earth undertake a work so dangerous It is possible many of those that are counted false worshippers and hereticks in this day may at the time when God shall judge the world in righteousness be servants of the most high God Remember we pray thee that those that lived in the days of the Lord Jesus accused their fathers for being guilty of the blood of the Prophets saying If we had been in the days of our Fathers we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets Mat. 23. 29 30. yet themselves killed the Lord of life The Romish Church also saith if we had lived in the days of the heathen Emperors we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the Christians yet puts to death many as righteous as they were and now many of thy subjects in this Nation are ready to say If we had lived in the days of Queen Mary we would not have been guilty with our Fathers in the blood of those good men that then suffered yet such a spirit of persecution is now risen up as if not restrained will terminate in the blood of many good men and so bring down the wrath of God upon this generation and there will be no remedy Answ I could eccho out all this after them were not this alledged as a ground of their denial of the taking the Oath of the Kings Supremacy It is a good wish that the King would deeply consider and remember all this some acts of his give cause to think he doth and to hope he will remember it I said somewhat to the same effect in my Serious Consideration of the Oath of the Kings Supremacy and such things as have lately hapned give still cause to inculcate this that his Majesty his Counsel and Ministers of justice have need of very much circumspection how they imprison and other ways punish men for their dissent from that which is established in matters of faith and worship sith this power of punishing for supposed heresies errours and schisms hath been so unhappily and unrighteously managed as gives cause to fear that it neither was nor will nor can be well used without destruction of many innocent persons God forbid I should justifie any abuse or neglect according to my power and place the seeking of reformation Nevertheless all this amounts not to a sufficient ground or reason to deny the Kings Supremacy in spirituals sith the like abuses happen in temporal things and yet these Petitioners deny not the promise yea and that indeed in words of swearing of obedience in temporal causes We might make a Catalogue of Sauls Davids Solomons and others oppressions in temporal things shall we therefore deny their regal power in them no but acknowledge the power and oppose the abuse yet not by arms or other unpeaceable ways but by Petitions to the Rulers prayers to God patient suffering which are the weapons whereby Christians conquer For which reason I except not against that which the Petitioners adde 4. To inflict temporal punishmemts upon any of us thy subjects for not conforming to thy decrees that restrain us from the worship that we know to be of God Is it not a breach of that royal law that commands thee that whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do you even so to them for this is the law and the Prophets Mat. 7. 12. And we would in all humility offer to thy consideration if thy soul were in our souls stead wouldest thou be satisfied with the same measure as is now dealt unto us when neither the God of heaven nor our own consciences condemn us of any evil intended against thy person or authority Nor can the greatest of our enemies make any due proof of any combination or plotting with any upon the face of the earth for the disturbance of the publique peace And this we can with boldness say because we know our own innocency Yet cannot this be a sufficient ground of denying the Kings Supremacy in spirituals nor is the proof of that Supremacy enervated by what follows But whereas it is objected that the Kings of Israel and Judah under the old Testament had power in spiritual causes and did punish blasphemy and Idolatry which are crimes of the highest nature against God we confess they had such power which was given to them in plain precepts written in the law of Moses but the Gospel that we live under is another dispensation in which the Lord Jesus is the only Law-giver who doth not as Moses proceed against the transgressors of his precepts by external force and power to the destroying them in their bodies and estates in this life but in long suffering waits on men not willing they should perish but rather that they should repent and be saved 2 Thes 1. 9. 2 Pet. 3. 9. Acts 17. 31. and when any continues in disobedience to the Gospel his punishment is eternal in the world to come The Apostle Paul testifies of himself that he was a blasphemer and perescuter 1 Tim. 1. 20. And if the mind of God had been that he should have suffered death in that condition how should he have had repentance given him and been such a glorious instrument in the Church as he was Furthermore it is too well known that the Jews are the greatest blasphemers against our Lord Jesus Christ as are on the earth yet it is not the mind of the Lord they should be destroyed from the face of the earth for how then should the Scripture be fulfilled wherein God hath promised to call them and to make them the most glorious Nation of the world Oh how can they be converted if they be not permitted where the Gospel is preached We speak not this in favour of any blasphemy for our souls abhor it but because we would have the lives of men as precious in thy eyes O King as they are in