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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

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

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

in place of Government to whom with God belongeth a due to be rendered Matth. 22.21 Rom. 13 7 Let not place of honour as it hath been in times past be an occasion of pride and forgetfulnesse whereby men have forgotten that they were men and the remembrance of their Master his cause and servants the upright and innocent but examine consider and scorne not the reall demonstration and reasonable motion in the case of greatest wrong put upon the Trinity and the whole Host of Heaven and your Majesties dignity and honour of civill Government for reliefe wherein if you do not your part let your neglect rest with your selfe for I will present it to you with my life in my hand accept it as you please The Kingdome of the Gospel the divine politique state the Ecclesiasticall Government or visible Church which was given to Christ Jesus by his Father is by the Kingdom of Darknesse the false Ecclesiasticall state and false Church together with the deluded and abused assistance of your own civil state the honorable Ordinance of God utterly defaced trodden under foot excluded and banished your Dominions to the greatest dishonour and undervaluing of the Trinity the power wisdom and goodnesse thereof represented and expressed in the contrivance and establishment of the said Kingdome of Christ to the greatest destruction desolation disconsolation and losse of conscionable and saintlike persons and to the great overthrow of your owne subjects and decay or strength in your owne Dominions To prove the truth of this cause is not hard the Lawes and Rules of the policy of Divinity and Humanity jumpe home to it neither will the Lawes and Rules of devilish policy be able to contrary it although they may dazzle and cloud it All bodies of policy as well Ecclesiasticall as Civil true and false as all other things do consist of matter and forme by the quality of which two essentiall parts all politique bodies transcendent different and contrary in nature are reasonably and substantially distinguished and knowne one from the other and all bodies politique of one nature whether Ecclesiasticall true false or civill are distinguished one from another by the extent limitation and confines of those two forenamed essentiall parts The realty and truth of this Rule will appear in the incontradictable and undeniable discovery and manifestation of each politique body and Kingdom in an essentiall way Every body and state of policy consisteth of like or one and the same essentiall and circumstantiall parts in respect of name and number the difference or means of distinction lieth in the transcendent different and contrary qualities of those parts Circumstantiall differences are of consequence the misplacing misapplying and misusing of any such part in any body of policy deserveth reproof and disclamation of the members or subjects of any such body but essentiall differences misplacing misapplying and misusing any such parts is intolerable and incommunicable and requireth separation the truth of all these things will be most fully proved by humane and naturall reason and holy Scripture is setting forth the severall kindes of bodies of policy in their essentiall and main circumstantiall parts That there is a true and false Ecclesiasticall state I need not stand to prove but refer it to the severall definitions and full demonstration of them justifiable from Scripture Lawes of all policy and common experience for all Europe granteth the same and most forreigne and domestique wars and jars are more concerning Ecclesiasticall affairs than all the matters in the earth besides according as Christ prophetically speaketh Matth. 24. 5 6 7. The whole earth is filled with the cry Lo here Lo there the voice of greatest deceivers of which speciall care is to be had for the avoiding them Matth. 24.23 24 25 26 27 28. And that the world in generall and most especially my native King and his Dominions may not continue in contention which is the readiest way to confusion and to be made a prey to strangers about which is the true Church or about circumstances thereof I have with heart in hand yea heart in hand undertaken and shall essentially and fully make it appear from the Rule of divine and humane wisdom and policy that it is impossible for any nationall Church to be the true Church of Christ or to be righted by force of Armes in case it were really so either by the King in way of offence or by his subjects in way or defence and why should not great ones be as ready to try and prove the truth hereof as to kill me in wrath which no way accomplisheth Gods will in righteousnesse Iam 1.20 But what Effects shall be expected of Creatures lifted up above their Element but actions of pride and scorne in oblivion of God and man and what Lawes of Divinity shall rule the Potentates of the Earth who make Lawes and confines for the same the glory of high powers is mercy and the grace of humanity is to be humble and faultlesse not cowardly and murderous and that I may briefly come at and accomplish the performance of what I have undertaken even essentially to discover the Church of Christ to be trodden under foot and made desolate by on Antichristian and false Ecclesiasticall state through the assistance of the civill state obteined by delusion and deceivablenesse of unrighreousnesse in all the Kingdoms of the Earth I have thought it necessary to begin with a discovery of the Civil State in the essentiall parts of it the circumstantiall ones also and the use of the whole Civill State or body of humanity wheresoever thou dwellest in any measure of truth and realty thou art Gods Ordinance the off-spring of the second Table of the Morall Law of God the Image of Innocency in the first Creation in man towards man thou art the Parent of all Nations in whole honour and dishonour is length and shortnesse of dayes The subject or material part of the consistance of this body of Civility is Mankindle in generall conteined within the limits and confines of any such body The formall or part of life which giveth being to this Civil politique body is the Kingly or Regal Civil politique Power by which any member hath any politique motion actively or passively by which also any Law belonging thereto hath any vigour or current The quality of both these essentiall parts is meerly civill and humane and such as have relation to this state concerneth them onely in temporall affairs for the civill ordering and governing their persons and estates according to the Law of equity between man and man To prove the matter and forme of this Civil body politique to be as aforesaid the reason of all unions and bodies in the world serveth hand pat to do it for the matter and forme of every body is comprehended within it selfe neither without either of those two parts can the body well or ill subist the Creatour Parent and Institutour can be no part of the Creature

those of the body of Christ and most pernicious to humanity these binde Conscience which Christs Lawes set free and compell externall conformity in circumstantiall matters which breedeth more hypocrisie than sincerity and destroyeth civilly disposed persons for the proper and peculiar use of their owne Consciences the truth hereof witnesseth all persons which have suffered do and shall suffer for their Consciences these are compulsive and enforcing Conscience and although set on foot with fair pretences yet are such snares and traps for men that thereby their Consciences are made very slaves or their persons and personall estates ruined of these the Epistle to the Colossians speaketh pertinently in way of caution and preadmonition Col. 2.8 also verse 20 21 22 23. These circumstantiall things also belonging to the being of this body declare the quality of the matter and forme to be most palpably Antichristian as aforesaid Most noble King impartially let former passages be considered and call to minde of what generation you came of Adam and Eve in Paradise and in the time of their innocency were miscarried by temptation of the devil what may be the condition of their posterity since the curse passed upon them and their being thrust out of the Presence Garden of God by head and shoulders though I conceive your calling to be the chiefest that is given to the sons of men and although God hath given you a Land flowing with milke and honey yet I am perswaded you are no more privileged from temptation and transgression against God than were your first parents and those Kings of Israel which were Types of Christ the King of new Jerusalem whose calling or state and seat was above yours yet no disparagement to yours neither for upon that Throne sitteth the Son of God and Lord of David if your first parents were deceived by flattery and an ambitious inclination and if they by looking after more than God gave them lost what they had may not their posterity be taken in the same snare yea they are subjected to it under a curse which followed since their fall if the true Light which lighteth every man that commeth into the World was in the World and the World was made by him and the World knew Him not if He came unto his owne and his owne received Him not Iohn 1 9 10 11. may we not suspect our owne aversnesse and the double advantage our old false friend the devil who is worse than an open enemy to all mankinde hath against us take notice of the passages of Scripture before mentioned and these following Iohn 5.43 Matth. 7 1● Matth. 24.24 1. Iohn 2.18 If there be a generation to whom nothing is pure but even their minde and conscience is defiled which professe they know God but in workes denie him Titus 1.15 16. who will talke of Christ or teach Him yet deny Him to be come in the flesh I mean so as to yeeld him the Throne of his father David to sit as King in matters Ecclesiasticall and to let him rule in the Element of Conscience which is that spirit of Antichrist 1 Iohn 4.3 O noble King is not a double jealousie of being deceived necessarily called upon in you whom these forenamed persons have made supreme Head of the Church as if one body could have two heads or two bodies different in nature one head of which interposition and confusion the Lawes of your owne policy admit not be judge your selfe it is not outward religious performances please God witnesse Caine and Abe under pretence of long prayers some devour widowes houses what is acceptable with God of this nature see Iames 1.26 27. To be short fully plain and faithfull do but consider the Book or Revelation which from the fifth Chapter includeth the discovery of the state of Christ and his Church and Antichrist and his Kingdom and the birth life and death of him and the main particular passages of the combate between them both and behaviour of the Kings of the earth therein toward either side and observe how poor deluded man in the state and seat of Kings is beset when the vials of Gods wrath are poured out to the destruction of the Beast especially when he is touched upon his seat and revenue which is his life and livelihood Rev. 16.13 14. Most royall Soveraigne be not angry and full of wrath which accomplisheth not the will of God Iames 1.20 But look well to your going Prov. 14.15 16. And be pleased now to take into your hand the line of truth which defineth all the Creatures and things upon the face of the earth whatsoever and judge and deal by all states and bodies of policy according to their severall natures and qualities of their essentiall parts and of their circumstantiall parts which belong unto them wherein the Rules of holy Scripture and of humane reason and policy will bear you out against all opposition View the Ecclesiasticall states within your owne dominions which are so apt to breed wars to maintain the truth of their being and to call for subscription thereof from all others and examine how the quality of their essentiall and circumstantiall parts suit with that of Christs Church or with that of Antichrist and accordingly you may account of them and deal by them so farre as concerneth you in your state of civility And thus farre I can do no lesse than move your Majesty to do sithence to God and Caesar belongeth a due and that you would take to what is your owne and give unto God the things that are Gods to which Act I am confident all good and faithfull Subjects would consent upon fair evidence whereof sacred Scripture and naturall reason will afford sufficient to all persons and Courts of Parliament to the performance thereof And for your owne due none can deny but as you are Head of all Civill powers within your owne do minions so the execution of all Civill Lawes whereof your power is the life for the preservation of your Subjects in all Civill respects belongeth unto you therefore keep it to your selfe and for that use onely and give it not into the hands of any Ecclesiasticall persons for Christ never called for the use of it to cut off men for Conscience sake but for incivility and for that same purpose God did ordain it Rom 9. And onely in this respect are Kings and Queenes held truely to be nursing Fathers and Mothers to the Church of Christ for in so doing they defend the innocent relieve the oppressed and preserve the meek from unreasonable and Cain-like men of the world and hatch up the people in generall by maintaining equity between man and man out of which Christ calleth his chosen such as are appointed for the worship and speciall service of the Trinity Likewise for your owne due none can deny since God hath put an end to the Jewish and nationall Ecclesiasticall state but that the use of all meanes set apart for