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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A72378	Certaine godly, and most necessarie annotations vpon the thirteenth chapter to the Romanes: set forth by the right vigilant pastor: Iohn Hoper, by Gods calling, Bishop of Gloucester.; Godly and most necessary annotations in ye .xiii. chapyter too the Romaynes	Hooper, John, d. 1555.	1583 (1583)	STC 13756.5; ESTC S124475	17,410	49

be obedient vnto the higher power in a kingdome and monarchie where one is appointed to rule all the subiects of the same realme are bounde to obey the King appointed by God of what condition state or degree soeuer they bee as the king himselfe is bounde to bee obedient vnto the lawe and vnto God where as the laws be not contrary to the lawe of God and the lawe of nature And here is no exception to bee made No man in a kingdome is or oughte to bee priuiledged or exempt from the obedience of the king which is the higher power And the ecclesiasticall lawes that doe exempt and priuiledge any spirituall as they be called or temporall person from this generall rule Euery man be obedient to the higher power is damnable and hereticall manifestly condemned by the word of God For Christe and his Apostles payde tribute Mat. 17.22 Rom. 13. and other duties vnso the Higher powers of the earth And the powers that heere S. Paule speaketh of be not onely Kings emperors but also such as be appointed to any publique office and common regiment eyther for a King where as is a Kingdome or in the place of a King where as the state of the common wealth is no monarchie but a rule and dominion commended to many To all these S. Paule commandeth obedience honor reuerence and loue to be borne And this is specially to be noted in S Paule that he sayth simply and plainely we should obey the higher powers to confute argue and reprehend those that cloak and excuse their inobedience cyther for the age of the rulers or els for conditions and maners of the rulers And that age dischargeth no man for inobedience the worde of God declareth how that hee was present to helpe yong kings 2. Chro. 〈◊〉 and to defend them in their vnder age as it is to bee seene by king Ios●as Also God punisheth young Kinges as often as they walke not after his worde as it is to bee seene by Iehoiacim 1. Chro. 36. that was crowned in the eight yeare of his age and within three monethes and Tenne dayes for the Synnes he committed before God he was taken prisoner by Nabuchadnezer Euen so was Manasses beeing of 12. yeares of age Neither doth the maners and condition of the Magistrates excuse our inobedience thogh they be naught For Paule biddeth vs looke vppon the power and ancthoritie of the higher powers and not vpon their maners 1. Pet. 2. * And S. Peter commaundeth the seruauntes to obey their Masters though they be euil So Ioseph obeid Pharaoh and Christ our sauiour Pilate S. Paule the emperours of Rome Caligula and Nero. And when S. Paule commaundeth vs to be obedient he meaneth not onely we shoulde speake reuerently and honorably of the higher power or make curtesie vnto him but to obey the lawes set foorth by the powers except they commaund thinges against gods laws Act. 5. then must * we obey more God then men and yet not to striue and fight with the Magistrates but suffer patiently death rather then to offend God or els our obedience is no thing but hipocrisie and dissimulation Who wold accept his own childs making of curtesie when all his facts be contrary to his commaundement What master woulde bee content or thinke his seruaunt did his duety in putting of his Cap and in his doing contemneth all his maisters lawes and commaundements The lawes of a Magistrate be of two conditions and sorts eyther they concerne God or man If they concerne or appertaine to God either they be according to the word of God or contrary to the word of God If they be according to the word of God of necessity and bondage vpon paine of damnation they must be obeyed If they be repugnant to the word of God they shoulde not be obeyed Yet rather shoulde a man suffer death then to defend him selfe by force and violent resisting of the superiour powers as Christe his Apostles and the Prophets did If the lawes concerne and appertaine vnto man and vnto things Ciuill they must simply without exception be obeyed except they repugne and be contrary to the law of nature Exod. 1. As Pharaohs lawes and commaundementes was to the Midwiues that they shoulde haue killed all the men children that the women of Isralites brought foorth Seeing Sainte Paul commandeth vs to giue obedience vnto the higher powers howe muche be these men worthy hell fire that resist them both with hand hart and tong Exod. 22. In the book of Exodus the people is commanded not too speake euil of the higher powers read that place learn to detest abhor those runagats that euery i● tauern and taphouse spew oute their blasphemous and traiterous talks Exod. 23.22 against the magistrates when they shold rather look vpō their own fa●●ts studie to amend them And also pray God to do thesame in the Magistrats that it might please him of his greate mercye to amende and redresse all thinges that be amisse After that S. Paul hath generally cōmmanded al men to be obedient to the higher powers he sheweth the causes wherefore they should be obeyed The text For there is no power saith he but of God The powers that bee are ordeyned of God Whosoeuer therfore resisteth power resisteth the ordinances of God BEcause that naturally there is in euerye man a certaine desire of libertye and to liue withoute subiection and all maner of lawes except suche as please him selfe Sainte Paule is not content generally to exhort and commaund all men to obedience of the higher powers but giueth many greate and waighty causes wherefore men shoulde bee obedient and in subiection vnto them The first is because the office of a Magistrate is the ordinaunce of God and seeing all the ordinaunces and powers of God are to be obeyed necessarely it followeth that with out al tergiuersation hipocrisie and collusion the Magistrate must be obeyed except we will say in some respectes God is is not to bee obeyed And of this reason of Saint Paule wee muste uote Firste the dignitie and honour of a publique person that his office and place is the ordinance and appointment of God And therefore the Magistrats be called Gods in the holy scripture Exod. 22. Psal 82. For no man can come to the office of a Magistrate but by the permission and sufferance of God Many times some persons come vnto the place of a ruler by false and preposserous meanes as those doe that for a priuate lucre or priuate hatred to other put vp them selues and pull downe those that God hath appointed But such vngodly comming to honour God suffereth and appointeth for the sinnes of the people such euill and dissembling hiporrites to raigne But let the King and Magistrate be as wicked as can be deuised thoght yet is his office and place the ordinance and appointment of God and therefore to be obeyed And as it is the