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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80609	A treatise of subiection to the powers. Preached almost a yeer since, and now copied out for the presse; yet not to flatter any, but to inform all. : To the powers I say as Jehosaphat did, 2 Chron. 9.6 ... : To others I say in the words of the apostle, I Pet. 2.13 ... / By Tho. Carre.	Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674.	1651 (1651)	Wing C640A; ESTC R173401	35,985	61

A TREATISE OF SUBIECTION TO THE POVVERS Preached almost a yeer since and now copied out for the Presse yet not to flatter any but to inform all To the Powers I say as Jehosaphat did 2 CHRON. ●9 6. Take heed what yee doe for ye judge not for men but for the Lord who is also with you in the judgment To others I say in the words of the Apostle 1 PET. 2. 13. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to King as to Supream or to Governours as unto them that are sent of him for the punishment of them that doe evill and for the praise of them that doe well Homo sum non possum non errare Haereticus esse nolo quia sum Christianus By THO. CARRE London Printed for Andrew Kembe and are to be sold at his shop on Margarets Hill in Southwark 1651. To the Honor ble Committee for Plundered Ministers Happiness both here and for ever HONORABLE GENTLEMEN YEE are in place of high Trust under the Supream power of this Common-wealth whom God hath y 1. Advanced to highest dignit 2. And made prosperous even to wonder and admiration Never was this Common-wealth more populous Never were 1. Armies more potent 2. Souldiers more resolute 3. Successes more if I may use the word Fortunate The Heavens have been Auspicious The Celestiall Influences Propicious And God himself obvious to the eyes of all that can see In Miracles in Mercies in Victories Eternall fame attendeth the Assertors of our Liberties here Immortall glory in Heaven But my Intentions aime in particular at you Noble Trustees For yee are the Fathers of the Clergy to protect or to punish to Settle or Sequester according to merit and desert And I having from the first hitherto endeavoured to advance the Justice of the Cause so far as my weak abilities could attain To which end I both preached it up in the Countrey and penned an Apology which had the allowance of an Imprimatur by M. Iohn White 1643. But it miscarrying how I know not I made it as common as I could with my pen witnesse two Copies wherewith I presented the Honorable Committee at Bury besides others which I gave to some Commanders and other friends in the countrey And now the last September I preached the substance of this wherewith I now present your Honors in my Cure at Mickfield in Suff. But how it took I may in part judg I therefore now flie to you as to my City of Refuge humbly craving safeguard under the wings of your Benignity hoping of better acceptance from the Presse then from the Pulpit at that time This subject I know well is not pleasing unto all it hath I know not whether more enemies or friends Men love Liberty Restraint is tedious to the most Every one would rule few are willing to be ruled unlesse it be under such a person or in such a way as they do best affect But I look 1. Upon Government in generall as upon a speciall gift of God 2. Upon the present Government as upon a Notable and Singular Dispensation of over-ruling Providence And as Ioshua said to the people Choose you whom Jos 24. 14. yee will serve as for mee and my house we will serve the Lord. So say I Let others doe what they please I for my part will honor the present power with all realty and faithfulnesse and I will submit thereto both for his sake that hath set it up and for conscience of my duty The nature of this Discourse considered I durst not adventure it abroad but under favour and Protection of Authority And I hope your Honors will 1. Both allow the matter 2. And Protect the Author who layeth himself low at your feet humbly craving acceptance and if worthy countenance against all Anti-Parlimentarian Criticks Carpers and Deriders And so resteth he that is and will be A Servant of Servants to the Power and a faithfull Observant of your high authority under that power of this Common-wealth Tho. Carre From my Study July 31. 1650. To all my Loving Country-men the free Commoners of the Common-wealth of England Grace and Peace Men Brethren and Fathers My Respects answerable to your severall Places premised Know ye that I doe herein indeavour to hold forth 1. The much Questioned 2. But unquestionable Truth of Subjection to the Powers For men are miserably distracted at this time by reason of the overtures in Government They halt between the two opinions of Monarchy and Commonalty And as it was in times past the people were divided into two parts the one half followed Tibni the son of Ginah to make him King the other halfe 1 King 16. 21. followed Omri and which prevailed yee may there see So now a great part is for one kind of Government and a great for another I for my part look upon the present Power and I verily think I ought so to doe for Providence is predominant in this as well as in all other occurrencies For Promotion cometh neither from the East nor from the West nor from the South it is neither by Casualties nor from Constellations but it is God that putteth down one Psal 75. 7. and setteth up another And Daniel telleth King Nebuchadnezzar That the most High ruleth in the Kingdome Dan. 4. 17. of men and giveth it to whomsoever hee will and setteth over it the basest of the People And what God setteth up who can pull it down Beloved Countrey men I would the world should know 1. That as I would bee loth to shew my self a Claw-back Time server 2. So I would not willingly bee thought to bee a rigid Time-opposer But a most humble waiter upon God in the dispensations of his most wise and just providence And this I do solemly professe that I would sooner have 1. My Brains beaten out with Bats 2. My Tongue plucked out by the Roots 3. My hand chopt off with a Sword Then I would 1. Strain my Wit to invent 2. Give my tongue liberty to speak 3. Or publish ought with my Pen Whereby a lawfull right or interest might suffer the least prejudice I meddle not therefore with the much spoken of Right whether by Succession as men are pleased to call it or otherwise I leave that to Statists I meddle only with the Visibility of the Power And 1. Where or in whose hands it is we all see 2. From whom it is we cannot but know 3. What is our duty I do endeavour to shew Leaving the rest to your considerations Brethren I will not use many words for a word is enough to the wise and they that are otherwise will hear no reason Yet let me speak freely to you in the words of the Apostle Rom. 9. 1. I speak the truth in Christ Iesus I lie not my conscience also bearing me witnesse in the Holy Ghost I have written nothing in all this Discourse of Subjection but what is if I

be not grossely mistaken according to the truth of Gods Word Si quid rectius nosti Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum But if any shall cavill and contest I say again with the same Apostle Am I therefore become your enemy because Gal. 4. 15. I tell you the truth And so between hope and fear resteth he that is and will be Your Servant in and for Christ and for the Publike peace Tho. Carre From my Study this 1 of Aug. 1650. A TREATISE OF SUBIECTION TO THE POVVERS ROM 13. 1 2. Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers for there is no Power but of God the Powers that be are ordained of God Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation THis whole Epistle consists of two parts 1. The former part containeth matter of Doctrin viz. of Predestination Justification Calling Sanctification and Salvation These are discoursed in the eleven first Chapters 2. The other containeth exhortation by way of use and application in the Chapters following to the end of the Epistle And this was Pauls method in all his other Epistles for every where hee harpeth on these two strings 1. Doctrins of holy faith 2. And exhortations to a godly life And that which was Pauls method in all his writings is the fittest method for a Minister in his preaching namely to join Doctrine and Exhortations as inseparable companions That so 1. By sound Doctrin the judgment may be setled in the truths of God 2. And by powerfull application the conscience may bee pressed the manners reformed and the conversation ordered in the ways of godlinesse And that Sermon which wants one of these may be said truly to be maimed and defective It was the commendation which Lactantius gives of Cyprian that he was plain in his Doctrin powerfull in his Exhortation And it is required of a Minister not only to feed but to doe it wisely and faithfully considering Time Place and the state and condition of the people Hereupon Paul speaketh of milk for babes and stronger meat for grounded christians (a) 1 Cor. 3. 2. Heb. 5. 12. as if he should say principles for the one deeper points for the other Yet in both he must respect 1. Both Science that he may divide the word of truth aright (b) 2 Tim. 2. 15. 2. And Conscience that he may divide the word of truth aright (b) 2 Tim. 2. 15. And as he hath a Mission so he must look into his Commission and that with diligence and conscience That he may take the mind of God aright and deliver the same faithfully to the people Hereupon it is that Paul giveth Timothy in charge To hold faith and a good conscience (c) 1 Tim. 1. 19. and to attend to Reading to Exhortation and to Doctrin (d) 1 Tim. 4. 13. and he warneth Titus to exhort rebuke with all authority (e) Tit. 2. 15. And this teacheth those that are hearers that they must be content nay they must be desirous to hear both And not to be 1. All for Doctrin as the Athenians were for news (f) Acts 17. 21. 2. Nor all for use and application as the injudicious vulgar are who would have particular sins inveighed against and damnation preached from every text I confesse it is fit that sin should have a blow upon all occasions and that damnation should be preached yet with respect unto the Text for he may justly be charged with rashnesse that wrongeth his friend to harm his enemy So he that inveigheth a against sin more then is occasioned from his text Application must be grounded upon Doctrin even as a house cannot hang in the air it must be setled on a sure foundation even so that application which wanteth Doctrine to support it is not much better then an impertinent discourse This for the generall of the whole Epistle Now the Apostle having spent the eleven first chapters in Doctrine as I said before Now he proceedeth in the rest of the chapters to presse his Doctrins home by several Exhortations For 1. In the twelfth chapter hee laies down three severall Exhortations as first To the sincere service of God in the two first verses Then to a sober use of spiritual gifts unto the 9 th verse Lastly to certain offices of charity to the end of that chapter 2. In the thirteenth chapter hee speaketh principally of those duties which concern us toward civill Magistrates And withall he commendeth love unto Christians and dehorteth them from some grosse sins unbeseeming their profession 3. In the fourteenth chapter he sheweth the use of indifferent things about which there was a very hot contention between the beleeving Gentiles and the converted Jews and sheweth how the strong should bear with the weak and both the strong and weak should behave themselves one to another 4. In the fifteenth chapter he finisheth his former Exhortations to the strong how they are to bear with the weak and to that purpose he presseth the example of Christ 5. In the sixteenth chapter he concludeth his Epistle with familiar salutations Q. Only the Question may be made Why the Apostle did so earnestly presse subjection to Civill Magistrates R. I answer that it was to acquit the Christians of that imputation that was cast upon them and upon their profession and for which they were persecuted by the Heathens They were defamed to bee enemies to the policy of Common-wealths and to Civill Magistracy But Paul acquitteth them and their Religion from that imputation by pressing Subjection upon Christians Obj. But it will be said that the Magistrates then were Infidells For the Roman Emperors and their subordinate officers did Lord it over the Christians at that time R. True yet subjection was due to them because they were in place of Civill superiority Though they were lawlesse persons in themselves yet were they lawfull Magistrates in their times They were under God they were his Vice-gerents though themselves were wicked And for this cause it is that the Apostles did presse subjection upon the Christians at that time when they were under the Civill power of Heathen Magistrates 1. Paul not only in this text but in other places doth press it For writing to Timothy hee saith I exhort that first of all Supplications Prayers and Intercessions and giving of thanks be made for all men for Kings all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and a peaceable life in all godliness honesty (g) 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. and he biddeth Titus to put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers and to obey Magistrates (h) Tit. 3. 1. 2. Again Peter saith Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to King as to Supream or to Governors as to them that are sent by him for the punishment of evill doers and for the praise