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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

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

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