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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81718	A dozen of principall points fit for every honest Englishman's wearing.		1648 (1648)	Wing D2115; Thomason E431_28; ESTC R206122	3,491	8

A DOZEN OF PRINCIPALL POINTS fit for every honest Englishman's wearing I. GOD is the Originall fountaine of all power Therefore every just power derives from God Therefore no power is just that cannot derive from God II. Every just power is derived from God by just meanes Noe meanes is just or can Iustifie an ordinary continuing power but the Commission given by Gods will revealed in his Word Therefore every ordinary continued power that hath not such Commission is unjust III. Wee are not bound by Gods Law to obey the power of Man save onely when it is the power of God committed to his dispensation by the direct Ordinance of God and then it is said to be for Gods sake and for Conscience sake Whosoever demands or exacts obedience from man not having such a Commission is an Vsurper an Vnjust person the Childe of Rebellion Therefore neither ought any man without such commission to assume such a power upon the paines by St. Jude rehearsed neither is any man bound to obey such an usurped power but on the contrary wee are bound to detest at least not to converse with such For he that sayth but Good speed to such ungodly proceedings becomes partaker of their Sinne. Which well agrees with that of Solomon My Sonne feare God and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change for their destruction draweth nie c. IIII Wee can no way honor God so much as by obedience First to himselfe 2. To that power and person he hath set over us We can no way dishonor God more then by disobedience in both these Cases Therefore whosoever obeyes not the Lawfull Magistrate as being set ever us by God's Ordinances dishonors God and denies him one principall part of his honor and our dutie V As to deny God his due is sacraledge so to give God's due to man without his appointment is idolatry Whosoever gives obedience to man that God hath not authorized gives God's due to another and surely God is a iealous God and will not give his honor to any other nor will he hold him guiltless that dares do so without his Warrant Therefore he that usurps or assumes such an unwar ranted power is sacralegious and he that obeyes is his accessary and an Idolater VI The persons directly trusted by God with his power and therefore to whom only we doe directly owe obedience are these five the Husband the Father the Master the Preist and the King And though this last the King be sometimes called Judge Captain Prince Patriarch or the like yet they all signifie the same image of Gods power given by God to those persons by his direct Commission Some being effectuall only as Moses Giddeon Samuell c. others both formall and effectuall as Saul and David Ahaz and Hezekiah Manasseh and Josiah Nebuchadnezer Cyrus and Neroe c. There is no other continued power of what name or nature soever can be by direct commission derived from God's grant nor any such grant or commission shewed save what is subordinate and inferiour to these Therefore these and only these are the powers authorized by God's direct commission to which we ow and must pay an active or at least a passive obedience And the greatest obedience to the greatest power ever we are not bound to any or either sort of obedience to any other persons or power whatsoever but to abhorre and resist the same as the power of Sathan and Antichrist VII By vertue of the power given by God to the King the King ordains other inferiour powers who have their Commission from the King But as the King then forfeits his power to God that gave it and to none other when he renounces God and makes himselfe his enemy by flat Rebellion Soe also those powers made by the King then cease to have power and forfeit it to the King that gave it and to none other when they rebell against him and make use of the power given by the King in a flat opposition of the King Therefore no longer then they acknowledge the King's power to be just and superiour and their owne to be derived from him and so inferiour and therefore their obedience to be necessary and humble have they any more power or owe we any more obedience VIII Next under God and the King all Ecclesiasticall power is by Christ and his Apostles established by a perpetuall succession on the Lawfully called Priests or Ministers of the Gospell Noe humane power ought neither can oppose the divine institution or demollish what Christ and his Apostles have erected Therefore the Office it selfe of A Bishop A Doctor A Deacon c. is by direct Commission derived from Christ and his Apostles and so of divine right clearly and the forme and choise of the person is in the King as Gods Deputy and therefore at least of the best humane right that may be IX The heart of Man cannot be converted by any outward meanes but only by the preaching of the Gospell for the Priests lips doe or should doe both keepe and speak knowledge But how shall they preach if they be not sent Therefore all that are the true Preists or Ministers of God's Word are sent duly and visibly and he that is not visibly and duly sent is not the true Priest or Minister of God But as Nadab and Abihu presumptious or as Korah and his complices ambitious and A Rebell to the truth If hee preach another Doctrine though he seeme to be as an Angell of light let him bee accursed If he seeme to be in the right yet because hee came not in by the Dore viz. Christ and his commission ●●e is A Theife and shall surely come to nought and all that follow him since though hee may seeme to allow some truths at the present it is but to allure to greater errors afterwards as practising by the subtilty of Sathau that sets all such a ●ork to disturb the true Church X. In no age since the Creation hath it beene allowed to any people under the Sunne that did rightly know and were knowne of God to chuse their owne Governour or way of Government without first obtayning Gods visible consent For a people without any visible commission to do so is not only to rebell against the present establisht Government and lawfull Authority of their Soveraigne but to oppose God and usurp his power Therefore let noe people or Nation that pretends to feare or obey God once think of such a course least happily they be sound to fight against God that God set himselfe to fight against that Nation and so they perish inevitably eternally XI If a Nation might chuse their governour or way of government yet could they not be innocent in rejecting Gods way and taking that of his Enemies But Monarchy is indeed the forme by God invented and ordained And Aristocracie Democracie Anarchy c. was devised at best by Philosophers by heathens Gods Enemies Therefore to refuse Monarchy or the Government by one man as supream which now is and so many ages hath bin in this Kingdome established this being Gods way and to set up Anarchy or the like so newly thought of in this Nation by the Sons of Beliall so repugnant to the very fundamental Lawes of this Nation it being the Devills own way were prophane and damnable XII By all Lawes of God Nature or Nations and by the principles of all governments under Heaven especially of this Nation That which requires the whole power to set it up or establish it requires also the whole power to take it downe or revoake it and both to be done in love order and peace But the Regall the Episcopall the Peerall the ministeriall powers and functions and the Booke of Common-Prayer were set up and established by the whole power of this Nation in love order and peace and so far as his maine power hath to do with them could not have been otherwise established But this for it's pride and covetousnesse only unparalel'd pretended parliament the Kingdomes Masters as they think and this impudent Independent presumptious army I mean the greatest part persons thereof for as for many of the Common Souldiers I rather pity their unhappy ignorance and incline to pray that their eies may be opend to see the Kingdoms present their own suceeding misery the Parliaments Masters as all men may plainly see had no just beginning wants nay despises their Head the K. their Neck the Bishops their Shoulders the Nobility the greater and better part of their bowells the Gentry even of those that are more truly members of that now so much Idolized House of Commons and of the people their legges and feet that make up the rest of the Body Politique And were never yet and now refuses to be established by the whole power of the Nation in love Order or peace Nor will acknowledg any greater power but themselves nor any Creator of their power but that they have created one the other And are therefore doubtlesse such monsters as this Nation never knew nor heard of till this present age Therefore the Kings power as being supream least of all nor the Bishops nor the Nobilities as subordinate to the Kings nor that of those just Parliaments that have or shall know the way to preserve inviolate their duty to theit God their allegiance to their King and their Love to their Country cannot by any knowne Law of God or Man be taken away by such an unjust imperfect pretended part of power in malice disorder and Warre But on the contrary let the King and all that feare God and the King trust in God and in the Assurance of his never failing promise expect deliverance that these as Iannes and Iambres that with stood Moses shall proceed no further then God hath appointed that then their folly shall be made manifest to all men And let all faithfull English men say Amen FINIS