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A85407	Peace protected, and discontent dis-armed. Wherein the seventeen queries (with the addition of three more, postscript-wise) lately published, partly to allay the discontents of some about the late revolution of government, but more especially to guide every mans feet into the way of peace, as well his own, as the publique, are reinforced with replies unto, and animadversions upon, such answers, which some (it seems) have given unto them, to invalidate their purport and intent. Together with four new queries superadded. By the author of the said seventeen queries.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.; Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1188; Thomason E732_27; ESTC R202310	55,941	80

the hands of wicked men at least not in wickednesse Yet to speak the truth my arch-design as well in this as in all the rest of the Queries was not to strengthen the hand of any magistrate good or bad but to strengthen the hand of the great body of the people in the land to that subjection under the present Government which upon good grounds and next to u●questionable I know w●ll be if universally exhibited at least their civill happinesse and peace 5. And lastly Whereas I am charged to make their heart sad whom God hath not sadded my plea is that certeinly God is willing that their heart should be made sad who will be sadded with the truth yea in as much as he is the Author not onely of the truth but of all seasonable speakings of the truth he may very properly and truly be said to make the heart sad of all such who a●e sadded by such speakings of the truth The heart of the Corinthians was made sorry or sad by that Epistle which Paul wrote unto them concerning their incestuous member butought Paul in this case to be challenged that he made the heart of those sad whom God had not sadded If either the Answerer or any other in his behalf can fairly shew and prove that any thing asserted or necessarily supposed in any of the Queries is either contrary to the Truth or unseasonably delivered the Author is well content that all that shall die by the hand of the Demonstration neither shall he make lamentation over it but rather over his own ignorance or inconsideratenesse in delivering it Four New QUERJES super-added to the former I. WHether are not the just rights liberties and Interest of the people better and more clearly asserted and secured unto them by the present Government and by the published articles and constitutions hereof then ever they were formerly Or is not the truth hereof in all the materiall points or parts of Government as in the choice of their supreme or legislative Authority I mean their Parliaments from time to time the absolutenesse of this Authority being disincumbered and freed from the obstructions super-intendencie of a negative voice in another in the choice of the members of the council of State for the future and after the conveening of the next Parliament and so again in the Militia with some other particulars is not this truth I say that the liberties and interest of the people are in all these particulars with as much care wisdome and saithfulnesse of contrivance as readily can be imagined provided for by the constitutions of the present Government demonstrated above all reasonable contradiction in a discourse lately published under the title of A true state of the case of the Commonwealth II. Whether was there or is there any other way course or means so promising in the eye of humane probability and discourse whereby the Army and the Principal members thereof who stood and still stand most signally and solemnly engaged by many promises and publique declarations to contribute their utmost endeavours to settle the Nation in righteousnesse freedome and peace might or yet may performe their ingagements in this kind to the best advantage as by reducing the Nation and Common-wealth thereof to that form or kind of Government unto which by the good hand of divine Providence it is now reduced considering how un-successfull in respect of any competent satisfaction given to the Nation our late Parliaments have been Or in case the late Government by Parliaments onely continuing the tranquillity peace and safety of the Nation or the liberties of the people of God in it should have miscarried or deeply suffered thereby could the Army or the said Principal members of it have given any tolerable account either to God or men of their oscitancy neglect or sitting still considering 1. Under how many sacred ingagements they were to do their uttermost for the prevention of these evils and 2. That God had now entrusted them with an opportunity of great hope for their prevention as viz. directing them to some such change of the Government as that which is now in being Or in case it should be supposed that it is not the sence or judgement of other men that the Government now erected is any whit more promising of such a prevention then that by Parliaments onely however our late Parliaments have not prospered in the work is it reasonable or meet to desire that the Army and the chief heads thereof who were contrary-minded should walk by the light of other men in opposition to their own III. Whether is it the kind or form of the present Government or any excesse or extent of power or revenue state-splendor or the like conferred upon one man at which the dis-satisfied or the greater part of them find themselves so much aggrieved and discontented as the Person in whom the supreme place or office in this Government is vested Or would they not have been very well apaid and satisfied had there been some man according to their own hearts and of whom they might have had hopes that he would haue fulfilled all their pleasure invested with all that dignity power and all other State accommodations which are now cast upon him who hath the preheminence in the present Government yea though the terms and constitutions of the Government had been the same which now they are IIII. Whether was there the same reason to plead subjection to the power of the late King especially when the Parliament had declared themselves in opposition to him which there is now to plead subjection to the present power Considering 1. That the soveraignty or supremacy of power was never regularly or according to the law of nature vested in the person of the King but in the people whose lawfull agents and trustees the Parliament were 2. That the people to whom the supremacie of Authority and power as hath been said regularly appertaineth having in Parliament questioned their cheif Steward or Servant the King for male-administration of his trust and power and declared themselves in Arms against him he the said King was not in a plenary or peaceable possession of that power which had been committed unto or vested in him whereas the power vested at present in him who is the head or Cheif in the Government that now is is fully peaceably quietly and without any forceible contest or opposition possest by him Or in case it be or were lawfull when and whilest two adverse powers are st●iving for mastery in a Nation to comport with and strengthen the hand of that against the other the prevailing of which he truly judgeth to be most expedient for the publique doth it follow from hence that therefore it is lawfull to deny subjection unto such a power which God so farre countenanceth and blesseth as not to suffer any competritresse to rise up with any strength considerrble against it Or had it been regular and justifiable for the power

meet for him to have answered Nay but I will serve thee faithfully beneath in the valley Or is it not a grand detriment or loss unto the world when Princes as Solomon speaketh walk as servants on the Earth i. e. when men of noble Principles of publique Spirits whose hearts and souls are in travel with the wealth peace and prosperity of the world round about them who are shap'd and form'd as it were on purpose by God himself for Rule and Government shall want a stage whereon to act like Princes or be perswaded to enjoy themselves in privacy and retirement Or in case the Sun should be over-ruled to change place with the Moon should not the world have cause in abundance to lament the change Or had his tabernacle been pitch'd in any inferior Orb beneath that wherein it is now placed by God could the Earth have rejoyced in his light at that rate which now it doth Or had He been in any capacity to inrich the inhabitants thereof with his treasures as they are now inriched by him Or if a candle should creep under a bushel when there is a candlestick provided and set on the table for it should not they in the house have much more reason to be offended at it then well pleased Or is it not a secret guilt or consciousness in the generality of men of their own narrowchestedness and self-ward propensions which make them jealous that other men are and will be found in the same condemnation with them and that no man coming where he may without much danger serve himself will be much intent upon the service of other men further then his own secular interest shall super-intend and advise him This Query being the last is supposedly slain by the sharp sword of this Answer The flattery of the present power doth not become the Author who hath oft times approved himselfe not to be the servant of men But oh who hath now bewitched him to appear in this kind to strengthen the hands of the wicked and to make their heart sad whom God hath not sadded This Answer like the head of a polipus hath a mixture of good and bad in it The first words of it contein a worthy and Christian admonition viz. that the flattery of the present power doth not become the Author onely the application of it is reflexive if not aspersive without cause The next words that this Author hath oft times approved himself not to be the servant of men contain a friendly and Christian testimony But the words remaining are gall and vinegar given unto me and my betters to drink But oh who hath bewitched him c. But might not I had I pleasure in such hard sayings upon much more equitable grounds admiringly complain and demand But oh who hath bewitched the Answerer to appear in this kind to weaken the hands of the righteous and to make their heart sad whom God hath not sadded More particularly 1. To the implyed charge of flattering the present power it is a burthen laid upon my sound shoulder in which respect it little pincheth or paineth me Where the skin is whole vinegar poured on smarteth not The truth is that I am both naturally and supernaturally so farre indispoto flatter any inch of the greatnesse of this world that I am still put to my supernaturals to afford unto great men so much as common and meet respects and civilities Luther professed that for twenty years together he never felt the least motion in his heart towards covetousnesse I may as in the presence of God Angels and men professe and say since I first knew what the world and the greatnesse of it meant I never found my heart tempting me so much as to such a compliance with any great Person whatsoever which yet is warrantable enough and which I am farre from either reproveing or disliking in another Yea I have been inclined and am not yet much altered in my inclination to look upon the Generality of great men rather as faeces mundi the dreggs and retriment of the world and the reproach of mankind then as worthy the applications of sober men unto them And they who have best known me from my youth up untill now will I presume very freely give this testimony of me that what other weaknesse or undue cariages soever they have ob served in me they never found me adulterously inclinedto familiarities or correspondings with great men much lesse to any adulatory comportments with them This notwithstanding I must confesse that when I have met with any thing of the divine nature any thing worthy a Christian indeed in a great man I have occasionally and according to the best of my understanding to avoid offence endeavoured to nourish strengthen and increase it and possibly in doing this I have made the most of it and probably more then some others judg the true value or extent of it to be Nor do I think that the Apostle Paul himself was very farre from such a strein as this when he addressed himself thus to Agrippa King Agrippa beleevest thou the Prophets I KNOVV THAT THOU BELEEVEST 2. Although it be most true that flattery of the present power doth not become the Author yet the representing of the present power unto others and especially unto those who ought to live in subjection to it in the true shape of it and with those desireable and commendable things in it which are proper and likely to render this subjection the more niturall willing and free is nothing but what well become both the Author of the Queries and the Answerer also And what the present Query doth more then this the Answerer may with a much better judgement and conscience number amongst things which are no● then terme it flattery Therefore 3. The Answerer had very little cause to demand with an oh who hath be witched me I am able to give a reasonable and sober account unto any man of what I have either done or said in the Query This account I have given already in part and am ready to account further when required Therefore if I was bewitched when I conceived and drew up the Query it was not Sathan or the greatnesse of this world but God or the Spirit of sobernesse and truth who bewitched me 4. The Person whose hand as I suppose I am charged to strengthen deserves both from the Answerer and from the whole houshold of faith in the land a farre better stile then that of Wicked But the common saying is Regium est malè audire cum bene f●ceris It is Prince-like to be evill spoken of when a man hath done well Or if the term wicked be specificall not personal so that the meaning of the charge be that I strengthen the hands ●f the wicked partie of men in the land my defence is that the strengthening of the hands of a good Migistrate to execute judgem●nt and justice in his place is not to strengthen

as well as I can without them It may be it is a Maxim of Policy amongst States-men to make use of their countenances and opportunities of preferment as ordinary men make use of their money who do not bestow or lay it out upon what they have already but upon what they want and desire to have and withall have reason to beleeve that they are not like to have without it Men of ordinary discretion cannot be offended that rattles and babies should be given unto froward children to content and keep them quiet and it is the sence of more then one though I am neu●ral in the conjecture that the discontent and frowardness of the Paul figuratively so called in the Answer to the second Query might have been way-layed and prevented by a rattle when time was put into his hand They are or may be good horses and good mules whose mouths may be though they must be held with bit and bridle lest they come near thee viz. with their mouths to bite and mischief thee as Janius and Tremellius gloss the place Psal. 32. 9. And they possibly may be none of the worst men for the use and service of a State whose mouths must be held with golden bits and bridles from falling foul upon them My great design in giving unto Cesar that uttermost of what I know to be Cesars is that hereby I may purchase {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} so much the better and freer standing the more equitable liberty to deny unto Cesar or take from him that which I know is not his when ever he assumes it I have heard it from the mouth of a Souldier in our late Wars as a Maxim in Martial Discipline Pay well and hang well And Job stopt the mouth of his discontented wife with this demand What shall we receive good at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil Yea God himself by allowing the marriage bed as honourable invests himself with so much the greater equitableness of power to judg whoremongers and adulterers with severity Heb. 13. 4. And if Cesar who ever he be careth not to be served upon such an account as that specified he must wait for his relief until I be dead For I am resolved to serve him and yet not to serve him upon any other terms whilest I live But Reader I have prefaced above the proportion of the discourse I have nothing further to inform but that a Friend of mine presenting me with the sight of some brief Answers sent unto him unto my Queries lately published I conceived it might be of some concernment to further satisfaction briefly to vindicate the truth of what is constructively asserted for there is little or nothing asserted formally in them against the allegations suggested in the said Answers which I think are as material though brief at least some of them as can readily be made and withall to add three or four Queries more upon a new account Is it not good if peace and truth be in thy days and mine who am Thy Friend heart and Soul in the Truth JOHN GOODWIN From my Study in Colemanstreet London March 6. 1653. PEACE PROTECTED AND Discontent Dis-armed Query I. WHether doth not the Apostle expresly affirm Rom. 13. 1. That the Powers that be i. whatsoever they be and however in respect of second means compassed attained or procured by men who stand possessed of them are ordained by God i. orderly regularly wisely righteously in respect of his providential interposure about the vestment of them disposed of and lodged in the persons whosoever they be who are the present Ministers or Administrators of them Or were not the highest Powers in the world when the Apostle spake this viz. That the Powers that be are {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} ordained of God vested in Nero not only a Monster of men as he is commonly termed in respect of his bloody cruelty unnaturall lusts c. but likewise advanced to the Empire neither by the orderly way of the suffrage or election of the people nor yet by the less disorderly way of the choyce of the Roman Senate but partly by the wickedness of his mother Agrippina who caused her husband Claudius to dis-inherit his own son Britannicus to make way for the Adoption of her son this Nero partly by the over-ruling interposure of the Cohorts and rest of the Souldiery The Senate saith the Story as men affrighted with amazement not once contradicting the same To this Query some answer That the Powers that be are indeed ordered by God even when these Powers do give their power and strength to the Beast and make War with the Lamb Yet have they been and ought to be in their so doing witnessed against by those that are called and chosen and faithful Rev. 17. 12 13. But this Answer 1. Reacheth not the intent or purport of the Query For this querieth not about the unlawful or sinful exercise of any authoritative Power of which only the Answer speaketh or whether this may not yea and ought not to be witnessed against by those who are called unto it but of the Power it self vested in the supreme Magistrate considered simply as Power and as disposed unto him by God This Power ought not to be resisted or witnessed against by any person whatsoever nor can it be either resisted or witnessed against but by resisting and witnessing against the Ordinance of God The Kings of the Earth who give their power to the Beast are not to be witnessed against for being Kings nor for their accepting of Kingly Power supposing it duly cast upon them but only for the male-administration of this power Yea the power of the Beast himself whoever or whatsoever be meant by the Beast whereby he now maketh War against the Lamb but might if he pleased employ and use for the Lamb is not to be witnessed against by any man as being the Ordinance of God but only the enormous and most desperate abuse of this Power in fighting against the Lamb which is the Ordinance of the Devil And when the Beast by being witnessed against in the wicked exercise of his Power comes through the just Judgment of God in putting it into the hearts of his servants to make War against him to be despoyled and deprived of his Power his Power properly is not resisted by these men but only the horrid abuse of this Power which abuse the Justice of God judgeth meet to punish and to prevent for the future by the utter subversion and ruine of it And the reason which the Apostle gives why Christ shall put down all Rule and all Authority and Power before his delivering up the Kingdom to God the Father is because he must reign till he hath put all his enemies under his feet 1 Cor. 15. 24. 25. which plainly shews that Christ hath no quarrel no controversie with or against any Power as such but only as bent and

To this Query this Answer tripartite is given 1. It were better to try the spirits then by Querying of what spirit some are of to gratifie the carnal world who is alwaies ready to reject that Spirit which is of God 2. To reprove the sins of Government is not to despise Government but to remove from it that which makes it desspiseable 3. The wisdome from above is first pure then peaceable To the first member of this Answer 1. That the main designe of the Queries both divisim and conjunctim is to try spirits and to discover who are the persons that in their deportments about the present Government and Governours are acted and led by the spirit of God and who by their own spirits or by the spirit of the World Therefore if the trying of spirits be so commendable a work the Answerer hath no cause ●o blame the Queries at least in respect of their projection or end If they have not quitted themselves in their undertaking with that dexterity or regularnesse of proceeding which was to be desired nor done their work to satisfaction there is this to be said for them that their will was good onely how to perform it they found not 2. I doe not at any hand understand how the Querying of what spirit some men are of should be any matter of gratification to the carnal world It is a greater and more dangerous gratification of them either so to speak or so to doe that they may be incouraged or perswaded that such persons who are of their spirit are of the Spirit which is of God 3. Nor is it alwayes or universally true that the carnal World is ready to reject that Spirit which is of God if by carnall world be meant all persons at present un-regenerate For how then should the world in any part of it become regenerate Doubtlesse no man becomes regenerate by rejecting the Spirit of God nor by a readinesse to reject it no nor whilest either of these are found in them But this is little to the businesse before us The second member of the Answer in directnesse of termes contains nothing but a most true and worthy sentence onely a little explication would strengthen the claim of it to this honour To reprove the sins of Government with a Christian gravitie and with a discovery of an honourable esteeme of that Government it self the sins of which we reprove is not to despise the Government but it is a matter of easie miscarriage to reprove the sins of Government after such a manner as herein to betray our selves that we are despisers of Government yea and to incourage those that hear us to despise it also 2. It is one thing to reprove the sins of Government another to asperse it with the imputations and charge of such sinnes of which it is not guilty and then to fall heavy and foul upon it for such sins of which either the strength of our disaffections only or the weaknesse of our understandings or both have made it guilty The words of the third and last member of the Answer are of too great an inspiration to be questioned But 1. it is no impurity not to reproach revile or curse the ruler of a mans people 2. From the expresse tenour of the words that wisdom which is not peaceable whatever it may pretend to purity is evicted not to be from above But saith the Apostle Iames if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts glory not and lie not against the Truth by saying or thinking you are men truly wise when as you are nothing lesse This wisdom descendeth not from above but is earthly c. XIV Whether did not Satan the great Enemy of the peace and safety of mankind desire to sift the Apostles rather then any other sort of men i. e. to disturb and trouble their fancies memories understandings c. for a time with an intent and hope by this means to draw out of them some soyl or dross some unworthy carriages or other which coming from them he knew must needs be more serviceable for his ends then the same or the like coming from other men Or doth he not in these days labour in the very fire to disturb the principles distemper the imaginatives disorder and confound the reasons apprehensions and understandings of such men whose disordered actings and miscarriages he supposeth will be of highest conducement to his ends which are known to be the trouble misery and destruction of the poor creature called Man Or are not such men the men of this character whose zeal hath so highly commended them to the opinions and thoughts of many devout and well-meaning men and women that they judg their thresholds to be much nearer the threshold of God himself then other mens Against this Query this Answer magnifies it self We find none of the Apostles that Sathan had this advantage against but Peter who was so confident of his own abilities that he thought none so able to stand as he And they are nearest unto Sathans sieve who count themselves the masters of wisdome and rationality in their generation And as Sathan had the greatest advantage upon men of that temper so when God stirrs up instruments to bear forth any testimony of his in their generation he cl●useth the weak and the foolish things of this world Not that they are foolish for there is no wisdom like to that which is from above But so they are called because so esteemed by the world in which they live and with which they contend to the losse of their honours names estates and therefore are counted fooles But notwithstanding they are known to be of God by those poor souls that walk in the light of the same spirit of God which they walk in To these things 1. The Scripture will not allow it for truth that Sathan had not the advantage of sifting against ANY OF the Apostles but Peter onely For presently upon the apprehending of Christ by the multitude that were sent from the cheif Priests and elders with swords and staves against him it is expresly said that all the Disciples as well as Peter forsook him and fled Mat. 26. 56. This was an effectual sifting Yea Peter it seemes in case it be supposed that he fled also immediately repented of his flying and shewed more courage at least for a time then any of his fellows But 2 If Peter was therefore more obnoxious to Sathans sifting then the rest of the Apostles because he was so confident of his abilities that he thought none so able to stand as he this is fully concurrent with the design of the Query For I verily beleeve that there are no men more confident of their abilities or that think they are more able to stand then the Persons looked upon by the Query and admired by the Answer 3. If they who count themselves the masters of wisdom in their generation be the men that are