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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77844	The magistrates commission from heaven. Declared in a sermon preached in Laurencejury, London, the 28. day of Sept. 1644. at the election of the Lord Major. / By Anthony Burgesse, sometimes fellow of Immanuel Colledge in Cambridge; now pastour of Sutton Coldfield in Warwick shire, and a member of the Assembly. Imprimatur Thomas Gataker.	Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1644 (1644)	Wing B5650; Thomason E14_18a	18,261	25

but afterward when by experience he did see that the Gangreen did increase and that it would spoile the whole body and when he had experience that men who were by feare brought into their duties at first yet afterwards they began to know and love the truth he altered and changed his mind yet notwithstanding many things are warily to be said here I will but briefly touch them and so goe on to other matters As in the first place the most proper and sutable and genuine way to cure an Error is to bring Arguments out of the Scripture Fides est donum Dei non Caesaris sayes he well Faith it is not Caesars gift but it is Gods gift and so Fides est suadendo non imperando many such things are out of Lactantius to that purpose For certainely if humane perswasion cannot bring a man to beleeve Veritas as Tertullian sayes well docendo persuadet non suadendo docet Truth perswades a man by teaching it teaches not a man by perswading it is much more true then of Threatning and of outward violence But then afterwards if men still remaine refractory then the Magistrate hath a power to compell to the externall meanes of faith though the Magistrate cannot ad fidem cogere compell to beleeve and no man doth credere invitus beleeve against his will all this is true yet notwithstanding he may compell to the externall meanes of faith and of salvation as you see all the Magistrates in the Old Testament did and Parents may doe it and ought to doe it and then why should it be denied unto a Magistrate Againe in the next place there is a wary distinction to be made between Errors some that overthrow fundamentals whether directly or indirectly immediately or mediately and here a great deale more severity is to be used As Popery that overthrowes fundamentals directly or indirectly Arrians and Socinians that immediately oppose the deity of Jesus Christ and such things Also such that deny Magistracy and so overthrow politick societies So likewise Antinomians or Autonomians men that would overthrow the Law of God or be a law to themselves meerely without any bounds These opinions are plainly prejudiciall to piety or to civill societies therefore the Magistrate is to see that such fire doe not kindle and by degrees burne till all be consumed into ashes but yet still he is patiently to try all faire wayes of convincing before he proceedeth otherwise But then there are others that are of an inferiour nature and there Austins rule is good Saeviant illi qui nesciunt quantis gemitibus datur vel tantillum de Deo intelligere let them be sierce and cruell who know not with what sighes it is given even to understand but a little of the truth of God In Rom. 14. there you may see a tendernesse ought to be allowed to those that are weake and as the Physitian saith dies quies quandoque sanant hominem so it is true likewise of Errours that are of a lesse size many times ease and time they will heale the man howsoever the Magistrate is here to be wary for nihil est periculosius immaturâ medicinâ nothing is more dangerous then an unripe or an unseasonable medicine But this requireth a large Tractate In the third place Their power extendeth to all the outward morall duties of the second Table and here properly the power of the Magistracy is to be seene to set themselves against all wickednesse to be zealous against vice to see that the Law of God in all the Commandements of it be kept remota justitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia said Austin let Justice be taken out of the way and then what are Kingdomes but great piracies and robberies and therefore he ought to be zealous against vice and to set against all impiety if thou doest evill be afraid Beloved how happy is it when the drunkard is afraid and the swearer afraid and when the ungodly man is afraid of a Magistrate this is the end for which God hath given him his power if thou dost ill sayes he be afraid so then his power extendeth to the keeping up all the duties of the Law of God Now in the next place I must give you a limitation of this that though the power of the Magistrate extendeth to all these things yet for all that there is a bounding of his power therefore it is distinct from the Ministers power it is distinct I say from Ecclesiasticall power Whose sins ye remit are remitted these things are not said to a Governour nor to a Magistrate And so to preach the word of God by way of office And to administer the Sacrament They are a distinct power they are not to be confounded though they mutually helpe one another if we have a Ministery but not a Magistracy we may live piè godly but not commodè quietly and if we have a Magistracy and not a Ministery we may live commodè quietly but not piè godly they mutually helpe one another And yet for all that they are distinct they are not to invade one another but they are to remaine different in their bounds Besides they are bounded in regard of their power because they may not doe any thing against God he is but the Minister of God and therefore is to take heed what God will have done in his way and worship least of a Minister of God he be made an adversary to God Hence people are not to obey a Magistrate nor a Governour when he commands against the word of God Colimus Imperatorem said Tertullian quemadmodum Deo libet ipse expedit we honour the Emperour as it s commanded by God and as it is expedient for him This was their resolution in the Acts whether it be fitter to obey God or man judge ye da veniam ô Imperator tu carceres ille gehennam minatur pardon O Emperour thou threatnest prisons but God threatens Hell So that we are not to obey him against the word of God He is but a Minister and being but a Minister he is bounded still that he may not prescribe any thing in the worship of God nor in the Law of God that God hath not laid downe We reade in Leviticall ordinances that alwayes the head of a Sacrifice was to be throwne away though this beast were to be offered and that yet still the head was to be throwne away to teach say some Expositors that a mans head in the worship of God it is to be laid aside he is not to goe according to his own inventions but he is to keepe meerely to the command of God And thus have I done with the first part of the Doctrine In the next place I come to show you the Qualifications of the person that is to governe and so shall make Application I intend to be short because of your great and waighty businesse And therefore in the First place the first Qualification that is