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truth_n	know_v	spirit_n	worship_v	6,337	5	9.5072	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32784	The true subiect to the rebell, or, The hurt of sedition, how greivous it is to a common-wealth written by Sir Iohn Cheeke ... ; whereunto is newly added by way of preface a briefe discourse of those times, as they may relate to the present, with the authors life.	Cheke, John, Sir, 1514-1557.; Langbaine, Gerard, 1609-1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing C3778; ESTC R18562	48,490	89

beholding their beastlinesse they might avoid the like vice even so hath God like a mercifull father staid us from your wickednesse that by beholding the filth of your fault wee might justly for offence abhorre you like Rebels whom else by nature we love like Englishmen And so for our selues wee have great cause to thank God by whose religion and holy word daily taught us we learne not only to feare him truly but also to obey our King faithfully and to serve in our own vocation like subjects honestly And as for you we have surely just cause to lament you as brethren and yet juster cause to rise against you as enimies most just cause to overthrowe you as Rebels For what hurt could bee done either to us privatly or to the whole commonwealth generally that is now with mischiefe so brought in by you that even as we see now the flame of your rage so shall we necessarily be consumed hereafter with the misery of the same Wherefore consider your selves with some light of understanding and marke this grievous horrible fault which yee have thus vildly committed how hay nous it must needs appeare to you if yee will reasonably consider that which for my duties sake and my whole Countries cause I will at this present declare unto you Yee which be bound by Gods word not to obey for feare like men pleasers but for conscience sake like Christians have contrary to Gods holy will whose offence is everlasting death and contrary to the godly order of quietnesse set out to us in the Kings Majesties laws the breach whereof is not unknown to you taken in hand uncalled of God unsent by men unfit by reason to cast away your bounden duties of obedience and to put on you against the Magistrates Gods office committed to the Magistrates for the reformation of your pretensed injuries In the which doing yee have first faulted grievously against God next offended unnaturally our Soveraigne Lord thirdly troubled miserably the whole common-wealth undone cruelly many an honest man and brought in an utter misery both to us the Kings subjects and to your selves being false Rebells and yet yee pretend that partly for Gods cause and partly for the commonwealths sake yee doe rise when as your selves cannot denie but yee that seeke in word Gods cause doe break indeed Gods commandement and yee that seek the commonwealth have destroyed the commonwealth and so yee marre that yee would make and break that yee would amend because yee nether seek any thing rightly nor would amend any thing orderly He that faulteth faulteth against Gods ordinance who hath forbidden all faults and therefore ought againe to be punished by Gods ordinance who is the reformer of faults For he saith leave the punishment to me and I will revenge them But the Magistrate is the ordinance of God appointed by him with the sword of punishment to looke straitly to all evill doers And therefore that that is done by the Magistrate is done by the ordinance of God whō the Scripture oftentimes doth call God because he hath the execution of Gods office How then doe you take in hand to reforme Be yee Kings By what authority or by what succession Be yee the Kings officers By what commission Be yee called of God By what tokens declare yee that Gods word teacheth us that no man should take in hand any office but he that is called of God like Aaron What Moses I pray you called you What Gods minister bade you rise Yee rise for religion What religion taught you that If yee were offered persecution for religion yee ought to flie so Christ teacheth you and yet you intend to fight If yee would stand in the truth yee ought to suffer like Martyrs you would slay like Tyrants Thus for religion yee keep no religion and neither will follow the counsell of Christ nor the constancy of Martyrs Why rise yee for religion Have yee any thing contrary to Gods book Yea have yee not all things agreable to Gods word But the new is different from the old and therefore yee will have the old If yee measure the old by truth yee have the oldest if yee measure the old by fancie then it is hard because mens fancies change to give that is old Yee will have the old still Will yee have any older then that which Christ left his Apostles taught and the first Church after Christ did use Yee will have that the Canons doe establish Why that is a great deale younger then that yee have of later time and newlier invented Yet that is it that yee desire Why then yee desire not the oldest And doe you preferre the Bishops of Rome afore Christ mens inventiō afore Gods law the newer sort of worship before the older Yee seek no religion yee be deceived yee seeke traditions They that teach you blinde you that so instruct you deceiue you If yee seek what the old Doctors say yet look what Christ the oldest of all saith For he saith before Abraham was made I am If yee seek the truest way he is the very truth if yee seek the readiest way hee is the very way if yee seek everlasting life he is the very life What religion would you have other now then his religion You would have the Bibles in againe It is no marvell your blind guides would lead you blinde still Why be yee Howlets and Bats that yee cannot look on the light Christ saith to every one search yee the Scriptures for they beare witnesse of Christ You say pull in the Scriptures for we will haue no knowledge of Christ The Apostles of Christ will us to be so ready that we may be able to give every man an account of our faith Yee will us not once to read the Scriptures for feare of knowing of our faith Saint Paul prayeth that every man may increase in knowledge yee desire that our knowledge might decay againe A true religion yee ieek belike and worthy to be fought for For without the sword indeed nothing can help it neither Christ nor truth nor age can maintaine it But why should yee not like that which Gods word establisheth the primitiue Church hath authorised the greatest learned men of this Realme haue drawne the whole consent of the Parliament hath confirmed the Kings Majestie hath set forth Is it not truly set out Can yee devise any truer then Christs Apostles used Yee think it is not learnedly done Dare yee Commons take upon you more learning then the chosen Bishops and Clearks of this Realme have Think yee folly in it Yee were wont to judge your Parliament wisest and now will yee suddainly excell them in wisdome Or can you think it lacketh authority which the King the Parliament the learned the wise have justly approved Learne learne to know this one point of Religion that God will be worshipped as he hath prescribed and not as we have devised and that his will is wholy

in his Scriptures which be full of Gods spirit and profitable to teach the truth to reproue lyes to amend faults to bring one up in righteousnesse that he that is a Gods man may be perfect and ready to all good works What can be more required to serve God withall And thus much for religion-Rebels The other rabble of Norfolk Rebels yee pretend a commonwealth How amend yee it by killing of Gentlemen by spoiling of Gentlemen by imprisoning of Gentlemen A marveilous tanned commonwealth Why should yee thus hate them for their riches or for their rule Rule they never took so much in hand as yee doe now They never resisted the King never withstood his Councell be faithfull at this day when yee be faithlesse not only to the King whose subjects yee be but also to your Lords whose tenants yee be Is this your true duty in some of homage in most of fealtie in all of allegeance to leaue your duties goe back from your promises fall from your faith contrary to law and truth to make unlawfull assemblies ungodly companies wicked and detestable camps to disobey your betters and to obey your Tanners to change your obedience from a King to a Ket to submit your selves to Traytors and break your faith to your true King and Lords They rule but by law if otherwise the Law the Councell the King taketh away their rule Yee haue orderly sought no redresse but yee have in time found it In countries some must rule some must obey every man may not beare like stroke for every man is not like wise And they that have seene most and be best able to beare it and of just dealing befide be most fit to rule It is another matter to understand a mans own griefe and to knowe the common-wealths sore and therefore not they that knowe their own case as every man doth but they that understand the commonwealths state ought to have in countries the preferment of ruling If yee felt the paine that is joyned with governance as yee see and like the honour yee would not hurt others to rule them but rather take great paine to be ruled of them If yee had rule of the Kings Majestie committed unto you it were well done yee had ruled the Gentlemen but now yee have it not cannnot beare their rule it is to think the kings Majestie foolish and unjust that hath given certaine rule to them And seeing by the Scripture that yee ought not to speake evill of any Magistrate of the people why doe yee not only speak evill of them whom the Kings Majestie hath put in office but also judge evill of the King himselfe and thus seditiously in field stand with your swords drawne against him If riches offend you because yee would have the like then think that to be no commonwealth but envie to the commonwealth Envie it is to appaire another mans estate without the amendment of your own And to have no Gentlemen because yee be none your selves is to bring down an estate and to mend none Would yee have all alike rich That is the overthrowe of labour and utter decay of work in this Realme For who wil labour more if when he hath gotten more the idle shall by lust without right take what him lust from him under pretence of equalitie with him This is the bringing in of idlenesse which destroyeth the commonwealth not the amendment of labour that maintaineth the common-wealth If there should be such equalitie then yee take all hope away from yours to come to any better estate than you now leaue them And as many meane mens children come honestly up and are great succour to all their stock so should none bee hereafter holpen by you but because yee seek equalitie whereby all cannot be rich yee would that belike whereby every man should be poore And think beside that riches and inheritance be Gods providence and given to whom of his wisdome he thinketh good To the honest for the increase of their godlinesse to the wicked for the heaping up of their damnation to the simple for a recompence of other lacks to the wise for the greater setting out of Gods goodnesse Why will your wisdome now stop Gods wisdome and provide by your laws that God shall not enrich them whom he hath by providence appointed as him liketh God hath made the poore hath made them to be poore that he might shew his might and set them aloft when he listeth for such cause as to him seemeth and pluck downe the rich to this state of povertie to shew his power as he disposeth to order them Why doe not we thē being poore beare it wisely rather then by lust seek riches unjustly and shew our selues contented with Gods ordinance which we must either willingly obey and then we be wise or else we must unprofitably strive withall and then we be mad But what meane yee by this equality in the commonwealth If one be wiser then another will yee banish him because yee intend an equalitie of all things If one be stronger then another will yee slay him because yee seek an equalitie of all things If one be well favourder then another will yee punish him because yee look for an equalitie of all things If one have better utterance then another will yee pull out his tongue to save your equalitie And if one be richer then another will yee spoile him to maintaine an equalitie If one beelder then another will yee kill him for his equalities sake How injurious are yee to God himselfe who intendeth to bestow his gifts as he himselfe listeth and yee seek by wicked insurrections to make him give them commonly alike to all men as your vaine fansie liketh Why would yee haue an equalitie in riches in other gifts of God there is no meane sought Either by ambition yee seek Lordlinesse much unfit for you or by covetousnesse yee be unsatiable a thing likely enough in you or else by folly yee be not content with your estate a fansie to be plucked out of you But and we being weary of poverty would seek to enrich our selves we should goe a farre other way to work then this and so should we rightly come to our desire Doth not Saint Peter teach us afore God a right way to honour to riches to all necessary and profitable things for us He saith humble your selves that God might exalt you and cast all your care on him for he careth for you He teacheth the way to all good things at Gods hand is to be humble and you exalt your selves Yee seek things after such a sort as if the servant should anger his master when hee seeketh to have a good turne on him Yee would have riches I think at Gods hand who giveth all riches and yet yee take the way cleane contrary to riches Know yee not that he that exalteth himselfe God will throwe him downe How can yee get it then by thus