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A87515	Obedience active and passive due to the supream povver, by the word of God, reason, and the consent of divers moderne and orthodox divines; written not out of faction, but conscience, and with desire to informe the ignorant, and undeceive the seduced: by W.J. a welwiller to peace and truth.	W. J., welwiller to peace and truth.	1643 (1643)	Wing J52; Thomason E90_19; ESTC R19937	23,430	31

appeares that what Saint Paul saith Rom. 13.1 is very true That there is no power but of God and the powers that bee are ordained of God And therefore in that very place hee willeth and enjoyneth That every Soule be subject to the higher powers And writing unto Titus hee willeth him Tit. 3.1 To put the people in mind that they be subject to principalities and powers and that they be obedient in which places by subjection hee includes a necessity of not resisting For such who shall either dis-respect the person or disobey the just power of the King resist the Ordinance of God and shall receive to themselves condemnation as our Old but damnation as our New translation renders Rom. 13.2 Philo the Iew in his booke de vita Moysis thus speakes of the office of Kings Regis officium est jubere quae oportet fi●ri votare à quibus abstinere decet caeterum jussio faciendorum interdictio cavendorum propriè ad legem pertinet atque ita consequitur quod Rex animata lex sit lex vero sit Rex justissimus And our most gratious Soveraigne not onely performes that good office but withall admits of that rule and for his peoples satisfaction hath further protested before almighty God not to governe them by any Arbitrary power of his owne but to admit and propose the knowne lawes of this Realme for his guide and the exact rule of his government unto which I suppose every good Christian will adhibite faith and unto whom I hope every loyall subject will yeild due obedience and therefore how great a cause have wee to prayse God whose gratiousnesse is pleased to set such over us as do set him in all their wayes before them and how great cause have wee in all respects to honour him who ruling us in goodnesse doth also rule himselfe by goodnesse Long may hee live among us ever may he raigne by himselfe and royall posterity over us in glory and renoune Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supreame c. saith Saint Peter 1 Epist 2.13 Not that Kings are ordained by men or that men invented that government for the powers that bee are ordained of God Rom. 13.1 and that Kings are is plainely manifested before as also by 1 Sam. 15.11 where God complaineth saying It repenteth mee not that the people but that I have set up Saul to be King But he cals Kingly Government an ordinance of man as Calvin Beza Marlorate Aretius Piscator Bucanus Gerardus and Weemse have observed upon that text because the power that is conferr'd by God upon men is proper to men exercised by men and towards men it is called an humane ordinance subjective because men are the subject of it and objective because it handles humane affaires and lastly in respect of the end being instituted for the good of man and the conservation of humane society So it appeareth by what hath beene said That Kings and Supreame Magistrates are not politique institutions of men nor at first ordained by men nor the power they are invested with committed to them from men but from God And therefore let every soule bee subject to them and as omnis anima so ex omni animo which shewes the manner not with the body onely but the mind also not in shew alone but indeed and in truth withall and that to all just commands yea and to their unjust demands if not contradictory to the will or word of God by our Saviours example Matth. 17.27 who payed Tribute to the Polegatherers for quietnesse sake rather then offend or resist although nothing was due but if their commands and demands bee contrary to Gods then Deo potius quàm hominibus better obey God then man by the example of Saint Peter and Saint Iohn Acts 4.19 Yet so bee they bee not dissonant or discrepant from Gods then Scripture wils us to yeild obedience thereto not onely as Saint Peter exhorts 1 Pet. 2.13 for the Lords sake that so hee may bee honoured who hath ordained Kings and powers and would that we should bee obedient to them as Aretius Piscator and Lucas Osiander observe in their Comments upon that text but withall as Saint Paul enjoynes us for conscience sake also Rom. 13.5 That so wee may retaine a good conscience which wee must keepe voyd of offence both towards God and towards Men. Acts 24.16 That it may witnesse for us that wee have not resisted Authority for no man with a good conscience can resist him to whose power God hath made him subject as the same Piscator and Osiander together with Calvin and Bucanus have noted upon that text of Saint Paul Rom. 3.5 And therefore because wee must bee subject both for the Lords sake and for Conscience sake too it will not bee amisse to consider what a subjects duty to his Soveraigne is and in what particulars it consists And first wee must honour him Give honour to whom honour is due saith Saint Paul Rom. 13.7 and honour the King saith Saint Peter 1 Pet. 2.17 and that must be by a reverend esteeme of him and an acknowledgement of him for our Superiour by giving him due respect in our behaviour and Titles of reverence in our words as David did to Saul 1 Sam. 24.8 he stooped with his face toward the earth and bowed himselfe and said My Lord the King And as Arauna did to David 2 Sam. 24.20.21 and Nathan to David 1 Kings 23.24 and Bathsheba to David at the 31. verse of that Chapter Who bowed her face to the earth and did reverence to the King and said Let my Lord King David live for ever Secondly We must pray and give thanks to God for him as S. Paul exhorts 1 Tim. 2.1.2 I exhort therefore that first of all Prayers Supplications and Thankesgiving be made for all men for Kings c. and that as the Psalmist Psal 80.17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand upon the sonne of man whom thou madest strong for thy selfe that is O Lord let thy hand of Providence Power and Mercy be upon the man of thy right hand and thine annoynted the King ever redily and mightily to defend preserve and protect him and upon him whom though thou reckonest among the Gods of the Earth Psal 82.1 and 6. yet indeed is but the son of man whom thou hast made strong by Majestie and power for thy selfe to governe thy people as thy Vicegerant or as our owne Liturgie teacheth us That God would be pleased to be his defender and keeper and give him the victory over all his enemies that God would so dispose governe and rule the heart of our Gracious King and Governour that he might evermore have affiance in him and in all his thoughts words and works ever seeke Gods honour and glory and study to preserve the people committed to his charge in wealth peace and godlinesse and finally

from God under him and by him Or else he is Gods Iron Rod and Scourge and so the Mirrour of his Iustice as he saith of the Kings of Assiria Esay 10.5 by whom God doth afflict and chastise his people many times permitting him to impose taxes and hard lawes upon them yea and sometimes the sword it selfe too when their sins arive at that height as to provoke Gods patience and call for just and deserved vengeance For God sends wicked Princes for the punishment of sinners so Dan. 8.23 When tho Transgressors are come to the full a King of a fierce Countenance shall stand up and he permits Hypocrites to raigne Job 34.30 which both the vulgar and Osiander read Qui fecit regnare hypocritam hominem propter peccata populi So that we see if Kings be good then as S. Paul saith Rom. 13.4 They are the Ministers of God for our good but if evill we must with the Iewes Nehem. 9.37 acknowledge that they are set over us for our sinnes and yet both good and evill by and from God And truely however some men dare adventure to call their lawfull though evill Kings Tyants that so they might thereby shake of their due obedience to them yet both Gods Word and his owne peoples example teach us otherwise viz. to acknowledge that even such Kings though Heathens are his Annointed as he saith of Cyrus Esay 45.1 and so we read 1 Kings 19 15. That the Lord sent Elijah the Prophet to annoint Hazael to be King over Syria Yea though wicked persons yet are his Servants as he saith of Nebuchadnezzar Ier. 25.9 and 27.6 and therefore to be obeyed for saith God at the 8 verse of that last Chapter That that Nation that will not put their necke under the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar the King of Babilon I will punish saith the Lord with the Sword and with the Famine and with the Pestilence thereby teaching us not to resist or rebell against evill Kings because they are by him advanced to that Royall Majestie and made his scourges to punish us for our sinnes And as Gods word so his owne peoples example teacheth us obedience to wicked Kings For the Israelites while they were in Egypt were we know aswell the Subjects of Pharaoh as the Egyptians and yet notwithstanding the many cruelties and oppressions inflicted on them by Pharaoh King of Egypt and the Egyptians who as we reade Exod. 1.14 made the Israelites lives bitter with hard bondage in Mortar and in Bricke and in all manner of service in the field all their service wherein they made them serve was with rigour Yet for all this we doe not read that ever they resisted or opposed him but patiently endured those afflictions untill God saw their miseries and how they sighed by reason of the bondage and they cried and their cry came up unto him Ex 2.23 and 3.7 and then he sent his Servant Moses to deliver them as we read Exod. 3.10 and who when he was sent had not that we read of any power committed to him to incite the people to take up armes against Pharaoh their King thereby to free themselves from their bondage but was only to intreat Pharaoh to let them goe Exod. 3.18 and to shew him Gods wonders his plagues and judgements if so be he refused And after when as God was pleased fully to avenge himselfe on Pharaoh for so oppressing his people He chose rather miraculously to defeate and overthrow Pharaoh and his Host in the Red-Sea Exod. 14.27.28 and so wholly to deliver his people both from their afflictions and the hands of their enemies Then he would permit them any liberty to assume armes whereby to avenge themselves for their injuries on their lawfull though tyranous and cruell King And againe we have their example when they were lead Captives into Babylon Nehem. cap. 9. Where after confession of Gods great goodnesse and mercy towards them of old and of their own wickednesse and the justnesse of Gods punishment speaking of the Babilonish Kings to whom they were subjected they likewise confesse and acknowledge that they were set over them by God for their Sinnes and that they had Dominion over their bodies at verse the 37. And therefore the Prophet Ieremiah chapter 29. exhorts them from God not to rebell against those Kings to whom God rendered them subject that so they might regaine their liberty but at the 7. verse to pray for the peace of Babylon to the Lord for in the peace thereof they should have peace and at the 10. verse to waite Gods leisure for their deliverance from that Captivily and bondage for saith he Thus saith the Lord After seventy yeares be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and performe my good words towards you in causing you to returne And after when God did fullfill his word to them and delivered them we know that it was not by stirring up their Spirits to Sedition Resistance or Rebellion but as Ezra the Scribe hath recorded it Ezra 1.1.3 by stirring up the Spirit of King Cyrus freely to dismisse them and manumit them by his regall proclamacon by both which examples of the people of God recorded in the Word of God we are plainely taught Passive obedience to the Supreame Power under afflictions and to leave the redresse and revenge to God alone to whom it properly appertaineth And tauely by the harmonious consent of many notorious and approved good Authors of the Protestant profession of Religion that I have consulted to wit Calvin Zanchy Polanus Piscator Martinius Wollebius Aretius Bucer Bullinger Pomeranus Marlorate Bucanus Szegedine Wendelinus Sharpius Crotius Alstedius Althusius Hugo Grotius and the famous Authors of the Synopsis Purioris Theologiae viz. Polyander Rivet Wallens and Thysius most of them publicke professors of Divinity and our owne learned Bishop Andrewes and Doctor Boys Master Perkins and Master Downeham all Orthodox men and good writers besides Osiander Vogelius Dietericus Gerardus Brochmandus Gravius Casmannus and Schroderus Lutherans and the two famous Frenchmen Peter Charon and Peter de la Primanday who grounding their judgements upon Scripture doe all conclude That we ought to obey Princes though wicked men in all things that contradict not the revealed will or Word of God but if so be they command things unlawfull and which are against that Rule of Gods will and Word then as we must not obey them by doing so neither resist them by rebelling but either patiently suffer their wills to be done on us though not by us or otherwise fly from them as David did from Saul 1 Sam. 19.12 18. and as our Saviour Christ did from Herod Mat. 2.13 and as he adviseth his Desciples to doe Mat. 10.23 When they persecute you in one City fly into another And thus we see That though Kings be not godly but wicked persons yet honour and obedience is to be done unto them because it is God that hath set them up over us though in his wrath