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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A90767	A plea for moderation.		1642 (1642)	Wing P2512A; Thomason E143_7; ESTC R22468	9,127	16

further Plea in behalfe of common-Common-prayer or a set forme of prayer which is our Church Liturgie I grant that there may be some things in it if the great wisedome of the Parliament so please fit to bee expunged but if this Kingdome should bee so unhappy as to lose such an ornament of her Religion as this for my part I should not grudge to die a Common-prayer Martyr but I shall not wonder if the set prayers of our Church be so sleighted as they are when a number of I know not what sort of people cannot relish the chiefest of prayers the Lords prayer and yet our Saviour in one of the Gospels gives us a plain direction When you pray say Our Father which art in heaven c. And as for the Doctrine of the Church of England grounded upon the infallible Testimonie of Holy writ which a man would blesse himselfe to heare stumbled at I hope none dare bee so impious as argue against it if he be I cannot see how he can avoid Saint Pauls Anathema Now let me apply my Medium to mixt and civill affaires and see if wee can fall into an uno tertio there nay see that if wee fall not there wee are either split or sunke Prerogative admirable in it selfe provided it have its due bounds and limits hath by some beene so expatiated as indeed in their apprehensions it was unfathomed I would those men had either well understood what it was or not understanding it would have been hushed in their own ignorance by a silent humility The liberty of the Subject an excellent strengthening of our meum tuum in the world but by some so diameterly opposed to Prerogative that with them Non bene conveniunt nec in una sedemorantur Majestas libertas I thinke this Common-wealth much happier if they go like Hippocrates twinnes hand in hand And it was a good speech though from a band man I shall beleeve the Divell when he speakes truth This Kingdome will never bee well unlesse there be a right understanding between the King and his people Mordecay's advice to Hester concerning the deliverance of the Jewes hath been mis-applied by diverse for as I take it there was King in the case and that King bowed sued to I hope with us hee shall be esteemed a third Estate in Parliament Rehoboams losse of ten Tribes was a very strange and sudden falling off and seemed for the present an exceeding great blow to Rehoboam himselfe yet wee see no expresse reason alledged in Scripture either in respect of Rehoboams sinne in particular or of the Peoples in generall but the Text saith it was of the Lord neverthelesse those revolting Tribes are plainly charged with rebellion for it and a commendation is given to Judah for sticking close to their true and lawfull Prince Nay see what became of those revolters ever after amongst all their Kings that raigned over them I do not read of one of them that was good whereas Judah had diverse for Jehoram one of the race of the Kings of Judah being wicked had this brand upon him that he walked after the Kings of Israel Nay observe how Abijah the sonne of Rehoboam doth in this very particular taxe Jeroboam with rebellion against his Lord and so having addressed his prayer to Almighty God for victory over Jeroboam and all his rebellious troope Abijah with 400000. men of Judah and Benjamin had the conquest of Jeroboam with 800000. men of Israel full twice so many and at that time kept them under due obedience Here may you see a most remarkable judgment of God for their rebellious undutifulnesse Observe further how many severall and sundry waies they were punished both with idolatrie and other enormous sinnes which crept amongst them and perpetuall wars and troubles abroad and in a short time brought to captivity whereas Judah on the contrary had still a greater measure of peace and tranquillity And one thing I cannot but take notice of It is said that those of Israel who sought the Lord their God went up to Jerusalem to worship 1 Kin. 12.27 which begat a great jealousie in Jeroboam fearing lest if the people went up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem it would bee a meanes to turne their hearts back againe to their Lord Rehoboam and what followes So shall they kill mee saith hee and goe againe to Rehoboam there was his jealousie as hee had good reason wherefore hee prosecuted one wickednesse with another as it is indeed the usuall way in all rebellions they cannot bee thought safe but by attempting and heaping up a load of higher and greater crimes Princes are like the bond of Wed-lock once make them the Fathers of our Country and wee take them for better for worse wee may perswade them wee cannot compell them without breach of divine precept once let them be the Lords annointed and it is sacriledge to touch them I meane unfittingly The common people made Caesars but being once made it was utterly out of their power to unmake them againe nothing could do it but death And if a King should breake an oath made by him to his people for a right governing according to his Lawes yet under favour his breach quitteth not his Subjects of their allegiance and if this stand not for a truth for my part I do not know by what principle any man can walke for destroy but this foundation and then your Anti-governists will alwaies finde starting holes upon the least dis-content to shake off that yoke which is undoubtedly laid upon every Subject as a necessary tye of their obedience and loyalty to their Soveraigne and that even as they tender the peace and quiet of a good conscience Therefore you shall read in the Chronicles though God permitted the people to worke treason against King Amaziah because as it is there said 1 Chro. 25.27 hee turned away from the Lord his God yet I trust no man can denie but that it was reckoned treason still in the people But it may bee objected Quorsum haec wee have a King God bee blessed for him farre otherwise otherwise indeed and one who may well bee an exact patterne of pietie to all his Subjects Nay what a happy peace and contentment have wee enjoyed under our most gracious Soveraigne till wee our selves I know not which way have quarrelled with our selves I answer that I urge not this but onely as an argument à minori ad majus if Princes are not to be rebelled against neither by the reall sword nor by the metaphoricall one the tongue that is neither by speech nor action though they should be Nero's or Caligula's in how ample and high an estimation should we then have those who are reverâ good ones and not dipped with the least colour or resemblance of such Tyrannists Therefore Bracton expresseth it admirably where hee said Omnis quidem sub Rege ipse sub nullo nisi tantùm

confesse them to be dangerous men especially those that are Jesuited their practice hath been very factious and their doctrine is venemous and distressed Ireland hath too-too-much felt the smart of it but God be thanked they have neither clawes nor teeth here that I know of But as for that unconsiderable I may say inconsiderate number I wish they may be alwayes so in the first sense so long as they continue in the second And for once let the Papists and them goe together for the malignant party By this time you may partly discerne the scope of my intended discourse It is A Plea for Moderation a Plea for a Medium And I perswade my selfe I shall at one instant make two contrary sorts of people glad and sad the Papist the Separatist that whilest by this meanes both think to enjoy their Religion still their Opinion I would say both misse of what they aime for this Moderation this Medium shall give neither of these the least satisfaction I have learned by way of diversity what a Medium may be thus distinguished into Medium Participationis Abnegationis The first is that for which the Laodiceans received such a sentence from the mouth of God in the Revelations to be a Repudium for their luke-warmnesse This is the onely principle whereby the Temporizers of every age walke and steere their course a blind guide an Iguis fatuus which very frequently leaves them in the mire This is such a principle as proposeth to it selfe no other end then the present advantage and truely his halting in jest betwixt two makes men often become lame in earnest and when they are grown such Cripples no wonder if they close in the Hospitall of fooles Machiavell never lost himselfe so much as in this particular for if it bee once found out that there can bee two severall men in one ten to one but hee shall ever after have the hard hap not to be trusted in either condition A Puritan is an unlucky name thrown into the world but if ever there were such a man this is he who justly may assume that title He is like the feet of Nabuchadnezzars Image part of iron and part of clay an ill mixture therefore not likely to be of any long perpetuity this is not the Medium I plead for It is the Medium abnegationis I plead so strongly for Albeit I am neither Papist nor Separatist yet by Gods help I trust I may bee of a true Religion and maintaine Orthodoxill veritie and indeed I branch my Medium first into Religion because that is of the highest concernment and most of all justled at in this clay-iron age It is true that of Aristotle Qui ubique est nullibi est and may bee made good by the medly of so many opinionative Religions now set on foote by the step-mothers of sound Religion who so much magnifie their bastard issue before her as indeed shee scarce undergoes any thing at their hands but nips and pinches I confesse shee hath beene of late dressed in too gaudy too garish an attire and therefore now to make her do strict penance for how long God knows she is left stark naked exposed to summer scorches and winter colds and I pray God when she puts on any thing next it do not prove her winding sheet As I would not have her go like a painted strumpet so I should be glad to see her in a comely dresse I remember I did even now take the Bishops by the hand but my intent was not so to take my leave of them I have somewhat more to say of them before they go I seriously wish they had beene carefull to keepe my last medium the want of that hath exceedingly prevented me of something I would have said but thus much I will declare There have been Bishops Diocesan Bishops Lord Bishops all good Bishops not Jure divino pardon me for that but Jure Ecclesiastico vel civili ex favore Principis Ancient Histories will warrant me for that and they are so copious and so well knowne I hope no man will request a quotation yea all this the Ministers of the Gospell were made capable of therefore in my judgement not incongruous to the function and if the government must downe because some are bad why should not the government stand because some are and primitively have beene good For ought I can perceive it is as good an argument I denie not but the way of a Presbytery may be good in a State not here but however durst I presume to beg or think of begging the least stemme from sacred Majestie that is due to it our Bishops peradventure might bee much better then they are if the Ministers of every County by a majority of voices did out of themselves choose their Diocesan Bishop and there be settled for his life but then I conceive it is fit for maintenance that the least should be a thousand pounds a yeare to live upon and the greatest no more In this particular I am for a parity nay I would have none of them Lords but such on whom his Majestie should by his more especiall favour bee graciously pleased to bestow the title who is the undoubted fountaine of honour and dignity And if I hit aright in the understanding of that Text so severely urged against that which is Be you not called Lords the meaning is Bee not ambitious desirous covetous of that Title otherwise perhaps some one might call them Lords in spite of them and so against their wils incurre the breach of our Saviours precept And as concerning that of Saint Peter Be not as Lords over Gods heritage the meaning is You shall not have absolute rule over them for so the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies which hinders not but that they may have it subjugated to the chiefe Prince and State under which they live for indeed as it is admirably well observed by that English Seneca Sir Edward Dering in a Treatise of his when our Saviour tells his twelve Apostles that the Princes of the Gentiles and the Kings of the Gentiles c. exercise dominion c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 It shall not bee so with you that is You shall not bee as the Kings and Princes of the Gentiles who assume an absolute and independent power No this I conceive is clearly prohibited them and although by the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 be not meant as some would have it domineering or tyrannizing in a bad sense but governing and ruling in a good sense and seemly for men duely authorized thereto as Gods Vice-gerents on Earth yet I hold Clergy-men totally uncapable of it and this I conceive to be the meaning of that worthy Knight which I say doth no way hinder but that they may neverthelesse have a subordinate power limited them by a superintendent authority above them of the King and Lawes of the Kingdome and with this caution I take the word I adde a