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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91248	Jus regum. Or, a vindication of the regall povver: against all spirituall authority exercised under any form of ecclesiasticall government. In a brief discourse occasioned by the observation of some passages in the Archbishop of Canterburies last speech. Published by authority.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.; Hunton, Philip, 1604?-1682,	1645 (1645)	Wing P404; Thomason E284_24; ESTC R200064	30,326	40

and his next words demonstrate clearly what opinion he had of his Judges whom he compareth to the Danes when Heathens to the fury of Wat Tyler and his fellows to the malice of a lewd woman to a persecuting Sword and lastly to Herod and to the persecuting Jews and maketh the charge against himself to look like that against St. Paul in the 25. of the Acts and against St. Stephen in the 6. of the Acts To whose cases his had no more resemblance then it had to the 3. Childrens for St. Paul and St. Stephen were persecuted for opening the kingdome of heaven by shewing a clear way to enter therein by a true and lively faith grounded upon the death and mediation of Jesus Christ onely without any reference to our selves and our own merits But he on the contrary did what in him lay to shut the kingdome of heaven to such as was desirous to enter directing them into false wayes such as could never bring a man thither For if the old Israelites by following after the Lavv of righteousnesse attained not into the Law of righteousnesse because they sought it not by faith but as it were by the works of the Law Rom. 9. 31 32. and therefore were excluded from the promises what must become of them who going about to establish not the righteousnesse of the Law which once was the ordinance of God but a righteousnesse of their own prescription consisting for the most part in externall rites and ceremonies commanding the observation of them as the principall part of Gods worship and of mans duty when in the mean time they neglect the ordinance of God which is their Ministeriall office consisting chiefly in reforming of the will and informing the understanding by the operation of the Word preached which may be performed by Information and Instruction but can never by any authority or command for there is a vast difference between him who endeavoureth the production of desired effects by the operation of necessarie and appointed means and him who commands onely the performance of the like effects without the application of such means as are necessary for the one requireth an omnipotent power the other may be performed by a creature of a finite capacity What affinity or resemblance then can my Lord of Canterburies case have with St. Pauls or St. Stephens who suffered under the rage of the people for offering their pains to shew them onely a clear and infallible way for purchasing the kingdom of heaven which was left to their own choice to beleeve or not beleeve But my Lord of Cant. neglecting the wayes of St. Paul and St. Stephen consisting onely in demonstration and in the efficacy of perswasion for the obtaining of their purposes and ends was legally processed and condemned for making use of externall force and compulsion for the obtaining of his which St. Paul nor St. Stephen never did and moreover he having screwed himself into the favour of the King did make the Regall Power instrumentall to his ends and which among other things is inexcusable did endeavour to lay the odium and obloquy of all upon the King when it could not otherwayes be defended as if that had been sufficient that he was onely instrumentall to the Kings commands when it was too well known that he was the director of those commands And as his case differed from theirs in the means so must it differ likewise in the ends for the end of all their labour and pains was to bring men in subjection to the will of God by declaring unto them the power of God and of the Deity and manifesting the inexpressible love of God to mankind in sending his onely begotten Son into the world to take upon him our humane nature and expounding unto them the vertue and efficacy of Christs death and resurrection but the end of his labour and pains was to bring men in subjection to his own will by making them sensible how dangerous it was to offend him For he took more pains to inflict punishment on such as offended him then to instruct such as were ignorant But odious is his next comparison comparing himself with Christ and his accusers to the Pharises who having accused Christ for fear that if they did let him alone all men would beleeve on him and the Romans would come and take away both their place and Nation Concluding from thence with a prayer to God that God would not reward this people as then he did the Jews for their causlesse fears and unjust sentence but the cases being so different and the comparisons so odious it were a superfluous labour to go about to inform any mans understanding in the discovery Nor needs any time be spent in detecting his vain presumption and arrogant boasting in applying that deserved triumph of Saint Paul to himselfe as if he could no lesse truely then Saint Paul did say by honour and dishonour by good report and evill report as a deceiver and yet true he was now passing out of this world for it is manifest that he coveted and courted that honour which Saint Paul accompted but losse and dung and did runne a cleer contrary course to Saint Paul for Saint Paul accompted it no shame To the weake to become as weak that he might gaine the weake nor to be made all things to all men that he might by all meanes save some but hee accompted it not onely a shame but an indignity to condiscend one jot to the weaknesse of any man and rather then hee should bee crossed in his purpose and will those gifts and abilities which God had bestowed upon him for other purposes and ends and that credit and esteeme which he had purchased with his Majesty by those gifts and abilities and in reverence of the holinesse of his calling should bee all imployed to ingage King and Kingdome in a War as was evident by the Warre with Scotland especially after the first pacification at the camp neer Barwicke But having taken all this paines in a generall justification of himself to the people who were his Auditors at length he thinkes of it not amisse to speak of some particulars and first is he bold to speake of the King who he saith hath bin much traduced by some for labouring to bring in Popery which he might truely affirme If any such affirmation had been made of His Majesty but the truth hereof is prevaricated as other truths are by him and made useof for his own justification rather then for the Kings the King being rather aspersed then justified by such manner of justification for no man did ever affirme that the King was a Papist as is here implyed nor that His Majestie did labour to bring in Popery as is here affirmed but that he was overreached by the subtilty and fraud of some and he himselfe esteemed the principall deceiver and undermyner of the King and it alwayes hath been one of his chiefest subtilties so to confound