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A25358 Religion and loyalty maintained against all modern opposers in a treatise on the 29th of May 1681, being Trinity-Sunday and anniversary day of His Majesties happy birth and King and kingdoms restauration / by Henry Anderson. Anderson, Henry. 1684 (1684) Wing A3092; ESTC R27731 74,714 137

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Orat. 2. time we had no other weapon nor wall nor bulwark but our hope in God left us whom could we have either to hear our prayers or to protect our persons but him August in Psal 124. And S. Austin saith That though Julian was an Apostate an Idolater and a wicked man the Christians were subject to him their Temporal Lord out of respect to their Eternal Lord. Rogamus Auguste non pugnamus non timemus sed rogamus S. Ambr. l. 5. ep 33. We intreat O Emperour say the Souldiers in Ambrose his Cause against the Arians we fight not neither fear we and yet we intreat only We will stand to it and fight it out even to death Stahimus pugnabimus usque ad mortem si ita oportuerit pro matre nostra non scutis gladiis sed precibus fletibusque ad Deum S. Bern. Epist 221. if need be saith S. Bernard for our Mother the Church but with such weapons as we may not with Sword and Target but with tears and prayers to God These were the weapons of the old Christian Martyrs Tertullian also to Scapula the Viceroy of Carthage Absit ut ultionem nos aliquam machinemur quam à Deo expectamus Far be it for us to attempt or plot any revenge of our wrongs which we expect from God We saith he are defamed for seditious against Imperial Majesty * Circa Majestatem Imperatoris infamamur tamen nunquam Albiniani nec Nigriani nec Cassiani inveniri potuerunt Christiani Christianus nullius est hoslis nedum Imperatoris quem sciens à Deo suo constitui necesse est ut ipsum diligat revereatur honoret salvum velit cum toto Romano Imperio quousque seculum stabit Colimus ergo Imperatorem sic quomodo nobis licet ipsi expedit ut hominem à Deo secundum quicquid est à Deo constitutum solo Deo minorem Tertul. ad Scap. and yet never were the Christians Rebels as several of your own Religion have been Albinus Niger Cassius were Traitors against Marcus Antonius Commodus Pertinax and Severus the Emperours A Christian is Enemy to no man much less the Emperours knowing that Regal Dignity is constituted and ordained of God and therefore necessarily to be loved reverenced and honoured whose prosperity together with the welfare of all the Roman Empire we wish and desire so long as the World shall endure We honour and worship the Emperour so as it is lawful for us and expedient for him as a mortal man next unto God of whom he holds all his Authority only subject to God and so we make him Soveraign over all And it is manifest we live according to the Discipline of Divine patience whilst being so great a multitude we behave our selves with peace and submission This hath been the practice of good Christians in all Ages and to do otherwise is to sit in the Throne of the Almighty and to slight the Legislative Power turning God out of his Soveraignty affronting him in his Authority and in his Laws making themselves the sure Heirs of Heaven because the Apostle saith They that resist shall receive damnation All Subjects Prelates Peers and People are forbidden with the tongue to revile Kings Exod. 22.28 with the heart to think ill of them Eccles 10.20 or with the hand to resist them Rom. 13.2 It is not the wickedness * Si à saevo Principe crudeliter torquemur c. subeat primum delictorum nostrorum recordatio quae talibus haud dubie Domini flagellis castigantur inde humilitas impatientiam nostram fraenabit nobis nullum aliud quàm parendi patiendi datum est mandatum Calv. Instit of the Prince should cause any to neglect their duty to his Person nor the injuries done by him tempt them to forget their Allegiance because in the worst ‖ In homine deterrimo honoreque omni indignissimo penes quem modò sit publica potestas praeclara illa divina potestas residet quam Dominus justitiae judicii sui ministris verbo suo detulit proinde à subditis eadem in reverentia dignitate habendus quantum ad publicam obedientiam attinet quâ optimum Regem si daretur habituri essent Calv. Instit and most unworthy King the Divine Authority resides which God in his Word hath given to righteous Magistrates and therefore Subjects are to have the same reverence for him as far as it belongs unto publick obedience as for the best King The Divine Wisdom by the Tyranny of cruel Kings † Etsi non loquatur Dominus satis tamen flagellis ipsis plagis vocat ut enim Scripturam nobis omnem Prophetas Doctores Monitores deesse fingamus aerumnis tamen calamitatibus nos erudit ut breviter definire possimus plagam vocationem ad poenitentiam esse Calvin Wicked Princes by Divine permission are exalted to punish the sins of the people tollenda est igitur culpa ut cesset Tyrannorum plaga Aquin. de Regim Princ. l. 1. c. 6. makes tryal of the Vertues and Graces of his Saints and people that they who are found patient in tribulation constant in truth loyal in subjection may be crown'd with glory and happiness It was the height of Caesar's ambition to walk in the steps of Alexander and of the Turkish Emperour to walk in the steps of Caesar and of Themistocles to walk in the steps of Miltiades so it is the height of a Christians glory to be a follower of Christ who is the Mirrour of Angels and Beauty of Heaven whose life is the perfect Idea of all Vertue and exact Pattern of holy living tread therefore in the holy steps of the blessed Jesus the Saviour of Mankind whose actions should be our instruction and the patience and obedience practised by our Lord the rule of our imitation Leo in Serm. de Nat. Dom. Frustra appellamur Christiani si imitatores non fuerimus Christi Christ and his Apostles both by Precept and Example left to all succeeding generations Christian obedience and subjection Had the Language of the Scripture and sacred Oracle of the Word so positively declared against Conformity as it has REBELLION the Dissenters of this Age would have got into the Revelations to loosen the Seals pour out the Vials and phantastically interpreted the Fates of Kingdoms and Churches ruine God is angry with them says the elegant Moralist Plutarch that counterfeit his Thunder and Lightning 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 his Scepter his Thunderbolt and his Trident he will not let them meddle with these he does not love they should imitate him in his absolute Dominion and Soveraignty in the arm of his Power or finger of his Miracles but loves to see them darting out those amiable and cherishing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those beamings out of justice goodness and clemency imitating his meekness and humility long-suffering and
a perfum'd breath and richness of Language as if they were made with the first Adam speak of the Dictates of the Patriarchs and Testimonies of the Prophets but in vain do any boast they are descended from Abraham since he is not a Jew who is one outward in the flesh bur inward in the Spirit as our Saviour told the Pharisees vaunting of Antiquity Joh. 8. except they did the works of Abraham and abide in the Truth Truth then is the Child of Time and as there is Antiquity of Time so also of Truth and Doctrine And so long as the Romish Church continued in the profession and practice of Apostolical purity i. e. of Faith and Doctrine which was once given to the Saints all other Christian Churches held Communion with her for the Church of Rome did not anciently in former Ages hold all these Doctrines which now she owns The ancient Church of Rome was but a Member of the Catholick Church of God of which Jesus Christ was Head But the now Roman Church does at this day what S. Augustine * De Vnit Eccles cap. 6. told to the Donatists inclose the Catholick Church within their own circuits and usurps it wholly to her self of which the Pope is Head And the Papacy will have their Pope by reason of the Kingdom of Christ to be the Head and King of the Church in ordine ad Spiritualia and consequently the Supreme Civil Power over the Monarchs of the Earth in ordine ad Temporalia to be the Head and King of the Church Such a Church was never in Rome for many hundred years after our Saviour no Bishop ‖ Gregory Bishop of Rome Ego fidenter dico quia quisquis se universalem Sacerdotem vocat vel vocari desiderat in elatione s●â Antichristum praecurrit Pope Pelagius distinct 99. Vniversalis autem nec etiam Romanus Pontifex appelletur Cyril Patriarch of Constantinople 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 did assume Christs Title to be the Head of the Church till Boniface the Third who not contenting himself with his Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical and fulness of Spiritual Power but his towring Ambition aspires yet higher and with much contention obtained of the Rebel Phocas about the year 604. who murder'd Maurice the Emperour the Title of Universal The Pope looking for Primacy on Earth is very unlike his heavenly Master whose Vicar he pretends to be Christ paid Tribute unto Caesar Luke 20.25 but the Pope that Prevaricator of the Apostolick See exacts it from them and Caesar pays unto him Our Saviour wash'd his Disciples feet but the Bishop of Rome in these days with imaginary Supremacy causes the greatest Princes and mightiest Emperors do him Homage and swear Allegiance * Clement the Fifth call'd a Council at Vienna An. 1311. in which it was ordained and decreed That the Emperour his Lord should give his Oath of Allegiance to the Pope for being not content with his Primacy abused Religion into Policy and casting off all moderation the Pope devoured the Emperour Thus the Head of the Church degenerated into a Monster and in reaching at Temporal Soveraignty he broke the Spiritual Unity contrary to the Divine Authority and Majesty of the Scripture Let every Soul be subject to the higher powers Rom. 13. and to the King as Supreme 1 Pet. 2.13 As Heathen Rome under the Emperours Domitian and others would be adored as Gods though never so impious so Rome Christian falls under the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Apostle Sitting in the Temple of God as God 2 Thess 2.4 and exalting himself above all that is called God * Zacharias Papa ex authoritate Sancti Petri Apostoli mandat populo Francorum ut Pepinus qui potestate Regiâ utebatur etiam nominis dignitate frueretur Ita Hildericus ultimus Merovingorum qui Francis imperabat depositus est in monasterio missus est Marian. Scot. Hist lib. 3. Lambertus Danaeus in his Response to Bellarmine the great Master of Controversie contending that Childerick was lawfully deposed by Pope Zacharias Can Zachary saith he have Authority in France being a Stranger Can he depose the publick Magistrate being but a private person though he were Bishop of Rome or transfer that Principality to Pepin that he hath no Right unto and commit so many Sacriledges and Impieties stealing from Childerick and giving to Pepin another mans Right Authorizing Subjects to violate their Oaths which they had sworn to their King Transposing Kingdoms from one man to another whereas it doth only belong to God to depose Kings and dispose of Kingdoms Thou mayest see Bellarmine how many outrages this thy Zachary hath committed Resp Danae ad Bellar. lib. 2. cap. 17. pag. 316. in a superlative Greatness and that not of order and precedency only as to Ecclesiastical Regency stretching his Diocese over all Bishops and Churches in the Christian World but of absolute Authority claiming universal Jurisdiction in a Monarchi●al Superintendency or Regality over all Christendom with a Power to depose Kings and dispose of Crowns and Kingdoms for the benefit of the Church is a Title only of Usurpation without any ground of Scripture or Antiquity First Christ was no Temporal Monarch but an Eternal King to rescue us from the thraldom of sin the sorcery of the flesh and the Curse of the Law Christ was no earthly King and left no Regal Power to S. Peter therefore the Pope can have no Civil Power or Temporal Dominion as the Vicegerent of Christ and consequently overturns and destroys the Doctrine of Supremacy The Lawgiver himself even Ipse Ille that bare rule in Heaven the incarnate and crucified Messias Joh. 12.36 saith My Kingdom is not of this World Whereas that Sect of Politicians the Romanists turns the Kingdom of Christ into outward Pomp and Bravery and they to have the Managery and Government of it as if the now See of Rome should be known to be the most Christian Bishop not in having with Christ no Temporalties but an absolute Soveraignty to depose Kings and dispose of Kingdoms which is nothing less than a strange Usurpation for the Son of God did never impose such a hard duty and condition to Kings that were to become Christians as to forsake their Imperial Crowns and Diadems except in their hearts and affections and in comparison of the Kingdom of God O Eternal Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Light of Truth inspire the Universal Church with the Spirit of Truth Unity and Concord and grant that all they that do confess thy holy Name may agree in the Truth of thy holy Word and live in unity and godly love Secondly View it in relation to the Apostles who were the Patriarchs of the Church And the Evangelists make special mention of their Names as those to whom we owe great honour and veneration being conversant with Christ and daily instructed by him who continued with him unto his Passion and Crucifixion and after his Resurrection
are we 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 living Laws and Royal Examples of greatness to the World when we do and speak 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so as not to disgrace but adorn the Gospel and consequently stop the mouths of all gainsayers by a controuling sanctity of actions and all men be wholly convinced or compelled to unity and obedience It is expected then whatever habits are in fashion among others that the Priests should be cloathed with righteousness adorn'd with a decent conversation and produce the fruits of good works these be the evidences of the Buds Blossoms and Almonds of Aaron's Rod and denote its Supremacy Nothing will restore the Church says a Reverend Prelate to its pristine honour love and authority in mens hearts and minds but a serious setting themselves to the study preaching and practising of truth and peace in a holy life These were the Arts these the Policies these the pious Stratagems by which anciently they gained peoples hearts to love God his Truth and of themselves the witness of it to such a height of honour and ecstasie of love that they received them as the Angels of God and Ambassadors from Heaven God grant the Tribe of Levi may be like Jacob's Ladder which he saw in Bethel Gen. 28.12 whereon were Angels ascending and descending so by our Office and Ministration Angels might in us ascend and carry up ours and the peoples supplications unto God and Angels by us descend to bring Gods Word and Message to the people that there may be the sweet contexture or agreement of Beings one espoused to another in faithfulness and truth even a blessed Union betwixt Prince and People and a gracious accord too of the people among themselves in an united conformity and conjunction in the Service of God being knit together in the inviolable bonds of Loyalty and love neither entoiled with Civil broils within nor infected with Hostile inroads from without but all professing that one eternal Truth which is both the Mother and Nurse of Peace we may enjoy such a tranquillity as in the days of Solomon when Judah and Israel dwelt safely every one under his Vine and under his Fig-tree from Dan even to Beershaba Or as it was in the days of Constantine when there was silence in Heaven for the space of half an hour and the prayers of the Saints ascended up as a cloud in grateful odors The prime perfection then and pleasure in this life second to that supernatual one Faith in Christ and Sanctification through the Spirit consists in the beholding Brethren to dwell together in unity which limns and shadows out the glorious Hierarchy of Heaven the Trinity in Unity for Deus est unitas omnis unitatis affector * Dionys Areop let us therefore express this unspeakable concord by the Sacrifice of our selves to a Spirit of Unity and Truth and not a Spirit of Error and Division which causeth the breach of Union the disturbance of the Peace and quiet of the Church As the unity of Faith joyns us so the bond of Charity tyeth us fast together through one and the same Spirit to unity and godly love because Schism is the next way to Heresie which is to be hated as a thing that leads to destruction And non semper servatur unitas in credendo ubi non est unitas in colendo there will not always be unity of Doctrine in that Church where there is not uniformity of Discipline Prophane Writers can tell us by concord the weakest * The Sun-beams disperst are but of small force but they gather strength if collected in a narrow glass Scilurus the Scythian on his death-bed as story tells us taught his fourscore Sons the force of Unity by a Faggot of Rods or as it is in Plutarch a bundle of shafts while together are hardly broken but if you divide them 't is quickly done And thus it is in Ecclesiae fasciculo Hosea prophesieth destruction but this doth usher it in Their hearts are divided Hos 10.2 things grow strong by discord the mightiest States are overthrown Though States differ the Communion of Saints must be preserv'd the Church should keep at unity and by united force repel Heresie After all our unhappy Divisions what can be more seasonable to the Genius of our Times than cementing counsel that all Gods Building may be raised up as of one stone by having cor unum viam unam Jer. 32.39 one heart and one way which was the Character of the Church Christians primitive Age Acts 4.32 for Division is a sad Prognostick threatning desolation when the stones of the building begin to fall off from one another the house grows ruinous Isa 30.13 and the breach thereof comes suddenly in a moment May the number of those increase that are friends of Sion and the generation of those perish that make it their design to lay waste the City of God and bury her in her own ruines Did the godly Jews mourn for Judah And shall not the English Nation for the Land of our desires and Nativity O that ever such an inlightned Goshen should hatch or harbour such black Monsters that would gnaw out the bowels of their own Mother That so many Judasses should be found amongst Christs Disciples The Prophet Isaiah saith Isa 15.5 Chap. 16.7 9 11. My heart shall cry for Moab and bewail the vine of Sibmah I will water thee with my tears O Heshbon and my bowels shall sound like a harp for Kirharesh Is not England as dear unto us and have not we as great cause to lament for this Church and State the Womb that bare us and the Breasts that gave us suck Every one ought to bow down and go heavily as one that mourneth for his mother by reason of her Divisions * No Church so fair in this World as to be without spot and wrinkle none so happy as to be wholly priviledged from jarrs and dissentions The Jewish Church in Christs time was full of divisions there were Pharisees Sadducees Essenes c. In the Church of Philippi what contestations and tumults broils and factions were there and that not Oeconomical about meum and tuum but Ecclesiastical and in matters of Religion by those of the Concision those evil workers as S. Paul calls them In the flourishing Church of Corinth where there were so many Christians of the first magnitude eminent for Religion and Piety yet even here are strifes and divisions inasmuch as S. Paul wrote his first Epistle to dissolve those factions and repress those dissentions that were amongst them In the Church of England to come home to our selves there is Presbyterian Independent Anabaptist and Quaker and it may be said of our days as in S. Paul's time at Corinth There are divisions among us In Paradise there was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 only in Heaven there 's 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 full and perfect harmony without any discord but we can't
have I in Heaven but thee All the Blessings that we do enjoy are the sweet influences of Heaven upon us Spiritual or Temporal First Spiritual Blessings in heavenly places arise from no other Spring and are Irradiations of the Trinity and the great kindness of Heaven to Mankind in relation to these Souls of ours The Father Son and Holy Ghost have all done their parts for them The Father gave his only Son the Son gave himself left his Glory and endured the bitter Death of the Cross meerly to keep our Souls from perishing The Holy Ghost is become as it were our Attendant waits upon us with continual offers of his Grace to enable us to do that which may preserve them These things all the Persons work equally and inseparably in respect of the Cause and Effect It is a Rule in Divinity That all the Works of the Trinity ad extra are common to the whole Trinity God the Father Son and Holy Ghost do co-operate and work together for what one doth all do yet in congruity we attribute a distinct Act in regard of the Order and Object 1. The Father Creates Gen. 1.1 In Order the original of Action is ascribed to the Father Joh. 5.17 19. 2. The Son Redeems Gal. 3.13 The Nature and Manner of Working to the Son Joh. 1.3 Heb. 12. 3. The Holy Ghost Illuminates 2 Pet. 1.21 The Efficacy and Power to the Holy Ghost 1 Cor. 11.12 The Father is to be adored as altogether of Himself The Son to be glorified as that Consubstantial Word The Holy Ghost to be magnified as that Co-essential Spirit eternally proceeding from Both. The Three Persons in the Trinity is the Object of our Faith and we daily owne it in our Creed 1. We believe in God the Father who made the World 2. In God the Son who redeem'd all Mankind 3. In God the Holy Ghost who sanctifies all the Elect People of God An Unity of Essence and a Trinity of Order Ordo Originis though not Regiminis Co-ordinativus though not Sub-ordinativus of Priority though not Superiority a First a Second and a Third though not a higher lower and lowest Deut. 6.4 1 Cor. 8.6 for the Lord our God is one Lord the Godhead or Essence of God is one undivided * This Tradition of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was a point of great discourse amongst the Ancients it was the great Principle on which Parmenides founded his divine Idea's delivered by Plato Platonicae ideae ortum habuerunt ex Parmenide cujus magnum principium fuit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one and many one in the Architype Idea God many in their individual Natures or otherwise it relates to the Unity of the Divine Essence and the Plurality of Persons for the Platonists speak much of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Trinity Parmenides who followed Pythagoras is brought in by Plato philosophizing on that old Axiom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One and Many and determined thus That God was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. one Divine Essence he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one immutable Being he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one Eternal Being This Plato discourseth in his Philebus at large shewing how 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One was Many and Many One. And it is not only good Philosophy but sound Divinity the Godhead considered diversly for the manner of Being is Three Persons in One Essence the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost 1 Joh. 5.7 The Father is the First Person of the Trinity having Foundation in none of Personal Substance 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Not begotten to the Father The Son is the Second Person of the Trinity having Foundation of Personal Substance of whom he is eternally begotten Joh. 5.26 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Begotten to the Son The Holy Ghost is the Third Person in the Trinity having Foundation from the Father and the Son from both which he especially proceedeth Joh. 14.26 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Proceeding to the Holy Ghost Here is a threefold Unity of Persons in one Nature of Natures in One Person of Natures and Persons in One Quality In the First is one God In the Second one Christ In the Third one Spirit All this Unity is but to usher in a single Deity S. Paul concludes all with an 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 There is one God Eph. 4.6 And the Soul carrieth an Image of the Unity of the Godhead and Trinity of Persons in that there is one Soul with three Faculties of Understanding Will and Memory Let us all now lift up our heart and voice and praise God chanting forth the Anthem of the Seraphims for the Redemption of the World by our Lord Jesus Christ the Second Person of the Trinity concluding with S. Basil's Liturgy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O God our God who hast sent this heavenly Bread the Food of all the World Our Lord Jesus Christ to be to us a Saviour a Redeemer Therefore with Angels and Archangels and all the Company of Heaven we laud and magnifie thy glorious Name evermore praising thee and saying Holy holy holy Lord God of Hosts Heaven and Earth are full of thy Glory Secondly As Spiritual so Temporal Blessings are the product of Heaven This Day is a signal Instance and carries with it the Pomp of Blaze and Splendour as it is the Anniversary of His Majesty's happy Birth and Nativity And that Divine Providence that brought him this Day into the World hath led him by the hand of his visible goodness Ever since he entred the porch of life and walked upon the pavement of the Earth he has had the Royal Charter of Heaven and enjoy'd the testimony of Gods special care even a Writ of Protection 1 Chron. 16.22 Touch not mine Anointed do my Prophets no harm His Life hath been a continued Series of Divine Favour The Adversary hath not been able to do him violence the Son of wickedness could not hurt him but he hath smitten down his Foes before his face cloathed them with shame and wounded them that hated him The great Majesty of Heaven was a Helmet of Salvation unto him a strong Tower of Defence against his cruel Enemies Domestick and Foreign at home and abroad First Cruel Enemies at home who invested their Sword with the Authority of Law and made themselves after the Image of a King and usurp'd the Seat Royal chang'd the Kingdom into a State and Monarchy into a Common-wealth This was in the time of our late Troubles and Confusions when Monarchy was shaken off Religion and Property were lost and Laws and Liberty were with no small violence invaded being as in the days of Jeroboam whoever would 1 Kings 13.33 were consecrated Priests of the high places And when Souldiers turn'd Preachers every act of Providence that seems to favour their Designs shall be the voice of God Every opportunity to do mischief to such as they