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A46813	Beaufrons, or, A new-discovery of treason under the fair-face and mask of religion, and of liberty and conscience : in an answer to the Protestant reconciler ... / by one of His Majestie's chaplains.	Jenner, David, d. 1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing J657; ESTC R32980	46,367	116

any Civil Magistrates For now under the Gospel nothing is to Govern the Church of God Calvin Instit l. 4. c. 20. §. 1 2. but onely the Spirit of God And because the Spirit of God is invisible Therefore the Regimen of God's Church must also be invisible and spiritual Upon this account it is That All or most of the Anabaptists Cry-down all External Forms and Orders of Church Polity and Government And many of them decry the Religious use of any outward visible Elements such as Water in Baptism Or Bread and Wine in the Eucharist Because now we are to be Baptized onely with the Holy Ghost And now we are Onely to eat and drink Christ's Body and Bloud Spiritually by Faith in our hearts and not Carnally with our Mouths Now by the illumination of God's Holy Spirit without the Ministery of the Word and Sacraments Men may be saved Hence it was Simpson Ch. Hist p. 445. that the Anabaptist Gasper Suenkfeldius born in Silesia maintained That the Outward Ministery of the Word and Sacraments was not necessary to eternal life Their General Opinion is That the Supreme Magistrate highly sins when he makes Laws and Orders for the Outward Worship of God and for the External Celebration of the Sacraments or for any thing else which is visibly to be observed in Divine Worship They being of opinion That every Christian is left to the particular Guidance and Persuasion of the Holy Ghost And that he is to doe nothing but what he is persuaded to doe by some secret and immediate Impulse of the Spirit 2. As to matters of State They deny the Civil Magistrate to have any Right unto the Secular Sword But that All are to vail unto Christ's Sceptre of Grace Hence it is that They deny Princes to have power to put to Death any Malefactours though never so Criminal And if any of their Faction be executed although it be for Murther Treason and Rebellion yet they will cry out of Persecution and will Canonize such an one for a Martyr Declaring to the World that that their Brother died giving his Testimony to the Truth as died Scot the Regicide and that according to his Duty and Conscience he resisted unto Bloud the Anti-Gospel Powers as they Maliciously at least Erroneously Nick-Name all Civil Magistracy For Totam politioe rationem rem esse pollutam Calv. ut supra c. They condemn the whole Polity of Civil Government as a thing corrupt and Anti Christian And affirm Nec judicia sint nec Leges nec Magistratus c. That in these glorious times of the Gospel there ought to be no Laws Statutes or Magistracies obliging Christians to the obedience of Humane Ordinances nor any Tye put upon men whereby their Christian Liberty may be obstructed For now Alexand Ross View of Relig §. 12. p. 362. Mortui sumus per Christum elementis hujus Mundi c. We are dead through Christ unto the Elements and Ordinances of this World And therefore upon this account they style themselves Liberi Free-men because they being in Christ are made Free by Christ from all Obedience unto Humane Laws Hence it is that They all deny to take an Oath and to Swear before a Lawfull Civil Magistrate And therefore they are so far from taking the Oath of Supremacy as that they will not so much as take the Oath of Allegiance So that the King has from these Men no other Security for the preservation of his own Life and of his Subjects Properties than their Bare-Word and Promise Which word and promise they may and have Broke and again will soon break when ever the Spirit shall Dictate and Reveal to them That it is for God's Glory so to doe For all Anabaptists are of this Belief scil That God revealeth his Will P. Sim's Ch. Hist 443. not onely by the written word but also and that very frequently by immediate Visions and Dreams the which the Saints i. e. themselves ought as well to follow as the written word So that through pretended Revelations and sudden impulses of the Spirit they have oft times in their Zeal been irritated to draw the Sword against the Civil Magistrate and have sheathed it in the Bowels of many Innocent Christian people who would not be carryed away with their wind of Doctrine And they have been so far hurried on and actuated by a Spirit of Delusion as that in imitation of Jonathan and his Armour Bearer a few of them have essayed to chase thousands though they have wretchedly fallen and miserably miscarried in their bloudy Attempts A fresh and desperate instance of this we have had in London since the King 's Happy Restauration when the Wine Cooper Thomas Venner an Anabaptist and a Fifth-Monarchy Man who had before in 1657 stiled himself the Champion of Christ's Monarchy on earth and an Enemy to all Monarchies besides Christ's He did on January 7 8 9 1660 with about Sixty of his own Opinion Armed with Back Breast and Head-piece enter London-streets crying King Jesus King Jesus threatning present Death to all those that would not yield and side with him for K. Jesus And such was their Madness as that they believed That they and the rest of their own judgment were called by the Spirit of God to reform the wicked Anti-christian World and to make all the Earthly Powers which they called Babylon subservient to the Kingdom of Jesus And in Order hereunto Venner and his Company Vowed never to Sheath their Swords till the Powers of the World were subdued And although their Number was but small not exceeding Threescore yet they taught and believed that One of them should subdue a Thousand making an account that when they had conquered England they should have passed over the Seas and have subdued France Spain Italy and all Christendom if not all the other parts of the World And thus have brought Satan and all the Kingdoms of the Earth under the Sceptre and Obedience of King Jesus Dr. Featley and other Writers have noted that the Anabaptists have been the Great if not the first Incendiaries and Fomenters of Rebellion against their Lawfull Princes And that it is impossible they should be otherwise unless they should act contrary and inconsistently to their own avouched Principles For the two fundamental Articles of their Faith are these scil 1. That the Offices of Kings and Emperours and of all Civil Magistrates are not approved by God under the New Testament There being in their judgment no other Monarchy or Government but onely that of King Jesus 2. That no man ought to take any Corporal Oath or to enter into any Covenant to preserve or to obey the Secular Powers Royalties and Dignities there being no Covenant but that of Grace among Christians And therefore saith the fore-mentioned Historian It was no wonder that Men who had laid such Grounds of Seditious Doctrine were also found in their lives to be Authours of Seditious

Ministers of the Episcopal Protestant Church of England Vide p. 33. are Idolaters But pray Mr. Reconciler be pleased to tell us Wherein the Papists are Idolaters I presume you will answer if any thing to the purpose That The Papists are Idolaters Either because they worship the Hoast Or because they Bow down to and Worship Images and Crucifixes Very Good If they do Worship the Hoast Crucifixes or Images we then are of your Opinion and do believe that they are Idolaters and our Church of England concludes the same of them whilst they worship the Hoast as God which indeed is no God for otherwise were the Hoast as all Papists believe Transubstantiated into the very Body and Bloud of Christ God-Man then it would be no Idolatry to Worship the Hoast But Sir As to Crucifixes and Images If a Religious bowing down to and praying before an Image or Crucifix with the Eye directed towards it and cast upon it Be Idolatry Then we must tell you that Mr. Richard Baxter your admired Authour and your Great Dissenter is a Notorious Idolater For if Mr. Baxter himself in his Christian Directory or if Doctour Edw. Stilling-fleet in his Vnreasonableness of Separation may be credited The said Mr. Baxter Writes That it is Lawfull to fall down and Pray before a Crucifix and that it is Lawfull to Direct our Eye towards the said Image or Crucifix for the better Stirring up of our Devotions and therefore Mr. Baxter calls a Crucifix Medium Excitans not Medium Terminans of our Devotion And no more say the Papists for themselves when they Bow to or Pray before a Crucifix or Image And now to argue a little with you If Mr. Baxter a Presbyterian-Idolater may be indulged and admitted into our Church-Communion Then pray Why may not another Man who is a Popish-Idolater in like manner be indulged and admitted too Verily you must grant the Demand and Indulge them Both or else discover the partiality of your Conscience and Affections But pray Sir What is it that weighs down the Balance of your affections more towards the Dissenters than towards the Papists seeing neither of them are Protestants The one party as well as the other are your Native Country-men and therefore upon that account they both equally challenge your love And Christ died for Papists as well as for Dissenters and Beaufronts and therefore according to your Own Argument you ought to be as solicitous for their Salvation as for the others 2. But you will again Object That the Papists are Superstitious And so are the Dissenters as also the Beaufronts It being a great Superstition for any Man to oblige himself and his Party to serve God onely in such and such a particular way Jos Glanvill Essay 4. p. 13. Displeasing to his Lawfull Prince and contrary to his Royal Commands when at the same time he might as well have served God in the way commanded which was and is as pleasing unto God and much more pleasing unto his Prince This is the great Superstition All the Dissenters and Beaufronts are Guilty of And farther it is † The Plain Man's Way Sect. 19. p. 40. as great a Breach of and as great a Restraint put upon Christian Liberty for any man to oblige himself not to Doe a Thing indifferent as to be Obliged by his Prince to doe it For every man in that case is more his King's and Sovereign's Man than his Own And therefore All those Persons who oblige themselves and their Followers Not to observe the Orders and Ceremaonies of our Church which are acknowledged to be things indifferent and which are commanded by the King All such Persons whether Beaufronts or Dissenters are not onely Disloyal and Schismatical but also Self-willed and highly Superstitious as well as the Papists 3. But you will plead farther That the Papists are so wedded to their Principles as that neither Scripture Reason nor Antiquity can divert them And pray Are not all the Dissenters wedded as strongly to theirs if they be men of any setled Principles and Humours indeed as for the Beaufronts they will not wait for either Scripture or Reason But like the Weather-Cock will turn with every wind 4. But say you The Papists have Vowed Obedience to the Pope of Rome And I pray Have not the Presbyterians Vowed Obedience to their Consistory And have not the Independents Vowed and Promised the like to their Congregational-Church 5. But the Papists do all Deny the King's Supremacy And have we not proved That all the Dissenters Deny the Same and that therefore they are No Protestants 6. But the Papists are Bloudy-minded Men and hold with Bellarmin * Papam habere plenitudinem potestat is super omnes Reges Principes Christianos Posse eos Regnis privare in temporalibus prorsus eximere plebem Christianam ab eorum obedientia subjectione c. Bellarmin de potestate summi Pontif. in Reb. Temporal c. 13. p. 149. Edit Colon. Agrip. 1511. Vid. Stephen Colledges Tryall and other Jesuites such as Joan. Driedo That Christian Kings if Hereticks may and ought to be Deposed and put to Death And pray Do not all the Dissenters hold the same Bloudy Opinions For Because I know you love Repetition pray Who but the Dissenters and the Beaufronts raised the late Bloudy War and Rebellion upon no other account as was pretended but that of tender Conscience and Religion Who but they Deposed and Murthered the late King of which you take not the least notice as I remember in all your Book Who but they entered into a New Association against the King to seize on his Person at Oxford and to Depose Old Rowland as they most Opprobriously Nick-named Our and Their own Dread Sovereign the King in case he should not yield to their Demands Was it not they who Beheaded Arch-Bishop Laud in England for being true to the King and the Church And was it not they the Dissenters who the other day in Scotland Assassinated and most barbarously Butchered and Murthered in the King's High-way the most pious and eminently vertuous Protestant-Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews and that for no other Reason as their own Party confessed on the Gallows but because the said Arch-Bishop was a true Liege's-Man and a true Church-Man And now Sir Will you not grant that the Dissenters and Beaufronts are Bloudy-minded Men as well as the Papists And if they be so pray tell the World what 's the Reason you so passionately Love them and so bitterly hate the Papists In truth Sir If you would not Rail and say as some Dissenters and Beaufronts already have done and said that I am a Papist the which I bless God I am not and hope never to be But if I must confess I am and through God's Assistence I resolve to be and to die what I ever professed my self to be an hearty Episcopal Protestant of the Church of England But were it not for such a Calumny