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A66361	The chariot of truth wherein are contained I. a declaration against sacriledge ..., II. the grand rebellion, or, a looking-glass for rebels ..., III. the discovery of mysteries ..., IV. the rights of kings ..., V. the great vanity of every man ... / by Gryffith Williams.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing W2663; ESTC R28391	625,671	469

and the Place where he dwelleth is Holy The Confuter of Apollonius confesseth That so long as a Prince is and remaineth Grallae pag. 20. in his house because of his Majesty and pompe there is nothing in the house which derives not thence some dignitie and splendor and will you deny that priviledge to Gods House which you will yield to the Palace of an earthly Prince No certainly it is an holy place Vide the Great Antichrist Revealed l. 2. c. 5. pag. 88. Therefore as God will be served in the time that he appointeth and by the persons that he chuseth and after the manner that himself prescribeth so he will be worshipped not where every one pleaseth but in the place which is Consecrated and Sanctified for our Holy God to come and to be present with us as you may see in Levit. 17 8. Exod. 23. 19. and chap. 25. 8. where the Lord chargeth his people to make him a Sanctuarie or a Tabernacle that is an holy House or Temple that he might dwell among Exod. 25. 8. them And therefore the Prophet David desired that he might dwell in Gods Tabernacle and was glad when the people said We will go into the House Psal 27 4. Psal 122. 1. Joh. 18. 20. of the Lord. And Christ saith I ever taught in the Synagogue and in the Temple that is for the most part and ordinarily and alwayes when he came to the Temple and opportunitie offered him occasion so to do And S. Matthew saith The blind and the lame came unto him in the Temple and Matth. 21. 14. he healed them And so must we come unto him into his Temple if we desire to be healed of our infirmities And so the Apostles and Disciples of Christ after his Ascension into Heaven met and worshipped God in the Temple And when the Christians began to be mult●plied they presently erected Oratories and Churches and consecrated them as Solomon did the Temple for God's Service as you may see in 1 Cor. 11. 22. and from the 14. Chapter of the said Epistle where the Apostle bids the women to be silent in the Church for that must not be understood of any other private house or meetings of men where the women may as lawfully speak as men or the Apostle had laid too great a burden upon them and such as they neither could nor would have born but his meaning is that the women should be silent in the Congregation that publickly meeteth in Gods House for the service of God And because That material house was erected and set a part from all Prophane uses for to pray to God to Preach unto the people and to do all other exercises of Religion as Administring the Sacraments Catechising the Youths Collecting the Alms for the Poor and the like services of the Lord and was hallowed and Sanctified by the prayers and Consecration of the Bishop to be used only for that end and that God hath promised 2 Chron. 6. his more speciall presence for our help and assistance in a most speciall manner in that House more and rather then in any other place as you may Matth 18. 20. see by Solomons prayer and by the words of Christ therefore the true Saints and servants of God that understood the difference betwixt Holy and Prophane things did ever Honor and shew a great deal of respect and Reverence to this very place of Gods Worship more then to any Chamber of presence of the greatest Monarch of the World And why not For if we must be Bare-headed in the Kings Chamber or the Lord Lieftenants Chamber of Presence why should not Gods Chamber of Presence have the like Reverence Surely none but prophane Atheists wicked Hereticks and the members of the beast that is the Great Anti-Christ that are worse then the worst of worldlings have ever denied it or abused prophaned or blasphemed these or any of these material Churches whereof the Prophet saith Holiness becometh thy House for ever For sal 93. 6. Though as I said before originally and in respect of their own natur● In what sense all things are alike Holy there is no inberent or innate Sanctity in one place more then in another but all places are alike Holy and so are all daies and all meats and all other things that are ejusdem speciei of the same kind they are all alike Holy and there is no difference nor any more Sanctity in any one than in the other they being all alike created Holily by God who beheld All the things Gen. 1. 31. that he made and behold they were all exceeding good Yet if we consider Gods designation of any of these things and the Sanctification In what sense some things are more Holy then other things of the same by Gods own appointment for such and such ends and uses in the service of God then you shall find a great deal of difference betwixt the one and the other and a great deal of a relative and accidental Holiness in and belonging to the one more then to the other otherwise what difference will you make betwixt the common bread that we And for the fu●ther clearing of this point you may look into Mr. Medes learned discourse De Sanctitate relativa and his answer to Dr. Twisse p. 660. and in Levit. 19. 30. eat of the finest Wheat-flower and the most Holy and blessed bread of the Holy Eucharist or the Lords Supper But the Sanctifying of this bread by our prayers to this end and for this use to be the body and blood of Christ makes all the difference so that now after the words of Consecration of it which are the words of Christ Hoc est corpus meum this is my body we cannot without prophaneness and a mighty offence give the same to dogs or unbelieving Jews or to any other whom we do know to be altogether unworthy of it as we can give the other bread that is made of the same lump to either of these without any fault or offence at all Or what difference is there betwixt one day and another but because the Lord hath designed the seventh day to be set apart for his service and hallowed it for that end therefore it is more Holy then the other six daies and so are the daies and feasts that are appointed by the Church to Honor God in them as the commemoration of Christ's Nativity Circumcision Resurrection Ascention and other daies of Thanks-giving for some speciall blessings and extraordinary favours which as on those daies we have received from God which daies none will prophane but the neglecters of Gods Honor and the prophaneners of his service So what difference or what holiness is there naturally in one man more then in another none or little at all but when the Lord calleth and chooseth one man before another to be his servant and to be sent and his Embassadour to Preach his Word to Administer his

made him like John Baptist to be Magnus coram Domino Great in the sight of the Lord as for his Potency that made him Great among men And Eusebius that wrote the Life of Constantine and sets down his Piety saith The Court of the Emperour Valerian was so replenished with godly men and religious Christians that it seemed to be the Church of God rather than the Kings Court So great a care had he of Religion and the Service of God that as the Prophet David saith none should be his servants that served not God Psal 101. 9. but whoso leadeth a godly life he shall be my servant said this good Emperdu● as good King David said before him And the Emperour Jovinian that succeeded Julian the Apostate who withdrew very many from the Christian Religion to imbrace the idolatrous service and superstitions of the Heathens when he attained unto the Empire said to the people That he would be a King of Christians or he would be no King at all And Alphonsus King of Arragon is made Famous in all Chronicles for the great love he bare to Learning and especially for the great zeal he had to the Christian Religion and the great care he took to promote the Gospel of Christ and to provide for his servants and when some other King said unto him That it was too base an office for a King to trouble himself with such affairs Alphonsus answered Vox bovis ista est potius quàm regis That voice seemed to him to be the voice of an Oxe rather than of a King And as Theodosius and Valentinian very Christian like called themselves the vassals of Christ so Constantine was wont to say That he gloried more to be the servant of Christ than in being the Emperour of the World And as these pious Kings and godly Emperours were thus zealous to maintain the Christian Religion which bare up the Pillars of their Dominions and makes their names now to live glorious though they are dead So the Throne of this Empire and Kingdom of Great Britaine hath not That this our kingdom had many zealous and most godly Kings wanted devout Princes and most worthy Kings that have trod in the steps of King David to provide Houses for God's Service and to imitate the examples of the best of the aforesaid pious Princes to see the Religion of Christ and the True Faith purely maintained within their Kingdoms as you may find it in our Chronicles and the Statutes of King Inas King Alfred King Edward that for his devotion and zeal to the Christian Religion was rightly called Saint Edward King Ethelstane and King Canutus Vide Speed lib. 8. c. 3. the Dane that laid the foundation of his Building to compose the differences of Religion and to rectifie whatsoever he found amisse therein before he entred upon the causes of the Common-wealth For I read it Registred that after sundry Laws inacted touching our Religion and the Faith of Christ as the celebration of certain Holy-dayes the right form of Baptism the duty of Fasting the teaching of the Lords Prayer unto the people the administration of the Common-prayer and the celebration of the blessed Sacrament of the body and blood of Christ thrice every year and some other Duties of our Religion this Title followeth Jam sequitur institutio legum saecularium which as Speed sheweth are most excellent for the execution Speed quo supra pag. 384. of Justice And it is Recorded that William the Conqueror in one of his Parliaments said That he being Vice-gerent to the King of kings holdeth his Kingdom to this end to defend his people and especially the people of God and his holy Church that is the Bishops and Priests to teach the people and to performe the Worship and Service of God in his Church And even in our own dayes the Holy Name of God be for ever blessed and praised for it we have had such pious Kings as I believe I may justly say The Christian World for Piety and Religion for love to God's Ministers and the care of God's Worship could shew but very few like them and none to precede them therein and that is King James and King Charles the First whose glorious name above all other Kings since Christ The rare and just commendation of King Charles the First I shall ever honour and extoll as the most constant Defender of the Christian Faith the most loving Patron of God's Ministers the Bishops and Preachers of his Word and the most faithful Witness and Martyr that lost his life for the preservation of God's Church and the Religion of Jesus Christ with whom I do alwayes when I think of him behold and see him Crowned with Eternal Glory The most Blessed of all our Kings and the Best of all our Saints CHAP. IX Of the chiefest Parts and Duties of Kings and Princes which they are to discharge for the maintenance of God's Service and the True Religion and the necessity of Cathedral-Churches and Chappels for the people of God to meet in for the Worship and Service of God YOu have heard how that God hath given the Power and Authority unto Kings and Princes to be the Supervisors Directors and Reprovers of things amiss as well in the Church as in the Common-wealth And how he requireth and commandeth them to discharge those Duties accordingly and to have a care to preserve his Religion as they do regard their own Salvation You have likewise heard how all Kings both Heathens Jews and Christians did execute that power and according to their ability discharged their Duties as well in the Spiritual jurisdiction of Ecclesiastical causes as in the decision of Civil causes It resteth that I should shew unto you the chiefest Parts and Duties that they owe to God and are to discharge for the promoting of his Service and the Religion of Jesus Christ And I conceive them principally to consist in these Four Points which may be like the four Rivers of Paradise to water the Garden The four chiefest things that Kings Princes ought to do for the upholding of God's Religion and the Service of Jesus Christ of God's Church to make it to bring forth plenty of fruits to the glory of God and the salvation of mens souls And they are 1. To take care and to cause that there should be Cathedral-Churches and Chappels fairly built and decently trimmed and adorned as befits the Houses of God for his people to meet in for the Worship and Service of God 2. To see that alle honest and religious Bishops be placed in those Cathedrals and others the like pious and painful Ministers be appointed in all the Parochial Churches and Chappels to perform the true Service of God as they ought to do and to see those Drones that neglect it and those factious Sectaries and Hereticks that defile and corrupt it and those scandalous livers that do much prejudice unto their holy Calling to be

into the Rivers taken the Ministers Surplices to make Frocks to preserve their cloathes when they dressed their Horses and in Worcester they have done what I am ashamed to speak and would loathe any modest ear to heare made the Pulpit and not far from the Town the Font their house of office as I was informed by one of the gravest Doctours and Prebends of that Church thrown down the Organs which cost above fifteen hundred pounds and taken the Pipes and Copes of the Prebends and gone round about the Streets with the Copes on their backs and the Pipes in their hands dancing the Morrice-dance So in Winscomb in Glocester-shire they brake down the Organs and made that Church their Slaughter-house when they killed certain Sheep that they had stollen and dressed the same upon the Communion Table and in Lincoln-Minster the Souldiers brought their Horses into the Quire laid their hay upon the Holy Table and made the House of God a Stable for their Horses that did now eat their hay where the Christians did use to Communicate the Body and Blood of Christ so that these men give their Saviour no better entertainment now in his glory than the Jews did when Luk. 2. 7 he came in his Humility but he shall be still kept low and a Stable shall be good enough for his Mansion yet as in Canterbury they did but little less so in Winchester they added this to their former prophanations to take the ashes of those Saxon Kings that were kept in certain Urns and threw them about the ground as if death it self could not appease their rage Saeva sed in manes manibus arma dabant It would fill a whole volume to relate all the Villanies that they did of this kind the consideration of which prophane usage of Holy places made a worthy Gentleman Pathetically to set down these servent speeches I would to God we had not cause to complain of the Horrid and barbarous attempts of divers among us Christians I can scarce call them against some the mother-Churches * Canterbury Worcester Winchester Chichester and many others who as if they had studied to affront the Almighty to his face and purposely with Manasses to anger him have not spared to prophane those goodly Structures and irreligiously and Antichristianlike to deface the Instruments there prepared and imployed in the service of the great God at the very thought whereof I tremble and stand amazed and can hardly believe the Christian World in any age Master Theyer in his Treatise of Episcopacy p. 56 57. no not under the Gothes and Vandals can parallel it with an example of like abominable and Atheistical Villanies yet to this day uncensured and I am heartily sorry that it should be told in Gath or Ascalon in any forraign Nation that our English People should have any such Sect amongst them so voyd of all humanity so destitute of all thoughts of a Deity and so full of all incredible impieties And therefore I must use the words of the Prophet Jeremy Shall I not visit for these things saith Jer. 5. 9 29. the Lord Or shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this Or is it any wonder that there are such Wars such bloody Wars such barbarous rapines and that these miseries do still continue amongst us when we not onely proceed to commit but also to defend and justify these and the like abominable wickednesses and have pleasure in them that do Rom. 1. 32 Heb. 10. 31. them for It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God 5. Under the colour of advancing the true Protestant Religion they 5. Branded the true Protestants and advanced Anabaptists have branded the best Protestants even those that have most learnedly both preached and written against the Church of Rome and all her erroneous tenets and were not long since registred in the classe of Puritans and for that cause kept under water for Papists and superstitiously Popish and so Malignants and opposers of the true to be established Religion and they have encouraged and promoted to the Livings and Lively-hoods of the most Orthodox and Canonical men Anabaptists and Brownists and other Sectaries of most desperate opinions that as Saint Bernard saith of the like Multiplicati sunt super numerum As the Caterpillers overspread all the Land of Aegypt so these are multiplyed in every corner without number and these tares have almost choaked all the Wheat in Gods field and do preach most desperate Doctrines destructive both to themselves their Proselytes and all the truest Protestants throughout all this Kingdom when as Sedition and Rebellion besides their other damnable Doctrines condemned by the Church must ever be at one end of their Sermons and published in their Pamphlets As for instance you may find in the bloody books and fiery writings of the darling Secretaries of the red Dragon that warreth against the Saints Stephen Marshal Master Bridges Jo. Goodwin Burroughs and the rest of the Locusts * Qu● glomerantur in unum Innumer● pestes Erebi Claud. that are sent out of the bottomlesse pit to seduce the people of God and to lead them headlong unto perdition But let me advise the Servants of Christ to remember their Saviour's words To beware of false Prophets they shall deceive many and many Matth. 7. 15. love to be deceived by them those whom God hath given up that they should believe a lye Qui infatuati seducuntur seducti judicabuntur but 2 Thess 2. 10. The Authour's advice you that desire to escape their snares may know them by their fruits which are Rebellion against their King and Rayling against their Governours Perjury against God by the breaches of those Oathes which in the face of the Church they have taken both to the King and to their Superiours Three notes by which we may know the false Apostles and a wilful perverting of the sacred Scriptures to the perdition of their Proselytes besides many other bitter fruits that worse than any Aconite are able to poyson any Christian soul that do but taste of their Philtra's or if you will believe these Apples of Sodom to be as sweet as they seem fair then remember by what marks the Prophets and Apostles tell us that we may know them 1. Such as run before they be sent as 1. Note Jer. 23. 21. Weavers Tailors and the like that never had any calling or Authority to enter upon this sacred Function 2. They went from us but are 2. Note 1 John 2. 1● not of us such as were called but then forsook their first love and apostated from the Church and like ungracious children did throw dirt in their mothers face or like the brood of Vipers do labour to gnaw out her bowels and here let the world judge whether we went from them or they from us whether we or they apostated from that Oath and profession which all

the whole Kingdom into my hands then they do all answer We are willing to do all this And then he saith again Therefore from hence-forth oris mei sermo gladius meus erit the word of my mouth shall be the sword of my power then all the people do applaud him And a little after he saith in ejus manibus seu potestate omnia sunt all things are in his hands and power no Aubarus l. 8. p. 141. man dare say this is mine or that is his no one man may dwell in any part of the Land but in that which is assigned unto him by the King Nomini licèt imperatoris verba mutare nomini latae ab illo sententiae qualicunque modo contraire and no man dares alter the Kings words nor gain say his sentence whatsoever it is And we read that the Turk is as absolute in his Dominions and as readily obeyed in his commands as the Tartar and yet these Subjects learn this duty of honour and obedience unto their Kings onely by the light of nature and if grace and the Gospel hath made us free from this slavish subjection should we not be thankful unto our God and be contented with that liberty which he hath given us but because we have so much we will have more * And as the Poet saith Like Subjects arm'd the more their Princes gave They this advantage took the more to crave Lucan lib. 1. and seeing God hath delivered us from the rage of tyrannous Kings we will free our selves from all government and disobey the commands of the most ●l●ment Princes We may remember the fable of the Frogs where they prayed unto Jupiter to haue a King and what was the success thereof omnia dat qui just a negat and he that undutifully denyeth his due obedience may unwillingly be forced to undue subjection as the Israelites not contented with just Samuel shall be put under an unjust Saul So God may justly deal with us for our injustice towards our King to deny that honour unto him which God commanded to be given and the very Heathens have not detained from their Kings But 3. ●est with Saint Paul we should be blamed though unjustly for bringing 3. Christians the uncircumcised Greeks into the Temple for alleadging the disorderly practice of blinde Heathens to be a pattern for these zealous Christians which thing notwithstanding our Saviour did when he preferred Sodom and Gomorrha before Capernaum yea Tyrus and Sidon before Corazin and Bethsaida we Matth. 11. 21. cannot want the example of good Christians and a multitude of most holy Martyrs 1. Christ himself exhibited all due honour unto wicked kings to shame the practice of these prophane hypocrites For 1. Christ himself the authour and the finisher of our faith never left any plainer mark of his religion then to propagate the same by patience as on the other side there cannot be a more suspitious sign of a false Religion then to enlarge it and protect it by violence and therefore when the Inhabitants of a certain Samaritane village refused to admit Christ and his Disciples into their Luke 9. 54. 1 Reg. 18. 2 Reg. 1. Town and so renounced him and his Religion James and John two principal members of his Court remembring what Elias did in the like case asked if they should not command fire to consume them as Elias did that is if they should not use their best endeavours and be confident of Gods assistance to destroy those prophane rejecters of Christ and refusers of his religion Our Saviour though ever meeke yet now moved at this their unchristian thought rebuked them with that sharpness as he did Saint Peter when he committed the like errour and said You know not what manner of spirit you are of as if he had said Matth. 16. 23. you understand not the difference betwixt the profession of Elias and my religion for he was such a Zelot that jure zelotarum and the extraordinary instinct of Gods spirit that was in him might at that time when the Jews were governed by a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Josephus saith and God presiding as it were their King amongst them and interposing rules by his Oracles and other particular directions that should oblige and warrant them as well as their standing Law do this or the like act though not authorized by any ordinary Law and those actions thus performed are as just and as legal as any other that proceed from the authority of the supreame Magistrate but that dispensation of the Prophets is now ended and the profession of my Disciples must be far otherwise for I do not authorize my servants to pretend to the spirit of Elias or to do as Phineas and others extraordinary men among the Jews have done but they must learn of me to be meeke and lowly in heart and rather to suffer wrong of Matth. 11. 29. others then to offer the least injury unto their meanest neighbour much less to resist their supreame Magistrate And when Christ was apprehended not by any legal power of the supreme How Christ carried himself before Pilate and the High-Priests Magistrate but by the rude servants of the High Priests and Saint Peter as zealous for his Master as our Zealots are for their Religion drew his sword and smote off Malchus ear a most justifiable and commendable act a man would think to defend Christ and in him all Christianity our Saviour bids him put up his sword and he adds a reason most considerable to all Christians for all they that take the sword shall perish by the sword that is all they that without lawful authority take the sword to defend me and my religion with the sword they deserve to suffer by the sword and it is very well observed by the Author of resisting the lawful Magistrate upon colour of religion that the two parallel places Pag. 6. quoted in the margent of our Bibles are very pertinent to this purpose for that Law concerning the effusion of bloud being not any prohibition to the legal Gen. 9. 6 cutting off of Malefactors is notwithstanding urged against S. Peter to shew that his shedding of bloud in defence of religion was altogether illegal and prohibited by that Law and the other place where immediately after these words He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword the Holy Revel 13. 10. Ghost adjoyneth here is the patience and the faith of the Saints doth most clearly shew that all forcible resistance is inconsistent with the religion of the Saints because their faith must be ever accompanied with their patience and it is contrary to their profession to save themselves by any violent opposition of them that have the lawful authority But that example which is unparallel'd is the suffering of Christ under Pontius Pilate for the whole course of their proceeding against Christ was illegal when as no Law can be