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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94740	A supplement to the Serious consideration of the oath of the Kings supremacy; published October 1660. In, first, some consideration of the oath of allegiance. Secondly, vindicating of the consideration of the oaths of the Kings supremacy and allegiance, from the exceptions of Richard Hubberthorn, Samuel Fisher, Samuel Hodgkin, and some others against them, in the points of swearing in some case, and the matters of those oaths. By John Tombes B.D.	Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.	1661 (1661)	Wing T1821; Thomason E1084_1; ESTC R207991	39,490	48

3. is much less to the purpose it being only a precept to Teachers and Elders of the Church concerning the exercise of their Ecclesiastical function nothing to the restraint of Princes from the exercise of their office in things and causes spiritual 4. The Apostles only perswading shewing the terrours of the Lord shaking off the dust of their feet are ill alledged to exclude Princes from their power of governing all persons in all causes The Apostles and Elders did not bear the sword as Princes do It would be of very bad consequence if in case of resistance they might do no more then the Apostles were to do in case their doctrine were received or opposed It is added by the Petitioners thus 3. It is very plain that the Lord Jesus himself in his parable of the tares and wheat forbids any force to be exercised upon false worshippers as such for by the tares which he forbids the pulling up Mat. 13. 29. cannot be intended the transgressors of the second Table such as thieves murderers c. because all confess with one consent that the Magistrates authority reaches such but those that Christ Jesus would have remain amongst his wheat in the field of the world are the children of the wicked one through Idolatry and will-worship this will further appear if the 28 29 30. ver be compared with the 38 39. of the same Chapter and the reason the Lord Jesus gives why both tares and wheat must grow together O King that it were engraven with the point of a diamond and often laid before thee is least in gathering up the tares the wheat also be rooted up with them Answ Parables are a way of teaching much used of old in the Eastern Countries as appears by Jotham's parable Judg. 9. Nathans parable 2 Sam. 12. and they are narrations of things perhaps never done yet related as if they had been so acted as they are told that by the resemblance the thing intended may more easily insinuate it self into the minds of the persons to be instructed by the parable Now there are in such parables two parts the one the devised story the other the intended doctrine to be learnt by it which is sometimes opened as Mat. 13. which we term the application or explication and sometimes left to be gathered by the auditors as Luke 14. 16 c. Luke 15. 11 c. and even Mat. 13. 31 32 33 44 45 46. In the devised story are many things inserted as lace in a garment or carvings in a building or pictures in a Map which are only for comeliness in the speech more handsome dress of the speech or filling it up and yet are not doctrinal nor argumentative as from the parable Luke 16. 23 24 25. it would be vain to teach men that those in hell may see those in Abrahams bosome and speak one to another And therefore it is a rule in Divinity that such symbolical expressions are not argumentative any further then their application explication or scope appears to be Now the parable Mat. 13. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30. being distinctly opened by Christ from ver 36. to 44. it is unsafe to conclude any more from it then Christ hath done in his explication I know this passage Mat. 13. 29 30. hath been much urged for the toleration of men corrupt in matters of faith and worship by the civil Magistrate without civil penalties specially such as are destructive of mens being But what ever be said of the conclusion this Text serves not to the purpose For 1. It is no part of the application or explication ver 36. to ver 44. and therefore is to be counted only a filling up of the devised story and therefore not doctrinal or argumentative 2. There is no proof That by the children of the wicked one ver 38. are meant only Idolaters and wil-worshippers Yea these reasons seem to prove that others are meant to wit wicked men who are transgressors of the second Table of the Law as well as the first 1. That the children of the wicked one are ver 41. termed all scandals or things that do offend and them that do iniquity or that which is not agreeable to Gods Law 2. John 8. 44. 1 John 3. 10 12. haters of their brethren and murderers and liars are termed children of the Devil or wicked One as well as Idolaters or will-worshippers 3. The children of the wicked One seem to be all sorts of men who are of Satans sowing 4. All those who are not children of the Kingdome but are to be cast into a furnace of fire Ver. 38. 42. are termed tares and these are not only Idolaters will-worshippers heretiques but all other sorts of sinners such as are mentioned 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. and elsewhere Nor are the reasons valid here produced to the contrary For 1. It followes not thieves and murderers and others whom confessedly the authority of the Magistrate here reacheth are not here meant therefore not other transgressors of the second Table but Idolaters will-worshippers heretiques 2. Nor doth it follow Christ would not have thieves murderers and other transgressors of the second Table remain among the wheat but to be plucked up therefore they are not here meant by the tares but Idolaters and will-worshippers as if Christ would have all transgressors of the second Table plucked up none of the transgressors of the first which is all one as to say Christ would have all liars covetous unrighteous persons in any kind destroyed not any Witch Atheistical scoffer Blasphemer Idolater profane person 3. It is not proved that by the servants of the housholder are meant the civil Magistrate why not the Angels termed reapers ver 39. These Petitioners after make them the Apostles will they have them to tolerate Idolaters in the Church 4. Were it granted that here were meant only Idolaters will-worshippers heretiques how is it proved that this is a precept to civil Magistrates There is no such precept in the application or explication of the parable and therefore it seems to me not to note the duty of the civil Magistrate but the event of Gods providence that God would permit the cohabitation of the wicked in the world with the just as is also taught in the parable of the net ver 47 48 49 50. Not that Magistrates or Ministers should permit them and not by civil punishment or Ecclesiastical remove them out of the Church or the world Lastly it follows not Magistrates may not destroy Idolaters will-worshippers therefore they may not inflict any civil punishment from the species to the genus negatively an argument concludes not These Petitioners further tell us How sad it is to remember how in all ages since Christ very strange mistakes have been on this account the Lord of life himself was put to death for supposed blasphemie and wickedness and accused for being an enemy to Caesar Mat. 26. 65. John 19. 12. and this done unto him by a people