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A76378	Logoi apologetikoi. Foure apologicall tracts exhibited to the supreme, self-made authority, now erected in, under the Commons name of England. Wherein is proved, that their unparallel'd acts in beheading the most Christian King, nulling the regall office, disclaiming the knowne heire, Charles the II. and declaring it treason to refell their errours, are diametrically opposite to the Scriptures, the greatest opprobrie to Christianity that ever was in the world; and, without true repentance, will either make England not Christian, or no English nation. / By T.B. a conscientious and orthodox divine.	T. B., conscientious and orthodox divine.	1649 (1649)	Wing B186; Thomason E558_8; ESTC R5037	19,646	35

is high time then to stir with tongue pen c. even for you also ye learned and holy Assembly of Divines high time Who value Relgion and have any courage for the truth fear not to die the sword with your bloud and turne the edge thereof with your bones Cause there is and who observe that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therefore looketh backward and forward may find it just enough First in the former verse The Gentiles are convicted by our good works this work therefore as first in the Law should be well done that they may glorifie God in the day of visitation Secondly in this verse The Lord is the Author of such ordinance and not the people Obedience therefore ought Rom. 13. 1. to be pay'd for the Lords sake according to his will not their rule Thirdly in the next verse Magistrates are ordained for the punishment of the bad but to reward the good For thepunishment therefore of evil doers and the praise of them that do well let the higher powers be handled reverently Bring these together He is a dishonour to God a scandall to his profession and an offence to the very Ethnicks that professing the Gospel by his works dissolves the Law which Christ came to fulfil Non ex verbis dogmata verum ex ipsis rebus vita Gentiles judicare consueverunt For it was not the Gentiles custome to judge In Tit. 2. 9. Serm. 4. our tenets by words in deeds and life it was so Saint Chrisostome And do not the Jewes Turks Heathens and all sorts of Christians that are not in order with the prime abetters of Antichristian Democratie object our grosse breach of nature And well may For if Christ be Lord of Lorde and King of Kings 1 Tim. 6. 15. they that in the name of the people deposed beheaded their most Christian King that assume the Supreme Authority as the peoples Representatives proclaime the right Heire to the Kingdome CHARLES the Second and all that adhere to Him Traytours do so much as in them lieth to overthrow the dominion of Jesus Wisdome saith by me Kings reigne Prov. 8. 15. Jesuited Anabaptists Franchified consistorians and Scotized zelots will have the people constitute their King Lucifer would be exalted above God and these are high to dethrone Christ Take heed Christ is a stone and rock of offence Who fall foule on him on them falling he grindes to powder Ob. 'T is Objected the King was a Tyrant c. Sol. A Tyrant and his mercies over all His works Non bene conveniunt Yet grant that King Charls the First of blessed memory had been a Tyrant an Infidell too were not we by the law of God of Nature and Nations bound to acknowledg Him as King Gods Vicegerent and our dread Soveraigne But He next under Christ was the greatest defender in the world of the true Catholike faith His conversation every way answerable to His profession and His wisdome sufficient to be in all causes Ecclesiasticall and Civil Supreme Moderatour In both fortunes the same still In His life and death He so well trod the steps of our Jesus Master that His parallel since Christ will not be found in the Chronicles of the Kings Who then fell from Him either in respect to His person or in obedience to His just Commands cryed up a Malignant party to the taking away of His life and still pursue their bloudy designe against His successour and all faithfull Subjects have denied the Lordship of our Saviour and without repentance provoked Gods wrath to the ruine of their owne soules Rom. 13. 2. Can ye remember the Oath of Allegiance of Supremacy the Protestation your Covenant also to maintaine His Majesties Royall Person and Dignity And may ye think it stands with Protestants to turn Priscillianists or be forsworn under a colour of Religion Can ye make use of the Kings Coine with a quiet Conscience and not learne of our Saviour by the image there to give Caesar his right Can ye read Carolus Det gratia Charls by the grace of God King c. and yet thrust God from the throne and set up a supremacy Gratia Populi By the grace of the People Who hath bewitched you that having eyes ye see not nor heare with your ears nor perceive with your understanding The Lord enlighten your minds and direct your judgements conforme your wils and mollifie your hearts that ye fall not into a reprobate sense bound therefore to obey God rather then man I dare not assent to them that raised and maintained forces which at Edge-bill Brandford Gloucester Newbury the first Banbury Listithyel Where His Majestie was in Person Newbury the second and Nazeby Fight for the Lords sake endeavoured to destroy the Annointed of the Lord which when afterwards His Majestie went from Oxford unto them kept Him almost three years Prisoner then accused tried condemned and on the thirtieth of January 1648. beheaded Him which have now made an Act to deprive the late King's Heires of the Crowne Voted Regality uselesse erected a Free-state stiled the Commons the supreme Authority of this Nation and declared it Treason to thwart their proceedings any way Stand amaz'd ye Heavens and tremble O Earth I am a Christian and Orthodox no blind Zelot nor Apostate In arcanum corum ne ingreditor anima mea Into their secret let not my soul come my glory be not thou joyned with their assembly For whose anger was vehement and furour cruell Abraham pronounceth cursed Gen. 49. 6 7. Yet I according to my vow shall ever be ready in their assistance who having Authority expect a blessing of God and would not be upbraided with the unfaithfulnesse of the Manichees to hunt those Foxes that pretending to support Cant. 2. 15. undermine the Church The most zealous of them are Adamites Catharists Donatists Libertines Anabaptists Antinomians Brownists to whom Supremacy is Popery and Magistracy under God and the King Tyrannie Had they not a noli me tangere on the lip their discovery would be difficult For as S. Bernard saith boni videri non esse mali non videri sed esse volunt they will seeme and not be good and not seeme and be evil Oves habitu astu vulpes aciu lupi Bern. in cant Ser. 66. sheep in habit in wilinesse foxes wolves in cruelty So cruell and prevalent that if God prevent not they 'le still uphold the power they have purchased to equall the Crowne and the Coulter That they will or make England as waste as the Palatinate in Jermany My heart bleeds to mind whereto these men tend and wherein our Religion suffers by them Obedience unto Superiours was wont to Apologize before Tyrants for Christianity But obstinacy now in Rebellion preparation in tollerating all manner of impieties to sustaine it indignam infidelibus calumniandi ansam proebet unworthily gives the Infidels cause to calumniate Christians and despite Chrysost Christ our Lord. Whereat the world must

beleeve the professed Justitiaries aime I am sure and the event shewes that the resisting of Regall power is not the way to convert or reforme No such way in the Laws of the Kingdome and in the Gospel no such What 's edified in Monarchy is demolished by Anarchy 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. For 't is well known that peace subsists not without Authority nor can the essence of a Kingdome well be without peace Nay Religion seemes lost when the people are at a loose Or how shall a Pagan deeme our profession right when in a confusion of opinions too many contradict the principles of Christianity So he that would be a good Christian doubts what Christian to be For this cause even that Religion may flourish in peace I by the divine assistance shall never forget my Allegiance And when I can no way else fully fully I will expresse it unto the Lord in my prayers Because I know that this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Blessed Lord restore the right Heire of this Crowne to His Kingdome and proper Dignities Turne the hearts of those which are against unto Him and returne Him in safety and peace unto us Be so propitious that under Him we may live a quiet and Godly life to thy glory and our comfort In thy mercy look upon us blot all our sinnes out of thy remembrance and from thy heavie judgements good Lord deliver us I beseech you animadvert what summarily I shall represent in this Character And God grant that seeing ye may have will to enjoy the truth True Christians if through ignorance or infirmities they chance to give a scandall at home or abroad of purpose will never Because thereby they may to the dishonour of the Lord both thrust some from that are in and keep others off that would come to the truth Whereof at the first planting they were and still are suspected they be resolved to clear themselves before the world from the least tincture of disobedience And so constant thereto that the prime seminatours of this calumnie the Jewes and other enemies of the Gospel might be evicted by seeing such unchangable sincerity For it being the glory of God they aime at 't is their zeale to have the very Infidels glorifie him either here willingly by their conversion or hereafter by acknowledging his justice in their confusion In this they are superiour to their adversaries and conquer them who would be their tormentours Having good counsell for an honest conversation they want no faith to hold them to it And so close that who back-bite them as evill doers may magnifie God in the day of visitation Beleevers apprehend this and having the knowledge will not be without the practice Ye would of that kind be esteem'd all Let the Apostle therefore have his desire follow his advice put to silence the ignorance of folish men For the Gospel sake because ye are Christians for the Lords sake whose Christians ye are submit ye TRACT II. Yee IN the first verse of the former Chapter this Epistle is directed to the Elect that dwell here and there as strangers Understand thereby the Church-militant For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are those that be in a strange soile And such we account the Saints on Earth They have no continuing Citie here but seeke one to come Heb. 13. 14. Whose conversations are in heaven be pilgrims in this world So Jacob stiled himself Gen. 47. 9. and so did David Psal 119. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dispersion also suits well with the Church that is not confined to any certaine place but scattered over the face of the earth Whom Christ congregateth such are the sonnes of God Jobn 11. 52. Ab Oriente ad Occidentem binc inde colligendi from the East unto the West hence and thence gathered The dispersed of Israel Psal 147. 2. and Isa 56. 8. are secundum spiritum the houshold of the Lord. They therefore that restraine ye to the Jewes onely in my opinion mistake the Text. For though St. Peu● were the Apostle of the Jewes and did for the most part 〈◊〉 in J●d●● yet it cannot be gainsay'd that he in penning had regard of the whole Church And if we observe the tenth verse of this Chapter or the third of the fourth it 's apparent that he includeth the converts of the Gentiles I blame not thier piety who here point out the Jewes But doe ye what ye can all your sophistrie shall never carry you off hence without Rebellion The sense being thus generall 't is evident Yee reacheth so farre as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every soule Rom. 13. 1. Every one exempteth none Jew and Gentile Ecclesiastike and Laike Whosoever ye are or whatsoever ye would be ye must be subject every one 'T is certaine our Saviour when he said givee to Caesar the things that are Caesars spake as well of the high Priests Scribes Pharises Patriarch Peters and the Selfe-made Representatives as of the people Jews and Pagans Mat. 22. 21. Luke 20. 25. Wee for our parts dedicated by Baptisme taught in the word and fed at the Eucharist have offered our selves living sacrifices to the Lord. Whose Covenanted we are his observants we ought to be Satis praescriptum babemus saith Tertullian we Christians Tertul. de Idol c. 15. have it sufficiently prescribed in omni nos obsequio esse oportere subditos that we in all obsequie ought to be subject unto Magistrates both Princes and Powers Sive Apostolus sive Evangelista sive Propheta sive qusquis Chrys in Rom. 13. Ser. 23. Aug. in Psal 118. Ser. 31. Bern. in Fp. 42. tandem fueris Whosoever thou art whether Apostle or Evangelist or Prophet thou owest this subjection so Saint Chrisostome Saint Augustine Saint Bernard c. concur in this Whosever thou art implies Christian ever If the Apostles Evangelists Prophets or any else were not freed from subjection how dare ye who call your selves the Commons of England render your selves the Su●●●●e Authority Doth ambition and covetousnesse m●●● 〈◊〉 presume or are ye Apostates or Atheist● ye Survey Antiquity and your Independency will no where be found nor your Democraticall Presbyterie S. Paul appealed unto Caesar Acts 25. 11. The Martyrs Confessours and devout Bishops never pleaded immunity from superiours against their persecutours Nor can the Bishop of Rome in his usurpation nor ye and your Sectaries in yours quit your selves of Antichristianisme Nor are ye whatsoever is pretended so far as ye make the simple people beleeve from Popery herein What Bellarmine urgeth for his Holinesse of Rome ye Bellar. de Pontif. Rom. l. 5. c. 1. argue for your selves If directly ye may not ye will indirectly be Supreme Your Proachers too aspire unto that height all Temporalis potestas Spirituali meritò subjicitur 't is very meet say they the Temporall power should stoop unto the Spirituall Every one therfore contends to be so