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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80609	A treatise of subiection to the powers. Preached almost a yeer since, and now copied out for the presse; yet not to flatter any, but to inform all. : To the powers I say as Jehosaphat did, 2 Chron. 9.6 ... : To others I say in the words of the apostle, I Pet. 2.13 ... / By Tho. Carre.	Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674.	1651 (1651)	Wing C640A; ESTC R173401	35,985	61

of them that do well (i) 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. 3. And Jude faults them that despise Government and speak evill of them that are in authority (k) Jude 8. to whom also the Apostle Peter doth agree (l) 2 Pet. 2. 10. And because there is so much grumbling and heart-burning at this time by reason of the overtures in Civill government I shall take occasion to speak of that subjection which is due to those that are now in place of eminency and the Visible power at present both to promote vertue and to punish vice We were not long since and for a long time before under Monarchicall Government under the Power of famous Princes But now we are altered into another form This the Lords doing He foundeth and confoundeth Kingdomes By him Kings reign (m) Prov. 8. 15. and by him they come to ruine If ye do wickedly ye shall perish both ye and your King (n) 1 Sam. 12. 25. The Lord it is that putteth down one and setteth up another (o) Psal 75. 7. And it is said in Daniel that the most High ruleth in the Kingdom of men and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth over it the basest of men (p) Dan. 4. 17. And what is of Gods doing man may admire it is in vain for him to resist For as Gamaliel said to the Councell concerning the Apostles so say I in behalf of the Power Refrain from these men and let them alone for if this councell or work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest happily ye be found to fight even against God (q) Acts 5. 38. Come and see faith the Psalmist the works of the Lord hee is terrible in his doings toward the children of men (r) Psal 66. 5. Hee doth cut off the spirit of Princes hee is terrible to the Kings of the earth (s) Psal 76. 12. Come I say see and admire Few men look higher then on secondary causes They complain of this thing or that of this man or that if it were not for this or that things would have been otherwise But a wise man looketh up to God as the authour of all alterations The chief men of Israel rejected Christ to reign over them of whom Peter saith to whom coming as to a living stone disallowed indeed of men but chosen of God and precious (t) 1 Pet. 2. 4. And David spake of him Prophetically The stone which the Builders rejected is become the head stone of the corner This is the Lords doing saith he and it is marvellous in our eyes (u) Psal 118. 22. which text of David is alledged by Christ (w) Mat. 21. 42. and by Peter (x) Acts 4. 11. 1 Pet. 2. 7. and hence I conclude That the Lord hath an hand in all Alterations Civill and Ecclesiasticall Politicall and Oeconomicall Personall and Publike And if a sparrow lighteth not upon the ground but God hath a finger a Providentiall finger in it (y) Mat. 10. 29 Then in all alterations and altercations Providence must be prevalent 1. The Lord gave the Israelites a King at their foolish importunity (z) 1 Sam. 8. 5. in which regard the Lord saith he gave them a King in his anger (a) Hos 13. 11. 2. And the Lord taketh away a King in his displeasure Josiah was a good King He did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in the ways of David his father and turned not aside to the right hand nor to the left (b) 2 Kin. 22. 2. like him there was no King before him that turned to the Lord with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his might according to the Law of Moses neither after him arose there any like him (c) 2 King 23. 25. Yet he was taken away in the flower of his age in Gods anger to Judah (d) 2 King 23. 26. And Jeremiah and all Judah lamented the loss of him (e) 2 Chr. 35. 25. We had a King but our sins have taken him away and the Government from his The State is now the visible power they have taken the Government upon them They make Laws they order the Coinage they do all things and we must be subject God hath set them up and there is no strugling against the dispensations of his over-ruling Providence lest like a fish in the net or a beast in the mire we bring our selves into a worse condition For my text saith There is no power but of God Therefore 1. How ever the Power had advanced it self 2. Or however it shall manage matters Yet wee must be subject either doing things that shall bee commanded if lawfull or submitting to censure or to punishment yea though the cause deserve it not Q. But will some man say Is the State incontrollable may there be no resistance in case of Tyranny or oppression It is a rule that from whom Kings have their Precedency by the same they may be resisted and as case may require deposed but this must be by the whole State not by any private or particular power So the Parliament being the Kingdomes Trustees for the Kingdomes good may not the Kingdome rise against them if they falsifie the trust reposed in them A. The case seemeth to be alike But it is a captious question therefore I shall not determine it Yet this I say there is some difference for the Parliament are the Kingdome Representative and what they doe the Kingdome doth it And can the Kingdome have two Representatives at once or by what authority shall they make a new Election while the former are in being This passeth my understanding But to proceed 1. Kings are not simply necessary unto Government though a King may be an ornament a beauty a benefit and a blessing The Israelites had no King for a long time yet were well governed 2. There may be Governours that may exercise Kingly authority and not have the title which made Peter require subjection unto Governors as well as to Kings (f) 1 Pet. 2. 13 14. We had a King but now we have none in Esse nay not so much as in Posse so far as we can see with the eye of worldly possibility I say nothing of the Right I leave that to Statists who are versed in the fundamentall laws of this Nation But to the visible face of things as they now stand God hath transferred the Government and we must wait upon God making no disturbance Let him alone with his work and let us mind our own which is Subjection These things I have spoken by way of preface not for any evill will that I have to Kingly Government but to presse subjection to the Powers My intents are known to God only to whom I must be accomptable Q. But what say you to the posterity of the late King as relating to the

all Powers are not ordained by him Answ That was spoken of Ieroboam and those that followed him in the Kingdome of Israel They obtained not the Kingdom by vertue of the promise made to David but either by defection of the people or by usurpation they intruded themselves Therefore for that cause the Lord spake as he did Yet God did know it and had a hand in it as a judgement upon Rohoboam for his folly that the people did set up Ieroboam For the Lord owneth the thing This thing is done by mee saith the Lord (l) 1 King 12. 24. 2 Chron. 11.4 The Lord doth many times punish one sin with another and yet God may be said not to will the thing It is said of Elies sons that they harkened not unto the voice of their father because the Lord would slay them (m) 1 Sam. 2. 25. that is the Lord had given them up to a wilfull and disobedient heart for their wretchednesse that they might perish So in the Israelites setting up of Ieroboam God had a Judiciall hand as a punishment to them not an effecting hand and as a thing pleasing to himself Yet further to clear this matter wee must know that in Government these two things are to be distinguished 1. First the office it self with the institution of it this is of God Gods will is that there should be Authority in some or other that justice may be duely and truly administred That is that the good may be protected the refractory may be restrained and punished according to desert This the Apostle sheweth in the third and fourth verses of this Chapter Where he sheweth the ends of Government in these words Rulers are not a terrour to good workes but to the evill Wilt thou not be afraid of the Power doe that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same for he is the Minister of God to thee for good But if thou doest that which is evill be afraid for he beareth not the sword in vain for he is the Minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evill (n) Rom. 13. 3 ● 2. Secondly the abuse of the Authority In which regard it may be said that the Power is not of God when the right ends for which it was ordained is not observed Therefore if ye marke the text in Hosea ye shall see it is said They have set up Kings but not by mee id est not by vertue of my promise and they have made Princes and I knew it not id est I approved not For though the Lord liketh Power yet he disliketh the abuse thereof Object If there be no power but of God then it seemeth that the power whereby we sin against God is of God Answ To answer this we must distinguish 1. The power of acting 2. From the exercise of that power In regard of activity so all that ability whereby wee are able to doe good and evill is of God In whom we live move and have our being But the exercise of that activity to diverse o Act. 17. 28. things as to good and bad is from contrary principles The one is from the grace of God the Creator The other is from the pravity of the creature Object Again it will bee said If wee must be subject to the Higher Powers then by consequent wee must bee subject to the Devill For he saith Christ is the Prince of the world (p) Ioh. 14. 30. And Paul calleth him the God of the world (q) 2 Cor. 4. 4. And the Prince of darknesse (r) Ephes 6. 12. And the Prince that ruleth in the air (s) Ephes 2. 2. Answ For answer hereunto 1. First we must distinguish of the word World For by World is sometimes meant the faithfull that are in the world over whom the Devill hath no ruling power Sometimes the wicked of the world these are they that are under the power of the Devill The whole world lieth in wickednesse saith Iohn (t) 1 Ioh. 5. 19. 2. Again the Devill is a God but in repute and a Prince but by usurpation God is the King of all the Earth (u) Psal 47. 7. The Devill hath no lawfull authority to rule or raign onely he incroacheth and usurpeth in Gods jurisdiction This for the first reason 2. The second reason is from the danger of resistance which reflecteth 1. First upon God whose Ordinance is resisted Hee that resisteth the power resisteth the Ordinance of God the powers being ordained of God Now Ordinances signifie Decrees and Appointments There are wicked Ordinances of men of which the Prophet speaketh (w) Esa 10. 1. But this is the Ordinance of God for the good of his people God in the beginning gave man a threefold power 1. First over himself to rule all his actions by the power of his Free will This is lost in Adam In whom wee all died (x) 1 Cor. 15. 22. 2. Secondly over the Creatures Have thou dominion saith God over the Fish of the Sea and over the Fowl of the Air and over every living thing (y) Gen. 1. 18. This is much impaired and almost utterly lost For as man disobeyed his Creator so many of the creatures have cast off the yoke of their subjection unto man 3. Thirdly one man over another and this is twofold 1. First Oeconomicall in the family 2. Secondly Politicall in the Commonwealth Both these remain Man hath them still though many men doe miserably abuse them God then hath instituted and ordained Government it is his Ordinance and man must submit and at no hand resist Now the Power is resisted two wayes 1. First by force in rising up and practising against Authority 2. Secondly by fraud as when the Magistrate is either by ill suggestions misinformed and incensed or when his just dues are detained Now mark the generality Whosoever by any ways resisteth the Power which is of God resisteth God himself And whoso resisteth God medleth with more then his match and he is sure to goe by the worst For who ever rebelled against God and prospered (z) Iob 9. 4. Whosoever saith my text No qualification of the person can qualifie the sinne of the person For the Commands of God doe concern all And the Soul that sinneth shall suffer for it (a) Ezek. 18. 4. Greatnesse is no priviledge Meannesse no excuse neither can bear out For indignation and woe to every soul of man that doth evill (b) Rom. 2. 8. 2. Again it reflecteth on man to this prejudice They that resist shall receive to themselves damnation saith the Apostle in my text 1. It is not said damage 2. But damnation which implieth punishment both in this life and in the next And that 1. Both by the hand of men for the Magistrate may punish his with some severe punishment as Imprisonment Confiscation and with death it self 2. And God will punish him both here and hereafter

of all Civill Engagements for unlimitted obedience is due to God only as is shewed before p. 27 28. Obj. But it will be said that this Engagement doth crosse and contradict 1. Both the Protestation made in Anno 1641. 2. And the Covenant made in Anno 1643. 3. And a Declaration of the House of Commons made in Anno 1646. 1. In the first we did Protest according to our duty of allegiance to maintain and defend his Majesties Royall person honour and estate Where was a full stop as not relating to any conditions 2. In the second we did covenant to preserve the Kings Majesties person and authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and the Liberties of the Kingdome That the world may bear witnesse with our consciences of our Loyalty and that we have no thoughts and intentions to diminish his Majesties just power and greatnesse 3. In the last it was declared by the House of Commons which Declaration was published in every Church and was commanded to be fastned up in every Church and is to be seen still in many Churches that their intentions were not to alter the Government by King Lords and Commons These things being protested covenanted and declared now to subscribe a Government without a King or House of Lords This is that which sticketh most and with many that are very moderate and truly conscientious R. This is thought to bee hard to bee answered But let us consider how things then stood And distinguish of the times 1. As things then stood all was really intended 2. But the Kings non-compliance and some miscarriage in the House of Lords have been the cause of the alteration of things both really intended Solemnly protested and Publikely declared 2. And though the Protestation was larger then the Covenant there being a full stop as not relating to any Conditions as I said before 2. Now his late Majesty continuing wilfully in his wayes which threatned ruine by his Forces to Religion and to Liberties Therefore the Covenant was upon second thoughts framed which was an addition to and an exposition of that clause of Defence as to his Majesties Person and Authority Shewing 1. Both wherein 2. And how far we should manage that Defence namely to the good of Religion and to the safety of the Commonwealth with all its just Rights and Priviledges and not to the prejudice of either So long as the King did shew himself a Father a foster Father of the Church and State the Kingdome was bound by its manifold engagements to defend his Person and his Power And had the King done his part timely and effectually it had been somewhat But consider 1. What Petitions were presented to him 2. What large proffers were made to him 3. What Delayes that I say nothing of Denyals were made by him 4. What Sinister Successes the many Addresses had from him 5. How fruitlesse all the Treaties have been since those engagements 6. What under-hand Dealings by his Party and not without his Privity there have been even during the times of those Treaties Whosoever shall but read that Declaration which setteth forth the reasons of the Resolves of both Houses then sitting for no more Addresses to be made to him shall see enough to make his heart relent in him even in both regards viz. of Religion and of Liberties I speak the truth in Christ Jesus I lie not my Conscience bearing mee witnesse in the Holy Ghost (r) Rom. 9. 1. That I cannot read it but my very Soul resolveth into teares at many things therein Declared which were of dangerous consequence both to Church and State And I hope no man can justly brand that Declaration with the imputation 1. Either of flattery on the one side 2. Or of falshood on the other If so it were ten thousand pities it is not published for generall satisfaction What passed in the Isle of Wight I cannot fully relate but somewhat there was which savoured not well as to security of Religion or Liberties which was the main cord of Obligation in all the Solemn Engagements both by Protestation and by Covenant 1. If any Commissions were then given underhand 2. If any Plottings by the Royall Party by vertue of any new or old Commissions to make that Treaty fruitlesse and Invalid even during the time of that Treaty 3. If any Combinations by the Royalists to attempt their owne ends by making Factions and Parties As who for King who for Parliament Of which the best affected had great Jealousies and not without just cause and many fears Then consider how farre that clause of Defence did oblige The ends being despaired of for to which those Engagements did relate Ob. Now some say that the whole Kingdome hath broken Covenant in not rising but sitting still till the King was put to death R. No the Covenant it self is not broken because the ends could not be secured And besides private men by private authority may not manage a rising against Authority The power of the Commons is in their trustees to them it belongs to Legitimate all publick Force Hee that taketh the Sword shall perish with the Sword saith Christ to Peter (s) Mat. 26. 52. that is he that taketh the sword of private revenge shall perish by the Sword of Publike Justice Well dead he is and not without the disposing hand of God It cannot be denyed but he was a personage of Rare and Royall parts And had he not been seduced by evil Counsels to his own ruine as Ahaziah was of whom it is said his Counsellors were the cause of his destruction (t) 2 Chron. 22. 4. Hee might still have been 1. A Glorious King 2. Over a most faithfull people 3. In a most flourishing Island But he is translated though by an untimely death to a more glorious company And now sits in a more glorious estate then ever he did on earth It was his Destiny laid on him by God and therefore while we lament as reflecting on his sad fate here let us rejoice in contemplation of his Glory in Heaven among the blessed Saints and Angels And now let us cast our eyes upon the Power now in being and since God hath set it up it is not in man to pull it down Subjection to the power is commanded by the Apostle And for my part since God hath set up this power and by it the Government I shall Subscribe freely resolving to be subject to the present Power because it is of God Ob. Here again some take offence Do you not see say they what a Confusion is crept in amongst us 1. All things 2. And almost all persons out of order Call you this a Reformation according to the Covenant R. I doe both see and mourn And it much dejects the hearts of many precious Saints to see 1. The Churches almost empty and the People running into Corners 2. The Publike Worship neglected 3. The Sacraments that of the Supper in