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A62249	The dew of Hermon which fell upon the hill of Sion, or, An answer to a book entituled, Sions groans for her distressed, &c. offered to the King's Majesty, Parliament, and people wherein is pretended to be proved by Scripture, reason, and authority of fifteen ancients, that equal protection under different perswasions, is the undoubted right of Christian liberty : but hereby confuted, wherein the power and proceedings of the Kings Majesty and the church are vindicated.	H. S. (Henry Savage), 1604?-1672.	1663 (1663)	Wing S760; ESTC R34021	70,693	96

his subjects who bears the same relation to a Master of a family school or society as the whole does to a part But say they if Magistrates as such have such an authority then all Magistrates in all Nations have the same power Then if we lived in Turkey we must receive the Alcoran and be worshippers of Mahomet if in Spatu be Papists as in Hen. 8. his daies sometimes Protestants as in Edw. 6. his daies c. Ans This is the very argument of the Papists in Calvino Turcismo l. 4. c. 10. and improved by Champnaeus But it s answered by Mason de Ministerio Anglicano l. 3. c. 5. And hereunto I further say That as all Magistrates in all Nations have power in matters of Religion so they have the same power but not the same skill to govern nor the same Rule to go by in governing as for instance ones Rule is his will another's is the Law and of those that are limitted by Laws some rule by some Laws others by other Laws different from them So 1. in matters of Religion Magistrates do rule according to the book delivered unto them some have only the book of Nature put into their hands and these have a faculty thereby given them to rule and order Religion according to that such hath the Turk and all unconverted Magistrates Some have the Book of the Old Testament delivered into their hands and those were sometimes to rule according to that So Deut. 17. 18. it is said that when the King sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom be shall write him a copy of the Law in a book out of that which is before the Priests and Levites and it shall be with him and he shall read therein all the daies of his life And in 2 Chron. 23. 11. it is said that they brought out the Kings son and put upon him the crown and gave him the Testimony and made him King c. Some have the book of the New Testament put into their hands and these are to order matters of Religion according to this such are all Christian Kings Princes and Governours Now whereas they would infer that therefore we must receive the ALCORAN be Papists and I know not what according to the sole will of our Governours whatever perswasion they be of This is not so for albeit whatsoever they enjoyn according or not contrariant to these Books be firm and inviolable yet whatsoever they determine without or against these Books is void so that the Turk hath not a stable and inviolable power given him to impose the ALCORAN and to enjoyn worship to Mahomet in as much as no such rule is given by the book of Nature delivered unto him Nature dictates no such thing and therefore such a thing must be given by God himself who is above Nature or else it must be acknowledged to be as it is indeed a meer Imposture The Kings of Israel had power given them to Rule by the Book of the Law in matters of Religion But they that did set up Idolatry contrary to the contents of that Book did abuse their power and in that regard their Injunctions were of no force The King of Spain hath the book of the New Testament put into his hands and consequently the moral part of the Old Testament but he permitting Idolatry and giving up his power into the Popes hands whose Vassal he becomes as all Popish Princes do he abuses this power If any other Prince does the like he is not to be followed therein He is neverthelesse passively to be obeyed that is a Christian-Subject is not to resist him but he is to submit to such punishment as he shall inflict upon him in as much as an errour in the understanding upon which proceeds the abuse of his power which is accidental does not make void his power which is essential to him and whereunto every soul is subject in foro externo The Spirit of God sayes in the same breath Fear God honour the King He who doth any thing by command from the King contrary to the command of God does not fear God and he that rebelleth or resisteth for it is all one the King upon any pretence whatsoever doth not honour the King but despise him yea and resist the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Rom. 13. The same may be said of the Turks forbidding a man to believe in Christ or any thing of absolute necessity to salvation wherein he is not to be obeyed in as much as it is not a thing contrary to the Law of Nature but of the Institution of the God of Nature that we believe in God and in him whom he hath sent Jesus Christ his Son 2. Secondly they say that since our Saviour tells us that all power is given him in heaven and in earth if the Magistrates have any such power it is committed to them from the Lord Jesus Christ and written in the New Testament I answer That no power could be given to Christ which he had not before being God eternal and therefore we must say that all power was in Christ naturally and essentially But there 's a power given him which he had not but by gift dispensatorily as he is the Mediatour which is nothing else but a Rule which he observes in the salvation of men as a thing added to his essential power Now infidel Kings receive their power from Christs natural and essential power only being not bound to believe in Christ nor to observe the Rules he gives till revealed unto them but to observe the Law of Nature given in Paradise according to which they and their subjects infidels shall be judged Wherefore I hope they will not send us to find this in the New Testament Though they should I have a text for them there too Rom. 1. 19 20 21. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them Kings that believe receive their power not from Christs natural and essential power onely but from his dispensatorie power as he is Mediatour and great Lawgiver to his Church by which power he does not take away the former but establish it rather Let them shew me where he takes it away If they do they must shew me a contradiction to the words of the Apostle who saies Rom. 13. Let every soul be subject to the higher powers Oh but these were heathen Magistrates say they Whereunto I answer that if every soul must be subject to Heathen Magistrates much more then to those that believe in Christ who came not to destroy but to rectify and perfect the Law of Nature 3. The third thing that they say will fall to the ground upon what has been already spoken viz. That the Apostles themselves refused to be obedient to their Rulers Act. 4. 19 20. When they were commanded to forbear that which they judged to be a part of the worship of

spirit of contradiction carries men away that they dare confound things which the Spirit of God so manifestly distinguisheth de Imp. sum not circa sacra c. 11. And I more wonder that these men should say that there is not one word for them in the New Testament or that they should be set up by us as Antitypes of the high Priests under the Law No Christ is onely that Neverthelesse in regard of the distinction which was an Ecclesiastical thing among the Jewes I say that the Bishops do resemble the High Priests and the inferiour Clergy the other Priests For there were in this respect many High Priests at once of whom we read many to have been assembled together Mark 14. 1. every one of which was summus sacerdos istius Classis the High or chief Priest of that Rank These ranks had their several courses Zachary was of one of these courses viz. of that of Abia Luc. 1. 5. not all these but one only was typical shadowing forth Jesus Christ unto them And even in this High Priest there was something besides the representation as is plain by St. Paul who yielded his obedience to the High Priest as governour of the people Acts 23. 5. and that after the Type was expired which had been unlawfull had there not been somewhat remaining in him besides the figure Eleazar in Aaron's life-time was Princeps Principam or Praelatus Praelatorum Num. 3. 32. and yet not reputed a Type of Christ and 2 Chron. 35. 8. we read of three at once one onely whereof was the High Priest which was the Type of Christ the rest were not so yet by reason of their dignity paramount to others might resemble Archbishops themselves And the other forementioned High Priests in regard of the place they held above the rest of their Classe are in a sort resembled by our Bishops And that this may not seem strange to any 't is a matter obvious to our observation that scarcely any Ordinance or Order under the New Testament can be named which is not derived from others under the Old by some kind of resemblance intended between them Imposition of hands by the Apostles was taken up in imitation of that practised under the Old Testament for the designation of successors as Moses used it towards Josuah Num. 27. 18 20. That the whole frame of Church Government answers to the like order and distinction of persons and offices in the Old Testament is evidenced by the learned Bishop of Winton in a scheme to that purpose thus drawn viz. Aaron should be resembled by Christ Eleazar Archbishops Princes of Priests Bishops Priests Presbyters Princes of Levites Archdea●ons Levites Deacons Nethinims Clerks and Sextons And hereunto he is led by the opinion of the ancient fathers who seem to be of the same mind viz. that the same form should serve both so is St. Cyprian so St. Hierome St. Leo and Rabanus de vita clericor The Government of the Church of the Old Testament saies the Archbishop of Armagh was committed to Priests and Levites unto whom the ministers of the New Testament do now succeed in like sort as our Lords day hath done unto their Sabbath So he in his Original of Episcopacy and if it were reasonable for Christians to take the Jewes for their pattern in drawing their scheme of Church government much more is it for modern Christians to follow the ancient a thing which our Church has done in her reformation which has retained all things of ancient usage in the Church of Rome lest men should be scandalized at us whilest we seemed to set up a new Religion instead of reforming the Old The very Lords Prayer hath much of conformity not only to the forms used by the Jewes as others have observed but also as it seems to me to the very design of the sacrifices of the Law which are all reducible to three kinds The first was the whole burnt-offering to God as absolute Lord of Heaven Earth and as one to whom belongeth honour from us should he never bestow any special favour upon us The second was the peace-offering whereby to obtain at his gracious hands all those blessings and the degrees thereof whereof men stand in need whether publick or private as also to expresse a thankfulnesse for all blessings and for all those gracious returns he makes to the prayers of his people from time to time or at any time The third was the sin-offering for the expiation of all or any transgressions of his holy and divine commandments and for health of soul In conformity whereunto our Saviour hath in that perfect and absolute form taught us to offer by him a spiritual holocaust to the honour of his name who inhabits eternity in these words Our Father which art in heaven hallowed be thy name Secondly a spiritual peace-offering for the advancement of his Kingdom in us and the adimpletion of his will by us as also for a supply of all outward necessaries in these words Thy Kingdom come thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven Give us this day our dayly bread Thirdly a spiritual sin-offering for the forgivenesse of sins past and for prevention of sin for the time to come in these words And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespasse against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil And these not without a doxology as a spiritual Libamen or meat-offering without which no burnt-offering was to be made under the Law in these words For thine is the Kingdom the power and the glory for ever and ever Amen And so having not only proved the order and distinctions of Ecclesiasticks under the New Testament but also the first Liturgy so the Lords Prayer is proved to be by Cassander in Liturgicis ex Dionysio and stands undeniably true to be instituted in resemblance of the like under the Old Testament I come now to prove the jurisdiction that they have one over another and over the rest of the Church wherein two things are to be considered in relation to our Bishops viz. 1. Their power 2. The distribution of this power As for the first Their power is so connatural that the chief Judge in Areopagus was a Priest hence Cohen in Hebrew was a common name to Magistrates and to Priests Gen. 41. 45. Potipherah was Priest h. e. Prince of On. The Druides among the Galls were of the noblest stock of kindred they were so in Epirus and Cappadocia it was usual as well among the Grecians as Romans for Kings to be Priests and as Schedius de Dis Germ notes out of Fenestella the Priest was never made a distinct person from the civil Magistrate till the expulsion of Kings out of Rome and that this power so challenged by the voice of Nature in the Heathen themselves is warranted by the Scriptures of the New Testament I shall have occasion to shew anon in answer to their objections

while the preachers easily snatching the people about by this common motion became the trumpeters of sedition till after the assasinate of their King they began to disagree as much about their new Governours as before they had done about their government These men in Munster or Amsterdam might have passed for Anabaptists and had they kept company with Knipperdoling John of Leyden Muntzer Stork or any of that Rabble they had proved so indeed and what they would have been here we all know the Devil working alike in them all though of different Religions And about this time it was that the calamities which have befallen this Kingdom were a brewing as you may read in the English Scottizing and Scots Genevating for Discipline set forth by Archbishop Bancroft which these Authours here falsly ascribe to the sending the Scottish Liturgy into Scotland Suppose that that had been the cause I deny it to have been a just one for let them tell me what warrant they have out of Scripture or Orthodox Writer of rebelling against their Sovereign under pretence of Religion be it true or false If so where is their subject of passive obedience they so much boast of And if nothing can be a good ground of rebelling against the King much less can it justify that which had no end but in the death of the King and slavery of the people whose liberty was pretended to be vindicated And thus far they have but declaimed which we having answered as you have heard let us examine their proofs or Logical part which all depends upon this one Syllogism Sect. 9. IF any Magistrate under heaven in the daies of the Gospel hath power to impose any thing in the worship and service of God it is given him as he is a Magistrate only or as a Christian so considered But that no such power is given by God to any Magistrate appears For answer to the first part hereof I say that he hath power as he is a Magistrate only and this power is given him of God in as much as Magistracy is an Ordinance of God All powers of the world whatsoever are from him even those of Tyrants themselves though permissively only Lawful powers are from him as ordained by him And as these are ordained by God so hath he given them power in the worship and service of God For 1. The very Heathens have given the first place to Religion as knowing by Natures instinct that without Religion no policy of a Commonwealth can be happily instituted or administred It is an axiom drawn out of the fourth book of Plate de rep that Religio est fundamentum reipublicae potissima pars publici Magistratus vere arx atque propugnaculum constituendae reipublicae without which all the parts of a Commonwealth like the strings of an instrument will be out of tune 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and therefore another axiom follows thereupon that non potest immutari status religionis sine maximarum legum immutatione propterea non est temere importanda in rempublicam nova religionis forma because it does dismember and disjoynt the Commonwealth St. Paul disputing daily at Athens touching Religion was brought unto Areopagus to be judged by that Court Act. 17. 19. as upon whom the business of Religion was principally incumbent Ezra received the power and jurisdiction from Artaxerxes speedily to execute judgement upon all contumacious persons in the business of Religion Ez. 7. 14. whether unto death or banishment or confiscation of goods or imprisonment Ez. 7. 25 26. So did Cyrus and Dari●s give permission to the Jews to reedify the Temple and to to sacrifice therein adding money to defray the charges 2 Ch. 29. 15 and 30. 12. Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 3. 29. commanded him to be hewed in pieces that should blaspheme the God of the Hebrews Secondly the Lawyers refer Religion to those things which belong to the Law of Nation s in as much as by the guidance of Nature we know that there is a God which is to be reverenced who knows not that to a Magistrate belongs not only the administration of positive Laws but of those also that belong to the Laws of Nature Thirdly if it be the duty of a father of a family to instruct his children in the true Religion and to reduce them from their deviations from it how much more doth it appertain to the Magistrate who is the father of his Countrey to take care of the religion of his subjects Fourthly This is requir'd of a Magistrate in Scripture Ps 2. Kisse the Son and serve the Lord in fear which consisteth not only in the adoration of the Son of God for that is common with him to every true Christian but also in the outward administration of his Kingdom This therefore was the injunction laid upon the Kings of Israel to be observed when God should bring them into the Land he promised them viz. when they sit upon the throne that they write them a copy of the Law in a book out of that which is before the Priests and Levites Deu. 17. 18. And at the inauguration of Joash the book of the Law of God was given into his hands 2 Ch 23. 18. And fifthly The examples of holy Princes do teach us that Magistrates have the care of Religion committed to them such were Moses Joshuah David Solomon Asa Jeboshaphat Josiah Ezekiah c. And albeit these men will what never any but persons sprung from Anabaptists did reject all examples and testimonies out of the Old Testament unless it be to serve their own turn as I have formerly shewed them to have done in the date of their Epistle the eighth day of the third moneth yet this I suppose they will hardly deny namely that a father under the Gospel hath and ought to have a care of his children in matters of Religion their own practice witnesses as much in that they instruct their children in their own principles and keep them from Baptism and Steeple-houses as they call the Churches which they hold to be unlawfull c. Now if these things are given to a father of a family whose power cannot reach as far as a Kings much more to a King or other Magistrate whose jurisdiction is of a larger extent and whereof a family is but an integral part And the same comparison holds between a Master and a Magistrate which is not only a father of his Countrey but a master too for in Rome he who was Dictatour and bare the power supream was called the Master of the people whence it is that Cicero calls Caesar Master and Livie witnesseth that the Dictatour was so added to the Consuls that he might be their Moderatour and Master If therefore it be lawfull for a Master of a family school or society to be defensive and offensive in Cause of Religion under the Gospel towards their children scholars and servants how much more is it given to a Magistrate towards