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A08552	The Christian conflict a treatise, shewing the difficulties and duties of this conflict, with the armour, and speciall graces to be exercised by Christian souldiers. Particularly applied to magistrates, ministers, husbands, wives, parents, children, masters, servants. The case of vsury and depopulation, and the errours of antinomists occasionally also discussed. Preached in the lecture of Kettering in the county of Northampton, and with some enlargement published by Ioseph Bentham, rector of the Church of Broughton in the same county.	Bentham, Joseph, 1594?-1671.	1635 (1635)	STC 1887; ESTC S113626	266,437	390

care of all true Christians that hee registers all the wrongs which are done unto them minding in time to right the same v. 45. And regarding registring and remembring the least injuries that are done to the least of his brethren v. 45. shall have denou●ced against them that dreadfull doome Depart from me you cursed c. Depart from me a King a Saviour at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore into everlasting fire where their worme never dieth and their fire is not quenched with the Divel and his Angels a departure dol●full and dreadfull with such consorts into torments so ea●el●sse endlesse hopelesse and helplesse For you gave me not meat● c. you are not without just cause condemned the cause of your condemnation is in your selves and of your selves you have omitted good duties and sins of omission are no lesse dangerous and damnable then sins of cōmissiō You have been despisers of the poore carelesse contemners of Christians under the Crosse you did not feed cloath lodge visit me in my afflicted members you have been cruell and cruelty is a cursed thing and cruell persons are cursed creatures you have beene merci●esse men without compassion naturall affection and the sin of u●mercifullnesse comprehends all wickednesse and is contrary to all righteousnes and the mercilesse man is gacelesse and void of all goodnes because cruelty makes men most unlike to God Mat. 5. 48 and most like to the divell Ioh. 8. 1 Pet. 5. 8. Therfore depart from me you cursed c. 2 A●d tho●e blesse● sheep sta●ding at Christs right hand Although th●y are to farre from chalenging heaven for their merit that they dislike and disclaime al mention made of their good works in the cause of their salvation or justification saying when saw we thee an hungry naked c. yet Christ doth testifi●●is good acceptance of their love shewed to others for his sake they shewing mercy to Christ in his living members and such as ●ack meate dri●k c in comforting and commending them for these their works of mercy Not but that there are more works of mercy then those six for according to the severall kinds of miseri●s so are mercies distinguished Not but that Christians shall be commended at the day of judgement for other performances as well as these Witnesse Matth. 19. 27 28. You which have followed 〈…〉 in the regeneration shall c. Witnesse Matth. ●4 46. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord when he commeth shall find so doing And witnesse Matth. 25. 21. Well done good and faithfull servant c. Yet these inferiour workes of the second Table are onely named and preferred Because they are such as each man may performe Because they best discover the hypocrifie of counterfeit Christians And they are chosen for their witnesse not their worth That we therefore may when he shall appeare have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his comming That we therefore may stand in the number of those to whom the King shall say Come you blessed of my Father inherit the kingdome c. Let us shew these workes of mercy so farre forth as occasion and ability will serve and so often as others want and we have 2. You poore people at such times as these assaulted and tempted by Satan to seek succour from and to ease your smart by meanes divellish and diabolicall and to dishonour the Lord by lying stealing railing reviling murmuring and distrust Betake your selves therefore to your spirituall weapons and take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in these evill dayes 1. Let your loynes be girt about with truth whereby you may be guarded and defended from loathsome lying and divellish dissimulation 2. Put upon you the brest plate of righteousnesse to shield and safeguard you against injurious violent and unjust dealings pilfering and purloining 3. Let your feet be shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace that you may passe through comfortably and couragiously the many piercing pressures of pinching penury 4. Above all take the shield of faith That will so support you that you shall indure seeing by it him who is invisible Heb. 11. 27. 5. And take the helmet of salvation Hope which will comfort and consolate you against distracting discomfits and dreadfull feares strengthen and enable you to depend upon the Lord and expect with patient waiting without limiting the holy One of Israel helpe and deliverance from the Lord who is the health of your countenance and your God Psalme 42. 11. 6. And the sword of the Spirit which will defend you and drive away the tempter 1. This will store you with these and such like precious promises Psal 3● 19. The Lord will keepe them alive in the time of famine who feare him and hope in his mercy Psal 34. 10. They that feare the Lord shall not want any good thing Psal 37. 16. A little that the righteous hath is better than the riches of many wicked Mat. 6. 33. First seeke the kingdome of heaven and c. 2. This will shew you that God feeds the fowles Luke 12. 24. Yea the most feeble and filthy ravens Psal 147. 9. the beasts Psal 104. Infants Psal 71. 6. and wicked men Gen 21. 14 19. 3. This will certifie you that our gracious God did feed the many Israelites which came out of Egypt in a desolate and barran wildernesse Elijah with ravens 1 King 17. 4 6. and a poore widow Ver. 9. in the time of famine 4. This will declare and demonstrate that the Lord is your Shepheard Psal 23. 1. and mercifull Father From which precious promises and practices of our good and gracious God you may thus arm and animate your selves and with this weapon wound the Divell dissipate and disanull his direfull darts to diffident distrustfulnesse 1. H●th the true and unchangeable Iehovah who cannot lie Tit. 1. 1. whose promises are yea and Amen 2 Cor. 1. 20. made so many and such mercifull promises 2. Doth he feed and provide for the fowles of the aire the wild beasts of the desarts the wicked and ungodly the young and helplesse infants 3. Is it undeniably manifest that such who have depended upon God in extremities have beene sufficiently provided for Luke 22. 35. When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes lacked ye any thing And they said Nothing By extraordinary meanes the ordinary failing Exod. 16. 4. Will wicked men feed their wicked and good children Will good men feed their godly and ungodly children Will bruit and savage beasts feed and provide for their young Will fowles of the aire feed and foster theirs And shall we distrust to whom those sure and certaine sweet and precious promises belong we being better than beasts birds and sonnes of Belial The Lord having beene our trust from our youth by whom we have beene holden up from the wombe Psal 71. 6. He being the same to us now he was to his chosen formerly

to our feete and a lanthorne unto our paths If we affect corrupt companions and can comfortably endure to be with evill men and dead-hearted Christians If our hearts are wholly carried away with the world after our callings If we keepe not out the beginnings and occasions of sin We do not watch Watch wee therefore But over what should wee Vse 4 Ov●● what we must watch and how watch First Over all and every of our thoughts words and actions Psal 39. 1. I said I will take heed unto my waies David did we therefore ought to keepe a constant and continuall watch over all our waies Because the dreadfull and disadvantageous dangers to Reas 1 which we are subject are durable yea constant and continuall Our fatall and formidable foes continually fighting against us Our many mighty malicious enemies being painefull and laborious to encounter and environ to ensnare and intangle us yea so that we are never safe and secure from Sathans tempestuous and tyrannizing temptations No place can patronize or protect safeguard or secure us from the slie and subtill direfull and dangerous darts of the Divell Witnesse paradise that peculiar peerelesse pavillion of this world that dainty and delightfull Eden and garden of God that immaculate inamouring pleasant place decked and invested with innocent integrity wherein our first parents were strongly assailed by the subtill serpent and shamefully foyled No company no manner of consorts or confederates can conserve and confirme against the contagious circumventings and confronting conflicts of the red Dragon Witnesse the ●earefull yea finall and damnable fall of Iudas a coadjutour with the Apostles a companion in their labours a comfort of their communion and a selected servant in Christs family No condition calling or estate of life can exclude or keepe out exempt or priviledge us from the execrable excursions of the evill one Witnesse that patheticall pious prayer of Agur Pro. 30. 8. Give me neither poverty nor riches least c. No d●gree of Christianity can divert or turne from us defend and free us from the dreadfull diabolicall and tempestuous temptati●ns of Sathan Witnesse Adam assaulted in his spotlesse innocency Witnesse David a man after Gods own heart provoked by Sathan to number Israel 1 Chron. 21. 1. Witnesse Peter a valiant and couragious Champion of Christ winnowed by the wicked one Luk. 12. 31. Witnesse Paul a victorious vigilan● and unwearied and laborious workman in the Lords vineyard buffeted by the messenger of Sathan 2 Cor. 12. 7. Witnesse Christ Iesus the only begotten Son of God the only Saviour of man and mediatour betweene God and man the Lamb without spot and blemish 1 Pet. 3. 18. who never did any thing amisse Isa 53. 9. Luk. 23. 41. was set upon with terrible and treble temptations Mat. 4. Yea the dearest of Gods children and servants who are the most eminent for parts graces being fitted and called out for the highest and most honourable services must looke for greatest tentations most of all to be molested with the Divell For as tyrannizing tyrants offer not violence to the vast and vanquished but to the resisting cities corporations which are replete and replenished with riches revenues As pillaging pirats assaile and set upon not evacuated and empty but the wealthy and richly laden ships As theevish robbers will not mind to meddle with rogues and beggars but the well-monied travellers So Satan the worst and vilest of pirats theeves and tyrants will be dealing with them who have rich booties of spirituall treasure rageth and takes on most against such who are rescued out of his slavery by the power of Christ Labouring with all his fraud and force to retaine and recover his prey When did the divell tempt Adam but when he was like the image of God When did he tempt Iakob but when he had his fathers blessing inciting Esau against him When did he tempt Abell but when his sacrifice pleased the Lord and then he stirred up Cain to kill him When did he tempt Iob but when God said he was a good man As long as Paul was among the high-priests hee was in great authority credit and countenance but when he was turned to Christ hee was many waies assaulted by the sleights of Satan These are speciall eye-sores to Satan a faire marke for the arrowes of his tentations These doe most of all seeke the ruine and doe most of all harme and hurt the Divels kingdome seeking the impayring and ruining thereof with their utmost endeavours and therefore he cannot but hate and seeke to hurt these most Since therefore no place no company no estate of life nor degree of Christianity can secure us but wee are and must be in continuall danger wee must necessarily bee carefull to keepe a constant and continuall watch Because we are to serve God al the daies of our lives Luk. 1. ● 75. yea with all the parts and faculties of our soules and bodies 1 Cor. 6. 20. It is therfore a matter of urgent necessity to be watchfull over all our thoughts words and actions that so we may savingly serve our good and gracious God yeilding unto him absolute obedience without any exception of any his commandements Mat. 28. 20. totall obeisance with soule and body serving him solely 1 Cor. 8. 6. not him and sin or Satan for his sacred service cannot subsist and stand with the service of Divels 1 Cor. 10. 20. With the service of sin Rom. 6. 17 18. With the service of Antichrist 1 Ioh. 4. 3. With the service of Idols 1 King 18. 21. With the service of riches Mat. 6. 24. or with the service of the bellie Phil. 3. 18 19. Because we must be countable for all our thoughts words and actions The Lord will render to every man according to his deeds Rom. 2. 6. For every idle word that men shall speake they must give account thereof in the day of judgement Mat. 12. 36. And God will judge the secrets of men by Iesus Christ Rom. 2. 16. It stands us in hand therefore to keepe a continued constant watch over all our thoughts words and actions Be we not therefore in the number of those unwise unwary and carelesse Christians who watch by fits and flashes at a Communion on a Lords day in some mens company or some such speciall occasion only bu● take full liberty to wallow in worldlinesse and other wickednesse to live licentiously at other times and occasions For to watch and ward warily and vigilantly and after to give free entrance and admittance to an enraged enemy is to little or no purpose yea it doth aggravate the exasperated foe frustrate and annihilate all future and former performances But let us carefully and constantly keepe a continuall watch 1. This directly differencing us from hollow hearted halting Motives hypocrites and disloyall dissemblers who may watch in shew and for a time and deciphering us credibly to be without contradiction Christians indeed 2. This

of man to be watched 196. Heedfullnesse of and to what and why 179. Helmet of a Christian described 99. Helpe to be sought of God 206. Holy Ghost the Christian souldiers encourager 169. Hope is his helmet how it differs from faith how from false hopes 99. Husbands duties in this warfare 292. Hypocrisie dr 〈…〉 dfull 71. I. Iakobs sufferings 25. Idlenesse evill to be avoided 328. Ingrossers censured 123. Instruments of sin to bee taken heed of 183. Ioy strong in joy 150. Israels sufferings 24. Iudgements misused how 1●0 Iudgement day 131. Iust overmuch who 52. K. Kneeling to be used in publique prayer 264. Knowledge particular in heaven 52. L. Law binds to obedience 140. Long suffering strong in it 151. Lyers and lying odi●us 76. M. Magistrates should bee righteous how and why 84. They should be couragious 159. Masters d●ty in this warfare 311. Marryed persons duties 245. Martiall men honourable 2. Maulsters censured 360. Meeknesse strong in meeknesse 152. Mercifullnesse its excellency and profit 124. 129. 136. Ministers of the Word their duty 85. They should be couragious 159. N. Necessity makes couragious 163. 172. O. Occasions of sin to be taken heed of 182 Offence a taken an gi●en 61. We should not give offence 61. P. Parents duty in thi● warfare 245. Papists take away Scripture unj 〈…〉 ly from people 113. Peace strong in peace 151. People pray for Pastours 243. Personall sins to be witched against 201 Persecutours are Gods rode the fearefull end of divert such 39. Poore mens duty in dearth 123. Prayer needfull for Christian souldiers 206. To whom we must pray 216. For what we must pray for what not how for things already enjoyed 218. How we must pray why and for whom 227. Gestures used in prayer 263. Extraordinary times of prayer 257. Profession its faults 117. Prosperity to be taken heed of 201. Punishments on good men for sin and other causes 138 R. Religious actions to be perf 〈…〉 d with watchfullnesse 204. Remembrance of things p●st pro 〈…〉 ble 173. Reproach a great crosse yet for Christ● sake to be endured 55. Riches their losse 47. Rich mens duty in dearth 123. Righteousnesse the Christians breast-plate what it is its necessity and dignity 80. S. Satan to be taken heed of 181. Scatsity se● Dearth and Famine Security carnall dangerous 180. Senses to be watched over 199. Servants duty in this war 304. Shields divers 7 9● Christians shield wh● and what 72. 9● Shoes of Christian souldiers 88. Sincerity makes ha●py 73. Sin enfeebleth 170. It is to be taken heed of 18● It is an evill way 181. It is a burden 182. And very sham●full 18● It is in good men-while they live in this world 136. How all sinne is pardoned in good men 136. It is the cause of afflictions which befall Gods children although not the sole cause 138. Strength of Christian souldiers dignified 149. Subjects ought to pray for all in authority 〈…〉 Suffering 〈…〉 Christ and Christians 23 Su● pr●g●retes how the Lord is a sun is th● upright 71. S 〈…〉 of Christian souldiers described dignified 207. T. Temperance strong in temperance 152. Temptations to be expected 193. Titles of ho 〈…〉 their originall from m●re 2. Tongue smiting a bitter affliction yet to be endured 55. Truth whence learned 67. It is the Christian souldiers girdle its divers kinds excellency and necessity 66. V. Valour vanquisheth 163. Victory belongs to Christian souldiers 169. Virgins wise and foolish wherein they agree and differ 102. Vnmercifull men miserable 124. 129. 131. Voice in prayer needfull 262. Vsury c●nsured confuted and Vsurers objections answered 329. W. Warfare of the Christian souldier i● excellent and needfull 5. Watchfullnesse a necessary duty alwaies and why 184. Weake beleevers who 153. Weapons see Armour Welding not wearisome 118. Wicked men fooles of all fooles 36. Wives duties in this war 297. Wise ●ver much who 81. Word of God our sword 107. It cleanseth 69. It is the ground of truth 67. Z. Zeale 117. FINIS

from the inward desire nor outward endeavour to attaine this vertue but onely from the deceiptfull conceipt of it Not from the practice of righteousnesse but from pride in it Not from the care but conceipt of it Not from travailing for but from trusting in it Not from sound wisdome or justice but from seeming wisdome and a seeming shew of justice that is fained and false Ier. 9. 23. Not that any selfe-wisedome can bee counted too little or any seeming justice not over-much For selfe-wisedome and seeming justice have no meane but are themselves the extreames of true and sound wisdome and justice First Some are righteous or religious neither in shew nor substance but onely in name as vile Belials and prophane ungodly men Secondly Some in shew not in deed as hollow-hearted halting hypocrites who are usually too just being strict in a righteousnesse they frame and make to themselves not grounded on Gods Word Marke 7. 4 counting such things to be sinne which by Gods law are not made sinne being censorious busie-bodies without just ground or warrant Thirdly Some are righteous or religious in deed not in shew as weake believers Fourthly Some both in shew and substance as all sincere-hearted and open Professours These can never bee too just For in true righteousnesse no man can be over-just that is too strict in avoiding sinne all being damnable and deadly or in perf●rming any bounden duty he being to give an account of them all Say not therefore I say a man may be too just or righteous For although in palpably prophane persons there is too little righteousnesse or justice too much in Pharisees Brownists and Papists yet they who go along by the Word of God and hold close to it the rule of righteousnesse cannot be over-just or over-righteous And although scrupulous superstition Mar. 7. 2. Glozing hypocrisie Matth. 7. 3 4 5. And blind preposterous zeale Rom. 10. 2. are too much justice by which men are too religious yet in the sound and sufficient practice of piety observing to do all the commandements of the Lord Deut. 6. 25. fearing God and keeping his commandements Eccles 12. 13. Following the Lords direction in his Word Mica 6. 8. No man can be too just because none can be too much truly religious 1. You honourable and venerable Magistrates the Lord Iehovahs and his Lievetenants our dread Soveraignes Deputies 1. Do not you by impunity encourage wicked men to mischiefe for thus doing you not onely incite to iniquity but also make the Land guilty of sinne and the inhabitants liable to Gods judgements Deut. 19. 10. 20. 1 King 20. 4. Numb 35. 31 32 33 34. 2. Doe not you like those corrupt governours of Israel 1 Kings 21. and prophane perplexed Pilate Iohn 9. 10 11. sit in judgement upon the righteous and give sentence of condemnation against the innocent For so doing you sinne against charity which believeth all things Against justice which would have the good preserved and protected Against the common-wealth each good man being a common good And against God such being the apple of his eye Zach. 2. 8. 3. Doe not you by suborning supporting or setting others on worke harme the guiltlesse For so doing your selves should be chiefe actors and agents As David slew Vriah with the sword of the children of Ammon 2 Sam. 12. 9 10. 11. 15. 4. Do not you suffer others to condemne or kill to harme so doing you are accessaries at least Exod. 2● 29. Deut. 22. 8. Io 〈…〉 9. 12 13 17. Prov. 2● 11 12. 5. D 〈…〉 not by inhumanitie and crueltie oppresse the inferiour helpelesse men For so doing you will fill y 〈…〉 h●gh with bloud Isa 1. 15. Swallow up the 〈…〉 Amos 8. 4 7. Ear up people like bread Psal 14. 4. 53. 4. And procure many bitter pitteou● cries to God and men against you ●ch 5 1. 11. 13. But doe you deale justly and uprightly in your jurisdictions Loving righteousnesse and hating iniquity Exod. 18. 21. Psal 45 7. Having your ●ares open to the crie of the poore Proverbs 31. 8 9. Regarding 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 although they try 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 31. 8. Giving sentence according to tr●th and equity Executing judgement according to truth given That so you may imitate the Lord Ieho●i● whose person you represent That so you may follow your pi●us for● 〈◊〉 Luke 23. 50. and testifie your sincere obedience to Gods soveraigne commandements Zach. ● 16. 2. You fathers begetting 1 Cor. 4. 14. Mothers travailing in birth Gal. 4. 19. And N●●ses ● Thes ● Feeding soules to eternall life You Shepheard● to draw w●ter● ou● of the We● of salvation not for beasts but men not for bodies but for soules not for sinners but for Saints You Ambassadours of the Lord of glory co-workers with and labourers for God Angels of the Churches salt of the earth light● of the world and men of God Let us 〈◊〉 either 1. By pining causing Gods people to be cut off and destroyed for lack of knowledge Hos 4. 6. 2. By pernicious p●●s●●ing departing out of the way causing many to stumble at the law corrupting the couenant of Levi Mal. ● 8. Teaching 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for sacred truths Mi●ing and mingling the dreggy lee● of our owne ●rossie devices amidst the delicate divine doctrine of the omnipotent omniscient unchangeable Iehovah Like those corrupt glossers who taught as truth that swearing by the Temple was nothing by the gold thereof a great offence Mat. 13. 18. 3. By slothfull negligence occasioning the keene and glittering sword of divine displeasure to sweepe away obstinate offenders in their iniquities And justly incensing the incomprehensible Iehovah to require their bloud at our his watchmens hands Ezek. 33 6. 4. By over-lading our faint and feeble brethren with the ●nerous burdens of unnecessary things thereby incurring the inevitable woe of the Lord Iesus Luke 11. 46. And the sharp check and controll of that ancient Primitive Apostolicall Synod Acts 15. 10. 28. 5. By corrupt contagious counsell and evill example stumbling scandalizing or weakening our brethren Rom. 14. 21. Gal. 2. 13. 1. But let us imitating the Lords holy Prophets 1 Sam. 12. 19. 23. His well-beloved blessed Sonne that great and faithfull shepheard Ioh. 17. And his pious Apostles 1 Tim. 2. 1. Pray without c●asing for the Lords people 2. Let us obeying those sacred injunctions so frequently incul●●ted in sacred Writ Feed my lambes Feed my sheep ●r●ach in season and out of season That is preach on times set and appointed When people are willing and forward to heare and when occasion is offered this being in season Yea out of season namely at times extraordinary or when people are backward to heare For their backwardnesse cannot excuse our negligence Our labour is with God though lost with men Isa 49. 14 We must speake although they will not heare Ezek. 2. 5. That we may magnifie the riches of Gods mercies justifie his righteous judgements leave them without excuse Ezek. 2. 5. and save our

that Lib. 1. which is publi●●ed for when we know detractors we are wont m●r● easily to avoid their impudent tongues and ungratefull minds I will o●ce more as●aile these audacious and awkeard Antinomists I● which attempt I will not trouble my selfe or you with repctitions of those things which I have formerly delivered neither is it needfull for me to confirme any of my reasons because cavilled at by some no more than it is necessary to prove that the sun doth shine in a bright noone-tide because some blind people will not beleeve it They say that we Ministers dare not preach the truth through feare of loosing our livings And is the Church of England become a stepmother so rigorous Answ 1 and tyrannicall as to punish at all or so severely as with the losse of living those which preach the purity of the Gospell And are all the pious Pastours and painefull preachers of this our famous Church become so faint and cowardly that not one of them onely some few stragling wanderers dares to preach the Gospell of Christ Monstrous impudencie horride impiety If these doe not deserve the sharpe censure and severe scourge of the Church traducing thus venemously and unjustly a Church so renowned and a Clergy so reverend let others judge 2. But admit their impious and injurious imputations to be true and credible as they are fond false and fantasticall yet are all other reformed Churches enemies to the purity of the Gospell and are all other Divines which are and have beene famous in the same cowardly and corrupt unsound and rotten For the Church of England you have heard her judgement So● of Saints B. 4. Cap. 6. p. 244. B. 3. Cap. 14 p. 183. Hom. of the misery of mankind C. yet heare her speake once againe For truly there is imperfections in our best workes wee doe not love God so much as wee are bound to doe with all our heart mind and power wee doe not feare God so much as wee ought to doe Thou shalt not kill thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt Hom. of works ● not steale By which words Christ declared that the lawes of God be the very way that doe leade to eternall life So that this is to bee taken for a most true lesson taught by Christs owne mouth that the workes of the morall commandements of God bee the very true workes of faith which loade to the blessed life to come Vnder pretence of obedience to their father in religion they Ibid. E. 1. were exempted by their rules and canons from the obedience of their naturall father and mother and from the obedience of Emperour and King and from all temporall power whom of very Hom. of Obed N. 1. duty by Gods lawes they were bound to obey c. Wherefore let us subjects doe our bounden duties c. Here let us learne of Saint Paul the elect vessell of God that Ibid. N. 111. all persons having soules doe owe of bounden duty and even in conscience obedience submission and subjection to the higher powers Thus we know partly our bounden duty to common authority Ibid. P. c. How can we then be free if not free from then bound to from Hom. against Adultery P. 11 this commandement where so great charge is layd upon us Our Church Catechisme Q. Dost thou not thinke that thou art bound to beleeve and to doe as they have promised for thee A. Yes verily c. the things which they acknowledge themselves bound to doe is to obey Gods law Answ before Thirdly that I should keepe Gods holy will and commandements and walke in the same all the daies of my life The Old Testament is not contrary to the new although the Artic. 7. law given from God by Moses as touching ceremonies and rites doe not binde Christian men yet notwithstanding no Christian man what soever is free from therefore bound to the obedience of the commandements which are called morall Heare some of our worthy Divines speake Dr. Reinolds saith the morall law bound Ioseph and David Overthr of stage pl. p. 83. to love their neighbours and themselves equity thereof pertained to the morall law and so is perpetually and simply to bee observed The morall law remaines for ever a rule of obedience to every Ibid. p. 36. child of God though he be not bound to bring the same obedience for his justification before God Ecclesiasticall Histories mention many such Libertines Simon Magus and his disciples who taught that men might lawfully commit fornication Basilides Eunomius Gnosticke who taught that men might live as they list seeing now such liberty was procured them being freed from being under the law any longer which sinne died not with those cursed heretickes but the Divell hath in these last daies revived it especially Idem in Iude. p 518. 2. d. in foure sorts of men First the Libertines of this age who hold with the former that being under grace we are free from the Idem in Iude p. 5 18. 2 d. Rom. 13. 5. p. 1096. Col. 28. p. 33. obedience of the Morall Law M. Wilson We are bound to be subject c. M. Bifield But is the whole Law of Moses abrogated c. D. Ames The matter of our obedience is c. In his confutation of Bellarmine Whereas the I●suite objects that wee place Christian liberty in this that wee are subject or bound to no law in conscience before God He answereth So hainous is this liberty of false accusing that the authour thereof doth seeme to have no respect of law or conscience in witnesse before God For wee doe acknowledge that all Christians are subject to the rule and direction to the authority and obligation of the Morall Law and of all the divine Law enjoying us any duty c. And in his Cases of Conscience hee concludes that the Law of God doth binde the conscience and sheweth what it is to binde namely To have that power that the conscience ought to be subject to it so that it doth sinne if is doth any thing against the Law Heare other Writers judgements and determination Peter Martyr saith The Law is the rule or square of Loc. Com. Clas 2. cap. 2. Bul. D●c de pers Legis d 3. ● 8. Cent. 1. l. 2. c. 4. conscience Bullinger The Law doth order and frame the life of men The Centuries say The Scriptures teach that we are delivered or freed from the curse and condemnation not from the obedience of the Morall Law Againe they teach That the Law Morall which is the immoveable judgement of divine understanding is not disanulled P. 184. but doth endure for ever Palanus hath diverse reasons to prove this Lib. 6. de Lege Dei Ch. Hom cap. 105 p. 1496. Chemnitius a Lutheran saith We are freed from the Law in regard of the curse we are freed from the Law in regard of justification But we are not freed from the

therfore saith our Church in a prayer to be said on the fift of November Whose religion is rebellion whose faith is faction whose practice is murthering of soules and bodies 3. This is a matter of important weight and urgent necessitie A necessarie for 1. No King Prince or Potentate hath these gifts or graces of himselfe but by grace and inspiration from above Iob 32. 8 9. The inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding great men are not alwaies wise Eccl. 3. 16. 5. 8. 10. 5. Ier. 15. 17. Every man is brutish by his knowledge 2. None can give these graces and excellent endowments but God onely who bestowes them upon those who ask him Iob 38. 36. Who hath put wisdome in the inward parts or who hath given understanding to the heart 28. 12. Where shall wisdome be found c. Whence then commeth wisdome and where is the place of understanding Vers 20. God understandeth the way thereof c. 23. It is Gods blessing which makes all thing prosperous and successefull Ps 127. 1. It is he that giveth salvation unto Kings Psal 144. 10. It is he who leads in the way of righteousnesse in the midst of the paths of judgement Prov. 8. 20. A just waight and ballance are the Lords all the waights of the bag are his worke 16. 11. Mans goings are of the Lord Prov. 20. 24. The Kings heart is in the hand of the Lord as rivers of waters he turneth it whithersoever he will Prov. 21. 1. Yea every mans judgement commeth from the Lord 29. 26. 3. After he hath given he often takes away againe as from Saul from whom the Spirit of the Lord departed and an evill spirit from the Lord troubled him 1 Sam. 16. 14. and withholds his grace of assistance Iob 12. 20. He removeth away the speech of the trusty and taketh away the understanding of the aged he powreth contempt upon Princes and weakeneth the strength of the mighty Ier. 51. 57. I will make drunke her princes and her wise men her captaines and her rulers and her mighty men saith the King whose name is the Lord of hoasts 4. When these and such like graces are wanting in the government of Kings and Princes subjects dare not complaine check controll or reprove them Iob 54. ●8 Is it fit to say to a King thou art wicked or to Princes ye are ungodly Nec valent nec debent castigare Subjects neither can nor ought to correct their Princes 5. Where they be wanting Kings and great men are wicked and all things go to wracke and ruine in a countrey and common-wealth Prov. 11. 11 14. By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted but it is overthrowne by the mouth of the wicked Where no counsell is the people fall 29. 4. The King by judgement establisheth the land but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it 31. 5. Lest they drink and forget the law and pervert judgement of any of the afflicted Eccles 10. 16. Woe to thee O land when thy King is a child and thy Princes eat in the morning Lewd Governours are like leaking ships which drowne all 4. These and such like gifts and gracious endowments Ab utili do inestimably enrich and ennoble the parties themselves with God and man confirme and establish their Thrones and Scepters and make their subjects unspeakably gladsome and gratefull For 1. A King that sitteth in the throne of judgement chaseth away evill with his eye Pro. 20 8. 2. The throne is established by righteousnesse Pro. 16. 12. Yea righteousnesse exalteth a nation 14. 34. Take away the wicked from before the King and his Throne shall be established in righteousnesse Prov. 25. 5. The King by judgement establisheth the land Pro. 29. 14. 3. To doe justice and judgement is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice Proverbs 21. 3. In these things namely in exercising loving kindnesse judgement and righteousnesse in the earth I delight saith the Lord Ieremie 9. 24. 4. These bring shelter succour and safety to subjects Isa 32. 16 17 18. Then judgement shall dwell in the wildernesse and righteousnesse remaine in the fruitfull field and the worke of righteousnesse shall be peace and the effect of righteousnesse quietnesse and assurance for ever and my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation in sure dwellings and in quiet resting places Ieremy 7. 5 7. 22. 15 16. Did not thy Father eat and drinke and do judgement and justice and then it was well with him Hee judged the cause of the poore and needy and then it was well with him c. 5. A divine sentence is in the lips of the King he shall not transgresse in judgement Prov. 16. 10. 6. A King that sitteth in the throne of judgement scattereth away all evills with his eyes Proverbs 20. 8. A wise King scattereth the wicked and bringeth the wheele over them Pro. 20. 26. 7. Mercy and truth preserve the King and his Throne is upholden by mercy Pro. 20. 28. 8. Where these gifts and graces are there is health strength safety delight and the blessing of goodnesse Prov. 24. 5 6 25. 9. And so they are a meanes likewise to prop up and preserve the common-wealth For By a man of understanding and knowledge the state of the land shall bee prolonged Proverbs 28. 2. Whereas The Prince that wanteth understanding is a great oppressour Proverbs 28. 16. 10. From these do flow the constant and comfortable continuance of a country the majesty and maintenance of a kingdome Pro. 28. 2. 29. 4. 11. By meanes of these Princes and Potentates prolong their dayes Pro 28. 16. procure health Pro. 24. 6. and prosperity Ier. 22. 15 16. 12. Subjects live joyfully as we do this day rejoycing when the righteous are in authority Pro. 19. 2. In peace piety and honesty 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. 5. Diverse and dreadfull are the effects and consequents of Ab inutili evill and unjust government 1. In regard of the Governours For 1. They will keep evill servants Pro. 29. 12. 2. They will transgresse for a trifle Pro. 28. 21. 3. They will pervert judgement Pro. 17. 23. 31. 5. 4. They oppresse the poore Pro. 28. 15 16. 5. They are in danger of cursing Pro. 24. 24. 6. They will be contemned Pro. 18. 3. 2. In regard of the people or subjects For 1. They shall sigh and mourne Pro. 29. 2 2. They shall feare and flie Pro. 28. 28. 3. They will hate and curse so miserably offend Pro. 24. 24. 4. They will despise and contemne so miserably offend Pro. 18. 3. 3. In regard of the countrey 1. It shall be wofull Eccl. 10. 16. 2. It shall be destroyed Pro. 29. 4. 3. It shall be consumed Ier. 21. 12. Amos 5. 6 7. 4. It shall be desolate Mica 3. 9 10 11. Sion for your sake shall beplowed c. 6. Such as the Princes and principall men are such will the people themselves be either in truth or in