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justice_n	judge_n	king_n	power_n	3,562	5	5.1146	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70887	The Quakers vindicated from the calumnies of those that falsly accuse them as if they denyed magistrates, and disowned government; and as if both in principle and practice they were inconsistant with either. In which is shewed, that the true and sincere Quakers (so called, for of them I write) are in the spirit and principle in which the justice of magistrates is obeyed, and in which magistrates are to administer their government, and that by their practice in good works they fulfill all just and good government. And that they have God's authority for their meeting together to worship Him, ... And that people in matters of religion and the worship of God, should rather be instructed and led by the Spirit of the Lord in Gods authority, ... Also, several objections answered, as to the exercise of secular force and compulsion over the conscience in matters of faith, religion, and the worship of God. By Edward Pyot.	Pyot, Edward, d. 1670.	1667 (1667)	Wing P4316A; ESTC R25210	46,417	48

submitted unto for the Lord's sake as it is written Pet. 2. 13 14. Submit your selves to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supream or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well And those who are subject to the Power of God as the Power of God reigns in their souls and bears rule over their whole man which Power of God is the Higher Power unto which every soul is to be subject as well the Rulers in their Rule as the Ruled in their Obedience they must needs be subject to the Government of the same Power of God as it reigns in the souls of their Rulers and as it bears the Rule in their Governments for the Power of God which is to reign and rule in every mans own particular is the same which is to reign and rule in the Governments of men else how are they condemned in themselves who resist the Power as it rules in Government Rom. 13. 2. It is the reign of the Power to condemnation in them that resist that condemns them for their resisting the Rule of the Power as it reigns in Government And therefore those that are subject to the reign of the Power of God as it rules in themselves they must needs be subject to the Rule of the Power of God as it reigns in the Governments of men But the Quakers are subject to the Power of God and in their souls the Power of God reigns and bears the rule over their whole man and therefore the Quakers must needs be subject c. And for Conscience-sake they are subject to the Governments of the same Power of God as it reigns in their Rulers and as it rules in their Governments neither dare they resist the Power of God in their Rulers lest the Power of God in themselves be their condemnation But rather that by the Regal Reign and Rule of the Power of God in themselves they may be so regulated and their wayes so bounded unto the Lord as that within the limits of the Power they may be preserved to answer the same in their Rulers and their conversations in the fear of God so ordered and by his Wisdom and in his Counsel so directed and governed that as the same rules and guides in their Rulers they be found regular with all just and good Government and that in the Dominion of the same Power of God reigning in them by which Kings reign themselves in the Power may reign as Kings on Earth over all unrighteousness And that by the Sovereign Conduct of the same Wisdom of God dictating and prescribing to them by which Princes decree Justice they may be led in the wayes of Righteousness and guided in the midst of the paths of Judgment and the glorious Lord be unto them a place of broad Rivers and Streams and their Judge their Lawgiver and their King And so they being subject to the Power of God in themselves how can they resist its rule in their Rulers And their conversations being guided by the Counsel of God in themselves how can they transgress its conduct in Governments Nay but when Government is reduced to its true principle and first foundation and as Governours are restored to their just and primitive Judicature Isa 1. 26. 60. 17. that Judgment returns to Righteousness as its principle the Principle of Justice which is of God the gift of God in which Judgement is to be ● 4. 85. ● ●5 executed when Mercy and Truth meet and Righteousness and Peace kisse each other For Righteousness shall look down from Heaven and Truth spring out of the Earth and Judgment run down as Waters and Righteousness as a mighty Stream And when the Power of God only shal be the strength of Rulers and the Authority and Ability of their Rule and God's Wisdom their Guide and his Justice their Principle in their Governments and administration of their Laws and Gods Presence with them their Confidence and the stability of their times and not the Arm of flesh and Force of man nor sensual subtilty and craft I say when these things are accomplished and God's Promises fulfilled as to the Governments both of Nations and Families And the day hastneth in which Iniquity shall have an end for the Lord hath overturned and is overturning and will overturn until he come whose right it is and his day is begun in which he rules in the midst of his Enemies and will wound the heads over many Countries who Ps 1● Eccl 36. ● in their hearts say There is none other but we though darkned to many by the clouds in which he comes And then the Quakers as in their own consciences they are now clear in the sight of God as to their owning of Magistrates and submitting to their Governments in what righteously they can so then shall they stand justified in the sight of men yea even in the consciences of their greatest enemies And what can they now be accused of even in these times of Defection and Apostacy and the now hour and power of Darkness in which the Sea roars and the waves thereof are let loose in upon them and the foundations of the Earth as it were moved because of them and if but five or more besides the houshold do meet in their own hired house to worship God the third step in this path is Banishment and so to worship God out of the form of their Liturgy though it be in Spirit and in Truth is by this Generation made a Crime and worthy of Banishment if the number of five or above as aforesaid do meet for if they do but say they met together to worship God it is evidence enough to the Court saith the Judge for the Jury to bring them in guilty in order to their Sentence for Banishment May not the wise in heart hear and perceive at what they strike and what strikes and Solomons prophetick sight fulfilled Eccl. 3. 16. Moreover I saw under the Sun the place of Judgment that wickedness was there and the place of Righteousness that Iniquity was there And but a few years since the publick use of the Liturgy in Worship was accounted disobedience to Magistrates and was cryed against in the Pulpits But though they have no helper on earth and the Power great that is risen up against them as Solomon beheld the tears of them that were oppressed and they had no comforter On the side of the Oppresser there was power but they had no comforter Eccl. 4. 1. yet the Lord is with them and is their strength yea and their inward consolation and exceeding great reward in all their tribulations And is it not God's Presence with them the power and purity of his Appearance among them that makes the workers of Iniquity afraid and the Devil of his Kingdom for are not Meetings by fours privately and