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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96612	The fourth paper, presented by Maior Butler, to the Honourable Committee of Parliament, for the propagating the gospel of Christ Jesus. VVhich paper was humbly owned, and was, and is attended to be made good by Major Butler. Mr. Charles Vane. Col. Danvers. Mr. Iackson. Mr. VVall. And Mr. Turner. Also a letter from Mr. Goad, to Major Butler, upon occasion of the said paper and proposals. Together with a testimony to the said fourth paper, by way of explanation upon the four proposals of it. / By R.W. Unto which is subjoyned the fifteen proposals of the ministers.	Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.	1652 (1652)	Wing W2763; Thomason E658_9; ESTC R206692	13,338	27

as the greatest Deceivers Seducers Hereticks and Blasphemers in the World 3. The Body of this Nation and of all Nations professing Christianity professing to know Christ Jesus in word and in works denying him cannot but be acknowledged to live and die if without Repentance in constant real and practical Denyings and Blasphemings of Christ Iesus 4. Christ Iesus hath not been without Care against Hereticks and Blasphemers Christ Iesus his course with Blasphemers First by judging them that are within among the Saints therefore 1 Tim. 1. Paul delivered Hymineus and Alexander unto Sathan that they may learn not to blaspheme Secondly by judging them without First sometimes by horrible judgments in this life sometimes by subduing them by his Spirit as Paul from his persecuting and blasphemous courses Thirdly As for the wilfully and finally obstinate they are ordained saith Peter and Iude to condemnation And their judgment and damnation sleepeth not To the third Head The full debate of this point may be seen in that great Controversie of the Bloody Tenet between Mr. Cotton and my self concerning the Civil Magistrates Commission in Spirituals I humbly conceive 1. That in these late years GOD hath made it evident that all Civil Magistracie in the World is meerly and essentially Civil And that the Civil Magistrate can truly take cognisance of nothing as a Civil Magistrate but what is proper and within his Civil Sphear The Magistrate if a Saint hath a Spiritual power and so have all Saints and he that partakes more of Christs Spirit hath more of Christs Power whatever his outward condition be 2. By the last Will and Testament of Christ Jesus we find not the least title of Commission to the Civil Magistrate as Civil to judge and act in the matters of his Spiritual Kingdom 3. That great pretence from the Land of Canaan and the Kings of Israel and Judah hath been in these late years proved but weak and sandie and the Lord Iesus Christ himself to be the Antitype of all those Figures the King and Head of all the Israel of God Forming Reforming his people c. Hence The Saints wil be Saints whatever the Magistrates the Times be although it be the Duty of Kings Queens Magistrates to be nursing Fathers and Mothers to the Saints Although it be the Saints Duty to pray for Magistrates that they may live peaceably under them in all Godliness and Honesty Jer. 29. and 1 Tim. 2. Yet suppose the Magistrates to be never so ungodly idolatrous blasphemous bloody as they were in the first 300 years after Christ yet Christ Iesus failed not nor wil to preserve his Saints in the Power and Spirit of true Christianity and Godliness And contrarily the Saints never discovered so bright an Image of Christ Iesus since in those times wherein Constantine and so many after him have used and drawn their Civil swords in Spiritual causes Our Fathers before us in England though famous for Civil Laws and Wars and Victories yet have they but trod the Round and walked in a Circle plant and pluck up plant and pluck up as we their Children do and all for want of Commissions from Christ Iesus and his Instructions and Promises in such a Work The Parliament established King Henry the 8. Head of the Church this Supremacy hath continued in four Protestant Princes since The bickerings of the Clergy from H. 8. his time all zelous for the Civil sword Yet first what Disagreements about the Title For while the Clergy have preacht the Jus Divinum of the Princes Authority in Spirituals after the pattern of the Kings of Israel and Iudah the truth is that Parliaments and People since have pleaded That Princes could not receive but what the Parliaments gave them and the Parliaments could not give them but what the People gave the Parliament their Representative which could not possibly be a Spiritual and Soul-power Secondly the Work hath never prospered but succeeding Times more enlightened by Christ Iesus have still been breaking down and pulling up For instance The Protestant Bishops with their English Common Prayer supplanted the Popish Bishops and their Latine Masse The Presbyterians and their Scotch Directories after some Disputes at last rout the Protestant Bishops and their Common-Prayers Now the Parliament being graciously pleased to remind the Providence of the most High in using Instruments of various Consciences in their late Service cannot but expect to be sollicited by some of these Consciences and to be zealously told that Christian Kings and Magistrates succeed the Kings of Israel and Iudah in the power of Establishing Religion and Reforming it of Defining Doctrines especially Fundamentals of Punishing the contrary as Hereticks and Blasphemers of Granting Licences and Authority to Preachers of seeing their VVages paid them c. And therefore that they are bound as they will answer it to God to Christ to their own souls and the souls of others to settle Religion to Establish something c. But My humble Prayer shall be to Him that is only wise so to guide this Renowned Parliament that they may see and shun the Rocks on which our Fathers as touching a State-Religion both Papist and Protestant have made most woful shipwrack And that they may be pleased to remember that be the Plants never so new so fair so hopeful yet while National while State-plants and inforced our Spiritual Lord the Lord Iesus will sooner or later eradicate and pluck them up untill at last the work and glory be given to Himself to work freely and in his own way by the free Breathings of his most powerfull Spirit in the mouths and hearts of such by whom and in whom he freely pleaseth Hence oh that it would please the Father of Spirits to affect the heart of the Parliament with such a merciful sense of the Soul-Bars and Yokes which our Fathers have laid upon the neck of this Nation and at last to proclaim a true and absolute Soul-freedom to all the people of the Land impartially so that no person be forced to pray nor pay otherwise then as his Soul believeth and consenteth Soul 〈◊〉 of mighty ●●●sequence to th●s Nation This Act as I believe it to be the absolute will of God as to this and all the oppressed Nations of the World so will this most prudent State find it to be a principal Expedient for two great ends First the easing and sweetening the minds of the people of this Nation who have so long cried out of Burthens c. Secondly the preventing all the Clergical Designs of one sort or another when the whole people of the Nation shall be engaged as one man to maintain that Power that hath from Heaven set them free from so great and so long continued Slavery Such a Service for God and the Nation cannot but be attended with many Objections To all which as also for some mercifull and humane consideration at least for a season to such of the