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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

these things by wholesome Laws and commands the Execution of these functions is above the Bishop as the Sun is above the Moon so the Moon may be above the Sun in a several respect In respect of the distance from the Center of the World the Sun is ever above the Moon but in respect of Elevation above the Horizon the Moon may be is many times above the Sun 2. Adversaries to the foresaid truth on the other side are those with whom we have here to doe who will not have the Church in any wise to be subject to any temporal power in as much as they receive no such from Christ And to prove this they urge here in the first place That the Lord Jesus Christ would never by any outward force compell men to receive him or his doctrine for when his Disciples supposing he might use violence as under the Law would have had him command fire to come down from heaven as Elias did to consume them that would not receive him Christ turned and rebuked them saying Ye know not what Spirit ye are of the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives c. Luc. 9. 54 55 56. Ans The fact of Elias was extraordinary and not justifiable by the Law as they pretend and so had this been in our Saviour had he done it at their request But what had this been to the reciving of or rejecting his Doctrine The question was touching the reception of his person and the reason why those Samaritans did not that act of civility to him as to entertain him was because either they supposed he would not have come upon their invitation or else they would not invite him by reason of the animosity that was between the Jews and Samaritans as supposing that a friend of Hierusalem or an inhabitant thereof neither deserved nor would accept of entertainment from them And all this is clear by that conference of the woman of Samaria with our Saviour John 4. 9. How is it saies she that thou being a Jew askest drink of me that am a woman of Samaria for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans They further urge John 12. 47 48. If any man hear my words and believe not I judge him not for I came not to judge the world c. Ans There are two comings of Christ one secretly and in humility that he might be judged and delivered up the other manifestly and majestickly that he might judge and remunerate Now if Christ had come at first manifestly he had never been crucified for had they known it they would not have crucified the Lord of glory and had he come majestickly with a great retinue of men or angels which he might have commanded the whole Roman Empire would have trembled at his presence so far would Pilate the Roman Procuratour have been from calling him before his tribunal Nevertheless he did sometimes use outward force in things appertaining to the worship of God giving us thereby not only an adumbration of his spiritual Kingdome but also a copy for Magistrates his Vicegerents to write after for finding in the Temple those that sold oxen sheep and doves John 2. 14. and the changers of money sitting he made a scourge of small cords and drove them all out of the Temple and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers money The like did he at another time Mat. 21. 12 13. For the distance of time and other circumstances do prove that these were different acts of our Saviour as all Expolitours agree in this chapter from the second to the thirteenth verse we read how he sent two of his disciples to press an ass and a colt to carry him as it were to his Coronation the which was obeyed as all good subjects will their Sovereign upon this ass they put foot-clothes and mounted him the multitudes that met him spread their garments in the way and strewed it with branches of trees crying on either side Hosanna to the Son of David which is as much as to say God save the King The first thing he did after his coming to his Royal City was the reformation of things amiss in the worship of God went into the Temple cast out them that bought and sold there and there he cured the Kings evil too h. e. such diseases as could not be cured but by this King of the Jews v. 14. to teach all Kings which claim under him to employ their first and chiefest endeavours after their enthronization towards matters appertaining to the worship of God and in works of charity towards such as are in extream necessity But should our Saviour have used such authority as often as occasion presented it self he would have been dreaded by all men and crucified by none and so prophecies would not have been fulfilled Nevertheless he ceaseth not to govern the Church and in that sense to judge the world by the Magistrates and Ministers of the Word for as Grotius saies some actions of Christ in the Administration of his Kingdom are as he calls them Terminal viz. such as concern the beginning and ending of his administration Such as concern the beginning of his admiuistration are the giving of Laws to his Church under hope of eternal reward or under pain of everlasting damnation That which concerns the end is a definitive jurisdiction at the last day whereof as he hath done the one so will he do the other himself alone wherein he hath neither companion nor Vicegerent Other actions of Christ are middle actions which come between these two terms which partly concern the inward partly the outward man He acteth in the inward man by his Spirit several waies viz. by enlightning by converting by strengthening against temptations by remitting or retaining sins yet he useth herein the outward ministry of men viz. of Pastours private men Kings every one in his several capacity not as his Vicars or Vicegerents these being not able to produce actions congenial to those of Christ but as his ministers only being apt to the production of such actions as may subserve to the principal cause in matters aforesaid The actions of Christ that concern the outward man consist in defending and delivering the Church and in ordering and adorning the fame as I said before and herein he uses the Vicarship of his Magistrates as being apt to produce actions in this respect congenial to his own whom he therefore calls his Christs h. e. his ANOINTED ones And now whereas they say that the Apostles were far from propagating the Gospel by outward force It is evident that the ordinary power of the Apostles and of the Magistrates are different things and who talks of propagating the Gospel by outward force in either Our King is the Desender of the faith by the sword that he holds He goes not about to propagate it if by propagation you mean plantation too by force and violence His Majesty is furnished with an Aphorism of

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 Kings 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 2. Per. 1. 1 2 3. But there were false Prophets among the people as there shall be false Teachers among you by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of Jude 8. These filthy dreamers defile the flesh despise dominion and speak evil of dignities Jude 16. These are murmurers complainers Jude 19. These be they who separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit LONDON Printed for H. Robinson and are to be sold at the Sign of the Three Pigeons in Sr. Paul's Church-yard 1663. Imprimatur Geo. Stradling S. T. P. Rev. in Christo Pat. D. Gilb. Epise Lond. a Sac. domest Ex Aed Sab. 12. Feb. 1662. FOR Colonel R. ATKINS One of the Deputy Lieutenants of the County of GLOUCESTER SIR I Have perused the Pamphlet you left at my Lodging and according to your desire grounded upon the consideration of the advantages which seditious persons suck in things of this nature from the silence of the Orthodox given you my sense of it Which task if it prove satisfactory to any and particularly to render that Friend of yours and of your most accomplisht Lady's steddy who is yet balancing in her resolutions I shall put upon the account of favours done to SIR Your humble Servant H. S. THE CONTENTS Sect. 1. THe events of these times the same with those after the passion of Christ only those were meerly eventual these consequential Three Churches in three persons of one house The Golden Rule of our Saviour wrested by our Adversaries Fears and jealousies like those that caused the war causeless Sect. 2. Their Epistle dated the eighth day of the third moneth The vanity of such date evidenced in answer to three queries 1. What the moneths in Scripture were 2. By what names they were called 3. When they began And herein 1. What was the first moneth 2. When was the first day of that moneth What the Rabbies amongst these men understand by the first month Their affectation of singularity Sect. 3. How cheap the shedding of mens bloud was to them which now they would have prevented towards themselves They would have none but arbitrary government Of all they dislike Kingly most What is meant by the Harlot in the Apocalypse which they would have understood of the Pope only Simon Magus the Deceiver Those that work in his vertue and power Antichrists The Harlot like a Bird of prey The men of this generation compared to the Cast of Sacres that made the Eagle their quarry The Pope and they meet in the Antipodes The History of Stork Stubner and Muntzer Ring-leaders of the Fanaticks Their practises to deceive That they are Antichristian Their sacriledge and their pretext for it Sect. 4. The use of Musick in Churches Commanded in Scriture in every thing that tends to edification Musical Instruments whether wind or stringed and Chromatick Musick allowable not typical Those that are against the use of it under the New Testament would have it to be they know not what themselves And if any thing it is what we hold it to be Sect. 5. Vestments distinctions of persons serving and of services under the Gospel allowed by the Law of Moses and of Nature No Vestments but Vices reprehended in the Heathen in the New Testament The Druides sacrificed not only in white but under Oaks which by them were had in veneration and which the men of this generation seem to allow of in as much as upon all their Crowns and Scepters which they wore and bore they placed the Acorn instead of the Crosse a figure which the Devil cannot abide Of happy presage to us They confute themselves by condemning of us And in justifying themselves they justifie us a fortiori Nothing but order and decency in our Ceremonies Sect. 6. Bishops Timothy and Titus were Bishops so were the Angels of the seven Churches in the Apocalypse in the judgement of old Doctor Reynolds Doctor Usher and Grotius How the Bishops resemble the high Priests And the whole frame of Church-Government answers to the like order and distinction under the Old Testament A Scheme thereof drawn by Bishop Andrews The Ministers of the New Testament do succeed to Priests and Levites as the Lords day does to the Sahbath The Lords Prayer contains not only ancient forms in use among the Jews but also the very design of the Sacrifices under the Law The comparison made The Lords Prayer the first Liturgy The Jurisdiction of the Bishops proved 1. as to their power 2. as to the distribution of their power and both out of the New Testament Their right of sitting in Parliament asserted Sect. 7. Of Churches The lawfulnesse of them proved from the example of primitive Christians in the New Testament 2. Their conveniency proved 1. In respect of their capacity for the Diocesse and Parishes 2. In respect of their scituation in relation to the Diocesse and Parishes 3. In respect of their scituation of East and West Christians anciently adored towards the East Of the Church at Richlieu in France whose Altar stands at the West-end Of Covent-garden Church in London 4. Convenient for the scituation of parts within themselves They are Naves inversae 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in them what Some built with a single Crosse some with a double and why The mark in Ezekiel 9. 4. was the Crosse and that proved not only from the figure of the Letter Tau which was anciently a Crosse but also that in all probability it must be so though it be set a mark or mark a mark and no more in our Translation The necessity of Churches proved No stumbling-block to the Jews or Gentiles Sect. 8. How they slander the good Laws of the Kindome The same thing they impute to us is applicable to themselves The Harlot in the Apocalypse why so called The integral parts of Antichrist Their fury and hypocrisy parallel'd by those in France English Scottizing c. Rebellion under pretence of Religion unwarrantable Sect. 9. Of Magistrates Their power is of God and how Religion the foundation of all Government proved by several arguments Answer to their arguments of receiving the Alcoran and becoming Papists in some cases A threefold book put into Magistrates hands An errour in Government which is accidental makes not void his power Their second argument answered their third argument answered their fourth answered their fifth answered What power the Church hath to decree Rites and Ceremonies Their argument taken from the ceasing of the Cross of Christ answered Their argument from the example of Gallio