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kingdom_n	government_n	great_a	king_n	7,085	5	3.5910	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91788	An apology for the present government, and governour: with an answer to severall objections against them, and twenty queries propounded for those who are unsatisfied, to consider, and answer, if they please. / By Samuel Richardson.	Richardson, Samuel, fl. 1643-1658.	1654 (1654)	Wing R1403; Thomason E812_18; ESTC R207900	10,602	15

AN APOLOGY FOR THE Present Government AND GOVERNOUR WITH An Answer to severall Objections against them and twenty Queries propounded for those who are unsatisfied to consider and answer if they please I am for Peace Psal. 120. 7. Caleb stilled the People before Moses Numb. 13. 30. Let us follow after things that make for peace and things wherof we may edifie another Rom. 14. 19. The fruit of Righteousnesse is sowen in peace of them that make peace James 3. 18. Follow peace with all men Heb. 12. 14. Seek peace and pursue it Psal. 34. 14. By SAMUEL RICHARDSON LONDON Printed and are to be sold by Gyles Calvert at a this shop the West end of Pauls 1654. Severall Objections against the present Government answered Obj. THis government in the hand of one single person is in effect a kingly government Answ. If so that will not prove it unlawfull also when the power is in one or a few sooner and easier dipatch of businesse is had Obj. We have fought against kingly government Answ. If so that were in effect to fight against Christ for his government is kingly 2. We did not fight against kingly government but against Tyranny and oppression but we most especially for freedom in matter of Religion Obj. We are to have no King but Jesus Christ hee is to bee our onely lawgiver Jam 4. 12. Answ. I grant it in matters of Religion his kingdome is spirituall and not of this world Obj. This kingly government hinders Christ from reigning Ans. This is a great mistake the government of the world concerning the bodies and estates of men is another government and requires another King and this hindreth not the government of Christ but may both in their place well agree together I grant the Kings of the earth have opposed Jesus Christ and his kingdome and persecuted his people but that was not from their government as kingly but by mixing with their civill government matters of Religion and made lawes in matters meerly Religious and so persecuted Christ and his people which was from their ignorance and wickednesse of them who were Kings Psal 2. 2 Yet are they not forbid to bee Kings but bid to be wise Be wise therefore O Kings be instructed vers. 10. that is let Christ and his lawes and his people alone meddle not with them inflict no corporall punishment upon them nor meddle not with their persons and estates for things meerely Religious for that belongeth not to you In matters Religious no man may make a law the opinions that the magistrate hath a power from God to punish Hereticks with corporall punnishments hath cost the blood and lives of many thousands of the precious Saints and People of God There must of necessity be a government and a law in things civill else there will be great confusion Men say they know not what when they say this government hinders Christ from raigning for if wee speake of Christ raigning in his people by his Spirit can that bee hindered by Souldiers or Kings no none can hinder or suppresse that If they meane Christs personall raigne neither can all the power of this world hinder that seeing he is God he can with ease breake in peeces all that oppose him like a potters vessel as Psal. 2. 9. We desire Christ may come we trust we shall lovingly embrace him when he comes wee desire you to agree with us and to this government but till he come It is no treason against Christ to adhear to this government in things civill seeing God hath in no place in his word condemned the same if hee hath I pray you shew us where Obj. If this government bee continued to what purpose hath so much blood been spent Ans. It is to very great purpose for now wee enjoy freedome from persecution in matters of Religion which is the greatest outward blessing wee can enjoy this alone is worth all the blood and treasure that hath been spent And what good would all outward things in this world doe us without this the Lord make us more sensible and thankfull for this mercy I am perswaded that since this Nation hath beene a Nation it never did injoy so much freedome in this kind as now it doth If you could repeat 1000 things one after another that we want to every one we would cry but we have liberty in matters of Religion give me leave to say the want of this hath forced me to leave father mother wife friends and native Country and to wander desolately alone as forsaken and almost stript of all outward comforts and in a strange land and not knowing how to live and not willing to beg nor to endure the want I have beene in have sate down alone and wept bitterly and not able to speak because my griefe was so great I have wandred and hidde my selfe in holes and caves of the earth and knew not where to bestow my selfe and those who are not satisfied with the liberty we now enjoy excepting only the busines of Tithes never knew what it was to be persecuted undone or banished or to leave their native Country to wander a far off in desolate wildernesses or have forgot I am perswaded the Martyrs in Q. Maries dayes if they could have enjoyed the liberty wee doe though they should have had only bread and water would have been content and blessed God with all their hearts every day for the same And the maine thing I ever expected and ●o●k the Armies part was because by them I expected freedome in matters of Religion and with them that stand for that I am resolved to stand and fall and if we have it not from this government and Army I expect it from none else Obj. The Saints of God are now imprisoned and persecuted witnesse Mr. Feak Ans. Their imprisonment is not for Religion but for the safety of the Civill peace therefore I wonder how M●Feak dare write of his suffrings as he doth his words are I forewarned y●u of this houre of temptation I prisoner for the cause of Christ I suffer for his sake in bonds for the testimony of the kingdome of the Lord Jesus This honorable cause of Jesus Christ and the Gospel in bonds for the service of all the saints in bonds for Christ now in prison for the good old cause I am a sufferer for the Gospel suffer upon that account the brethren will be confident for my bonds Yet he saith hee hath been imprisoned 7 or 8 months and knows not what his crime is if hee knows it not how can he how dares he say it is for Religion and it appears by his mittimus that it is not for Religion nor for Christ nor for the Gospel nor for any of the Saints much lesse for all the Saints for the words of the mittimus as he sayth are to commit and in order to the peace and safety of this Nation If it be for the Civill peace how is