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A56328	The Trojan horse of the Presbyteriall government vnbowelled wherein is contained, I. The power of the Presbyterian government, II. The persons in whom this power is placed, III. The exercise of the Presbyterian power in Scotland, and the lawes there imposed on the peoples necks.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1646 (1646)	Wing P427; ESTC R5914	15,875	25

or Ecclesiasticall within the Realme 2. Booke of Discipline Chap. 12. The Princes and Magistrates not being exemed and these that are placed in the Ecclesiasticall Estate rightly ruling and governing God shall be glorified c. 2. Booke of Discipline Chap. 13. If any man shall wonder how these insolent claimes can stand with their former expressions in favour of the Civill Magistrate let him know that there be two Texts in their Booke of Discipline that will open this mystery and reconcile the contradiction The first The Magistrate neither ought to preach minister the Sacraments nor execute the Censures of the Kirke nor yet prescribe any rule how it should be done but command the Ministers to observe the rule commanded in the Word and punish the Transgressors by Civill meanes The Ministers exerce not the Civill Jurisdiction but teach the Magistrate how it should be exercised according to the Word Chap. 1. By this it appeares that all the power they allow the Civill Magistrate in Church-affaires is onely to be the Executioner of their Decrees The second Although Kings and Princes that be godly sometimes by their own Authority when the Kirk is corrupted and all things out of order place Ministers and restore the true servants of the Lord after the example of some godly Kings of Juda and divers godly Emperours and Kings also in the light of the New Testament yet where the Ministery of the Kirk is once lawfully constitute and they that are placed doe their office faithfully all godly Princes and Magistrates ought to heare and obey their voice and reverence the Majesty of the Son of God speaking in them 2. Booke of Dis. Chap. 10. This Text I confesse is fast and loose For who shall be Judge whether the Church be corrupted and all things out of order or whether the Ministery be lawfully constitute and the Office faithfully discharged Shall the King Their Practise shewes that they will not allow that Shall the Ministery be Judge Then the power given to Princes in a corrupted Church is just nothing For sure the Ministers will not condemne themselves If any thing of certainty can be made out of this Oracle it is this That the Presbyterian Government must be supposed to be the onely orderly Government and all the proceedings of it just and Kings and Princes may claim a power to cast out any other Government and set up that but when that is once up they must then bee content with what the Assembly will allow them 5 To their Doctrine that it is unlawfull to resist the Civill Magistrate they give these bounds while he doth his duty and governeth as he ought To disobey or resist any that God hath placed in Authority whilest they passe not over the bounds of their office we confesse or affirme to be sin Large Confes. Art 15. We confesse and avow that such as resist the supreame Power doing that thing which appertaineth to his charge doe resist Gods Ordinance and therefore cannot be guiltlesse Large Confes. Art 25. From these premisses I thinke the inference is good that if the supreame power passe the bounds of his Office if he doe not that thing which appertaineth to his charge if he doe the contrary if he mis-governe then they hold resistance to be no sinne nor the Subjects that resist him to be guilty of resisting Gods Ordinance It may be that the generall disaffection to Regall Power in these distractions may render some men lesse apprehensive of the dangerous consequences of this Doctrine and the former Claimes as supposing them to have no other drift then to clip the wings of Royall Prerogative But this is a grosse and dangerous mistake and whosoever shal be envested with that Civill Power which shal be taken from the King be it the Parliament or whosoever else must looke to succeed him in the heavy enmity which this Presbyterian Power will exercise against the Civill Power when it doth not comply with them in what hands soever it be placed For these incroachments of theirs are not upon the King as distinguished from other Magistrates but upon the Civill Magistrate in common whosoever he be as appeares plainly by the former Testimonies So that if they have a minde to call a generall Assembly though the King and Parliament finde it needlesse or in regard of circumstances of time place or distempered affections in the Ministers or People inexpedient or dangerous they will over-rule though to the highest disservice of the State and must be obeyed If they agree upon any Ecclesiasticall Constitutions and Canons though the King and Parliament judge them never so contrary to the Lawes tending to the hurt of the Kingdome yet must they yeeld to this Presbyterian Power If the King and Parliament make any Lawes concerning the affaires of the Church which are not to their liking they may repeals them The King and Parliament must be Subject not onely to their generall Assembly but in subordination to that to the Dictates of every petty Parochiall Session where their personall residence and abode shall be Lastly If the King and Parliament will governe contrary to their will and pleasure their principles will allow them to incite the people to resist them After so rank a crop of weeds pernicious to Civill power I know not what regard will be had to the gleanings which yet would not be lost 6 Therefore if the Civill Migistrate punish not with death such as in their judgement deserve it they order that the Church may excommunicate the offender not onely for his crime but as suspect to have corrupted the Temporall Judge If no remedy by them can be found that is by the Magistrates then justly may the Church pronounce the offender excommunicate as one suspect besides his crime to have corrupted the Judges revengers of blood Order of excommunication in the Psalm Booke So that if the Civill Judges thinke not fit to proceed against every one whom they hold a capitall offender not only the reputed offender shall be excomunicate but in the publication of the Sentence the Judges shall be openly defamed as corrupt and that upon a suspition thus weakly grounded 7 They determine that the Temporall Magistrate is bound to punish Adultery with death by Gods own Law It is cleerly knowne to us that N. somtimes baptized in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost and so reputed and counted for a Christian hath fearefully fallen from the society of Christs body by committing of cruell and wilfull murther or by committing filthy Adultery c. which crime by the Law of God deserveth death Order of Excom. in the Psalm Book Blasphemy adultery murder perjury and other crimes capital worthy of death ought not properly to fall under censure of the Kirk because all such open transgressors of Gods Law ought to be taken away by the Civil Sword 1. Book of Discip. Head 7. Marriage once lawfully contracted may not be dissolved at mans