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A76378	Logoi apologetikoi. Foure apologicall tracts exhibited to the supreme, self-made authority, now erected in, under the Commons name of England. Wherein is proved, that their unparallel'd acts in beheading the most Christian King, nulling the regall office, disclaiming the knowne heire, Charles the II. and declaring it treason to refell their errours, are diametrically opposite to the Scriptures, the greatest opprobrie to Christianity that ever was in the world; and, without true repentance, will either make England not Christian, or no English nation. / By T.B. a conscientious and orthodox divine.	T. B., conscientious and orthodox divine.	1649 (1649)	Wing B186; Thomason E558_8; ESTC R5037	19,646	35

briefe Pe● me Reges r●gnant sayes Wisdome by me doe Kings Raigne Prov. 8. 15. Christ by their persons they by his power And Solomon had ' great reason to say so For if the people could make a King it had not been King Solomon but Adonij●● the King Because the faces of all Israel were on him that he should raign 1 King 2. 15. Solomon there excludes all Pope Presbytery States People Commons None share with Wisdome in the Creation of Kings who shared not with the Word in the Creation of things Irenaeus saith Cujus jussu nascuntur homines hujus jussu Reges Irenae adv Haeres l. 5. c. 20. constituuntur God who ereated Men constituted Kings Tertullian affirmes the like Iudè potestas undè Spiritus Tert. in Apol. cont Gent. c. 30 Athan. Se● de beat Virg. whence the Soul is Soveraigoty is thence St. Athan●sius holds us to it Christ receiving the throne of David Transtulit dedit sacris Christianorum Regibus transferred and gave it to the sacred Kings of the Christians So doth S. Augustine Quia solus verus Deus ipse dat regna urrena bonis malu because God is the only true God he gives earthly Kingdomes to good and bad As if we might so well deny him to be the only true God as rob him of this prerogative 'T was usuall for holy Bishops writing unto Emperours or Kings to wish them grace health happinesse In ●o per quem regesregnant in him by whom Kings Raign Were all the Fathers in the severall Counsels adduced no believing Christian would ever bring humane Act or humane Vote or humane Power to justle the sec●et and sole disposing of God in the supremacy of a King All this while the Text is not wrested no singular sense introduced The Object remaines still humane as executed by an humane instrument and upon an Object humane God hath his due Cesar his The King is acknowledged and from God the King Humane His person His power Divine Whos 's Anointed He is I 'le hold Him sacred as his And if this be Treason I shall live and die a Traitour and so will true Christians all Nor am I a Court-parasite herein The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Popish Independents Presbyterian and Parochian Soveraignes shall shall never justifie me I grant the people no more then a capacitie and desire to be Governed Passively in submission they set up but may create no power actively The Opinion of the Manichees totally subverting the humane Ordinance of God I utterly renounce as diametrically opposite to the truth Not any State can ever be wel conditioned for peace and safety where is no Union with an actuall Government by and in one Supreme So doe I the Romanists Puritans Bucananists Brownists that interpose the people betwixt God and the King As if they were the Kings Origen and His power lasted but ad placitum whil●● he pleaseth them or they affect him As I keep no correspondence with those I abhor Nich●laitan community and Anabaptisticall parity Both destructive to the Order of the Church and State both And though these Humours swell high in this Kingdome yet I am confident that who invested the King will not suffer his power to be alwayes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in vaine Not thriving unto the first properity it may at last appeare to the comfort of the Loyall and terrour of the Rebels I find no ground for despaire The Spirit of God tells that according to the curse of Jotham after three years were expired a fire from Abimelech devoured Sichem and a fire from Sichem devoured Abimelech Iudg. 9. So let them who ever make head and will persist against my Lord the King soone perish by the Head they make and their Head with and by them Blessed S●viour indue me and every one under this persecuti●n with sufficient grace to possesse our soules in patience Not leaving our works to be done let us leave thy worke unto thy selfe In the race th●● hast set before us uphold us running as is prescribed and we have that for example Whether we live or not to see a peaceable Kingdome here enable us to keep thy peace initiated in us Doe thy will on us whatever it be and that we may enjoy eternall peace in thy Kingdome of glory we beseech thee to heare us good Lord. True Christians in obscure and equivocall phrases observing the general truth permit not their Expositions to swerve thee from analogy thereof Knowing obedience morall and Princes Gods derivatives dare not straine a Text to maintaine a falling thence If S. Peter call S. Pauls higher power ordained of God an humane Ordinance they search for a reason of the variation Who are not of ability to reach that will yet grant no contradiction because one is the Spirit that inspired both More peircing eyes looking far and neer determine it Divinely given and humanely received Apprehending God the Donor they conclude the Ordinance his Yet what he so bestowes as collated on man for the Government of men makes his Ordinance humane The cumulative or communicative power of the people is usurpation so is the reductive and coercive That neither of them may be inferred hence is their thesis Nor doe they say that soveraignty is by extraordinary revelation no humane act intervening immediately from God The designation of an individuall person by lawfull way manifested election succession conquest c. is not denyed men The conferring and joyning of power on and to the subject they hold primarily from God He the constituent and no other Nor this in one and not another in all and every one What S. Paul and S. Peter speak universally they fear not to affirme of good and bad Whence it is that neither the infidelity nor the tyranny of a King can force them from their allegeance Wherein the Heathen as Darius Cyrus Artaxerxes command agreeable to the Law of God they shall be so we●l as Constantinus Valentinianus Theodosius by them obeyed They stand to this and doubt not For who will overthrow it must produce a new Bible Persisting therein they are bold and zealous for the blessing Because the Apostle accurseth him who preacheth the contrary Doctrine Heed this every one who have offended betimes amend your fault Though vengeance comes with leaden feet yet not without iron hands The Lord will tear and tear the disobedient in pieces For the Angels sake repent that they may rejoyce For the Saints sake repent that their bloud may not cry For your Soules sake repent that they may not live in eternall death For the Gospels sake repent that it may not be longer evill spoken of If ye be of Christs Kingdome appear as his Subjects Submit ye to every humane Ordinance for the Lords sake I have discharged my Conscience for the Lords sake if I perish I perish for the Lords sake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉

is high time then to stir with tongue pen c. even for you also ye learned and holy Assembly of Divines high time Who value Relgion and have any courage for the truth fear not to die the sword with your bloud and turne the edge thereof with your bones Cause there is and who observe that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therefore looketh backward and forward may find it just enough First in the former verse The Gentiles are convicted by our good works this work therefore as first in the Law should be well done that they may glorifie God in the day of visitation Secondly in this verse The Lord is the Author of such ordinance and not the people Obedience therefore ought Rom. 13. 1. to be pay'd for the Lords sake according to his will not their rule Thirdly in the next verse Magistrates are ordained for the punishment of the bad but to reward the good For thepunishment therefore of evil doers and the praise of them that do well let the higher powers be handled reverently Bring these together He is a dishonour to God a scandall to his profession and an offence to the very Ethnicks that professing the Gospel by his works dissolves the Law which Christ came to fulfil Non ex verbis dogmata verum ex ipsis rebus vita Gentiles judicare consueverunt For it was not the Gentiles custome to judge In Tit. 2. 9. Serm. 4. our tenets by words in deeds and life it was so Saint Chrisostome And do not the Jewes Turks Heathens and all sorts of Christians that are not in order with the prime abetters of Antichristian Democratie object our grosse breach of nature And well may For if Christ be Lord of Lorde and King of Kings 1 Tim. 6. 15. they that in the name of the people deposed beheaded their most Christian King that assume the Supreme Authority as the peoples Representatives proclaime the right Heire to the Kingdome CHARLES the Second and all that adhere to Him Traytours do so much as in them lieth to overthrow the dominion of Jesus Wisdome saith by me Kings reigne Prov. 8. 15. Jesuited Anabaptists Franchified consistorians and Scotized zelots will have the people constitute their King Lucifer would be exalted above God and these are high to dethrone Christ Take heed Christ is a stone and rock of offence Who fall foule on him on them falling he grindes to powder Ob. 'T is Objected the King was a Tyrant c. Sol. A Tyrant and his mercies over all His works Non bene conveniunt Yet grant that King Charls the First of blessed memory had been a Tyrant an Infidell too were not we by the law of God of Nature and Nations bound to acknowledg Him as King Gods Vicegerent and our dread Soveraigne But He next under Christ was the greatest defender in the world of the true Catholike faith His conversation every way answerable to His profession and His wisdome sufficient to be in all causes Ecclesiasticall and Civil Supreme Moderatour In both fortunes the same still In His life and death He so well trod the steps of our Jesus Master that His parallel since Christ will not be found in the Chronicles of the Kings Who then fell from Him either in respect to His person or in obedience to His just Commands cryed up a Malignant party to the taking away of His life and still pursue their bloudy designe against His successour and all faithfull Subjects have denied the Lordship of our Saviour and without repentance provoked Gods wrath to the ruine of their owne soules Rom. 13. 2. Can ye remember the Oath of Allegiance of Supremacy the Protestation your Covenant also to maintaine His Majesties Royall Person and Dignity And may ye think it stands with Protestants to turn Priscillianists or be forsworn under a colour of Religion Can ye make use of the Kings Coine with a quiet Conscience and not learne of our Saviour by the image there to give Caesar his right Can ye read Carolus Det gratia Charls by the grace of God King c. and yet thrust God from the throne and set up a supremacy Gratia Populi By the grace of the People Who hath bewitched you that having eyes ye see not nor heare with your ears nor perceive with your understanding The Lord enlighten your minds and direct your judgements conforme your wils and mollifie your hearts that ye fall not into a reprobate sense bound therefore to obey God rather then man I dare not assent to them that raised and maintained forces which at Edge-bill Brandford Gloucester Newbury the first Banbury Listithyel Where His Majestie was in Person Newbury the second and Nazeby Fight for the Lords sake endeavoured to destroy the Annointed of the Lord which when afterwards His Majestie went from Oxford unto them kept Him almost three years Prisoner then accused tried condemned and on the thirtieth of January 1648. beheaded Him which have now made an Act to deprive the late King's Heires of the Crowne Voted Regality uselesse erected a Free-state stiled the Commons the supreme Authority of this Nation and declared it Treason to thwart their proceedings any way Stand amaz'd ye Heavens and tremble O Earth I am a Christian and Orthodox no blind Zelot nor Apostate In arcanum corum ne ingreditor anima mea Into their secret let not my soul come my glory be not thou joyned with their assembly For whose anger was vehement and furour cruell Abraham pronounceth cursed Gen. 49. 6 7. Yet I according to my vow shall ever be ready in their assistance who having Authority expect a blessing of God and would not be upbraided with the unfaithfulnesse of the Manichees to hunt those Foxes that pretending to support Cant. 2. 15. undermine the Church The most zealous of them are Adamites Catharists Donatists Libertines Anabaptists Antinomians Brownists to whom Supremacy is Popery and Magistracy under God and the King Tyrannie Had they not a noli me tangere on the lip their discovery would be difficult For as S. Bernard saith boni videri non esse mali non videri sed esse volunt they will seeme and not be good and not seeme and be evil Oves habitu astu vulpes aciu lupi Bern. in cant Ser. 66. sheep in habit in wilinesse foxes wolves in cruelty So cruell and prevalent that if God prevent not they 'le still uphold the power they have purchased to equall the Crowne and the Coulter That they will or make England as waste as the Palatinate in Jermany My heart bleeds to mind whereto these men tend and wherein our Religion suffers by them Obedience unto Superiours was wont to Apologize before Tyrants for Christianity But obstinacy now in Rebellion preparation in tollerating all manner of impieties to sustaine it indignam infidelibus calumniandi ansam proebet unworthily gives the Infidels cause to calumniate Christians and despite Chrysost Christ our Lord. Whereat the world must