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A89274	Mercies for man. Prepared in, and by Christ, even for such as neither know them, nor him. Discovered, that they might know, and enjoy them. Or a discourse of the interest there is for all men in, and by Christ in the end, and usefulmesse of the beleevers peculiar priviledges and service. In which is also some information about that service to which the grace of God, that bringeth salvation to all men, instructeth, and obligeth the beleever for the good of them all, according to capacity, and opportunity given him. Likewise some directions for, and concerning Christian magistrates. In the opening some instructions arising from the Apostles exhortation to Timothy, 1 Tim. 2.1, 2. Delivered in November 1653. at the Munday meetings at Black-Friers: and because what then was spoken, met with some publick opposition, this is now published for further satisfaction. Written by Thomas Moor, Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1654 (1654)	Wing M2605; Thomason E744_1; ESTC R207022	135,708	156

shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heaven Phil. 2. Mat. 5. 13. 15. Dearly beloved saith Peter 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts that war against the soul having your conversation honest seasoned with gravity and sincerity single and chaste to God and your main design to glorifie him amongst others and for their good that the Gentiles in the day of their visitation may glorifie God who when the instructions and reproofs of the Gospel begin to light on their hearts will presently turn their eyes upon you supposing if there be indeed truth in this Gospel and in the instructions thereof leading them so to worship God If there be such preciousnesse in Christ such sweetnesse and satisfaction in the love of God to Man-ward therein discovered that then those that do indeed know it and have tasted the graciousnesse of the Lord as you have professed among them must needs be men in their conversation full of honesty walking in all good conscience towards God and men not loving the world nor the things thereof not easily provoked by any injuries of any sort extending onely to themselves but willingly rather suffering wrong not high-minded self-willed or conformed to this world in the customes wayes or fashions of it according to their former lusts in their ignorance And if accordingly they behold your light herein shining your lamps burning and you as strangers travellers and as men ready waiting for the appearing of your Lord this will be a great and effectuall means to lead them to glorifie God and acknowledge As we have heard so we have seen in the house of our God they wil then beleeve his word and the instructions thereof to be good and true whereas on the other hand if they behold the contrary in you it will be an occasion of stumble to them and lead them to blaspheme the holy name called upon by you Oh therefore ly down and deny your selves in this and be willing to take up your crosse daily that you may follow him in pursuance of his Design for the good of all men And to provoke and constrain you hereto Consider these Motives 1 You are debtors to all men Greeks Barbarians wise unwise bond and free And that upon this account you have been acquainted with that grace of God that brings salvation to all men Rom. 1. 15. Tit. 2. 10 11. It s that grace that you have received for to such I speak and in the receiving which you have been saved who were sometimes such as the worstamongst whom you live but that grace that is in God towards them in its appearing to you hath saved you And therein you have received that word of Reconciliation in some distinct understanding of it and fitnesse to hold it forth according to which your selves have been reconciled to God that holds forth matter of concernment to every one of them that one dyed for all and rose again And that this was not onely sufficient but effectuall with the Father in the publick Person as if all had dyed And that all this was so effectuall with the Father for them and cordially that it might be effectuall in them that they which live every man in his proper age should not henceforth after this grace is manif●sted to him live to himself but to him that dyed for them and rose again that in that Death and Resurrection of Christ God was in Christ reconciling the world to himselfe and now by his Ambassadors doth on that ground perswade them to be reconciled in themselves by Christ whom he hath sent to blesse them in turning every one of them from all their iniquities Tit. 3. 3 4. 2 Cor. 5. 14 15-21 Act. 3. 26. such is the word of Reconciliation he hath put in you Tidings of great joy to all people Luke 2. 10 14. you are herein according to your measure made Stewards of the manifold grace of God Moreover it is required of Stewards that a man be found faithfull 1 Pet. 4. 10 11. 1 Cor. 4. 1 2. Do not you therefore with-hold good from them to whom it is due or put your light under a bushel that was given you to shew light to all the house 2 Yea let the love of Christ and so of God in Christ to all men be herewith considered as effectually witnessed in that he hath done for them and doth to them according as declared in this Gospel committed to your trust and it will constrain you True it is it doth not constrain or lead to such love or service of love but upon principles of certainty and truth it leads not to run at an uncertain or to fight as those that beat the Air nor are there other principles of certainty and truth but these and their companions upon which it so perswades that is to say The love of Christ doth not constrain or lead any man to preach the Gospel to or perswade any other man to be reconciled to God for whom the testimony of it doth not assure him upon principles of certainty and truth That Christ dyed and rose for him and that so effectually with the Father and cordially in respect of its tendency towards him as foreshewed It s true many do preach and exhort and fight very much that do not thus judge but on what account or the love of what leads them to it we examine not doubtlesse some one thing some another But let this love which you have seen and believed to be in God towards all men in sending his Son the Saviour of the world be considered by you and from these principles of truth received in your judgement it will constrain or hemn you in to this service by filling you with the same love and zeal for their good that will not be letted or hindred by any thing seeing also your understanding from the same principles is furnished with knowledge of the greatnesse of the terror of the Lord against those which turn such grace into wantonnesse tread under foot such precious bloud denying him that bought them bring on themselves destruction which terror you could not otherwise have rightly read but in that face of Christ For who knoweth the power of his Anger surely none But here we have a rule given us according to which you may have some discerning of the nature and greatnesse of it according to thy fear or worship that name and grace of thine declared in and through thy Son according to which thou mightest have been feared or worshipped by those men to their everlasting health and comfort such is and will be thy wrath against all ungodly men that turn thy grace into wantonesse Psal 90. 11. Therefore in the beliefe of the exceeding greatnesse of his love to Man-ward you have a view of the greatnesse of his Terror against all such ungodly ones as turn it into wantonnesse and therefore while

yet thus to rejoyce before him with godly fear and trembling and that for loves sake left they sin against so good a God knowing that so many are the occasions within and without them to entice and provoke them thereto and so deprive themselves of such infinite mercies and of such abundant entrance into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and Saviour the enjoyment of which is set before them in and with Christ and do therein also deprive others of the mercies they might and should have by them and therefore with this rejoycing in hope and patience in tribulation it instructs also to continue instant in Prayer yea withall to make no provision for the flesh to avoid the occasions and appearances of evil to flee from them as from death lest of them they should reap corruption and so be led into and overcome of the evil of the temptation Psal 2. 11. Heb. 12. 28. Rom. 12. 12. Gal. 6. 7 8. Rom. 13. 14. 1 Thess 5. 22. 1 Tim. 6. 9 10. 11. 2 Tim. 2 10 20 22. Jam. 1. 13 14 16. All which Ornaments are put on in putting on Christ being nothing else but the motions and operations of the new man the enlightned judgement and disposition or inclination of the heart begotten and framed according to it which after God is created in holiness and righteousness through the truth as learned in Christ Jesus Eph. 4. 17 20. 21 25 c. And do render the persons so adorned abundantly more meet to make their Prayers and Thansgivings for all men and to have their mouths filled with the Declarations of his goodness before them they appearing while they are leading a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty thus moulded in all these things to a right praying frame and temper of Spirit and earnestly and rightly set for the good of all and profitably to prosecute it and this adorning the doctrine of God our Saviour by the believer being clothed with such ornaments and so shining as lights in the world will prove a powerful and effectual means to the drawing and alluring others to listen to the Gospel of Christ and enquire after him with us That which the Apostle Peter applies to the believing Wives with reference to their unbelieving Husbands we may also apply or say the like concerning Believers in general with reference to their unbelieving Neighbours That even such as obey not the word might without the word be wonne by the conversation of the Believers among and towards them while they behold their chaste upright or honest conversation coupled with fear with godliness awfulness reverence and humility whose adorning is not that outward nor do they therein conform to the World according to the former lusts in their ignorance in plaiting of Hair changing any Ornament God hath given them or priding themselves with it wearing of Gold signifying any costly Aray or putting on of Aparel be it never so mean when they can get no better they may make that their Ornament the neat or spruce putting on or trimming themselves with what they have compare with this 1 Pet. 3. 1 4. 1 Tim. 2. 9 10 11. 1 Pet. 1. 13 14 15 18. 2 Pet. 3. 11 14. But their adorning is the hidden man of the heart in that which is not corruptible the fruits or operations of that which others see not appeares in their being adorned by it and putting on the Ornament of a meek and quiet Spirit a thing in the sight of God of great price and so being clothed with humility and filled with those fruits of righteousness that are by Jesus Christ Oh then let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity by the mercies of God let them go on purging themselves from all filthiness of flesh and Spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord that they may be vessels prepared for their Masters use 2 Tim. 2. 1 7 8 19 20 22 25. Tit. 2. 10 12 14. Thus we have done with this first branch of the last general instruction propounded namely we have shewed That it tends very much to the good of all men That believers lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty among them we shall endeavour brevity in what follows 2. That therefore God likes it well in and requires it of those whom he sets in Authority or eminent place places of Government that they should all of them have a special eye at this That his people that worship him and would live quietly in the Land that they may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty under their protection and Government All Thrones Dominions Principalities and Powers are of God created ordained and set by Jesus Christ and for him the Earth he hath given to the children of men and set over it whom he please sometimes the basest of men that they should as his Ministers administer the Government for him and according to his appointment and counsel given them Col. 1. 16. Rom. 13. 14. with 1 Pet. 2. 14. Psal 115. 16. Dan. 4. 17. Psal 75. and 82. Yea It 's he that giveth salvation to Kings Psal 144. 10. Therefore it 's his great and general counsel to them the Rulers of both Jews and Gentiles that they should serve the Lord with fear c. and that in kissing acknowledging serving and honouring the Son Psal 2. 11 12. with John 5. 22 23. And what that is in which mainly they are required to acknowledge do homage to and serve the Son and that it is according to that general rule What is done to the least of his that desire to worship him in sincerity and truth though never so despicable here he accounts as done to himself Mat. 25. 40 45 and 10 40 41 42. may also appear in that Psal 2. by considering what that is that is reproved in them and charged as their consulting together and rebelling against him the Lords anointed They said Let us break their bands asunder let us cast away their cords from as namely those bands and cords of love those reproofs and Arguments of the Gospel to perswade them to accept of Gods counsel to be wise and instructed now to serve the Lord c. which were administred to them mediately by the Church of Christ his despised people whom he hath set in the World that by them might be made known even to Principalities and Powers the manifold wisdom of God Eph. 3. 10. As the Rulers of the Jews Jer. 18. 18. consulted together and said Let us devise devices against Jeremiah let us smite him with or for the tongue let us not give heed to any of his words And as those Rulers Acts 4. 15 16 17 18. They conferred together saying What shall we do to these men for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest c. But that it spread no further let us straightly threaten and charge them that they

thee for I have given them the words thou gavest me and they have known surely that I came out from thee I pray for them saith he namely that the peculiar blessings of which they through the prevalency of the grace of God are made capable subjects may be conferred on them I pray not namely this Prayer these Petitions and in this manner for the world for whom yet he was sent a Saviour 1 Joh. 4. 14. and that not to condemn them but that through him they might be saved He doth not make this Prayer and in this manner for all for whom he dyed and gave himselfe a ransome nor for any of them until by the prevalency of the grace of God upon them they be given him out of the world and so there is that as a peculiar matter of thanksgiving also to be made for them So Col. 1. 8-12 Since the day saith the Apostle that we heard of your love in the Spirit wee cease not to pray that yee might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdome and spiritual understanding c. Giving thanks unto the Father who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance which knowing we make our requests for the conferring of such peculiar blessings as therein you are made capable subjects of with joy as Phil. 1. 3 4-9 10. 1 Thes 2. 4 5. This gives us occasion to consider as the ground and reason of it that it was not the end or intention of God in sending his Son into the world the Saviour of the world appointing him by the grace of God to tast Death for every man and exalting him by vertue of his sufferings a Prince and a Saviour nor is it his mind or wil according to which all Prayers are to be made that having done that in and by his Son for them his Son should therefore necessarily give eternal Life to all of them for whom he dyed and is become such a Saviour or to any of them in their particulars while remaining in their Natural state and condition but only to those that through grace according to the discoveries of him vouchsafed beleeve in him 'T is true he was made sin for us that we might bee made the righteousness of God in him not that all for whom he was made sin must necessarily be thereupon made the righteousness of God but that they might be made so in and through him and so those only of all for whom he was made sin that by faith of the opperation of God come in to him are therein and so in him to be made the righteousness of God 2 Cor. 5. 21. our Saviour therefore as the reason of his praying in such manner Joh. 17. namely for such peculiar blessings to be conferred only on such persons as for whom there was such peculiar matter of Thanksgiving to be made as before he first layes down this Doctrin ver 2. That the Father hath given him power over all flesh not only over all Creatures for administation of the Government of God amongst men Mat. 28. 18. but also over all Mankind as a Prince and Saviour for them That he should give eternal Life he saith not to all Flesh or to all Men who are given to him and committed to his dispose and judgement by vertue of his sufferings but to as many as the Father hath given him where the Fathers giving is evidently to be understood in a sense peculiar and distinct from that sense of his giving after which it is said That in giving him power over all flesh or committing the whole dispose and judgement of all men to him as Joh. 5. 22. he hath therein given and delivered over all men even all the ends of the earth and all things into his hands as his proper inheritance by vertue of his sufferings Psal 2. 6. 8. Ma● 11. 27. Joh. 13. 3. with Phil. 2. 8 9-11 and that also in respect of the first end towards All not to condemn but to save the world of Mankinde and that through him they might be saved and brought back to God The Fathers giving all men to him in this sense and to this end as the first end towards All is evidently signified in the first part of the verse The Father hath given him power over all flesh as is seen by comparing it with other Scriptures therefore seeing he distinguisheth from these some persons that the Father hath given him he must needs mean in a peculiar sense of giving so as all given him and into his dispose by vertue of his suffering for them that through him they might be saved yet are not so given him even a giving by an actual Election or choyse out from the residue of all Flesh into his special charge and protection and so explicated ver 9. with Joh. 15. 19. Given him out of the world of which sometime they were but now are actually chosen out of it redeemed from among men in respect of their condition way fellowship c. through the prevailing force of the grace of God in Christ to Man-ward discerned and believed by them It is the will of the Father concerning Christ and the ends and vertues of his coming down from heaven and now being invested with all power That he should give eternal life to such according to that Joh. 6. 39. 40. It is the will of him that sent him that he might be impowred to accomplish which he first came down from heaven That of all that he hath given him not out of others Joh. 17. 2. 9. but in a general and large sense without distinguishing or opposing them to other things or persons All whatsoever the Father hath given him he should lose nothing but raise it up at the last day Now when he speaks in such a ful sense without limitation or distinguishing from opposing to other things or other senses of giving we can by no means exclude any thing that is in any sense given him according to the Apostles reasoning Heb. 2. 8. with 1 Cor. 15. 27. Now all persons and things being given and delivered to him as we shewed before It s the Fathers will he should lose nothing but in the issue bring all to him Raising it up at the last day The Glory Kingdome Dominion though now men detract much of it from him and by reason of sin the creature is yet subject to the bondage of corruption yet it shall all arrive at him and be shall raise it up at the last day when every knee shall bow of things in heaven and things in earth and every tongue confesse c. And so neither shall he lose any of those persons redeemed by him though many of them lose and bring destruction upon themselves by denying him that bought them yet they shall not be lost to him But he shall raise them up at the last day and bring them to his judgement seat as verse 37. All that the Father giveth

speak no more in this name and these consultations and threatnings against them in which they endeavoured to break their bonds and cast away their cords from them are mentioned as their standing up and gathering together against the Lord and his Christ as well as their injuries done to his person when he was among them and so in both a verifying those complaints against them Psal 2. See that Acts 4. 25 29. and so both are joyned together 1 Thess 2. 15 16. Their crucifying the Lord and persecuting his servants forbiding them to preach the Gospel to the Gentiles that they may be saved and for this wrath shall come upon them to the uttermost when the measure of their sin is full they shall perish from the way as Psal 2. 12. Therefore they are now in time admonished that such judgement may be prevented before the decree come forth and they be as chaff that passeth suddenly Not to touch his Anointed or do his Prophets any harm Psal 105. 15. but to afford them liberty and protection that they may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty to acknowledge do homage to and serve the Son in succouring defending and helping his people for him they have not alwayes but his poor they have alwayes with them compare this Psal 2. with Gods counsel to Moab Isa 16. 1. Send ye the Lamb to the Ruler of the Land kiss acknowledge send presents to the Son and then as a direction how or wherein they may do that see vers 3 4. Take counsel execute judgement make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noon day hide mine out-casts bewray not him that wandereth let them dwell with thee be a covert to them from the face of the spoiler Yea expressly concerning the Kings of the Gentiles in these last dayes since the rejection of the Jews and the free coming forth of the Gospel to the Gentiles It 's said either by way of prophesie or as counsel to them or both They shall be nourishers or nursing Fathers to his people and their Queens nursing Mothers to them Isa 49. 23. which if it be understood as a prophesie of the glorious return and bringing back of the Jews or of somthing to be then more clearly and fully accomplished yet it evidently declares that to be the good pleasure of God concerning them at all times and that which he especially now requires of them by his Gospel sent to them That the Rulers among the Gentiles should be nourishers to his people his Israel among them even the called whether of Jews or Gentiles and to that therefore they are now timely admonished while they have opportunity to do it willingly and it may tend so much to their advantage with this motive of instruction for their warning that if now they will not nourish and favour them while they are as Servants among them the time will come when they shall raign and then those their enemies shall lick the dust at their feet c. compare with this Isa 49. 23. Psal 72. 8 9. and Micah 7. 10 16 17. and so it agrees with that Psal 2. Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth serve the Lord with fear rejoyce before him with trembling kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way c. Take heed that ye offend not or do harm ●o any of these little ones that will be reputed as your touching his anointed for he that toucheth them toucheth the apple of his eye Jerusalem even the holy City the Congregation of the first-born though now trod under foot even by those Gentiles in the outward Court of the Church yet shall be exalted above the top of all Mountains in that day when God shall send us Jesus his Servant the Branch that is now preached to us whom the Heavens must retain till the time come for the restitution of all things Isa 2. 1 4. Micah 4. 1 4. with Isa 11. 1 11. Acts 3. 20. 21. Then will he contend with them that contend with her and will feed them that now oppress her with their own flesh Isa 49. 25 26. Yea there may be beginnings of these judgements to them before by one clashing and battering against another but when he comes he will utterly cut off the horns of the wicked but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted Psal 75. 10. Jerusalem will prove a Cup of trembling a but then some Stone to all that meddle with her to vex and abuse her but they shall prosper that love her Zech. 12. 2 3. Psal 1 22. 6. The way therefore for you to be hid in the day of the Lords anger when he comes to plead the controversies of Sion is not to lift up the horn or magnifie your selves against the people of the Lord of Hosts but to judge righteously defend and succour the poor of his people seek righteousness seek meekness c. compare Zeph. 2. 2 3 8 10. with Isa 10 1 2 3. Righteousness exalts a Nation and so a Power or Government but sin is a shame to any people Further therefore for instruction and direction to a right observance of this counsel consider 3. What those things are in general that will tend to this and which are therefore required of Governours that believers may lead such a life 1. They are to afford them liberty and potection in their quiet and peaceable worshipping of God and endeavouring the good of others according as the grace of God that brings salvation to all men instructeth them in matters of their faith and worship they are not to touch them so as to limit appoint or regulate them by or according to the precepts of men for therein they will surely hinder and do harm to them they are to know that believers as private Christians though they are to be subject to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake in either doing or suffering quietly yet they are not to have their fear towards God taught by the Precepts or Ordinances of men if men will go about so to regulate them and Authority allow it they must rather suffer when it falls upon them for conscience sake towards God then resist the power but they must not so become the Servants of men as to call any man on Earth their Rabbi in that respect for one is their Master even Christ and all they from the highest to the lowest are Brethren to receive each of them and together the Law from his mouth Such therefore as would be greatest or chief among or over their brethren if they would demean themselves as Christian Magistrates or Rulers are not in the matters things of Christ as before to exercise Lorship over their Brethren as the Princes among the Gentiles ever since the outward Court came into the hands of the Gentiles have used to do but rather to become Servants to all in those things earnestly seeking

tribulation Joh. 16. 33. either by bodily persecution they that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall fall by the sword by flame by captivity spoil the brother delivering up the brother to death c. and so they have suffered already many days as Dan. 11. 33. Mat. 24. 9 10. 2 Tim. 3. 12. or else also and more abundantly in the latter dayes and especially when through Gods stirring up the hearts of the Kings of the Earth to hate the whore and burn her flesh with fire Rev. 17. 16. there shall be some abatement of the other more gross and bodily persecution they shall be holpen with a little help then shall they have great tibulation and vexation to their righteous souls by means of many cleaving to them by flatteries and then also many of them of understanding falling to the pernicious wayes of the spirit of antichrist coming with greater deceiveableness of unrighteousness then ever and this for tryal to the rest by them which kinde of tryal must continue for the making them white till the time of the end Dan. 11. 34 35. at which time of the end Daniel must stand up in his lot chap. 12. 13. mean time and still more abundantly in these latter dayes Many false Prophets shall arise and shall deceive many saying Lo here is Christ and lo there and because iniquity shall abound yea evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived because also under more specious pretences of godliness Therefore the love of many shall wax cold and so cold as there shall be scarcely any faith left in the glorious and high-spirited professors of it to expect and wait for nor any love to or desire of his appearing the second time but every one taking up short in some fancy or shadow instead of the substance Mat. 24. 11 12 13. 2 Tim. 3. 13. Luke 18. 8. with Mat. 24. 23 27. This is not the time for our mighty God and Saviour to come and all his Saints with him and take to him his great Power and Raign on the Earth Zech. 14. 5. Rev. 11. 17. with chap. 5. 9 10. and 20. 6. 1 Thess 4. 14 15 16 17. But when this world shall be at an end then will he send his Angels men as men are too weak and insufficient for such a work to gather out of his Kingdom all things that offend and them that do iniquity Then shall the Righteous shine as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father Mat. 13. 24 30 36 43. In the mean time it 's his counsel to all the Servants Let them both grow together as aforesaid All then that the most Christian Rulers or Magistrates are capabable of doing in this matter for the Servants of God the chil-of the Kingdom in this World and more is not required of them is to afford such liberty protection in that liberty that believers may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty under them which yet will be so as the beloved among the daughters many of which are as lions set on fire of hell their teeth are spears and arrows and their tongue a sharpe sword Psal 57. 4. As the Lilly among Thornes that will be shooting and scratching at them privily when they cannot more openly as Psal 11. 2. and 64. 2 5. and so under ignominy and reproach as Gods hidden ones and suffering tribulations still The Magistrates themselves if they will live godly in Christ Jesus must as Christians come under the same reproach and cross of Christ they cannot free themselves nor others of it neither is it a good Spirit that leads to desire freedom from it here where Christ suffered it they cannot bring forth the Righteousness of his people that have waited for him as the light and their judgement as the Noon-day they if they will demean themselves as Christians with the rest of their brethren must rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him for the accomplishing that when all evil doers shall be cut off so as they shall not be Then the meek shall inherit the Earth and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace Psal 37. 5 6 11 c. The perfect and full accomplishment of those Prophecies Psal 101. 5 8. will be found in and by the true David the Son of David the Lord Christ when he shall receive the Congregation and of him it 's spoken as Psal 75. 2 3 10. and 2. Whoso privily slandereth his Neighbour he will cut off yea him that hath a high look and proud heart he will not suffer It 's the Lord onely that searcheth the heart and trieth the reines yea he will early destroy all the wicked of the Land that he may cut off all wicked doers from the City of the Lord pluck up all the Tares and every thing that offends out of his Kingdom all the hornes of the wicked he will cut off and break them as a Potters vessel that can never gather together or be made whole again Then shall the World be established and setled in a standing posture that it shall never be changed moved or altered nor the Government given to another people for he shall judge the people righteously Psal 96. 10. But it is the World to come of which we speak which is fully to be in subjection unto and under the Government of Jesus Christ till then there will be nothing but mutations compare Psal 102. 25 26 28. and Heb. 1. 10 11. with Heb. 2. 5 6 8. In the mean time as no man is found capable of or worthy to do such things so neither is it required of them and the aspiring at high things or things beyond their sphere will prove very dangerous and destructive to them Davids example and instruction Psal 131. is good for them to observe It were well if they would observe Gods counsel in doing those things they might do and which he requireth of them which according to the instructions of the Gospel fore considered appears in this matter to be this That Christian Magistrates or Rulers of the people afford liberty and protection as aforesaid unto all that do profess or pretend to desire to worship acknowledge serve God in Christ according to his Word or Scriptures I say to defend and protect them in their worship and service if under such pretence and seeming or outward profession they do not grossly blespheme Him his Son his Word and Name as therein plainly declared so as they therein relinquish and cast off the outward acknowledgement of Him and his Name as Levit. 24. 11 16. Deut. 17. 1 6. or if under such pretences or otherwise they do not bend themselves to do any thing wittingly tending to the damage injury or harm of others in body estate or name in vilifying or reproaching their persons or being otherwise injurious to them in such things as Levit. 24. 18 23. and Deut. 19. 11 14 16 21. Those things fall