Selected quad for the lemma: religion_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	apostle_n	church_n	doctrine_n	4,033	5	6.2595	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03897	The descent of authoritie: or, The magistrates patent from heaven Manifested in a sermon preached at Lincolnes assizes, March 13. 1636. By Thomas Hurste Dr. of Divinity, and one of his Majesties chaplains.	Hurste, Thomas, d. 1680.	1637 (1637)	STC 14007; ESTC S104349	18,074	38

c. and in the meane time he doth it by them as his Substitutes Quest 3. But is not this old Grant out of date Are not Christian Magistrates put out of Commission by Christs comming Answ Thus thinke the Anabaptists whose objections Zanchius well answers urging Christs subjection to Pilate Saint Pauls appealing to Caesar and the other Apostles clearing themselves but yet submitting to the Magistrates acknowledging the power to be of God This Descent of Authority may teach us First To take notice of that Jesuiticall doctrine and practice to lay violent hands upon Gods Deputies upon a pretence of Religion Murther as you have heard is a most wicked sinne and disobedience is as the sin of witchcraft Now treason is the committing or putting together both these sinnes The old warrantable doctrine and practice of the Church in the primitive times was prayers unto and supplications for the Governours This was the Churches force both defensive and offensive and still with all godly learned Christians it is concluded Vide Epise Daven Determin that Renuente Principe populus non debet moliri Reformationem Like unto these but not so ill are those that offer violence with their tongues though not with their hands such as are disrespective to them that are in authority not speaking of them or to them publickly or privately as to Gods Vicegerents but with quips and girds to please themselves and to stroke the people This is rather like unto Satyricall Poets than answerable to Saint Pauls advice 1 Tim. 5.1 Rebuke not an Elder but intreat him as a father And like his doctrine was his practice to Agrippa and Festus and thus was the Prophet Daniels to the Assyrian and Persian Kings Contrary to these holy men are those monsters in a Kingdome who endeavour by all meanes possible to enervate and weaken Authority thereby to make it contemptible God casts his divine lustre upon them as Moses was when he had beene talking with God Epiphanius of Hereticks And these as Moles are alwaies vexing and disturbing firme ground blinde without knowledge and despicable when their plots are discovered Let none then in Pulpits or Parlours deprave Governours and government if they doe those words Num. 16.7 may bee truly applied to them Ye take too much upon you Authority is Gods ordinance and must not bee made unsavory by finding and creating faults in Governours It is strange that they who would be accounted the children of God doe not digest the Deputies of God for they have beene are and it is to be feared ever will bee opsite and Antipodes to all Governours both Ecclesiasticall and Civill They will say Objection Our quarrell is not against government but the faults of Governours and they thinke with Absalom Oh if they were in place c. This is the common hackney pretence or colour Answer But let these mote-finders consider that Magistrates in a Common-wealth are like parents in an house politicall fathers Is it fit for a sonne to bee like Cham Though the father bee guilty shall a sonne talke of nothing but his fathers faults discovering his fathers nakednesse especially when this sonne himselfe is idle and disobedient Will some men like children nothing but eat drinke sleepe play indeed there is little else expected of them and yet like fell ill conditioned children will they cry exclaime and disturbe others Let these sonnes of Belial who cannot beare the yoke of Governours bee examined in their private vocations how lazy how oppressing and how unprofitable to the Christian World These people are like Chorus upon the Stage being private men and their wings too big for their nests and their feet for their shooes they desire still to roule and enlarge themselves as snow-balls and like the Babel-builders will make themselves a turret or pillar by popularity Tell me vaine disturber how wouldst thou like a servant thus qualified to say my master is unfit for his place he is silly ignorant negligent or the like he doth not as a master should doe True indeed hee doth not if hee suffer without punishment such a saucy servant 2. This Descent of Authority may teach us how neare of Kindred Magistrates and Ministers are the one is Dei gratiâ the other is providentiâ divinâ sometimes they are inherent in the same person Our blessed Saviour was both a King and a Priest Moses and David were both victorious Magistrates and divine Prophets And if they bee not joyntly in one person yet wee see they are brethren as Abraham said to Lot proceeding from the same spring-head celestiall God terrestriall the King And this the later end of an Act of Parliament intimates for the uniformity of Common prayer If the Ordinary have punished then not the temporall power and if not that then the Ordinary If either punish it is sufficient because both come from the same fountaine For us in our Pulpits to slight this high ordinance were as great indiscretion as for the Magistrates upon their Benches to disparage our Profession Without doubt Magistrates may bee capable of the just reproofe of the Clergie and the Clergy of the just censure of the Magistracy But all must take heed somuch as they can that neither of their excellent Callings suffer by it The people will neglect both if they doe not protect us from injuries and wee teach the people conscionably to obey them Magistrates are Gods Deputies and Ministers his Ambassadors 2. Cor. 5.20 As it is said in another case Ruth 4.11 these two like Rachel and Leah do build up the house of Israel Panermitan Sir John Doderidge conjunctim better than divisim Theologia Ius must fraternizare They both looke at the same end namely rectifying of the manners Both Moses his hands must be held up that vicious Amaleck may be pulled downe If the sinews of government bee slackned by inconsiderate Teachers and that they doe not uphold one another as the Elme the Vine sinne and vice will more easily thrust in But when Magistrates Christs Substitutes in his Kingly Office and the Ministers Christs Substitutes in his Priestly Office stay one another as buttresses below or spars above then the temporall sword cuts deepe in the outward man and the spirituall in the conscience Wee are all Ministers of God both Magistrates and Priests So Saint Paul intimates Rom. 13.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speaking of the Magistrate which word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is commonly used for our Tribe as Philp. 1.1 With the Bishops and Deaecons and 1 Tim. 3.12 Deacons must be the husbands of one wife This is a part of the Epistle when Deacons are admitted into Orders If the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 then be used for them both because they are imployed to doe service for one Master let them not counter-worke one against another but as the walls uphold the roofe and the roofe keepes drie the walls so should these ordinances assist one another that the temporall power