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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80609	A treatise of subiection to the powers. Preached almost a yeer since, and now copied out for the presse; yet not to flatter any, but to inform all. : To the powers I say as Jehosaphat did, 2 Chron. 9.6 ... : To others I say in the words of the apostle, I Pet. 2.13 ... / By Tho. Carre.	Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674.	1651 (1651)	Wing C640A; ESTC R173401	35,985	61

may be protected and the refractory restrained and the evill punished And above all to have a speciall care of Religion 1. To advance the true 2. And to suppresse all forms of false worship In which regard Princes are and ought to be Nursing fathers (c) Esa 49. 23. 2. So on the other side Subjection implyeth three things 1. The first is Honour Their persons are to be honoured Saul required it of Samuel Honour me saith he now before the people (d) 1 Sam. 15 Nathan bowed himself before David (e) 1 King 1. 23. Honor thy Father and thy Mother saith God (f) Exo. 20. 12. Under which terms of Father and Mother all sorts of Superiours are comprehended As Fathers of Countries of families and fathers in Christ The Apostle saith Honour all men (g) 1 Pet. 2. 17. Superiours Equalls and Inferiors are to be honoured but every one as his place requireth Superiours must be reverenced Inferiors supported Equalls regarded 2. The second is Obedience Obedience I say to their Laws and Commands Either to doe them if lawfull and possible Or to submit to punishment for not doing them if impossible or unlawfull For what is commanded by full authority of the Power obedience is to be shewed either active obedience to do the same or passive making no resistance And yet in this passive obedience there must be retained 1. Both fidelity to the Power no acting no complotting For this we have Davids Example He would not avenge himself upon Saul when he had him at advantage (h) 1 Sam. 26. 8. c. And Jeremiah perswaded the Jewes to seek the peace of the King and Kingdome where they were held in captivity (i) Jer. 29. 7. 2. And Piety to pray for oppressing and tyrannicall Rulers As Daniel did who prayed for the life of Darius (k) Dan. 6. 21. Q. But here it will be said If Active or Passive obedience is to bee yeelded to all the commands of Superiors how came it to passe that against the late King and against his commands there was made open resistance R. I answer you must remember what I said even now when I spake of the commands of the full authority of the Power For though the late King was a Monarch yet his Kingdome was not an absolute but a mixed Monarchy which is of all Monarchies the best For an absolute Monarchy doth easily degenerate into a Tyranny but so cannot a mixed Monarchy because the People in their Trustees have some reall and appendent power And that this was a mixed Monarchy it appeareth in this that though the late King and his Predecessors were to keep and defend the Laws yet they were not the sole Makers of the Laws They could neither make new Laws nor repeal the old of themselves that is by their absolute and sole authority The People by their Representatives in Parliament had a power with the Kings They to contrive and frame such Laws as were for the benefit of the Subject the Kings to ratifie and confirm those Laws for the good of his people To the King and Parliament this belonged as is evident in all former Parliaments by the disanulling of Patents and the punishing Monopolists which have been burthensome and prejudiciall to the Common-wealth And if all power in these things had been in the King then had he been absolute of himself and by consequent there ought to have been no resistance but passive obedience or a submission to punishment where active obedience could not with a safe conscience be yeelded For this we have the case of the three Children Nebuchaddezzar's command was unlawfull yet they made no resistance but submitted themselves to the censure and sentence of the King (l) Dan. 3. 16 Now Nebuchadnezzar was an absolute Monarch he had indeed Counsellours but none to correct or contradict his extravagances But so it was not with the late Kings of England for Patents and Monopolies have been disanulled and Patentees Monopolists and Projectors have been censured by former and later Parliaments And therefore the full authority of the Power was not in the King alone but in King and Parliament conjunctim Object But it will be said that the King was above Law for hee could pardon trespasses against Law Reply I answer that all that can be said is that the Kings of England had a dispensing power by vertue of Prerogative 1. Yet not simply of the Law it self 2. But in regard of the execution of the right of the Law They could extend Royall favour if they pleased yet the vertue of the Law was no whit abated thereby Put the case Two persons under the same doome of Law for one and the same offence the one suffereth for the same the other hath his pardon There is power enough in the Law for execution with which the King for some causes doth dispense And properly to be above Law is to have absolute and independent power 1. To make Lawes 2. To alter Lawes 3. And to take them away at pleasure which was not in the sole power of any of the Kings of England If otherwise Parliaments were Nul and needlesse of no use of no necessity of no benefit 3. The third duty implied in Subjection is Maintenance by Tribute Poll money (m) Matth. 17. 24. and by other lawfull taxes and Impositions Give to every one his due Tribute to whom Tribute c. (n) Rom. 13. 7. Christ paid tribute (o) Mat. 17. ●0 And exhorted to give unto Caesar the things that are Caesars (p) Mat. 22. 17. And maintenance is due to the Magistrate by a fourfold right 1. First as a sign and testimony of subjection 2. Secondly as a reward for his pains 3. Thirdly for the honour of his Person and Court 4. Fourthly for the safety of State or Common wealth And so much for the duty be subject 2. Now secondly the strict injunction of the duty the Emphasis is in the word Let. Let be subject which enjoineth the strict performance of the thing Let all things be done decently and in order saith Paul (q) 1 Cor. 14. 40. Let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour (r) 1 Tim 5. Let your women keep silence in the Churches (ſ) 1 Cor. 14. 34. Let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself (t) Ephe. 5. 33 So here Let every Soul be subject That is Let every one submit or yeeld himself to authority And this implieth a threefold necessity 1. The first is Duty to which we are obliged 2. The second is Benefit that will redound to us by doing our duty 3. The third is Danger which will follow upon denying to doe our duty 3. Now thirdly to whom subjection must be yeelded To the Powers To the Higher Powers 1. All Powers even the inferior and subordinate must bee submitted to 2. Much more the Superior Powers to which the other

particular discontinued 4. The Ministery discountenanced 5. Zealous Professors derided 6. Learning undervalued 7. Christian Liberty set upon the Rack to usher in a world of Errors 8. And Liberty of Conscience walking up and downe and running into manifold extravagances Exurgat Deus Let God arise (v) Psal 68. 1. It is time for the Lord to work for they have made void thy Law (w) Psal 119. 126. But now where shall we lay the blame what directly on the Power I cannot but say that there hath been some failings in the Power but other Emergent businesses have so taken them up as of necessity they were forced to attend to other matters But indeed the fault is principally in the people who should have acted in their places according to the Ordinances of the Power The fault I say is principally in the people and that in these two regards 1. The first is the vanity and instability of the minds of the people who fall into strange miscarriages they being infected with the poison of ungrounded Tenets which they uphold with a strong hand and will not be controlled And they take advantage and encouragement in this Juncture of time wherein the power is and hath been in a manner wholly taken up with urgent and emergent occurrences Namely 1 First the securing of the New moulded Common-wealth in this time of so many distractions and distempers Some being wholly for Monarchy others for Anarchy some for one thing some for another 2. Again the reducing of Ireland which is of great concernment to the security of the State This meeteth with strong opposition and therefore cannot but it must needs take up much time 3. Lastly to hold a Brotherly correspondency both with our fellow Covenanteers of the Scottish Nation and with other States and Churches abroad And what retarding the New fallen difference between the Scots and our selves may occasion I cannot foretell The second is the want of obedience to former Ordinances of the Power For had the Prebyteriall Government set forth by Ordinances of the Power found its wished entertainment and with that ready compliance as was expected a blessed effect for suppressing both Errors and enormities had seconded those Ordinances long ere this Therefore if we search into the causes of these our confusions and distempers wee shall finde them to flow principally from these two Springs 1. First the vanities of mens mindes being neither zealous for nor constant to the Truth 2. Again a lawlesse Liberty which many take to themselves whereby they have rejected a Tendered Government And this later is 1. Partly from the ignorance of those that neither know nor will own the excellency of a Presbytery Both for restraining the extravagancies of the exorbitant and for the encouragement of the godly party 2. Partly from the dislike of those that are scandalous who are as we say Tooth and Nail against all means of restraint which would have been urgent and effectuall under that kind of Government 3. And partly from the madnesse and malice of those that are infected with Antinomian Anabaptisticall and other erroneous principles These cry up I know not what kinde of Lawlesse Liberty and are not willing to bee brought under any limitting and restraining Government Put all these together and ye have the true cause And now to fly upon the face of the Power this is a fallacy that is when that that is not the cause is put for the cause And to speake plain English It is a trick of the Devill to hold men the faster in their Ignorance Errours and Extravagancies And because there is so much grumbling at the present state of the Church and Commonwealth in respect of the Covenant I shall therefore take Liberty to take the Covenant in peeces and to take a view of all the particulars in it And so it will plainly appear that while these men insist so much upon one clause in the Covenant they neglect all the rest of it The particular heads or branches of the Covenant are these six as they follow now in order 1. The first is Reformation of Religion in Worship Discipline and Government according to the Word of God and the example of the best reformed Churches c. But the most and they that grumble most cry all Reformation they extoll Prelacy they would have their old Service their old Ceremonies 2. Secondly the extirpation of Popery Prelacy Superstition Heresie Scism Prophanenesse and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound Doctrine and the Power of Godlinesse c. But who almost regardeth sound Doctrine and the power of godlinesse I am sure that Schism and Prophanenesse abound more now then in former times 3. The third is with Realty Sincerity and Constancy with our Lives and Estates mutually to preserve the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament the Liberties of the Kingdom And to preserve the Kings Majesty Person and Authority in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and the Liberties of the Kingdome c. But the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament are in no grace for they that grumble most do contemne the Parliament and condemne all Parliamentary proceedings Their proceedings against the late King filleth their hearts with madnesse and their tongues with clamour 4. Fourthly with all faithfulnesse to endeavour the discovery of all such as have been or shall be Incendiaries Malignants or evill Instruments by hindering the Reformation of Religion dividing the King from his people or making any faction or parties among the people c. I appeal to all men I for my part have found it so if many of those that cavill most be not of the same hair and if they would not be glad of any opportunity 1. To make a faction