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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

Samosate●u the Heretick who would not obey the Synod of Antioch 'T was otherwise with us Our King CHARLES the First of ever blessed Memory was the most zealous Defendour of the true Christian Faith Our Petitions had free passage unto Him and His Grants were larger then Ye at first could desire Not in temporals only but for a reformation in Ecclesiasticall also 'T was otherwise with us then 't is now and it might be now as it was if ye would in a sense of this distracted Kingdome call home and submit to Him who every way is His Fathers expresse CHARLES the Second I know not wherein we may complaine of them unlesse their sincere Religion tender Conscience care for the Glory of God Peace of the Kingdome Lawes of the Land Rights of the Parliament and Liberty of the Subject be grievous unto us If any of these excellencies flie 't is the impetuous disobedience of the Religious Atheists chaseth them away Object But suppose a Tyrant an Apostate c. were over us is there ●● remedy Solut. There is remedy very much and good Perswading Jer. 22. 2. Disswading 2 Sam. 24. 3. Reprehending 1 King 18. 18. Not thus much for every one for the Fathers of the Church and Nobles of the Kingdome there is 1 Sam. 24. 9. For every one enough meane or mighty may flie 1 Sam. 19. 10. Yet this and the other three may misse the aime For neither did Zedekiah regard Jeremiah 2 Chron. 36. 12. Nor David Jo●b 2 Sam. 24. 4. Nor Jeroboam the Prophet 1 King 13. 33. Nor could Vrijah escape Jehoiakim Jerem. 26. 23. Never-failing helps there be and none debarred them Preces lachrymae Prayers and Repentance are the weapons of the Church The Old Israelites knew no other Exod. 3. 7 8 9. nor other the Prophets Mic● 7. 7. 9. The Apostles and Martyrs used these as the onely prevalent Iust Mar. Apol. 2. Ter● Apol. 37. Aug. Psal 124. Cyp. ad Dam. Ambros cont Au●ent Greg. Naz. Orat. in Iul. Bern. Epist 21. the Primitive Fathers cryed them up and no Orthodox Christians ever held the Sword lawfully drawne against their Prince With Prayers and Tears we must Aliter nec debeo nec possu●● resist●re I may no other way resist said St. Ambrose 'T is sinne in causeth an evill raigne over us Expurge we that by contrition and when our petitions are preferr'd God will either turne such a Kings heart or take us from him or him from us or indue us with such patience that for his Glory our Suffering shall be as nothing I doe not utterly with the Martionits Tertulli●nists and Old Anabaptists condemne all War or use of the Sword The use thereof in the hands of the New Anabaptists and other Sectaries against our lawfull King I doe Who denyed the Authority of Magistrates in matters of Religion were Donatist●●● and those that will have the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church determined by a Laike party are B●o●●nists Who can take and leave or regard superiority no longer then inferiours scorne them I reckon among the Helcesaits Who deny Marty●●ome for the Name of God are Basilidians N●stickes and who commend Martyrdome but will not undergoe it are Heracleonits or cold Protestants Who combined to maintaine them against our late most gracious Soveraigne and persist still against his lawfull Successour are with the evill one in association against God Nor shall I cease to be so minded toward such men till it be manifest that God did ever prosper Rebellion or in the end not not oriously punish Rebels Wherein I have been brought up in that sound doctrine of Obedience I by the helpe of God am for the Lords sa●e resolved to die Blessed Saviour I confesse that my sinnes in this inundation of transgressions have swelled high Yet I know that one drop of thy bloed is sufficient to purge so many worlds of sinners as there be sinners in the world Not despairing therefore of thy mercie I pray that where sinne doth so abound thy grace may superabound to thy glory Humble me more and more and all thy people by true repentance Remit all that is past and give us assistance to be cautious for the future From evill and from everlasting damnation good Lord deliver us True Christians to the powers ordained of God acknowledge obedience due Their first Service payd unto him they faile not in performance of the next Outwardly inwardly their whole man is active in sincere Allegiance unto the King If his Supremacy or any set up by him presse commands contrary to the divine precepts observing these they 'l patiently endure the wrath of the other Reviling Imprisonment losse of Goods of life too whatever happen whose mindes are humble their shoulders will beare the burden And stoutly without wearinesse without murmuring They can kisse the rod because it is Gods to their amendment or for the tryall of their faith But dare not entertaine an evill thought much lesse extend their hands against the Lords Anointed Be he cruell as Herod or an Apostate like Julian they disciplined in the Kingdome of Christ will never sinke under his Crosse Submissive they and faithfull still Yet who are in fittest place Fathers of the Church and Peeres of the Kingdome will exhort dehort rebuke reverently judiciously closely If neither doe prevaile they and who cannot be so bold may escape by flying These used produce not alwayes their desired event Other Armes there are Prayers and Teares with them they conquer ever Such be their oppositions and onely such because the lawfull onely Who have gone beyond these are in Scripture made examples of ire Contend then against the evill the right way with Gods blessing not with violent hands for fear of condemnation Who first rebelled his reward was hell Hell ye would not and will any of you rebell Who dares not come neere the Devill in the one abhors to be like him in the other If therefore ye have any regard of your soules for the Lords sake submit ye to every humane ordinance TRACT IV. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 T● every humane ordinance THe Vulgar reads Omni and Erasmus Cuivis human● treaturae to every humane creature On this Translation Beza hath set prorsus absurdè as if they had done it very absurdly Observe that note for the present that when you meet with it ne●t you may know it the better The Syriack Omnibus hominum siliis to all the sons of men Whereby is intimated a sweet carriage in love and humility toward every one superiour equall and inferiour Beza and others Cuivis bun●anae ordinationi which we translate To every humane ordi●●●e The words are full and what o●th one holds would be seene Klio●s usually signifies a creature Mar. 13. 19. Sometimes creation Mar. 10. 6. Sometimes an order of men or a Nation Mar. 16. 15. Here that Civill constitution quares hominum conservantur whereby men are preserved in the quiet and well managing of their affaires

beleeve the professed Justitiaries aime I am sure and the event shewes that the resisting of Regall power is not the way to convert or reforme No such way in the Laws of the Kingdome and in the Gospel no such What 's edified in Monarchy is demolished by Anarchy 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. For 't is well known that peace subsists not without Authority nor can the essence of a Kingdome well be without peace Nay Religion seemes lost when the people are at a loose Or how shall a Pagan deeme our profession right when in a confusion of opinions too many contradict the principles of Christianity So he that would be a good Christian doubts what Christian to be For this cause even that Religion may flourish in peace I by the divine assistance shall never forget my Allegiance And when I can no way else fully fully I will expresse it unto the Lord in my prayers Because I know that this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour 1 Tim. 2. 1 2 3. Blessed Lord restore the right Heire of this Crowne to His Kingdome and proper Dignities Turne the hearts of those which are against unto Him and returne Him in safety and peace unto us Be so propitious that under Him we may live a quiet and Godly life to thy glory and our comfort In thy mercy look upon us blot all our sinnes out of thy remembrance and from thy heavie judgements good Lord deliver us I beseech you animadvert what summarily I shall represent in this Character And God grant that seeing ye may have will to enjoy the truth True Christians if through ignorance or infirmities they chance to give a scandall at home or abroad of purpose will never Because thereby they may to the dishonour of the Lord both thrust some from that are in and keep others off that would come to the truth Whereof at the first planting they were and still are suspected they be resolved to clear themselves before the world from the least tincture of disobedience And so constant thereto that the prime seminatours of this calumnie the Jewes and other enemies of the Gospel might be evicted by seeing such unchangable sincerity For it being the glory of God they aime at 't is their zeale to have the very Infidels glorifie him either here willingly by their conversion or hereafter by acknowledging his justice in their confusion In this they are superiour to their adversaries and conquer them who would be their tormentours Having good counsell for an honest conversation they want no faith to hold them to it And so close that who back-bite them as evill doers may magnifie God in the day of visitation Beleevers apprehend this and having the knowledge will not be without the practice Ye would of that kind be esteem'd all Let the Apostle therefore have his desire follow his advice put to silence the ignorance of folish men For the Gospel sake because ye are Christians for the Lords sake whose Christians ye are submit ye TRACT II. Yee IN the first verse of the former Chapter this Epistle is directed to the Elect that dwell here and there as strangers Understand thereby the Church-militant For 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are those that be in a strange soile And such we account the Saints on Earth They have no continuing Citie here but seeke one to come Heb. 13. 14. Whose conversations are in heaven be pilgrims in this world So Jacob stiled himself Gen. 47. 9. and so did David Psal 119. 19. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dispersion also suits well with the Church that is not confined to any certaine place but scattered over the face of the earth Whom Christ congregateth such are the sonnes of God Jobn 11. 52. Ab Oriente ad Occidentem binc inde colligendi from the East unto the West hence and thence gathered The dispersed of Israel Psal 147. 2. and Isa 56. 8. are secundum spiritum the houshold of the Lord. They therefore that restraine ye to the Jewes onely in my opinion mistake the Text. For though St. Peu● were the Apostle of the Jewes and did for the most part 〈◊〉 in J●d●● yet it cannot be gainsay'd that he in penning had regard of the whole Church And if we observe the tenth verse of this Chapter or the third of the fourth it 's apparent that he includeth the converts of the Gentiles I blame not thier piety who here point out the Jewes But doe ye what ye can all your sophistrie shall never carry you off hence without Rebellion The sense being thus generall 't is evident Yee reacheth so farre as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every soule Rom. 13. 1. Every one exempteth none Jew and Gentile Ecclesiastike and Laike Whosoever ye are or whatsoever ye would be ye must be subject every one 'T is certaine our Saviour when he said givee to Caesar the things that are Caesars spake as well of the high Priests Scribes Pharises Patriarch Peters and the Selfe-made Representatives as of the people Jews and Pagans Mat. 22. 21. Luke 20. 25. Wee for our parts dedicated by Baptisme taught in the word and fed at the Eucharist have offered our selves living sacrifices to the Lord. Whose Covenanted we are his observants we ought to be Satis praescriptum babemus saith Tertullian we Christians Tertul. de Idol c. 15. have it sufficiently prescribed in omni nos obsequio esse oportere subditos that we in all obsequie ought to be subject unto Magistrates both Princes and Powers Sive Apostolus sive Evangelista sive Propheta sive qusquis Chrys in Rom. 13. Ser. 23. Aug. in Psal 118. Ser. 31. Bern. in Fp. 42. tandem fueris Whosoever thou art whether Apostle or Evangelist or Prophet thou owest this subjection so Saint Chrisostome Saint Augustine Saint Bernard c. concur in this Whosever thou art implies Christian ever If the Apostles Evangelists Prophets or any else were not freed from subjection how dare ye who call your selves the Commons of England render your selves the Su●●●●e Authority Doth ambition and covetousnesse m●●● 〈◊〉 presume or are ye Apostates or Atheist● ye Survey Antiquity and your Independency will no where be found nor your Democraticall Presbyterie S. Paul appealed unto Caesar Acts 25. 11. The Martyrs Confessours and devout Bishops never pleaded immunity from superiours against their persecutours Nor can the Bishop of Rome in his usurpation nor ye and your Sectaries in yours quit your selves of Antichristianisme Nor are ye whatsoever is pretended so far as ye make the simple people beleeve from Popery herein What Bellarmine urgeth for his Holinesse of Rome ye Bellar. de Pontif. Rom. l. 5. c. 1. argue for your selves If directly ye may not ye will indirectly be Supreme Your Proachers too aspire unto that height all Temporalis potestas Spirituali meritò subjicitur 't is very meet say they the Temporall power should stoop unto the Spirituall Every one therfore contends to be so