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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B22970	An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and dreadfull day of Christ Iesus.	Fisher, Edward, fl. 1627-1655.	1643 (1643)	Wing F987	36,794	40

S●lomon speakes in the text alleadged is the King The second Objection Phinehas his ze●le in slaying Z●mri and Cozbi was counted unto him for righteousnesse Psal 106. 30 31. and was rewarded by GOD with an everlasting Priesthood Num. 25. 8 13. Therfore to take up Armes against nay to sl●y evill Councellors is lawfull The Answer Here is a conclusion drawn from premisses which are nothing at all pertinent thereunto For Zimri and Cozbi were no Counsellers unto Moses who was then Soveraigne Zimri being the son of Sal● a Prince among the Simeonites and Cozbi the daughter of Zur of a chiefe house in Midian Num. 24. ●4 15. Neither can this act of Phinehas be made a pattern to all posterity For then it would follow that a Priest or Minister of Gods word finding a man and woman yea a Prince and Princesse in the act of whoredome may lawfully kill them But this is most repugnant to the Scriptures because no Divine may execute the materiall sword Wherefore this act of Phinehas was by the speciall instigation of Gods Spirit and not for our imitation Thus Reader thou seest the weaknesse of the objections and therefore canst not but conclude that this distinction of taking up Armes against evill Counsellours and not against the King is a new frivolous groundlesse distinction contrary to the Scriptures and a meere Cloake to hide the horrid and hatefull sin of ●ebellion from the eyes of the weaker Christians Take heed then l●st thou be hardned through the decei●fulnesse of sin Heb. 3 13. Looke to thy end and remember that in the place where the tree falleth there shall it be Eccles 11. 3. Die for the Lord when God calleth thee unto it for his glory but be assured thou diest neither for nor in the Lord without Gods extraordinary mercy if thou cast away thy life in a cause which Gods word will not warrant By me saith Christ the power and wisedome of God 1 Cor. 1. 24. Princes rule and Nobles even all the Iudges of the earth Prov. 8. 16. If all Nobles and Judges then certainly all Counsellours though some may be evil And therefore to use the words of Gamaliel Acts 5. 38. 39. Refrain from these men and let them alone for if their counsell or their worke be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it l●st happily ye be found even to fight against God The second Evasion But thou wilt tell me that thou takest up Armes in obedience to publique command and authority and therefore doest nothing but what is warrantable and lawfull The Answer 'T is true thy obedience to publique authority is lawful and necessary for God doth require it Tit. 3. 1. yet before thou yeeld thy active obedience thereunto be sure that ●oth the command and authority to which thou yeeldest and also the thing commanded authorized be agreeable to the Lawes of God and warrantable by the Lawes of the Land wherein thou livest For if the publique command be unlawfull then is thy obedience thereunto also unlawfull as the obedience of the men of Israel in going to their tents and forsaking of David their King at the command of traiterous Sheba was plaine rebellion 2 Sam. 20. 1 2. Or if the thing commanded be unlawfull then is thy obedience also unlawfull as those men sinned in casting the three Children into the fiery furnace at the commandement of Nebuchada●zzar and for their wickednesse were slaine by the flame of the fire Dan. 3. 20 22. And indeed when the act is unlawfull the publique command and authority is so far from diminishing or lessening the offence that it doth exceedingly aggravate and increase it Ephra●m is oppressed saith Hosea 5. 11. and brok●n in judgement because he willingly walked after the Commandement to wit of Jeroboam Micah speaketh of S●atutes of Omri cap. 6. 16. take heed how thou keepest them And there is a throne of iniquity which frameth mischief by a Law Psal 94 20. Wherefore adventure not thy talent thy life and therewithall thy salvation upon any authority or Ordinance of man without a due and full examination thereof between God and thy conscience applying all to the onely sure rule and touchstone of truth The Word of God Not oughtest thou to feare the danger of bringing the authority or commands of men unto this triall for thou hast a warrant from S. Paul so to do 1 Thes 5. 21. Prove all things hold fast that which is good And 1 Cor. 10. 15. he referreth himself to the Corinthians Iudge ye what I say And Act. 17. 10 11. The Bereans are accounted more Noble then those in Thessaloni●a in that they received the Word with all readinesse of mind and searched the Scriptures daily whether those things were so as Paul preached If then the doctrine and commands of the Apostles who were filled with the Holy Ghost Act. 2. 4. were subject unto this examination how can the Lawes and commands of men now adaies be above it or in any wise freed from it So long as men are capable of errour so long are they subject unto examination And what man what Councell may not erre That Royall Statute and firm Decree though consulted of and presented to Darius by all the Presidents of the Kingdom the Governours and the Princes the Counsellors and the Captains was but a faction and conspiracy to take away the life of Daniel D●n 6. 4 5 6 7. Did not the Apostles erre for a while in not beleeving the resurrection of Christ Luke 24 11. Did not Peter erre in withdrawing himself from the Gentiles through feare and joyning with the Jewes Galat. 2. 11 12. whole councels as well gen●rall as Provinciall though consisting of none but learned Divines have been carried by a faction and erred in the very fundamentals of Divinity And why may not a Synod in these daies whereof some onely are pious learned and Orthodox erre in like manner Or an Assembly spr●nkled with Lawyers erre in a point of Law Here Tertullian Apologet. adversus Gentes c. 4. Si Lex rua erravit puto ab homine concepta ●st neque enim de caelo ruit Miramini hominem aut errare potuisse in lege condendâ aut resipuiss● in reprobandá Nonne ipsius Lycurgi leges a Lacedemoniis emendatae If thy Law hath erred I suppose it was framed by man for it did not come down from Heaven Do you wonder that man could erre in making a Law or repent for rejecting a Law Were not the laws of Lycurgus himself corrected by the Lacedemonians Let us therefore search and try our waies Lam. 3. 40. Let us not pin our faith our life and salvation unto another mans elbow Gods word declares unto us manifestly that it is not lawfull for us to take up Armes against our Soveraigne and it will not availe us at the last day to say We did it by authority of man Every one shall beare his own burthen the