c........ upon the Epifl/1 of JAM I s. Vuu.tz. fcitnct, though humane Laws under that ')H~ttenm do not hind ConfciencF· So .I Pet. 2• 13• SNbmit ]QUr felve.s to every vdi– naNet of tnAn for the L•rd1[ttk! : •fis Gods Command chat bind– eth ·my Confcierice to obfcrvemans. So 8cde[.S.2. I counfo/ thee to k!tp the Kings comrmtndmmt, ~tlld that.iH regttrd ofthe Oath I{ God; that is, not only for fear ofmen, but chiefly for wronging thy Confcience towards God. 2. Not fo univerfollJ andun/imiredlJ, . I muft obey God intHitu voilmtatH,upon the bare fight of his Will; but I mufi e)l!:aminc: the Laws ofmen, whether they be jufi, equal, fttiting with charity and publique fafcty ; and in many cafes active :obedience mufi be withheld: Peter and the Apofiles faid, Atls 6. 19. We ought to obqGod rat!.er then mm. Many fuch cafes there are ; bnt now towards God Confcience is bound, though it can fee no re~t.fon for it,nogood from it. 3• Not fo abfolutt'J; what ever God commandeth, I am bound to do it even in fecrer, though it be tQI my abfolute prejudice: but now fubmiffien to man may be per– formed by fuffering the penalty, though the obedience required be forbom; and in fome cafes a man may do contrary in private. where the-thing is indifferent, and there is no danger offcandal and 4'7 .conttmpt of Authority. Well then, hear no voyce but Gods in your Confciences, no Doctrines in the Church but Chrifts: When they brought in forreign Doftrines, 'tis faid, The] didnot hfJ/d the bead, Co/.'1.19· NoOffices, lnflitHtlons andWorfhip mun be al~ &owed, but fuch as he bath appointed: Antiq~tity without Scrip~ ture is no fui:e Rule to walk by. mWe ,,p not look,. What t~therJ m N111 .1wn· did ilef•re IU,/11~1 ~hAtChrifl did hifDre tht111 al. So not the Au- tlc_•du,quiti a– th•riiJ of the Churth ;' &e is tlfe Pillar and !/'OIIHdof TrHth, 1. 1 antfl;s ftc:;, 1 Tim.3.1S .jt11[Hforenfi ,n•n .Arcllitetlonico, that i&, to hold forth 7:,~£111~ f~~~ Chrills mind , as a Pofi doth aKings Prodamation. Some Power ante lflllfes. the Church hathin Rites of decencJ, and expediencJ, and tmltr, by Cyprian epifi~ vertae of that general Canon, 1 Cor.I-4·4o. (though that Text car- de l!uchanft. rieth the.face ofarePraint, rather then an •llowat~ce, and doth not fo much enlarge as moderate Church Power, as I have elfewhcre cleared,) but in the main matters the Church canonlydeclare Laws, not mal<! them ; and though in matters indifferent fhe can diretl to what is fujtable to order and decen~J, yet thofe Directions lhould be fo managed, that they do not take away the natute ofthe thing ; and though Chrifiian Libertybf: reftrained,it mufi not be infringed. ' Tis the injury of Antichrift to ufurp an Auth(nity over the Church . . sec ~
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