for a timeofLiberty. and fee his people perfecuted, than their fades wor- ried. Herefie and Error bath this property ; it ever diesby fevere oppofition, and truth ever rifeth the more ; becaufe Chrift is againfl the one, Hence it midi fall; but for the other, hence it (hall rife by its fall : Hence, let your felves againftthis, 'cis tooppofe the power of Chrift lefus And hence in Henry the 8th time, the Abbies fell, aadnever could rife to this day i but the íìx Articles againft the Saints purfued with blood , made them inmate the more, 3. When Men will not fubrnit to the wholefome Laws of Magiftrates ; which are either fundarsentall, and cJa- tinning; or Orders that have their dare' and time of ex- piring, made for common good. When men will ei- ther have no laws, or as good as none, or fubmit tonone hut what they pleafe, Deut. r y. 11. Ile tbat will nor hearken, but do prefumptubufly, !hull dye ; He being the Minitler ofthe Lord; and indeed it is to caft off the Lord. I gonot about here to eftablifh a foverei,gn power in Ma- giftrates, which is proper toGod, to Make what lawes theywill, about civill, Religious, or indifferent things, and then people to fuhmit to them for no other reafon, but becaufe of their will; under which notion; fuperftiti- on in Churches bath been ufhered and maintained, you muff obey authority : in that cafe, it's better to Ufa than to fin, and not to do, than do. But l fuppofe the lawes juft, righteous, holy, and for' publick good, aad that apparently fo, and not inlaying fo only : Nowhere, to caft off laves, is to caft offChrift. There are two things elpecially; which are the caufe and cccafion of the breach of all other lawes ; and the ftrongeft fins and fweeteft,which r ien,young men efpeci- aliy, the hopes oftheCommon-wealth, are catcht with, Prov. 2. 13, 16. 1. Whoredorrie; fecret lofts and v ti itonneffe, and o- ther firange lulls which F ceafe a:.d dare not name, I lungs I4. 24. The flu before Shifhah came,a fin which many times Solomoncannot fee thorow his window ,,nor the eye ofauthority difcern; but God will judgefor ir, 1kb. 13 5. and if he be fudge, who fluff be thy ailor, but Satan ? and what droll be thy fentence, but death ? and what the chaines, but a hard heart for the prefent, andhortour ar;terward? A fin which póllutes the very t
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