CHAP .31 SSZ Whatmull bee our behauiour toward Magi- arares enlaw, full ioiunsiona Dao.;.0. Rom,t;.a;. Matthachag. c.1 Cooaernentatte vponthe Lordsanointed : teaching vs by his example another lel%n, then by vi- olence tohelpeour fclues ( ifwe could do it) out of the vniuft comman- dments, and executions ofthofe whomGod bath fet in eminence and authoritie aboue vs. But here we mull take direction bow tocarie our (clues towards law- full Magitrates, commanding or impofing vnlawfoll things. For con- fideration mut+behad, whether the command bind vs to doe,or toMet andbeare anyvniull thing. Ifthe former,enioynitrgvs to do that whet- ofwe hauenot good ground todo it offaith, here the fupreame power of all mull beobeyed; and the Princeonely in and for theLord : for fo Celar mull haue Cefars, as God may haue Gods. Daniel and his lei. loaves deliberated not toanfwcr the King , but boldlyand readily pro - felled, that they would not worfhip his Image, they would fubmit chemfelues tohis furie,but durllnot to his commandement. The Mar- tyrs inQueen Maries time, whole mentionand memorie is honourable, refilled not, nor rebelled, they willinglyand joyfully gaue their bodies to the flames but t+ill profefled again!] the idolatrous worfhip and do- &rine eflablithedby law. In leroboann time, thofe which could con- forme themfelues to the ediét of thecattle:, were doubtleffe countedo- bedient, and had the graceof the times: and it went hard with others that durll not face their labour, but repaired to the Temple ail( : but the Lord condemneth and accurfeth fuchwicked obedience, andbringeth euill upon all Ilrael for it. No power on earth can make the confcience fafe , in the doingofa thing vnlawfull, although in a thing indifferent, conformed to the rules ache word,.the Princes law is a binder. It is a weake (peach therefore tofay, Idoe this and that vrwillingly , or which I had rather not doe: and if it be a finne which I doe, it is the Princes Gone, and not,,aine : nay, whatfoeuer adlion of thine wanteth faith, is thy finne :ben', although all thy external' condition is in the power ofthe Magíllrate, yetinternall things, as the keepingoffaith,and obe- dience, andgoodconfci.ence,areslot in hispower,but placed by God in the will and confent of the beleeuer, to keepe or to (Dote. Secondly, but ifthe Princes commandement call vs tofsrffer any vniufhthing, as if he fhould lay tyrannical) burdens upon bodie, goods, and outward e- "late; thefewe mull acknowledge lubiehted vnco him by God, and therefore the ordinariedefence is prayerr and pacience,by which thepal (ionof vniullvexation will become intl and comfortable : vnlefle for the time of thebruntof perfecucion,,we can conucy our felues from the furie : according to that of Chri(# , If theyperfecute youin enecetis, fie to another : and A61.8. i. theSaints were fcattered by the perfecuti- on t for by this meanes of preferuing our felues, we preferue Ole the Church,, 2
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