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Show the will ofGod approoving it : whence it further follows, that, feeing God Wills not contraries, this power is not repugnant to the will of God revealed by the' GoipeJ, and obliging all men. ~or is this Argument avoyded , becaute the perfons that were in power when. Paul wrote are faid to have been enemles to Chrifiian piety : For firfi, that is not true of all. Sergim Pau,fus Proprxcor Ach '3·'· of {yprtts ha d given h't s nam~ t'J Ch rJ·nn before this time : to fay nothmg of the J • Kina of* Edejfa, of whom ·there is an ,. E/! Euef{a m n . . d d ( . ~ ) O[i'oene, No- old trad\tton, groun e as tt. eems. on men Abgarifte~ truth, though perhaps a ht11e mtxed quensillult~cis. with fables. Moreover, the queHion is ..A.ppar_et ex. not of the perfons, whether they 71Hmmu TacJ- . . b h } h c. 11, Appian6, were ~mptous ; ut _w ~t 1er t at run· Diont ttmJ in cHon tn them were unptous : we fay, !ride~ etliti4? the Apofile denys that, when he faith, tNm m _novu the function, even for that time, was or· E_xcl~ptu, ca- dained of God, and therefore to be ho· ;mo mo. . h" h rf" d noured, even wlt m t e recenes an fecrets of the heart when: Gcd al one hath Empire . Wherefore both Nm mioht, and that King Agrippa too , whom Paul fo teriouOy · invite~ to his Religion, might fubjetl: him(elf to Chrifr, and retain, the one his regal, the other his imperial power : a power, which without the right of the Sword and of Arms cannot be underHood. As then of old, the Sacrifices according to the Law were pious, although admini~red. by 1mpwus Tht Fwjl PArt~ . ~f impious Priefis; fo Empire is a pious • thin a .. a ttbough it be in the hand of an r. Bmt hoc !*• n ' 1 tf)l41tur ae~ imptous Prince· hrmc locum E-, pi{l.ad Rnm. XVI. The tht'rd Argumenr. Chryfoftomus. THe third Argument is from t~e wor~s of John the Baptifi, who bemg feno. uOy asked by the J ewilh Sou}diers (many thoufands of that Nation ierved the Romans in theirWars,asJofephm and other writerscleerly tell us:) what they fhould do, to avoid the wrath of God, He anfwered not, that they fiwuld for· take VV ar (as he n'lull have anf wet·e~, if that be the will of God) but 11bjfam from violence. and faljhood, and he con- Luke 3·1+tcnt with their wap-es. To thefe words of the Baptifi, cori'caining an appl·oba-tion of VVar plain enough, many an ... {wer, The BaptHls prefcripts are· fo dif-ferent from the precepts of Chrifi, that we may conceive their Dothine not to be the fame. Which I qnnot admit, for thefe reafons. John and Chrifi uie the fame beginning, and declare the fum of their dottrine in the fame words, Amer.d ;·our liv_es,forthe kjngdom oflJed- M~t·J·"· ven is at h.-:nd. ChriH: him(elf faith, rhe ... 17. Kingdom ofHeavcai (i.e. the new Law, for the Hebrews uie M1lill: the Law by ~he name of Kin.;,tkJm;) . began to be M:tr.u.u. Invaded frrnrt t h~ days of tl"e llapt ift. John is faid to ha vc prel c hed the Ba p-tiiin |
