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Show Part 4.. OF THE KINGDOME C/Mp.44, there is any repugnancy between the Politicall defignes ofthe Pope, and other L'hriflian Princes, as there 15 very often, there ariieth inch a Milt amongl‘t their Subjects,that they know nota fitanger that thrufleth himl'elf into the throne of their lawlull Prince, from him whom they had themfelves placed there; and in this Darknefle men, that are exempt,by Ecclefialticall liberty,from the tributes, and tion into Conjuration,or Enchantment. To Ctin/acme, is in Scripture, to Ofiet,Give, or Dedicate,in pious and decent language and gel‘ture, and had no portion of land fet them out to live on, as their bi cthren) a man, or any other thing to God,by leparating of it from common 1."ngth is to lay,to Sane‘tifie,or make it Godsgind to be tired only by Church to be,as the Realmeof Ifrael, the lirngdome of Cod) t hallenging to himfelfe and his lubordinate Minii‘ters, the like revenue, thole, whom God hath appointed to be his Pulilike Miniliers, {as-I asthe Inheritance of God, the name of Clergy was tumble to that claime. And thence it is, that Titlies, and other tributes paid to the Levites,as Gods Right,amongft the Ilraehtes, have a long tlmyt" been demanded,and taken of Chriflians, by heclefiaitiques, Jurcrizi'xw, that is,in Gods Right. By which meanes, the people every where were obliged toadouble tribute; one to. the State, another to the Clergy -, whereof, that to the Clergy,being the tenth of their reve- changemot thC thing Conlccrated,bllt onely the rite of it, from being nue,is double tothat which a King or Athens (and elteemed a ry- rant) exaéted of his fubjee'ts for the defraying, of all publin1 ue chirges: For he demanded no more but the twentieth part 5 and ~yet a- bundantly maintained therewith the Commonwealth. And in the Kingdomc of the Iewes, during the Sacerdotall Reigne or God, the Tithes and Offerings were the whole Pubhque Revenue. . From the fame miflaking of the prelent Church for the Kingdom of God,cameinthe diilinétion betweene the Clair/l and the (1.1mm Laws:The Civil Law being the Acts of S oevcmjgm in their own _I)o- Dominions. Which Canons,though they were but Canons,that is, Rule: I'ropo:mded,and but voluntarily received by Chriliian l'rinces, till the tranllation of the Empireto Char/mam; yet alterwards, as the power of the Pope encrealed,became Rm'a C(‘fllfililflrl'fd, .1 "the .-: g of them alone , an Army, fuflicient for any warre the Church militant ihould imploy them in, againfl their owne, orotherPrin< ces. A {econd generall abufe of Scripture, is the turning of Confecra- to be their inheritance. The Pope therefore, ,(pt‘etendingtlie prc lkl‘t minions,and the ( anon Law being the Afts ol the Pap: in the Lune 7‘0 much as they that are not againfl Chrifl,are with him. From the fame it is that in every Chrifiian State there are certaine from the tribunals ofthe Civil State,tor {o are the ieeiilar Clcruv,be- fides Monks and Friars,which in many places,bear {0 great a propor- tion to the common people,as if need were, there might be raifed out r l( Chip". their enemies from their friends,under the conduct of another mans Other Chrifiians the name ofLaI'ty, that is, [imply People. For Clery {igniries thofe, whofe maintenance is that Revenue, which God having referved to himfelfe during his Reigne over the Ifraehtes, arfigned to the tribe of LCVi (who were to be his pubhque Minilters, if o F D A R rt N E S s E. Chrifiians are his Subjeéls. For otherwife it were as mucharzainft the law ofNations,to perfecute a Chriitian firanger, for prolbliinn the Religion of his owne country,as an Infidell~,or rather more, in at; of mind, are made to fight one againit anorher, Without difcerning . mbition. 1 From the fame opinion,that the prefent Church is the Kingdome‘ of God,it proceeds that Paftours,Deacons, and all other Minilters or the Church, take the name to themfelves of the Clergy; glVlng to ' pm 4. Emperours theml-elves (t0 avoyd greater iiiiicliiercs, which the pet.» le blinded might be led into) were forced to let them paile tor From hence it is,that in all Dominions, where the Popes Etcltiiaflicall power is entirely receivedJewes, Turkes, and Gentile sync l" the Roman Church tolerated in their Religion, L1:§l.ll‘l‘€lt)l[ll,.l$ln the exercife and profeflion thereof tht y offend not againfl the t trill POWCI‘ 1 whereas in a Chrifiian,though a {ti-angermot to be ot the R0- man ReligiOn, is Capitall, becaufe the Pope pretendttlcil US$11: ll'll.l.lll have already proved at large in the 35. Chapter-,) and thereby to Profane and common,to be Holy,and peculiar to Gods lervice. hit when by inch words, the nature or qualitie of the thing it lelle, is pretended to be changed,it is not Ctiniecratitiii, but either an extraor - dinary work-e of God,ora vaine and impious Conjuration. But lee- ing( tor the riequency ot'pretending the change of Nature in their Conlecrations,) it cannot be cfieemed a wotkvextraoi'dinary , it is no other than a Coup/ration or Incantation, whereby they would have men to beleeve (1n alteration of Nature that is not , contrary to the tellimony ot mans Sight, and of all the tell of his Sen‘ (es. As li'irexample, whenthe l‘riell, in {lead ol‘Conlecrating Bread and \VlnetoCndS PCLUllJl‘ lervice in the Sacrament or the Lords bupper,t which is but a reparation ot‘it from the common tile, to iignifie, that is, to put men in mind ol‘their Redemption , by the l'aflion ot‘Chrill, whole body was broken, and blood fired upon the Crtvfle {or our tranlgrellionm pretends, that by iltyingof the words or our Saviour, "II/u I; my Nady , andT/m/r my [How], the nature of Bread is no more there, but his very Body; notwith- fianding there appezireth not to the Sight, or other Seril‘e ofthe lie- ceiver, any thing that appeared not before the C?t)nleci‘ati<)n. The Egyptian Conjurnrs, that are laid to have turned their Rods to Ser< pents, andthe \Vaterinto Blond, are thoughtbut to have deluded the lenles or the Spectators by a tulle lheiv ofthinus, t'tt are clieemed Enchanters : But what ihould WCC hate thought of them, if there hadiippeai‘edin their Rods nothinglikea Serpent, and in the Water enchanted, nothing like Bloud, norlikeanv thing elle but Water, butthatthey had faced down the King , thdt they were Serpents that looked like Rods, and that it was Blond that fee- mcd Water c' That had been both Enchantment, and Lying. And yetin this daily .1th ofthe Prit-fl‘, they doe the very fame, by V v 3 turning |