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Show 53 part1: of MA N. Clmpxz, part I. on , hath there no dii‘tinetion of Tem orall, and Spirituall Dominati : Yet may he Earth the all of Itistrue , t at God is King place . be King of a peculiar, and cholen Nation . For there is no more inconoruity therein, than that he that hath the generall command of ithe w ole Army, lhould have withall a ceiihar Regimen; , oiCon it b : owcr hisl by pan rof his own . God is King of all t ie Earth ipeake to But . nant of his cliolen people , he is King by Cove more larOIy of the Kingdome or God", both by Nature, and LoveCbap. 35. nant , I iave inthe following difcourle alfigned an other place. From the propagation of Religion , it is not hard to underfland m "WW! the caufes of the reiolution of the fame into its hrli feeds, or prinCi257;in g i rs inVilible, pies -,which are only an opinion of a Deity , and Powe and fupei‘naturall; that can never be (0 abolilhed out of humane ‘ - Q A A, Ami-MAMA." " «UV; «a AK," m'afih A nature, but that new vReligions may againe be made to fpring Chap"; 59 ehes, Dignity, or feeure Pleafure, to themfelves onely, or fpecially. For that which men reap benefit by to themfelves, they are thought « , .p to do for their own fakes, and not .forlo‘ve of others, Laftly, the teflimony that men can render of dwine Calling, can Want of the be no other , than the operation of Miracles, or true Prophecy,- reflf'mmflf ( which alib is a Miracle -, )or extraordinary Felicity. And therefore, M‘m‘m' tothoie points of Religion, which have been received from them that did their Miracles 5 thofe that are added by fuch, as approve not their Calling by fome Miracle, obtain no greater beliefe, than What the Culiome, andLawes of the places, in which they be educated, have wrought into them. For as in naturall things,.men of judge- ment require naturall fignes, and arguments, f0 in fupernaturall things, they requirefignes fupe_rnaturall,.(wh1ch are Miracles,) be_i out of them, by the culture of luch men , as for fueh parpoie are fore they confent im'vardly,‘ and from their hearts. . _ . in reputation . For feeing all formed Religion, 18 founded at firli, upon the faith which a multitude hath in fome one perfon , whomt ey believe not only to be a wife man, and to laboui to procure their hay: pinels , but alfo to be a hol man , to whom God himlelfe vouc fafeth to declare his will upernaturally; It followeth necelfai'ily, when they that have the Goverment of Religion , (hall come to have either the wifedome of thofe men , their lineerity, or their love l‘ufpeé‘ted; or that they {hall be unable to fliew any probable appearin the Examples following. Firfl, we have the Example of Allwhicheaul‘es of the weakening of mens faith, do manifelily the children of Ifrael 3 whdwhen Mofc:,_that had approved his Cal-y. ling to them by Miracles, and by the happy conduét of them out of _r Egypt, was abfent but 40. dayes, revolted from the worfhip of the true God, recommended to them by him -, and fettin up * a Golden *Ema'oza Calfe for their God, relapfed into the Idolatry of the Egyptians; ‘9' from whom they had been [0 lately delivered; And again, after Mo- fix, Aaron, 350/121", and that generatioti which had feen the great‘ works of God'in Ii‘rael, " were dead -,_an0ther generation arofe, and . 3M", , token of Divine Revelation 3 that the Religion-which they defire to ferved Baal. So that Miracles faylin ,Faith alfo failed. uphold , muff be fufpeeted likewife ,and (without the feare of the Again, when the fons of Samue , * being conflituted by their * I 54mg; father judges in Bcrfabce, received bribes, and judged unjul'tly, the Civill Sword ) contradicted and rejected. Infamifig le- ofMlAN'. That which taketh away the reputation of Wifedome, in him that left qf'ffl- formetha Religion, or addeth to it when it is allready formed , is people of Ii‘rael refufed any more to have God to be their King, in other manner than he was King ofother people 3 and therefore cryed WWI/1""- the enjoyning of a beliefe of contradiétories: For both parts ofa our to Samar/m choofe them a King after the manner ofthe Nations. contradiction cannot poliibly be true: and therefore to enjoym the beleife of them , is an argument of ignorance -, which detects §othatjuliice faylihg, Faith alfo fayled: Infomuch, as they depo- the Author in that -, and difcredits him in all things elfe he fliall And whereasinthe planting of Chriliian Religion, the Oracles tealed in all parts of the Roman Empire, and the number of Chriliiansencreafed wonderfully every day, and in every place, by the preaching of the Apoltles, and Evangelifis -, _a great part of that fuc- propound as from revelation fupernaturall: which revelationt man may indeed have of many things above , but of nothing zigainl't naturall reafon . led their God, from reigning over them. Dang con- _ That whichtaketh away the reputation of Sincerity , ‘is the domm to (I): ing , or faying or fuch things, as appeare to be fignes , that what Reign)»: 1/2!) they require other men to believe, is not believed by themfelves ; all ceile, may reafonabl _be attributed, to the contempt, into which the 'lM/‘J"? - which doings,or fayings are therefore called Scandalous,beCaufe they be i‘tumbling blocks , that make men to fall in the way of Religion: Religion ofthe Church Of Rome, was partly, for the fame caufe abo‘ as Injufiice, Cruelty , Prophanell‘e , Avarice , and Luxury . For much, asthe fayling of Vertue in the Pallors, maketh Faith faile in‘ the People : and partly from brinOing of the Philofophy , and do- {trine or Ari/lode into Reli >ion, by the Schoole-men , from whence who can believe, that he that doth ordinarily fuch actions , as pro‘ teed from any of thefe rootes, believeth there is an fuch InVi‘ Pricils of the Gentiles of that time, had brought themfelves, by their uncleannefl‘e,avarice, and jugling between Princes. Alfo the liiiiedin England, and many Other partsof Chrifiendome, info-'- fible Power to be feared, as he alfrighteth other men withall, for leiier faults 2' there arofe to many contr That which taketh away the reputation of Love, is the beingo deteé‘ted of private ends: as when the beliefe they require of OtilCl'Sa conducetii or feemeth to conduct to the acquiring of Dominion, Rl' tion ,andenelined people to revolt from them, either againft the cheS, 1 ,_ " -. , ietions, and abfurdities, as brought the» Clergy into a reputation both of Ignorance, and of Fraudulent intenWill of their own Princes, as in Frame, and Holland, or with their will, as in England. I Ilaflly, ‘ |