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Show Rom. 13 di[cuj]ed, pt'etationof Rom. 13·4· and his Argument from thence again{\ Servetw, is declared above in this chapter. Heare .now. how Bez•' imerpreteth the fame Text in his Bookeenrimled.· Dct H.eretici<. ~ M:.gijlratu pun!wdi<. TrJiatztr P aulur Magijiratum e§t Dei M~l- · Jirrtm qut GladiUm gerat ad t~J ulcifc.rnda,, qui male 4 gu!'t, . Rom. I 3· t· fi2!!_amobrrm altm<~rum mc~.D• eft, ji in H.ereticoJ·:Magijira· turp« TJuU~~m babtt, vel~pfu male non agrre ( qupd B.tf,.wione in· dtgm non P*IO )vrl, quod m ge_m;:e ~~ulu1 ait , ad certum makftci•· rum g(ntlf r~vocand~~m, eorum VJdelzcet, qtu cttrpora/i~ peccata vocant de quo m•lijiciorumdifcrimine, "'Piojiw ut jpero -poJie.i -[uo loc•Ditr:. ' rom.: T-hat is , Paul witmfjeth.foith he, that :be M~ijlrate;. God! M_mifter, wbo-beareth tb~Swurd to tQ~ vmgeance on them that d" ev_•U, Rom. 13.·4- ,wher_efurt one of theft t'lliO m;,.jl need! be, Jf Ma• g~ftrat<! jboul~ have no J"~· p~'lller over Here tick.!-, either -that Hm· . ttdl.!_ ~e"'.91 ovtU do!rJ (wh,tcb u /agroffi, that I thinfl&it needJn?lt•· fu~auan) or elfo:th:II·Pauls JPeech" to b, reftrained to a crrtaine fort of ev~ll deedt,:to wtt, fitch at t.b•) caD corporal/ JinntJ: of which Jifti~· ~•ono[f1ltYtkedr, IfblldiJfUJe more large/;., Ibopt in hi<due .pla<e1 tmeafter. So Bez4. · · CH ,A P· 48·: A ·'1\!ply to hit Ch~p.' 48. · Difcu!Ter. . THe 1-i,ber p~wer1 in ·thif Ro~· l3· were(amiNlgji othm )the 'RII'· · m•n mper011rr, and fubordinate MagiJira(eJ undrr tbtm, But they aUrJ>ere Jirangm ftom the life of God, ;·ea mnjl3ver(e and oppojiu, ;ea cruoll, and.bloudy PerftcutorJ nf the N>mt and follower! of J•J•'I: and yet ttnto·thefoi< fubjel1ion com17pndd. Nnw, then J -argue, If Paul had com'JI•ntkd thi1 fubjef1ion to Rp~ane ~agiftrat~J in [}irituall .. c•ufoJ to .defind the 'truth, ,, pum{h Homtck.!, (nmher.of wbzcb they could difceme nor judge of, but b]' Tr"JI ftom othm, a! Pdate condrmnrd J•ft«) be mujl in tht Judge· mt1JI of all r.n'"• bav' put out tbefYe of F aitb, and Rufo~:, and jinfl ot. ..o rueQ • Drfender, Net m the Judgemant of all men , for be!ides Calvin and Bez; ( whoJe Judgement you have beard ) allthofe Interpreters, who . c~polllld Rom. 13· 'IJifcuj]ed. rxpound this pldCe· in the Rom~nl, oi rhe Magill rates power in pooifhlng fpirim•ll evill doers , as well as corporall ; they, O· none'Of them doe fo judge,that Pa11Hn comm·mding the Churches • to yeild fubjeC\ion unto civill Magiftrates in matters of Rrligi~ on, did put out the Eye of Faith, and Reafon , and fenfe at ' onee. For firfl:, icis one thing to yeild fubjeltion to the unrighteous· Decrees of lgnoraAt, and Pagan Magifl:ratrs : anether thin~ to obey. their O rdinances in matters of Faith, and wor!bip, and 0~ vernment of the Church. The former of rhefe, Chriflians diu · yeild unto the Romane M1giflrares, even fubjeC\ion unto the D.:ath: the other, they neither did, nor ought toyeild : as know, ing God was to be obeyed rather then men.· Secondly, though it be true, whilfl the Romane· E'Operours · and M•giflratesware Pagans· and PerCecutors ,-·they were· incompetentJ~. tdges1to difcerne aodgive>Sentence in the fp1rir<ullmar• ters of · Chriflian Religion ' yet the word ' of Chrifl , who · commandeth a DJry,com'lnndeth all the necelf1ry meanes,which rend to that Dmy. And therefore in giving them a Pow,r and charge to ex<eClte v~ngeance nn evill doers, (and rhu in matters of fpiriruall uarighreoufiJe!fe againfl the Church, as in matters of Civill unrightcou(neffi ag•infl the Comm)n·wealth) It be-· hoved them to enquire and·lifttn afrer true Religion, to heare and.tri.• alii and llpon-Cerious,deliber~te, and ju!Hcruting tO hold faft that which is good , and fo prevent the diflurbance thereof by the contrary. It was no vainechargeof the ibly G~o!\, Ppl. 2, .10, t 1, ~ 2. If Chrifi have an Iron S:epcer in his hand ( to crufhall Stare~, and Kingdomes,E11perours, and Princes, as well as privat-e ptrfons-) Be wi(enow tbmfore o yee King!': be injlmf1ed • J" t?>t •:• Judgu:of the E mh,flrve the LmJ-wirh fe-are, rrj"Y'""'" · ~o btmw~tb trem11mg. Kiffi the Smne 1•41 he be aogry, and J"f<rifo' · mtherw.Jy. . Jhirdly, the cafes of Reli~ion,_ wherein we allow Civil!· M.~ · r,tl'tr~tes to be Judges, are fo fundament• !I, and p~lpab1 c, that no Magtftrare !ludious of Religion in the feare of God,bm,tfhe have • any fpirimall difcerning (as all truly Chrillian M1giflrares have, and even Pagans hav~ difcerned between innocent Chriflians, and · turbulent-Seducers) he cannot but judge of tUch gm!fe cormpti- •· ons- ·" }Ol |