The fifth of November, OR The POPISH and SCHISMATICAL REBELS. With their horrid Plots, fair Pretences, & bloody Practices, weighed one against another: AND In Opposition unto both Two things asserted. 

1 That the supreme Authority of establishing, reforming, and vindicating Religion is placed in the King.  
2 That Religion is not to be established or reformed in blood.    1 CHRON. 22.7, 8, 9, 10. 
And David said to Solomon, My Son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God. But the word of the Lord came to me, saying, thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars, thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight. Behold a son shall be born unto thee who shall be a man of rest, and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about; for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days. He shall build an house for my name.  1 KINGS 6.7. 
So there was neither hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of Iron heard in the house, while it was in building.  
OXFORD, Printed for H. Hall and W. Webb. 1644.   

To the Popish Rebel.  
To the Schismatical Rebel.  
I Take the boldness for the present to put you both together; for I need not be at the charge of a several glass to represent you. If you will take the pains to look upon one another's eyes, you may therein discover your own pictures. I know the comparison will be odious to you both, & you think that none but a blind man would father this resemblance. Herein you are like two women, equally famed for their deformity, yet cannot endure to be told, they are of the same complexion. Why should you be angry, that I take notice of your reconciliation, when all the world (that runs not a madding with you) see you shake hands together? I have read of waters that run unmixed in the same channel. What communion is grown betwixt you I know not: but your course speaks you both, to have drawn and drunk at the same fountain. Neither of you commits a wickedness so lewd, or broaches an Error so gross and palpable, but can & doth pretend an infallibility to warrant it. The Oracles of holy men inspired were never uttered w●th more confidence and zeal, than your blasphemies against both God and King; and both of you by murdering such as are faithful to their Church and Sovereign, climb the ladder to your pretended martyrdom. You have divorced that couple, which the Son of God came from Heaven to knit together; and instead of Mercy & Truth, which were sweetly met together, instead of righteousness & peace which were wont most lovingly to kiss each other, your execrable practices have from time to time been ready to betray us to those fatal meetings, wherein blood toucheth blood. Though you be together by the ears in other matters, you are together by the hearts in treason and rebellion; and your design is as good as that, which procured the atonement of Herod and Pontius Pilate. Since Lisymachus Nicanor did congratulate your offer of the right hand of fellowship in the treachery, how strangely have you (younger brethren) been encouraged? What a progress have you made since you walked by the staff of his instructions? Me thinks the holy leagues are entered upon the Stage of England, to play those parts over here which they did in France in the time of the third Henry. The same designs are here clothed with the same pretences. Their intent was (saith the Historian) to encroach upon the King, & to leave him nothing but a vain shadow of Royal authority, under the conduction and direction of their tyranny; & to make their way to this devilish design, the fairer, they cast scandalous aspersions upon all the King's actions, to render them odious and intolerable. And lest the smooth glass of peace should represent things in their true proportions, & undeceive the people, the waters must be kept troubled to make them appear (on the King's part) crooked and distorted. The people are stirred up to oppose the King's edicts of peace, and desires of accommodation. In the interim the Leaguers go on pretending they were for God, for the honour and increase of Religion, the utter extirpation of Heresy, to preserve the estate and Crown of the King, and to maintain the rights & privileges of the Subject; yet they swore obedience to the General appointed without, yea against the King's commandment, and engaged their lives, honours, & estates to adhere unto him; and all that would not associate in this holy league, were persecuted as enemies to God, rebels to the state, & perturbators of the public good. I beseech you what difference does the late Covenant bear, to distinguish it from that holy League? Are they not as much alike, as a bond is like an obligation? Do not therefore allow that in yourselves, which you abominate in one another: but take notice from one another's practices how pernicious and detestable those principles are, that your several sides do build upon. His Holiness can give no better dispensation for murder or rebellion than John of Leyden: and what is treason in subjects that descent in other matters from you, is a crime of the same complexion in yourselves, though your Assembly of Divines join with the remnant of your Members to Vote it otherwise.  
Therefore let me expostulate with you in the language of the Historian. What think you to do, O you [Covenanters and] Leaguers, for God, for the faith, for the King? You undertake Arms for God, who desires nothing but peace. You publish Rebellion, he commands obedience: you trouble the rest and quietness of a Christian King; God willeth us to endure at the hand of a Prince although he be a Pagan: you do it for God whose name you call upon, and deny the power; you do it for God who detects your actions, and knows your thoughts; you do it for God, that will confound all those that breed confusion among the people: you undertake wars for religion, and nothing hinders that, more than wars: you fight for holiness, and yet you authorise blasphemies, plant Atheism, impiety, and despising of devotion in all places: you march under pretence of the Church's cause, and yet spoil the Clergy, and destroy the Churches, etc.  
You say t●s for the King; it it be, where are his Commissions? if for his service, where are his commandements? If for him, why do you it without him? If for his obedience, wherefore do you adhere to the head of that league & covenant, which is made against him? can you serve two Masters & be bound by one oath to two contraries? etc. Know. you not that all bearing of Arms is treason without the King's authority? That the Subject cannot make any league without the Prince? etc. Pardon me I beseech you (saith he) Nobles, Princes, Prelates, Lords & Gentlemen, if I tell you that this fortress which you build will be your overthrow, this fire you kindle will burn yourselves, these knives you forge will be tempered in your own entrails, and that thereby you will leave neither of yourselves, nor your league, but a most pitiful & shameful memory. In the mean while Protestants will grow so famous for their loyalty unto every truth reveled in holy Scripture, that the very name will be amiable & had in veneration: and that Religion (no more shaken by the breath of factious spirits, than the rays of the Sun are diverted by the wind) shall stand , as a rock against every storm from what point soe'er it bloweth. And yourselves, when you shall consider the patience, and constancy, and success of this Church in bearing the sharp brunt of your malicious fury, when you shall with a more sad eye look upon her whom you have so often pierced, you will relent, I doubt not. But when you shall see her in bays, triumphing over all her enemies, when you shall behold her dressed again in her ancient attire of decency and order, wanting nothing but the neglects and nakedness that are on the one side, and the rags & superfluities that are on the other side amongst you, when you shall find her neither scandalous in the choice & quality, nor defective in the number and proportion of her external rites and ornaments, I am persuaded you will lay aside those prejudices that kept you thus long from her communion, and with all alacrity cast yourselves into her secure bosom and most dear embracements. But if you be either Jesuits or Anabaptists, I fear (though there be nothing else) your obstinacy will be a sufficient rub in the way to your conversion, which is the only thing makes me doubt of it.   

The fifth of NOVEMBER.  
THIS Day is consecrated to the memory of a happy deliverance from a bloody horrible and odious act to God and man; a matter distasteful to me to remember, 
Speed in the life of King James.  or to write of (saith our Chronologer, that it abhors my very soul to fill my pen with ink, or to blot my paper with these black spots of darkness. A stratagem invented by him, that blows the bellows of destruction; fashioned in the forge of the hottomlesse pit. It was the Powder-Treason, a plot to blow up and destroy at once our gracious King of blessed memory, with his royal Issue; the whole stock of Nobility, the glory of the Clergy, and the chief flower of the Commons. A design so barbarous and devilish, that it was able to make the earth to cremble, and the heavens to look black with horror and astonishment.  
But ala●! whilst I should pursue the flying memory of this, I am surprised by another Powder-Treason, which presents and gives fire upon me. A Treason so like the former, that had not the first been crushed in the shell, and this latter nonrisht to the growth of a great gigantine stature, you might very well have imagined them to be the issue of the same womb; and however you may call them sworn Brethren, without any disparagement to your Judgements. They run a great way parallel, at last these get the start, by committing actual rebellion, and outrun them. They have both the same place, the same plot, the same plea, for their execrable treason. 1. The stage upon which this Tragedy was to have been acted by the Saltpetre men of Rome, was the House of Parliament. The design was to blow up that, and so it hath proved here. Our wishes for the assembling of such a Senate, were rather passions than prayers (as if omnipotency itself had had no other way left to restore and secure our happiness) and Almighty God answered us (as it were) with another passion. He gave us a Parliament, as he did Israel a King, in his anger: And under the influence of this anger (which was more then enough to blast and blow up all our hopes that way) some of that assembly abused His Majesty's grace and clemency, they provoked him to anger too: He was driven our, and after him most and the most eminent of the Lords and Commons, by which means we are deprived of the present benefit of all those acts of grace vouchsafed by our Sovereign, and that which should have been our Physic (had all the Ingredients been tempered together,) is become our poison. 
Ibid.  As the place is the same, so the plot is the same. Their intent, when that irreligious achievement had been performed, was to surprise the remainder of the King's issue, to alter Religion and the Government, & invade the Kingdom by strangers. What aims here hath been at an alteration you all know. The standard of our public devotions is taken down; Church-Government voted down; 
Sir Edward deering's book.  and it is asserted in print (by one that was sometimes an eminent man amongst them) that it was concluded, if the Lords were brought down to the House of Commons, and the King made as low as a Lord, the work were done. And if their Cannon at Edge-hill or Newberry had reached the King, and cut off the two Glive branched now about his Table, what would be done with the rest of the royal Issue, we may easily imagine. As for the invasion of the Kingdom by strangers, they have endeavoured and offered fair to make a purchase of it, having by Commissioners to that purpose bidden earnest and strooke hands with the Brethren of the Covenant for their advancing in upon us in a warlike manner. The plot is the same, the plea is the same too. Religion is made the stalking horse to Rebellion, by both Parties. The Jesuited and Anabaptized party row with the same Oars, sail by the same wind and compass, though their coasts be as fare distant as Amsterdam from Rome. They justify their Treasons and King-killing, upon the same grounds and pretended authorities. They are like Sampsons' Foxes, though their faces look contrary ways, they are coupled by the tails, where they carry those firebrands that destroy both Church and State; and between them Christian Kings are crucified, as our Saviour was between two Thiefs. The letter from Dublin of the third of October 1643. to a Member of the House of Commons telleth us what precedents the Rebels now in England made for those of the Romish party in Ireland, the words are these. There was a Friar taken in the last expedition into Conaight, about whom was found a collection of all your votes, Ordinances and Declarations in England, very carefully perused and marked, with short marginal notes by him, and out of them a large manuscript, framed by himself and entitled, An Apology of the Catholics of Ireland, or a Justification of their defensive arms for the preservation of their Religion, the maintenance of His Majesty's rights and prerogatives, the natural & just defence of their lives & estates, & the liberty of their country by the practice of the State of England, & the Judgement and authority of both Houses of Parliament in England. In truth so unhappily penned, with so little variation of language, that but for the alterations of Ireland for England (says that letter to the Member of the House) and some great persons of this Kingdom in the places of some named by you, your own Clerk would hardly know it from one of your own Declarations. All that they do is for the good of the King and Kingdom. The King is trusted with the Forts, Magazines, Treasures & Offices for the good & safety of the people; if he doth not discharge this trust, but is advised by evil counsellors & persons they cannot conside in, 'tis their duty so see this trust discharged according to the condition and true intent thereof; that they saw their Religion and Liberty in danger of extirpation & therefore they had reason to put themselves into a posture of defence; that they are ready to lay down these defensive arms as soon as the great Offices of the Kingdom are put into such hands as they can confide in. Thus the Popish Rebels in Ireland fetch their Materials from these here in England and both Babel's are built upon the same foundation, that hath been laid in the Votes, Ordinances, and Declarations of the pretended Parliament.  
To return to the Fifth of November, whence we have digressed; It was one of father Parson's maxims (which those old Powder Traitors built upon) that if any Christian Prince shall manifestly turn from the Catholic Religion, and desires or seeks to reclaim others, he presently falleth from all Princely power & dignity, & that before any Judge hath passed sentence upon him, & thereupon his subjects are freed from all bond of Oath of Allegiance. That they may & ought (provided they have a competent strength) cast out such a man as an Apostate, heretic, backslider and revolter from the Lord Jesus Christ, and an Enemy to his own state and Commonwealth. Nay they go one step farther, if he favours or countenances an Heretic (put in a Malignant too, and that is any man they shall please to call so; for they will be accusers, and Judges to in their own cause against their Sovereign) he presently looseth his Crown, so the King is to be deposed, and the Pope immediately to present unto the Kingdom for whom the people are to fight upon pain of damnation. Out of which detestable conclusion (saith our Author) arose the first smoke of the Gunpowder Treason. 
Speed ubi suprema.  And what is attributed to the Pope by the one side, the other with as great a freedom and confidence assume unto themselves, for evidence whereof we need refer you no farther, than their Pamphlets and Actions. The plea is the same. Lastly, the means which they use to advance their design is the same too. For their zeal those prayed, 
Ibid.  prosper Lord their pains that labour in thy cause night and day Let heretics vanish away like smoke, 
Ibid  let their memory perish with a crack, like the ruin and fall of a broken house. For case of conscience, Garnett, Gerrard and Tomson, three Jesuits, gave it lawful to kill innocent with nocent, rather than the service should quail. For plausibility of carriage at home, Catesby advised Winter, the King might be solicited by petitions to repeal the penal statutes made against Catholics, and to tolerate and range them among his other good Subjects. And to be plausible abroad, Owen was employed to allay the odiousness of the fact with foreign Princes, and to impute the treason unto others discontentments 
* They imputed their treason to the puritans, who (to be quit) impute this Rebellion unto them.  They threw scandalous aspersions upon the face of His Majesty, & spread supposititious letters in the King's name to their own advantage. All which are as like the practices of our times, as if the brains now on work had forged them, or those souls being transmitted into these bodies. But above all they are alike in their means of glueing and cementing their party together by Oaths, sealing up their souls to a faithfulness in their desperate conspiracy, and tying knots upon their consciences, lest they might happily have relenting thoughts, and with too much ease upon a sad remorse slip thorough it. But herein they differ, that these transcend them in perjury; for the obligation of one single oath was to them an end of all strife: but amongst these, one protestation was not enough to extinguish or becalm their jealousies, their fears issuing from so extreme a guilt of conscience betray all those succours, that both reason and religion offer, and can admit of no security. If any question should be made about the place, these may challenge the right-hand-file, as outstripping them in four or five particulars. 1. They were to act their execrable villainy in a Vault of darkness, as it were in the secret tiring-house, as if their hearts had still continued the command of a reserve of modesty: But these (as if they had made an order for the banishment of shame) play their prize upon the public stage, in the view and to the reproach of Christendom. 2. The leaven of their malice had tainted but some few measures of meal: but these have spread their infection so fare, that a great part of two or three Kingdoms are leavened, and by this means the Church that bred and nourished them, is turned into an Acheldema. And as if all these were not a continent capacious enough for their bloody malice, they have poisoned the waters too with their Rebellious practices, that if need be, they may stain the Ocean with blood, and make a red-sea of it for their passage to another Canaan. Lastly, though the Complexion of their hearts be equally sanguine, yet these have hands defiled in a deeper die of blood. They did but prime the pan: these have given fire in the very face of Majesty. What those did but design, these have put in execution. And if out hearts rise against such as have discovered but an intent to butcher our friends; how shall we contain our hand, from them that have actually spilt their innocent blood? Indeed the child of that first and monstrous conception, was come to the birth: But there was no strength to bring forth. Here (I confess) is more strength, but it shall be no more than may serve to lengthen the pains and exasperate the sorrows of their travail. As that piece of the Psalmist might have been their History: Behold he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood (or a lie) he made a pit and digged it, and is saken into the ditch which he made, Psal. 7.14, 15. So may the next words be a Prophecy for these, Their mischief shall roturne upon their own head, and their violent dealing shall come down upon their own pate. That Cockatrice egg which is hatched by themselves shall in the end prove a serpent only to themselves; and herein I doubt not to be a true Prophet unless the sacrilege and profaneness, the luxury and wantonness, the malice and security, with the pride and other crying sins of this wreathed Kingdom have provoked Almighty God to mark us out for utter ruin and desolation.  
I'll add no more degrees to this odious, though most suitable comparison: But address myself to the maintenance of those two assertions, so directly opposed against them; the first whereof is this, That the supreme authority of establishing, 
2 Sam. 7. v. 1. 2 Psal. 132.2, 3, 4, 5.  reforming, & vindicating Religion is placed in the King. David having sheathed his victorious sword, bethinks himself of God's worship and service; sorry to see the Ark of the Lord worse quartered than himself; he resolves the building of an House on purpose to lodge it in. God's service is no more circumscribed by place then his own essence, yet it cannot be celebrated with that reverence, decency, and solemnity under hedges, as in a Temple. A Temple therefore must be erected, and that so famous and magnificent, that it may be in some sort suitable to his Majesty, 
1 Chron 22.5. and cap. 29.1.  who is to be adored in it. And who so fir to bring the first store to this holy pile as Gods Anointed? The Philosopher observed that the King ought to be 
Polity 3.11.  〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, the Governor of things appertaining unto divine worship, & the reverend Prelates in the Council of Ephesus address themselves unto the Emperor in the language of a supplication to that purpose: Supplicamus vestrae Majestati ut fidem immotam custodiri sanciatis. When God was about to build the Tabernacle (for his worship to be performed in) the Model was not of the people's fancying (their blind zeal suffered to run a whoring, never brought forth better Religion, 
Exod. 32.1.4. Ps. 106.19, 20. Apud omnes Gentes, quae vis administratio solennes erat sacerdotem, autoritas tamen suma sanciendae, reformandae, vindicandae religionis, semper erat penes Magistratum. Reges Israelitici & Christiani idem jus sibivedicarunt. Davenant. Deter. quaest. 19, Exod. 31.18. & cap. 34.32: 34.  that I can read of, than Calfe-worship) The pattern is not to be expected from the people, nor given to them, no, nor yet to Aaron, to the Priest, 'tis given unto Moses the supreme Magistrate, Exod. 25.9. So when God was pleased to fix his worship, the pattern of the Temple (that he will be honoured in) is given to David, to the King, 1 Chron. 28.17.19. Neither is the King a mere door keeper in the House of God: He is Custos utriusque Tabulae, the whole matter and manner of that worship is committed to his trust, as well as the place wherein 'tis to be celebrated. God hath committed the Bible unto his custody, not finding a safer place than the crown to lodge it in. The two Tables are deposited in the hands of Moses, and he is to take care, that the Priests impart them unto the people, and ever since, Defensor Fidei, Defender of the Faith, hath been a Title due unto all religious Princes. To this end the Testimony, 
1. King 15.11.12. 2. Kin. 18.4. & ca 23.4.5.  the book of the Law, was wont to be delivered to them at their Coronation. Deut. 17.18.19.20. 2. Chron. 23.11. It is the peculiar Elegy of good Kings, in holy Scripture, to have demolished the high places; and destroyed the Idols, the perpetual brand of evil ones, not to have demolished, not to have destroyed them. 'tis a duty so peculiar to the royal calling to survey, settle and reform the Church, that the people (though never so zealous & religious) can have no Authority to that effect without it. The people were never yet allowed to be their own Carvers in a Reformation. Auferenda idola non potest quisquam jubere privatus, 
Cont. litter. Petilian. l. 2. c. 92. Exod. 29.4.5.  says S. Austin. Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven Image: Thou shalt not bow down to them nor worship them, is a binding law unto all Israel: but to destroy Baal out of Israel, is an employment assigned over by God himself unto the King of Israel. 
2. King. 10.24. ● King 12.18.  2. Kings 10.28. Fourscore armed with the authority of jehu, of the King, are enabled to root out Baal and all his worshippers, which seven thousand, that had not bowed their knees to Baal, are not allowed to do. 
Ne simulacra quidem falsoru Deorum, quae publice ex●abant, dejectaunquam ●egimus, nisi ●●ssu, aut●●pul● in libera Repub. aut Regum cum regnabantur. G●et. de lu●e 〈◊〉. lib. 1. c. 4. pag. 6  For a private man to have broken the brazen Serpent, against Authority, had not been much better than if he had worshipped it; for who hath required this at their hands? The people of God are often taxed for worshipping the golden Calves upon the example and command of Idolatrous Kings: but no Prophet ever reprehends them (though they do for every neglect of duty in them) for not taking away of Idolatry by force of Arms, whether the King would or not. God challengeth other duties from the hands of the people, duties of a more private nature, & is very well contented, where he finds them. They must hold fast the possession of their faith without wavering. Heb. 10.23. & keep themselves from Idols, 1. john. 5.21. and sigh and mourn for corruptions of the Church, Ezek. 9.4. and submit themselves under the utmost penalty that authority inflicteth, rather than betray the truth of their Religion. So the three children did, Dan. 3.18. so the whole race of primitive Christians did under Idolatrous & bloody Emperors: This is the resistance we are to make with the loss of our own blood, not to the shedding of others, Heb 12.4. This is the only guard the Christian stands upon, this is the best and most offensive posture he puts himself into for the defence of his Religion against that Authority that is set over him. 
Instit. 5.20.  Defendenda religio est à privatis omnibus, non occidendo, sed moriendo; non saevitià, sed patientiâ; non scelere, sed fide; saith Lactantius. He that is such a Defender of the faith, such a Christian Soldier is listed in the noble Army of Martyrs: He is of Christ's own red Regiment, nay of his Lieu-guard, and shall have more advance money then the rest of common Suldiers under his sacred banner. 'tis the highest favour God can vouchsafe his dearest children to draw them out and command them upon his forlorn hope for the service of his Church. Hereby God does them the honour to get the commendations for their faith, and fortitude, & Christian resolution. By this means he lets the world see how well they are armed and trained up in grace and virtue, and that they are good marks men, and good fire-men: that they aim directly at heaven, and are fervently zealous of his glory. This is not a common benefit, but a peculiar favour. So the Apostle to the Philippians, Unto you it is given (not to every one) in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. Philp. 1.29. The sharper the fight, the more glorious is the Triumph. The more wounds, the more Bayss. Those marks of the Lord jesus that we carry unto heaven in our bodies with us, 
Gal. 6.17.  will be our tokens, our evidences unto a richer crown of glory. These are the duties which God hath allotted unto private Christians, and expects no other from them: But if any one, or a combination a knot of them out of preposterous zeal, or out of an impertinent, troublesome, and odious officiousness take upon them to do that which God hath committed to the oversight and Managery of his own immediate 
* So the King is styled. Rom. 13.4.  Minister, they must be admonished to ply their own Oars: So S. Paul to his busy bodies, 1. Thes. 4.11. We beseech you, brethren, that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business. If the staggaring of the Ark of God's worship should ominate the fall of it, 
2. Sam. 6.6.7. 1. Chro. 13.9.10.  yet the people can pretend to no calling from God, neither can their own hands subscribe them a legal Commission, to support it. 'tis enough if their zeal can keep warm their own bosoms. 'tis not expected they should be kindled into such a flame as should burn up all the corruptions of the Church. They would burn up wheat with chaff, and good grain with tares for want of skill to distinguish them. 'Tis well if they have salt enough in themselves to preserve themselves from being tainted. 'Tis well they have a Broom for their own use, and will take the pains to sweep before their own doors: but let them not sweep up their filth (as the manner of some is) and conceal it in private corners, nor cast their dirt and mire into the King's high way to defile and annoy others. Should they attempt a Reformation against law, the remedy would prove worse to Church & Commonwealth, than the disease; for those that think it a more safe and wholesome lodging to abide under the shadow of Authority, would assuredly oppose as well their Novelties, as usurpation, and so their blood might be mingled with their foolish, because unwarrantable sacrifices. Should they go about to break down all the banks of Government, and force open the doors of the Church to let in some of their Water to wash it, whether it be the Holy water of Rome, or the sanctified jordan of the Anabaptists; This water would quickly be turned into blood, which would be a means to profane and defile, and pollute the Sanctuary, more than cleanse it. And thus we are entered upon the second point viz. That religion is not to be established or reform in blood.  
David's purpose of building God a Temple received an approbation from the Prophet Nathan, 
Note that Nathan was deceived, for the spirit of prophecy was not upon him at that time. 2. Sam. 7.4.  and was refreshed with a promise God's blessing & assistance. 2 Sam. 7.3. God lays aside the consideration of his own immensity, and takes delight in that small model which was projected in the heart of his Anointed. Forasmuch (saith he) as it was in thine heart to build an House for my Name, thou didst well in that it was in thine heart. 2 Chron. 6.8. Notwithstanding thou shalt not build the House, vers. 9 God serves him with a Supersedeas, or gives him a Quietus est, to discharge him of this business. He delights to dwell with him in that Temple, which David had consecrated in his own bosom for him: but he rather confines his own worship to a wandering Tabernacle, then allows David's hand in the building of the Temple. The Reason that David himself avoucheth, if you please to examine it, you shall find, 1. Chron. 22.7, 8, 9, 10. David was a man of war, though he fought none but the Lords battles. He was a man of blood, though he spilt very little but what was tainted and corrupted. God will not have those hands engaged in the building of his holy place, which have been once engaged in blood, though those engagements were just and of his own warranting. 
〈…〉 … tiam, ●●ctis nisi pers●●sis non … pe●e indultum est. G●ot. de ●●●e Bell●. l. 3. c. 15. & 11. At si falsa apud ●●ct●s Religio, ne vera ●pprimatur, ●e●te c●●abit vi●●or quod Constant … fecit ibid. Idem in Epist. Dedic●ejusdem operis laudat ●udo●●●i 13. Clementiam in 〈◊〉 verba. Nec ●●ni adse●s animis circa diuna dive●sum a te sentientibus.  The work is reserved for Solomon, for a King of peace. ibid. Indeed besides Doctrine and Discipline in the Church, besides preaching, exhortation, reproof, castigation by spiritual censures, the proper duties of the Priestly function; there is a necessity, a conveniency at least, of a Coercive power in the Magistrate to put the shackles of fear and terror upon insolent and lewd men to restrain them. If Religion would be allowed any external form at all, she would never be suffered to go without a scratched face: Schisms, and Sects, and Heresies would undermine, & invade, and corrupt the Church: Sin would encroach upon holiness: profaneness would assault and justle our piety, and blasphemy would put affronts upon God himself, if one armed with the power of the sword did not awe men, (if not into a positive respect) at least into an inoffensive silence. But for the establishing of the Church, for the propagation of the faith, for the reformation of Religion by force of Arms, by blood and violence, there is not the least title in the holy Gospel to be alleged by way of justification. There are some in the world, that think to destroy the men is the best way to confute & remove their errors: But we know 'tis no Sovereign Antidote, that cannot expel the poison without the ruin of the body. 
Habac. 2.12.  The holy Ghost hath denounced a Woe against him that builds a Town with blood, and will God have his own House built so? If you bathe the floor of the Church in blood, you can pave it with no stone so fair and firm, but the voice of that blood will break through and be heard in heaven. If you paint the windows of God's Church with the blood of your brethren, they will not introduce more light, but more darkness and horror. That grand reformation of our Saviour was not brought in by the sword, nor against the authority of the supreme Magistrate. He conquered the world by his preaching, and by his passion, and established his own Throne in the hearts of his Disciples, so as it made the Throne of Caesar stand the surer. The holy Ghost distinguishes our Saviour's conquest over Sin, Satan, and the World, from all other kind of conquests. Every battle of the Warrior is with confused noise, and with garments rolled in blood: but this (of Christ) shall be with burning and full of fire. Isay. 9.5. with the spirit of his mouth, and the brightness of his life and doctrine. And verse 4. Thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, and the rod of his oppressor as in the day of Midian. Now if you look into the seventh of judges, you shall find the conquest strangely gained in that day of Midian, not with swords and spears, but with Trumpets of Rams horns, and empty pitchers with Lamps in their pitchers. If our adversaries will address themselves into a Christian course, let them not extinguish the Priests Lamps that were wont to be trimmed with the purest oil. Let them not banish, nor imprison the more eminent of our burning and shining lights, and so by their absence create a darkness on purpose, that the blinking links of their Levits might be seen to shine in it. Let us have the liberty to make our Trumpets sound, and let that sound have an equal hearing: if they can this way accomplish it, we shall not envy them this advantage of their Rams horns and empty Pitchers, let them gain as many Proselytes as they can to their lewd and groundless Reformation. But to go about to make men full of humility, meekness, gentleness, patience, obedience, brotherly kindness, charity, righteousness, peace and joy in the holy Ghost (and these are those Evangelicall ingredients that make up the constitution of a good Christian) to attempt to make men such by fire and sword, is an experiment too apparently preposterous to be successful, unless we think Christians may be made by an Antiperistasis. 
Mat. 26.55.  Are you come out, as against a thief, with swords and staves to take me? (saith our Saviour) I taught daily in the Temple, and ye took me not. He that is not taken with Christ, nor hath a will to take him teaching in his holy Temple; if he comes to gain him by the sword, the close of his design will be Christ's shame, & his crucifixion, and he hath no warrant to apprehend Christ in such a manner, but what is sealed by the power of darkness. 
Luk. 22.53.  The barbarous cruelty which the Spaniard exercised upon the poor Indians was so far from working their conversion, that it provoked them to blaspheme the God of Christians, that would suffer himself to be adored by creatures so merciless and bloody, that they seem to be mere strangers to humanity, Religion can never be fruitful in that soil that is tainted and overflowed with rivers and streams of blood. A sound faith can never be begotten by the sense of feeling, when the stripes and prints of the nails are made upon our own bodies. The flaming sword was not put into Paradise to be an Allective, an allurement unto the tree of life, 'Tis only the outward man, not the conscience, that is wrought upon by compulsion. so that violence may be a means to advance Hypocrisy, but can bring no advantage unto pure Religion. A pillyon and Abaddon, (a destroyer) are not Christian names, but Antichristian. And how much are they worse than jews, that put all the innocent blood which they pretend they have shed for the Cause of Christ, into the treasury of their merits, whereas the jews thought it not lawful to put the price of blood into their Treasury. To conclude this point let Mahomet's Religion be a vine that thrives best, and brings forth most grapes, when 'tis watered with the blood of those that think her clusters bitter. Let jesuits draw so much innocent blood from their fellow Christians, as may swell into a River, and then let them lay the bridge of Religion over it to transport such as are reconciled (against their wills) to the Church of Rome. Let Anabaptists pursue the same track of blood to hunt after preferment for their religious Cause: But we have not so learned Christ. This is away to win Converts to the Church, that true Protestants never yet travailed in. We are not ashamed to profess with the Apostle. That the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but (yet) mighty through God to the pulling down of stung holds, casting down imaginations, and every high thing that, exalteth itself agianst the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. 2. Cor. 10.4.5. The Church hath no sword committed to her but that of the Spirit, and their is no other way chalked out for her to travel by unto Heaven, but Obedience, Patience, Meekness, even under the sharpest persecution, And as many as walk according to this Rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.  
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