The blovdy tenent, of persecution, for cause of conscience, discussed, in a conference betweene trvth and peace vvho, in all tender affection, present to the high court of Parliament, as the result of their discourse, these, amongst other passages, of highest consideration.
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The blovdy tenent, of persecution, for cause of conscience, discussed, in a conference betweene trvth and peace vvho, in all tender affection, present to the high court of Parliament, as the result of their discourse, these, amongst other passages, of highest consideration.
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Williams, Roger, 1604?-1683.
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London :: [s.n.],
1644.
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Religious tolerance -- History -- 17th century.
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"The blovdy tenent, of persecution, for cause of conscience, discussed, in a conference betweene trvth and peace vvho, in all tender affection, present to the high court of Parliament, as the result of their discourse, these, amongst other passages, of highest consideration." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66445.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024.
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CHAP. CXIX.
Peace.
YOu bring to minde (deare Truth) a plea of some wiser
Papists for the Popes supremacy,viz. that it was no such ex∣orbitant
or unheard of power and jurisdiction which the Pope chalen∣ged,
but the very same which a Woman, Queene Elizabeth her selfe
chalenged, stiling her Papissa, or she Pope: withall pleading that in
point of Reason it was far more suitable that the Lord Jesus would
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delegate his power rather to a Clergie man then a Lay man, as Henry
the 8. or a woman, as his daughter Elizabeth.
Truth.
I beleeve that neither one nor t'other hit the white, yet
I beleeve the Papists arrowes fall the nearest to it in this particu∣lar,
viz. That the government of the Church of Christ should rather
belong to such as professe a Ministry or Office Spirituall, then to
such as are meerly Temporall and Civill.
So that in conclusion, the whole controversi•• concerning the go∣vernment
of Christ Kingdome or Church, will be found to lye be∣tween
the true and false Ministry, both chalenging the true com∣mission,
power and keyes from Christ.
Peace.
This all glorious diadem of the Kingly power of the Lord
Iesus hath beene the eye-sore of the World, and that which the
Kings and Rulers of the World have alwayes lift up their hands
unto.
The first report of a new King of the Iewes puts Herod and all
Ierusalem into frights; and the power of this most glorious King of
Kings over the Soules and Consciences of men, or over their lives and
worships, is still the white that all the Princes of this World shoot at,
and are enraged at the tidings of the true Heire the Lord Iesus in his
servants.
Truth.
You well minde (deare Peace) a twofold exaltation of
the Lord Iesus, one in the Soules and Spirits of men, and so he is
exalted by all that truly love him, though yet remaining in Babels
captivity, and before they hearken to the voyce of the Lord, Come
forth of Babel my people.
A second exaltation of Christ Iesus upon the Throne of David his
Father in his Church and Congregation, which is his Spirituall King∣dome
here below.
I confesse there is a tumultuous rage at his entrance into his Throne
in the Soule and Consciences of any of his chosen; but against his
second exaltation in his true Kingly power and government, either
Monarchicall in himself, or Ministeriall in the hands of his Ministers
and Churches, are mustred up and shall be in the battels of Christ
yet to be fought, all the powers of the gates of Earth and Hell.
But I shall mention one diff••rence more between the Kings of
Israel and Iud••h, and all other Kings and Rulers of the Gentiles.
Those Kings as Kings of Israel were all invest••d with a typicall
and figurative respect, with which now no Civill power in the
World can be invested.
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They wore a double Crowne, First, Civill: Secondly, Spirituall,
in which respect they typed out the Spirituall King of Israel, Christ
Iesus.
When I say they were types, I make them not in all respect so to
be, but as Kings and Governours over the Church and Kingdome of
God, therein types.
Hence all those Saviours and Deliverers, which it pleased God
to stirre up extraordinarily to his people,Gideon, Baruc, Sampson,
&c. in that respect of their being Saviours, Iudges, and Deliverers of
Gods people, so were they types of Iesus Christ, either Monarchi∣cally
ruling by himself immediately, or Ministerially by such whom
he pleaseth to send to vindicate the liberties and inheritances of his
people.