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A41808
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Considerations upon the second canon in the book entituled Constitutions and canons ecclesiastical, &c.
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Grascome, Samuel, 1641-1708?
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1693
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Wing G1569; ESTC R11703
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Goodness more able to protect and govern us your Loving Subjects in all Peace and Plenty than any of your noble Progenitors and thereunto we most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our Selves our Heirs and Posterities for ever until the last drop of our Bloud be spent And do beseech your Majesty to accept the same as the First-Fruits in this High Court of Parliament of our Loyalty and Faith to your Majesty and your Royal Progeny and Posterity for ever Which if your Majesty shall be pleased as an Argument of your gracious Acceptation to adorn with your Majesty's Royal Assent without which it can neither be compleat and perfect nor remain to all Posterity according to our most humble Desires as a Memorial of your Princely and tender Affection towards us we shall add this also to the rest of your Majesty's unspeakable and inestimable Benefits Here they plainly acknowledg these two things 1st That the Crown descends by Proximity of Bloud and that immediately even before any Ceremony of Coronation or otherwise so that there can be no Inter-regnum or Vacancy of the Throne And accordingly it is a Maxim in Law that Rex non moritur 2dly That the assent of the King is that which gives the Life Being and Vigour to Laws without which they are of no force Now how the late Proceedings which were directly against both these can be valid ought to be made very clear at least it ought to be better proved than by the capricious Opinion of one single private Person against a full and lawful Parliament In the Third Year of the same King James was Enacted the Oath commonly called the Oath of Allegiance not but that the same thing was practised before though not in the same Words which may be tendered to any above the Age of eighteen which restraining the Subject not only from deposing but from offering the least violence or harm to the King and obliging all Subjects so faithfully to assist their King against both Domestick Traitors and Foreign Usurpers and being so directly contrary to and utterly inconsistent with Mr. Johnson's Doctrine I think fit to insert it here at large I A B do truly and sincerely acknowledg profess testifie and declare in my Conscience before God and the World That our Sovereign Lord King James is lawful and rightful King of this Realm and of all other His Majesty's Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any Authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any Power or Authority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesty's Kingdoms and Dominions or to authorise any Foreign Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and Obedience to his Majesty or to give licence or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumults or to offer any Violence or Hurt to his Majesty's Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majesty's Subjects within his Majesty's Dominions Also I do swear from my Heart That notwithstanding any Declaration or Sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the â—ope or hiâ— Successors or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successors or any Absolution of the said Subjectâ— from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to â—he uttermost of my Power against all Conspiracies and Contempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Traiterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them I do farther swear That I do from my Heart abhor detest and abjure as Impious and Heretical this damnable Doctrine and Position That Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murdered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in Conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any Person whatsoever hath Power to absolve me of thiâ— Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledg by good and full Authority to be lawfully ministred unto me And do renounce all Pardons and Dispensations to the contrary And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledg and swear according to these express Words by me spoken and according to the plain and common Sense and Vnderstanding of the same Words without any Equivocation or Mental Evasion or Secret Reservation whatsoever And I do make this recognition and acknowledgment heartily willingly and truly upon the true Faith of a Christian So help me God If foolish wicked Men did not make their Reservations and endeavour to put Tricks even upon God whom they call to be a Witness of the Truth of what they swear and an Avenger if they swear falsly there would need nothing more to coâ—â—in Subjects in their Loyalty But still to improve this matter farther 7 Jac. 1. cap. 6. an Act tells us That this Oath tends only to the Declaration â—f such Duty as every true and well-affected Subject not only by Bond of Allegiance but also by the Commandment of Almighty God ought to bear to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors So that though this Act obliges all Persons of the Age of eighteen Years upon pain of incurring a Praemunâ—â—â— to take this Oath if tendered yet it gives us to understand that it is only a super added Obligation to secure our lawâ—ul Prince and keep the Subject to his Duty and that though the Oath be not taken yet the natural Allegiance of every Subject binds him to the same thing And though it was principally yet not only made with relation to the Bishop of Rome but to all others as expressing that Allegiance which obliges Subjects to stand by their Prince against all his Opposers Enemies and Underminers whatsoever I do not know that any Foreign Powers the Pope excepted so much as pretend to a Right to depose lawful Princes nor did even the Prince of Orange when he came over pretend to any such Power by his Declaration and it seems to me to be no better than an impudent Contradiction when Men acknowledg that no Foreign Power can depose a lawful Prince to say that his own Subjects who by the Laws of God and Man owe him Allegiance and are bound with the utmost hazard of their Lives to defend him may do it And it see us to me worth Observation that Dr. Stillingfleet in his Preface to the Jesuit's Loyalty proves that the Pope deposes Princes upon Common-wealth Principâ—es Now I would willingly know upon what Principle the Doctor hath