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A64277 The vindication of a late pamphlet (entituled 0bedience and submission to the present government demonstrated from Bp. Overal's Convocation-book) from the false glosses and illusive interpretations of a pretended answer / by the author of the first pamphlet. Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705. 1691 (1691) Wing T602; ESTC R37878 32,401 41

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Convocation-book is this that Right without Authority may and ought to challenge our Allegiance page 4. and that Authority without Right cannot challenge it Now all that he brings for proof of this are these words Can. 17. If any Man shall affirm that the Kingdom of Judah by Gods Ordinance going by Succession when one King was Dead his Heir was not in Right their King howbeit by some Athaliah he might be hindered from enjoying it or that the People were not bound without any farther Circumstance upon sufficient notice of their former Kings death to have obeyed his Heir apparent as their lawful King he doth greatly err Add the Instance of Joash and Athaliah Where notwithstanding Joash had none of our Authors Authoritative Right and Title Ch. Can. 23. page 4. as the Answerer saith but if you believe it you believe a notorious Untruth as will shortly appear and had only the Claim of Right without the Authority yet when Jehojada called the People together and acquainted them with the Preservation of the Prince they altogether by a Covenant acknowledged their Allegiance to him as to their Lawful King and in consequence of that slew Athaliah the Usurper This is the whole of his Pretences and all that he can make of it is That God having declared that he would not give his Authority to any Person to Sway the Scepter of Judah but only such as were of the Line of David whoever did ascend the Throne not being of that Stock and Lineage did Usurp upon Gods Authority And when he can produce such a Declaration of Gods Pleasure concerning all other Kingdoms the Kingdoms of the whole World of which in General the Convocation treats then and not till then we shall allow his Plea for surely a particular and exempt priviledged Case of the Kingdom of Judah will not be a standing Rule for the Kingdoms of the whole World The Case of Athaliah But because this is all that he can build on it shall have a particular Disquisition The Case of Athaliah is the Burden of the Song let us therefore examine the convocation-Convocation-book about it which represents it thus David was called and advanced to the Kingdom of Judah by God himself Can. 14. as truly as Aaron was to the Priesthood and Davids Posterity had by Gods Ordinance as rightful an Interest to succeed him in his said Kingdom See Can. 17. as either Aaron 's Sons had to succeed him in the Priesthood or Moses and Joshua oend the rest of the Judges notwithstanding that God himself did chuse and named them particularly had in their Governments Nor had the People then any more Authority to withstand David or any of his Posterity from being their King than they had to have expelled either Moses or Joshua or any of the rest of the Judges whom God by name did appoint to govern them But Athaliah after the Death of her Son Ahaziah killed all his Children save one Chap. 23. who was secretly conveyed away and usurped the Throne which she held Six years After which space of time Jehojada acquainting the Fathers of Judah and Benjamin that Joash of the Seed of David to whose Posterity God had expresly given the Crown nay and what was more that it was the Lords Will that he should reign over them was alive page 31. they in Obedience to Gods express command acknowledge their Allegiance to him and advance him to the Throne In all which process saith the Convocation nothing was done either by Jehojada the High Priest ibid. or by the rest of the Princes and People of Judah and Benjamin which God himself did not require at their hands And let the Answerer produce such an Entail of the Crown upon a Family as this is let him add to that Gods express command to Dethrone the Possessor as the Convocation here saith Jehojada and the Princes had to depose Athaliah and then he produceth something to the purpose Otherwise since they attempted not to Dethrone Athaliah tho another had as Divine a Right to the Crown as Moses who was named by God till they were anew acquainted that it was the Lords Will that Joash should reign over them it would almost move a forward Man to infer the necessity of Circumspection and Caution in the Deposing even of Usurpers However from the Divine Entailment of the Crown of Judah on the Posterity of David it is manifest that Authority could not in them be separated from Right and therefore the Answerer unjustly affirms That Joash had not that Authoritative Right and Title which the Author speaks of page 4. but only a Claim of Right without Authority the contrary to which from what I have said is very evident What I would observe from the case of Joash and Athaliah is thus God by express Revelation had given to David and his Posterity the Throne of Judah and Israel and no one of those Kingdoms without opposing the Express Nomination of God could deny Allegiance to David or his Posterity till he had a Command as expressive to withdraw it as at first he had to yield it i. e. a plain Revelation to the contrary For since it was Gods express word to settle those Crowns on David and his Posterity nothing but the same word as Expressive could revoke the Donation It was therefore this express word by his Prophet revoking for the Sins of his Posterity that grant to David that excused the Ten Tribes in refusing their Allegiance to Rehoboam and transferring it to his Competitor And I believe it was the Admonition of the Prophet Jeremiah from God requiring the Jews to pay Obedience to Nebuchadnezzar that did discharge them of their Obedience to the Posterity of David For the Answerer may please himself with his Conceit of a Transferring Right But sure I am that God having once by Prophecy declared his Entailing the Crown on David and his Posterity nothing but a Prophecy to the contrary as express as that could ever revoke it or vindicate them in paying it elsewhere What I have discoursed of Gods express Nomination of the Posterity of David to rule the House of Judah that it required a Revelation as express to revoke that Authority and Donation may I think be happily applied unto all other cases where instead of Personal Designation by Prophecy the special Indication of Providence exalts Persons and Families unto Thrones and accordingly Dethrones them For what Prophecy was to them both to advance and remove that Providence must be to us There is now no Person or Family raised to a Crown but by the Providence of God and since it is Providence alone that doth inaugurate them when the same Providence doth Depose them who are we that we should Fight against God We have when once the Prevailing Power doth come unto a Settlement the same Providence that acted in their Exaltation and Depression to direct us in our Duty of Allegiance even as the