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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70493	A vindication of the primitive Christians in point of obedience to their Prince against the calumnies of a book intituled, The life of Julian, written by Ecebolius the Sophist as also the doctrine of passive obedience cleared in defence of Dr. Hicks : together with an appendix : being a more full and distinct answer to Mr. Tho. Hunt's preface and postscript : unto all which is added The life of Julian, enlarg'd.	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.; Ecebolius, the Sophist. Life of Julian.	1683 (1683)	Wing L2985; ESTC R3711	180,508	416

his Charge There remains nothing to the perfecting our Establishment but the casting out those Jonahs which lie asleep in the bottom of the Ship I mean our sins which have caused the wrath of God to kindle those fires in the midst of us which may justly make us as desolate as Sodom or Gomorrha That with penitent Tears fervent and unanimous Prayers seasonable and serious reformation of our Lives we would deprecate Gods displeasure and that yet he would make us of one heart and mind in considering and doing the things that belong to our peace before they are hid from our eyes That in these things I may do some acceptable service to the Church of Christ on Earth and with it have my Reward in Heaven is the hearty Prayers and great Ambition of Your Graces most humble and most dutiful Servant Tho. Long. L. Cook 's third part of Institutes p. 36. PEruse over all Books Records and Histories and you shall find a Principle in Law a Rule in Reason and a Tryal in Experience That Treason doth ever produce fatal and final destruction to the Offender and never attains to the desired end two incidents inseparable thereunto And therefore let all men abandon it as the poysonous Bait of the Devil and follow the Precept in Holy Scripture Serve God and honour the King and have no company with the Seditious Mr. Hunt's Preface to the Argument for Bishops OUr Adversaries were treated too kindly and deserve sharper reflections than are made upon them for their false and perverse Reasonings and ought to lose that Reputation which they abuse to the hurt of the Government Nor is it for the honour of our Faculty that never fails to supply the worst Cause with Advocates ERRATA PAge 17. line 4. r. Or. In the Preface for Cyril r. Gregory in four places p. 46. l. 1. r. contradictious Zeal p. 49. r. Justitia p. 50. r. templa p. 90. r. Constantium p. 91. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 96. dele And Basil p. 107. r. Annum ibid. for Curtis r. Curtius p. 124. after patience add of p. 129. r. confirmed p. 152. r. though p. 185. r. atrocia p. 189. r. paries p. 205. r. Sumus p. 224. r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 226. r. foretold p. 233. r. Reges ibid. r. Depravari p. 242. l. 25. r. Or. ibid. r. suppose p. 262. dele after the fifth line four lines which are doubled TO THE READER AS often as I consider the numerous Pamphlets which the Scribblers of this Age have brought forth it calls to my mind what I have read of a sort of Indian Rats which are said to be pregnant whilst they are in the belly of their Dams Every Libel propagates such a numberless Issue that as one observed of the increase of Faction the first Separation might say to its Off-spring Arise Separation and go to thy Separation for thy Separation's Separation hath a Separation But of all the Libels that have been lately written none are more fruitful as it is mostly with Venomous Creatures than those which have been written against the Established Government There was a Swarm of such in the Late Vnhappie Times and some of the Authors as well as that sort of Writings are yet alive or revived to create new Disturbances And as Horace observes Aetas parentum pejor avis Tulit progeniem vitiosiorem Every Pamphlet hath more of venome than that from whence it had its birth Prynne Burton and Bastwick were the Great Grandsires of this monstrous Progenie The Covenanters Nye Marshal and the Smectymnuans were their genuine Off-spring To these succeed notwithstanding the peremptory Vote for Exclusion John Goodwin Owen Harington and Baxter all right Commonwealths-men with Milton and May and many others whose Writings have by men of like Principles been reviewed reprinted and recommended to the present Age. I shall onely instance in the Treatise now under consideration which hath contracted and improved the Antimonarchical principles which lay scattered in the Authors last mentioned and in the Character of the Popish Successor Plato Redivivus and other seditious Pamphlets but especially from Mr. Hunt's Postscript for certainly our Author's teeth were set on edge by Mr. Hunt's sowre Grapes and he makes it his business to blow up the Coals which he had kinled The great Notion on which all his Discourse is builded is from Mr. Hunt p. 46 47. And facile est inventis addere Let no man says Mr. Hunt betray his Countrie and Religion by pretending the example of the patience and sufferings of the Primitive Christians for our Rule The Reformed Religion hath acquired a Civil right and the protection of Laws If we ought not to lose our Lives Liberties and Estates but where forfeited by Law we ought much rather not to lose them for the profession of the best Religion which by Law is made the Publick National Religion c. This gave occasion to the greatest part of his Book which is a loud and notorious Calumny against the Primitive Christians viz. their patient submission to their unjust and cruel Persecutors From Mr. Hunt he took his instance of Mary Queen of Scots of whom he speaks p. 48. and says Scarce a Child but hath heard what was done said and maintained by the Clergie of England in the case of Mary Queen of Scots a Popish Successor in the earliest time of our Reformation Vpon this our Author paraphraseth at large from p. 12. to the 18th of his Preface His deriding of the Succession in the right Line is taken from Mr. Hunt p. 47. If any be so vain as to say that a lawful course of Succession is established among us by Divine Right he is a man fitted to believe Transubstantiation and the Infallibility of the Pope And our Authors Comments on this fill many pages Concerning Arbitrary Power compare Mr. Hunt p. 42. and 52. with the 78. of our Author 's and p. 241. Mr. Hunt minded him of the Doctrine of Sibthorpe and Manwaring of which in p. 77. P. 47. Mr. Hunt's Comparison between Popery and Paganism gave him a Text for another part of his book and from a hint in p. 49. That we must not suspend all the legal security we have for our preservation upon the life of our present King there are a hundred hints for that one to prepare people for actual Resistance and Rebellion Thus the Leprosie of Naaman cleaves to this covetous Gehazi and spreads it self through the whole book so as it becomes a continued Scab And I pray God it may creep no farther But for this one thing our Author is very culpable that having got these and many other Materials for his Babel he never mentions his Founder Onely p. 88. he says A worthy person hath lately observed That one single Arm unresisted may go a great way in murdering a Nation But works of darkness hate the light and therefore he thought fit to conceal both their names The Author of the Life