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A70765	Anti-Paræus, or, A treatise in the defence of the royall right of kings against Paræus and the rest of the anti-monarchians, whether Presbyterians or Jesuits. Wherein is maintained the unlawfulnesse of opposing and taking up arms against the Prince, either by any private subject, inferiour magistrate, the states of the Kingdom, or the Pope of Rome. Confirm'd from the dictate of nature, the law of nations, the civill and canon law, the sacred scriptures, ancient fathers, and Protestant divines. Delivered formerly in a determination in the divinity schooles in Cambridge, April the 9th. 1619. And afterwards enlarged for the presse by learned Dr. Owen. Now translated and published to confirme men in their loyalty to their king, by R.M. Master in Arts.	Owen, David, d. 1623.; Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.	1642 (1642)	Wing O703; ESTC R6219	56,080	108

speaketh concerning the Kings of the Gentiles the Polity of the Jewes was not as yet constituted by the hand of Moses by me Kings raigne and Princes decree justice saith the Holy Ghost Prov. 8. Christ witnesseth that Pilat's power was given him from Heaven Saint Paul hath writ that there is no power but of God From him is the Emperour from whom he is Man before he be Emperour saith Tertullian From him he hath his power from whom he hath his spirit And as Irenius hath it The Earthly Kingdome is appointed by God for the benefit of the Gentiles and by whose command Men are borne by his command Kings are made Augustine is yet more plain and more full It is God alone who gives earthly Kingdomes both to the good and to the bad and this not rashly or as it were by chance because he is God but according to the order of things and of the times hidden from us but most open to himselfe Thus Augustine de Civ Dei lib. 4. cap. 33. Yet do the Papists and Puritans devise many things out of the Scriptures a thing usuall with Hereticks contrary to the genuine meaning thereof with which I will not detaine you they are so unsound and unsavory that they will deceive no man but such an one as is voyde of Reason or altogether ignorant of ancient History I have already spoken of Paraeus Bellarmine and Danaeus do most of all insist upon Examples of the tenne Tribes who revolted from their naturall King to a man of servile condition of the Men of Libnah and the Edomites who rebel'd against Joram And of the Kings Amaziah Vzziah and of the Queeen Athaliah to which I answer The defection of the tenne Tribes from their naturall King to Jeroboam the Rebellion of the Edomites and of the men of Libnah and the slaughter of Amaziah by the men of Jerusalem doe containe the Truth of the thing done but not the equity of the fact as Augustine most truly We may not therefore believe a thing must be done because we reade that it hath been done least we violate the Precept whilst we follow the Example In the History of Vzziah and Athaliah I see no difficulty nothing is there done which is not according to the equity of Reason and the prescript of the Law Vzziah being diseased could not be conversant in the affaires of the Kingdome by reason of the contagiousnesse of his disease he is removed from the company of the Courtiers and assembly of the People In the mean while his Sonne govern's the Common-wealth in his Fathers stead yet before the death of Vzziah he neither affected the name nor assumed the title of King And as for Athaliah Jehoida the Chiefe Preist shewed the surviving Sonne of the deceased King whom he had six yeares hid from the fury of Athaliah the Murderesse of the Royal ofspring to the Princes and Centurions whom he had gathered together at Jerusalem They all acknowledge the Child their true King being so acknowledged they crown him being crowned they salute him with joyfull acclamations God save the King after that neither by their own nor by the Priestly Authority but in the name of the lately crown'd King they deposed Athaliah as guilty of Treason and Murder by force and arms Jehoiada acted the chiefe part but not as chiefe Priest but as chiefe of the Tribe of Levi being ancient in yeares expert in the divine Law provident against the dangers which are imminent the Preserver of the young King and the next Kinsman The law of God doth not permit to touch Kings with a violent hand to revile them with a rayling tongue or to thinke of them with a malicious heart The Gospell of Christ forbids resisting Tyrants Peter and Paul forbid resisting Persecutors and Slayers of Christians Bellarmine answers that Laicks of what order or dignity soever they are are thus bound by the Law Gospell and Apostolicall Precepts but not the Roman Bishop the Vicar of Christ and the universall Lord of the whole World for which he is stiled by Danaeus the grand Impostor a flatterer of Capitoline Jove a Lyor a Blasphemer and a Mad-Man But saith Paraeus in his foresaid book pag. 49. The Pope and the Church have not power to depose a King that is an Infidell because deposing ought to be according to the Laws But the Laws do not grant this power to the Pope and to the Church but to the Brethren of the Kingdome and as Danaeus hath it it belongs to the godly States in every Common-wealth to chastise those Kings which offend and depose those which are obstinate The Pontificians againe cry out a Puritan by whom he is stiled an Atheist a Politician and Seditious and affirme that this power of chastising Kings and deposing them doth no wayes properly belong to the Barons or Peeres of the Kingdome or to the Multitude for the defect of coactive Jurisdiction which Vassalls for so they speak have not against their Lords So Jaco Anthon. Marta de jurisdict lib. 1. c. 23. num 18. and Carerius de potest Pontif. lib. 2. cap. 3. num 6. Whether Learned Sirs will you have the Pope or the Popular State the Avenger and Judge of wicked Kings Neither I confesse ingeniously doth please me But that I may ingratiate my selfe into their favour whom I so lately provoked I suppose both opinions to be true that all Kings Emperours and supreame Magistrates are obnoxious to the Pontifician and to the Tribunitian Power Yet that any man be justly condemned the course of the Court it selfe doth require these two things the desert of the Crime and the order of Power I would have those Puritan-Papists to tell us from whence this Pontificiall and Popular power is Without doubt it is not from Christ who yeilded both obedience and tribute to Tyberius Caesar no good Emperour who reproved Peter smiting with the sword and commanded him to put it up Not from Paul who will have every soule subject to the higher Powers Not from Peter who subjecteth all without difference to the King and to those not Tribunes which are constituted by the People not Legates which are sent out from the Pope but Magistrates which are appointed by the King from whence it necessarily followes that all coactive power and secular dignity doth issue from the King whose sacred Majesty he that violates shall be guilty of treason not so much against the humane as against the divine Majesty and what Bernard long since said ad Archiepiscop Senonens may I now say to the Commonalty and Nobility Let every Soul be subject if every soule then yours who hath exempted you from the generallity the that endeavours to exempt attempts to deceive rest not upon their councells who though they be Christians yet thinke it a disgrace either to follow the example or obey the precepts of Christ Epist 24. The sixth Reason from the Authority of the Fathers In the primitive Church of an unspotted faith