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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57226	Providence and precept, or, The case of doing evil that good may come of it stated and resolved according to Scripture, reason, and the (primitive) practice of the Church of England : with a more particular respect to a late case of allegiance &c. and its vindication in a letter to the author.	Richardson, Mr.	1691 (1691)	Wing R1377; ESTC R24095	23,343	36

more in the right now notwithstanding you have possibly another Case in your Eye so that for ought I can see you may be as much out now as you were before and if so what are we the better for your new Discoveries in your Case of Allegiance when you give us so little Encouragement from your being so liable to mistake to believe you 'T is true you have taken a great deal of pains to make the Convocation Book speak as you would make the World think very plain to the Point but how much it serves your turn notwithstanding your nice Distinctions and ringing the Changes between Divine and Humane Entails Legal and Providential Kings and Thorow Settlements c. hath already been demonstrated by more skilful hands But though that Book did you but little service yet there was other Writings that would have done the trick to an hair such as Hobs Baxters Owens and Jenkins c. But I presume your not strengthening your Case c. with quoting those Authors was because their Tenents did not so well agree with the Doctrine of that Church which you pretend to be of But to the Point in hand and the better to inform my self and others I will as well as I can observe some kind of method viz. I will first lay down your providential Hypothesis on which your Case is built and as you have very wisely observed if the World do not judge it a right Rule to go by you know not where to fix one Pag. 24. Secondly I will examine those Texts of Scripture which you quote to prove it Thirdly I will draw up some useful Inferences very necessary for practical Reformers of Church and State But before I proceed Dr. Sherlock's Pre● I cannot but take notice of that one thing you thought necessary to recant but though it is but one yet it is the only one on which the Case turns c. And truly you were in the right for otherways you had given room for Richard against Baxter c. Besides your Case of Allegiance if compar'd with your Case of Resistance would have been very little to the purpose save only to serve a present Case which has possibly fallen in your Eye And if so 't is but reasonable your Judgment should vary not so much with the Times but according to the different Cases that at different Times chance to fall in your Eye And also 't is but just upon every such occasion to strain I do not mean Conscience but your Art and Skill to make our blessed Lord and the Apostles to go hand in hand with you to gain the Point But now if any Body should ask me this Question viz. How shall we know the Doctor did better understand St. Paul when he writ his Case of Allegiance than he did when he writ his Case of Resistance Let me perish if I could tell what to answer and therefore I leave that Sir to your self and so proceed to what I promis'd viz. the laying down the Hypothesis on which your Case c. is built And I cannot do that better than in the words of a great Man when Time was as I have found them ready drawn up to my hand about 40 Years ago and I dare be bold to say they would have been as good a Preface to your Book as that you have writ and do but read your own Name for his and you will perhaps be pleased to see how exactly it agrees with your own Notions of Providential Rulers and Civil Governments but take them in the Author 's own words and then judge of the matter Mr. Jenkins's Recantation Or his Acknowledgment by way of Petition to the Parliament wherein he confesseth his Sorrow for his acting against the State and the unsutableness of it to his Calling and Profession As also the Parliaments Answer to his Petition as it was printed in the Year 1651. To the Supreme Authority the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England The humble Petition of William Jenkins Prisoner Humbly sheweth THat Your Petitioner is unfeignedly sorrowful for all his late Miscarriages whether testified against him or acknowledged by him and for the great and sinful unsutableness of them to his Calling and Condition That upon earnest seeking of God and diligent enquiring into his Will Your Petioner is convinced that the Alteration of all Civil Governments are ordered by and founded by the wise Providences of God who removeth Kings setteth up Kings ☞ ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men and giveth them to whomsoever he will That the Providences of this God have in the Judgment of Your Petitioner as evidently appeared in the Removing of others from and Investing Your Honours with the Government of this Nation ☞ as every they appeared in the taking away or bestowing of any Government in any History of any Age in the World That he apprehends that a Refusal to be Subjects to this present Authority ☞ under the Pretence of upholding the Title of any upon Earth is a Refusal to acquiesce in the wise and righteous Pleasure of God such an opposing of the Government set up by the Sovereign Lord of Heaven and Earth as none can have Peace either in Acting in or Suffering for And Your Petitioner looks upon it as his Duty to yield to this Authority all active and chearful Obedience in the Lord even for Conscience sake To promise he being required Truth and Fidelity to it and to hold forth the ground of his so doing to any as God shall call him thereunto c. The rest relates only to his particular Condition and Imprisonment an Inlargement from which he very humbly and submissively prayed for which was granted him in the following Words Resolved that Mr. ☞ Jenkins be pardoned both for his Life and Estate and that Mr. Attorny General be required to prepare the Pardon to be passed under the Great Seal of England and that his Body be forthwith discharged from Imprisonment and his Estate from Sequestration Which extraordinary Favour he obtained through the Mildness of that Government to poor Delinquents And here give me leave to observe viz. Had such a Case been printed in Oliver's time it would have posed a good Divine no dispraise to your self to know whether you had taken your Notions of Providence from Mr. Jenkin's Petition or he his from your Case of Allegiance For in truth they are so very like that it creates a just Supposition of your being one of his Pupils And this is the first Thing I promised viz. The laying down the Hypothesis on which the Foundation of your Case c. stands And I will appeal to all Mankind Whether this Providential Principle would not serve for the French King the Grand Signior nay a Marssinello or a Protestant Joyner provided he could but get enough of the Mob on his side to knock out the Brains of their Opposers the better to instruct them to whom the Sovereign Power do