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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66600	God, the King, and the countrey, united in the justification of this present revolution containing also animadversions on Dr. William Sherlock's book intituled, The case of allegiance due to soveraign powers, stated and resolved, according to scripture and reason, and the principles of the Church and England / by Tim. Wilson ...	Wilson, Timothy, 1642-1705.	1691 (1691)	Wing W2950; ESTC R8407	46,572	49

of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation This is Rebellion supposing a Kingdom not universally oppressed And this secures the Prince as well as the Providence of God in the Dr's unintelligible Notion But this is to say God as well as Man is confined to Humane Laws in making Kings p. 25. A. I suppose the Dr. living among such an Honourable Society of Lawyers hath heard of being tryed by God and the Countrey And so the King and Queen may be made by God and the Countrey God feeds us but we must put Meat in our Mouths God Clothes us but we must put on our Clothes God doth what we do when we use the Means appointed by God And when the Dr. is in a reasoning Humour he will tell us that there is no doubt but several Governments have been begun by and Originally derived from the Choice and Consent of the People p. 23. but still it is God who by his Providence advanceth Men to the Throne But of this before As for those who advance Conquest I have spoken my Mind formerly And I add that when the whole Community be it by the Sword is subdued as the Jews were by Caesar and have promised Subjection and own the Authority of the Conqueror and he promiseth them Protection I grant this gives the Conqueror Humane Right and Title as well as Gods Authority For he holds his Crown as some speak jure Gentium concessu Gentium But if the P. of O. did Conquer England against which he declared and acted nothing like a Conqueror in any part of the Nation where his Army Marched but every where like a Saviour and Deliverer I say if the P. of O. did Conquer the Nation the Princess of Orange did not And Queen Maries Title can be no other way God save Her Majesty for I am Her most Loyal Subject and Servant but by the Election of the People in Convention and now confirmed by Act of Parliament Which I desire all Conscientious Men to consider Finally As for Submission that is an Implicite Covenant as I have shewed and must be kept So that tho' the Dr. cannot yet with all or the most Judicious Philosophers Schoolmen and Reformed Divines I can see where to fix the Foundation of Government and that is in the Agreement of the People And this is the ordinary Disposal of Providence But let it be by the Election and Consent of the People Or by Conquest and so by After-Covenant Or by Submission which is an Implicite After-Covenant Or by continued Usurpation as the Dr. speaks which still is founded upon After-Covenant and Promise all these are the Disposals of Providence So that the Dr. very weakly for I do not believe he doth it craftily gives only the General Cause which no Man denies But we desire to know what is causa secunda proxima particularis the second next and particular Cause as the Schools speak of this Revolution and Government And the Reason is either we have done very well or very ill in joining with the P. of O. And we would gladly convince the Dr. or any Man else that we have hazarded all that is dear to Man Virtuously and Honourably to preserve Gods true Religion and Worship as by Law Established to save the English Monarchy from the Usurpations of the Bishop of Rome and to continue the Liberties of our Native Countrey The Providence of God is no Rule or Reason or Measure of our Duty But the Law of God and Nature and the Laws of the Land when they contradict not these And the Dr. will tell us so when he thinks of it p. 32. The Divine Providence hath Ways and Methods of removing Kings and Setting up Kings which we are not aware of nor concern'd to know because it is no part of our Duty To sum up all this In this Revolution some talk of Desertion and Abdication Some of Conquest Some of Gods Providence as the Dr. and some of the Election of the People 1. As to Desertion and Abdication whether the Late King did in a proper and strict sense Abdicate the Kingdom is a matter that I need not dispute but surely the Convention did well to take this into Consideration that the Kingdom was left without any Order or Government in a very troublesom time But supposing that it was a proper and strict Abdication this doth not make the Prince and Princess of Orange King and Queen of England This must be some other way 2. As to Conquest And 3. As to Gods Providence I have said enough to satisfie any Consciencious and wise Man who will lay aside Prejudice and Prepossession And therefore 4. I am fully satisfied in my own Conscience and will dispute the Case with any Learned and Consciencious Divine that it can be justified no other way but by the Election of the People in Convention As for the Examples of Jehoiada and Joash and Athaliah and of Jeroboam and Jehu I think there may be a better Account given than the Dr. gives But this is nothing to the main Controversie between him and us That concerns the Non-Swearers I shall only give you a familiar Simile or Example out of Scripture of the Election of a King tho' it doth not quadrare in omnibus it is not nor needs be fitted in all Circumstances to the Kingdom of England In the first Book of Sam. chap. 8. The People of Israel desire a King Then it follows they had none before Whereupon Samuel told them his Message from God and at last yielded to the importunity of the People And he called all the People Chap. 10. that is All the Heads Elders and Princes of the People a great Convention Parliament or Assembly of the Nation And they chose Saul And all the People shouted and said God save the King And those whose Hearts God had touched went with him And they that despised him were called Children of Belial And I shall only add Samuel's Admonition and Counsel Chap. 12. ver 24 25. Only fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things he hath done for you But if ye shall still do wickedly ye shall be consumed both ye and your King I know that there are two Prejudices as the Dr. speaks in like case rather than Objections against this Truth 1. This will not please the King and Royal Family 2. This occasions Subjects to Rebel when they think fit 1. This will not please the King and Royal Family A. We are confident that this is an Insinuation of weak Spirits and directly contrary to the Great and Heroick Designs of their Sacred Majesties and their Impartial Administrations of Justice and God forbid we should do any thing justly meriting the loss of Their Majesties Favour and their Hearts confiding in us I am sure that the pleading for our Liberties is no Prejudice to the Kings Crown or Prerogatives Why should not our Soveraign look