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A79979	The cloak in its colours; or The Presbyterian unmasked, and proved as dangerous as papists to the Church of England Together with a brief and seasonable ansvver to their late unseasonable queries, and list of the pensioners, humbly offer'd to all true Protestant conformists.		1679 (1679)	Wing C4719B; ESTC R223880	10,265	12

and hereafter be more cautious how you deal with such subtil underminers of our Church and State To give you therefore full satisfaction concerning the Presbyterians unexemplary Loyalty I shall trace down the current of their Gospel from the very source and original of its being and will begin with their super illuminated Patriarch the famous Calvin sometimes Pope of Geneva who was inspired by the Spirit you know whom thus to speak of Temporal Sovereigns Earthly Princes do deprive themselves of all Power when they oppose God nay they are not worthy to be held in the number of men we must therefore rather spit in their faces than obey them In Dan. c. 6. v. 22 25. Neither is his worthy Darling Dr. Beza any thing behind in this point of whom Mr. Suttcliffe in his Answer to a certain Libel Supplicatory thus speaketh Beza in his Book De Jure Magistratus doth arm the Subject against the Prince and in effect overthroweth the Authority of Christian Kings and Magistrates Suttcliffe ●oco ci● writes in these words Noble-men saith Knox ought to reform Religion if the King will not If the Prince will not yield to his Nobles and People he armeth them with power to depose him Nay saith he further if Princes be Tyrants against God and his truth their Subjects are freed from their Oathes o● obedience With him accordeth Buchanan he saith The People is more excellent than the King and hath right to bestow the Crown at pleasure That the People may arraign the King That albeit St. Paul commanded obedience to Tyrants yet it was in respect of the times and the people that were weak and not able to take arms And Dr. Bancroft Archbishop of Canterbury in his Book of Dangerous Positions gives this general Censure of them all Such Divinity as this is not holden by Knox and Buchanan alone but generally for ought I can perceive by the chief Consistorians beyond the Seas He means Calvin Beza and the rest of the Genevesian Sanhedrim Now let any man be judge how well these Gospellary principles of our Presbyterians agree with the practise and Doctrine of the holy Apostles who as Dr. Bilson in his Christian Subject faith obey'd Tyrants that commanded all things against Religion And in those thing that were commanded against God they did submit themselves with meekness to endure the Magistrates pleasure but not to obey his will But we need not much admire that they differ so much from the blessed Apostles when we find the dregs of Christians the ●apists themselves in great number so far beyond them in teaching Allegiance and Fidelity to Secular Princes that as far as Protestants are beyond Papists in this particular so far are many Papists beyond the bigotted Presbyterians Subjects say the Rhemists in Rom. c 13. are bound in temporal things to obey even the Heathen being their lawful Kings and to be subject to them for conscience to observe their temporal Laws to pay them Tribute to pray for them and to perform all other Duties of natural Allegiance Nay so far were many Papists from holding this Antichristian Gospel of Knox and his Boutefous that they declared it absolutely erroneous and Heretical in any Christian to believe it as appeareth by their Council of Constance Sess 15. in these words The holy Synod has been lately informed that certain erroneous Opinions were held contrary to the peace and welfare of the Common-wealth viz. That a Tyrant may be lawfully and meritoriously taken away and killed by any Subject or Vassal of his notwithstanding any Oath of Fidelity or Allegiance that he had made to him Such Doctrine saith the Council is contrary both to Faith and Manners and whosoever shall hold it obstinately are Hereticks and as such to be proceeded against according to the Canons Now do but compare this Decree of a Popish Council to that Diabolical expression of Knox that Delphian Oracle of the Presbyterian Scottish Reformation in his History of Scotland page 372. where he declares That he could be content that there were publick rewards appointed for such Assassinates and Murderers of Tyrants as there are for such as kill Wolves And then I leave it to your Conscience to judge whether the Presbyterians be not the worst Subjects that ever own'd the name of Christ But let us proceed a little further and see what worthy fruit has this holy Gospel of theirs produced these hundred years past in this Island of great Britain and we shall find it very true Non potest arbor mala bonos fructus facere Matth. 7.18 Nay we shall find that the Papists themselves since the beginning of the Reformation in this Island were never convicted of half such wicked and diabolical practises against their Prince as the Presbyterians have undeniably committed against their undoubted Sovereign 'T is true many wicked Papists by their Plots and Conspiracies have often attempted in 〈◊〉 most inhumane manner to destroy our King and subvert our Government But the brave Presbyterians scorning to trust always to such pitiful contrivances under-hand have at several times publickly raised whole Armies in open Rebellion against their Prince and have not onely attempted but actually compleated the destruction of Kings and Kingdoms I do not wonder indeed how cruelly they dealt with our present Sovereigns Great Grand-mother Queen Mary of Scotland a profess'd Papist in dethroning and banishing her the Kingdom and allowing her no liberty of exercising her Religion either in private or publick of which unworthy usage King James of glorious memory speaking of those Puritan Hypocrites complaineth in these words How they used that poor Lady my Mother is not unknown and with grief I may remember it who desired onely a private Chappel wherein to serve God after her manner with some selected persons but could not obtain it at their hands In the sum of the Conference before his Majesty between the Bishops and others of the Clergy Anno 1604. page 81. I wonder not I say at these inhumane dealings against a Papist when we have so late an example of their unparallel'd cruelty in the Tragical and never to be forgotten murder not onely of a Protestant Prince but also of the most meek the most just and the most Religious of Princes King Charles the I. and this dismal Tragedy perpetrated not by any private Desperado's of that Faction as Popish contrivances for the most part have been but by the general Vote and consent of all and perpetrated not by any secret contrivances but which mainly aggravates the crime if possible by a publick formality of Justice and pretence of securing the true Faith and Worship of God For since it is manifest as the Roman Orator well observed that of all injustice none is more odious and abominable than where men act their Villanies under a vizard and pretence of good what crime can be more diabolical than for Subjects to Arraign their Sovereign and the best of Kings as a Tyrant subverting the