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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59833	Observations upon Mr. Johnson's remarks, upon Dr. Sherlock's book of non-resistance	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing S3305; ESTC R9591	14,732	24

OBSERVATIONS UPON Mr. JOHNSON's REMARKS Upon Dr. Sherlock's Book OF Non-Resistance 1 Samuel Chap. 26. Verse 16. This thing is not good that ye have done as the Lord liveth ye are worthy to Dye because ye have not kept your Master the Lord 's Anointed London Printed in the Year 1689. OBSERVATIONS Upon The PREFACE TO Mr. Johnson's REMARKS Upon Dr. Sherlock's Book OF Non-Resistance Mr. Johnson MY former knowledge of your Person and manner of Conversation raised my desire of reading your Life of Julian and the little piece you have since Published against the Learned Dr. Sherlock and both together have confirmed me in this Opinion that you are certainly next Mr. Oats the fittest person in the World to write the Life of Julian having so exactly transcrib'd it in your own he being that to the Catholick Church what you have so industriously approv'd your self to the Church of England a perfidious Apostat You are pleased to call your little Book and such it is upon more Accounts than one Remarks upon Dr. Sherlock's Book of Non-Resistance and Remarks indeed they are but such as our young trifling Novices make in their Journies through France or Italy which have no other Effect upon a wise Reader than to persuade a belief they have been there and scarcely that they are such Remarks as would tempt a man to think you were retain'd on both sides or at least were in Fee with your Adversary or bribed by a partial Affection to his Person and Reputation but this Conjecture you can easily confute You are pleas'd to tell us page the 25th that you would run over all the Doctors Scripture Proofs in the excellent management of which lies the strength of the Cause and the Learning of the Author whereas you have taken no notice of any more than two and only nibled at them without any impression or hurt but with what Ingenuity is not easily comprehended much less justifi'd without your Old Friend 's Secret against Blushing and thus you have indeed rid your hands easily of the bafled Cause of Non-Resistance which if it receive no deeper wound than those your feeble Passes yet have made will outlive your forward Triumphs and Conquer as much as it despises the Insolence that Fools and Knaves have treated it withall A Doctrine that commenc'd together with Religion either Jew or Christian as the pious and Learned Archbishop Usher has irrefragably prov'd A Doctrine that shall know no end but when all things must confess their Ashes and then it shall be swallowed up in the glorious Rewards of Confessors and Martyrs But you are pleas'd to give us another Reason for Publishing your Book that is to offer your Service to some men's New-fashioned Loyalty which you say must be adopted Church of England Doctrine too as well as the other this indeed gave me great hopes of finding from so clear a Casuist and so moderate a man irresistible Satisfaction of its being my Duty to take the new-Oaths which piece of Service would have bound me over to as great Gratitude as can be supposed due to the Charitable and seasonable Preserver of my little All I have in this World but if instead of offering one single Reason evincing the Duty and Obligation to take this Oath you have advanced two or three considerably Cogent Reasons why I should not then I hope the Government will allow your Argument in some Abatement to the Guilt whatever they do to the Punishment of my Non-Complyance for all good men fear the guilt more than they do the Punishment and this you have done as appears by what you tell us page the 55 No man can Authorise himself if so I desire you to tell us by what Authority this New-Oath is imposed for the Compilers of this Law either do Authorise themselves or else they receive their Authority aliunde if the first you have already determin'd against them if the second pray shew us from whence taking this of our Saviour along with you If I bear Testimony of my self my Testimony is not true But in the second place you tell us that King William is the rightfullest King that ever sat upon the English Throne when in that very breath you defeat the right you would maintain and are a very Traytor to the Title you would advance and I am content with you never to desire a greater advantage than to reduce my Adversary to this Absurdity of making no difference betwixt a Title and no Title which is a Rowland for the Oliver you gave the Doctor Law and no Law And that you have done this appears thus If King William be the rightfullest King that ever sat upon the Throne of England then no King ever ascended the Throne by the same Right and by the same hands that he does for every King that came by it as he does was just as rightful a King as he is and then consequently he is not the Rightfullest Well then if no King was ever plac'd upon the Throne by the same hand and Right as he then it is very plain he can have no right at all by the Common Law of England for Common Law is common usage and sure that 's a strange common Usage that cannot shew one President one Example at least to warrant it which your Assertion plainly supposes and acknowledges Well then besides the Common Law England knows no other but that we call the Statute-Law and by that he has no Title or else the Convention did him a great deal of wrong for they never declared the Right to be his by Succession but by their Donation thus you defend the present Title just as you guided your unfortunate Masters Conscience and Honour by betraying both and if King William had no better Title than what in this Preface you have given him he neither could nor would expect to be obeyed and now if any of my Brethren should look upon our Obligation to Complyance to be less than it was before through the Insufficiency of the Arguments you have produced in its behalf you will be responsible to us for our Livings and to his Majesty for the withdrawing the Service of so many men of our Condition for I am morally certain that were these words of yours King William is the Rightfullest King that ever sat upon the English Throne inserted and made a part of the Oath there would not have have been found in the whole Nation as bad as it is an hundred men of your Swallow I am very well satisfied that the Government is not so unreasonable however you represent them as not to be glad that the whole body of the Clergy were satisfied as well as themselves and I hope you are not one of those malicious Blades that would insinuate as if this new Act were made only to revenge the Bartholomew Act in 62 and wish it might have the same Effect yet you have given us a very fair Specimen of your hatred to the present