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A70493	A vindication of the primitive Christians in point of obedience to their Prince against the calumnies of a book intituled, The life of Julian, written by Ecebolius the Sophist as also the doctrine of passive obedience cleared in defence of Dr. Hicks : together with an appendix : being a more full and distinct answer to Mr. Tho. Hunt's preface and postscript : unto all which is added The life of Julian, enlarg'd.	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.; Ecebolius, the Sophist. Life of Julian.	1683 (1683)	Wing L2985; ESTC R3711	180,508	416

weep whom he gravely rebuked affirming it a pitiful mean thing to bemoan a Prince that was a friend to Heaven and the Stars And they being silent he entred into a subtile discourse with Maximus and Priscus two Philosophers concerning the sublimitie of Souls till such time as the Wound gaping and the Tumor of the Vessels intercepting his Breath having called for a draught of cold Water he died the more easily about Midnight in the 32d year of his Age and the second of his Empire having been Caesar Six years He left no Child behind him his Wife being dead in France before he came from thence He was buried in the Suburbs of Tarsus by Procopius to whom he gave order for it and Zosimus saith his Tomb hath this Epitaph 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Of his Vertues I Shall comprise these under the Heads mentioned by Marcellinus l. 25. c. 5. viz. Temperance Prudence Fortitude and Justice all which saith that Author he so studied and attained as if they had been but One. As to his Temperance in respect of Chastity he was so unspotted that after the death of his Wife in France he never medled with any woman nor was he accused of the least immodesty while he was young and in his full strength by those that were of his Bed-chamber To which vertue his spare dyet and short sleep very much contributed His dyet was always so slender as if he intended to return again to his Books His Supper was usually a little Gruel such as a common Souldier would refuse l. 24. c. 2. which he took standing and presently went to view his Guards and Sentinels and then returned to his Study scarce allowing himself so much solace as might content the necessities of Nature What was provided for him as an Emperour he seldom tasted of but distributed it amongst his poor Souldiers He says in his Misopogon that he had been taught from his youth to wage war with his belly And never frequented Theatres or Games which he never beheld but with as much uneasiness as others did with delight He usually lay onely on a Palate spread on the ground and would scarce eat enough to satisfie Hunger abstaining from Feasts and publick Meetings saying No man ought to be esteemed as temperate at home who was dissolute abroad and took pleasure in the Threatres His garments and manner of dress was very plain and neglected and far from curious or courtly fashions Dost thou saith he desire to see the Circensian Games you shall find them most elegantly described by Homer take the Book and read Such instructions he says he had from his Tutors and them he followed with great pleasure p. 79. He was extremely delighted in the society of learned Men and good Books for which he often professed he could willingly leave his Empire What intercourse he had with the chief Philosophers of his time appears by his Epistles to Libanius Iamblicus Eumenius Themistius Elpidius and Maximus This last though one of the worst of them coming to visit him of which he was informed while he sate in Judicature he speedily laid aside his business and his Robes and went forth in a familiar manner to meet him and imbrace him To the rest in his Epistles he desired their presence or their Books and stiled himself Their most dear Brother For his Prudence This was a Maxim with him That it was a shame for a wise man having a Soul to seek for commendation from any thing belonging to the Body His proficiency in all manner of learning gave him great insight as well to Martial as Civil Affairs which he so managed that though he adventured on many great and hazardous attempts yet he mostly came off with good success He could by his Eloquence as by a Mercury-Rod appease the Tumults and Seditions of his Souldiers and would threaten them that if they continued their Mutinies he would betake himself to a private life Again he shewed another instance of his Prudence in remitting many Taxes rather than to extort them from the poorer sort of people nor did he exact on the Rich affirming that his treasure was safest in the custody of his good Subjects One instance of his Prudence was this that he would suffer himself to be reproved for any indiscreet action being conscious to himself of rashness and precipitancy in many particulars Marcell l. 25. c. 6. Praefectis proximisque permittebat ut sidenter impetus suos aliorsum tendentes atque decebat Monitu opportuno fraenarent monstrabatque subinde se dolere delictis gaudere correctione He professeth that he used deliberation in all his affairs especially of Judicature You know saith he to Ecdicius Praefect of Egypt how slow I am to condemn any one and when I have condemned him how much slower I am to pardon him P. 120. And of his prudent conduct in all his affairs this is a convincing Argument that during his Reign he was neither disturbed by Sedition at home nor invaded by any of the barbarous Nations from abroad His Justice appeared also in many notable instances for he rather shook the Sword than struck with it and though he made himself terrible yet was he never cruel but sought by the punishment of a few to restrain the vices of many He pardoned many that had sought to take away his life Thalassius an enemy to him and his Brother Gallus was forbid the Court which encouraged his enemies to accuse him but Julian perceiving it to be of Malice told them that Thalassius had injured him and he must have satisfaction before them and upon hearing he was reconciled to him and he discharged him from his Adversaries When one accused a great Citizen for a Traytor hoping to be rewarded out of his Estate Julian ask'd him what the condition of the man was he answered he was a rich Burger and had made him purple Cloths against the Insurrection If that be all saith Julian you shall carry him a pair of purple Shoes too and let him know how little success he can hope for from such things without greater power He would say of himself That Justice which in former times had left the earth was returned again l. 25. c. 6. And if we believe Marcellinus although he would sometimes inquire of what Religion the parties litigant were yet he would do nothing partially against any for their Religion As for his Fortitude besides his patient enduring of extream cold and heat he would encounter his Enemies hand to hand and by exposing his own Person would keep his Souldiers from giving ground to the Enemy which he often did both in Germany and Persia slaying divers Enemies with his own hand But he had a better kind of Fortitude than this namely that which more becomes a Man to conquer his own Passions to bear with Reproaches to endure cross events with patience As for me saith he I resolve to bear whatever falls on me from above

convened about that time Throgmorton the two Pagets Englefield Babington Salisbury c. were proscribed So that the Nation being continually alarmed with the news of Invasions Insurrections and Conspiracies during the life of that unfortunate Queen who can blame the Parliament for solliciting the execution of a Just Sentence Of all men living our Author ought not to object it much less to charge the Bishops with that if they had been guilty for which they are ready now to pronounce them Papists as not consenting to the Exclusion of a Popish Successor But secondly what the Judgment of those Reformers was concerning the Doctrine of Resisting lawful Princes on any pretence I shall now demonstrate P. 103 104. of his Book our Author is pleased to recommend the Homilies of our Church to every bodies reading as one of the best Books that he knows in the world next to the Bible as Mr. Hunt had done before him I shall therefore intreat him to judge of the Opinion of our Reformers and Confessors in point of Obedience out of the publick Doctrines set forth by them in that excellent Book In the first Homily against Disobedience and wilful Rebellion they say p 277. If Servants ought to obey their Masters not onely being gentle but such as be froward much more ought Subjects to be obedient not onely to their good and courteous but also to their sharp and rigorous Princes 1 Pet. 2.18 And p. 278. It cometh not of Chance or Fortune nor of the Ambition of Mortal men climbing up of their own accord to Dominion that there be Kings Queens Princes and other Governours over men being their Subjects but all Kings Queens and other Governours are specially appointed by the Ordinance of God P. 279. A Rebel is worse than the worst Prince and Rebellion worse than the worst Government of the worst Prince that hitherto hath been Whatsoever the Prince be or his Government it is evident that for the most part those Princes whom some Subjects do think to be very godly and under whose Government they rejoyce to live some other Subjects do take the same to be evil and ungodly and do wish for a Change If therefore all Subjects that mislike of their Prince should revel no Realm should ever be without Rebellion P. 280. But what if a Prince be evil indeed and undiscreet and it is evident to all mens eyes that he is so I ask again What if it be long of the wickedness of his Subjects that he is so shall the Subjects by their wickedness both provoke God for their deserved punishment to give them an evil and indiscreet Prince and also rebel against him and withal against God who for the punishment of their sins did give them such a Prince Will you hear the Scripture in this point God maketh a wicked man to raign for the sins of the people Again God giveth a Prince in his anger meaning an evil one and taketh away a Prince in his displeasure meaning when he taketh away a good Prince for the sins of the people as in our memory he took away our good Josias King Edward for our wickedness Again God maketh a wise and good King to raign over that people whom he loveth and who love him And again If the people obey God both they and their King shall prosper And for Subjects to deserve through their sins to have an evil Prince and then to rebel against him were double and treble evil by provoking God more to plague them let us either deserve to have a good Prince or let us patiently suffer and obey such as we deserve and whether the Prince be good or evil let us according to the Scriptures pray for him for his continuance and increase in goodness if he be good and for his amendment if he be evil The Bishops that were their Predecessors and our first Reformers in the days of King Henry the Eighth and King Edward the Sixth were of the same judgment as appears in a Book called The Institution of a Christian man whereof Cranmer Ridly and other Martyrs were the Compilers On the Fifth Commandment they say Subjects be bound not to withdraw their Fealty Truth Love and Obedience towards their Prince FOR ANY CAVSE WHATSOEVER ne for any Cause may they conspire against his Person ne do any thing towards the hindrance or hurt thereof nor of his Estate And by this Commandment they be bound to obey all the Laws Proclamations Precepts and Commandments made by their Princes except they be contrary to the Commandments of God With much more to that purpose And on the Sixth Commandment No Subjects may draw their Swords against their Princes FOR ANY CAVSE WHATSOEVER IT BE. And though Princes which be the Supreme Heads of their Realms do otherwise than they ought yet God hath assigned no Judges over them in this world The contrary to this is a Popish Doctrine who think it cause enough to depose a King because he is a Protestant and it is a Lesson which some sorts of Protestants have learnt from them to depose any that is a Papist A Doctrine which all the Reformed Churches have hitherto condemned and yet this is the Sophistry which our Author hath detected to his own shame and the honour of those Worthies whom he hath reproached and if our Author's Politicks should be embraced Kings would be of all men most miserable for if they be Protestants the Papists may depose them and if they be Papists Protestants may resist them which is tantamount P. 19. Is a discourse against the Oath of Allegiance which he forms in an Objection and Answer The Objection is this You are pre-engaged and cannot consent to a Bill of Exclusion if you do you are forsworn having long since sworn Allegiance to the King his lawful Heirs and Successors His Answer Now though the Lawyers tell us an hundred times no man can have an Heir as long as he liveth yet this will not overcome that deceitful prejudice which is occasioned by our common speech Reply Yet our Author presently adds That a man and his Heirs may live at once in the some house and eat and drink together every day I pretend not to the knowledge of Law-terms yet I am confident those Lawyers which penned that Oath did not put it in in vain nor would they make it Treason to conspire the death of the Heir of the Crown of England if there could be no such person in being One clause of that Oath is this I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majestie his Heirs and Successors and him and them will defend to the utmost of my power against all Conspiracies and Attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their persons their Crown or Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known to his Majestie his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and treacherous Conspiracies which I

from abroad which may happen upon such an Exclusion for Regum afflictae fortunae facile multorum Opem alliciant ad misericordiam maximeque eorum qui aut Reges sunt aut vivunt in Regno quod Regale iis nomen magnum sanctum esse videatur The oppressed estate of Kings easily moves many to pitie especially them who are either Kings themselves or do live in a Kingdom to whom the name of a King is August and Sacred Saith the great Orator Pro lege Manil. Let us therefore leave the King and his Great Council to their free Determinations and acquiesce in the sage advice of Gamaliel St. Paul's Master Acts 5.39 Let us refrain from these things for if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye be found even to fight against God And I shall conclude the business of Exclusion with the Determination of Bishop Sanderson whose single Judgment will outweigh in an equal balance all the Opinions of the Opposers You have it p. 350. of his book de Obligatione Conscientiae I think saith he that an Hereditarie Kingdom may not lawfully be changed for an Elective as in and by the Exclusion it is like to be nor for any other form of Government either by the People alone nor by the People and Nobles joyntly nor by the whole bodie of the People in their greatest latitude that is the People Nobles and the King consenting together unless perhaps the Royal Progenie should so totally fail that there is not one surviving who may claim it as his due by Right of Inheritance And let it be considered that he wrote this before the Bill of Exclusion was ever dreamt of And now I cannot but reflect upon the Prognosticators and Wizards of our Time that amuse the people with the fancies and fears which their own guilt hath created as if we should be all swallowed up in a moment and there were a fatal necessitie of endless miseries attending us such as Mr. Baxter in his Prognostication and our Author who p. 89. tells us of such a dismal prospect as makes every honest mans heart to shake I remember some years since upon the great Eclipse of the Sun Lilly and some others made such a dismal representation of it as struck a terror into a great part of the Countrie and made them take home their Cattel to their houses and seek Sanctuary themselves in the Churches as if Dooms-day were come when the cause was natural and nothing fell out but according to that course which God had appointed for the Motion of the Heavenly bodies Though wise men are not moved at such bugbears yet they have an ill Aspect on the people to dispose them for such Commotions as may promote the interest of discontented and designing men For my part I shall continue to pray for his Royal Highness as our Liturgy directs and if it be the will of God to send us a Popish Successor to punish us for our resistance of a Protestant King whose bloud still cries for Vengeance I had rather die for not resisting him than to be as instrumental in procuring a Bill of Exclusion as this man would be and as successful as he can hope to be at my death to have it written on my Tomb Here lieth the first Author of this Sentence RATHER THAN THE DVKE OF Y. SHOVLD NOT BE EXCLVDED WE WILL EXCLVDE THE GLORIOVS FAMILY OF THE STVARTS And I will yet pray against the wickedness of these men Lord cloath all such his enemies with shame but upon his head and the heads of his seed let the Crown flourish I perceive Mr. Hunt to be a great devoto to some kind of Parliaments and that which was convened in the first of King James was one that consisted of Wise Loyal and Pious persons I intreat him therefore to consider what was Enacted by them in their Recognition 1o. Jacobi where after the Preamble it is thus declared We therefore your most humble and Loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do from the bottom of our hearts yield to the Divine Majesty all humble thanks and praises not onely for the said unspeakeable and inestimable benefits and blessings above-mentioned but also that he hath further enriched your Highness with a most Royal Progeny of most rare and excellent gifts and forwardness and in his goodness is like to encrease the happy number of them And in most humble and lowly manner do beseech your most excellent Majesty that as a memorial to all Posterities amongst the records of your High Court of Parliament for ever to endure of our Loyalty Obedience and hearty and humble Affection it may be published and declared in this High Court of Parliament and enacted by the authority of the same That we being bounden thereunto N. B. by the Laws of God and man do recognize and acknowledge and thereby express our unspeakable Ioyes that immediately upon the dissolution and decease of Elizabeth sate Queen of England the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same and by inherent Birth-right N. B. and lawful and undoubted Succession descend and come to your most Excellent Majesty as being lineally justly and lawfully next and sole Heir of the Blood-Royal of this Realm as is aforesaid And that by the goodness of God Almighty and lawful right of Descent under one Imperial Crown your Majesty is of the Realms and Kingdoms of England Scotland France and Ireland the most potent and mighty King and by Gods goodness more able to protect and govern us your loving Subjects in all peace and plenty than any of your noble Progenitors and thereunto we most humbly and faithfully submit and oblige our selves our heirs and posterities for ever until the last drop of our bloods be spent And we beseech your Majesty to accept the same as the first-fruits in this High Court of Parliament of our Loyalty and Faith to your Majesty and your Royal Progeny and Posterity for ever Now as Grotius says a People may be presumed to be the same that they formerly were till some publick act shew that their judgments are altered How dares Mr. Hunt then to say p. 47. If any man is so vain as to say that an unalterable course of Succession is established among us by Divine Right I say he is a man fitted to believe Transubstantiation and the Infallibility of the Pope c. And if any man shall add that this is the Doctrine of the Reformation and adventure to tell the people so they are the most impudent falsaries that ever any Age produced when there is scarce a Child but hath heard what was done and maintained by the Clergy in the Case of Mary Queen of Scots How can this man who doubtless is an Ignor●mus if he never knew