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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31766	The Charity and loyalty of some of our clergy in a short view of Dr. M's sermon before their Majesties at Hampton-Court, July the 14th, 1689 : where-in he still charges the Protestant dissenters with schism : with some occasional remarks upon a clergy-mans considerations for taking the Oath of allegiance to King William and Queen Mary, and upon the history of passive obedience since the Reformation.		1689 (1689)	Wing C2068; ESTC R23924	20,585	36

Edifice which they had been building with great Pains But what Rivers can wash away the stain of so much noble Blood as has been offer'd up to this Moloch a meer Figure which some have made to worship Had it not been for this Idol worse than ever the Clowns chose the Earl of Essex Lord Russel and Colonel Sydny had been now alive in their large Capacities for heroic Actions and wholsom Counsels as well as in their immortal Memories and had been as conspicuous now for the reward of their Merit as they have been for their Sufferings Under the Protection of this Figure came out that shadow of a Vindication of the late Magistracy and Government of England The censure of the two Vindications of the Magistracy and Government of England written against the defence of Lord Russels Innocence in Two parts which are more weak and Criminal attempts upon the never-dying Fame of the Ld. Russel than any that he has been prov'd guilty of otherwise than by a Verdict The false colours in the first of these have been sufficiently expos'd by Mr. Hawles and the second Anticipated Both of them out of pretended Zeal for the present Government justify the last and therein condemn this as wanting just Occasion or Foundation and while the Author labours to wash the Blackamore white he bespatters the Innocent and yet after his Thundring pretences to mighty feats all resolves it self into a clearing the then Recorder who pronounc'd Judgment upon the Indictment which was found but the overruling and imposing Judges the complying Jury who in their passive Obedience to the Bench shew'd how much they had profited by that Doctrine the scandalous Evidence and stabbing Rhetorick of the eager Counsel are left to shift for themselves Our Collector I find as impotent in his Heat as the Vindicator Page 118. after all the formidable things which he has produc'd to shew the remediless Case of Mankind by the Encroachments of Princes Page 27. he confesses that where a Government was founded in compact and all priviledges Sacred and Civil contrary to that agreement were invaded this alters the Case while it can no way hold good in Governments where there is no such Compact And herein we are agreed Hi motus animorum atque haec certamina tanta Pulveris exigui jactu composta quiescunt Thus notwithstanding all the flourish of Quotations from Divines he sends us to the Common-Lawyers And one would think he was asleep when he made use of this passage from the witty Dr. Donne Page 40. Though some ancient Greek States which are call'd Regna Laconica because they are shortned and limited to certain Laws and some States in our time seem to have conditional and provisional Princes between whom and Subjects there are mutual and reciprocal Obligations which if one side break they fall on the other Yet that Soveraignty which is a power to do all things available to the main Ends resides somewhere which if it be in the hands of one Man erects and perfects that Pambasilia of which we speak If therefore those Expressions which run highest in maintenance of the unalterable Right of Princes can reasonably be intended only of such as have the Power to do all things available to the main ends of Government without Limitation to certain Laws then they who have not this unlimited Power by the Constitution may be conditional and provisional Princes Should now our Historian strike out all his dead Authors who have expressions of a quite contrary import to what he cites from themselves or others and all those living ones who have contradicted themselves in Words or a series of Actions I assure my self his bulky Book would shrink into a very narrow Compass and yet as it is himself has condemn'd it to lie for wast paper till he proves our Government was not founded in Compact and that there are no Limitations by Laws to make it such an one as Dr. Donne calls Laconic When he produces his Evidence of a Pambasilia here I should think it no difficult task to convince all but himself of his Error I take Judg Brouhgton to be the best Resolver of all Scruples in this kind that ever I met with of a Divine even better than that Great Man who as he has been shewn most of his Mistakes upon the Grand Question by that extraordinary Person lately deceased Dr. Twisden little inferiour to his Brother Sir Roger so I suppose he is by this time satisfied that the Fundamental Contract is not so invisible but it may be found and understood The Collector refers to a Book which I must own never to have been master of written by a Person now of great Eminence and Station with these Words If you charge the Doctrine of absolute Submission as brutish or stupid P. 73. or contrary to the Law of Nature see you do not run into Blasphemy by charging the Holy one foolishly Some would think the Obedience without Reserve required of the Scotch Nation to be but a due Improvement of this But I may refer him to the Laws of our Land common Sense or the same Persons better thoughts for a more generous Idea of this matter And if our learned Rabbies go about to shew that the frightful Representation which Samuel made of the way or manner of future Kings of Israel Page 69. was but the Jus Regium the Fundamental Law of the Kings of Israel Page 78. and that the Kings of England have a Supremacy in their Dominion in all Causes Ecclesiastical and Secular according to the Powers invested in the Jewish Kings under the Law. Wherein indeed I tack together the Proposition of one in Explanation of the other yet if the last meant it in the same sense in which the other explains the Power of the Kings of Israel I may well call for the Pedigree to prove how our Kings derive their Title to this or that Law which makes the Jewish Polity Universal and for a clearer Argument ad hominem I must say that very Author 's own Practice is a sufficient Confutation But if they who are by the great and magnanimous Prince who now fills the Throne called to a more perfect Law of Liberty in this Year of Jubilee refuse to be free I may say that like the Hebrew Servant bought with a price or rather Slave in the same case they should have their Ears boar'd to distinguish them from others who delight not in Slavery And if while Blessings like God Almighty's descend upon the Evil and the Good the Enemies and the Friends to our Peace my Fleece as that of Gideon's remains unwatered with the Dew of Heaven I must consider that even that was to him a Sign of God's Presence And the this should with former Services to the Publick be made matter of Accusation yet ought I not to faint in the Cause of Truth and my Country which amidst many Imperfections and Disadvantages I must avow to the World from the first dawnings of my Understanding ever to have serv'd with Sincerity and the utmost Endeavours of SIR Yours most faithfully c. 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