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A46942	An argument proving, that the abrogation of King James by the people of England from the regal throne, and the promotion of the Prince of Orange, one of the royal family, to throne of the kingdom in his stead, was according to the constitution of the English government, and prescribed by it in opposition to all the false and treacherous hypotheses, of usurpation, conquest, desertion, and of taking the powers that are upon content / by Samuel Johnson.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1692 (1692)	Wing J821; ESTC R2049	28,065	64

the Crown And if he has not what has he to do with it For my part I will never pay Allegiance to him as an Vsurper he ought rather to be told daily by his Chaplains that are of that mind that he ought to make Restitution It is not Lawful for thee to have thy Father Iame's Crown or else they are no St. John Baptists A Revelation sent on purpose from Heaven cannot oblige us to be Subjects to an Vsurper under that Notion because it is a Notion of Wrong and God himself cannot make Wrong to be Right And then shall any Wretch bid us in his Name to Swear to be Faithful to acknowledged Wrong and to be False to acknowledged and unextinguished Right In short an Vsurped Crown is a Stol'n Crown it is Blood 's Crown It is true indeed that God can give Kingdoms to whomsoever he will I know it He can make them a New World on purpose for them or take the Forfeiture of the Old and dispose of his own Creation as he pleases But then it must appear to his Will and he must send a New Revelation into the World along with such a highly Favoured Prince to every Man that is to be his Subject For I am not bound to do what God would have me do till I can certainly know that he would have me do it Promulgation is of the Essence of a Law And this Extraordinary Revelation ought to be as clear and as distinct as Abraham's was for the Sacrificing his Son for it is as contrary to all the settled Rules of Right to dethrone a rightful King as it is to destroy an only Son And yet that Command was only intended for a trial of Abraham's Obedience neither would God suffer it that there should be a Precedent of an Humane Sacrifice in the World though at his Own bidding Is it not enough for an Vsurper to wrong a Prince of his Crown but this must be Hallowed by false Prophets and said to be done in God's Name And this proved by no better Argument than Mahomet's Miracle of Success and Settlement If therefore a pretended Prophet tells me that I am to own an Vsurper as God's Choice and by Divine Right and therefore he is no Vsurper I must needs Answer that the Title is far fetch 't and comes a great way and therefore I must desire to see some proof in point and shall always call for Miracles for what is said to come from Heaven And if I had but one half of the Sense which God has given me I should never be satisfied with the Mahomet an Miracle of Success and Settlement That Impostor's Come-off when he was call●d upon for Miracles was this That God had sent Moses his first Prophet with Miracles when the belief of them was worn out and the Iews were degenerated he sent Iesus the Son of Mary with more Miracles which did good for a time but his Followers likewise degenerated and altered their Books And then he sent Mahomet his last Prophet not with Miracles which had failed and miscarried twice before but with the Mouth of the Sword You ask for a Miracle says he Did not we Sack the City Tauris the other day and put them all to the Sword There 's a Miracle for you I confess I have loved a Good Cause in my time better than my Life but never a crumb the better for Success But on the other hand the want of Success has made it the dearer to me Success is the new Weathercock upon the Banqueting-house at White-hall for when the Popish Priests saw the Wind Westerly then it was Deus pro nobis but when at last it stood Easterly to bring over the Prince of Orange then it was Deus contra nos And so God is made to be of all Sides at that rate What if this Settlement should be Vnsetled which God of his Mercy defends as I am bold to say it cannot stand upon King James's Rubbish no more than a new Pile of Building upon the Heaps which lay in the Stone Gallery Well what then Why then in that supposed Case though the Wind be against us will I venture a weather-beaten Life for his Majesty's Service but not an Hair of my Head if I can help it for several Ministers he has In short Vsurpation is of the Devil and at the rate that any Man alive shall prove by the Old standing Revelation we have that an Vsurper is a King by Divine Right will I prove that the French and Irish Massacres were by Divine Right and that every one of those three hundred and fifty thousand Souls which fell therein were well killed and that it was all the Lord●s doing For there is as plain and as legible Scripture 1 Sam. 2. 6. The Lord killeth and maketh alive to entitle Him to that bloody Business as there is to make him the Setter up of Divine Vsurpers Conquest is likewise another wicked False Title to unsettle the Throne This the Prince of Orange disclaimed with detestation in his Additional Declaration as the Horridest Calumny that could be invented against him and so Unnatural a thing for an English man to join in as if it had been to be Felo de se. If this Pretension had been set up when the Prince of Orange came he had never marched forty Miles in England though he had come five times stronger than he did And that which would infallibly have Barr'd him out of England then can never settle him in it now no not though it were preach't from the Clouds as it only is from the Pulpit which they have rendred by such means very insignificant For what is Conquest Why truly it is a Publick Enemy got within us It is the King of France not at Tingmouth but at White-Hall A Conqueror is one whom no after Treaties nor Consent can ever make a King for he must have the Consent of Slaves and Minors who have nothing to give who cannot make a Will though it were their last who cannot be Parties to a Contract for that is everlastingly impossible unless Men be sui Juris and their own Men at the same time In a word Conquest may perhaps extend to lawful Plunder and to Goods and Chattels which I never took the People of a Free Nation to be But if such a Prize-Office-Divinity must needs be set up that always supposes the Right of Reprizals Desertion is manifestly False for King James must needs go he was as much driven from England as Nebuchadnezzar was driven to Grass and he Claimed as he Fled by the Rochester Letter And as for the Wonderful Mystery of dropping the Great Seal in the Thames if it was done purposely there was a very Wise Reason for it For if it had fallen into other hands the Broad-Seal of England might have been immediately employed in Proclamations and otherwise against himself As Queen Elizabeth made use of Queen Mary's Great Seal for a good while which the

Law as the Mirror tells us is for the King to be above Law to which he ought to be subject as is contained in his Oath And the second Abusion of the Law next to this First and Soveraign Abusion is for Parliaments to be a la Volunt d' Roy at the King's Pleasure One of the Ancientest Remains that we have concerning the English Parliaments is in the Mirror where he says in King Alfred's Time it was made for a perpetual Law that the Counties of England should assemble themselves twice a Year in Temps d' Paix in Time of Peace at London pour Parliamenter to hold Parliament Now I conceive that these words in Time of Peace do let us into the Reason why this perpetual Law hath been broken and how it comes to pass that Parliaments could not be punctual either as to Time or Place for we had many Wars and Invasions after that Time and the Danes had the Possession of London and consequently it was impossible for them to meet there or indeed to keep their Times of meeting any where else whereupon there was a Necessity for the King to assemble them when and where they could meet in safety from whence arose the Prerogative as I believe of Calling Parliaments which if a Prince uses Honestly is rather a trouble to him than any thing else If any Person shall vouchsafe to give an Answer to any thing I have here said I desire him to do it fairly by setting his Name to it as I have done for I hate to have my Books Answer'd as they lately were in a Midnight Vizor-Masque FINIS A Catalogue of Books written by the Reverend Mr. Samuel Johnson JVlian the Apostate Being a short Account of his Life the Sense of the Primitive Christians about his Succession and their Behaviour towards him Together with a Comparison of Popery and Paganism Iulian's Arts to undermine and extirpate Christianity Together with Answers to Constantius the Apostate and Iovian Remarks upon Dr. Sharlock's Book intituled The Case of Resistance of the Supream Power stated and resolved according to the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures Reflections on the History of Passive Obedience A second five Year Struggle against Popery and Tyranny being a Collection of Papers published by the Reverend Mr. Samuel Iohnson during his last Imprisonment of five Years and ten Days Wherein are contained these following Tracts 1. A Sermon preached at Guildhall-Chappel 2. The Church of England as by Law established c. 3. Godly and wholesom Doctrine and necessary for these Times 4. A short Disswasive from Popery and from Countenancing and Encouraging Papists 5. A Parcel of wry Reasons wrong Inferences but right Observation 6. An Oration of Mr. Iohn Hales 7. Several Reasons for the establishing of a standing Army and the dissolving the Militia 8. Four Chapters 1. Of Magistracy 2. Of Prerogative by Divine Right 3. Of Obedience 4. Of Laws 9. The Grounds and Reasons of the Laws against Popery 10. An Humble and Hearty Address to all the English Protestants in King Iames's Army 11. The Opinion that Resistance may be used in case our Religion and Rights should be invaded 12. The Trial and Examination of the New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty 13. Reflections upon the Instance of the Ch. of England's Loyalty 14. The absolute Impossibility of Transubstantiation demonstrated 15. Bp Ridley's Letter to Bp Hooper with some Observations on it 16. A Letter from a Freeholder to the rest of the Freeholders of England 17. Religion founded upon a Rock 18. The True Mother-Church Jov. p. 202. P. 24. Jov. p. 242. P. 200. P. 23. Jov. p. 248. P. 249. Barlow p. 46 47. Additional Declaration Oct. 24. Dr. Fitz-Williams's Thanksgiving Sermon for the Murder of my Lord Russel c. ●● 26. Rom. 13. 3. Esay 7. 17.