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A40101	A vindication of the divines of the Church of England who have sworn allegiance to K. William & Q. Mary, from the imputations of apostasy and perjury, which are cast upon them upon that account, in the now publish'd History of passive obedience / by one of those divines.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1689 (1689)	Wing F1728; ESTC R2186	6,632	16

Iames but not against his Subjects had He gone about to make Himself their King whether they would or no since having had no Contest with them He could notbe said to have made a Conquest of them And as He never Claimed the Crown by the Right of Conquest which He could not have done Prudently nor Justly neither in Regard of the Engagement He was under from His Declaration as well as because He had no occasion given Him of Conquering the Nation so their Consent He had if an Assembly of the Three Estates may be call'd the Nation And I need not say that He had more than their bare Consent too And as to the Collective Body of the Nation if it be divided into Fourty Parts I believe I shall be thought sufficiently modest should I say that He had the Consent of no fewer than Thirty Nine of them And as King Iames had no Wrong done him since he must altogether blame Himself for being disabled to hold his Crown and for ought that appears to Us for leaving the Nation without Government so the Princess of Orange being Crowned with the Prince and She giving Her Consent to His being Crowned with Her suffered no Wrong neither and She lost nothing of the Honour and nothing but the Trouble of a Crowned Head. Nor did Her Royal Sister receive any injury or met with the least unrighteous dealing since her being put one remove farther from the Crown was first Consented to by her self for His sake to whom under God she was obliged for her being in a Capacity a Moral Capacity I mean of ever wearing it Now whether the Lords Spiritual and Temporal with the freely Elected Commons of England did light upon the very Best Method for the Settling of the Government and Satisfaction of all Parties as it is not material to Enquire so I doubt 't is impossible for Us that are in an inferiour Station to Determin But I dare affirm that the much greater Part of the Nation and of the Members of the Church of England too do think they did from the general great Satisfaction that hath been in all places Expressed therewith But as for those who do not approve of this Method as the most desirable if they cannot make evident Proof of its being unjust I am sure their refusing to Acqui●ss in it would be a Notorious Contradiction to the Doctrine of Passive-Obedience since 't was pitched upon by those whose Business alone it was to adjust this Affair and to whom also they intirely Referred it in their Voting for Persons to be their Representatives in the Convention which was Summoned for no other purpose And nothing is more evident than that 't is inconsistent with all Government for private Persons not to Rest Satisfied with the Decisions of those whose Office it is to judge in the disputable and difficult Points that Relate to it If the Compilers of this Goodly History will Object to us That King Iames his Subjects ought to have stood by him against the Prince of Orange and therefore since it was through their Default that he was Conquered by Him they ought not to fetch an Argument from thence for their owning the Prince as their Rightful King. I Reply First Why then did not themselves stand by KING Iames Why did themselves so silently Look on and see HIM Conquered Why did they not at least mind their People of their Duty and on Pain of Damnation Excite them to it Suppose there were Hazard in the Case ought that to Discourage the Ministers of Jesus Christ from the Performance of a necessary Duty Nay how came it to pass that so many of their Party did seem no less than others highly to Approve of the Prince's Enterprize and to wish Him Success If they will ingeniously Acknowledge that these were inexcusable Faults in them Why don't they make their Repentance as publick as these Faults were And believe it very Hainous ones they are if they are Faults Secondly Do they think that our not siding with King Iames which hath brought upon us these New Oaths is a Contradiction to our Doctrine of Passive-Obedience I have ever thought that this Doctrine makes it a Duty to Suffer not to Act and should we think that we are bound to stand by our King in wrong Doing and an unrighteous Cause as we must verily believe His was since we believe the Prince's was very Righteous we must be Asserters of as Unlimited an Active-Obedience to our Kings as these Gentlemen are of a Passive And when we do so we will give them leave to call us Apostates with a Witness Apostates from Christianity it self as well as from that one Doctrine of Passive-Obedience And to Accuse us of bidding adieu to our Baptismal Vow as well as of breaking an Oath of Allegiance Of which more anon Secondly Another Argument for our owning William and Mary as our Rightful King and Queen against King Iames shall be taken from the Circumstances he is brought into or rather into which he hath cast himself Which Circumstances are such as make it absolutely necessary to the Preservation of our Religion Liberty and Property to the saving us from utter Ruine and from a Deluge of all manner of Miseries zealously to stand by the present Settlement We know upon whom King Iames hath cast himself and in whose Power he hath been ever since he left this Kingdom We know that all the hopes he can now comfort himself with of Re-gaining his Kingdoms if by this time he despair not of it are from the Assistance of the most Iesuited Prince in the World but one and the most Barbarously Cruel Tyrant and who hath not his Match for horrible Perfidiousness that we know of under the Cope of Heaven We know that if by his help he should at last have Success the Protestants of the Kingdom of France as fearfully Deplorable a State as he hath brought them into cannot be more Miserable than will be these three Protestant Kingdoms Nay we know too that then this Monster must be our King and that King Iames can scarce reasonably hope for so great an Honour as to be his Vice-Roy These things I say that Humanly speaking we know there is no avoiding and that without Miracles from Heaven no means can save us from being the greatest Objects of Compassion in all the World. And what shall we call those who having so scaring a Prospect of things before their Eyes shall refuse the only Humane means for their Preservation in hope of Miracles Which only Means no man can be so blind as not to see is Faithfully Adhering to King William and Queen Mary I need not add that we know too by sad Experience the strange Wilfulness of King Iames his Temper and that the Iesuits have gotten him so perfectly under their own Power as to be the sole Masters of his Judgment and Conscience That he hath been all along Acted by such an implicite Faith in

A Vindication OF THE DIVINES OF THE Church of England Who have Sworn Allegiance to K. William Q. Mary From the Imputations of APOSTASY and PERIURY Which are Cast upon Them upon that Account in the Now Publish'd History of Passive Obedience By One of those DIVINES It is impossible but that Offences will come but woe unto him through whom they come c. Luke 17. 1. Licens'd August 27th 1689. I. Fraser LONDON Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pidgeons over against the Royal Exchange Cornhill 1689. A Vindication OF THE DIVINES OF THE Church of England c. I Should hardly have thought it much worth any ones while to Concern himself about the now Publish'd Book Intituled The History of Passive Obedience were it not to prevent Atheistical and Debauched Persons making use of it to the Scandalizing of weak and inconsiderative People against Religion and the more hardening themselves in their Contempt thereof by seeing so great a Body of the Ministers of this Church so exposed to the World for Apostates and Perjured Wretches as they are in this Book But it seems to me to be absolutely necessary for this Reason to take at least the Design of this Book into Consideration which is all I intend to do And the apparent Design of it is as I now intimated to make the World believe That the Generality of the Divines of the Church of England are fallen under the Guilt of most Shameful Apostasy and consequently of Perjury too in the Oaths they have Taken to King William and Queen Mary Had this History come abroad some considerable time before the First of August I confess I should not have pass'd such a Censure upon it but had been obliged to hope That 't was piously and charitably intended to prevent our Clergy's Scandalizing their People and Violating their own Consciences But since it comes thus late the Exposing of those who have taken these Oaths 't is most evident is at least the principal Design of it And how well such Work as this does become Christians and Protestants and Members of our Church who to justifie their Refusal of these Oaths and to commend themselves to the World as Stanch-men and steady to their Principles are content to sacrifice to their own Reputation the Good-Names of all but a very inconsiderable Number of their Brethren I leave to their own Consciences and serious Thoughts if ever they are at leisure to think seriously or are capable of making sedate Reflexions All those of the Clergy that have taken these Oaths are as expresly as can be without running the most Apparent Danger of the Law blackned with Apostasy from the Doctrine of the Church of England subscribed by them and very many of the most Eminent of them by Name with basely deserting that Principle which they have heretofore publisht to the World in Print and been Zealous Maintainers and Avowers of viz. That of Passive-Obedience or Non-Resistance of the Higher Powers upon any Pretence whatsoever But I can scarcely desire a more easy Task than to shew that these New Oaths are no whit repugnant to the Asserting of the most Absolute Passive-Obedience and that those who have skrewed up this Point to the very highest Peg as I ever thought some have done it much too High thro' their Non-attendance to the Constitution under which we live may Lawfully take these Oaths without recanting any thing they have Preached or Printed upon this Argument And own William and Mary without Fear of Contradicting what they have held about this Matter as not only de Facto but de Iure too their King and Queen For First Can a Prince who is Justly provoked by another Prince to whom He oweth no Allegiance gain a more unquestionable Title to His Crown than that of Conquest when reasonable Satisfaction hath been first Denied Him And will the highest Asserters of Passive-Obedience affirm it to be due from Those who are under no Obligation of Allegiance Now this was the Case of the Prince of Orange For 1. He was no Subject to King Iames. 2. King Iames had given Him very just Provocations Surely his making so great Advances towards the setting up of Popery in his Kingdoms and the bringing in of a Foreign Power consequently and the overthrowing of the Laws and quite Changing the Government must needs appear to all impartial Persons to be just Provocations since He was so very nearly Concerned in these Actings by Reason of His PRINCESS'S and His Own Right of Succession to the Government of these Kingdoms But what more Sensible Provocations could the Prince receive than was King Iames his giving Him so great Reason to believe that 't was his Design to Deprive His Princess of Her Title of next Successor to the Crown and for ever to Exclude the immediate Line 3. The Prince having Demanded in His Declaration Satisfaction from King Iames and promis'd to Referr His Cause intirely under God to a Free Parliament and that He would make no worse use of His Army in the mean time than for His own necessary Security he would by no means yield to any thing of Compliance but betook himself to the most Vigorous Opposition of Him he could possibly make And when he found himself forsaken of the best Part of his Army and that the Prince grew much too strong to be Encountered by him instead of yielding to His Demand of a PARLIAMENT he Revoked that Summons of one which before the Princes Landing He was perswaded to send forth and leaving those who had to the last adhered to him to shift for themselves as well as they could away he Fled both a First and a Second time Fled Flung away the Seals and leaving no Representative behind him left the Nation without Government Not to mention Here his putting himself wholly into the Hands of the Greatest and most Formidable Enemy his three Kingdoms and all Protestant Nations have in the World. Now What was this but a plain Conquest 'T was such a Conquest in all its Circumstances as hath ever been acknowledged to give an unquestionably Just Title as far as concerns the Conquered Prince I give this Limitation because I am aware 't will be Objected that though King Iames was Conquered the Nation was not they not liking his Cause so well as to side with him but generally Received the Prince of Orange as a Glorious Instrument which they hoped God Almighty had raised up to bring them Deliverance from the Evils they Suffered and the much Greater they saw very near Approaching them And those that now refuse to Swear Allegiance to Him were observed to be as forward as others in Expressing their Affection to Him at least many of them In Answer hereto it must be acknowledged that the Nation was not Conquered But all that follows from hence is That the Prince would not have acquired a Right to the Crown against the Nations Consent He had a very Justifiable Plea against King