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A46673	Philanax Anglicus, or, A Christian caveat for all kings, princes & prelates how they entrust a sort of pretended Protestants of integrity, or suffer them to commix with their respective governments : shewing plainly from the principles of all their predecessours, that it is impossible to be at the same time Presbyterians, and not rebells : with a compendious draught of their portraictures and petigree done to the life, by their own doctors dead hands, perfectly delineating their birth, breeding, bloody practices, and prodigious theorems against monarchy / faithfully published by T.B.	Janson, Henry, Sir, 1616 or 17-ca. 1684.; Pattenson, Matthew. Image of bothe churches.; T. B. (Thomas Bellamy)	1663 (1663)	Wing J482; ESTC R16845	67,408	173

high and mighty Lucifer Now truly to make these presumed deer children of God thus to proceed from their Father the Devil may be taken for a bitterness and extremity of passion in me against that Party and hate to their persons which I protest before God I am clear from for I have and alwayes had many of my neerest relations unhappily engaged that way but only a detestation of their impious opinions and more prodigious practices which do cleerly demonstrate them to be deriv'd from the Divel or all the world besides to be so For the doctrines of the whole Church of Christ have alwayes been diametrically opposite to theirs if they then stand upright in the sight of God Christianity it self must of necessity fall to ground which God has promised never to suffer Over and abone all this I did ever presume the derivation of those Doctrines to be from the Devil long before I made this strict search and inquisition into their extract and petigree and my reason was onely this because their positions did not at all consist with humanity and therefore man nor any power humane could at any time be founder or undertake to be defender of them We have seen sufficiently already how much these terrible Tenets do contradict both reason and Religion Canon Lawes and Divine Relveations the opinions of all Primitive Christians and the practice of the whole Church nay are they not most cleerly convinced by Civil and Common Law nay Philosophy and Common sense The Law is plain Legibus non alligati sumus we are not tyed to Lawes who then is capable to judg a King that is above Lawes though it is a great part of their goodness to observe Lawes as the same Emperour declares Legibus tamen vivimus● and again digna vox est Majestate regnantis legibus alligatum se Principem profiteri It is a Princes dignation to descend to oblige himself to Lawes and the reason of all this is because he is presumed to be a living Law The Law again is plain as has been shewed already that no war can be made without the Authority of the Prince sine qua est laesa Majestas otherwise it must be treason and this I say is a fundamental Law in every Monarchy but it is plain our Protestants of Integrity would turn the whole world into a Democracy by leaving the bridle in the peoples hands which what a pretty beast it is when it has assembled its many heads and horns together they best know that have felt its Arietations We in England I am sure have reason to put into our Litanies From a Popular Tyranny Good Lord deliver us Nay heart St. Austin once more the most ancient and learned Father of the Christian Church St. August l. 22. cap. 75. contra Faustum how contrary to the false Principles of these Religionaries he proceeds to back these Civil Lawes with the Law of nature it self Ordo naturalis mortalium paci accomodatus hoc poscit ut suscipendi belli authoritas atque consilium pones Principem sit The course of nature it self accommodated to peace requireth that the only authority and counsel of making War should be in the Prince and he gives a reason for non est potestas nisi a Deo vel jubente vel sinente For there is no power but of God Cap. 76. either commanding or permitting and then he answereth the objection of all those who think they ought by force of Armes to resist their Princes for Religion and that by the example of the Apostles Isti saith he non resistendo interfecti sunt ut potiorem esse docerent victoriam pro fide veritatis oscidi They were not put to death resisting that they might teach us that it is the greatest victory to be slain for the truth The Philosophers themselves may teach the same thing to these wretched Religionaries The King in the Philosophers sence is Anima Corporis Spiritus vitalis Caput membrorum vinculum per quod cohaeret Res publica sine quo nihil Res publica ipsa futura nisi onus praeda si mens illa imperii detrahatur He is the Soul of the Body the vital Spirit the Head of the Members the bond by which the Commonwealth holds together without whom the Commonwealth it self will be but a burthen to it self and a prey to others if this soul of the Empire be taken away This was Senecas opinion Seneca and a sound proposition for if the Soul offend the Body the Body cannot punish it without participation of the punishment Neither is it a proper faculty of the Body to judg but of the Soul and understanding so much Philosophy as this the very Bees understand in their little Monarchy Virgil Georg. as Virgil testifieth of them Rege incolumi mens omnibus una Amisso rupere fidem Whilst the King is well all is well and in union but he being gone all falls in pieces To conclude Let us look a litle upon the Common Law which if any thing by our own Kings condescentions has prov'd prejudicial to Monarchy and its Professours most of them the forwardest Incendiaries and the greatest Knaves in our late troubles yet that gives the King power and prerogative enough for it constitutes him to be the body Politick which is a dignity Royal annext to the natural body whereby he is made Lord Paramount and is not sirnamed as others are but stiled by the name of the Body Politick declaring his Royal Function as Carolus Rex And to shew the Nature Quality Majesty and Prerogative of that Body I pray you observe the Circumstances First It cannot hold lands in joint-Tenancy nor endure a Partner 2. It cannot be seized to uses and so limited 3. It is not bound to give Livery and seizin of Lands nor tied at all to the circumstances of a natural body 4. It is supposed to be everywhere so cannot be Nonsuited 5. It cannot do homage having no Superiour 6. That Body is so precious that the very imagination onely to compass his death is Treason though there be no attempt at all 7. That Body vested in a blood ought to descend and though the natural Body be attainted of Felony or Treason before yet by the access of this Body Politick he is to take his Inheritance for that dignity alwayes purgeth the blood as it did in Henry the Fourth and Henry the Fifth for this Body was founded without Letters Patents not onely by the Civil and Common Lawes but those of Nature and of Nations and for the defence of the people And if Criminal causes cannot disable the descent much less can they disenable his Title when it is descended For the Crown of England is Independent his jura Regalia are holden of no Lord but the Lord of Heaven so it cannot escheat to any being holden of none From this sacred Fountain is all authority and honour derived Judges are created by it and have their Commission from the King to judge both Criminal and Civil Causes The Constables and Marshals Court for Armes and Honour the Chancery for equity the Exchequer for the Revenues of the Crown The King then alone appointing Judges who is I would fain know to judg him I very well understand what a Parliament means which at it is ever summoned by the King so their Acts must be judged allowed and confirmed by the King before they can be Lawes in the Senate rests Consilium but in the King is the power and majesty of the Realm and he is to judg and allow or disallow what he pleaseth In fine as the Spaniard very wittily and truly observes Ni Rey Traydor ni Papa descommulgado No King can be a Traytor nor Pope excommunicated There can be no Judg above the King nor Court of Law higher than the Kings Bench where I shall now be bold to leave these Protestants of Integrity to answer Guilty or Not guilty for their future demerits and let every one joyn with me to say God save the King and deliver him from such Treacherous Friends undermining Adversaries and Hypocritical Religionaries as are our Pretended Protestants of Integrity FINIS

holding them in Bondage and Servitude For such a Magistrate they said they are not bound to obey and so indeed are as we have seen the rules of their Religion but to eject him as a Tyrant Were not these the very Reasons that our Protestants of Rebellion in England used against our most glorious good King Charles to wage War against him and afterwards to murther him Believe it these were examples and presidents of most dangerous consequence and which not a little concern all Princes to look well to for if Subjects may depose their Princes and make themselves Judges when they shall so forfeit their Crowns and Dignities Qui stat videat ne cadat He that stands let him take heed least he fall Kings had need to make their Seat secure and to sit fast if they can for these men make Monarchy itself but a very slippery hold And indeed Ambition and Treason can never finde a fitter cloak for their wearing than that which is made of the Holland fashion by the Religion of these Protestants of Integrity Now that you should the better judge of the particular quarrel of the Hollanders and their Confederates I should give you the whole story of that Rebellion but it is too long to recite I refer every ingenuous Reader to their own Annals which will convince them of the horrideft Apostacy from and Rebellion against both King and Church that was ever seen in the world before nor can ever be matched but by that of our Protestants of Integrity here in England It is most true that the Hollanders began their Rebellion with Lutheranism but that being too hot to hold the gentle stuff of Calvinism forsooth must be brought in which carried within it as it does every where its cursed Quicksilver which being once admitted made the fire ever after to be most unquenchable Thus did the flame burst out the people as in spight of all Laws begun to mutiny broke down the Kings Arms and grew so wilde as in a rage they pulled down Images robbed Churches rifled Monasteries and contemned all Magistrates that sought to appease the troubles And upon what grounds did they do all this Blessed St. Calvin gave them a Dispensation which they have not been ashamed to urge for their apology Lih. 4. cap. 13 21. A man saith he once illuminated with the truth Simul vinculis omnibus obediendi legibus Ecclesiae solutus est That is he that hath once perfect knowledge of their Gospel is presently absolved from all Laws and Oaths of Obedience to the King or Church Is not this a blessed Lesson are not these holy Evangelists It is here worth noting how a certain Hollander in his third Defence of the United Provinces calleth the King of Spain Raptorem Haereticum notorium most insolently and thereupon he infers Annon potius Regem Hispaniae quia Haereticus notorius est ex suo Regno omnibus omnium Evangelicorum viribus expellere oporteret Thus Proclaiming it the duty of all good Evangelists to expel the King of Spain with all their might and main out of his Territories because he was a robber and a notorious Heretick Does not this man look like one of Catilines Religion though cloaked with this new Gospel and pretended Protestancy of Integrity Now that this was down-right Rebellion under that specious pretext of Religion their own Countryman if they will be pleased to study him Honderius in Prax. Criminal cap. 132. one Honderius sheweth at large and indeed has drawn up their Process Seditiosi sunt saith he qui movent conspirationem adversus Rectores Administratores Regnorum vel illicitas Congregationes populi cogunt cives Commotionibus turbant c. They are guilty of Sedition who contrive any thing or conspire against Governors or Deputies of Kingdoms or make any unlawful Meetings or trouble Citizens with Commotions Now what is all this compared with their dealings against Alva Don Juan and the Duke of Parma with their many Meetings at Breda and Osterweal with their incensing and encouraging the Geuz with their defence of Harlem and Alcmar Are not those Actions good Comments upon their Law and clear against themselves But in another Chapter he proceeds to declare the conditions of a just War 1. Ut Bella sint just a Ide● c. 82. requiritur ut justa sit causa 2. Recta intentio 3. Personarum idoneitas 4. Autoritas Principum sine qua est laesa Majestas First A just Cause is requisite Secondly A right Intention Thirdly A rightful capacity of Persons And lastly The Authority of the Prince without which to take up arms is Treason Now if the States do but mark that sine quâ they may well hold down their heads and blush for shame of their impious Rebellion For in all their wars they neither had just cause nor yet good colour of a cause They were secured for their Religion by the Pacification of Gaunt by the Perpetual Edict and by the Articles of the Treaty at Colen by which they were to enjoy all without disturbance and yet would not they joyn with the States General to accept the same Neither could there be recta intentio for it was onely to nourish discord and disobedience against their Prince It is true they pretended ever Religion and the peoples safety as all Rebels use to do but it is as true that they likewise prosecuted the common ends of other Rebels not for the love of them nor their Religion but his own private ends and preservation Ambition and Dispair were his principal Motives and Counsellors and a Revenge upon and Dispossessing the King of his Soveraignty were his perfect ends and poor Religion his beloved Protestancy of Integrity served him but as a meer stalking-horse to all those Claudius le Brun in P●ax Civ Crim. Besides let us but consider what Claudius le Brun lays down in his Book of Process both Civil and Criminal who addeth That whosoever surprizeth Towns Castles or Forts without order of his Soveraign as the Count de Lumay did in Holland and Voret and Barland did at Flushing in Zealand whereby the peace of the Country is broken Or who attempteth against the life of his Soveraign or his Lieutenant is guilty of Treason Now these Maximes all Europe hath ever held as Judgments and Decrees of eternal Reason and inviolable Principles of State which are never to be called in question And if the States of Holland do not observe hold and practice the same they can never expect peace at home nor any order and obedience in any of their Dominions By this it is manifest That as in the beginning these Hollanders are justly to be charged with Sedition so in their progress they stand guilty of Treason and Rebellion And then being so convinced Traytors by Law is it not now a little wonderful that they should become High and Mighty Lords by Law I am sure it is more by luck than cunning