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cause_n	call_v	king_n	name_n	1,874	5	5.0780	4	false

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A63550	The True loyalist wherein is discovered, First, the falsehood and deceipt of the solemn league and covenant, Secondly, that there is no salvation out of Christ, Thirdly, that the pope is the Anti-Christ, the man of sin, or the son of perdition, cum multis alias, &c. / by a true loyalist.	True loyalist.	1683 (1683)	Wing T2756; ESTC R31985	66,689	159

own heart d 1 Sam. 13.14 was the fittest to succeed him in the Government e 1 Sam. 16.7 but they most arrogantly and presumptuously assumed unto themselves a Power of Electing whom and when they pleased Because they were the Elders of Israel and particulary of that chief Council of them called the Sanhedrim instituted by God at the request of Moses for his assistance they thought they might do any thing For which cause the Lord again complains of them in the Prophet Hosea mentioning their Crime in the Plural Number for the clearer example to all Nations under the Sun They have set up Kings but not by me or according to the Arabick Version they have Reigned from themselves and not from me They have made Princes but I knew it not Hosea 8.4 that is contrary to my Will allowance and approbation Thus you see that it is absolutely unlawful for any either Elders Sanhedrim or Parliament men upon any pretence whatsoever either to chuse or be chosen a King without Gods leave counsel and advice as he hath appointed and directed in his word How much more then is it unlawful to set up any other form of government besides Monarchy Gods own both by Order Precept and Example Yet many in this latter age of the World now iniquity doth abound and get the upper hand f Mat. 24.12 have presumed to do it I need not trouble you with an instance of this out of any History for its illustration you know we have had a more eminent example of it already in Cromwell that Arch-Traitor and Usurper and those Phanaticks and Changers that set up the Idol and worshiped it than all the Histories in the world can afford besides being put all together But if the Ruler be not Tyrannus titulo a meer Usurper like him and illegally chosen but one that having a just Right and Title to the Crown entreth into his Throne by the right door and climbeth up not some other way the same is no Thief nor Robber g Joh. 10.1 2. but may be said to be as directly from God as Monarchy is it self though he be otherwise never so much Tyrannus exercitio as grand a Tyrant in practice as King Saul or as much a Heathen as King Cyrus h Isa 45.1 'T is by God that Kings Reign as well as by him that Princes decree Justice Proverbs 8.15 There are no judgments nor evil of punishments in any Nation or City under the Sun but the Lord hath a hand in them all i Amos 3.6 2 King 33. Therefore to bring about those ends without putting himself to the expence of a Miracle he not only sometimes takes away Religious Princes and in their room permits Usurpers but also anoints bad Vicegerents under him as well as good As is evident by the examples of Saul Nebuchadnezzar Jehu and others k Jer. 25.9 2 King 10.30 whom though as such when they have once accomplished the ends for which they were ordained he either takes away in his Wrath as at first he gave them in his Anger l Hos 13.11 or else reserves them for a greater judgment to come yet as they are his Vicegerents appointed to execute his Wrath and pleasure upon Offenders he hath invested them both with a Soveraign Title to rule and a Soveraign Power to maintain it Headship and Prerogatives are so firmly united together in the Lord and the King that the one cannot possibly subsist without the other 1. From hence we may see the great absurdity of Cromwell the Usurper that Notorious Changer Cursed Hypocrite and Deceiver in separating Soveraign Title from Soveraign Power which the Lord in himself and the King hath thus firmly joyned together The guilt of his Conscience would not suffer him to assume the name of a King No nor his Diabolical policy neither lest he should seem to favour that Kingly Government which he had destroyed But to maintain his Usurpation of the Royal due and the favour of his Fanaticks he would change the name and be called their Protector yet his ambition would not suffer him to neglect the usurpation of the Kings Power For which cause he and his most abusively granted the King to have the name of a King still if so be he would be so contented without the power because they knew without that the King would be as was said of Pompey but magni nominis umbra the shadow of a King without the substance yea to be a titulary † Josep Antiq. l. 15. telleth us that Marcus Antonius being urged by his Dalilah Cleopatra to call Herod to an account replyed that it was not fair 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to demand of a King an account of what was done in his Government for so he would not be a King King would be a King no more in reality than a King in a Play Therefore it is observable that Mephibosheth like a True Loyalist called David not only by the name of King to shew his Soveraign Title to rule but also by the name of Lord saying My Lord the King to shew his Soveraign Power to command 2 Sam. 19.30 2. From hence it also is that by our most wise and Royal Master we are here enjoyned to fear the Lord and the King because power the foundation of fear belongeth to them both To the Lord as God the greatest Supreme and to the King as his Minister and Vicegerent m Rom. 13.4 Therefore St. Paul joyneth fear and power saying Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power Rom. 13.3 And to speak all in a word The reason wherefore the fear of the Lord and the fear of the King are here joyned and enjoyned together is for an exegesis or exposition one of the other to shew that he that is truly Godly and fears the Lord is also a True Loyalist and fears the King and that he is only a True Loyalist and fears the King who is truly godly and fears the Lord True Godliness and Loyalty the fear of the Lord and the fear of the King like Hippocrates's Twins live and die together Godliness without Loyalty is not true but Pharisaical and Loyalty without godliness is only nominal false and adulterate Now as the fear of the Lord and the fear of the King is the same in kind though not in degree because the fear of the King is terminated in the fear of the Lord So it is meant not of any legal or servile fear derived from the lower spring of Nature which it would be if it were grounded only upon their Power But of a pure filial and Evangelical fear derived from the upper spring of grace grounded not only upon power but upon cordial love and duty As the true Godlilist fears to disobey and dishonour the Lord not legally only for the sake of his power but filially out of pure love as an obedient child fears a kind Father n Deut. 10.12 Gal. 4.7 Heb.

eat any food until the evening c. they were no less careful to keep the Kings commandment in regard of their Oath for notwithstanding the rashness of the adjuration the greatness of their distress with hunger and confination and the greatness of their temptation too by the dropping of hony in a private wood Yet no man would put his hand to his mouth because they feared the Oath z 1 Sam. 14. Now if an Oath be so Sacred and blinding when it is only in things indifferent not contrary to the will of God How much rather is it Sacred and obliging when it is for confirmation of such holy things which the word of God hath before bound us to observe a Nehemiah 10.29 Let all be judge that have not shook hands with their rationality I am sure these obligations are more firm than Solomons threefold Cord which cannot quickly be broken b Ecclesiastes 4.12 But 2. If the Oath be rashly taken in such things that be contrary to the word of God I know then that there is none except he be more Infidel than the Devils themselves c James 2.19 but will readily acknowledge that it is absolutely unlawfull d Numb 30.5 8. and consequently the obligation to keep it as absolutely taken away Yea by the Law of contraposition if we will but allow Affirmatives and Negatives to include or suppose one another a man is as much obliged to break an unlawful Oath as he is to keep one that is lawful in all things according to the word of God because as he cannot keep an unlawful Oath without making his sin exceeding sinful so by breaking of it he manifesteth his repentance whereby he makes a re-entry into Covenant with God by a new stipulation How much then was Herod that Fox e Luke 13.32 to blame when he promised upon Oath to give the Daughter of Herodias for pleasing him in a Dance whatsoever she would ask and she being before instructed of her Mother said give me here John Baptist's head in a Charger For instead of putting her off by telling her that his Oath supposed only such requests as were lawful he added sin to sin for though the Hypocrite said He was exceeding sorry nevertheless for the Oaths sake as he pretended and them which sat with him at meat he commanded it to be given her f Mar. 14. Mar. 6. But how much more was Cromwell that Fox and his Park of Presbyterians and Independents to blame when to satisfie the having desire of Mrs. Avarice for pleasing them with a dance in the great Parlor of their large Consciences they bound themselves each to other by a Solemn yet damnable League and Covenant to destroy our Nation and her Religion and to root out all order and Government both in Church and State Herod played only the Tyrant but these were not only Tyrants but Usurpers too besides though they agreed with him in several circumstances of their cruelty and Hypocrisie yet they much out-ballanced him in the mode and hainousness of their Oath and Villany For whereas Herods Oath consisted only of a plain piece of cruelty against a single person their Covenant was taken for the destruction of a whole Kingdom and like the Turkish Alcoran consisted of a Hoch-poch of principles not only bad but some seemingly good too to cover the bad and their evil designs with the vail of Hypocrisie And accordingly herein it was notoriously contradictory to its self it pretended great Loyalty to preserve and defend the Kings Majesties Person and authority and withal to extirpate Episcopacy and Church Government Which could not possibly be without destroying the Kings Authority because they were upheld by the Kings Authority This was so evident that they preceived it themselves and therefore were resolved to contradict themselves further and also destroy the Kings Majesties person too The Presbyterians Preacht him upon the block and the Independents beheaded him and the whole Nation And accordingly when it had once strengthened them the end for which it was taken by tying the Populacy fast to their parties under the terrour of perjury then they quickly * Hist Independ Compleat Part. 1. p. 139. cast it aside and called it an Almanack out of date Yea and punished too many for attempting to keep it And no marvel for their Covenant which they had so rashly and unadvisedly taken pretended so much for the honour and happiness of the Kings Majesty and his Posterity that they saw they could not possibly keep it without its contradicting them in their pulling down of Monarchy and the establishing of their Oligarchy or Tyranny For * Hist Independ Compleat Part 1. p. 113. which cause their Grandees that they might also the better hinder their Vote that they would not alter the ancient form of Government by King Lords and Commons from taking effect caused the Antimonarchical book written by Parsons the Jesuit 1524. under the feigned name of Doleman to be published though they knew it was condemned by Act of Parliament 35 Eliz. But it is no wonder that they should not care for former Acts of Parliment when as they did so lightly esteem of their own as well as of their National Covenant Wherein though they also pretended to be great Reformers from Popish superstition yet you see as the same Author observes that they can joyn interests with France Doctrine with the Jesuits to carry on their design and reduce us to the condition of French Peasants and Slaves under the Kingdom of the Saints And the truth is though the greatest part might do what they did not out of malice but rather as our Martyred Soveraign charitably speaks of them in his ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ out of misapprehension of things or misinformation yet it is notorious that most of the Chief and Heads of them acted against their own knowledge and Conscience no less than Herod did in beheading of John the Baptist for as Herod knew and acknowledged that John was a just man and an holy and had done nothing worthy of death but only a spleen he had against him for telling him that it was not lawful for him to have his Brothers Wife whom he had married So these Covenanters knew not only that they had bound themselves by a solemn Oath with hands lifted up to the most high God to preserve and defend the King but also that he was so just a man an holy that they could find nothing of any moment to stuf out their black charge against him They knew that he comported * Hist Indedend Compleat Part 2. p. 218. himself in his afflictions with such admired temper prudence and constancy that many even of his engaged Enemies themselves became his Converts thereby speaking Panegyricks in his praise Particularly Harry † Hist Independ Compleat Part 2. p. 15. Martyn making a speech in the House upon the Debate touching Kingly Government whether a King or no King gives