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A65328 The way of peace, or, A discourse of the dangerous principles and practices of some pretended Protestants ... being certain brief ... writings of several learned Protestant authors : with divers additions perswasive to peace / by the author, a Protestant of the Church of England. Protestant of the Church of England. 1680 (1680) Wing W1162; ESTC R9234 23,498 32

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nor can they somtimes do it without peril of the Common-wealth Also as a worthy Divine heretofore of the Church of England speaking of the duty of Subjects saith thus We must look to our place where God hath set us Dr. Sibs in Souls conflict if we be in subjection to others their Authority ought to sway with us neither is it the calling of those that are Subjects to enquire over-curiously into the mysteries of Government ☞ for that both in Peace and War breeds much disturbance and would trouble all designs And the late Learned and Judicious Doctor Hamond delivers himself thus Practical Catechism You may discern saith he how far from the practice and Gospel of Christ are those doctrins of Ambitious men which have made Christian Religion a ground or excuse of moving and disquieting of States and shaking if not dissolving of Kingdoms All that will be useful to learn from thence saith that worthy Author is the Vnchristianness of those actions in Subjects which are built on such Antichristian principles as these such are Rebellions Treasons Sedition attempting the Commotion of States on colour of Religion I shall put you in ☞ mind of this great Truth That Christ and his Disciples were of all the Doctors that ever were in the world the most careful to preserve the doctrin and practice of Allegiance even when Emperors were the greatest opposers of the Christian Religion And if we mean to be accounted followers of them we must go and do likewise In the Primitive times as Lactantius speaks believing was not an excuse for disobedience or a commutation for a holy life but a foundation of obedience to all the Laws of God and man then all the professors of Christianity had one heart and one lip Defendenda Religio est non occidendo sed moriendo non saevitia sed patientia non scelere sed fide illa enim bonorum sunt haec malorum Lactantius his Admonition And further as a late Author speaks It is by Gods special appointment and designation that Kings are his Vicegerents in the world It is by his peculiar care and protection that their Authority is preserved and that their persons are at any time fenced from the malicious designs or the outragious violences of wicked and unreasonable men The nature of Government in the world is such that it requires a divine wisdom and an uncontroulable power to sustain it and to maintain its interests To the same purpose the worthy Grotius afore-mentioned speaks in his excellent discourse of God and his Providence That God permitteth not the effects of malice to range whither they would but restrains them so that Government might never be overthrown nor the knowledg of divine Laws utterly extinguisht And 't is a known wise saying of Tacitus as a late Author also hath it Bonos Principes expe●ere debemus qualescunque pati Et quomodo sterilitatem aut nimios imbres caetera naturae mala sic luxum avaritiam dominantium tolerare The world must be governed as it may be not by Angels but by men And there never was any lawful Magistrate so bad whose Laws and Government were not more conducive to the preservation of the common good than his oppression was to subver it And 't is wise to suffer a less evil rather than lose a greater good Now how dangerous and destructive the Presbyterian and Phanatick Principles and Practices before mentioned are How subversive of all Government Order and Peace in the world And how contrary to the Doctrin of the true Protestant Church of England I leave to all wise sober and ingenious Christians to consider more fit to be abominated and detested and exploded out of the Christian world than cherished and countenanced What more mischievous and wicked principles in the world than these two Antichristian Doctrins First that nothing ought to be practised in and about the worship of God but what we must have an express rule or warrant for out of the Scriptures Secondly that we may do wickedly rebel against our lawful Prince break our Oaths and Promises for the sake of Religion The first of which at one stroak cuts the throat of all Ecclesiastical Government and thereby lays wast the Church The second turns the world into a Shambles brings in nothing but War Blood and Confusion and thereby lays wast the State And when we shall consider as Dr. Stillingfleet hath observed Of the Idolatry practised in the Church of Rome p. 372. that the Jesuits furnished the Enemies to Episcopacy and the Church of England with so many Arguments to their hands to manage their bad cause with this way of proceeding makes men wonder at them and ask the question and say What other reason can be imagined why these men of such intolerable and insolent spirits and principles are now so earnest in prosecution of the Romanists from the worst of whom viz. the Jesuits they take their principles and practices but only this That certainly they are emulous of of having the Papists to have a hand in doing that which as the cause of God a noble and worthy atchievement they are resolved to do themselves that is to say to ruinate and destroy the once famous and flourishing Protestant Church of England the Bulwark of the Protestant Religion being resolved she shall fall by no other hand but theirs which in the end will assuredly prove no other than the resolution of Samson to pull that excellent Fabrick down to the ground although they themselves perish also in the ruins thereof As for all such howsoever who have been in integrity of their hearts formerly ingaged against their lawful Prince and Soveraign and the Church of England upon Religious pretences that have since manifested their abhorrence of so great a Crime Et nullus pudor est ad meliora transire so they deserve to be respected by all good Protestants But as for such pretended Protestants for I cannot call all Dissenters from Rome Protestants for then John of Leyden and his Religiously mad Crew were such which I cannot agree to I say therefore as for such pretended Protestants as shall still persist in their said wicked and destructive principles and practices and are ready once more to involve these Nations of England Scotland and Ireland in War and Blood upon the account of Religion I shall say no more but this Quos Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius Let them beware and that whenever they shall appear in action as they will be then certainly doing the works of darkness so the Prince of darkness will assuredly be their General the innocent Blood of the Martyr'd Charles the First of blessed memory will attend them and the Lord of Hosts will be against them and the issue must needs be accordingly assured destruction for Pertinaciae nullum remedium posuit Deus And they whose wickednesses are winked at for a time are wont to pay dearly for the forbearance of their