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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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