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cause_n	court_n	king_n	parliament_n	2,759	5	6.7580	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49127	Reflections upon a late book, entituled, The case of allegiance consider'd wherein is shewn, that the Church of England's doctrine of non-resistance and passive obedience, is not inconsistent with taking the new oaths to Their Present Majesties.	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing L2979; ESTC R9832	10,302	20

of England quâ talis long before he left the Land for the Government being an Office entrusted for Administration according to Laws and the late King's Grandfather having declared to his Subjects in the Star Chamber June 20. 1616. that being sworn to Maintain the Laws of the Land he should be perjured if he should alter them and our ancient Lawyers declaring that Non est Rex ubi dominatur voluntas non lex And that of Fleta Rex non à regnando sed regendo nam Rex est dum bene regit Tyrannus cùm populum opprimit And Spelman of the word Allegiantia that it is a word importing vinculum Arctius inter regem subditos utrosque invicem connectens And the resolution of some very judicious Divines that if one party that is mutually ingaged do violate his obligation the other is not obliged and that that Oath is not to be kept the execution whereof is destructive of the common safety On these grounds many great men may judge that for these and the like causes a Crown may be forseited yet I suppose there are other Foundations layed by those great men in which I do acquiesce As first that the present King being a free Prince and no Subject of the King of England and having a right Title to the Succession to the Crown of England as well in his own right as in right of his Queen whereof he was endeavoured by the subtil arts of Jesuits to be deprived and the present King being also constituted the Head of the Protestant party who were destinated to utter ruin by confederacies against them did for these causes successfully vindicate his Title and the legal Succession and put the Protestant Cause in a fair way of establishment upon which success the late King having deserted first the Government and then the Land and fled to an inveterate Enemy of our Religion and Nation whether through his own or the counsel of the Jesuits to whose conduct he had committed his Conscience and the administration of the Government directly contrary to the Laws of the Land and leaving us under a standing Army wherein was a considerable party of Irish Papists who being left unpaid and ordered to disband were likely to be very injurious to the English Subjects I am convinced that he hath lawfully vindicated the Succession to himself and the Royal Family And secondly I assent to the judgment of my Superiors that the Crown of England being thus made void was rightfully set on the Heads of the present King and Queen and that the present Transactions are much more justifiable than what was done in the Case of Henry the Seventh and acknowledged by Parliament my Reasons whereof I shall give hereafter and shall now give you my Remarks on the Case of Allegiance wherewith I was generally well pleased both with the Matter and Stile and which I hope may have a good effect with many men for their full satisfaction for which I verily believe it was charitably and ingeniously intended by the Author until in the last Page I read this following passage whereupon I began to make my Remarks viz That in the next Reign after King James which all know was that glorious Martyr Charles First when Popish and French Counsels found admission at our Court then arose together the new Principles of Super-conformity in the Church and Super-Loyalty in the State which like a preternatural ferment have ever since disturbed the peace of both and must be again cast out if ever we recover a true English temper or peaceful settlement c. This and some other passages which I shall name made me suspect that he was under some discontent though p. 2. he says he had no angry resentment of his sufferings And p. 19. speaking of the Bishops who petitioned the late King he calls them some of his Bishops And of the Clergy he says p. 31. There have been for some time a Party among us who have appropriated to themselves the Church of England exclusive of their Brethren yet we shall find enough on our side to justifie our Doctrines to be consistent with her Principles And p. 32. That the Principles of Loyalty which obtained in the Church at that time viz. Queen Elizabeth were no other than what he asserts He would prove from the Prayer they are charged with by the Parliament in Queen Mary's Reign That God would turn her heart from Idolatry to the true Faith or else shorten her days and take her quickly out of the way and more to this purpose out of the Journal of Simon D'Eurs of which I doubt not to say that these Assertions are not agreeable to the Doctrine and Practice of the Church of England These passages did a little amuze me as reflecting too severely on the best of Kings and the most discreetly Loyal Church in the World. As for the King of Blessed Memory his first years were full of peace till being reduced to some necessities not thrô his own fault but such as by other unhappy circumstances he was reduced to some Malecontents took advantage thereof to drive him to greater the vogue was his being misled by evil Counsellors such as the Archbishop and Strafford who I have reason to believe were as far from Popery or French Counsels as any Ministers of State before or since As for that good Prince I can't without indignation hear that he inclined to Popish Counsels for thô he be termed the head of the Grotian Religion and Grotius for an arrant Papist yet it is well known in what Religion he both lived and died as also did those two great Ministers the Earl and the Arch-bishop of whom Sir Edw. Dearing said That he had smitten the great Champion of the Papists under the fifth rib And though the King married to a French Lady yet he espoused not her Religion much less the Counsels of that Court to which he was alway averse Yet I remember it was said by a late Writer That the Parliament whom he was bound to believe made it their great argument and advantage against the King that he favoured the Papists on which supposition thousands came in to fight for their cause And one Article against the Arch-bishop was That he endeavoured to introduce Popery though Mr. Prynne proved a design of the Papists to cut them both off as their most formidable Enemies And the Relation of Dr. Du Moulin saith That at the death of that good King a known Papist was heard to say That now their greatest Enemy was cut off I think no good man will accuse the Nation of Super-Loyalty in the State when so much real Mischief was wrought by such groundless Jealousies that caused a fatal War against so Religious a Prince and by the same Arts a preternatural Ferment as he says has ever since disturbed the Peace of the State. As to the other head the Super-Conformity that troubled the Church which must be cast out or he