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A66831 Loyalty amongst rebels the true royalist, or, Hushay the Archite, a happy counsellour in King David's greatest danger / written by Edward Wolley ... Wolley, Edward, 1603-1684. 1662 (1662) Wing W3266; ESTC R31822 59,179 224

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the first and of Scotland the 37. in the Synod begun at London No person shall hereafter be received into the Ministry nor either by institution or collation admitted to any Ecclesiastical living or by the Arch-Bishop or Bishop of the Diocess except he shall first subscribe to these three Articles in such sort and manner as we have here appointed Article I. That the Kings Majestie under God is the only supream Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highness Dominions and Countries as well in all spiritual or ecclesiastical things or causes as temporal and that noforrain Prince Person Prelat or Potentate have or ought to have any jurisdiction power superiority preheminence or authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within his Majesties said Realmes Dominions and Countries Article II. That the book of Common-prayer and of ordering of Bishops Priests and Deacons containeth nothing in it contrary to the word of God and that it may lawfully be used and that he himself will use the form in the said book prescribed in publick prayer and administration of the Sacraments and none other Article III. That he alloweth the book of Articles of Religion agreed upon by the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of both Provinces and the whole Clergy in the convocation held at London in the year of our Lord God one thousand five hundred sixty and two and that he acknowledgeth all and every the Articles therein contained being in number nine an thirty besides the Ratification to be agreable to the word of God The form of words to avoid all ambiguities followeth viz. Setting down his Christian and Surname I N. N. do willingly and ex Animo subscribe to these three Articles above mentioned and to all things contained in them An Oath against Symony at institution into Benifices I N. N. do swear that I have made no symonical payment Can. 40. contract or promise directly or indirectly by my self or any other to my knowledge or with my consent to any person or persons whatsoever for concerning and obtaining this ecclefiastical dignity place preferment office or living respectively and particularly naming the same whereunto he is to be admitted instituted collated installed or confirmed nor will at any time hereafter perform or satisfie any such kind of payment contract or promise made by any other without my knowledg or consent So help me God through Iesus Christ And as the Clergy are obliged to subscribe ex Animo to the three Articles contained in the 37 canon so are they when they receive holy orders and are made Deacons or Priests at their ordination or when they receive institution to any Ecclesiastical Living or Promotion and Installation to any Dignity in the Church obliged to canonical obedience to their respective Diocesans and the Bishops likewise are at their consecrations obliged to promise Canonical obedience to their Metropolitans and the respective Arch-Bishops of either Provinces and Sees of Canterbury and York and the Arch-Bishops likewise promise and vow the dutyes of Faith and true Allegiance to the King when at their homage kneeling before the King they take an Oath of Fealty and Obedience to the King and his lawful heirs and successors These are most holy and sacred d d Iuramentum est confirmatio verbi dequo juratur Orig. bonds more fit for all the Sonnes of Aaron and the Tribe of Levy and These do breed keep and cherish Peace unity in the Church e e Quid est jurare per Deum nifi testis est Deus D. August de verbis Apostoli sermn 28. oblige the inferiour orders to their superiours in fine unite all ecclesiastick subjects in true Allegiance to their King And though the Anabaptists and some squemish Phanaticks cunningly instructed or factiously engaged are shy of such sacred oaths and obligations yet it is warranted from the holy Scripture Thus Abimelech and Phicol required an Oath from Abraham Gen. 21.23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsly with me nor with my Son nor with my Sonns Son Thus Moses directeth Israel f f Deut. 6.13.10.12.13.4 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God and serve him and swear by his name Thus g g Ezra 10.5 Ezra arose and made the cheif Priests the Levites and all Israel to swear that they should do according to this word and they sware And if yet any deluded or factious Curiosity be not satisfied but will object evangelical strict Commands against lawful Oathes because Christ hath preached h h Matt. 5.34 1 Iam. 5.12 Swear not at all and St. Iames advised k k Hanc elimenta jurandi pessimam consuetudinem habere Iudaeinoscuntur D. Hiero. in 5. Mat. above all things my brethren swear not Yet these sacred Cautions and Commands were not to take away the lawful and holy but the unlawful and profane use and custome of Oathes Thus St. Hierom commenteth Our Saviour doth not utterly forbid an Oath sed per coelum terram jurare St. Augustine seems more full and plain saying that Counsel was given to prevent an idle and sinful habit of swearing which from a profane facility might quickly run into custome and so fall into perjury or that no persons should be affected with customary Oathes or swearing k k Dico vobis non jurare omnino ne scil jurando ad facilitatem jurandi Porventatur en facultate jurandi ad conseitudinem à consuetudine in Perjurium decidatur D. August de mendacio cap. 15. or greedily with delight and delectation to seek and hunt after Oathes which on good grounds may be lawful and for a good end and purpose to discern truth and to end all Controversies And thus St. Paul on several occasions hath presented himself an Apostolical exemplar to Gods Church And to all that hath been said it may be further added That it is a Theological determination of the Church of England l l Articles of Religion 39. Article to which every true sonne hath or ought to subscribe and submit That as vain and rash swearing is forbidden Christian men by our Lord Iesus Christ and Iames his Apoctle so we judge that Christian Religion doth not prohibit but that a man may swear when the Magistrate requireth in a cause of faith and charity So it be done according to the Prophets teaching in Iustice Iudgement and Truth The Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy enjoined by order of Parliament The Oath of Allegiance I A. B. Do truly and sincerely acknowledge professe testifie and declare in my conscience before God and the world that our Soveraign Lord King Charles is lawful and rightful King of this Realm and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries and that the Pope neither of himself nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any power or authority to depose the King or to dispose any of his Majesties
Kingdomes or Dominions or to authorise any Foreign Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and obedience to his Majesty or to give license or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I do swear from my heart that notwithstanding any Declaration or sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successours or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successours or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successours and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successours all Treasons and Trayterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do further swear That I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical this Damnable Doctrine and Position That princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be lawfully administred unto me and do renounce all pardons and dispensations to the contrary And all these things I doe plainly and sincerely acknowledge swear according to these expresse words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition and acknowledement heartily willingly and truly upon the true faith of a Christian So help me God c. The Oath of Supremacy I A. B. Do utterly testifie and declare in my conscience that the King 's Highnesse is the onely Supream Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesse's Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal And that no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all Forraign Jurisdictions Powrs Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the King's Highnesse his Heirs and lawfull Successours and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highness his Heirs and successours or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and by the contents of this book These Platforms and models of Oathes as they are of holy use to unite our fidedelity to God and Man so they are of Divine Authority and seem to be influential from Heaven from whence we have the Sacred example so the Scriptures testifie Exod 33.1 Depart hence unto the Land which I swear unto Abraham Isaac and Jacob. Thus divine usage is very frequent with God Deut 1.8.34.35 Psal 95.9 Luk. 1.73 Heb. 6.13 Heb. 7.21 And as God pleased to confirm his promise with an Oath So King David Gods annointed voweth and sweareth calling on God and praying Lord remember David and all his Afflictions how he swear unto the Lord and vowed to the mighty God of Jacob. Psal 132.1 2. And Solomon his royal Son gave Counsel to all his subjects and all the world I counsel thee to keep the Kings commandement and that in regard of the Oath of God Eccles 8.2 Having now set fourth the sacred ☜ Oaths and obligations of the Kings and Queens of England and of some of the cheif Officers and Ministers of State together with the Homage of the Ecclesiastical Hirarchy and temporal Nobility and of the three great Officers of Court the Lord high Steward the Master of the Horse and the Lord Chamberlain by their Oathes as privy counsellors under whose immediate command and power all servants at Court are sworn to fidelity and obedience in their respective relations and ranks of order degrees and subordinations It is plain and easie to every rational subject to discern and see the most excellent form of Government that the prudence and piety of former ages hath conveyed to the English to this present time and we cannot do less then admire and magnifie the gracious providence and riches of Gods favours to the Kingdome of England who hath with the golden chain of harmonious Government so lincked Kings and Queens to himself and all their subjects and people to their soveraign Princes that no Kingdome under the canopy of Heaven hath a better frame of Government either for Church or State or the transaction of Ecclesiastick or civil concernments and affaires in which there is such an incementing concatenation by wholesome laws and customes for justice and the happy preservation of all the peoples Rights that as the King may sit as happily and securely on his Throne as any Monarch on earth so his people may as prosperously thrive under his gracious Government and reposing themselves under their own vines and figtrees as cheerfully enjoy the inestimable blessings of their own just rights and labours Milk and Hony with the overflowing favours of Peace and Plenty How great a crime must it then be to wrest or break one of the invaluable lincks of this golden concatenation which Soveraign Princes graciously please to strengthen and consolidate if possible by their sacred Oathes to God which cannot but indear and more oblige ingenuous subjects to greater exactness of duty and fidelity considering that these pious proceeding are more acts of Grace and voluntary and Princely condescentions flowing from the fountaines of their own royal goodness being methods of high degrees of kindness and love where words or promises and those at their royal wills and pleasure are to be looked on not only as certainties and assurances but as deeds and compleat performances The civil Law expecteth as much from Noble men and Persons of Honour that there words be equally esteemed as their deeds m Promissa nobilinm pro factis habentur And Iser c. 1. Tantum fidei legalitatis presumitur in Nobilibus ut si quicquam promiserint id per equesit certum ac indubitatum ac si jam factum esset And Iser c 1.