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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59833	Observations upon Mr. Johnson's remarks, upon Dr. Sherlock's book of non-resistance	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing S3305; ESTC R9591	14,732	24

persons whether Ecclesiastical or Civil to be lodged in the person of a Protestant King in whose Dominions he Lives and upon Oath declares that he believes no person or persons upon Earth have any power to release him from this Oath or from any part of it and that therefore as he ought so he will bear Faith and true Allegiance to that King whilst he Lives and to his Heirs and lawful Successors when he is Dead now comes Julian Johnson and tells him after some other Discourse wherein he persuaded him not to think he lay under any Obligation to that Oath pish Sir you are a young Christian and a Stranger to that Liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free the King you are Sworn to hates your Religion and persecutes your Person the Church has declared him a Heretick and the State a Tyrant and an Oath made to a Tyrant is void unlawful and wicked the time of our Redemption is come and Redemption is a Title though Conquest is not and will make your Redeemer the rightfullest King that ever sat upon the Throne Why man are you not satisfi'd yet your want of satisfaction lies hid in Lurking places and reasons best known to your self for I am able to prove if occasion required Non tali Auxilio ne Defensoribus istis Tempus eget That your Oath did never bind that it is an Oath which ought not to have been made and is now as if it were never made which was ill made and would be worse kept and by this time my Blade begins to relent truly Sir I have been always taught and always believed otherwise but for the preservation of Catholick Religion and the good of Holy Church I must submit to your unanswerable Arguments and then he breaks an Oath which he had but little Inclination to keep Now let any man in the world judge whether this be any more than fair turning of the Tables and giving just the same Sauce to the Goose that you gave to the Gander for what Protestant King in the world has any reason to think this Perjury in his Popish which any Popish King has not to think this Perjury in his Protestant Subjects with this aggravation of the matter into the Bargain that the Protestants have constantly accused the Church as prevaricating in this matter and have abhorr'd her upon that very Score which ought to set that Example at the greatest distance from us and every word of this the Catholicks in Queen Elizabeth's days might well have pleaded if the Spanish Invasion had succeeded and no doubt they would have had their appointed days of Thanksgiving also and have celebrated Philip of Spain as their great and glorious Deliverer from Heresy and Slavery Thus by laying the Scene under another Reign we may take a just Estimate of the unaccountable Partiality we are guilty of in our own Cause whereas there ought to be legitima personarum mutatio in order to the true understanding and practising the greatest and the most comprehensive Rule of Righteousness Whatsoever you would that men should do unto you do you even so unto them Now if all the Priests in the Church of Rome were just such Casuists as you are and all the People of that Communion could believe them and would be directed by them you might as well shackle the Hellespont and commit the Sea to the Gate-House or make any other Gotham-Act to hedge in these Cuckows for they upon this principle bid the same defence to any Law Oaths or Tests that the power or wit of man can make that you have done with less reason to Cambridge and the Church Julia shall spead the rest the Heathen Poet corrects the Christian Priest. Sunt qui in fortunae jam Casibus omnia ponunt Et nullo credunt Mundum Rectore moveri Fortuna volvente vices Lucis Anni Atque ideo intrepidi quaecunque Altaria tangunt Hic putat esse Deos ET PEIERAT Your 14 and 15 Pages are a glorious Apothesis of those men who were Executed according to Law for the meritorious Crimes of Treason and Rebellion Oh! that the Mastership of the Canonization-Office were but divided betwixt Mr. Baxter and you we must quickly reform and Correct our Calendar and in the room of the twelve Apostles those Church of England Preachers of Passive Obedience Insert the Names of Cromwell Bradshaw Ravilliack and Milton in the Company of some now alive but Quos dicere nolo Experiar quid concedatur in illos Quorum Flaminia tegitur Cinis atque Latina You have this expression concerning some you hate Who shed that more than Innocent Blood without adverting that every drop of Blood in man that pretends to be more than Innocent is for that very reason less you would do well to answer if you can that which you ignorantly call an infamous Libel the Magistracy and Government of England Vindicated and then perhaps we may call the Execution of that unfortunate but by his own Confession not very innocent Lord The Murther of a great Man I cannot indeed blame your concern for the Death of a man whom you first seduced as is credibly reported and then confirm'd in the fatal Doctrin of Resistance against the Supreme Power in case the Religion Established by Law were invaded which I cannot but believe that Lord then thought contrary to the then sentiments of Dr. Burnet and the Reverend Dean of Canterbury as evidently appears by Mr. Deans Letter to that unfortunate Nobleman and in that Letter he lays down these three Propositions First That the Christian Religion doth plainly forbid the Resistance of Authority Secondly That though our Religion be Established by Law which your Lordship urges as a difference between our Case and the Case of the Primitive Christians yet in the same Law which Establishes our Religion it is declared That it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms Besides that there 's a particular Law declaring the Power of the Militia to be solely in the King. And this ties the hands of Subjects though the Law of Nature and the general rules of Scripture had left us at Liberty which I believe they do not because the Government and Peace of humane Societies could not well subsist upon these Terms Thirdly Your Lordships Opinion is contrary to the declared Doctrin of all Protestant Churches and though some particular persons have taught otherwise yet they have been contradicted herein and Condemn'd for it by the generality of Protestants This is part of that Excellent Letter Dr. Tillotson wrote to my Lord to persuade him to repent of that dangerous Mistake by which he says his Lordship might prevent a mighty Scandal to the reformed Religion whether either or both of these great Men have changed their Opinion since and upon what Motives is neither my Duty nor my present Business to Enquire however no Mans Example shall shock me who know that Truth like its Eternal Author is

what reason according to what Law and by what Authority some body else must tell for you cannot What you say in this is gratis dictum and must be swallowed upon your sole Authority but that I do and always shall except against as insufficient even if it could not be suspected of partiality as in this last it vehemently is Pray what Authority have you to affirm which your Readers have not to deny But your next is a delicate flight in these words speaking about the Oath of Allegiance sworn to King James an Oath which ought not to have been MADE and is now as if it never had been MADE which was ill MADE and would be worse kept I suppose than it was MADE now there seems no other Answer required to this but a little of your own Jargon which a friend of mine has done to my Hands When a Corder a cording encord's him a Cord In cording that Cord he three Cords doth encord But if one of the Cords that encordeth uncord Then the Cord that uncordeth uncordeth the Cord. But to be serious though it be very difficult amidst such stuff as this let me ask you Do you seriously believe that the Oath of Allegiance made to King James did never bind Whom do you arraign when you say that Oath ought never to have been made did he make or enact it himself or was it not made and enforced in the good days of Queen Elizabeth and his Grandfather King James the First or was the exacting that Oath any part of the Accusation laid to the Charge of Charles the Martyr or did the bloody Preachers of your Doctrine of Resistance in those days suppress any of his Crimes out of a tender regard to his Person or Credit besides you say it was ill made and would be worse kept without considering the strange Incongruity of that expression indeed a thing that is ill made may be ill kept but how that which is ill made can be worse kept I find not the guilt of keeping must bear proportion to the guilt of making a Law because the effect must be commensurate to the Cause and though the stream may fall lower it cannot Naturally rise higher than the Fountain so that we who believe our selves under an Obligation to keep it are for so doing just as guilty and no more as those Parliaments that made it If then it was lawfully imposed and lawfully taken then as there needs no Angel to oblige us to keep it our Obligation arising from a greater Authority than theirs so none of that glorious Order either can or will oblige us to break it for they are the Ministers of good not evil You say page the 13th the Maxim of those you are pleased to call Male-Contents is better Popery than Perjury If my perfect agreement to the truth of that Proposition will render me a Male-Content I am and shall be I hope one all the days of my Life nay I will go one step farther if there be any thing on this side Hell worse than Popery I had rather it should befall me than that it should be kept out or prevented by any unlawful unjust or wicked means of mine whatever believe me he is either a mean Scholar in Religion or a very bold Man that dares say God stands in need of our Vertues but he must be a man of a more than ordinary Assurance of your Mettle that dares say God stands in need of our Vices Si Pergama Dextra Defendi possint etiam hac defensa fuissent With his own right hand and with his holy Arm he can get himself the Victory If he sees it good for us to enjoy the Blessing of a publick and free Exercise of our Religion he can do it without any Offence or fault of ours at all but if not we have been always taught and will constantly maintain and teach That we are in no Case to do evil that good may come of it not to break Gods Laws to maintain his Worship not to turn Bankrupts to Loyalty to drive the greater Trade in Religion not to shake hands with the Gospel to take the firmer hold of Christ not to forsake the Church of England to secure the Reformation not to bring in a Bill of Exclusion of the next rightful Heir to secure an Hereditary Monarchy not to think the Observation of the second and fourth a valuable Composition for the breach of the fifth and tenth Commandments these are slow Hebrew methods of Divinity to me as if all Religion were Analytical and the only way of Progression in Christianity were to be Retrograde in the duties of it For what good can our Religion do us when we defend it by means that dishonour both it and its Author You desire us to remember that the Popery and the Perjury have gone always together and have always been both of a side I agree with you entirely as to this matter and I have long fear'd the coming in of Popery and I thank you for discovering from what Quarter we are to expect it I have in all places and upon every fair opportunity freely declared that Popery could never come into England unless carried upon Protestants Shoulders and the four last years Reign has not in the least confuted but confirm'd and strengthned that Opinion Alas What a silly poor feeble thing is Popery in its proper Colours How easily was it driven out without a blow Did we not laugh at and despise the Reverse of Fabius's Wisdom manifested in their no less foolish than hasty and forward methods to bring Popery in When all the Protestants in the world could not have taken a more effectual course than themselves did to keep it out But Popery in its borrowed light confesses Anack whilst we Protestants by our Divisions lend it fatal Colours and a Gigantick proportion and Power in this she boasts like Archimedes she is able to turn the world upside down but she must sharpen her Instruments at your Forge and our Animosities must give her room whereon to set her Foot Must the Church of England be weakned for fear the Protestant Interest should be strong And will she not be weakned by the Deprivation of so many as are resolv'd to make a Conscience of keeping the Oaths that they have taken and from the Obligation of which they have sworn that no power upon Earth is able to absolve them So that if Perjury and Popery go always together and are of a side you have fairly acquitted us from any share in the guilt of Introducing it unless refusing to swear to a new Oath in direct Contradiction to one we have lawfully sworn already be Perjury and methinks you might as well call it any thing else See now what your Argument will amount to thus the fears or Interest of a Roman Catholick have overcome him and prevail'd upon him to take an Oath wherein he does from his heart acknowledge Supremacy in all Causes and over all