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A46942	An argument proving, that the abrogation of King James by the people of England from the regal throne, and the promotion of the Prince of Orange, one of the royal family, to throne of the kingdom in his stead, was according to the constitution of the English government, and prescribed by it in opposition to all the false and treacherous hypotheses, of usurpation, conquest, desertion, and of taking the powers that are upon content / by Samuel Johnson.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1692 (1692)	Wing J821; ESTC R2049	28,065	64

I will never suppose in his time Himself being Iudg we shall then want a new Revolution as much as we did his But there are some Men so secure now Popery is gone though in great part it is where it was and that for such a wise Reason as never was in the World because our Allies are Papists whereas all the Papists here are French Papists and entirely in that Interest but because Popery is gone they have no Apprehensions of Slavery Whereas Slavery is Popery Mahometanism Paganism Atheism or any thing that the Prince pleases For a Slave is a Dog that must leap over a Stick and leap back again at his Master's bidding Desertion was Discussed whereby the Cause was puzzled and then there was need of a new Contrivance and so Conquest was started and it was asserted in the Pastoral Letter that the King had a Right to the Crown by Conquest and that it was a great Condescension to receive it at the Hands of the People This raised two Bishops more to pitch upon Conquest as the stronger Hypothesis of the two the one of which answered poor Ashton's Speech and the other has given us but one Third of his Sermon which has been about two Years in modelling I called him poor Ashton because I heartily pitied his Death For he acted in Pursuance of those Principles which his Answerer to my Knowledg has publickly Preach'd above these twenty Years and which were Church-of England-Doctrine or else they had none during that time I knew their Doctrine was false and the Men false and that they would never be Martyrs for it But they have an excellent hand at Martyr-making and when they have brought Men to the Gallows they leave them in the lurch after the same manner as they report the Devil does a VVitch But then they need not write against them The Answerer's Argument is That we ought to swear Allegiance to the Conqueror for so they do in the new French Conquests and the Right of War here is the same as it is abroad VVe thank him for his Love as much as if we did but we will never submit to be in the Condition of Mons and Namur till we are taken by Storm And if by his saying that the Right of VVar Here is the same as Abroad he means that we are the New Dutch Conquests as the words are capable of no other meaning I will never trouble my Head with that Matter for whenever Foreigners pretend to be Lord-Danes here in England I will leave that Controversy to our Wives who can best decide it Behold thrice Honourable and thrice Sage Representatives of your Country what is become of your English Rights You are by this Doctrine a Subdued Nation and a Foreign Conquest and then I am sure that all the boasted English Liberties amount to no more than this that our Thoughts are free and your Post-letters Frank. Another Conquering Bishop that heretofore helped to Spoil the Prince of Orange's First Declaration and to put a full stop to his Expedition by the proffered Advice which the Bishops gave King James to Palliate our Grievances and to have cheated the Nation the most effectually that could be has lately done as much for the Second Declaration and has endeavoured to render it the Falsest Paper in the World With your leave and patience I will make out my Story When the Prince of Orange had made his Preparations aud our Court was sensible of it there was Means made to draw several Noblemen to Court to make their Complement to King James which was to make a Shew to the World by the help of the Gazette that the most disobliged Peers were wholly in King James's Interest Accordingly the Bishops who hade made themselves Popular by refusing the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience and by beginning to quote Law when it came to excusing themselves from digging their own Graves were likewise sent for to Court When the Summoned Bishops came to the King Septemb. 28. the Arch-Bishop being then not well there passed nothing but Acknowledgements of Duty and Loyalty on their Side and gracious Promises of Favour and Protection from their King This surprized these overweening Persons who thought they had been sent for to advise the King in these difficult Affairs Hereupon they repaired to the Arch-Bishop who waited upon the King Sept. 30. with a proffer of their Advice which he was ready to accept and had it three days after in eleven Articles which have been several times printed and boasted of As soon as ever I saw them I plainly perceived that they were all of them deceitful and Mountebank Remedies and being urged for my Opinion of them I gave my Thoughts very freely concerning them and the rather because they were said to be very much applauded abroad I said that I was sure the King would comply with them but not all at once but he would make his Concessions so as to garnish the Gazette with them twice a week and to amuse the People with a Succession of Favours as if there were to be no end of them That these Grievances being thus Redressed there would be no need of the Prince of Orange's Expedition to take care of that which was already done to his hand and he might even stay on the other Side where he was That these Concessions would stand till the King had recovered his Fright and then all things would return into the old Channel for by this Advice he would put nothing out of his reach and by fresh Quo-Warranto's he would fetch back the Charters in a few Terms and every thing else in a less time But if he should make any shew of being reconciled to the Protestant Religion which was the last part of their Mischievous Advice it would very much impose upon the Nation though it might make for the Interest of the Advisers For the Advice was selfish I plainly saw and all over Church and tbe Ecclesiastical Commission Dispensations the two Magdalen Colleges Iesuits Schools the four Apostolick Vicars which carried the Grist from their Mill and not filling the Vacant Sees particularly that of York was the burden of their Complaint Whereupon I could not forbear saying That if the Inn-keepers of England had been Bishops and all the Bishops Inn-keepers for several Years past then they would have thought a Standing Army a Grievance which was not so much as mention'd in this Advice and which would at any time retrieve all the former Concessions I said therefore I was afraid they did not mean Honestly but intended to forestal our expected Deliverance and to intercept the Prince's Voyage but if they meant in favour of the Prince's coming their proffered Politicks would nor qualifie them to be States-men But I much more questioned their Honesty than their Understanding and therefore was sorry to see so Generous a Design as the Prince's was to be Unblest by Bishops and puzzled by a little Priest-Craft The thing was taken

AN ARGUMENT PROVING That the Abrogation of King Iames by the People of England from the Regal Throne and the Promotion of the Prince of Orange one of the Royal Family to the Throne of the Kingdom in his stead was according to the Constitution of the English Government and Prescribed by it In Opposition to all the false and treacherous Hypotheses of Usurpation Conquest Desertion and of taking the Powers that Are upon Content By SAMVEL IOHNSON Nec Deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus Inciderit Horat. LONDON Printed for the Author 1692. TO THE COMMONS of ENGLAND in Parliament Assembled THE favourable Acceptance which my Bounden Services to my Country as I ever accounted them though they were always difficult and upon the Forlorn have heretofore found in your Honourable House hath caused me to bring you this small Offering In former Days an Appeal to the Parliament was a removal of the Cause from White-Hall but it is our peculiar Happiness in this Reign that we live under a Prince who had no other Business here but to restore the Constitution which as his Declaration speaks was wholly overturned in the former Reigns and who lay under a happy Necessisty of assisting the People to assert their Rights before he could secure His own Right and Remainder in the Crown This Subversion and Overturning of the best Frame of Government in the World was very artificially managed and began at your House which has been run down as an Innovation and no Essential Part of Parliament a Mushroom sprung up in the 49th of H. 3. and founded in Rebellion as if You had no deeper Root in the Government than Corn has upon the House top This scurvy Pedigree of the Commons in Parliament drawn up by Dr. Brady was so well liked by the Loyal Clergy and particularly he was so applauded by Jovian that Mr. Petyt found the Tide so strong against him as not to venture on a Reply though to my knowledg he was furnished with a very good one But that is not so material when you began as what you are and of the two it is better to be an Upstart Authority than a silly Cypher and thus you have been represented to all the degrees of Insignificancy Your Precarious Being was told you by a wonderful Statesman who did not spare to inform you That as the King had Created the House of Commons by his Power so he would Preserve it by his Goodness but then come some of the Clergy and say what little Creatures both you and the House of Lords are Dr. Hicks lodges in the King the whole Legislative or the Power that makes any form of Words a Law He says The Sovereign Power may indeed be limited as to the Exercise of this Legislative Power which may be confined to Bills and Writings prepared by others but still it is the Soveraign Authority who gives Life and Soul to the dead Letter of them Now this is so contrary to the Constitution as nothing can be more For not only King Charles the First acknowledged that the Laws were jointly made by the King Lords and Commons though the Houses insisted upon more but also in every Act of Parliament that is made it is expresly said in the Enacting part that it is made by the Authority of them all whereas by this Doctrine the two Houses have only a Ministerial Office of preparing a Form of Words and furnishing Bills and Writings as the King's Printers use to do you with Pen Ink and Paper And in short the King alone makes Laws and the two Houses only find Stuff Now if this sort of Paradox had been advanced concerning the Parish-Chest of Barking where the Parson has one Key and each of the Church-wardens one they could soon have Mathematically shewn him that his Key had but one Third of the Chest-opening-Power and such a Mistake would only have made a Iest But in a Case of more Consequence than all the Land in the Nation if it were now to be sold is worth such false Positions are very Dangerous For if the Legislative were once contracted in one single Hand it were as absurd to say it could be limited in the Exercise of it as it is to say that your House has not Power over your own Orders to recal and alter them as you think fit What shall hinder the whole Legislative At this rate the Saying of which my Lord Lauderdale has had the Honour would have been true that he hoped to see the King's Edicts to be Laws and above the Laws for all New Laws are always too hard for the old ones And the Arbitrary Proclamation to forbid the Nation to Petition for a Parliament had been a Law if the whole Legislative Authority was in it for the L. C. I. North found it very easy to supply the place of both Houses in drawing up the Form of Words However this is very civil Usage to what you have had from other Hands for in this way you have still left you the Honour of being Clerks and of drawing up a Form of Words But Dr. Womack in his Short Way to a lasting Settlement printed by Robert Clavel the chief Design of which was to out the two Houses from having any share or Authoritative Hand as he calls it in making the Laws and was shortly after made a Bishop for the Service has this very insolent Expression The Houses you say have a hand in the Legislation So hath the Beggar in my Almes As soon as I saw this Odious Comparison I knew it was falsly applied for even the Coronation-Oath acknowledges that the Laws of England are of the Folks choosing and it is certain that Beggars are no Choosers But I humbly beseech both Houses upon this Occasion to have a special care how they suffer this sort of Men to have the Ascendant who treat them in this manner because we have a very harsh English Proverb concerning Beggars In the Year of Jovian 83. wherein these Doctrines were published and rung all over the Nation some of the Honourable Beggars that were for a Bill of Exclusion of the Duke of York in his First Desertion and were for keeping him out when he was out after their Lives had been long hunted by these Men fell into their Nets Which Bill had given us this happy Reign several Years sooner and had saved the Lives of more than an Hundred thousand Men whose Blood lies at their Door but it was then their Hour and the Power of Darkness Let that Year be blotted out of Chronology These Doctrines I conceive are Destructive to the Nation because they undermine the Power and Authority of Parliaments who represent the Nation and are the Conservers of our Liberties if we had any but those are all taken away by another of their new-adopted Church-Doctrines of Passive-Obedience which I therefore look upon as the worst of them because it lays waste all your Laws after you have made

the Nation they sent him to God to give an Account For which Reason I cannot abide that Saying of being Accountable only to God In the mean time the Mishpat Hamelek and the Right of an Arbitrary and Despotick King is revived by this Doctrine and the things which are Caesar's according to their former false Glosses is every thing that is not preingaged to God which we all know is the Church's Portion So that the Church and Caesar divide the World betwixt them Or as Dr. Ball used to lisp it out in his Court-Sermons Lives and Estates Wives and Children all things were Thaethar's all we had was Thaethar's and therefore we were to render it to Thaethar But I suppose no able Lawyer in either Temple of which he was Master was ever able to understand this blaese Divinity It is true the Scripture calls Princes Gods and that is enough for Court-Parasites For when they have got such a Scripture-Metaphor by the end how have I seen them ride on the Ridg of it Then Subjects withdrawing their Obedience from their Lawful Prince is a denying God's Authority Treason against him is a kind of Sacrilege a Revolt from him an Apostacy from God a Resisting him an opposing God rebelling against him fighting with God the setting up the Title of a Counterfeit Prince against the true One an introducing a Plurality of Godheads the obeying of an Usurper Idolatry the slandering his Anointed and his Footsteps a blaspheming God the blaming his Conduct a quarrelling with Providence I have said ye are Gods is divulged Scripture and every Body has heard it aloud an hundred times but there is a neglected Text of Scripture as full of Inspiration as that which never used to be quoted Prov. 28. 15. A roaring Lion and a ranging Bear is a wicked Ruler over the poor People Here are two Metaphors for their one and if any Body were disposed to follow the way of their former Descant it must run thus upon this Text. A Lion is a Beast of Prey seeking whom he may devour therefore give him no Law destroy all his Iackalls deliver the Prey out of his Teeth and wear his Spoils as Hercules did A ranging Bear will kill you if you do not kill him therefore destroy all his Cubs for they will be Bears in time set a Price upon their Heads and let the Church-wardens pay it This Text is so lively a Picture of a bad Prince that the Messieurs of the Port Royal are amazed at it and say thus in their Annotations upon it Il n'appartient qu'à Dieu de dire des Veritez si etonnantes It belongs to no body but God to say such astonishing Truths But he is so good an Authority that any body may safely say such astonishing Truths after him Now an hungry ranging Bear cannot possibly be a God and therefore when David calls Princes Gods he meant Good Princes Benefactors to Mankind and not his Son Solomon's Bears who cannot be called Gods no not by a Figure And this Distinction is so natural that it became Proverbial in several of the Learned Languages Homo Homini Deus Homo Homini Lupus One Man is a God to another and one Man is a Wolf to another And so far as Princes resemble God himself in Iustice and Goodness let them wear the Psalmist's titular Honour of Gods and good Luck may they have with it but when they degenerate into Solomon's Beasts of Prey it would be so harsh a Figure to call them Gods that no Language upon Earth can bear it unless it can be that Figure whereby they use to call things in Scorn And yet our false Pulpits used to treat the Bears as if they had been Divinities when they had just been sucking the best Blood in the Nation and when they had had more Carnage in half a Year's time than Popish Queen Mary had in her whole Reign But if there be no difference betwixt a Good Prince and a Bad why did the Nation a great number of them with the apparent hazard of their Lives give themselves the Trouble and Charge of this present Exchange King James would have served their turn as well How came the Prince of Orange so generously to undertake his Expedition but to rescue us out of the Paw of the Bear If we had been under a God there had been nothing amiss and there had been no cause with Force and Arms to have sent him a travelling where he is to the Head-Quarters of Tyranny But the worried People of England invited the Prince and the Prince assisted the worried People of England who at last laid their Hands on their Swords and were unanimously bent to join him against all their Oppressors And so we came by our Deliverance The People of England if they had not been enslaved by the base Doctrine of Passive Obedience might very easily have done their own Work themselves for whom it was most Proper for his Majesty acknowledges in his Additional Declaration That his Preparations were to Assist the People against the Subverters of their Religion and Laws So that it was their Work principally to which they invited his Assistance and prayed him in Aid And on the other hand his Words were these We do Invite and Require all Persons whatsoever all the Peers of the Realm Spiritual and Temporal all Lords Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants and all Gentlemen Citizens and other Commons of all Ranks to come and assist Us in order to the executing of this our Design against all such as shall endeavour to oppose Us that so we may prevent all those Miseries which must needs fall upon the Nation 's being kept under Arbitrary Government and Slavery and that all the Violences and Disorders which have Overturned the whole Constitution of the English Government may be fully Redressed in a Free and Legal Parliament This Invitation sounded the best to me of any that came since the Gospel came but according to the Passive-Obedience-Men it was a Call to Hell and to dip the Nation one and all into Damnation for he that resisteth shall receive to himself Damnation If the Prince had directed this Invitation to them he had spoken to Stocks and Stones that could not stir nay they could not possibly be Neutral for by their forward treacherous Loyalty they had staked down their Lives and Fortunes on the other Side long before and by their Principles were as dangerous to him as so many Grandvalls So that it was only the brave and sound part of the Nation that was not tainted with the Poison of Passive Obedience which Assisted his Majesty in his Arrival to White-Hall and afterwards in his Access to the Throne or else he had never come there There was not an honest Man in England capable of joining the Prince but he that thought it his Right to defend his Right which was always the standing English Principle kept alive in the late Tyranny it self though to the continual hazard of