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A33246	A defence of the present government under King William and Queen Mary shewing the miseries of England under the arbitrary reign of the late King James II, the reasonableness of the proceedings against him, and the happiness that will certainly follow a peaceable submission to, and standing by King William and Queen Mary / by a divine of the Church of England.	Claridge, Richard, 1649-1723.	1689 (1689)	Wing C4432; ESTC R35640	5,241	12

the Apostle's Advice Stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ hath by his Glorious Instrument made us free and be not entangled again with the Yoke of the Roman bondage Gal. 5. 1. Let the Scruples of those which refuse to take the Oath of Allegiance to K. William and Q. Mary weigh nothing with us For doubtless we are discharged of our Obligation to the late King James and among others for these Reasons his Arbitrariness breach of Contract withdrawing his Protection selling us for Slaves to a Foreign Prince and State and conspiring against us in a hostile manner And the Crown being now K. W's and Q. M's by Right and Fact being settled upon them by a Parliament lawfully called lawfully chosen and lawfully proceeding notwithstanding all the factious and slanderous Pamphlets The Dissertion discussed The History of the Convention or New-Christened Parliament c. We are obliged in Conscience to bear Faith and true Allegiance to their Majesties and when required to swear the same They are our lawfull Governours We live under their Protection and therefore they deserve our Allegiance There are some Laymen as well as Divines that lodg the supreme Power solely in the Person of the King and make him anuputheros unaccountable to any but God. They farther say He can doe no Wrong and the whole guilt of Male-Administration lies upon his Ministers but He is Innocent But these are Maxims that were first invented by Court Parasites and Flatterers raised by the Prince's Favour and live by his Bread and have ever since been maintained by a Generation of the same Stamp Were our Government an absolute Monarchy an Exception would not lie but being limitted the King is accountable to the Kingdom represented in Parliament for all the Outrages and Oppressions committed by his means otherwise Laws and Parliaments would be useless Liberty and Property empty Names And whereas say they the King can doe no Wrong unless it be understood with this limitation He acting by and according to Law He may no doubt be altogether as Arbitrary as the Grand Seignior These are pernicious Positions and advance the English Monarchy too high because they infer an Inerribility in the King which is as dangerous to the State as Infallibility to the Church Let then every true Patriot and Englishman fix here That the King is intrusted with the Executive power of the Law for the good of the People and the People are to obey and assist him in the Execution of this high Trust but if he abuses this Power as the Disserter did to the monifest Oppression of his People the People represented in Parliament may take that Trust from him and give it to another who will govern them in Justice and Clemency and defend them in their Religious and Civil Rights And now methinks 't is strange that any who are called Protestants should declare Love for the Reformed Religion and yet say they cannot in Conscience Renounce the late King. The Protestant and Popish Intrest are as contrary as Fire and Water and a Popish Head upon a Protestant Body is like committing a Flock of harmless Sheep to the Custody of a Ravenous Wolf They shall be kept but it is only for Prey and Destruction We cannot have a Popish King without a Popish Religion either tolerated or authorized in this Nation Tolerated it may be for a time as 't was in the late violent Reign but that Toleration was purely to get strength enough to it till it was able to weather all Opposition and then to have given it the Protection of a Law so that the Adherence to and Espousing of the late King's Cause can signifie no less in the natural tendency and construction of it than an Affection for Popery and the miserable consequences thereof the Loss of English Liberty and Property seeing the one cannot be had without the other It is now farther made apparent that His Interest and the French King 's are linked together their Counsels and Designs the same Both conspiring in one great Plot to extirpate the Protestant Religion in General What Friends then his Favourers are to the Reformed Religion may be seen plain enough without the help of Spectacles Whereas we ought to Oppose him as a publick Enemy even with our Lives and Fortunes and as a Branch of our just Allegiance to their present Majesties discover all Treasonable Attempts and Practices against them and vigorously support their Crown and Dignity against the blasphemous Harangues and seditious Libels that are too frequently vented among us But alas how soon have some men forgot both the Day and the glorious Instrument of our Deliverance What Murmuring and Discontent what false Fears and Jealousies what unkind Returns and Prejudices would if it were possible darken the Son of the most Heroick Prince and pervent the Ends of the most christianly generous Enterprize in the World Were we not appointed as Sheep for the Slaughter But God sent him to interpose between the Knife and the Sacrifice When the great Tree of our Government was in a manner quite cut down by the Romish Axes he came and secured it from falling and made it grow again even to a Miracle If ever a Deliverer was worthy of the chief Seat in our Affections it must be this Incomparable Prince Trophies and Statues and Panegyrical Orations are fit for those Ambitious Monarchs who have no Real and Intrinsick Worth but the Unparallel'd Vertues of our Excellent Deliverer as they are far above such poor perishing Pageantry so his Merits will be get him a more lasting Monument of Love Loyalty and Gratitude in the Hearts of his People In a word We are under God indebted to Him for all that we have for our Religion our Laws our Lives our Liberties and Estates What an Infamy then will it bring upon us and our Memories to be ungratefull I would therefore advise all those who go under the Denomination of Protestants and yet appear sticklers for the late King's Interest to make timely Retractation and endeavour to compensate the Disservice they have done the Protestant Cause by a chearfull and hearty compliance with the present Government and by paying hence forward a consciencious Obedience to their gracious Majesties K. William and Q. Mary And particularly let those of the Clergie whose past Obstinacy has been a constant Lecture of Rebellion to the People change their Text and let their future good Example be a Sermon of Obedience Let them doe their Duty as Divines and leaving civil Things to the civil Powers approve themselves the Ambassadours of Christ by preaching those Healing Doctrines of Humility Peace and Love and by speaking all the same thing And that they may not frustrate one of the most glorious Ends of his Majesties Declaration Decl. p. 13. printed at the Hague Octob. 8. 1688. the Establishing of a good Agreement between the Church of England and all Protestant Dissenters Let them whether Fathers or Sons of the Church be intreated to lay down all Anger and Dissention about Indifferent Things and that Spirit of Persecution which by Estranging our Brethren and hindering their Union hath formerly too much weakened our own and strengthened the Roman Party Consider our Saviour hath recommended to us the Spirit of Love Meekness and Moderation and the Apostle hath commanded us to have no Divisioms but to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace and in righteousness of life What a monstrous Folly and Madness is it to differ about Indifferent Things and not at all necessary to Salvation To quarrel about the Bark about the Shell and Carkass of Religion Remember we have strove so long already about Rites and Accidents that we had almost lost the very Substance of true Religion God in his Mercy has delivered us let us sin no more lest we provoke him still to scourge us If this passionate but modest Address may prevail to influence those for whom it is writ then shall the Hopes and Designs of Rome and France de defeated our Fears shall vanish our Religion and our Laws shall triumph and the Golden Age be restored to these Kingdoms FINIS Eccl. Pol. l. 1. c. 10. p. 86.