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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

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

the Crown And if he has not what has he to do with it For my part I will never pay Allegiance to him as an Vsurper he ought rather to be told daily by his Chaplains that are of that mind that he ought to make Restitution It is not Lawful for thee to have thy Father Iame's Crown or else they are no St. John Baptists A Revelation sent on purpose from Heaven cannot oblige us to be Subjects to an Vsurper under that Notion because it is a Notion of Wrong and God himself cannot make Wrong to be Right And then shall any Wretch bid us in his Name to Swear to be Faithful to acknowledged Wrong and to be False to acknowledged and unextinguished Right In short an Vsurped Crown is a Stol'n Crown it is Blood 's Crown It is true indeed that God can give Kingdoms to whomsoever he will I know it He can make them a New World on purpose for them or take the Forfeiture of the Old and dispose of his own Creation as he pleases But then it must appear to his Will and he must send a New Revelation into the World along with such a highly Favoured Prince to every Man that is to be his Subject For I am not bound to do what God would have me do till I can certainly know that he would have me do it Promulgation is of the Essence of a Law And this Extraordinary Revelation ought to be as clear and as distinct as Abraham's was for the Sacrificing his Son for it is as contrary to all the settled Rules of Right to dethrone a rightful King as it is to destroy an only Son And yet that Command was only intended for a trial of Abraham's Obedience neither would God suffer it that there should be a Precedent of an Humane Sacrifice in the World though at his Own bidding Is it not enough for an Vsurper to wrong a Prince of his Crown but this must be Hallowed by false Prophets and said to be done in God's Name And this proved by no better Argument than Mahomet's Miracle of Success and Settlement If therefore a pretended Prophet tells me that I am to own an Vsurper as God's Choice and by Divine Right and therefore he is no Vsurper I must needs Answer that the Title is far fetch 't and comes a great way and therefore I must desire to see some proof in point and shall always call for Miracles for what is said to come from Heaven And if I had but one half of the Sense which God has given me I should never be satisfied with the Mahomet an Miracle of Success and Settlement That Impostor's Come-off when he was call●d upon for Miracles was this That God had sent Moses his first Prophet with Miracles when the belief of them was worn out and the Iews were degenerated he sent Iesus the Son of Mary with more Miracles which did good for a time but his Followers likewise degenerated and altered their Books And then he sent Mahomet his last Prophet not with Miracles which had failed and miscarried twice before but with the Mouth of the Sword You ask for a Miracle says he Did not we Sack the City Tauris the other day and put them all to the Sword There 's a Miracle for you I confess I have loved a Good Cause in my time better than my Life but never a crumb the better for Success But on the other hand the want of Success has made it the dearer to me Success is the new Weathercock upon the Banqueting-house at White-hall for when the Popish Priests saw the Wind Westerly then it was Deus pro nobis but when at last it stood Easterly to bring over the Prince of Orange then it was Deus contra nos And so God is made to be of all Sides at that rate What if this Settlement should be Vnsetled which God of his Mercy defends as I am bold to say it cannot stand upon King James's Rubbish no more than a new Pile of Building upon the Heaps which lay in the Stone Gallery Well what then Why then in that supposed Case though the Wind be against us will I venture a weather-beaten Life for his Majesty's Service but not an Hair of my Head if I can help it for several Ministers he has In short Vsurpation is of the Devil and at the rate that any Man alive shall prove by the Old standing Revelation we have that an Vsurper is a King by Divine Right will I prove that the French and Irish Massacres were by Divine Right and that every one of those three hundred and fifty thousand Souls which fell therein were well killed and that it was all the Lord●s doing For there is as plain and as legible Scripture 1 Sam. 2. 6. The Lord killeth and maketh alive to entitle Him to that bloody Business as there is to make him the Setter up of Divine Vsurpers Conquest is likewise another wicked False Title to unsettle the Throne This the Prince of Orange disclaimed with detestation in his Additional Declaration as the Horridest Calumny that could be invented against him and so Unnatural a thing for an English man to join in as if it had been to be Felo de se. If this Pretension had been set up when the Prince of Orange came he had never marched forty Miles in England though he had come five times stronger than he did And that which would infallibly have Barr'd him out of England then can never settle him in it now no not though it were preach't from the Clouds as it only is from the Pulpit which they have rendred by such means very insignificant For what is Conquest Why truly it is a Publick Enemy got within us It is the King of France not at Tingmouth but at White-Hall A Conqueror is one whom no after Treaties nor Consent can ever make a King for he must have the Consent of Slaves and Minors who have nothing to give who cannot make a Will though it were their last who cannot be Parties to a Contract for that is everlastingly impossible unless Men be sui Juris and their own Men at the same time In a word Conquest may perhaps extend to lawful Plunder and to Goods and Chattels which I never took the People of a Free Nation to be But if such a Prize-Office-Divinity must needs be set up that always supposes the Right of Reprizals Desertion is manifestly False for King James must needs go he was as much driven from England as Nebuchadnezzar was driven to Grass and he Claimed as he Fled by the Rochester Letter And as for the Wonderful Mystery of dropping the Great Seal in the Thames if it was done purposely there was a very Wise Reason for it For if it had fallen into other hands the Broad-Seal of England might have been immediately employed in Proclamations and otherwise against himself As Queen Elizabeth made use of Queen Mary's Great Seal for a good while which the