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A persvvassion to loyalty, or, The subject's dutie vvherein is proved that resisting or deposing of kings (under what spccious [sic] pretences soever couched) is utterly unlawfull / collected by D.O.; Herod and Pilate reconciled
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Owen, David, d. 1623.
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commanded to adore Idoles and to offer sacrifice they preferred God before their prince But when he called upon them to war August in Psal 124. and bad them invade any Nation they presently obeyed They did distinguish their eternall Lord from the temporall King yet they submitted themselves to their temporall Lord for his sake that was their eternall King Deschism Donatist Lib. 3. So far he Optatus Milevitanus is another pregnant witnesse Cum super Imperatoren nemo sit nisi solus Deus Seeing there is no man above the Emperor beside God alone which made the Emperor Donatus by advancing himselfe above the Emperour doth exceed the bounds of humanity and maketh himself a God rather than man in that he feareth and reverenceth him not Com. in Evang Ioh l. 12. c. 36. whom all men should honor next after God So far Optat. S. Cyril is of the same judgment Cui legis prevaricatores liberare licet nisi Legis ipsius authori Who can acquit them that break the Law from transgression beside the Law-giver As we see by experience in all humane States no man can without danger breake the Law but Kings themselves in whom the crime of prevarication hath no place For it was wisely said of one that it is a wicked presumption In Epist. ad Timoth. c. 2. v. 1. to say to a King Thou doest amisse So far he And also S. Chrysostome What meaneth the Apostle saith he to require Prayers Supplications Intercessions and Thanksgiving to be made for all men He requireth this to be done in the dayly service of the Church and the perpetuall rite of Dive Religion For all the faithfull do know in what manner prayers are powred out before the Lord morning and evening for all the word even for Kings and every man in authority Some man will peradventure say that for all must be understood of all the faithfull Which cannot be the Apostles meaning as may appeare by the words following viz for Kings seeing that Kings neither did then nor in many ages after serve the living God but continued obstinatly in infidelity which by course of succession they had received Thus far Chrysost See the preface before Basilic Dor. Our Modern Reformers teach us that which Paul and Chrysost neither knew nor beleeved that wicked Princes are not to be prayed for but to be resisted c. When the faction of Eutiches had prevailed against the Catholikes Leo the first had no other remedy than Prayers to God sighs teares and petitions to the Emperor Omnes partium nostrarum Ecclesiae c. All the Churches of these parts Bpist 24. ad Theod. Imper. all we Priests even with sighs and teares beseech your Majesty to command a generall Synode to be held in Italy that all offences beeing remooved there may remaine neither error in Faith nor division in Lâ—â—e Favor the Catholiques grant liberty to protect the Faith against Heretiques defend the state of the Church from ruin that Christ his right-hand may support your Empire Thus far Leo. When Gregory the great was accused for the murther of a Bishop in prison he wrote to one Sabinianus to cleare him to the Emperor and Empresse Breviter suggeras serenissimis Dominis meis Epist. lib. 7. Epist 1. You may briefly enforme my soveraigne Lord and Lady that if I their servant would have busied my self with the death of the Lombards that Nation would by this time have had neither Kings nor Duks nor Earles and should have been in great confusion and division but because I stood in aw of God I was ever afraid to meddle with the shedding of any mans bloud So far Gregory These Lombards were Pagans invaders of the Countrey ransackers of the City persecutors of the Saints robbers of the Church oppressors of the poore whom Gregory the first might and would not destroy quia Deum timuit because he seared God It is very like that his successor Gregory the 7 feared neither God nor man when he erected the papall croisier against the regall scepter and read the sentence of deprivation against the Emperor Henry Ego authoritate Apostolica c. I by the power Apostolicall do bereave Henry of the German Kingdome and do deprive him of all subjection of Christian men absolving all men from the allegiance which they have sworne unto him And that Rodolph whom the Peeres of the Empire have elected may govern the Kingdome I grant all men that shall serve him against the Emperor forgivenesse of their sins Carol. Sigon de Regoo Itâ— l. 9. in vita Hen. 3. in this life and in the life to come As I have for his pride dejected Henry from the Royall dignity so I do exalt Rodolph for his humility to that place of Authority Thus far Gregory the 7. Benno Gard in vit Greg 7. It is no wounder that Gregory his chaire clave a sunder as some writers affirme at the giving of this sentence because the proud Pope and his wicked sentence were too heavy a burthen for Peters stoole of humility to beare The fourth Chapter proveth the Immunity of Kings by the Fathers of the third 300 yeares AFter the death of Gregory the great which was about the year of our Lord 604. Sabinianus did succeed him who lived but one yeare after whom came Boniface the 3 which obtained of Phocas to be called Vniversall Bishop since that time periit virtus Imperatorum pietas Pontificum the Emperours waxed weake and the Bishops wicked What the judgement of those Fathers then was concerning subjection to wicked Kings I will make evident by the testimony of of Gregorius Turonensis Isidorus Damascenus Beda Fulgentius Leo the 4 and the Fathers astembled in a Councell at Toledo in Spaine Gregory Turonensis acknowledgeth such an absolute power in Childerick a most wicked King of France Histor lib. 5 cap. 1. as was free from all controll of man Si quis de nobis Rex justitiae limites transcendere voluerit c. If any one of us O King do passe the bonds of justice you have power to correct him but if you exceed your limit who shall chastice you We may speake unto you if you list not to hearken who can condemn you but that great God who hath pronounced himself to be righteousnes Hactenus ille Isidorus saith no lesse for the immunity of the Kings of Spaine Let all earthly Princes know that they shall give account of the Church which Christ hath committed to their protection Yea whether the peace and discipline Ecclesiasticall be advanced by faithfull Kings or dissolved by the unfaithfull he will require a reckoning at their hands which hath left his Church in their power So far Isidor John Damascene pleadeth not only for the Exemption of wicked Kings themselves but also of their Deputies Parallâ—l 〈◊〉 1. c. 21. The Governours saith he which Kings create though they be wicked though they be theeves though they be
ornament of learning observeth The fly saith that noble Earle setting on the cart-whele might as well wonder at the dust raised in the way as Gregory or Zachary draw counsell to power and make that fact their own which was hammered in the forge of ambition contenanced with the colour of necessity and executed by Pepin a minister that being weary of subordination resolved by this trick when the meanes were fitted and prepared to the plot to make himselfe absolute The case of Kings were pitifull if ex factis singularibus it were lawfull to draw leaden rules in their disgrace Thus fas the Earle The eight Chapter sheweth the danger of this Doctrine and the Originall of the Puritan position concerning the power of statesmen to punish and depose Princes in Monarchies THese desperate attempts suggested by the Devill executed by the people encouraged by the State and approved by the Pope must serve as admonitions to Princes to humble themselves before God Qui non dabit Sanctos suos in captionem dentibus corum who will not give his Saints for a pray to their teeth For it is not heard as our great King remembreth That any Prince forgeteth himselfe in his duty to God Law of Monarch pag. 60. or in his vocation But God with the greatnesse of the plague revengeth the greatnesse of his ingratitude These practises therefore must be no president for Peers or People to follow because God hath forbidden Christian subjects to resist though Kings raigne as Tyrants and commanded them to endure with patience though they suffer as Innocents And also because that in stead of releeving the Commonwealth out of distresse which is ever the pretence of seditions practitioners they shall heape mischief on it and desolation on themselves as Aquinas if he be the Author of the book de regim principum sheweth manifestly Esset multitudini periculosum ejus rectoribus de reg prin l. 1. c. 6. It were dangerous to subjects and governors that any should attempt to take away the life of Princes though they were Tyrants for commonly not the well disposed but the ill affected men do thrust themselves into that danger And the government of good Kings is as odious to bad men as the rule of Tyrants to good people Wherefore the Kingdome by this presumption would be rather in danger to forgo a good Prince than a wicked Tyrant So far Thomas They that are the authors or abettors of sedition can neither avoyd shame in Earth nor escape eternall damnation Though God the great Iudge do sometime permit Rebels in his Iustice to prevaile against Kings for their contempt of the Law of the highest and the neglect of their own duty The reward of Rebellion shall be no better than the recompence of Satan who is the instrument of the Lords wrath for the punishment of all disobedience It is most true that as sick men neer their death have many idle fancies Chrysoss so the World before the end thereof shall bee troubled with many errours In these declining dayes of the World many Countreys Cities and Cantons renounced their old government and submitted themselves to such a new regiment as they best liked for confirmation of which practises there wanted not politike Divines what wine is so soure that some hedgegraps will not yeeld to invest the people and Nobles with the power over Kings to dispose of their Kingdomes Marsilius Patavinus saith the deposition of a King Marsilius Patav. de translat Imporii c. 6. and the institution of another in his place belongeth not to the Bishop of Rome to any Priest or to the Colledge of Priests but to the universall multitude of the Subjects So far he From these the Puritans have learned their error of the power of States-men over Kings then which no opinion can be more dangerous where the Nobility are as ready to practise as the Puritan preachers are to prescribe What presumption is it in men to passe the bounds which God hath set them to controll the wisdome of the Lord and his unspeakable goodnesse when he maketh tryall of the patience of his Saints by the out rage and tyranny of cruell Kings that they which are found patient in trouble constant in truth and loyall in subjection may be crowned with glory Were we perswaded that the hearts of Kings are in Gods hand that the haires of our head are numbred and that no affliction can befall us which God doth not dispose to the exercise of our Faith the tryall of our constancy or the punishment of our sin we would as well admire the Iustice of God in permitting Tyrants that our sins may be judged and punished in this world as praise his mercy and favour in giving rest to his servants under the protection of godly and gracious Princes The ninth Chapter sheweth the generall consent of the Modern Puritans touching the coercion deposition and killing of Kings whom they call Tyrants THe Citizens of Geneva changed the Government from a Monarchy to a Democrity in the year of Christ 1536 In the which yeare John Calvin came into that City to visit his friend Farellus And was chosen the publike reader of Divinity At his first comming thither he published his Teologicall Institutions Wherein he doth very learnedly and Christianly intreat of the authority of Princes and the duty of Subjects One only place is harsh and dangerous delivered in obscure and doubtfull tearmes to excuse as I conceive the outrage of the Citizens against their soveraigne Magistrates Instit l. 4. c. 20. § 31. His words are these Si qui sunt populares Magistratus ad moderandam regum libidinem constituti Christopher Goodman published a Treatise of obedience at Geneva Pag. 119. not without the very good liking and approbation of the best learned in that City 1557 Wherein he affirmeth That if Magistrates transgresse Gods Law themselves and command others to do the like they lose that honor and obedience which otherwise is due unto them and ought no more to be taken for Magistrates but to be examined and punished as private transgrestors So far Goodmā 1577 Pag. 206. Came forth the Vindiciae contra Tyrannos with this resolution That Princes are chosen by God established by the people every privat man is subject to the Prince the Multitude and the Officers of State which represent the Multitude are Superiors to the Prince yea they may judge his actions and if he make resistance punish him by forcible meanes So far he Anno 1588 Hermanus Renecherus published observations upon the 1 Psalm wherin he investeth the Presbitery with all the Popes prerogatives Concerning the Presbiterian power over Kings this is his notable annotation Pag. 72. God saith he hath ordained the Civill Magistrate for the good of the Ecclesiasticall order therefore the Ecclesiasticall State is the highest throne of Gods earthly Kingdome the supreame Seate of all excellency and the chiefest Court wherein God himselfe