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A46813 Beaufrons, or, A new-discovery of treason under the fair-face and mask of religion, and of liberty and conscience : in an answer to the Protestant reconciler ... / by one of His Majestie's chaplains. Jenner, David, d. 1691. 1683 (1683) Wing J657; ESTC R32980 46,367 116

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the Governours for Commanding Obedience in things Indifferent are the Disturbers of the Churches Peace SECT III. According tot he Reconciler The King and Governours Deserve Death for imposing things Indifferent The Reconciler's own Words are YOu Superiours Sect. Recon c. 10. p. 329. King and Governours disturb the Church much more Sinfully than the Dissenters by laying such Snares as shall unavoidably procure it i. e. a disturbance and then taking occasion by it to make a greater disturbance by your Cruel Execution ☞ If the Fly offend and deserve death by incautelously falling into the Spider's Web What doth the Spider that is the King and Governours deserve that out of her own Bowels Spread this Net in the way and kills the Fly that is taken in it Your own Actions most concern your selves try therefore whether you doe well in Commanding and Punishing as well as whether others offend in disobeying Thus far the Reconciler for which he again quotes Mr. Baxter Now What Sense can there be made of this Similitude between the Fly and the Spider but this to wit That the Venemous Spider is the King and the Governours who lay Snares for the People by Imposing on them Strict Laws for the Observation of Ceremonies and things Indifferent And that the Harmless innocent Fly are the Dissenters who are caught in the Snares of the Laws made by the King and Governours and for their Rebellion and Disobedience are either put to Death or Cruelly Punished And therefore according to the Reconciler as the Spider Deserved Death for making Webs by which the Fly was Caught So does the King and Governours deserve Death for making Laws by which the People are Caught and Restrained their Liberty and their Tender Consciences Imposed upon as to things Indifferent Never let this Authour any more Write against the Jesuits for their Treason untill he quits himself of the same SECT IV. The King and Governours according to the Reconciler are Traytors to the Common-Wealth and Betrayers of the Peoples Liberties for Imposing upon them Things Indifferent And that therefore the People ought not to yield to their Impositions But ought To Rebell and Vindicate their Christian Liberty The Reconciler's own Words are BOth these things that is Prot. Recon c. 5. p. 160 161. the Superiours King and Governours Imposing things Indifferent and requiring Subscription to them Both these things do put a necessary abstention and restraint upon us as to the use of these things if therefore says the Reconciler by so doing i. e. the Superiours our King and Governours if they in effect Betray our Liberties Dissenters ought not to yeild to them in the least nor should good Christians by a Vow restrain themselves from the free use of things Indifferent And as bad or rather worse Treason does the Reconciler utter p. 338. Where he plainly Suggests Two things by which Suggestions he extremely prejudices and incends the-Giddy-Vulgar against the King and his Government He Suggests 1. That the King and Governours are going about to Betray the City and Common-Wealth unto the Enemy 2. That therefore The Subjects May and Ought to Rebell and Vindicate their own Privileges For the Subjects may says the Reconciler neglect and transgress the Orders and Commands of their King and Superiours In hopes of a Greater Good The Reconciler's own Words are Secondly I Answer with the Learned Camero Prot. Recon c. 10. p. 338. That even Order may be not onely laid aside but even neglected and transgressed for a Greater Good As when a Citizen doth volantarily rise up against a Magistrate who is endeavouring to Betray the City to the Enemy or a common Souldier against a Rebellious Officer Never did Hugh Peters Preach and Print greater Treason For upon the pretended force of this very Treasonable Argument of the Reconciler's did Oliver and the Rump with their Rebellious Army cut off King Charles the First His Head Pretending to the People That the said King was going about to bring in Popery and to Betray the City of London and the whole Nation to their Enemies and deprive them of their Liberties And because as they alleged that He Imposed such Ceremonies and Orders upon Tender Consciences as would Damn the Souls of Myriads Therefore it was that the late Rebels made War against the said King and Murthered Him And loe Here is a Second Hugh Peters one that styles himself not onely a Protestant but a Priest nay a Cathedral-Man and therefore Doubly obliged to the King and the Church yet loe Here is Such an One That dares publish in Print That it is not onely lawfull but necessary to Neglect and Transgress the Magistrate's Orders and to Rebell if so be The Subjects apprehend a Greater Good will accrew to them thereby That is to say If the Subjects do fear that Myriads of Souls will be Damned by the King 's and Magistrates Impositions But may and will be Saved by their Rebellion and Transgressing such Orders and Impositions Then according to the Reconciler the Subjects May and Ought to Rebell The Reconciler's own words farther are Now says he Charity is greater than Faith Ibid. c. 10. p. 338. and therefore is a greater Good than Order in Extrinsecalls and the Salvation of Souls is the end of Order That therefore must be better than the Means and consequently Order may be transgressed when it is Necessary for that end to be so That is in plain English The King 's and Governours Orders and Laws may Lawfully be Transgressed Treason and Rebellion may Lawfully be Committed whenever the People shall think for their Greater Good and Ease it should be So. Thus the Reconciler takes the Liberty and Confidence to speak out that Treason which the Shamefaced Dissenter dares onely conceive in heart and mind And which of the Two is the most Malitious and dangerous to the King and his Government we will leave to others to determine SECT V. The Reconciler Scandalously affirms That the King and Governours want Piety and Prudence And therefore it is that they impose upon the People Things Indifferent FOr Proof of this the Reconciler quotes Doctour Tillotson though very Falsely The Reconciler's own words are If then this be not done to wit Prot. Recon Preface p. 19. an Abolition of things Indifferent it must be in his Judgment that is in Dr. Tillotson's Judgment through defect of Piety and Prudence in some men that is if he writes sense Tillots Serm. on St. John 13 34.34 p. 28. through defect of Piety and Prudence in the King and Governours especially of the Church for of such Dr. Tillotson treats in his said Sermon or through Consent with what is reasonable in others c. Now that the Reconciler means the King and Governours by what he says is evident Because he knows and confesses that it is in the power of none but onely of the King and Governours to alter the Imposition of things Indifferent And therefore according