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A64699
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The Un-deceiver
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Wing U41; ESTC R24648
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effectuall Grace of God Others there are who tell us that a Beleever need not nay ought not to repent Sure these men know not what Faith or Repentance means for it is impossible for any man but a Beleever to repent From whence do penitent purposes arise or penitent tears flow but from the love of God and hatred of Sin now no man but a Beleever can love God or hate Sin and therfore no man but a Beleever can repent It is cleer and evident that no man will repent till he doth beleeve that it is to some purpose to repent He repents of his sin who repents from his sin Heb. 6. 1. Now no man but a Beleever can repent from his sin And the self-same men are not ashamed to say that the sins of Beleevers are not charged upon their own persons much lesse upon the Kingdom or Nation and therefore they should lye and be forsworn if they should say and swear that the Nation fares the worse for their sins To which I answer that it is one thing to say that God doth inflict satisfactory punishments and another to say he doth inflict exemplary chastisements upon Beleevers nay upon the Kingdom for their sake for God may pardon the sin of a people and yet take vengeance of their inventions Psal. 99. 8. The anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel 2 Sam. 24. 1. and God smote the people with pestilence and yet David a penitent Beleever cryes out Loe I have sinned and I have done wickedly but these sheep what have they done in the 17. Verse of that chapter If it may go ill with a Beleever for a rash word because he speaks unadvisedly when his spirit is provoked Psal. 106. 32 33. If God may visit their iniquity with stripes from whom he doth not take his loving kindnesse Psal. 89. 32 33. then certainly God may so far impute iniquity to Beleevers as to afflict them with temporall chastisements I read that the heart of Asa was perfect all his dayes and therefore he was a Beleever 2 Chron. 15. 17. but I read likewise that the Kingdom was troubled with wars because Asa dealt foolishly 2 Chron. 16. 9. and therfore the whole Kingdom may fare the worse for a Beleevers sake If you ask why the sword did not depart from Davids house the reason is given because he despised God and took the Wife of Vriah 2 Sam. 12. 10. Hath not God written bitter things enough against his people of late to recall them from this errour God hath put it past dispute that the Kingdom fares the worse for the carnall confidence security unthankfulnesse and unfruitfulnesse even of Beleevers And if any do yet make it a question Whether or no they should be humbled in these dayes of Humiliation God will soon put it out of question Oh let us tremble under the hand of God and say with David Psal. 119. 120. My flesh trembleth for fear of thee and I am afraid of thy judgements Another Objection is That the King hath vowed to be revenged on the Parliament and therefore we must not Covenant to defend the Parliament because by this means our Oath would be contrary to the Kings Sol. It is answered in a word When Saul swore that Ionathan should dye the people swore he should not dye 1 Sam. 14. 44 45. And yet Doctor Fern grants that these were good Subjects because they used onely a loving violence and yet here was not onely a Resistance but a Rescue and resistance with an oath and an oath contrary to the Kings oath We may then swear that if we can prevent it none of our Ionathans no good Parliament-man or Common-wealths-man shall be put to death unlesse he be legally condemned but that if it lye in our power we will rescue them as the people rescued Ionathan It is farther Objected That this Covenant is not onely against the Kings Oath but against our own Oath the Oath of Allegiance For answer be pleased to observe That the Law doth direct aswell as oblige and we are obliged to follow the direction of the Law our duty then according to our Allegiance is nothing else but our duty according to Law if that the King command any thing against Law obedience to such a passionate command is not Allegiance but Dislegiance or disobedience for he that disobeys the Law disobeys the King Now it is cleerly against the known Laws of the Land to joyn with those Forces which labour might and main to overthrow the Laws of the Kingdom and the Religion established by Law under a pretence of defending the King 2. The Oath of Allegiance concerns our resistance of Forreign force and therefore the valiant Governour of Glocester denyed to give up the city to Prince Rupert or Prince Maurice because it was against his Oath of Allegiance to subject himself and the City to any Forreign Prince 3. The Parliament-Forces were raised for the defence of King and Parliament 4. The King is our liege-Liege-Lord as well as we are his liege-Liege-people and therfore He is to command according to Law and we to obey His Legall commands That the illegall Summons of a King is not to be regarded is evident 2 Kings 1. from the ninth verse to the sixteenth here is a Royall command sent by Military Officers the Summons was peremptory Thou man of God the King hath said Come down And yet the Prophets refusing to obey this command is justifyed by two miracles from heaven 5. In the Oath of Allegiance we promise to defend the Authority of the King now we are ready to obey the Kings Authority but we are not bound to obey the Kings pleasure If the King command a thing which He hath no Authority to command and enforce His command upon His goods Subjects by an Army they that resist do not in this case resist the ordinance of God but the violation of his ordinance and though it be a resisting of the Supreme Person yet it is not a resisting of the Supreme Power because the King hath no Power or Authority to give much lesse to enforce that command 6. In the Oath of Allegiance we promise to defend the Government of the Kingdom now the King himself in His answer to the Nineteen Propositions tells us That the Kingdom is not governed by himself alone but by the Lords and Commons also for though in one place he saith The Commons were never intended for any share in Government yet he saith The House of Commons is an excellent Conserver of Liberty and solely entrusted with the first Propositions concerning the Leavies of Money the sinews of War and with the Impeaching of those who for their own ends have got a command from the King to break the Law Nay farther that there is a Power legally placed in both Houses which is more then sufficient to prevent and restrain the power of Tyrannie This Power of the two Houses this sufficient this more then sufficient power of restraining