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A46818	The prerogative of primogeniture shewing that the right of succession to an hereditary crown, depends not upon grace, religion, &c., but onely upon birth-right and primogeniture, and that the chief cause of all or most rebellions in Christendom, is a fanatical belief that temporal dominion is founded in grace / by David Jenner ...	Jenner, David, d. 1691.	1685 (1685)	Wing J661; ESTC R17940	69,745	218

true and lawfull Prince and so run themselves into a Praemunire 6. This Doctrine of preventing Kings from Reigning and Governing for their want of Grace can be invented by Christians for no other end than to prevent all Passive Obedience unto Kings that shall prove Tyrannical and to avoid going to Heaven in the fiery Chariot of Martyrdom For as * Cum Reges pro falsitate contra veritatem constituunt malas leges probantur coronantur benè credentes Aug. Epist 50. St. Augustine writes there will be no need of dying for Religion if so be wicked and ungodly Kings who want Grace may not be suffered to Reign and by their evil Laws to try Believers faith whether sound or no and in such cases to experiment their fear of God rather than of Man for according to the Apostles there is a time when God is to be obeyed rather than Man and when we are to dye for Christ and for the Faith And that can be Lawfully done onely then when by the Supreme Authority we are commanded either to dye the Death or to deny Christ and his Religion In this case we are to obey the Supreme Magistrate Passively by dying the Death and not Actively by doing what he Commands Because what he Commands is expresly against the known Law and Word of God From which premisses we thus argue scil That if it be as in truth it is a bounden Duty and a noble Vertue in us Christians Passively to obey our Lawfull Princes by humbly and meekly submitting our Necks without all Resistence unto the stroke of that Death which they shall be pleased to lay upon us And if it be as most certainly it is a Sin in this case to Resist Our Princes Then from hence we may rationally conclude That Our Princes though supposed to be never so Wicked and Tyrannical Yet They have a Right to Command us and to Rule and Reign over us and to doe with our Bodies if we offend them what they please Otherwise there can be no such thing as Martyrdom And therefore Temporal Dominion is not founded in Grace SECT II. The Evil Effects and Consequences of this Position That Temporal Dominion is founded in Grace are such as these 1. COnventicles 2. Rebellion 3. A Confirmation of Heathen Kings and Princes in their Infidelity I. Conventicles For from a Belief that the King has not Grace And therefore ought not to Reign From hence is it That the People do not look upon any Laws which the King shall make to be valid or any ways Binding their Consciences especially in matters of Religion and of Church-Government And therefore it is that they declining the established and publick Ordinances of the Realm do run into private and unlawfull Conventicles which they the ignorant deluded people deem to be more Holy than the other Nor do they believe they do in the least sin by Conventicling contrary to the King's Laws The Reason is Because they are of full persuasion That it is no sin to violate and break the Laws and Orders of a King who in their opinion wants Grace And from hence also it is That the People who are not better Catechised and instructed do so frequently leave their own Parish-Churches and run abroad to the great Profanation of the Lord 's holy day either unto Conventicles or unto other Churches And all is Because they fansie that their own Parish Minister wants Grace at least that he is not so Powerfull in his Preaching nor so Holy though he walks by the Rubrick as is their Neighbour Minister Which is a very great errour destructive of all good Order and Conformity in the Church For the Minister's Sacred Office and not his Person obliges the People to a constant Attendance on his Ministery especially as long as he their Minister is Conformable unto the Orders and Canons of the Church both for Doctrine and Manners And if any Parish-Minister be vitious in his Life which is a great Scandal to the Gospel and is a crying sin in a Man that is in Holy Orders yet if any be so then his Ordinary upon complaint and proof ought to punish him And not the People as too oft they do by departing from his Ministery Contrary to Christ's Rule Which Commanded Attendance on the Ministery of the Scribes and Pharisees although they were vitious and wicked And Christ gave this Reason for it scil Because They the Scribes and Pharisees sate in Moses his Chair Mat. 23.3 All therefore says Christ whatsoever they bid you observe that observe and doe But do not ye after their works for they say and doe not II. REBELLION For from a strong Belief of this Position scil That Temporal Dominion is founded in Grace Have sprung most if not all the Seditions and Rebellions made against Christian Princes by either Papists or Fanaticks It is evident by History That the Popes of Rome never sent out their Bulls nor ever stirred up Subjects unto Rebellion against any Secular Princes whatever but onely against such as were by them judged to be Hereticks and void of Grace And therefore not fit to Govern Nor ever was there either King Emperour or any Supreme Magistrate Deposed or Murthered by the Papists But it was upon the account of the said Prince his want of Grace Hence arose the Spanish Invasion against Queen Elizabeth The Gun-powder Plot against King James And the Irish Rebellion against King Charles the First And Oates his Popish Plot against King Charles the Second All arose from a Belief That the aforesaid Princes were Hereticks and void of Grace and therefore had no just Right unto any Temporal Dominion In like manner All the above-mentioned Plots of the Fanaticks took their Rise from this One false Notion scil That Temporal Dominion is founded in Grace And because they were of opinion that the King and Governours were Wicked Tyrannical and void of Grace That therefore they had no Right to Govern But it was Lawfull for the Subjects to depose and destroy them by force of Arms. The Belief of this false Notion made the Fanaticks as was said before to wage War against King Charles the First and at last to Murther him To Banish King Charles the Second and afterward Rebelliously to Fight against him at Worcester This made Venner and his Confederates to draw the Sword against our present most Gratious King under the Notion that he wanted Grace and was an Enemy to King Jesus This made Stephen Colledge at Oxford with his Protestant Flail William Hone and his Conspiratours at Rye-House with their Blunderbusses to Plot the Murther both of our Dread Sovereign the King and of the Illustrious Prince James Duke of York Though one of them to wit Hone thought his Royal Highness to have had some nay more Grace than His Majesty And therefore Hone confessed that at last he was for sparing the Duke but for killing the King Though for ever blessed and praised be Almighty God who wonderfully spared and delivered them both King and Duke from the hands of their bloudy Enemies And we hope and pray that He will ever deliver them And we farther pray that the People may be undeceived and thoroughly convinced of their aforesaid great errour for untill they be convinced the King has no Security from them whether Papists or Fanaticks of either his Crown or his Life For although the King be truly never so Orthodox Vertuous and Pious Yet upon the least failing they will clamour and give out that he is fallen from Grace and therefore ought to be Deposed and no longer to have Dominion over them for according to their Belief Temporal Dominion is founded in Grace III. A Confirmation of Heathen Kings and Princes in their Infidelity For this pernicious Doctrine That Temporal Dominion is founded in Grace Discourages Heathen and Unbelieving Princes from believing in Christ and from embracing Christianity Because if they should become Christians Then they are not sure to hold their Crowns long on their Heads no nor their Heads long on their Shoulders For although they should not renounce Christianity nor turn Heathens again Yet if through natural infirmity or prevalency of temptation or excess of Passion they should become vitious in their lives Or if through contrary persuasion they should not Believe as the Papists and Fanaticks Believe Then they must be adjudged to have no Grace And therefore to have no Right of Dominion over their Subjects But must be Deposed and Dethroned For Temporal Dominion is say they founded onely in Grace FINIS

they be evil not onely for Fear but also for Conscience-sake c. Our Saviour Christ himself and his Apostles received many and divers injuries of the unfaithfull and wicked men in Authority yet we never reade that they or any of them caused any Sedition or Rebellion against Authority we reade oft that they patiently suffered all troubles vexations slanders pangs and pains and Death it self obediently without Tumult or Resistence They knew that the Authority of the Powers was God's Ordinance and therefore both in their Words and Deeds they taught ever Obedience to it and never taught nor did the contrary c. We may not obey King Magistrates or any other though they be our own Fathers if they would Command us to doe any thing contrary to God's Commandments Ibid. p. 74. In such a case we ought to say with the Apostle We must rather obey God than Man But nevertheless in that case we may not in any-wise withstand violently or Rebell against Rulers or make any Insurrection Sedition or Tumults either by force of Arms or otherwise against the Anointed of the Lord or any of his Officers But we must in such cases patiently suffer all wrongs and injuries p. 75. referring the judgment of our Cause onely to God And elsewhere our Church says What shall Subjects doe then Serm. against Rebellion 1 Part. shall they obey valiant stout wise and good Princes and condemn disobey and rebell against Children being their Princes or against undiscreet and evil Governours God forbid For what a Perillous thing were it to commit unto the Subjects the judgment which Prince is Wise and Godly and his Government good and which is otherwise as though the Foot must judge of the Head And enterprize very heinous and must needs breed Rebellion Serm. against Wilfull Rebellion 1st Part. p. 279. This is you see the Pious and Loyal Doctrine of the Protestant Church of England which she received from Christ and his Apostles and from the Primitive Christians concerning the Subjects absolute Obedience to Kings and All in Authority whether Good or Evil. And the said Loyal Doctrine was ever preached and practised by the Protestants in England we mean those who owned the King's Supremacy in opposition unto Popery and Fanaticism for there never was nor are any other * Beausrons c. 1. Protestants in the World but such who protest for and defend the King's Supremacy This Doctrine of absolute Obedience was practised as well as preached by the Bishops Martyred in Queen Mary's days and by the most Reverend Jo. Whitgift Archbishop of Canterbury and by the most Reverend William Laud late Archbishop of Canterbury who suffered Death by the late Rebels for nothing more than for maintaining this Primitive Doctrine of absolute Obedience to the King And since it has been urged upon the Peoples practice by several Learned Men of this our Church particularly by Dr. Faulkner in his Christian Loyalty And by the Right Reverend Seth Lord Bishop of Sarum in his most Learned Sermon before the King on Nov. 5.1661 against Resistence of Lawfull Powers Some of his Lordships words are these If harsh Administration of Power will exempt Men from Obedience p. 60. at that time when Claudius or Nero was Roman Emperour why should the Holy Ghost move St. Paul to write to the Romans scil Rom. 13.2 They that resist shall receive to themselves Damnation And p. 67. that other pretence scil That after a Lawfull Sovereign is established Ibid. p. 67 68. the Power still remains in the People in the dissused Body of them or their Representatives to alter the Government as they please it is in respect of Policy and Government what the sin against the Holy Ghost is to Religion it destroys the foundations of the peace and safety of men and makes that to be the Artifice of Man which is the Ordinance of God How much God abhorred this pretence will appear in the case of Corah and his Company The Reverend Dr. Tillotson Dean of Canterbury in his Letter to the late Lord Russel has these expressions to wit That the Christian Religion doth plainly forbid the Resistence of Authority That though our Religion be established by Law yet in the same Law which establishes our Religion it is declared That it is not Lawfull upon any pretence whatsoever to take up Arms c. Besides that there is a particular Law declaring the Power of the Militia to be solely in the King and that ties the hands of Subjects though the Law of Nature and the General Rules of Scripture had left us at liberty which I believe they do not because the Government and Peace of Humane Society could not well subsist upon those Terms As thus these abovementioned Persons so indeed all the learned Men of the Church of England who have wrote any thing largely of the Subjects Duty towards their Prince have unanimously declared contrary to the Factious Authour of Julian the Apostate scil That all Lawfull Kings and their Lawfull Heirs by Primogeniture of what Religion or Manners soever Good or Bad they be ought successively to Reign and Govern and to be honoured and obeyed by all their Subjects either Actively by chearfully doing whatever they shall Command or Passively by humbly and peaceably submitting to whatever punishment their said Princes shall think fit to inflict upon them for not obeying their Royal Commands Actively And if any Prince should after he is seated in the Throne prove Tyrannical we may not Rebell nor plot his Deposition But 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazian Orat 1. c. Our onely Remedy is what was Nazianzen's and the Christians in the Reign of Julian the Apostate to wit Prayers Fastings and Tears This was the practice of the Primitive Christians and ever has been the Profession and Practice of the Protestant Church of England And therefore whoever lives in Rebellion against his Lawfull Prince and dies in and for the same without publick and hearty Repentance Acknowledgment and Confession to God and to Man of that his Rebellion or secret plotting of Rebellion Neither does such a man live nor any true way can he be said to dye in Communion with the Protestant Church of England But as he lived So he dies either a Popish or a Fanatick Recusant And No Protestant And thus died most of the late Fanatical Associatours and Rebels inasmuch as most of them died without the least expression of their sorrow and penitence for and without humble and publick Confession of their Horrible Plot and Treason for which they were Condemned As appears by their own Papers given to the Sheriffs and Published by Authority And here it will be requisite that we as far as we are able undeceive the people and tell the Naked Truth to wit That the abovementioned Persons abused the World and imposed upon the ignorant people a notorious falsity when at their Executions they declared they died Protestants and in