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A42629	The defence of the Parliament of England in the case of James the II, or, A treatise of regal power and of the right of the people drawn from ancient councils ... and more especially the ordinances of the doctors of the Church of Rome ... : wherein is demonstrated that the Holy Scriptures are so far from being contrary, that they do even assent thereto / written in Latin by P. Georgeson, Kt. ; translated by S. Rand.	Georgeson, P., Sir.; Rand, S.	1692 (1692)	Wing G533; ESTC R18626	44,763	42

although the greatest part of them were very dissolute wicked and idolatrous but what is lawfull is not according to St. Paul's sense always expedient It is the part of a wise man when he designs to set about any business of concern to have a special regard to time and circumstances least contriving unwarily and not timeing it aright he lose himself and fall short of his expectation The Israelites were but rightly served if they underwent greater punishments then others who had set over themselves a King as it were against the will and even in despite of God They were even fain to smother and dissemble with their grief for very shame who had made a Rod for their own back 'T is also well known that the Law hath not its force in time of war nor can that people defend their Laws when surrounded on all sides with potent Enemies Moreover it is not in every respect true that Kings were never any where by the People of Israel thrust from the Throne for the revolt of the Ten Tribes from Rehoboham and their election of Jeroboham is plain down right abdication and deposing Besides we read how Athaliah Mother to Ahaziah invaded the Royal Chair after her Sons death possessing it and enjoying it for the space of six years and was in the end delivered up to be put to death by the Councel of Jehodada the High-Priest We read that Amaziah perished by the conspiracy of the Citizens of Jerusalem that those who had a hand in the murther did not suffer for the same as was the custom amongst the Jews for they usually punished their Servants or Ministers of State who imbrewed their hands in the King's Bloud which happened to not a few of them I must needs confess that they did not deal justly and according to the due course of Law but the Assassinates escaping scotfree proclaims aloud that such proceedings in taking away Amaziah was allowed of and acceptable to the People Again we learn from Holy Scripture that the management of the Common-weal●h was taken from Vziah by reason of his Leprosie and delivered to his Son Jothan Why should we mention those incomparable Heroes the Macchabes who carried on a War with prosperous event and greater glory against Antio●hus otherwise their Liege Lord and Sovereign And why because they opprest the Jewish Nation with unreasonable cruelty compelling them to the worship of Idols by severe Edicts and Pknalties What did not the Jews frequently make insurrections against the Romans under whose jurisdiction they were What was it moved the Romans to destroy the whole Jewish Nation to sack and race the City of Jerusalem but the high spirit of the Jews not brooking the Roman Yoke Salmasius indeed confesseth thus much That as soon as ever the Jews became subject to the Romans Government they did ever and anon rebel saith he as it were against their implacable Enemies and subverters of their Laws and Religion Nor do I ever perceive that the Jews mourned for the massacre of their Kings but rather bore it with a kind of indifferency and unconcernedness They did not rent their Garments nor put on Sackcloath nor throw Ashes upon their heads according as received Custom when any mournful Accident surprised them nay seldom or never performed any Funeral Rites by waising and lamentation of the violent death of their Kings What can we think of the silence of the Rabbies of that Nation who never so much as expatiated upon the Praises of the Sovereign forsooth and almost perpetual power of their Kings but on the contrary we learn from Salmasius That Moses M●imon●des puts this difference between the Kings of Israel and those of Judah David 's Posterity that those of David 's Family should judge and be judged but that the Kings of Israel should not have the power of judging nor could be judged themselves neither and that Sechar had quoted several Testimonies to that purpose How come such a proud haughty Nation as they were and no small admirers of their Priviledges not to be proud of their Kings being inviolable For so far were they from entert●ining any such conceits concerning them that in case they should have found them tardy or committed the least offence against God's Ordinances they would have cited them before the Sanhedrim to be whipt with Rods as well as the High-Priests I shall subjoin two Passages in this place which may serve instead of a definitive and decretory Sentence and Determination to all those who suffer not their minds to be prepossest and hoodwinked by prejudice The first is that the creation of Kings is more than once ascribed to the People This may be gathered from the History of Saul of David of Solomon Azariah Josiah and others Concerning Rehoboham Salmasius frankly owneth The Kingdom now in its infancy saith he when Solomon the King●s death was once published and proclaimed all Israel being assembled to appoint his son King over them they complained to him c. What answer returned he to their just Petition Why he was so far from signifying any compliance with and favourable acceptance of their Petition that he positively threatned to lay heavier burthens upon them and denounced the punishment of them with Scorpions whom his Father only chastised with rods He that was not yet a King to threaten thus what would he have done if he had once gotten the Crown on his head I and after the Jews had mightily fallen away from their pristine glory and renown yet would they not resign up or be deprived of the priviledge of creating their Leaders For the Writer of the Book of Macchabees Lib. 1. cap. 13. gives us a relation of the Election of Simon the valiant Assoon as the People heard these words their spirits revived and they answered with a loud voice thou shalt be our Leader instead of Judas and Jonathan thy brothers fight thou our battles and whatsoever thou commandest that will we do Now what man so void of reason as to imagine that all they depended upon the absolute will and pleasure of Kings who conferr'd this Dignity Royal upon Kings What do the People reserve no right to the thing that they themselves create The other also we produce from Scripture which plainly forbids the doing wrong to the People for the Scripture teacheth us that they and Kings are bound and stand obliged to one another by the mutual and interchangeable Bonds of a Covenant All the Elders of Israel came together before the King in Hebron and David made a Covenant with them before the Lord in Hebron they first treated concerning the conditions upon which the Son of 〈◊〉 should have the Scepter bestowed on him and this Treaty was between Abn●r and the People in the first place Abner exhorts the people and puts them upon conferring the Kingdom upon David afterward he prevaileth upon them to gratifie his desire presently he hath recourse to

is as clear as the Sun at Noon-day that whatsoever the sacred Assembly of Prelates hath thought fit to be observed is by the special grace of the Holy Ghost ordained and prefixt and settled to all eternity and is inviolably to be observed I beseech you therefore and conjure you the whole Assembly of reverend Prelates and you most excellent Princes and Peers who by your homage and duty to the Court are obliged to sit in this sacred Assembly I command you I say by the Mistery of the holy Trinity that if there be any thing before you shall be judged needful to be decreed or repealed as well what by us hath been offered to your consideration as also what else may have come to your hearing on behalf of the People that you would be careful to decide and clear it with an unanimous vigour of justice accompanied with a due proportion of mercy Ervigius behaves himself before the Synod with abundance of modesty who humbly implores their justice and mercy and laying aside all lostiness of mind sensible of his own in abilities to undertake such a charge submits himself to its censure We do not find it so now a days no no but now you must take notice that the asorementioned Spanish Kings were of the Gothic Race but as to their Religion having renounced Arianisme they became sound and orthodox from the time of Ricared they had likewise won the Kingdom of Spain by force of Arms and the ●ight got by di●t of Sword is accounted the best Title by your Civilians Now let us proceed to the French The first that presents himself is Childeric the 3 d. the very last of the M●rovingian Race who was deposed by the Parliament and hurled into a Monastry Now there were present in this Parliament divers Bishops amongst the rest was Boniface a Bishop of Mentz of great reputation who set the Crown on Pepin's Head who was put in the place of Childeric No body can be ignorant of that notable Story of Lewis the pious Son to Charles the Great who in the Synod of Compeign composed of Bishops and Peers of the Realm Anno 833. was tumbled from his Throne and forced into a Monastry Synods in those days were made up usually of the Clergy and the States of the Nation which was much the best way especially in general Councils for it is certain that for the most part the covetousness and ambition of the Clergy commonly corrupt both Divine and Human right Nor after what manner the Capetians were by consent of all the French substituted in the Room of the Carlovingians and how Lewis the Eleventh was surrounded with thirty six Commissioners without whose Advice he could not govern the Common wealth as known to all we omit But what on this Subject is beyond all exception and may stop the Mouth of the Patrons of Tyranny is the Consent of all the Christian Princes in the Convention of Arras The business thus Charles the Seventh whilst he was but yet Dolphin commanded John Father to Philip Duke of Burgundy traiterously to be assassinated thereupon a bloody War arose between the two Princes but at length by the mediation and procurement of the Counsel of Basil and Pope Engenius a Council was called and held at Arras for composing Differences whereunto the noblest part of Europe had resort It was saith Mezeray the noblest and greatest of that Age thither did all Christian Princes except King Henry of England who disputed the Crown of France with Charles send their Agents and Plenipotentiaries and Eugenius his Ambassadors A Peace being once clapt up between the two Princes it was covenanted and agreed upon that if either of the two Princes should not stand to their words but violate the Articles of Agreement that then his Subjects absolved of their Oaths might lawfully send Succours to another Prince against the breaker of the Covenant here you may plainly see that all Princes do unanimously agree in absolving Subjects of their Oaths of Allegiance besides you may see that a Vassal doth covenant with his Lord upon equal Conditions for Philip was Vassal to Charles So much the more is the simplicity of those to be laught at who dare affirm that Princes are not so much as bound by Oath to their Subjects for performance of the Articles of a Treaty when God himself is obliged to fulfill his promises the Lord hath sworn and will not repent and the holy Scriptures declare that all controversies are decided by an Oath as if Princes were obliged to resemble God Almighty in respect of his power and not in respect of his faithfulness and veracity But not to deviate too much from our present purpose If it were lawful for Subjects to levy War against their Prince for violating his word past to a Foreiguer I cannot see why it should be deemed an hainous offence to spurn and resist Tyranny when they themselves are galled and oppressed The Brittish History likewise furnisheth us with a long series of Examples of this Nature but too great a Prolixity especially in matters of themselves otherwise plain and evident is tedious and troublesome Let one therefore and that very considerable in its self suffice which is this John surnamed Sans terre or without Land King of England and Duke of Brittain standing excommunicate by Pope Innocent the III. and his Subjects absolved from their Oath of Allegiance the Kingdom of England was devolved upon Philip the August Now Philip relying upon this donation of the Pope having fitted out a huge Navy was just ready to fall upon and Invade England when John by his submission and obsequious compliance regained the Pope's favour Neither did Philip for all that desist from his enterprize for he gave his Consent that the Nobility of England should choose Lewis his Son Husband to Jone K. John's Niece for their King and should Crown him in London accordingly the Matter proceeded to Suit and Tryal before the Pope still a great favourer of John the Ambassadors of Lewis who solioited his Cause at Rome mainly urged that John was never Leige King because he was condemned by the Peers of France to have his Head cut off for the Murder committed on the person of Arthur his Nephew moreover that if he were a King yet that he had notwithstanding forfeited his Crown by turning a Tyrant and that it was Tyranny as they said to subvertand destory the Regal Power the death of John stops the Proceedings and ends the Difference and his Son Henry placed in his stead Pray let the French take special notice of this Passage who are out of humour and ill satisfied at the last Revolution and Change of the British Empire and if they are wise let them take warning whilst they may by their own consession Tyranny quite overthrows Kingly Power and it evidently appears by their own Example that the Throne of a Tyrant may justly and lawfully be possessed by another and in

thence that it was not lawsull for him so to doe who knows not that Holy men fearing God do oftentimes forbear doing some things which otherwise might be permitted to any one whatsoever You know it is sometimes a great sign of generosity towards an Enemy not to take advantage of him but Saul was not affected with the same reverence and respect to David's Unction for he persecuted him with such inveterate malice because he knew that the Son of Jesse was anointed for King of Israel taking no notice at all of Saul's other Sons Again Absolom did not look upon his Father's Unction as sacred who endeavoured might and main to wrest the Sc●pter out of his hand Nor did Hushai that wise and prudent Counsellor to Absolom go about to deter him from his enterprize by magnifying to him David's Unction but by magnifying his and his Mens valour and resoluteness which he pretended was not adviseable to be engaged without a pretty considerable stout Party But some may reply that David durst not venture to lay violent hands upon the Lord 's Anointed how bitter an Enemy soever and raging against him with a bloud thirsty mind nor can this seem strange to any one that shall observe the signal and distinguishing dispensation of God's Providence in this History for without God's permission Saul had not entered into the Cave wherein David whom he sorely persecuted together with the forty Men of his Life-Guard lay hid and it was because God would have it so that David saw Saul and that Saul was seen by him that Saul should not hear the least noise or whispering of those four hundred and forty Men some of whom communed with David Last of all it was not without the special providence of God that the Son of Jesse should cut off the Skirt of the Son of Kis's Robe and he never perceive it Doth not the Holy Scripture make mention that God caused a dead sleep to seize Saul and his Guard when David accompanied with Abishai slipt unawares into Saul's Tent. It is more than probable that all these things were disposed and foreordained of God to give the Children of Israel to understand the constant goodness and the meekness of the man so dear to him and as the Scriptures declare one after his own heart and who by his valour and magnanimity was to be an illustrious Tipe of the Messiah from whose Loins the very Messiah himself commonly stiled the Son of David was to spring if a man can indeed suppose any thing of Man in that sweet and gracious deportment of David towards Saul Was it not David's prudence who being the Anointed of the Lord as well as Saul to secure his own life from the conspiracies of the People by sparing the life of Saul as the Lord 's Anointed Looking over the History of the first King of the Israelites I find a notable Circumstance which might have stopt the mouth of the pleaders for Absolute Power if they had b●t made the least Reflection upon it The business was thus The Philistians having been put to the rout and totally defeated by Jonathan Saul desirous of pursuing and gaining an entire victory over these uncircumcised Philistians gave a strict charge to all his Soldiers not to touch any Victuals until the Evening Jonathan being hot upon the pursuit was not present when the Prohibition was made and consequently ignorant of the same now finding himself very much harassed and half famish'd at his return into the Camp having light upon some Honey by chance dipt the end of the Rod that was in his hand in it and did but taste of it Now Saul consulting with the Lord whether he should continue the pursuit of the Enemy the Lord gave him no answer whereupon the King having a mind to know the reason of God's silence cast the Lot which fell upon Jonathan who presently confessed the Fact the King his Father swore he should suffer for it and Jonathan began to submit to this cruel unnatural Sentence and prepared himself for death When the people to whom Jonathan had much endeared himself by his eminent Qualifications and who had so well deserved of the Nation by his fresh Victory over these Philistians did oppose his intent and withall swore that an Hair of his Head should not fall to the ●●ound since that if there were any fault it was committed meerly ou● of ignorance behold how the will of the People does clash with the Kings and how the Peoples will prevailed o●e● his and reason good it should nay and all this passed in a peac●full manner without the least Sedition on the Peoples part and without the least muttering or complaint of the King that there was any Violence offered him or any atempt or incroa●hment upon his Authority Neither does the Power of Ahab appear very much absolute no more than that of the former King forasmuch as he could not possess himself of Naboth's Vineyard but by the fraud of cursed Jezabel such as was scarce ever thought of by the basest of men or by the worst of women Of Jezabel I say who first suggested it nor could he devise any other means to seize of this piece of Land but in raising up and suborning False-Witnesses against this gracious Man and in causing him to be put to death as a Blasphemer The Tr●nsactions of the Kings of Judah and of Israel do confirm this verity where you may see that they drew by their example their Subjects into Idolatry and all kind of wickedness according as they were bygotted and given to it themselves and did ●eclaim them and hindred them from falling foul upon these Rocks according as they kept themselves aloof from them What was David's sense of his own proper Dignity Royal is in the next place to be enquired into Scripture informs us that he was anointed by Samuel as Successor to Saul howbeit Saul being gathered to his Fathers Abner Captain of the Guard to Saul placed Ishbosheth youngest Son of the deceased upon the Throne of Israel What does David hereupon Why he wageth war with Ishbosheth under the notion of Competitor not as an Usurper for he never impeached Abner of High-Treason for taking the Usurper's part yea he even solemnized his Obs●quies condoles his being put to death by Joab because he slew Azael Joab's Brother with Tears and Praises Nor did David look upon Ishhosheth as guilty of Usurpation but pronounced him clear and blameless yea and revenged his Death too tho none of the King 's Anointed by taking off the Murtherers From all which I cannot choose but wonder how ever it could enter into the thoughts of those who stand for Tyranny to seek refuge for their case in the History of Saul and David But the chief Master-Piece of Fawning-Courtiers on which they lay the greatest stress seems to be this that the Israelites never ejected or ever called any of their Kings to an account in a Court of Judicature