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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45197	Mr. Hunt's postscript for rectifying some mistakes in some of the inferiour clergy, mischievous to our government and religion with two discourses about the succession, and Bill of exclusion, in answer to two books affirming the unalterable right of succession, and the unlawfulness of the Bill of exclusion.	Hunt, Thomas, 1627?-1688.	1682 (1682)	Wing H3758; ESTC R8903	117,850	282

from the dignity of our Natures Thus far the Parents are fulfilling Gods appointments and gratifying their own Natures What from all this can give them a right over their Child All men coming into the world this way are no less free than if they had been form'd in Lucretius his Bottles and drop't out of his imaginary matrixes and we were all 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aborigines In this they are onely executing the appointment of God are but his Instruments to bring us into this World and are all along rewarded and entertained and caressed by the order of Nature Adam ow'd this duty to God his Father and so ordered it was that he ow'd it to himself and to his own natural propensions pleasures and satisfactions to propagate The several succeeding generations of men as soon as they are men have as much Right to the enjoyment of themselves to the freedom of their own Will and to live by their own measures as Adam himself had Our Parents do not give us life but hand it to us from the Fountain of being the Universal Father of all things Vitai Lampada tradunt And this is allowed acknowledged by all Mankind for assoon as Children can Govern themselves we declare them free that they are sui juris they are extra familiated and become themselves Fathers and acquire to themselves The Jews who had a Kabala of the truest and most antient Theology and Morality best understood their own Laws and were furnished with the knowledg of what Power and Authority Fathers had over their Children whether by nature or by vertue of the fifth Commandment did take their Sons to be ipso jure Emancipated and suoe potestatis as soon as they were pubertatis plenoe The time of which they reckoned at the farthest when they were 13 years 3 months and one day old And therefore whereas it was one of the Laws of Moses Deut. 21. v. 18 19 20 21. That the stubborn and Rebellious Son at the Complaint and prosecution of the Father and Mother was to be judg'd to be ston'd to death They say a Son was not under this Law until he was 13 years and one day old for until that time he was not Filius proecepti not bound to any Laws As not until that time presum'd of competent discretion consideration or conscience to make him a Transgressor or Breaker of a Law But three Months after they reckoned him compleatly adult upon a general Presumption when and sooner if he were sooner adult he was free from the Power of his Father and could not incur the mentioned Law which condemns the rebellious and stubborn Son to be stoned to death Maimonides Tract Memarim But the Father who struck the Son after he was adult the Jews tell us incurred Excommunication for that he offended therein against the Law Levit. 19.14 Thou shalt not put a Stumbling-block before the Blind By which Precept they understand all things indecent and dishonest to be forbidden By which it doth appear that the Jews did not take their Children to be longer under the authority of their Fathers than until they commenced in the soonest account Men. Besides that Law of Deut. Chap. 21. seems to be onely a permission of an unnatural kind of severity to the offended Parents at whose suit onely the punishment of that Law could be inflicted such a sort of permission and liberty it was as was indulg'd to them in the matter of Divorce But that which hath imposed upon this Gentleman I believe is for that while they are to be educated Parents exercise an Authority over their Children which a sower Father may imagine to be Power This I believe gave the Gentleman his mistake because he saith a Child and a Slave doth not differ which is a shrewd indication that he was something too masterly over his Children But all equal parents know and understand that the Education of their Children is duty and care and it may not improperly be called a Sort of Generation-Work For I pray let it be considered That the foetus is not perfected assoon as it is extruded the Matrix no not until it be able to perform unassisted all the Actions of its proper life That the life of a man is a life of Reason That he cannot do the Acts of a man until he hath it in the exercise of it He is not a perfect foetus so as to be neglected by his parents as soon as he can feed himself the man after this may miscarry and after this if exposed by his parents and not continued under their care be abortivated Education is a kind of Incubation Our faculties are to be formed and drawn out into use as well as our body to be organized before we can be denominated men While this is accomplishing the parents are but executing the natural instinct of propagating their like until they have made them men they are not begotten in their own likeness They therefore with an easie propension and a natural care do apply themselves to offer things to their observation to furnish their Memories to try their judgments in little Essays to render them discoursive to draw out their faculties into use until by little and little they arrive at discretion and a power to form true judgments of what belongs to them and to govern themselves in such Affairs and businesses that are to employ them But while this is a doing they are under a Government of love and care by the Arts of Discipline to be trained up to perfection Several freakishnesses and caprices are to be cured and the strength and luxuriancies of several natural Appetites are to be abated and restrained and they are to be held to attention and observation and made patient of instruction Correction is to be administred to these purposes and by these measures But this duty of Correction doth not participate any thing of the Nature of Civil Government It hath nothing of the Nature of punishment exemplarity or vindicative Justice It is not for the gratifying of the Parents displeasure to secure him against wrong or injury to deter others but to amend improve and better the Child and always terminated to and directed to that end and by those measures it is tenderly and affectionately administred It will not be impertinent to observe that our Common Law had no opinion of any Soveraign Authority in a Father And also that the Statute of 25 E. 3. which declares petty Treasons as well as high Treasons doth not declare the Sons killing the Father to be Treason tho Treason it is for a Servant to kill his Master In which we have the Authority of our Parliament and of the constant opinion of our Judges That the nature and relation of a Father and a Son doth not favour any thing of Government or of a servile or Political subjection For that they have not made Parricide Treason though it is the most unnatural and most detestable Crime and a far

King and Estates of Parliament is as antient as any thing can be remembred of the Nation The attempt of altering it in all Ages accounted Treason and the punishment thereof reserved to the Parliament by 25 Edw. 3. The conservancy of the Government being not safely to be lodg'd any where but with the Government it self Offences of this kind not pardonable by the King because it is not in his power to change it This is our Government and thus it is established and for Ages and immemorial time hath thus continued a long Succession of Kings have recognized it to be such And just now when we are under the dread of a Popish Successor some of our Clergy are illuminated into a mystery that hath been concealed from the beginning of Governments to this day from the wisdom of all Princes and Ministers of State That any authority in the Government not derived from the King and that is not to yeild to his absolute Will was rebellious and against the Divine Right and Authority of Kings in the Establishment against which no usuage or prescription to the contrary or in abatement of it is to be allowed That all Rights are ambulatory and depend for their continuance upon his pleasure So that though the Reformation was made here by the Government established by Law and hath acquired civil Rights not to be altered but by the King and the three Estates These men yet speak say you as if they envied the Rights of their own Religion and had a mind to reduce the Church back again into a state and condition of being persecuted and designed she should be stripped of her Legal Immunities and Defensatives and brought back to the deplorable helpless condition of Prayers and Tears do utterly abandon and neglect all the Provisions that God's providence hath made for her protection Nay by this their new Hypothesis they put it by Divine Right into the power of a Popish Successor when he pleaseth at once by a single indisputable and irresistable Edict to destroy our Religion and Government And these opinions you say they are the more inclined to entertain for that they believe no Plot but a Presbyterian Plot for of them they believe all ill and call whom they please by that hated name and boldly avow that Popery is more eligible than Presbytery for by that they shall have greater Revenues and more Authority and Rule over the Lay-men This is a heavy Charge if true but it is imputable I am sure but to a few and not so generally as some malevolent men of the Popish Faction are industriously busie to have it For if it were I confess it might choque the constancy Resolution and Zeal of the most addicted to the service of the Church-men and make them at least very indifferent in their Concerns For these mistakes are so gross and inexcusable that they ought if they could perish by themselves to be permitted to suffer the smart of their own follies and to be corrected by the evils they are drawing down upon themselves with their own hands They deserve to suffer as betrayers of their own Country To be prosecuted with greater shame and ignominy by all of the Reformed Religion than the Traditores were by the Antient Christians These their deserting of the true Christian Faith being much less excusable than their fault that deserved that name and of greater mischief as of deeper malignity How many of the Clergy-men are thus misled we know not but they seem many more than they are because they are most in view and come often under observation frequent publick houses and talk loud because they want the Complement of their Preferments But certainly Sir what you say to be the declared Opinions of some Clergy-men is the business now of the Papists to propagate Hoc Ithacus velit magno mercantur Atridae These are agreeable to and indeed make up the most modern Project and Scheme of the Popish Plot. Since the discovery of their first Design of killing the King and massacring of the Protestants they have taken such courage by observing how little power we have to prevent their Design that they have us in scorn and in the vilest contempt They now think that we are not worth destroying but by our own hands that we are not worthy of their trouble or the charge of Executioners of their providing How entertaining is it to his Holiness to find the Church of England the impregnable Bulwark of the Reformed Religion easily fall into his hands by the unpresidented folly of some of her Sons without the trouble of attacking her either by Force or Argument which have hitherto wanted success and such attempts always attended with dishonour and mischief to his See How pleasant will it be to him to see us perish and our destruction to be from our selves With this he will answer all the irrefragable Apologies of the Church of England for her departure from the Communion of the Romish Church Then he will say with triumph our Church destroyed her self and perished by a Divine Fate for her unwarrantable and Sacrilegious Schism for so he will call our Follies and impute them to Divine infatuations The manner of our destruction will be a better Argument and of more force against the Doctrine of the Reformation than all the Arguments of all the Doctors of that Church to this day For this purpose since the Discovery of the Popish Plot it is that Sir Robert Filmers Books were Re-printed together and recommended by the Title-page and the Publick Gazet to our reading Since the Discovery of the Plot we have had variety of Books Printed to the same purpose viz To prove that all Kings as Kings are absolute by Divine Right Since the Discovery of the Popish Plot we have had men imployed to search all our antient Records and Histories to find out something more antient than our Parliaments as now constituted that it may serve as a pretence to take them away Since the Discovery of the Popish Plot we have the memory of our late calamitous War revived to raise a Panick fear of another and to make the King believe that the genius of the Nation is Rebellious and that the Protestant Religion it self is to be apprehended by Kings It is difficult to tell how that late unhappy War began or how it came to issue so Tragically in the Death of the late King though we know how it ended viz. The Nation recovered within twelve years after the most deplorable Death of that excellent King into a renowned Loyalty and in spight of a great Armed Power never before foil'd ever victorious then kept on foot for the Interest of a very few men restored our present King may his Reign be long and happy to the Government of his Kingdoms without the least assistance of any of the Cavalier-party and oblig'd a wary General in the head of a factious and republican Army to Loyalty Nay within that time also