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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96624	The thrice welcome, and happy inauguration of our most gracious, and religious sovereign, King Charles II. To the crown and kingdoms of Great-Brittain and Ireland. Containing, in the first place, the authors most humble supplication to the King's most excellent Majesty, in order to the reformation of religion, in six particulars. In the second part, the subjects duty to their sovereign, in sundry heads, and divers particulars very usefull for these times: together with a recommendation of the work to the Kings Majesties subjects. By Geo. Willington, of the city of Bristoll.	Willington, George.	1660 (1660)	Wing W2803; Thomason E1030_1; ESTC R208910	29,981	46

in the motions of the heart in the feare of God faith love and obedience The Basil Confession Let every Christian Magistrate bend all his forces this way that among all that are under him Art 7. the Name of God may be honored his Kingdome propagated and his will in the rooting out of all wickedness and vice may be fulfilled this duty was ever enjoined even to the Heathen Magistrates how much more is it required of a Christian Magistrate ut vero Dei Vicario who is Gods true Vicar The Saxon Confession We teach Saxonica Conf. Art 23. That in the whole Doctrine of God delivered by the Apostles and Prophets that Civil Government is maintained and that Magistrates Laws Tribunals and the lawful Society of men sprung not up by chance but that all the good order that is left is preserved by the exceeding goodness of God for the Church's sake and so forth which I omit for brevity sake The Sueviek Confession is notable and runs thus Our Churches teach Suevica Con. Art 23. That the office of a Magistrate is most sacred and divine whence it is that they who exercise this power are in Scripture called Gods and our Preachers teach that the obedience which is to be performed to Magistrates is to be placed among good works of the first rank and that by how much a man is a more sincere and faithfull Christian the more carefull he is to observe the Laws of the State To which add the Confession of Scotland We confess and acknowledge Empires Kingdoms Scotch Conf. Dominions and Cities to be distincted and ordained by God that Powers and Authority in the same be it of Emperors in their Empires Kings in their Realms Dukes and Princes in their Dominions and of other Magistrates in their Cities to be God's holy Ordinance ordained for manifestation of his own glory and for the singular profit and commodity of Mankinde so that whosoever goeth about to take away or confound the whole estate of Civil policy now long established we affirm the same men not only to be enemies to mankinde but wickedly to fight against Gods expressed will The Confession of England The King's Majesty hath the chief power in this Realm of England and other his Dominions The English Confession Art 37. unto whom the chief government of all estates of this Realm whether they be Ecclesiastical or Civil in all cases doth appertain and is not nor ought to be subject to any forreign jurisdiction The Laws of the Realm may punish Christian men with death for hainous and grievous offences To all which let me add the Confession of the Assembly of Divines Chap. 23. 1. God the Supream Lord and King of all the World hath ordained Civil Magistrates to be under him over the People for his own glory and the publick good and to this end hath armed them with the power of the Sword for the defence and encouragement of them that are good and for the punishment of evil doers 4. It is the duty of People to pray for Magistrates to honour their persons to pay them tribute and other dues to obey their lawfull Commands and to be subject to their Authority Note this well for Conscience sake Infidelity or difference in Religion doth not make void the Magistrates just and legal authority nor free the people from their due obedience to him from which Ecclesiastical persons are not exempted much lesse hath the Pope any power and jurisdiction over them in their Dominions or over any of their People and lest of all to deprive them of their dominions or lives if he shall judge them to be Hereticks or upon any other pretences whatsoever The sum of all is the Civil Magistrate is a Divine Ordinance and his chief care is or ought to be Religion for the defence and vindication whereof God hath put a Sword in his hand to cut off the disturbers of the peace as well in the Church as the Commonwealth and because he is the Minister * Rom. 13.4 of God for our wealth and Safety his Authority is to be obeyed by all sorts of men for conscience sake and not to be resisted upon pains of Damnation Thus I have from the melodious Harmony of all the reformed Churches proved the Authority and shewed the author and Benefit of Government and Governours but Supream and subordinate Wisdom 6.3 Power is given of the Lord and Saveraignty from the bighest See Prov. 8.15 16. Dan. 2.21 chap. 4. v. 25. 32. Rom. 13. v. 1 2 4. Job 36.7 The next thing is to shew the hainousness of disloyalty or Rebellion Rebellion hath all evil in it as said the Greek * Thucid. Historiographer in Rebellion is all kinde of evil it is as one cals it the sink of all sin and the Sea of all mischief Of Rebels and seditious persons to their Sovereign whom the God of Heaven hath made a * Psal 82.6 God on earth doth God himself say as he did of the Israelites he did to Samuel They have not rejected thee but they have rejected me 1 Sam. 8.7 that I should not reign over them Yea the Holy Ghost doth amply set forth the hainousnesse of this sin of ‖ 'T is spoken there of Rebellion against God but it will hold in this case also Rebellion when he doth by the Prophet Samuel compare it with the sin of Witchcraft or the service of the Devil 1 Sam. 15.23 Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft compared with the sin of Witchcraft as I conceive to denote the hainousnesse of it Witchcraft is such a hainous sin that the Lord gave a strict charge * Exo. 22.18 Deut. 18.10 to his ancient People saying Thou shalt not suffer a Witch to live Surely so hainous is this sin of Rebellion that a Rebel against his King and Countrey is not worthy to live For instance that Norman Gentleman who confessed to a Franciscan Frier that he had a thought to kill Francis the King of France though he had changed his minde repented and asked pardon of that crime yet the Frier reporting it to the King and the King referring it to the Parliament of Paris the grave Court of that great Parliament though that King shewed himself very gracious condemned him to death Yea so great detestation is there to be had of the least shew of violence to the Prince that whereas the Law excuseth mad-men from punishment madnesse it self being so great a punishment yet when Capito a man raging mad drew his Sword upon Henry the son of King Francis he was therefore executed Thus much in brief for the second thing viz. the hainousnesse of disloyalty or rebellion The third thing is according to promise to answer some objections that may be and have been made in this particular Of all which very briefly but plainly Object Is it lawful in no case for Subjects to rise up in Arms against their lawful Sovereign Answ