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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46958	The opinion is this, that resistance may be vsed, in case our religion and rights should be invaded	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1689 (1689)	Wing J836; ESTC R17465	10,755	11

Provinci●s illis quo minus se tu●ri Armis ambitiosam Tyrannidem avertere liceret Galliarum Rex Majestatem habet Regni multo majorem cui tamen pro Lege est Bodin Meth. Hist. Cap. 6. Principem contra Leges nihil posse rescriptis● ejus rationem nullam haberi debere nisi aequitati perinde ac veritati Consentanea sint Porro est etiam proceribus reliquisque Ordinibus suus Honor Dignitas quam Regi violare nefas est Quam quùm non ita pridem senserunt Heroes Regni illius novorum quorundam hominum factione gravissimè laesam qui sub obtentu Religionis ambitioni suae servientes insano furore coelum terrae miscerent lamentabilem totius Regni calamitatem minitari viderentur quippe omnia pro arbitrio suo facta infecta rata irrita esse jubentes Edicta publico jure pro conservanda pace promu●gata libitu suo frustrari non dubitantes ceperunt illi quidem arma pro Regis Regni suâque omnium libertate vindicandâ nec ferendum sibi putarunt ut armata contra Leges paucorum hominum insolentia Leges Divinas simul Humanas intollerabili audacia proculearet Pugnarunt ergo pro jure suo non aliquo Ecclesiae privilegio quo illa sibi integrum putet armis se defendere sed politicâ libertate qua citra injuriam Principis erdinem suum legibus constitutum adversus hostes conjuratos non inferendo bellum sed populsando tueri licebar Atque in hoc Causa eorum a Veteris Ecclesiae ratione distinguenda est quae absque ullo juris sui titulo mero imperii placito subjacebat Quamdiu vero ita se res habuit caedebantur ut tu dicis Christiani non caedebant qui tamen sub Constantino Principe jure publico armati non tam caedebantur quam caedebant profligatis Tyrannis Licinio Iugum persecutionis a cervicibus Ecclesiae depulerunt Pari ratione Ecclesia nostra cum longo tempore sub Antichristo nullis Secularibus praesidiis adjuta duram servitutem serviisset postquam ex illis fluctibus miserante Deo eluctari jam emergere caepisset legum aliquod praesidium stantibus ab illa principibus optimatibus obtimusse● caepit catenùs uti viribus suis armata manu munitam edictis legibus privilegiis ab importuna Tyrannorum oppressione vindicare Quare Principes Galliae quorum interfuit providere ne publica libertas per injuriam opprimeretur neve quae lege sancta esse debebant surreptitiorum quorundam libidine pro irritis nullis haberentur qui usque adeo hostes republicae comperti sunt ut signiferum illius seditionis Ducem Guisium Rex ipse Henricus si Religione cum eo consentiens quia judicio agere non posset repentino impetu confodiendum curaret bello injustam illam violentiam repellendam Ecclesiam non nisi juste armatam pro ea quam lege habebat libertate conservanda in aciem educendam censuerunt ubi qui de tuis partibus Bellarmine ceciderunt non injuria Persecutionis sed justissimae Defensionis impetu perierunt But here we are fallen into a Political Question How much Authority over the Subjects was promised to the Prince by the Fundamental Laws of every State whether he have a boundless and unlimited Power or whether it be measured and adjusted and more or less mixed with the Power and Authority of the Peers or People The Government of the Roman Emperours heretosore was Absolute and Unmixed they governed all at Pleasure they made Laws and they unmade them again and had the Soveraign Power of Life and Death For which reason the Christians could with no pretence Resist the Violence of those Times or Defend themselves against the Wrongs which were done to them But the Princes of those Countries which you speak of have certain Bounds set them which when they pass the Nobles think it lawful for them to Repel their unjust Violence and to shake off the Yoke wherewith they are wickedly and illegally Oppressed And thus the King of Spain who had the Government of the Netherlands only upon Composition and Compact when he did no longer stand to his Compact and acted Insolently contrary to the Faith which he had given was thought to have devested himself of that Government so that there was no reason why those Provinces might not lawfully Defend themselves with Arms and get rid of an Ambitious Tyranny The King of France is much more Absolute nevertheless this serves for a Law to him That the Prince can do nothing contrary to Law and that his Edicts ought not to be regarded unless they be agreeable to Equity as well as Truth Besides the Peers and the rest of the Estates have an Honour and Dignity belonging to them which the King himself cannot Violate Which when the Nobles of that Kingdom were sensible was deeply wounded by a Faction of some upstart Men who served their own Ambition under a Cloak of Religion turned all things upside down and seemed to threaten miserable Calamity to the whole Kingdom truly they took up Arms to Vindicate the King's and Kingdom 's and all their own Liberties and thought it not fit to be endured that the Insolence of a few Men which was armed against the Laws should trample upon all Laws both Divine and Humane with unsufferable Boldness They fought therefore for their own Right not by any Priviledge which the Church has to Defend itself with Arms but by their Civil Liberty whereby without any wrong to the Prince it was Lawful for them in a way of Defence to maintain their Legal Establishment against their sworn Enemies And herein their Case differed from that of the Primitive Church which was Subject to Absolute Imperial Will and Pleasure without any Title to Rights of its own Now while their condition continu'd thus The Christians as you say were killed but did not kill Notwithstanding when under Constantine the Emperour they were armed with a Publick Right They were rather for killing than being killed and having Vanquished several Usurpers and Licinius the Emperour they threw off the Yoke of Persecution from the Neck of the Church In like manner our Church when she had for a long time undergone an hard Bondage under Antichrist having had no Secular Protection at all after she had begun by the Mercy of God to get above Water and to rise from under those Waves of Oppression and having by the Princes and Nobles standing by her gained some Protection of the Laws she began to use her own Power as far as she had it and when she was now fortified with Edicts and Laws and Priviledges to Vindicate herself with Arms from the vexatious Oppression of Tyrants Wherefore the Nobles of France who were concerned to provide that the Publick Liberty should not be oppressed by Wrong nor those things which ought to have been Established by the Law should