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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47892	No blinde guides, in answer to a seditious pamphlet of J. Milton's intituled Brief notes upon a late sermon titl'd, The fear of God and the King preached, and since published, by Matthevv Griffith, D. D., and chaplain to the late king, &c. addressed to the author.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1279; ESTC R13799	10,710	20

Reasons You Argue First the Putting down of Kingship and then the Tacit confirmation of that Act by the last Session who without any Address to any King or Restitution of any Kingly Right summoned the next to come by the Writ formerly Appointed of a Free Commonwealth To your Assumption that Kingship was put down I cannot subscribe till I am better satisfied by what Authority for no Form of Government can be altered but by consent of all the Parties to it In short the late King was Destroy'd Kingship Abolish'd the House of Lords Disauthoris'd and at least 7. parts of 8. of the Commons Members secluded by the same Power Come to your Inference now That halts of all four There was no King because they did not mention him you are a little bold methinks to lay your Brat at the Parliament Door and Father your opinions upon them that in the case would not declare their own Reasons of State of Honour and Convenierce might very fairly move them to suspend Suppose they thought it Prudence to refer all to the next Convention without so much as a Debate whether a King or No and upon this point of extreme necessity the Nation running headlong into another War without the Interpose of a new Representative rather dispence with something of Informality in the Writs than otherwise to hazzard the main Issue of the Publique weal If all this be not yet enough I hope the re-minding the Nation of the COVENANT and their own refusal of the Oath of ABJURATION will content you Your 4th Page runs away in some mistakes concerning Gideon a Person Call'd and set apart by God himself guided by Divine Inspirations and Acting without Partnership the work he was employ'd upon A little further you deny the King the Power of life and death urging Page 4. that 't is against the declared Judgements of our Parliaments nay of our Laws which reserve to themselves only the power of life and death c. I 'LL not deny but a Parliament is above the King That is The King is greater in Conjunction with his two Houses than by Himself but still this weakens not the force of my assertion which is that Kings must necessarily have that power without it they 're no Kings and 't is the same thing in all Governments whatsoever 't is one of the Prerogatives Inseparable from supreme Authority But since you urge the Declar'd Judgements of our Parliaments in favour of your opinion I should be glad to see them Now for the Laws 't is true they Pronounce Life or Death but the King 's left at Liberty to Take or to Remit the forfeiture at pleasure Enough is said of this If I were b●…nt to Cavil your 5th Page would afford matter abundantly where you extravagate upon the word Anointed but That is more Peculiarly the Doctor's Businesse and I refer you to him So are your slips Page 6. but Those I cannot passe without a marque For There you shew your Teeth I might have said your Eares to boot But how will you confirm one wrested Scripture with another I Sam. 8. 7. They have not rejected thee but m●… grosly misapplying these words which were not spoken to any who had resisted or rejected a King but to them who much against the will of God had sought a King and rejected a Commonwealth wherein they might have liv'd happily under the Reign of God only their King Let the words interpret themselves v. 6 7. But the thing displeased Samuel when they said give us a King to judge us And Samuel prayed unto the Lord And the Lord said unto Samuel barken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee for they have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them Hence you conclude so indissoluble is the Conjunction of God and the King O notorious abuse of Scripture when as you should have concluded So unwilling was God to give them a King So wide was the disjunction of God from a King Mr. Milton when your hand was In another verse methinks should not have over-charg'd you and 't is the very next too As they have ever done sayes God to Samuel since I brought them cut of Egypt even unto this Day and have forsaken me and served other Gods even so doe they unto thee This would have given you light to read the Rest by and possible have done you the same service which you pretend to doe the Doctour But none so Blind as they that will not see especially had you but taken in likewise the verse next Antecedent to your Quotation which speaks the motive to their such Desires as the other does fairly imply the Reason of Gods Disapproval of them 't was a hard misse and an industrious one I fear to scape the 5 and 8 verses without the which the 6 and 7 which you make use of have no intelligible Coherence Make us a King say they to Judge us like the NATIONS v. 5. and after That v. 8. God charges them with inclinations to Idolatry so that the inference is open They had a hankering after the Gods of the Nations as well as the Kingship and That moved the All seeing wisdome that knew their hearts to tell Samuel saying they have not Rejected Thee bùt Mee a Speech applyable to their Disobedience rather than to their Proposition God is r●…jected in the rejection of his Ministers This is a stubborn Text Sir and will not mould as you would have it Had not they against the will of God sought a KING and rejected a Common wealth you tell us that they might have l●…v'd HAPPILY under the reign of God onely their King Indeed you have the best intelligence I beseech you how doe you know this whom God loves he chastens and persecution in this world is the Portion of the Saints It 's true their obedience to God here would certainly have rend●…ed them Happy hereafter but this is not the Happinesse you drive at Look back now upon the 3. verse of the same Chapter and there you 'll find some Reason to apprehend the contrary For Samuel being Old and having made his sonnes Judges over Israel the Text sayes that his sonnes walked not in his wayes but turn'd aside after Lucre and took Rewards and perverted Judgement c. now if from hence you can perswade your self into a good opinion of a Popular Government I cannot blame your stickling for the Rump But that this mis-rule should please God your modesty I hope will not pretend to offer You 'll say however that the Popular form did I 'll not contend about it Did not the Regall too as much in David a King of God's particular choice and a man after his Own Heart So that you gain little by the odds of a Free-State in ballance against Monarchy In one word The Saviour of the World was a KING and a King of Jewes Grant or Denie at pleasure