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doctrine_n	church_n	england_n	reform_a	3,931	5	9.9167	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45944	The interest of the English nation under the happy government of King William III once more asserted in answer to the challenge of a Jacobite : wherein is proved that the law which forbids taking up arms against the King upon any pretence whatsoever is consistent with the late revolution / by Philo-kalo-basileos.	Philo-kalo-basileos.	1696 (1696)	Wing I268; ESTC R25207	22,742	31

him Honour and Reverence And at the same time in taking care of his own Life and Security I agree with you that all possible Respect should be paid to the Persons of Kings But I would not have them flattered nor taught to be Arbitrary I would not have them told that Subjects have nothing of their own not so much as their Souls that they are only the Kings Vassals and Slaves and that he may take their Lives and seiz their Fortunes at his pleasure that God made Kings and no body can unmake them nor ought to oppose them whatever they do such Flattery and Sycophantry makes Kings first aspire and then tumble I come now to a Greek Word which is here employ'd to no purpose but only to shew that you are a Learn'd Man which I knew before And here you affront the plain Letter of the Scripture being in such hast that you could not turn to the place I quoted I shall wonder no more at your insulting over me when the Word of God can not be quiet for you The business was this Whereas the Jacobites love to call us Rebels I undertook to shew that there was a sinless Rebellion and that the word was not always taken in an ill sence for this I quoted 2 Kings 18.7 where it was said the Lord was with him viz. Hezekiah and he Rebelled against the King of Assyria and served him not and you say it was not certainly Rebellion Now whether must Your Authority or the Scripture carry it If you had said this is not to be taken strictly then you had come to an Agreement with me as to that matter and there needed no words about it but that you cannot endure I am to be run down at any rate and that with Triumph when you have not said one word to refute me And all along I observe that when you have the least to say you are the most confident I conclude this in the Style which you except against So the People of England Rebelled against K. James for God was with them I now draw near to the Conclusion of your Paper where after many Windings and Doubles like a Hare run almost to Death I had you where we started namely at the Act forbidding to Arm against the King upon any pretence whatsoever I gave you four Reasons at large to shew that these words could not possibly be understood without a tacit Reservation Nor have you offer'd ought that looks like an Answer to any of them The First you have quite omitted To the Second you have only brought a Comparison between an English Monarch and a Bayliff shewing that the King is by great odds the worse Man of the two The Third you have fairly yielded and therein given up your Cause To the Fourth you take Exception that I should say The King is King by Law and yet you own the Maxim That the King can do no Wrong And now after all suspecting perhaps your Weakness and Inconsistence hitherto you come to offer something that looks at first sight like a Dilemma but unfortunately it wants one of its Members which it seems you have dropt in great precipitation The substance of the matter is this Either the Parliament did consider the Consequence of making such a Law or they did not If not say you they were a Club of Blockheads and meer Loggerheads Very good Here 's the Consequence of that But what if the Parliament did consider what then Why then you say you have in a few words run through all I have said in this Cause An admirable Consequence and a rare Dilemma The one is lame of a side and the other is false unless you have run through my Papers with some small Needle which I cannot perceive But let us Come once more to the Merits of the Cause I grant the Parliament might and I believe they did consider the Consequences of both sides that is with respect to the King and the People And tho' t is possible they might compute amiss yet I rather incline to thinke they did not For Either they must Speak in General terms or else they must make some Limitation or Exception Now there is no Exception to be made but only this In case the King should become a Tyrant and Endeavour to Subvert the Government But how shameful and dangerous a thing must it have been to mention such a thing in an Act of Parliament It might have provoked the King to Dissolve them or it might have prepared the people for a new Rebellion So that supposing it necessary to pass such an Act it must of Necessity pass in general Terms tho' it may seem hard upon the people But it is not hard upon them at all being understood in such a Sense as to be Consistent with other Laws And either it must be so understood or it does Actually change the Government and gives the King a despotick Power which that the Parliament did ever design is Nonsense to Imagine I am now at the foot of the Account and you think you have given me a full Answer desiring me to look once more over my Papers and tell you if you are not Mistaken in your Answers I have told you already and now I tell you again that you are mightily mistaken and I shall never be made to think otherwise I have looks over my Papers and yours too several times which you I believe have not done once or if at all I am sure without due Consideration But you were so Ambitious to answer my Papers all at one Sitting that you had far better have let it alone Many things you have left Untoucht and those you have are no worse for your handling Amongst the rest I wonder you have taken no Notice of what I quoted you out of the famous Barclay so great an Asserter of Monarchy that he is Reckoned the head of your party And yet no writing that I have seen has determined this point more directly against you You have Ruffled the Memory of his Royal Master with a witness and 't is strange that he also should not come in for a Cast of your Office To conclude Sir If I were worthy to advise you I should desire that you would forbear idle company and not spend your Money on those that poison and corrupt you that you would think more and talk less and read with consideration such Books as are written on this subject by Men of the greatest Learning and Piety and particularly that which you lent me that you would scribble no more in this manner quicquid in Buccam venerit and think with your self whether you be fit to cope with the greatest Men in England For I have said nothing here but what such have said before me tho not in the same words yet in far better However being Challeng'd at first and now again Vrg'd with so much Confidence and Triumph I would not wholly decline the Argument and doubt not to defend it against the best of your Party I call it your Party but I hope I shall have occasion to retract that expression for I remember the time you were of another Opinion and do expect to find you so again For I am perswaded it is not of your own proper Genius that you are what you are or what you seem to be at present but by having sometimes your Conversation amongst Men of Slavish Debauch'd and Pernicious Principles And this is the Case of a great many more that were once well-affected to the present Government But you have had the Advantage of a Generous Education and your Learning is beyond many of your Profession which also is one of the most Honourable and most Loyal For but few of your Brethren Comparatively are Jacobites Be not you I beseech you toss'd to and fro with every wind of Doctrine nor led away with the prating Confidence of Pragmatick Fellows Consider what a parcel of Atheists and Profligates weigh being laid in the Ballance against the Church of England and other Reformed Churches together with that vast Body of Nobility Gentry Lawyers and Substantial Commoners of the Kingdom They are but like the Vermine in the Fable that would needs swell to the bigness of an OX And they may burst themselves with their own Poison if they please the Government does not care a Straw for 'em nor do I fear that ever they will be able to hurt it And so Fare you well FINIS