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duty_n	allegiance_n	king_n	subject_n	2,355	5	7.0118	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51017	Mr. Croftons case soberly considered, plainly stated, and humbly submitted to the consideration of just and prudent men made publique to silence clamor, correct mistake, and acquit him from the charge of high treason vrged by Tho. Tomkins, fellow of All-Souls, Oxon. and others in their frivolous, scurillous and invective pamphlets.	Griffith, Hugh.	1661 (1661)	Wing M2260; ESTC R25739	18,624	30

pray it may be observed 1. Mr. Crofton is so far from abetting approving or defending the Rebellion against and usage of his late Majesty that he doth expresly disown and damn the resistance of his Authoriry and violence upon his Royal Person as a most horrid and execrable Rebellion a most base and Barbarous Regicide a most odious and perjurious breach of the Covenant Which he vindicateth from the odium thereof and affirmeth to have been so far from being the cause or accessorie occasion thereof that it is in it self the most full security and strength unto the contrary that ever was or could be given and observeth the same to have been slighted as an Almanack out of date before that violence could be acted or advised which he determineth to have been a full and formal violation of this Oath by the perjured pack who did pursue and effect the same 2. This man is so far from detracting from the Kings Soveraign Power and Prerogative that in these very writings he acknowledgeth the Kings Supremacy in every particular and in the greatest latitude thereof ever challenged by any English Prince and he doth therefore urge the Covenant as consistant with and enforcing to the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy He affirmeth the Subjects Duty and Allegiance to be absolute and due without any condition of their own prescription or indenture and without any respect to the quality or disposition of the King good or bad pious or impious founded in and directed by simple naked relation And he asserteth the Kings Prerogative and Sovereign power to be such as doth exempt his Royal Person from all imposition of conditions and from all coaction to accomplishment of what he condescendeth to assume upon himself by his Subjects or any humane Power whatsoever and therefore this very man doth blame the Scots for indiscretion and over much boldness who being Subjects could dare to take the advantage of a straite condition to put such terms as they did upon his Majesty 3. Mr. Crofton is in these writings so far from a Seditious Spirit and provoking any preposterous heady and seditious attempts and endeavours that he bindeth all men in the performance of the Covenant unto just and lawful endeavours and that within their places and callings and therefore he alloweth no weapons against Majesty save Ministerial Rebukes and Admonitions in the Name of God the King of Kings Parliamentory advice proposal Remonstrance in the name of his Subjects or the Collective Body of his Kingdom and vulgar Petitions and supplications from and by themselves in reference to their vulgar concernments He disowneth and disalloweth all popular Tumults and disorderiall Insurrections and insolencies in the Subject binding unto passive obedience and quiet submission all who cannot yield active obedience to the establishments decreed by the King in Church and Common-wealth whensoever he doth as he durst do no other observe the Wisdom Justice and Soveraign Power of Almighty God in permitting or disposing the Irruptions and Insurrections of the natural against and upon the political Power or the heady disorderly Tumultuous and Seditious Agitations of the people against their Princes he passeth not his Observations without a Notation of the sinfulness thereof and a manifest expression of his own dislike of such wayes and courses If this man must be branded as a Preacher of Sedition we must confess our selves at a loss how Truth shall be declared with due respect unto and careful preservation of Order 5. The Affirmation of these Principles and the Disputation in these Books mannaged do very rationally profess Loyalty to be the Center at least a chief part thereof from which they sprang and to which they are returned Mr. Crofton argueth Loyalty as the impulsive cause thereof and pleadeth it from such evidences which no sober Christian can or will deny We shall not conclude Declarations published under the distress of Royal Affairs do exactly oblige the Kings accomplishment yet cannot but conceive them to be the Subjects Appologie and justification for his pursuit of the Royal Command thereby signified and not any other way countermanded We cannot but observe the chief of Mr. Croftons Books objected against him as his onely Crime were written before His Majesties Declaration concerning Ecclesiastical Affairs was published This man owneth no sence of the Covenant but what is truly Loyal and fully securing to the Kings Interest and Prerogative It is very well known he had in Press and Pulpit improved this very Principle of the Covenant to bring back the hearts of the people to the happy Restauration of His Sacred Majesty and then he found Acceptance Approbation and Applause from those very persons who now reproach him and rage against him for no reason save reasoning the same Principles We confess we stand amazed and cannot conceive with what colour of Justice that which was an eminent Act of Loyalty April 1660. could be reputed represented and charged to be an Act of High Treason in September following no new Law intervening to interdict and so alter the nature of the Act yet we know tempora mutantur nos mutamur ab illis onely we conceive a temporizing weather-cock humour must direct or the dictates of new made Laws must drive men into the change of Act and estate Mr. Crofton doth often protest Loyalty to be his end in this debate which now seemeth to be his errour and we have cause to believe it did really affect his heart whence we finde no disloyal Act or expression to have sprung and this most Loyal profession doth not a little demonstrate the sincerity thereof I confess we allowe unto his most Sacred Majesty all humble submission active or passive whatsoever shall be by Royal Authority established in the Church though never so corrupt yet whilst consistent with Salvation it may occasion unto me suffering and a suspence of my Ministry but it shall not effect in me or such on whom I have Influence Schism from the Church or resistance of His Majesties Right and Authoritie and in the further and more fervent enforcement of this debate this man declareth He had rather never put pen to paper then that his writings should disturb the Peace of these two long distracted Nations Mr. Crofton may we confesse have taken into his judgment some of those errors in politie which the unhappy breach between his late Majesty and the late long Parliament did foment yet we humbly conceive malice it self cannot charge these writings written with so legible a line of Loyalty and love to peace and order with Treason or Sedition Certainly this breath is too sweet to come from ulcered lungs These Principles and Professions could never proceed from a Trayterous Heart and all Just men will acknowledge Actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea nor can they be charitably suspected of dissimulation when things antecedent Concomitant and consequent speak the sincerity of a Loyal breast

received the same cannot but know he was Conscientiously loyal and constantly faithful to the Kings Majesty and his Interest in these Kingooms he having manifested the same beyond all possibility of denial by any by his retaining his Loyalty and adhaering to the Exil'd King as his only liedge Lord in the very worst of times under our late Usurpers in his place and to his power opposing them disowning their Authority denying to subscribe the Ingagement of fidelity to them and declaring against it as sinful dissenting from and many times expostulating with his complying Brethren and ever refusing to concur in any Addresle or Application to them by his Sequestrations and many sufferings he received from them for no other cause then his Loyalty unto his Majesty then in a low Estate by his Sermons preached at Namptwich at West-chester at Caherine Coleman and Peters Church in Cornhill London rebuking the barbarous murther of his late Rebellion and defection from his now Majesty and perswading a penitential return of Allegiance to him our lawful Soveraign the which he enforced with many Pathetical and pregnant perswasive Admonitions publickly Printed and the same is made the more legible by the joy of such by whom he formerly suffered and with whom he now suffereth who now tauntingly insult over his present sufferings upbraid him with his past adherency to his Majesty saying Nothing but a King would serve his turn we hope he hath King enough now we well knew they who were so zealous for the King would fare no better then those that were against him These and the like Evidences of his sincere Loyalty are so notorious that we should labour without cause and to no purpose to specifie particular proofs his very enemies not being able to deny them That this man retained the same affection to his Majesty after his happy Restoration we need not inquire into his domestick Expressions of Joy and daily praises to God as evidences thereof the same having been amply testified by his Publick Ministry and the doctrine of Obedience and subjection to the King which he Preached at St. Antholines Church London from 1 Pet. 2.13.14.15.16 and the doctrine of Thanksgiving to God for so great a Mercy Preached on May 10. and June 28. 1660. at Buttolphs Algate immediately before and after his Majesties happy return from that Text 2 Sam. 22.48 49 50 51. And by the Doctrine of humiliation for the horrid Regicide the barbarous murther of his late Majesty which he preached from 2 Sam. 1.11 12 13 14 15 16. On the 30th of Jan. the same year all which were they not too tedious for a discourse of this Nature we had thought to have inserted in these papers six out of those book notes which we took from his own mouth when he preached the same Thus much we will be bold to say that the expressions of his Loyalty in those Sermons were such as might vie with those who injoy the most of his Majesties favour and administer to all that know the man matter of amazement and admiration that he is resolved into such sufferings under pretence of Treason and disloyalty which must needs be the result of mistake or unkindness We cannot but admire with what honesty or modesty men do confound Mr. Crofton with those because professedly the same with him in Ecclesiasticks who acted or irritated open Rebellion against his late or present Majesty which his Soul ever abhorred or who did basely comply under our late sinful shameful revolutions with what face can men reflect the odium of these things upon the person who acquitted his Conscience and Credit by a constant and publique disavowing the one and the other and in his place declaring the sinfulnesse of both and whereof his writings do very plainly shew his dislike and detestation making it his business to vindicate the Solemn League and Covenant from the least causality of so sad effects affirming these to have been the perjurious violation of that We wish the Serious Reader willing to be satisfied in this particular to review his Analepsis pa. 7 8 15 16. Analepsis An elepthe pa. 17 18 c. Berith Anti-baal pa. 51 52. When we consider Mr. Croftons constant Loyalty and confessed vigour and activity in bringing back the hearts of his Majesties Subjects and reflect on his present sufferings We must confess we are not without fear that the envious Observation of some of his Majesties enemies may cloud the honour of our most Gracious King with the Oblivion of Joash towards Zechariah the Son of Jehoidah or the unkindnesse of Queen Mary towards Mr. Dobs and the Gospellers of Norsock and Suffock whom she Imprisoned and Pillored for only minding her of her promise to them passed for the clearing her passage to the Crown The only matter our best enquiry will give us to understand or our selves can rationally conj●cture as an offence chargeable on Mr. Crofton is the Affirmation of the Obliging force of the ●olemne League and Covenant and in order thereunto observing and arguing the Legislative power of the two Houses of Parliament without the King These two we confess are Legible in those writings which bearing his Name in the World are reputed his These Books we have heard were Objected to him without any specification of any thing or word Offensive or Trayterous when he was Committed Prisoner to the Tower Concerning these Assertions we humbly offer these things to be observed which we conceive to be worthy a due and serious consideration 1. First Mr. Croftons Affirmation or rather Argumentation of these principles was before the same was Interdicted by ay Law or Authority and if without offence we may observe it when it was a duty imposed on all his Majesties good Subjects required to use their utmost endeavours to promote the ends of the Covenant and that as an evidence of their Fidelity to God and their King by his Majesties Royal Declaration transmitted out of Scotland and which we have heard was delivered to Mr. Crofton by a Colonel in his Majesties Army marching to Worcester with an express charge to believe and pursue it as his Majesties expresse Pleasure We are sensible the affirmation of these principles is now forbidden by a Law and is punishable by a Premunire in such who shall affirm them or either of them after the 24th of June 1661. But in Mr. Croftons Case we cannot but observe his Act was in August September and October many moneths before the Law which doth forbid it What is a Premunire by the Laws we conceive could be no Treason before the Law was made Where there is no Law there is no Transgression it is an advise worthy a King so just and wise as was King James his Majesties Grand-Father and to be ever Remembred by all Princes and Ministers of Justice Proceed judicially and spare none where you see cause to punish But let your proceedings be according to Law and remember Laws have