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A36199 Dr. Sherlock's Two knights of Brainford brought upon the stage in a congratulatory letter to Mr. Johnson : occasioned by the doctor's vindication of himself in taking the oath of allegiance to Their Majesties after the time, indulg'd by the law, was expired. 1690 (1690) Wing D1766; ESTC R31333 34,233 42

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of another Kingdom and has but one more to try his Fate in so that there is two to one on the side of the Possessor Now therefore he who had the Right has justly Forfeited And the Supream Law the publick Good warranted a Revolt from him and meeting our Deliverer as a Blessing from Heaven All this may be little expected from the Doctor but tho it may startle and surprize you I shall prove it Page 3. and shew from him 1. That our Monarchy is limited and the King has no Authority but what the Law allows him Page 30. Page 65. which sets Bounds to Sovereign Power As I before observed he owns that the King has no Right but by Law and the Law may determine how far his Right shall extend And thus Man's Law limits Gods Authority This is more than he would own expresly that I can find in the time of C. 2. but even then he admitted that he who Governs by Ca●e of Resist p. 197. Arbitrary Will is a Tyrant and no King Yet he then left it to his pleasure whether he whom he calls the Law maker would Govern by Laws or Sovereign Will. Case of Resist p. 196. This was suitable to the use he then had for the 13th to the Romans but now it serves only to countenance what he will have an Usurpation And yet it will be a question how he can be an Usurper who as the Doctor confesses as he is King receives his Right from Law having no Right but by Law And what he says in another Page 42. respect as far as he quits his Government he quits the Allegiance of the Subjects might be easily improved here 2. That if Kings receive their Authority from Men and Humane Laws their Power is a trust of which they Page 36. must give an account to those who intrusted them c. tho no express Provision were made in the Law to call them to account 3. That King James notoriously violated the Subjects Rights and broke the Constitution upon which himself page 27. stood and struck at the Dearest things their Religion established by Law and their Properties is almost as plainly signified by him as if he had named the Man 4. He is express in relation to the late Revolution that a Prince Forfeits the Affections and Legal Defence of Page 30. his Subjects by the Exercise of an Illegal and Arbitrary Power Where 1. he owns a Forfeiture And 2. of what is essential to the Sovereignty that Love or Filial Duty to Princes which our Clergy tell us is required under the Honour due to Parents 3. A Legal Defence is certainly due by Law to a King as such and therefore when that Defence is no more a duty Allegiance ceases especially the Subjects having Sworn to this And if the Oaths taken to the Prince are discharged as to any part by a Forfeiture it will be difficult to shew why that Forfeiture ought not to extend to the whole 5. He as good as yields that the late King Absolved the Subjects from their Allegiance to him Speaking Page 48. of the late King and his People and their chief Interests in comparison with former times which he would make greatly to differ from the present The bold steps says he and extraordinary Methods he had taken gave them great Apprehensions that all these were in danger even the Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown it self the Preservation of which was a main end of the Oath of Allegiance by his Submission to the See of Rome and rejecting the Oath of Supremacy and as far as he could absolving his Subjects from it Add to this what he said elsewhere The Defence of Monarchy and the Rights and Prerogatives of the Crown will appear a very page 51. page 47. material part of the Oath of Allegiance It must be considered that all which he makes requisite for transferring the Legal Right of Government to an Usurper who obtains a settled Possession is the Submission or Consent of a Legal Prince Since therefore the Prince in this consented as far as he could to divest himself of his Supremacy which I hope he will say is essential to his Sovereignty it may seem that his Sovereignty may as well be transferred to the People as to any Prince being the Doctor and the Convocation have no Scruples upon the Degeneracy of the Form of Government And therefore our Parliament justly affirmed the Power to have been The Act about the Law proceedings devolved upon the People when they ordered Indictments for Offences during the Vacancy to be laid Contra pacem Regni He grants farther That the Safety of the People is the Supream Law That it will be hard to convince any considering Men that that which is necessary to preserve a Nation is page 41. a Sin This indeed he applies to Submitting to an Usurper But the reason of it goes farther He admits That we have no Direction in Scripture at all about page 22. making or unmaking Kings To which I may apply what he brings to another purpose That when we page 45. are to learn our Duty not from any express Law of God or Nature but from the Reason and Nature of things It is a sufficient Argument that it is not my Duty which will expose me to great Sufferings without serving any good end nay which exposes me to Sufferings for contradicting the natural End and Intention of my Duty And soon after he admits That Men were not made for Princes to be their Slaves and Properties but Princes were made for the Government of Men. That necessity of Preservation may absolve Subjects from their Oaths to their Prince And that page 42. the Preservation of Humane Societies is the ultimate end of Government and will justifie what it makes necessary page 40 41. page 33. Farther yet and more particular I do not think says he the Right and Interest of any Prince so considerable as the Safety and Preservation of a Nation and the Lives and Fortunes of all his Subjects I shall not enquire how far this agrees with his Assertion That if a Limited Monarch were not as irresistible Case of Resist p. 208. as the most Absolute the most Absolute and Despotick Government is more for the Publick Good than a Limited Monarchy But certain it is had the Doctor taken as much time to consider the direct Consequences of these Noble Truths for justifying the Shakeing off a Tyrannical Power Usurp'd over the Subjects as he did for bringing himself to submit to what he will have to be an Usurpation upon a Legal Prince he could not but have seen that they who contributed towards this Revolution discharged their Duty to God and their Country much better than they who were Unnatural to their Country in adhereing to the Interest of one whom the Doctor Page 2. An Oath to fight for the King does not oblige us to