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A67636	The resurrection of loyalty and obedience, out of the grave of rebellion by the sacred force of the oathes of supremacy and allegiance, which have lain as dead, and out of minde, for diverse years, and here raised up out of the dust, and discovered in their great inviolable force and power unto the people : for the humbling of those that are guilty of the breach of them, the quelling of rebellious principles, and excitement unto the duties of obedience and subjection, according to the tenor of the said oathes.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing W890; ESTC R38492	13,854	26

perjured sins but are to be lookt upon in religious reason as utterly void and of none effect as those wherein they exceeded their limits and broke the bounds of that power and authority which was committed unto them which were circumscribed unto their operations as the sphear of their activity by those Oaths which they took at their entrance thereupon for it is neither religious nor reasonable that any man or society of men should have power to act against the lawfull Oaths that they have taken and then if we remember that the lawfull Members of the long Parliament did as they were enjoyned by the law of the Nation take the Oath of Supremacy or Allegiance every one of them personally at or before their admittance into the House and that in order to their entrance upon their power to act as members of the Parlia of England it will be easie to conclude first how sinfull and then how altogether invalid and forcelesse all those acts that they have done or shall doe must needs be which are or shall be any way contrary or in the least derogatory to the aforesaid Oathes and how great work there is for Humiliation both to God and his substitute for many and sad things that have been done by some of them as highly and diametrically contrary to those Oathes as it is possible for actions to be contrived The cry is so loud I need not instance but now to come a little closer to the view of these Oathes and to discover what they import and oblige unto Obser VIII That in the first clause of the Oath of Supremacy the King is utterly and conscientiously declared and acknowledged upon Oath to be the onely supream Governour of this Realm and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries as well in Spiritual and Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal Mark the supreme Governour therefore he hath none above him not but that he and his great Counsell together may have power to do more than he can do alone but that none can act above him in opposition unto him Secondly The onely supreme Governor therefore there is none equall unto him This admits of no rivall in the Throne this excludes not others from Government as his subordinate Instruments nor doth it exclude others from being necessary assistants unto him in some acts of Government as the making of new Laws the abrogation of those that have been already made but it doth exclude all others from the supremacy from being inabled to act above him or contrary unto him or without him or his allowance in those or any other acts of Government and this supremacy of Government in him is solemnly acknowledged in this Oath which is both a law and an Oath of the Nation to extend unto this Realm and to all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries to all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things causes as well as temporal that is to say as far as God hath committed either of them unto humane secular powers and as to the charge and over-sight of religious matters to see that they be rightly ordered and managed by those that are the proper instruments of Religious Ordinances and that the true Faith be embraced and Religious Duties purely practised by the people in his Dominions and to afford his protection defence encouragement thereunto and to take order that the offices of the Church be rightly established and furnished according to the rule of God and that wholsome laws be provided to those ends and decency and order be observed in Church-discipline and religious performances Obser IX That wherein the said Oath there is a religious disclaimer renouncing of all spiritual or ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority within this Realm it doth reasonably suppose that there is none within the Realm that hath any such preheminence above the King in those matters who is before declared to be the onely supream Obser X. That where the people of the Land do promise from henceforth That is for ever to bear faith and true allegiance to the Kings Highness his heires and lawfull successors it binds to obedience subjection and fidelity not onely to the King in present being but unto his heirs and lawful successors and doth bind us to them and every of them in opposition to al violent usurpers unlawfull intruders into the Government of this Nation that can plead no just establishment from the known and fundamentall Laws of this Nation as are all such that do either by fraud or violence intrude themselves into the power of Govenrment XI Whereas this onely bindeth the people of the Land to their power that is the utmost of their power to assist defend all jurisdictions priviledge preheminence and authority granted or belonging to the Kings Highness his heirs and Successours and united and annexed to the imperial Crown of this Realm it doth highly engage all Officers Parliament-members Generals Commanders Soaldiers and all the members of this Kingdome in their several capacities readily diligently to afford their dutiful help and assistance to defend the King in being from all hurt and violence and to maintain his state government and dignity against all opposers whatsoever foreign or intestine in like manner to defend the person life liberty of his Heirs and lawful Successors and to maintaine and assert the said royall priviledges and preheminences unto them and every of them and in case they be fallen into any damage or suffer any wrong or disparagement in any of them it is then the duty unto which all people are engaged by the sacred force of this Oath to use the utmost of their power according to their several abilities to restore recover and right them against all force and violence under which they suffer which doth painly shew what is required of all people and especially of those that have power in their hands at this time for the deliverance and restoring of our afflicted and oppressed Soveraign and how highly they are obliged thereunto and then more especially when God doth by his signal and wonderfull providences admonish them of and lead them on unto their duties Observations concerning the Oath of Allegiance 1. OBserve That the Nation by this Oath doth declare before God and the world the power of kingly Government is that which is established by Law in this Nation and over that and all other the Kings Dominions and that therfore the introducing of another form of Government is contrary to the Law and Constitution of this Nation which the people are bound to maintain 2. That this Regal and Kingly office is seated personally in the King for the time being who according to the Law of this Nation is said never to die but is presently upon his death revived as to this kingly right and office in him also who is the next heir to the Crown 3. That by the express words also of this Oath the Nation and the

of the Pope or See of Rome or otherwise which doth expressely obliege the subjects to appear for the defence of the King of his Person and Government against all attempts against them by any whatsoever or upon any pretences soever Ob. VII That the people of this Nation are highly obliged in the importance of this Oath with their best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty in being to his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Traiterous conspiracies that they shall know or hear of to be against the King or any of his Heirs and Successors Where the conspiracies which are against the King and his Successors have the stile of Treasons and Traiterous conspiracies for the Epithite or Title or Traiterous is not to be understood as a mark of distinction but of aggravation all such the people of this land are bound by thi Oath to reveal unto the King his Successors with their best endeavor whensoever they hear of them or have any knowledge of them to the intent without all doubt that they may be prevented and the contrivers and actors brought to condigne punishment and therefore all concealing of such things and much more all centriving and acting of them or complying with them or abetting of them is gross perjury against this Oath as well as treason against the King and his Heirs and successors Obser VIII That in this Oath the people do with this sacred obligation profess an hearty abhorring detesting and abjuration of that doctrine and position as impious hereticall and damnable that princes which be excommunicated and deprived by the Pope may be deposed and murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever which doth undoubtedly disclaime and abjure all deposing and murthering of Kings by their Subjects or others as a practice as impious heretical and damnable as any such Doctrine whether they be excommunicated and deprived by the Pope or no Unlesse any shall be so mad and wicked as to think that their Kings may be murthered or deposed by them or others because they are not excommunicated or deprived by the Pope as if Princes stood in need of the Popes deprivation or excōmunication to secure them from deposition or being murthered by their Subjects then it is obvious enough to any mans consideration how sad and desperate how impious heretical damnable and perjurious against the faith and Oath of the Kingdome The mistake and miscarriage of some hath been of late who would have been therein also examples unto others and those too I think that took this very Oath who instead of abjuring the deposing and murthering of the King have abjured the King himself thereby with a monster of wickedness have sworn down the awful lawful Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance their own Covenant binding them to the Kings posterity the Protestation binding to maintain and defend according to the duty of Allegiance together with the Laws of God and man and all that not onely justice and righteousness but even mercy compassion and gratitude and thankfulness which bindeth the people of this land unto his Majesty And withall it may be full easily discovered in the view of this Oath how wickedly forward some instruments and factours of the Jesuites amongst us that thought not sit to stay for a sentence of excommunication or deprivation from the Pope but have acted these horrid things without it that they have done to the reproach of the Christian profession and the shame and scandal of the protestant Religion and of this Nation I am sorry that it is become so necessary as it is to deal so plainly with them in this matter but it is of great concernment unto them and us in order to their salvation that they should be admonished of their miscarriage that we may not own their guilt by our silence when the world doth somuch cry out against them and that they may if it be possibly repent and be saved which I do earnestly beg of the Lord for them IX Observe that this national Oath doth absolutely disclaim all power in the Pope or in any other to absolve the people from this Oath or any part thereof and doth renounce all pardons and dispensations to the contrary as also all equivocation or mental reservation whatsoever and all this upon the engagement of the true faith of a Christian Lastly observe that in that dreadfull expression in the close of both these Oaths So help me God which is uttered with the hand upon the Gospel and sealed as it were with kissing that holy Book our Interest in Gods help and Salvation by the Gospel is as it were pawned and engaged for out fidelity therein By all this then that hath been said it is clear and evident how highly the people of this Nation are engaged to perform all the duties of these Oaths unto the present King How wicked those actions have been that have been managed against his Father and himself What a sad guilt of perjury there is upon this Nation And how necessary it is there should be a publick Humiliation for this as well as for other grievous sins in this Nation FINIS

THE Resurrection of Loyalty and Obedience out of the Grave of REBELLION By the sacred Force of the Oathes of Supremacy and Allegiance which have lain as dead and out of minde for diverse years and here raised up out of the dust and discovered in their great inviolable Force and Power unto the PEOPLE For the Humbling of those that are Guilty of the Breach of them The quelling of Rebellious Principles and excitement unto the Duties of Obedience and Subjection according to the Tenor of the said OATHES I counsell thee to keep the Kings Commandment and that in regard of the Oath of God Eccles 8.2 And all the Congregation made a Covenant with the King in the House of God and he said unto them Behold the Kings Sonne shall Reign c. 2. Chron. 23 3. For the transgression of a land many are the Princes thereof but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged Proverb 28.2 LONDON Printed by T. Mabb for William Shears in Bedford street neer Coven-Garden at the Blew Bible 1660. To His Eccellencie the Lord Generall Monck General of all the Forces of England Scotland and Ireland The reviver of the dying hopes of these distressed Nations and of the afflicted Churches therein May it please your Excellency IF the Lord were as forgetfull of our Obligations as we are or if he did remember our sins no better than we do remember duties or if our unsensiblenesse of our iniquities were the cure of our maladies or if there were any security to our souls in our security in our transgressions I might expect with some justice to be censured as troublesome and impertinent in going about to revive these Oathes that have lain so long for dead in these Nations and have been for so many years buried in the grave of Oblivion or to amaze or disquiet the Nation with the noise and the clamour of them but when I have considered how dangerous it is for people to sleep by the Devils Opium and how much better it is that a people should be troubled than that they should be destroyed and that they should be desturbed out of their most pleasant slumbers and dreams than that they should enjoy their quiet with the dreadfull flames of Gods wrath and indignation menaced against a perjured People about their ears ready to seize upon them both to their temporal and eternal destruction I cannot but conclude it to be much safer for them and much more tolerable unto them to be awaked to Repentance by the voice of these Oathes and by the discovery of the Obligation that thereby lyes upon this Nation and of the grievous sins that have been committed and are still too much justified against them than that they should be awaked by the surprizal of that dreadfull judgment of God which hangs over them for such high transgressions The law of Oathes is one of the most awfull and most inviolable precepts that God hath given to the world and may seem to have as much of the fire of Mount Sinah in it as any commandement of either Table The second Commandement hath indeed a dreadfull stream and floud of flaming wrath running down upon the transgressors of it from generation to generation but it is allayed as it were with a flood of mercy unto those that love the Lord and shew their love in obedience thereunto The fifth Commandment which is the Command of obedience unto those powers that God hath set over us in the world which is the importance of these Oathes is the first Commandment with promise and sweetned with the assurance of Gods blessing upon those that shall perform their duties thereunto But the third Commandement is fortified with a wall of fire wherein God threatneth not to hold them guiltlesse that taketh his name in vaine The offence whereof is most grievously committed in the dreadfull and hainous sins of perjury which is the mark of that flying rowle and curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth to consume those that offend therein Zech. 5.2 3 4. in so much that as Wonarinus observeth out of the Book of the Jews concerning the regative Precept they were wont to terrifie those that were to take an Oath with these expressions Scito totum orbem horruisse in illâ horâ in quâ Deus dixit non assumes nomen Dei in vanum c. Know thou that the whol world trembled at the hour wherein God said Thou shalt not take the Name of God in vain and all the sins which are written in the law God punisheth according to the merit But for this sin of perjury he punisheth posterity the punishments of others sins are somtimes suspended but this is speedily punished Perjury consumeth and destroyeth even those things which fire cannot consume Since therefore there is so much danger in the sins committed against these Oathes exposing not onely to the judgement of the second Commandment as they are the most horrid sort of sins against that and to the forfeiture of the blessing of the fifth Commandment as they are sinnes of disobedience against that Commandment it can be no way safe for the people of this land to be suffered to sleep in such grievous sins I hope therefore there needs no further Apology to secure me from the just displeasure of any for that I have endeavoured to rouse up the people of this Land by the publishing of these Oathes to a deep sense of the great and hainous sins that they lye under by the violation of these Oathes and to a return unto those duties that they require of them What I have done in the Explication of them and in the Observations upon them is in order to the discovering of the meaning and force of them wherein I intend not to impose upon the judgement of any but desire they may be received according to the evidence wherewith they are offered which I hope will appear to be sufficient to engage unto Repentance for these evill practises that have been acted in these Nations and are yet still on foot against these sacred Obligations and to better performances to the future and to excite your Excellency whom God hath raised up to be an instrument of his glory and of mercy unto these Nations to give your countenance to this my loyall and religious endeavour and your assistance to the desired effect thereof Which will be a means not onely to encrease your Honour amongst men but to bring more and more blessings from God upon you and your Posterity by the gracious work that you shall do by delivering this Nation from so great a Sin and from so great a Wrath that hangs over them for it which is the earnest desire of him who desires to approve himself An Humble and Faithfull Servant to your Excellency and a sincere Honourer of your Worthy Proceedings T. W. The Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance which heretofore was taken by every Member of