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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47922	State-divinity, or, A supplement to The relaps'd apostate wherein is prosecuted the discovery of the present design against the King, the Parliament, and the publick peace, in notes upon some late Presbyterian pamphlets / by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.; L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. Relaps'd apostate.	1661 (1661)	Wing L1310; ESTC R21743	25,533	70

State-Divinity OR A SUPPLEMENT TO The Relaps'd Apostate WHEREIN Is prosecuted the Discovery of the present Design against the King the Parliament and the Publick Peace In NOTES upon some late Presbyterian Pamphlets By ROGER L'ESTRANGE Mon eant vos utriusque fortunae documenta nè contumaciam cum pernicie quam obsequium cum securitate malitis Tacit. Hist. lib. 4. LONDON Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane M. DC LXI PREFACE HE that troubles himself because he cannot please others doubtlesse wants either Brains or Business He shall Live Miserable and Dye with an Apology betwixt his Teeth I think I am here upon my Duty and till the King says Hold I 'll follow it to whose Authority I ow my Breath as well as my Obedience The Presbyterian Faction under the Notion of the Commission'd Divines have of late scattered several Libels reflecting dishonourably upon His Sacred Majesty the Church Parliamentary Power This Parliament in Being and in fine arguing from the Justice of the Late War the Lawfulness of Another To the First of Four I return'd an Answer under the Title of the Relaps'd Apostate This Supplement was particularly occasion'd by One of the other Three entitled Two Papers of Proposals to his Majesty wherein their Designs upon the Publick Peace are more avow'd and open then in the Rest. Should These Seditious Papers pass un-controul'd 't would make either their Party or their Arguments seem more considerable then they are I will not foul my Paper with the extravagancies of their Rage against me but in their Intervals that is when they are as Sober as other people are when they are Mad. Thus they Object against my Pamphlet There 's too much Fooling in 't and too much Railing They do well to vilifie what they cannot Answer They are to know that my Design was to expose their Practices and Arguments to the People toward whom whoever Sauces not his Earnest with a Tang of Fooling misses his Marque fot 't is not less necessary to make a Faction Ridiculous then Hateful their Power is Then gone too and Then they are lost whereas they 'd make a shift without the Peoples Love For Rayling I confess I was never taught in the Presbyterian-School where they call foul things by fine names Sometimes perhaps I call their Combination as the Law Christen'd it Treason Spilling of Innocent Bloud Murther Taking away an Honest mans Estate Robbery Rifling of Churches Sacrilege c. They have indeed a cleanlier Idiome for these Matters A Treacherous Confederacy they call a Holy Covenant Murther forsooth is Justice upon Delinquents Notorious Robbery passes for Sequestration Rifling of Churches is but demolishing of the high-Places Was the Murther of the late King ever the less execrable because the Scaffold was hung with Black The bloudy Reformation ever the less Impious because 't was dress'd up with Texts and Covenants Or Judas the less Treacherous for doing his business with a Kiss Whether is the greater shame for Them to Act these Crimes or for Us to Name them Let no Converted Honest Presbyterian take this to himself which is Intended only to the Guilty Decemb. 4. 1661. STATE-DIVINITY OR A SUPPLEMENT TO The Relaps'd Apostate HE that disputes the Presbyterian Claim does the Question more Honour then he does Himself yet for their simple sakes that believe Iustice goes always with the Cry and measure Reason by the Bulk the Holy Discipline has received many a Fair Confutation Silenc'd it is not for though the Brethren have nothing to Say they Talk on still and truly to make Iohn Calvin speak in his Grave were not much harder then to make any of his Disciples hold their Tongues while they are alive A man Sleeps over their Arguments they are so Flat and Spiritlesse And I 'm scarce well awake yet since my last Answer to them so that till I hear something back again I hold my self discharg'd even upon That account from any further search into the Controversie In truth as the case stands to Controvert their Government were to begin at the wrong end we 'll take a nearer Cut and challenge them First as Criminals against the State when they have avoided That Charge we 'll deal with them again upon the point of Conscience Their Charge shall be Plain and Short They Invade the Kings Authority The setled Law And the Power of Parliaments They affront the Parliament Now Sitting Threaten the Publique Peace Iustifie the Rebellion of 1 6 4 1. and Provoke Another Here 't is in Brief and we 'll run it over in as good order as we can First They Invade the Kings Authority They Indict Fasts Disclaim the Soveraign Power in things Indifferent and without Warrant or Pretence they vilifie and cast out the Establish'd Form of the Church and make Another But This they 'll tell ye is the Language of the Sons of Scandal we 'll strike it off the score then and Try the Babes of Grace by a Iury of the Holy Tribe They can but ask to be both Parties and Iudges and That we 'll Grant them The Able Teachers shall sit upon the Faithful Pastors R. shall Try B. E. C. T. M. W. I. Hear now the words of the Reformed and Reforming Crew to His Sacred Majesty A WHether the Covenant were lawfully imposed or not B We are assured from the nature of a Vow to God and from the Case of Saul Zedekiah and others that it would be a terrible thing of us to violate it on that pretence C Though we are far from thinking that it obligeth us to any evil or to go beyond our places and callings to do good much less to resist Authority to which it doth oblige us yet doth it undoubtedly bind us to forbear our own consent to those luxuriances of Church-Government which we there renounced and for which no Divine Institution can be pretended D Not presuming to meddle with the Consciences of those many of the Nobility and Gentry and others that adhered to his late Majesty in the late Unhappy Wars who at their Composition took this Vow and Covenant We only crave your Majesties clemency to our selves and others who believe themselves to be under its obligations And God forbid that we that are the Ministers of the Word of Truth should do any thing to encourage your Majesties Subjects to cast off the Conscience of an Oath E Till the Covenant was decried as an Almanack out of date and its obligation taken to be null that odious Fact could never have been perpetrated against your Royal Father nor your Majesty have been so long expulsed from your Dominions And the obligation of the Covenant upon the Consciences of the Nation was not the weakest Instrument of your Return F We therefore humbly beseech your Majesty with greater importunity than we think we should do for our Lives That you would have mercy on the Souls and Consciences of your People and will not suffer us to