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A96592	Jura majestatis, the rights of kings both in church and state: 1. Granted by God. 2. Violated by the rebels. 3. Vindicated by the truth. And, the wickednesses of this faction of this pretended Parliament at VVestminster. 1. Manifested by their actions. 1. Perjury. 2. Rebellion. 3. Oppression. 4. Murder. 5. Robberies. 6. Sacriledge, and the like. 2. Proved by their ordinances. 1. Against law. 2. Against Equity. 3. Against conscience. Published 1. To the eternall honour of our just God. 2. The indeleble shame of the wicked rebels. And 3. To procure the happy peace of this distressed land. Which many feare we shall never obtaine; untill 1. The rebels be destroyed, or reduced to the obedience of our King. And 2. The breaches of the Church be repaired. 1. By the restauration of Gods (now much profamed) service. And 2. The reparation of the many injuries done to Christ his now dis-esteemed servants. By Gryffith Williams, Lord Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1644 (1644)	Wing W2669; Thomason E14_18b	215,936	255

proud favorite had wickedly decreed and most tyrannically destined all the Nation of the Jewes to a sudden death yet this dutifull people did not undutifully rebell and plead the King was seduced by evill counsell and misguided by proud Haman therefore nature teaching them vim vi pellere to stand upon their owne defence they would not submit their necks to his unjust Decree but being versed in Gods Lawes and unacquainted with these new devices they returne to God and betake themselves to their prayers Hester 8.11 untill God had put it into the Kings heart to grant them leave to defend themselves and to sheath their swords in the bowels of their adversaries which is a most memorable example of most dutifull unresisting Subjects an example of such piety as would make our Land happy if our zealous generation were but acquainted with the like Religion But here I know what our Anabaptist Brownist and Puritane will say that I build Castles in the aire The author of the Treatise of Monarchie p. 33. and lay downe my frame without foundation because all Kings are not such as the Kings of Israel and Judah were as the Kings that God gave unto the Jewes and prescribed speciall Lawes both for the Kings to governe and the people to obey them but all other Nations have their owne different and severall Lawes and Constitutions according to which Lawes their Kings are tyed to rule and the Subjects bound to obey and no otherwise I answer Henric. Stephan in libello de hac re contendit in omne● respull debere leges Hebraerum tanquam ab ipso Deo profectas per consequens omnium optemas ●educi that indeed it is granted there are severall constitutions of Royalties in severall Nations and there may be Regna Laconica conditionall and provisionall Kingdomes wherein perhaps upon a reall breach of some exprest conditions some Magistrates like the Ephori may pronounce a forfeiture aswell in the successive as in the elective Kingdomes because as one saith succession is not a new title to more right but a legall continuance of what was first gotten which I can no wayes yeild unto if you meane it of any Soveraigne King because the name of a King doth not alwayes denotate the Soveraigne power as the Kings of Lacedamon though so called yet had no regall authority and the Dictator for the time being and the Emperours afterwards had an absolute power though not the name of Kings for I say that such a government is not properly a regall government ordained by God but either an Aristocraticall or Democraticall governement instituted by the people though approved by God for the welfare of the Common-wealth 1. Sam. 8.4.20 but as the Israelites desired a King to judge them like all the Nations that is such a King as Aristotle describeth such as the Nations had intrusted with an absolute and full regall power as Sigonius sheweth so the Kings of the Nations if they be not like the Spartan Kings were and are like the Kings of Israel both in respect of their ordination from God by whom all Kings as well of other Nations as of Israel doe raigne and of their full power and inviolable authority over the people which have no more dispensation to resist their Kings then the Iewes had to resist theirs And therefore Valentinian though an elected Emperour yet when he was requested by his Electors to admit of an associate answered S●zom h●stor l. 6. c. 6. Niceph. hist l. 11. c. 1. it was in your power to chuse me to be an Emperour but now after you have chosen me what you require is in my power not in you Vobis tanquam subditis competit parere mihi verò quae facienda sunt cogitare it becomes you to obey as Subjects and I am to consider what is fittest to be done And when the wife takes an husband there is a compact agreement and a solemne vow past in the presence of God that he shall love cherish and maintaine her yet if he breakes this vow The wife may not forsake her husband though hee break h●s vow and neglect his duty and neglects both to love and to cherish her she cannot renounce him she must not forsake him she may not follow after another and there is a greater marriage betwixt the King and his people therefore though as a wife they might have power to chuse him and in their choice to tye him to some conditions yet though he breakes them they have no more power to abdicate their King then the wife hath to renounce her husband nor so much because she may complaine and call her husband before a competent Judge and produce witnesses against him whereas there can be no Iudge betwixt the King and his people but onely God and no witnesses can be found on earth because it is against all lawes and against all reason that they which rise against their King should be both the witnesses against him and the Iudges to condemne him or were it so that all other Kings have not the like constitution which the Scripture setteth downe for the Kings of Israel yet I say that excepting some circumstantiall Ceremonies in all reall points the Lawes of our Land are so farre as men could make them in all things agreeable to the Scriptures in the constituting of our Kings An Appeale to thy conscience pag. 30. according to the livelyest patterne of the Kings of Israel as it is well observed by the Author of the Appeale to thy conscience in these 4 speciall respects 1. In his Right to the Crowne 2. In his Power and Authority Our kings of the like Institution to the kings of Israe● 3. In his Charge and Duty 4. In the rendering of his Account For 1. As the Kings of Israel were hereditary by succession and Respect 1 not elective unlesse there were an extraordinary and divine designation as in David Salomon Iohn Kings of England are kings by birth Proved so doe the Kings of England obtaine their Kingdomes by birth or hereditary succession as it appeareth 1. By the Oath of Allegeance used in every Leete that you Reason 1 shall be true and faithfull to our Soveraigne Lord King Charles and to his Heires 2. Because we owe our legeance to the King in his naturall Reason 2 capacity that is as he is Charles the Sonne and Heire apparent of King Iames Coke l. 7. Calvins case when as homage cannot be done to any King in his politique capacity the body of the King being invisible in that sense 3. Because in that case it is expresly affirmed that the King Reason 3 holds the Kingdome of England by birth-right inherent by descent from the bloud-royall therefore to shew how inseperable this right is from the next in bloud Hen. 4. though he was of the bloud-royall being first cozen unto the King and had the Crowne resigned unto him by Rich. 2d Speed l. 9.

that they destroy all images and are just such as the Prophet David speakes of which have done evill in Gods Sanctuary and have broken downe all the carved worke thereof with axes and hammers that have set fire upon his holy places and have defiled the dwelling place of Gods name even unto the ground for it is almost incredible how barbarously worse then any Turkes or Jewes they have broken down those rare and sweet instruments of Musick the Organs of our Churches and have defaced those excellent pieces of worke that to the honour of God were made and set up in the windowes of our Churches in Canterbury Winchester Lincolne and the other Cathedrals by the best Artists in Christendome which is a most horrible fact no wayes commanded in this precept and an irreparable losse to us and our posterity and therefore the Prophet David calleth these defacers of such carved and painted workes set up in his house the adversaryes and enemies of God vers 4 and 5. vers 11. foolish people vers 19 and 23. the haters of God vers 24. and the blasphemers of his name vers 11. for none but such would have done such Prophanations as is done in Gods house but let them take heed lest the Prophets prayer should light upon them lift up thy feete O God that thou mayest utterly destroy every one of these enemies which hath done this evill in thy Sanctuary 3. For swearing not vainely but falsly most wickedly Ps 74. v. 4. 3. How they forswear themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Menand perjurium est nequiter decipere credentem Aug. 4 How they prophaned the Sabboth and for-swearing themselves over and over againe and againe and having more dispensations and absolutions for their perjuries by their holy Prophets then ever the Popes gave for adulteries it is incredible to thinke and impossible to number the heads of these transgressions and therefore if you beleive that God was in earnest when he gave this precept you may be assured he will not hold them guiltlesse that are such transgressors of it 4. For the day wherein we should serve our God in his Church most reverently some of them worship him more unmannerly then some of those blinde Indians that worship the Devill himselfe and others of them muster their men plunder their neighbours and murder their brethren which they beleive to be the best way to sanctify the Sabbath and for which resting from their worke thus religiously to serve the Lord let them take heed left God should sweare in his wrath that they shall never enter into his rest 5. How they curse their Fathers and Mothers 5. They curse their Father and their Mother that their dayes may be long in the Land which their pretended Parliament hath promised to give them for the King is the Prince and Principall Father of us all and the Prophet saith of such men they shall curse their King and their God Esay 8.21 and the Bishops are their Fathers too and they have cursed them long agone and I feare they will not cease to curse them till their curses fall upon their owne heads and for all other bonds of duty and relations of Wives unto their Husbands Children unto their Parents Servants unto their Masters they are Preached asunder to make way for the liberty of the Subject to Rebell by authority against his Soveraigne 6. How many they have murdered 6. Whereas God saith thou shalt doe no murder they gave that first commission though they had not the least colour of any authority to give it to kill slay and destroy and it is most lamentable to consider how many thousands they have murdered and how they are thought worthy of the greatest honour and the best reward that have killed most of Gods faithfull servants and the Kings loyall Subjects 1. How they loosened the reins to all lust ho● fonte deri vata clades in patriam populumque fluxit Horat. car l. 3. 7. For adulteries Fornications and all Uncleannesse they may now freely doe it lust may flow like the river whose bankes are broken downe when they have overthrowen those courts of Justice and were never at rest till they had most violently suppressed the power and execution of all Ecclesiasticall censures that were the chiefest barres and hinderances of these unlawfull lusts 8. How they are like Argivi fures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8. For stealing they have changed the name but not the nature of it for under the pretence of preserving to us the propriety of our goods they have not stollen but plundered away that is robbed us of all our goods and carried them into those Rebellious Townes that are now the dens of these theeves and are stronger in their wickednesse then the hils of the robbers and that which makes this sinne most sinfull Ps 94.12 is that it is established by a Law 9. They have justified the Cretans 9. How they belyed all sorts of good men Quomodo Deus pater genuit filium veritatem nempe sic diabolus lapsus genuit quasi filium mendaciū Aug. super Ioh. Habac. 2.9 and proved themselves the right bastard sonnes of the father of lyes filling all and every corner of this Kingdome with palpable intolerable and incredible lyes slanders and false witnesse-bearing against God against his Annointed against the Church and against all the reverend governours of the Church all religious Protestants and all the loyall Subjects of this Nation that the Angels doe now blush and the Devils doe laugh and rejoyce to see they are so fruitfull in begetting so many children so perfectly formed and so compleatly perfected in their owne image and likenesse and if ever the saying of Gildas was true they have proved it now Moris continui gentis erat sicut nunc est Gildas de excidio Britan. ut infirma esset ad retundenda hostium tela fortis ad civilia bella infirma inquam ad exequenda pacis ac veritatis insignia fortis ad scelera mendacia 10. They have coveted an evill covetousnesse 10. The extent of their covetousnesse when they coveted all evill unto themselves not onely their neighbours houses goods and lands and all that are theirs but also the patrimonie of the Church the revenues of the Clergy and all the rights and prerogatives of the King to be intayled upon themselves and their faction that so they and theirs might be both Kings and Priests and all not to God but to themselves and their fellow Rebels in the government of this Kingdome And as they have thus transgressed all the old Commandements of the Law How they transgressed the new Commandement of the Gospell Gen. 4.9 so they come no wayes short in transgressing the new Commandement of the Gospell for their love to their brethren is now turned to perfect hatred when they say not with Cain am I my brothers keeper but with Apollyon I will be

professo yet give me leave in the interim to say this much First touching Covenants and Vowes it is plaine enough 1. What Vowes and Covenants are allowable that although the superiour may with Ezra cause the inferior to Vow or sweare the performance of his duty that he is bound by the law of God and nature to performe so Abraham caused his servant to sweare fidelity when he sent him for Isaack's Wife And so the King may cause his Subjects to take the Oath of their Alleageance Gen. 24.3 and the lawfull Generall cause his Soldiers to sweare their fidelity unto him yet the inferior subject can not sweare or if he sweares he ought not to observe it when be doth it contrary to the command of him that hath command over him Numb 30. per totum as you may see in Numb 30. throughout Therefore as children may not vow any thing though it be never so lawfull contrary to their fathers command or if they doe they ought not to keepe it so no more may any Subject Vow or make a Covenant contrary to their Kings command or if they doe they ought not to observe it and they are as you see absolved by God himselfe Ob. If you say Ezra and the Jewes did it contrary to the command of Artaxerxes Sol. that was then their King I answer that it is most false for 1. Ezra was the Priest Nehem. 8.2 9. and the chiefe Prince that was then over them and Nehemiah had his authority from the King and he was the Tirshatha that is their governour saith the Text Nehem. 10.1 and therefore they might lawfully cause them to take that Covenant 2. They had the leave and a large commission from Artaxerxes to doe all that they did as you may see * See Ezra 7.11.22 c. neither can you finde any syllable that Artaxerxes forbad them to doe this in any place 3. This Covenant of Ezra and his people and Nehemiah's was to doe those things that they had covenanted before to doe For so the text saith Let it be done according to the Law Ezra 10.3 which God had expressely commanded them to doe and which they could not omit though they had not covenanted to doe it without great offence so if our covenanters sweare they will serve God and be loyall unto their King as they vowed in their baptisme they shall never finde me to speake against them but to propose a lawfull Covenant to doe those things that God commandeth and is made with the leave and commission of the supreme Prince to justifie an unlawfull Covenant to doe those things that were never done before never commanded by God but forbidden both by God and especially by the King in the expressest termes and most energeticall manner that might be is such a piece of Divinity as I never read the like and such an argument a dissimili that never schollar produced the like 2. The examples of Queen Elizabeth and King Charles answered 2. For the examples of Queen Elizabeth King Charles assisting Subjects for their Religion sake against their lawfull Princes two things may be said the one in Divinity the other in Policy 1. By way of Divinity First for Divinity I say vivendum est praeceptis non exemplis we have the sure word of God to teach us what we should doe and no examples unlesse they be either commended or allowed in Gods word ought to be any infallible patterne for us to follow Secondly for Policy 2. By way of Policy which may be justified to be without iniquity I doubt not but those men which knew the secrets of State and were privie to the causes of their actions are able to justifie the proceedings of these Princes in their assistance which perhaps they did not so much simply in respect of their Religion as of some other State policie which we that are so farre from the helme have no reason to prie unto Besides you may know that neither King Charles nor Queen Elizabeth were Subjects to the other Kings but were every way their equall if not more and independent Princes And to bring the actions of such absolute Monarches the one against the other How wickedly they deceive the simple people to justifie the actions of Subjects against their Soveraigne is such Logicke as the other example was divinity Queen Elizabeth did so against the King of Spaine ergo any Subject may do so against his King or rather Queen Elizabeth did that which for ought we know was most lawfull to be done against the King of Spaine ergo the Earle of Essex may doe that which we doe know to be most unlawfull against King Charles This is the doctrine that they teach their Proselytes but that they give this poyson in a golden cup and hide their falshood under a shew of truth but I hope ere long you shall have these things more fully manifested unto you CAP. XX. Sheweth how the rebellious Faction forswore themselves what trust is to be given to them how we may recover our peace and prosperity how they have unkingd the Lords annointed and for whom they have exchanged him and the conclusion of the whole ANd now having committed all these things and much more wickednesse then I though I had the tongue of Angells can expresse I am perswaded many of them seeing the miraculous mercies of our God in protecting and assisting His Majesty farre beyond their thoughts and imaginations doe begin to thinke on peace and accommodation which they presuming on the Kings lenity made sure to themselves whensoever they pleased and indeed dulce nomen paci● and the feet of them that bring tydings of peace are more specious then the fairest countenance of aurora Esay 52.7 then the sweet face of Helen Psal 85.10 Rom. 1.7 1 Cor. 3. 2 Cor. 2. c. But seeing righteousnesse and peace have kissed each other and the Apostle joyneth grace and peace alwayes together as two deere friends saith S. Aug. so deere that si amicam pacis non amaveris neque te amabit pax ipsa and these men are filled with all unrighteousnesse and have trampled the grace of God and their King under feet and having sworne forsworn themselves over and over as at their baptisme that they would keep Gods commandements whereof this is one to be obedient unto our Kings at their admittance to any office to beare faith and true alleagiance to His Majesty Rom. 13.1 1 Pet. 2.13 at the beginning of this last Parliament to maintaine the Kings just rights and all the priviledges of Parliament How the Rebels swore and forswore themselves together with the liberty and property of the Subjects and yet immediately to forget their faith to breake all these oathes and to make shipwracke of their conscience to drive the Bishops out of their House which is one of the first and most fundamentall priviledges of the