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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96259	The case of the Irish Protestants in relation to recognising, or swearing allegiance to, and praying for King William and Queen Mary, stated and resolved.	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1691 (1691)	Wing W1490A; ESTC R229883	19,849	30

Means will not do is no less necessary and lawful So that what we ought ordinarily to teach a private handful of People to save their Souls we must not dictate to the three Estates to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal together with the whole Commons assembled in Parliament a Body of near eight hundred Persons all of highest Quality in their respective Ranks and Orders in the Kingdom as a Standard by which they are to regulate the State What Sense would it be to exhort them in Authority and great is the Authority of the three Estates when the King leaves the Nation the greatest certainly in the Nation what Sense would it be I say to preach to them in Authority or to the higher Powers to be subject to and not resist themselves But it is Sense and the Duty of the Clergy to dissuade their People from Revenge from multiplying Suits at Law from Sedition Tumults and rebellious Projects and for this purpose to lay before them the Commands of the Gospel which require of them Peaceableness Meekness and rather to suffer Wrong Damage nay even Oppression it self in some measure than involve all in War and Blood which is a far greater Oppression And this is all the Non-Resistance we preach or hold But whereas we are now involved in War whose Fault is it Theirs sure who begun it who first raised and then maintained an Army contrary to Law c. In a word and to speak roundly The King of England is King of three Kingdoms by Law Protestants not Slaves It is impossible for three Kingdoms to have all their Eyes put out They must therefore see themselves ruining before ruined And it is as unreasonable as impossible to persuade three Kingdoms to give all their Throats to be cut No Law of God or Man can be thought to oblige them hereto For any therefore to think that as the three Kingdoms see so they should not withstand their own Ruin or which is much the same that the Duty of Non Resistance should take place in such a Case as this is for him to forfeit all Sense and Reason or to become really mad that he may seem to be Religious Wherefore when things have their true Names either English or Irish Protestants taking Protection under a Protestant Prince whose just Assertion of his own Rights necessarily involved also their Defence and this at a time when their own King had cast them off from Protection must be acknowledged no Rebellion I avow them who thus fly for seek or accept Protection to be as Passive as any where the Gospel requires them XVIII BUT it will be said in respect of the Invaders there must at least be acknowledged an Offensive War Be it so yet was it a most just one For the Prince of Orange was no Subject and therefore could not be a Rebel and the Causes which he had to enter England when he did and in the manner in which he did with armed Force were both more in number and for Weight and Justice far greater than it can be expected should be represented in this Paper Nor was his Advancement to the Throne less just and equitable I do not find that they who have impartially considered all can assign any thing that could be done more reasonable and as far as Man can see more wholesome to the Interest of Religion and Peace whether in the three Kingdoms or even in Christendom it self But these things have been undoubtedly deduced by abler Hands nor is it needful to our present purpose any more than to point at them We here have had a long and very dark night and have been often abused with false Lights so that perhaps we know not yet the true State of many Transactions nor are capable therefore to discourse of them as were requisite Some persons possibly there are all whose Conduct I cannot excuse but the Swearing Faith to or Praying for King William or Queen Mary does no wise involve any in a necessity of such Mens Vindication XIX THE Conclusion then of all shall be Out of the Power of a King which would not be perswaded to preserve himself and neither could nor would protect his Protestant Subjects Out of the Hands of merciless and barbarous Fellow-Subjects who were bent to have destroyed both themselves and their Country and all in it with themselves and finally from the Lashes of the Scourge of Christendom God has brought us poor oppressed Protestants under a Protestant Prince The Case now in short is whether we will accept Protection or no The Conditions indeed say our Adversaries are very hard Yes they are no less than what God has made our Duty if not our Necessity to Swear to bear Faith and true Allegiance to and to Pray for our Deliverers and their Conquerors in that Quality wherein we find them and wherein they have Delivered us and Conquered them That is to promise sacredly to Man such Subjection and to make to God such Prayers which in our present Condition even without such Promise it were sin not to do In the whole Revolution God has not vouchsafed to us such Irish Protestants who are mainly concerned in this Paper any active part in advancing these Princes to their Power He has thought fit to assign us still only a Passive Lot We must acknowledge it is not it has not been our Business to set up Powers but yet we must own it is our Duty to obey them And no less certainly to be thankful to God and them if we may be protected by them The Scripture is express Let every Soul be subject to the higher powers Such certainly the Conquerors are And I exhort that first of all Supplications Prayers Intercessions and giving of Thanks be made for all Men for Kings and all that are put in Authority even for the person of a Nero therefore at that time and if for the froward much more for the good and gentle Let us chearfully then comply in both points and lay down not our Conquered Arms for Arms we Protestants have not been now a long time suffered to wear but our captivated Hearts at the Feet of King WILLIAM and Queen MARY whom God long preserve AND O thou who hast hitherto delivered us from our Enemies Deliver us now from our selves Let there be no Shimei or Sheba in our Israel But bow thou the Hearts of all the Tribes as one Man that they may establish the Kingdom in their Majesties whom thy Hand and out stretched Arm has now set over us Do thou O King of Kings defend these the true Defenders of the Faith and make their Arms by Land and Sea Victorious for the Reformation if it might be thy Will at least for the Pacification of Christendom that we whom thou hast saved from the Hands of our Enemies may serve thee without fear in Holiness and Righteousness before thee all the Days of our Life and these Kingdoms may flourish in Truth and Sanctity in Peace amd Plenty to the Glory of thy Name and of the Blessed Memory of our Deliverers to all Posterity Amen FINIS

Non-resistance more opportune seasonable and so more obligatory at one time than another did occur in our the poor Irish Protestants Condition who were under the power of the Roman Catholicks We had nothing left us to do but what we did first to commit our Souls to God and then yield our outward man and concerns to what should betide us without fruitless and to us certainly destructive Struglings and Exasperations of our Enemies We could thus heap Coals of Fire upon our Persecutors Heads that is perhaps melt their otherwise relentless Hearts soften their Temper or exhaust the impetus of their Cruelty This way too there was possibility of escaping the other none And this course taken was next to the Divine Protection our great Preservative and in our Condition as far as we can yet see the only one imaginable I am sure it was the only inducement or reasonable Topic which some of us upon the utmost Consideration could find out to urge to our hard Masters with hopes of success for mercy In a word we by this Practice made up a Temper and mixed what our Saviour taught us in time of Persecution to do Wisdom with Innocence and if some think us herein to have been imprudent and others too credulous we crave leave still modestly and peaceably to dissent it is a very small thing to us that we are judged of men Touching our Honesty Sincerity and through all our Sufferings Constancy to God to our common Religion and true Interest and I may add touching our Charity and upright Intentions to Mankind we appeal to the Judgment of him who searcheth and seeth Hearts I will I need say no more to these our Friends XVI AS to the other sort who perhaps with us acknowledge at least in Hypothesi Passive Obedience to be a Duty but accuse us not only of the neglect of it but of Presumptions and wilful casting it off we avow and stand to our avowry we have practised it all along in its due latitude and we adhere to the practice of it at present We have been and are constant to our selves constant to our Faith and Duty We never were nor are we of the number of those who cry up Absolute Power under a Roman Catholick King and exclaim against the Exercise of legal and qualified Power under Protestant Princes who therefore shew it is not any more true Loyalty than true Religion or Conscience that acts them but Interest and blind Obedience dictate to them their Opinions and then Faction or Bigottry governs their Practice and that so slavishly as not to suffer them to be impartial in what yet for the general they approve As to us the Holy Word of God is our Rule and Primitive Catholick Saints our Patterns and Examples And from these we allow not our selves to swerve Of Active Obedience as far and as long as with good Conscience we could we declined no part as above professed When we could go no farther or through the Suggestions of our Enemies might not be trusted we quietly submitted even to the enduring Oppression it self in its very extremity In both regards thus rendering unto Caesar the things which are Caesars We could not serve in a War for the Destruction of the Protestant Religion No more did the ancient Christians against their fellow Christians and they are reputed Saints for it to this day even in the Roman Church Witness the famous Case of St. Martin There have been perhaps scarce in any days more illustrious Spectacles of Passive Obedience The Thebaean Legion being excepted than some parts of Ireland have shewn within these fourteen or fifteen Months last past Many hundreds of able lusty and well spirited Men have rendred themselves up in a body at the cry of a Bell-Man or some such mean Summons to a few People then in Power whose Persons they would have scorned had they not worn the most plausible Character or Pretence there was at that time in that part of the Kingdom of legal and ordinary Authority We can say it was only through want of Commission that is through mere Conscience of want of due Authority on our sides which we now own our selves to have that we suffered our selves while we were sensible of our real Strength to be driven in flocks to remote Prisons we knew not but as Sheep to the slaughter for not a few perished by or in Prison Mean while some poor Protestant Women with their Sucking Children in their Arms and at their Breasts have been knockt down with the Butt ends of Muskets for giving their hungry Husbands a bit of Bread in their Hands as they passed by driven to Prison And I my self when complaining of this have been told This usage was too good for us c. These Instances and Vicissitudes of Imprisonment and Oppression we Irish Protestants have suffered oftener than my Memory now or perhaps knowledge from the first serves to report And these are ample Demonstrations of our due regard to the Christian Laws in this behalf XVII BUT some of these Gentlemen whom we are now answering may possibly further urge However the quiet part of the Protestants in Ireland may not formerly have had so great a share in Rebellion as their Brethren in England yet must they acknowledge those their Brethren to have in the present Revolution utterly cast off the aforesaid Doctrine and Practice and themselves now joyning with them must needs become if not equal yet Partisans in their Guilt and consequently be Rebels and Apostates from their own avowed Principles In Answer hereto these great Patriots of Christianity in Dispute but Enemies and Oppressors of it in Practice must suffer us to tell them for it is no great presumption to suspect most of them either through Infirmity Wilfulness or Devotedness to a Party ignorant that Passive Obedience or Non-Resistance as well as other Christian Duties has its Bounds and Seasons of Practice and tho it be an undoubted Duty obligatory to private persons and perhaps to some small subordinate Societies of Men yet does it not either concern all sorts of Men or all Bodies of People much less whole Nations It is not the Business of this Paper to ascertain all its Measures But in short Who can imagine not resisting Evil turning the other Cheek giving the Cloak also are Duties to be Preached to or required of a Parliament Can any be so absurd as to put no difference betwixt the private Rules of holy Living and the publick Laws of Civil Government betwixt means intended to bring penitent Men to Heaven and those designed to curb or restrain obstinate wilful Sons of Violence that they destroy not the innocent and one another For the attaining of one end the great Measure to be observed is Self-denial and abundance of Charity for the other strict Justice and insisting upon particular Rights On the one hand in fit Circumstances Non Resistance takes place as necessary on the other Resistance where other