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A70493	A vindication of the primitive Christians in point of obedience to their Prince against the calumnies of a book intituled, The life of Julian, written by Ecebolius the Sophist as also the doctrine of passive obedience cleared in defence of Dr. Hicks : together with an appendix : being a more full and distinct answer to Mr. Tho. Hunt's preface and postscript : unto all which is added The life of Julian, enlarg'd.	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.; Ecebolius, the Sophist. Life of Julian.	1683 (1683)	Wing L2985; ESTC R3711	180,508	416

from abroad which may happen upon such an Exclusion for Regum afflictae fortunae facile multorum Opem alliciant ad misericordiam maximeque eorum qui aut Reges sunt aut vivunt in Regno quod Regale iis nomen magnum sanctum esse videatur The oppressed estate of Kings easily moves many to pitie especially them who are either Kings themselves or do live in a Kingdom to whom the name of a King is August and Sacred Saith the great Orator Pro lege Manil. Let us therefore leave the King and his Great Council to their free Determinations and acquiesce in the sage advice of Gamaliel St. Paul's Master Acts 5.39 Let us refrain from these things for if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye be found even to fight against God And I shall conclude the business of Exclusion with the Determination of Bishop Sanderson whose single Judgment will outweigh in an equal balance all the Opinions of the Opposers You have it p. 350. of his book de Obligatione Conscientiae I think saith he that an Hereditarie Kingdom may not lawfully be changed for an Elective as in and by the Exclusion it is like to be nor for any other form of Government either by the People alone nor by the People and Nobles joyntly nor by the whole bodie of the People in their greatest latitude that is the People Nobles and the King consenting together unless perhaps the Royal Progenie should so totally fail that there is not one surviving who may claim it as his due by Right of Inheritance And let it be considered that he wrote this before the Bill of Exclusion was ever dreamt of And now I cannot but reflect upon the Prognosticators and Wizards of our Time that amuse the people with the fancies and fears which their own guilt hath created as if we should be all swallowed up in a moment and there were a fatal necessitie of endless miseries attending us such as Mr. Baxter in his Prognostication and our Author who p. 89. tells us of such a dismal prospect as makes every honest mans heart to shake I remember some years since upon the great Eclipse of the Sun Lilly and some others made such a dismal representation of it as struck a terror into a great part of the Countrie and made them take home their Cattel to their houses and seek Sanctuary themselves in the Churches as if Dooms-day were come when the cause was natural and nothing fell out but according to that course which God had appointed for the Motion of the Heavenly bodies Though wise men are not moved at such bugbears yet they have an ill Aspect on the people to dispose them for such Commotions as may promote the interest of discontented and designing men For my part I shall continue to pray for his Royal Highness as our Liturgy directs and if it be the will of God to send us a Popish Successor to punish us for our resistance of a Protestant King whose bloud still cries for Vengeance I had rather die for not resisting him than to be as instrumental in procuring a Bill of Exclusion as this man would be and as successful as he can hope to be at my death to have it written on my Tomb Here lieth the first Author of this Sentence RATHER THAN THE DVKE OF Y. SHOVLD NOT BE EXCLVDED WE WILL EXCLVDE THE GLORIOVS FAMILY OF THE STVARTS And I will yet pray against the wickedness of these men Lord cloath all such his enemies with shame but upon his head and the heads of his seed let the Crown flourish I perceive Mr. Hunt to be a great devoto to some kind of Parliaments and that which was convened in the first of King James was one that consisted of Wise Loyal and Pious persons I intreat him therefore to consider what was Enacted by them in their Recognition 1o. Jacobi where after the Preamble it is thus declared We therefore your most humble and Loyal Subjects the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled do from the bottom of our hearts yield to the Divine Majesty all humble thanks and praises not onely for the said unspeakeable and inestimable benefits and blessings above-mentioned but also that he hath further enriched your Highness with a most Royal Progeny of most rare and excellent gifts and forwardness and in his goodness is like to encrease the happy number of them And in most humble and lowly manner do beseech your most excellent Majesty that as a memorial to all Posterities amongst the records of your High Court of Parliament for ever to endure of our Loyalty Obedience and hearty and humble Affection it may be published and declared in this High Court of Parliament and enacted by the authority of the same That we being bounden thereunto N. B. by the Laws of God and man do recognize and acknowledge and thereby express our unspeakable Ioyes that immediately upon the dissolution and decease of Elizabeth sate Queen of England the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same and by inherent Birth-right N. B. and lawful and undoubted Succession descend and come to your most Excellent Majesty as being lineally justly and lawfully next and sole Heir of the Blood-Royal of this Realm as is aforesaid And that by the goodness of God Almighty and lawful right of Descent under one Imperial Crown your Majesty is of the Realms and Kingdoms of England Scotland France and Ireland the most potent and mighty King and by Gods goodness more able to protect and govern us your loving Subjects in all peace and plenty than any of your noble Progenitors and thereunto we most humbly and faithfully submit and oblige our selves our heirs and posterities for ever until the last drop of our bloods be spent And we beseech your Majesty to accept the same as the first-fruits in this High Court of Parliament of our Loyalty and Faith to your Majesty and your Royal Progeny and Posterity for ever Now as Grotius says a People may be presumed to be the same that they formerly were till some publick act shew that their judgments are altered How dares Mr. Hunt then to say p. 47. If any man is so vain as to say that an unalterable course of Succession is established among us by Divine Right I say he is a man fitted to believe Transubstantiation and the Infallibility of the Pope c. And if any man shall add that this is the Doctrine of the Reformation and adventure to tell the people so they are the most impudent falsaries that ever any Age produced when there is scarce a Child but hath heard what was done and maintained by the Clergy in the Case of Mary Queen of Scots How can this man who doubtless is an Ignor●mus if he never knew

The Afflictions which God sends do often bear an Inscription of those sins that procured them as when Josephs brethren were under apprehension of great fear they said one to another We are verily guilty concerning our Brother in that we saw him in the anguish of his Soul when he besought us and we would not hear him If we are opprest and persecuted by our own Country-men and false brethren let us consider whether we have not been such and dealt so with our Brethren If God permit us to be persecuted by a Christian Prince consider what guilt yet lieth on the Nation for the Persecution and Murther of a most Christian King and learn to improve the Judgment into a Mercy by repentance and patience under Gods afflicting hand If no such guilt lies upon us then think that God calls us forth as Combatants to shew examples of Christian Faith Love and Resolution in an Age that is corrupted by long prosperity and become effeminate and delicate through plenty and luxury and a Plethory is to be cured by Phlebotomy How the Church thrived under Persecution we have many instances The first Persecution scattering the Disciples caused the Gospel to be planted through the world and being planted the bloud of those that dyed made it so fruitful that the President of Palestine wrote to Tiberius that they were weary of slaying them who never so much as fled or hid themselves and yet multiplyed the more for being put to death Pliny also writing to Trajan complains prope jam desolata templa sacra Solennia diu intermissa It was otherwise when the Church flourished outwardly in the days of Constantius the Christians drove one another from the Altars and by their ambitious and popular Contests made the Sacrifices of God to be abominated by the heathen Whatever the punishment be we must accept it as the demerit of our Sins and as inflicted by a most righteous and glorious God And if because as in the days of Constantius we denie the power of godliness and exercise of Charity to one another it is just with God to deprive us of the very form of it and commit us to be Chastised by a common Enemy as they were by Julian We must bear the Indignation of the Lord because we have sinned against him Consider what Christ suffered for us he endured the Cross despising the shame and being now at the right hand of God calls on us to follow his Example promising that if we suffer we shall also reign with him And shall our Saviour be forsaken as soon as he is apprehended and be again called on to come down from the Cross that we may believe in him shall we draw back as the beasts were wont from that Altar which our Saviour hath sanctified and made our surest Sanctuary against Evils Think it not strange saith St. Peter 1.4.12 concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as if some strange thing had hapned to you but rejoyce in as much as you are made partakers of Christs sufferings that when his Glory shall appear ye may be glad with exceeding joy Would our Saviour have bid us to rejoyce and be exceeding glad when we suffer persecution for his sake if it were a thing impossible that as Afflictions do abound so our Consolations shall also With what an Emphasis doth the Spirit of God describe the blessedness of them that suffer or die for the sake of Christ 1 Pet. 4.14 the Spirit of God and of Glory i. e. the glorious Spirit of God resteth on you and vers 15. If any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God on this behalf And so St. John Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord for they rest from their labours and their works follow them Revel 14.13 Be thou faithful unto death to the suffering of death and I will give thee a Crown of life Revel 2.10 If we did indeed believe all that to be true which our Saviour hath told us we would not be offended at the Cross The growth of our fears is from the decay of our Faith Why are ye fearful O ye of little Faith Abraham who was strong in Faith was also perswaded that what God had promised he was able to perform and therefore offered up his onely Son who was dearer than his own life and left his Country and Kindred at the Command of God This was the Victory whereby the ancient Worthies overcame a world of Persecutors even their Faith that Faith that gave a subsistence to things to come and apprehended them as present that Faith that made them look through things Temporal to things Eternal They could as the Proto-martyr St. Stephen see the heavens opened and Christ standing at the right hand of God Et quid pulchrius Deo spectaculum quam Christianus cum dolore congressus quum adversum minas supplicia tormenta componitur No spectacle is more pleasing to God than a well-composed Christian conflicting with punishments and torments Christ as it were leaves his seat and stands up not onely to behold but to encourage and assist such Combatants Non enim nos spectat tantum sed in nobis ipse luctatur And when Christ takes all that is done to his Members as done to himself when in all their afflictions he is afflicted when he assures us as by his Word and Oath that he will never leave us nor forsake us And that all things shall co-operate to our good If the love of Christ were indeed shed abroad in our hearts it would constrain us to do and suffer any thing that he shall call or command us to do or suffer For there is no fear in love perfect love will cast out all base fears Love would so unite us to him whom we love that as nothing could on Christs part separate us from his love so neither would any thing on our part work a separation Rom. 8.38 And what is there in the world or in our selves of such weight as the full enjoyment of our Saviour may not outweigh here is nothing but sin and misery infirmities and temptations daily assaulting us and leading us Captives The very Heathen that had no hopes of a better life saw cause to be weary of this and esteemed it the greatest blessing not to be born but the next to it to die speedily But to us Christians to whom Cita mors est victoria laeta death should be esteemed a gain it is a passage from a vale of tears to a Crown and Kingdom where we shall be ever with the Lord. Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down and the feeble knees and make your selves ready for your last journey to your everlasting Rest. And let them that are called to suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to him in well doing as to a faithful Creator 1 Pet. 4.19 AN APPENDIX Containing A more full and particular Answer to