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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65419	A vindication of the present great revolution in England in five letters pass'd betwixt James Welwood, M.D. and Mr. John March, Vicar of Newcastle upon Tyne : occasion'd by a sermon preach'd by him on January 30. 1688/9 ...	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.; March, John, 1640-1692.; Welwood, James, 1652-1727.	1689 (1689)	Wing W1310; ESTC R691	40,072	42

to yours I am glad to find your Paroxism over in the end of your Letter and you inclinable to a little Sport in proposing to me Two Questions in Physick I might laugh them over if your Skill in Physick were not greater than mine in Divinity And to shew my self all Obedience I answer to the first That under your Correction a redundancy in Choler with a little mixture of adust Melancholy has produced more Tragedies in the Body of Man than the Juice of the Pancreas is capable to do and these Affections seldom hit the Body without allowing a large share to the Mind As to the second Question I was almost going to complement you by giving the credit of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood to a Clergy-man the great Padro Paulo as Bishop Bedel insinuates but I am as loath to part with the Honour of that Discovery from my own Profession as you are to allow mine that of knowing Divinity And if I should affirm That the 12 th Chapter of Ecclesiastes contains a true Systeme of the Circulation of the Blood you might have a large Field to shew your Skill of Physick and Divinity at once by demonstrating the contrary Now I hope my Obedience to you will oblige you to a jus talionis and instead of two Questions I 'le presume but to propose one Viz. Whether or not he that pays the stipend should jure Divino present to the Church This is a Question may concern you and I am positively for the affirmative till you convince me of the contrary SIR Your humble Servant JAMES WELWOOD P. S. I must add one thing more How kindly would your Principle of Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance relish with the poor Protestants of Ireland at this day And indeed if they be all of your Opinion we are like to have many thousands of Martyrs if the goodness of God and the Princes Conduct prevent it not Thus Sir I have answered your Letter in a Strain somewhat different from yours for your Heat and Bitterness shall not Authorize mine If you have any further Commands for me you shall find me ready to serve you being that I am To Doctor WELWOOD Newcastle Feb. 19. 1688 9. Good Doctor YOU were it seems in some danger of losing the honour of being an Apathist because you found not in the Superscription of my Letter the glorious Title of Dr. Medicinae but if you will be at the charge of consulting the Heralds Office you may soon satisfie your self That tho perhaps you may have commenc'd Doctor in some Foreign Academy yet you have no claim to the Priviledges of the same degree in England till you are admitted ad cundem in one of our Famous Universities if this Apology will not allay the effervence of your Choler I have nothing to plead besides the Ignorance of your Quality You are in a much greater ferment by reason of that rude Answer you say I sent you but others that saw it thought it more modest than you deserved considering these Provocations you had given me a Person that never injur'd you in my life But I fancy you expected from me some such mighty Complements as Dr. Burnet met with in his Travels for charging me with false Doctrin waspish Expressions want of Breeding scurrilous and indecent Epithets black Aspersions bad Genius horrible Positions Scandalum Magnatum want of Prudence Choller narrow Theatre having Books and not reading them For these and many more are the Flowers and Embellishments of your Stile and yet good Man you are not capable of any Impressions of Heat and Bitterness but more cool than the Alpes and a greater Adeptus in Stoicism than Old Zeno was who yet say some did at last swing himself out of the World in a pleasant Paroxism of Apathy But in lieu of your charging me with Cholerick Strains I shall return you two known Sayings Turpe est Doctori cum culpa redarguit ipsum Et Medice cura teipsum Before I come to examine what you may think material in your second Letter I shall premise something concerning the Doctrin of the Church of England which I think may be better gathered out of her own Authentick Monuments than out of your Country-men barely and this will bring us to the truest State of the Controversie In order thereunto I shall begin with the necessary Doctrin and Erudition of a Christian Man set forth by the Authority of Henry the Eighth and compos'd by Cranmer Ridley Redman and other glorious Martyrs On the fifth Commandment they deliver themselves thus Subjects be bound not to withdraw their Fealty Truth Love and Obedience towards their Prince for any Cause whatsoever it be neither for any Cause they may conspire against his Person nor do any thing towards the hindrance nor hurt thereof nor of his Estate and they prove this from Rom. 13. Whosoever resisteth the Powers resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist them get to themselves Damnation And upon the sixth Commandment No Subjects may draw their Swords against their Prince for whatsoever Cause it be and tho Princes which be the Supreme Heads of their Realms do otherwise than they ought to do yet God hath assign'd no Judges over them in this World but will have the Judgment of them reserv'd to himself and will punish them when he seeth it time In the Second Part of the Sermon of Obedience in the Book of Homilies our Church declareth That it is not lawful for Inferiours and Subjects in any case to resist and stand against the higher Powers For St. Pauls Words are plain Whosoever withstandeth shall get to themselves Damnation In the Second Part of the Homily against Rebellion we have these Words David was fain to save his Life not by Rebellion or any Resistance but by flight and hiding himself from the Kings sight Shall we not rise and rebel against our known mortal and deadly Enemy that seeks our Lives No saith godly David What shall we do then to a Saul an evil unkind Prince an Enemy to us hated of God hurtful and pernicious to the Common-Wealth Lay no violent hand upon him saith good David but let him live until God appoint or work his end It is most plain from these Passages That the Church of England forbids all Resistance of the Higher Powers in all Causes whatsoever And tho you and your Country-man Barclay were pleased to trouble the World with nice Distinctions our Church thinks it more advisable to follow St. Paul's Example and use none at all Having premis'd thus much to state the Controversie aright I shall now examine your Letter First You will have Dr. Burnet the Author of that Pamphlet whether I will or no and bring such silly Arguments to prove it as are not worth the mentioning But since you will have it so I wish you had taken more pains to vindicate his Reputation seeing he has subscribed the Homilies and asserted Passive Obedience to the heighth