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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85584	Great Britans [sic] vote: or, God save King Charles. A treatise seasonably published this 27th. day of March, the happy inauguration of his sacred (though now despised and imprisoned) Maiesty. Wherein is proved by many plaine texts of Scripture, that the resisting, imprisoning, or deposing our King, under what specious pretences soever couched, is not onely unlawfull but damnable.		1648 (1648)	Wing G1670; Thomason E431_26; ESTC R202345	36,900	55

their life their King being safe they are all at unity So long as their King is well they follow their worke but being lost they leave and loath their Honey-combes and when their King waxes old and cannot flye they carry him on their wings and if he dye they dye with him as some write f Hieron ep●st ad Rusticam Behold how nature hath stamped obedience by instinct to Bees to be subject to a superiour in their kinde g Pet. Chry. in Policrat lib. 7. how much more should Nature Reason and Grace stampe obedience in the heart of Christians knowing that without a Kingly Government Kingdomes are thraldomes h Aug de civit dei lib. 4 c. 4. Take away Iustice and what are Kingdomes but Dens of Theeves Take away obedience to Government and that were to make earth and hell all one but onely in name There is not wanting divine Precepts or divine Patterns to allure loyall obedience take two in stead of many the first and best of all our Saviour Christ i Matth. 3.17 in whom God is well pleased and the second David k 1 Sam. 13.14 a man after Gods owne heart Our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ yet God and man in the dayes of his flesh disdained not to obey such as were in authority l Matth. 22.21 commanding to give unto Caesar that which is Caesars and paying m Matth. 17.27 tribute to Caesar for himselfe and and Peter by the hands of Peter though Peters supposed Successors and they that pretend to Peters inspiration will pay none And though our Saviour Christ received manifold injuries and indignities from unjust and faithless Governours yet he never moved rebellion or resistance but digested all with patience and obedience knowing that the powers that be are ordained of God telling Pilate that unjust Iudge that his power was given him from above for the rule is given of the Lord and the power of the most high And by mee Kings raigne saith hee that had the wisdome of God given unto him Prov. 8 15. And saith another Pis●●t anal in M●● 22 2● God is to be obeyed for himself being cheif Lord the Magistrate is to bee obeyed for God as being Gods Minister or deputy So that the pattern of Christs obedience to temporall powers must bee the platforme of instruction in the duty of obedience 2. Davids obedience to King Saul is very commendable and remarkable Saul was a a A Tyrant by abuse of power not by usurpation Tyrant and sought without cause or colour to kill David yet David often hazarded his life and limbs against Sauls enemies the Philistins evermore testifying his prompt obedience and service to his Soveraign and when this K. Saul like that other b Acts 9.1 Saul breathing out threatnings and slaughter against David followed him to the wildernesse of Engedi where David used pia fallacia hid himselfe in a c 1 Sam. 24.4 Cave and had opportunity to cut off Sauls head as well as the lappe d 5 of his garment or if he were timerous to dip his hand in blood as once Gregory e Greg. lib 7. epist. 1. willed Sabinian to tell the Empe●or exciting him against the Lombards I feare God and am afraid to have any hand in blood if David I say had such a qualm of fear come over his heart lo the f 1 Sam. 24 8. hands of his servants ready to have done it and scarce could be kept from it only David doth terrifie them from doing it g 7 The Lord keep me from doing that thing unto my Master the Lords Anointed Dum timuit ol●um servavit inimicum as excellently h Lib 2. advers parmenianum Optatus in fearing the anointing he preserved his enemy In a word David might have killed Saul sleeping or if he would not himselfe do it i 8 Abishai offered his service I pray thee let me smite him once with a spear to the earth and I will smite him no more but still see how obedience holds his hands and moves his tongue Destroy * 9 him not f●r who can lay his hand on the Lords anointed and be guiltlesse And afterward Saul being slaine and a certaine Amalekite hoping to have bin a happy Post in telling k 2 Sam. 1.4 David Saul is dead and shewing David that hee hasted l 10 Sauls death though m 1 Sam. 31.4 Saul himselfe had acted the Prologue of his own death this made the Epilogue of his life and brought the Crown in his hand a tempting baite to get praise or pardon yet all in vain how wast thou not afraid to put forth thy hand to destroy the anointed of the Lord s●i●h n 2 Sam. 1 14 15. David and commands his servant to give him legem talionis to kill this King-killer though by consent and intreaty Sic pereant qui moliri talia pergunt Good God thou King of Kings so let them perish Who ' gainst thy Charles such bloody deeds do cherish And now what doe all these particulars summed up together inferre but this Ecce o Iohn 1.47 Behold a true Israelite in whom is no guile behold a good subject indeed in whom is no treason behold a man after Gods owne heart who from his soule hateth and abhorreth the very name and thought of Rebellion his heart p 1 Sam. 24 6. smiting of him but for cutting of the lap of Saules garment after whose heart then those men are who now a dayes cut off from a David all Regall ornaments devest him of all ensignes of Royall Majesty and cloath him with nothing but the foule garments of reproach and slander I leave to all the world to judge How unlike are the wayes of this sonne of God to those who would bee thought the sonnes of God in these dayes Popish Iesuits of the Sea of Rome and oh wonder those Lord and Commons who call themselves the Parliament of England David labours to speake his mind to Saul these labour to hinder David to speake his mind to them David manifested himself upon all occasions obedient and loyall to his Soveraigne though wicked that so evinced thereby hee might become good these upon all opportunities declare their disobedience and disloyalty to their Soveraigne though good and to colour their Rebellions would fame make the people beleeve that he is wicked and should be if they could make him so either by flattery or force David desired nothing more than to come to a q 1 S●● 24 9. 26.14 Personall Treaty that so the truth might appear and the innocent be acquitted These abhor the thought of a Personall Treaty and Vote it treason for any man to speak from or to him least their ambitious villanies should be detected and our poore oppressed Kings wronged innocence manifested and honour vindicated Lastly David in all his consultations and actions did endeavour to evidence himselfe faithfull

derived their being from him though now like cursed Vipers they endeavour to gnaw out the way to their resolved upon Democracy through the Bowels of their Father Monarchy But what ever we heare or see such Traitors Vote or Act let the remembrance of the Blessings both spirituall and temporall which under eighteen yeares of his Majesties good and happy Reigne we did enjoy and might stil have enjoyed if we would have beene content and could have knowne when we were well and undoubted hopes of what blessings his future Gouernment may bring upon this Land yea all his three Kingdoms Let I say the remembrance of the one and hopes of the other move all Loyall Subjects to lift up their hearts and hands to the King of Kings to multiply his dayes as the dayes of Heaven to deliver him out of his present thralcome and restraint to restore him to his rightfull Crowne and Dignity and us his Subjects thereby to the right profession of true Religion and an once more enjoyment of Peace and Plenty yea I am confident 〈◊〉 doe move all true hearted Nobility Gentry and Commonalty to pray for him as the Christians prayed in old time for their Kings though Heathens God of his infinite mercy grant him a Tertul. in Apolog c. 30. a long life a quiet Kingdome a safe Court strong and victorious Armies a faithfull Counsell yea with David b Psal 132.18 that God would cloath all his enemies with shame but set him at Liberty restore him his Scepter and on him and his to cause his Crown hereafter to flourish That so as on the day of his re-inauguration into all the hearts of his Subjects and re-establishment in his Throne the united voyces of his Majesties populous Kingdomes may annually send up to heaven their cordiall and continuall acclamations God save the King that the eccho thereof may resound in heaven as fervently as the noise of the Romans did in applause of Flaminius generally calling him Saviour Saviour the noise whereof was so violent and vehement that as c Plut. in vita Flaminii Plutarch writes it made the Fowles of the aire fall downe dead or that as the d 1 King 1. people of Israel did to Solomon when hee was created King in Gihon and anointed there by Zadock with an horne of Oyle taken out of the Sanctuary the e 1 King 1.40 people piped with pipes and rejoyced with great joy so that the earth rang with the sound of it f 39. blowing their Trumpets and saying God save King Solomon So may all the people within his Highnesse Dominions lift up their hearts and hands blow their Trumpets ring their Bells frequent their Churches and pray God save the King Corporally in Body God save the King Spiritually in Spirit God save the King Politically in Government And excite one another to say This is the day of our King we do not well then this day is a day of good tidings we doe not well to hold our peace And indeed we can never have greater cause to speake of and pray for our King then now in these Rebellious times upon which we are unhappily fallen For these are the times wherin by those that call themselves a Parliament Rebellion is countenanced yea counted Devotion and holy Reformation and the most desperate Traytors entitled Saints and Martyrs Wherein not onely in the Popes Conclave but also in the Sectaries Conventicles shall I say nay in the grand Counsell of the best reformed Protestant Kingdome nothing is more rife than the slandering rebelling against and Imprisoning shall I say Yea the Theorick and practicke of deposing nay it is to be feared which God prevent it will proceed to murthering Princes Wherein as Mariana that insolent Iesuite prescribes to Traitors rules and cautions for poisoning Kings and highly commends King-killers So Marten that impudent Rebell publisheth with the approbation of a Parliament too to the encouragement of Sectaries and Traitors grounds and reasons to proceed in Kings resisting and deposing and highly applauds that cursed crue of King catchers eclipped Saints of the Army Wherein those Traiterous assertions of Suarez and other Iesuites are the constant Positions of those who would be thought to abhorre and beate downe Poperie Subditos posse de privare Reges a Papa excommunicatos vitâ Regno That is to say the Sectaries of England Subjects may deprive Kings if Voted against by the Parliament not onely of their Liberty Crownes and Kingdomes as appeares by the present sad condition of King Charles but also of life it selfe with their Tradatur Satanae and we know not though we feare what event that may in time produce Wherein that horred saying of that foule mouth'd Guignard concerning the murther of one of the Henries of France committed by two Jacobine Friers Heroicum factum donum spiritus sancti is become the oft incultated Doctrine out of Protestant Pulpits and re-resolved Votes of the grand Committee Chaire to resist fight against imprison Depose yea kill and slay the King and all his adherents is a most Heroicall act and the gift of the Holy Ghost Lastly these are the times wherein that knowne bloudy practice of the Spanish Inquisition is parallel'd shall I say nay out-practized by the action of the English Parliament As in the Spanish Inquisition their arguing is this whosoever is an Heretick ought to ●ee burnt but whosoever will not submit to our Canons and Decretalls is an Hereticke therefore whosoever will not submit to our Canons and Decretalls ought to be burnt He that is under the Inquisition denyeth that every one that will not submit to their Canons and Decretalls are Herereticks and consequently not to be burnt and offer to dispute it They of the Inquisition prove it thus They command him to withdraw decree his death dragge him to the stake bind him to it put Faggots about him set them on fire and burn him a most invincible argument So the Vote of this Parliament is whosoever will not doe the Law of God and the Law of the King ought to have judgement spec●●●y executed upon him either by death or by banishment or by confiscation of goods or by imprisonment But whosoever will not obey the Orders or Ordinances of one or both Houses of Parliament doth not doe the Law of God and the Law of the King Therefore whosoever doth not obey the Orders or Ordinances bee they never so opposite to reason and justice of one or both Houses ought to have judgement speedily ex●cuted upon him either by death or banishment or confiscation of goods or imprisonment Those men that are brought before them as guilty in this point Deny that whosoever will not obey the Orders or Ordinances of one or both Houses of Parliament therfore do not do the Law of God and of the King and consequently ought not to have judgement executed upon them without a legall Triall Hereupon they command them to retire resolve upon the

in his obedience and a patterne of Loyalty to all generations adventuring his body and blood for the service of Saul in defence against his enemies the Muster-roll of whose battailes for Sauls well-fare is recordded in holy Scripture from the xvii Chapter of the first of Samuel almost to the end of that Booke the glorious Trophy of the fidelity of an obedient Subject But all the counsels and practises of the Lords and Commons now sitting at Westminster have wholy tended to advance disobedience and manifest themselves the Presidents of disloyalty and rebellion to all other nations and future ages engaging not many of their own bodyes I confesse or much of their own blood but many thousand of bodyes and an ocean of the blood of poore seduced and deluded Christians their fellow subjects for the pulling downe their religious King a David and utter ruine and destruction of all his faithfull freinds and loyall subjects the Muster-roll of whose battails for King Charles his subversion and deposing is hung out at most Pamphlet-sellers stalles the glaring Trophy of the disloyalty of such impudent unmatchable Rebels So that I well say with Toxaris to Anacharses ſ Lucianus in S●●tina viso Solone vidisti omnia here I can shew you the two wonders of the world at once Looke upon David and you shall see the wonder and pattern of Loyalty and Obedience Looke upon that thing at Westminster which calls it selfe a Parliament compassed round with their Army of Sts. as they tearm them and there behold the wonder and president of Disloyalty and Rebellion In their Declarations and Remonstrances read principles fit to direct Traytors in his Precepts and Practice read Doctrines sufficient to instruct faithfull subjects and if that be not sufficient nothing will suffice Object But the enemies of Charles reply and say We ought to be obedient and subject to good Kings but if they bee bad wee may resist and deny our obedience to him yea good men may send him to his grave and indeed this Doctrine to depose a King dispose of his Kingdome and deprive him of his life if he be not as the Iesuites count Catholique as this Parliament counts Protestant the treacherous Iesuites at Rome and our Rebellious new-lighted Saints at Westminster doe with an equall heightned fury of blind zeale labour to maintaine by their published seditious Papers and where their Pens faile their Pikes prisons yea poysons make good as you may read Page the seventh both their wayes of proving their Arguments are Answ Answer It is an easie task to shew that loyall obedience is to be performed to wicked Kings as our former Instances of the best note Christs obedience and Davids obedience to Saul make it manifest it is due to them omni jure naturali civili morali municipali divino By the Law of nature civill morall municipall divine wee will only prove it due by the last by divine Law if that prove it who dare deny it The Apostle Rom. 13.1 makes the matter plaine Let every soule be subject to the higher Powers for there is no power but of God c. From which place I argue thus A●l Powers that are ordained of God must be obeyed The higher Powers be they good or bad are ordayned of God Ergo to be obeyed We may corroborate these two propositions by manifold places as Proverbs 8.15 By mee Kings Reigne c. Iob 36.7 He placeth them as Kings in their Thrones for ever Sometimes God suffers the hypocrite to reigne Iob 34.30 I gave thee a King in my anger and tooke him away in my wrath faith the Lord to Israel Hosea 13.11 Thou couldest have no power except it were given thee from above said Christ to ●il te Iohn 19 11. Give care all you that rule the people all your power is given of the most High Wisd 6.3 Touch not ●ine anointed 1 Chr. 16.22 be they good be they bad touch them not a 〈◊〉 12.19 vengeance is the Lords not mans M●n must not meddle in Gods matters W● b can lay hi ha●ds on the Lords Anointed and be guiltlesse Though they grow defective in their high office yet still remain King● because e●throned by God By whose command men are borne by his command doe Princes reigne c Irae●● 〈…〉 saith Iraeneus Thence have Princes their power whence they have their breath d T●●●ul 〈…〉 saith Tertullian The Kings Commission is sealed ●y the hand of God and though it runne During the good will and pleasure of God yet man yea a * 2 〈…〉 4. Parliament cannot nay must not cancell it for that were to warre with God The wise e B●ac●o● sive 〈…〉 sine●te deo Aug conte Faust Manich 〈◊〉 22. c. 7. Heathen saith the power of good Kings is by the speciall ordinance of God of evill by his permission the first are badges and pledges of his mercy the second are the scourges of his furie So f Esay 10.5 God called Ashur the rod of his wrath and Attyla called himselfe the scourge of God and Tamberlaine in his time termed the revenge of God and terror of the World Saul was a Tyrant King yet David g 1 Sam. 24 6 trembled to touch the skirts of his garment What greater Tyrant than King Pharaoh yet Moses neither had nor gave any Commission to the Israelites to rebell he makes no Law or Booke either to dispose or depose him from his Kingdome Nebuchaanezzar a wicked and Idolatrous King yet God h Jerem. 25.9 calls him his Servant and though he commands the three children to be put into the fiery i D●●● 3.21 A●●ud es●●erva●●● 〈◊〉 me aliud 〈…〉 Ove● they offer no violence or resistance but commend their soules to God and commit their bodies to the King Saint k 〈…〉 Peter who wrot his Epistle in the time of the raigne of that wicked Emperour Clandius as l 〈…〉 Baronius conjectured exhorts all people to feare God and 〈…〉 the King 1 Pet. 2 17. and that for 〈…〉 v. 13. yet this Claudius was a most wicked Emperour maintaining many Ethnick superstitions and the worship of Idols he was as Suetonius * Sueton. c. 34. writes of him by nature cruel bloody libidinous yet to this Emperour a tyrant and an infidell S. Peter exhorts the faithfull Iews to obedience S. Paul who lived under the same Emperour as a Rhemist in tab Paul some doe thinke writes to the Romans the Emperours subjects exhorts all to submit themselves not in any colourable or dissembled obedience but ver 4. for conscience sake Let us heere a voyce or two of the ancient Fathers that lived in old time Tertullian who as b In Catal scriptor Eccles Jerome saith flourished under the raigne of Severus the Emperor who was a great Tyrant an Infidell and an enemy to Christianity who in the fift persecution after Nero troubled the Christian world with most cruell persecution as c Baron An.