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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59833	Observations upon Mr. Johnson's remarks, upon Dr. Sherlock's book of non-resistance	Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing S3305; ESTC R9591	14,732	24

Government since you could never have wish'd for a more sweet or taken a more effectual Revenge than you have done by turning such an Hebrew Advocate in their behalf methinks 't is great pity there is no Law obliging all men to hang the Keys of their Consciences at your Girdle and as it is to be hoped they will Chastise the maliciously affected Weakness of your Defence so it were seriously to be wish'd that before the time comes they would provide us some Learned and Conscientious Casuist that might be able by the Conviction of Scripture Reason and Law to promote those good Inclinations we in the presence of God sincerely profess to have of living under our Superiours a sober and a peaceable Life in all Godliness and Honesty And I do promise in my own and as I believe I may in the name of all my Brethren that are yet unsatisfied that our Refusal to comply shall lie no longer hid in lurking Scruples and reasons best known to our selves as you out of your abundant Charity would insinuate than till our Superiours shall be pleased with indemnity to allow us to bring them forth for though Truth never seeks it may be driven into Corners to men of their own Nomination and Appointment with an obligation to the severest Penalties if we can be prov'd to have divulg'd them any farther Therefore all the spiteful flourishes you make in the 2d Page of your Preface and the malicious as well as silly Questions that you ask are but so many instances of your natural Incivility and Rudeness towards us as well as of an ungentile Insolence in provoking him whose hands are tyed which is very true in reference to the Danger he must lye under who dares be so hardy as to answer your questions which yet I my self dare engage to do upon good security of Freedom and Indemnity and to back those Answers with such reasons as shall ensure me the Priviledge of being for you unanswerable or else I will forfeit my Head where yours is due You need not wonder at this Caution in me in whom it is too seldom a fault who am not now to be told the danger of making my Tongue or my Pen too familiar with my Thoughts I am not so much in love with Jayls and Pilloreis and Whipping-Posts as needlesly to court Mr. Colliers first Answer or the no less pennance of reading his second besides Mr. Oats and your self have given us a fair Instance what ineffectual Methods those are of reducing Men to sobriety if ever such or greater Punishments should be our Lot our Prayers are that God would enable us to bear them with such Magnanimity Meekness and Resignation as becomes those who profess the Doctrine of passive Obedience taught and practised by Christ and his Apostles the Primitive and the best reformed Christians but surely God has a very great Controversie with this Nation of ours surely our Sins are ripe for the severest Judgments the Land is divided into two extreme sinful Parts one by our Sins are fitted to suffer under the Doctrine of Resistance others sinful enough to be permitted to preach believe and prosecute it I meekly thank God that though my Sins are strangely great and deserve more than I can suffer yet he hath not given me up to the latter Judgment of teaching it and I trust he never will. Indeed Mr. Johnson your apparently contrary behaviour in the very subject matter of this Discourse has not been so amiable and inviting as to render it exemplary but has rather prejudic'd and hinder'd that Enforcement which your Suffering Name and fallacious Reasons might otherwise have given it No good Christian can approve or indeed with patience hear and no crown'd Head will endure your barbarous Usage of King James in which you have out-done your own Forgeries and ill pack'd Stories in your Life of Julian Is it thus that you curse not the King no not in your heart is it thus that you commit your self and your cause to him that judgeth righteously is it thus that you heap Coals of Fire upon the Head of your Enemy and do you thus overcome evil with good no no the apparent Marks of an unchristian Resentment and an ungenerous Revenge make up the whole Contexture of your Preface and by this means you have under your own hand renounc'd to the merits of your sufferings forefaulted your right of compensation abdicated your Religion together with your King and sign'd a kind of posthumous Apology for your Judges and almost justify'd the Inhumanity of your Sentence You say Page the sixth of your Preface that if King James had been a rightful King when he took Possession of the Crown as he was not but a publick Enemy he has since that time broken the Fundamental Contract In these words there is one of the boldest and most notorious Falshoods that ever was broach'd for he was certainly rightful King after the Death of his Brother even though your malicious insinuation from his outliving him had which it has not either weight or truth in it The very Votes of both Houses of Convention acknowledge so much when they insisted upon the Abdication without ever calling his Title into question besides if he had no right to succeed in the Throne your Lord and the other Gentlemen of the Exclusion were much in the wrong had you made as much appear then as you confidently assert now you had sav'd the two Houses a great many angry debates and the important Fortress of Tangier had been still in our hands and undemolished and the lower House knew the importance of that place very well when they set the Bill of Exclusion upon it's head as the price of its Relief or Redemption rather and what necessity there was to shut out by Law one that by Law had no right to come in surpasses my discerning yet farther you prayed for him as King as oft as you did your duty in reading Common-Prayer now Men of mettle are seldom Hypocrites and I cannot persuade my self you could in your Prayers to God acknowledge him to be King whom in your Conscience you did not think rightfully and lawfully to be King All prevarication is disengenuous and cannot become a Christian much less one that waits at the Altar and still less in the Service of God so that this consequence is self-evident either you were a Hypocrite then or worse now As for what you say of his being excluded by three successive Houses of Commons you might as well have told us that he was excluded by the Diet at Ratisbone or the Swiss Cantons for their Power was as great to exclude him as that of the Commons of England alone without the consent of the King and Lords you have made as much of it as the case will bear when you tell us it was a Caveat and I suppose you know the Nature of a Caveat so well as not to stand in need of information what manner