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A46958 The opinion is this, that resistance may be vsed, in case our religion and rights should be invaded Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703. 1689 (1689) Wing J836; ESTC R17465 10,755 11

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be made Null and Void at the Pleasure of some few Forreigners crept in amongst them thought fit to have that unjust Violence repelled by a War and thought fit likewise that the Church which was no otherwise than justly Armed for the Preserving that Liberty which she had by Law should be drawn out into the Field Where those that fell on your side Friend Bellarmine did not perish by the Injury of a Persecution but by the Stroke of a most just Defence But because it may be said that these are private Men which I grant to be true though their Arguments seem to be of another nature and look like the publick and common Reason of Mankind therefore to finish and perfect this business of Authorities with which as some men are wholly led so I hope others may be so far excused as not to be haunted and tormented at a dying Hour and tempted either to Despair or die with a Lye in their Mouths In the last place I shall shew that the whole Church of England in several Convocations have Justified the Protestants in those Defences and not only maintained in Words the Justice of their Resistance but which is more they laid down their Purses to help them and charged themselves deeply with Taxes in consideration of Queen Elizabeth's great Charges and Expences in Assisting them as you may see in the Preambles of the Clergy's Subsidy Acts in that Reign Quinto Elizabethae Cap. 24. Among other Considerations for which the Clergy give their Subsidy of Six Shillings in the Pound they have these words And finally pondering the inestimable Charges sustained by Your Highness as well of late days in reducing the Realm of Scotland to Unity and Concord as also in procuring as much as in Your Highness lieth by all kind of Godly and Prudent Means the abating of all Hostility and Persecution within the Realm of France practised and used against the professors of God's Holy Gospel and True Religion The first thing in this Passage is the Queen's Assistance of the Scotish Nobility in their Reformation wherein they were opposed by the Queen of Scots who brought French Forces into Scotland which is set down at large in our Chronicles Stow p. 640. The Temporalty in their Subsidy Act at the same time Cap. 27. call this Assistance The Princely and Upright Preservation of the Liberty of the next Realm and Nation of Scotland from imminent Captivity and Desolation The other thing is the Godly and Prudent Means for abating Hostility and Persecution within the Realm of France Now History will inform us Stow p. 650. That those Means were the Forces sent under Dudley Earl of Warwick to Newhaven to Assist the French Protestants who were then in Arms. We have some Men who would find another Name for it and would call this the Abetting of a Rebellion but the whole Bishops and Clergy in Convocation call it The use of Godly and Prudent Means to abate Hostility and Persecution practised and used against the Professors of GOD's Holy Gospel and True Religion For so likewise they call a parcel of Men who neither Professed nor Practised the Modern Religion of Non-resistance Again the Clergy grant another Subsidy 35 Eliz. cap. 12. in consideration of her Majesties Charges In the provident and needful Prevention of such intended Attempts as tended to the Extirpation of the sincere Profession of the Gospel both here and elsewhere The Temporalties Subsidy-Act at the same time will explain this to us in these Reasons for their Tax Cap. 13. Besides the great and perpetual Honour which it hath pleased God to give your Majesty abroad in making you the principal Support of all Just and Religious Causes against Usurpers Besides the great Succours in France and Flanders which we do conceive to be most Honourable in regard of the Ancient Leagues the Justice and Equity of their Causes And to the same purpose again the Temporalty 39 Eliz. Cap. 27. This Land is become since your Majesties Happy days both a Port and Haven of Refuge for distressed States and Kingdoms and a Rock and Bulwark of Opposition against the Tyrannies and ambitious Attempts of Mighty and Usurping Potentates Neither are the Clergy in their Subsidy-Act 43 Eliz. Cap. 17. at all behind them either with their Money or Acknowledgements For who hath or should have a livelier Sence or better Remembrance of your Majesties Princely Courage and Constancy in Advancing and Protecting the free Profession of the Gospel within and without your Majesties Dominions than your Clergy So that if the French and Dutch Protestants were Rebels in their Resistance then the Church of England quite through Queen Elizabeth's Reign by their Assisting of them involved themselves in the same guilt For it had been utterly Unlawful and a horrid Sin to assist Subjects in the Violation of their Duty and Allegiance and to aid them in Resisting the Ordinance of God. But this being too absurd to be believed of Confessors and men who had hazarded their Lives for the Protestant Religion it is plain that they held Resistance to be lawful in these Cases And they have declared their Opinion in this matter where it was fit to be declared in Acts of Parliament though it be not to be found in their Catechism So that if they who hold the same Opinion be in an Error they have erred with their Fathers they have erred with the Church of England and they have erred in good Company FINIS LICENSED LONDON Printed for I. Watts at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1689.