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A36199	Dr. Sherlock's Two knights of Brainford brought upon the stage in a congratulatory letter to Mr. Johnson : occasioned by the doctor's vindication of himself in taking the oath of allegiance to Their Majesties after the time, indulg'd by the law, was expired.		1690 (1690)	Wing D1766; ESTC R31333	34,233	42

Dr. SHERLOCK's TWO KINGS OF BRAINFORD Brought upon the Stage IN A Congratulatory Letter TO Mr. JOHNSON Occasioned by The Doctor 's Vindication of Himself in Taking the Oath of Allegiance to Their Majesties after the Time indulg'd by the Law was expired LONDON Printed in the Year 1690. Dr. SHERLOCK's Two Kings OF BRAINFORD Brought upon the STAGE SIR THis is to congratulate your Victory over that Passive Obedience Doctrine the Chief Confessor of which is far from imitating you who were a real Martyr for that Truth which is opposite to it The Great Champions on the other side were Dean Hicks and Dr. Sherlock these gave the word to the Party the first would prove it by Man's Law the last by God's and thus the Laws both Humane and Divine were press'd into its Service Dean Hicks his last Effort for it was in Signing or Dictating the Weak Dying Declaration of the late Bishop of Chichester who had suck'd it in with his Milk and might be thought to dye with a Surfeit of it But the Dean finds yet no occasion to renounce any part of that Doctrine the Defence of which some say procured his Deanery According to his Golden Book God himself had fix'd his Allegiance unalterably to the Vid. Dr. H. his Jovian Late King as long as he should live and to the Sham Prince after him unless his Spurious Birth be fully proved For the Dean had taught that God had Preface to Jov. p 56. given the Imperial Crown of England for an inalienable Inheritance to the Royal Family that is as he immediately explains it to the next Heir upon the Line to exclude whom or any Person of the Royal Family from the Absolute Right or Birth-right which God alone had given him he asserted to be to oppose the Will of God nor does he seem yet to have thought of our Doctor 's Distinctions for Preserving and maintaining the Right of such an one and yet obeying another as having Gods Authority Wherein the Doctor sets up Two Kings one of Right the other by Providence But upon this Point the two Brotherly Champions are divided and leave you Master of the Field while they engage against each other That Dr. Sherlock gives up the Point of Succession and says what amounts to a total yielding the Cause to you may appear from the most Cursory Consideration of his Book and tho I must confess he has a great Art in Startleing his Reader Pag. 3. and helping himself off from Assertions which at first look very Gross yet I cannot but think that in the main he leaves either himself or his Beloved Doctrine without Excuse and where his present Actions oblige him to depart from it he shews it is like a parting with a right hand or right Eye and therein indeed does more for the Government than other Men and endures little less than Martyrdom I need not profess to you that I have no disesteem for the Man but his Opinions in relation to Civil and Ecclesiastical Government are in my apprehension so Derogatory from the Goodness of God Vid. Anonymus his Letters to him about Church Communion so uncharitable to Men and destructive to Humane Societies that I long since thought my self bound publickly to avow my dislike of them tho the Government and consequently in his Sense Gods Authority were on his side as I am sure the Government is now on mine it being founded upon Legal Principles as directly contrary to his as he often is to himself I maintain by Law that their Majesties are rightful King and Queen and came by their Power by due means which is impossible to be proved upon his Grounds The Absurdity and perhaps Blasphemy of his you can best set in their true Light and expose to the just Abhorrence of Mankind and have already done it by way of Anticipation But tho you have gained the Victory over his Opinions about Civil Government and every Lash you bore for the sake of our English Liberties shall rise about you in Circles of Glory yet such Men will be likely to reap the Spoil till they who maintain the Right to be in King James shall as the Law declares them if they act accordingly be adjudged Traytors to their Majesties and till the Principles of Hobbs and Matchiavel become as Odious as the Doctrine of our Pretenders to the Spirit of the Church of England was in the time of King James Vid. Dr. H's Sermon Vid. Dr. Sherlock 's Case of resistance When that Sovereign Power which was taught to be inseparable from his Person and could make Repeal and Dispence with Laws touch'd but the Hem of the Canonical Garments then the Dying Voice of a Meek Moses and the louder Cry of that Blood which was Sacrificed to their Idol could not be heard for the Jangling of Aaron's Bells Then they who had been transported with the Fallacious Promise of Maintaining the Church of England began to bethink themselves that there was not the least word of Religion and what comfort could it be to them to have Diana's Greatness out of Danger when others were likely to enjoy the Profit of the Shrines Till then the King 's Most Illegal Acts had the Authority of Sovereign Power that is as the Case of resistance Doctor tells us Gods Authority and it would be hard if that Authority could not make them Legal They thought they had this fast on their side and not foreseeing any Probability that there would be a Flaw in the Succession till this Generation should pass away by making that Sacred and Inviolable they hop'd to secure Reverence and Authority to themselves who had taught the Oracles to Philippize and speak as the Present Powers would have them On the other side King James and his Sottish Priests thought those Warm Men of our Clergy believed their own Doctrine and would inculcate it to their People however even the Clergy themselves should be used And finding the Lay-Herd like the Tribe of Issachar imagined that the Levites who had taught them to crouch under their Burden would have had more Modesty and Sense of Shame than to be Clamorous But certain it is how much soever they inveigh'd against your true Representation of the Behaviour of the Primitive Christians towards Julian they out-went the Pattern and were beholden to you for their Justification Far be it from me in the least to reflect upon the Vid. Pref. p. 4. Body of the English Clergy their Learning the World Admires their Prayers at least called for their Majesties and the most of them Swore Allegiance to them as soon as the Law required it and it is to behop'd with Sincerity Yet if they were means of delaying our Settlement or of undermining it I should not think my self Guilty of Profaneness or Infidelity in telling them they would thereby Blacken themselves and Obstruct the Propagation of that Religion Vid. the Doctor 's Pref. p. 4. which by Profession