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A89562	A copy of a letter written by Mr. Stephen Marshall to a friend of his in the city, for the necessary vindication of himself and his ministry, against that altogether groundlesse, most unjust, and ungodly aspersion cast upon him by certaine malignants in the city, and lately printed at Oxford, in their Mendacium Aulicum, otherwise called Mercurius Aulicus, and sent abroad into other nations to his perpetuall infamy. In which letter the accusation is fully answered. And together with that, the lawfulnesse of the Parliaments taking up defensive arms is briefly and learnedly asserted and demonstrated, texts of Scripture cleared, all objections to the contrary answered, to the full satisfaction of all those that desire to have their consciences informed in this great controversie.; Plea for defensive arms.	Marshall, Stephen, 1594?-1655.	1643 (1643)	Wing M750; Thomason E102_10; ESTC R21572	25,726	33

from which none may appeal and consequently against which there is no resistance So that if men would read this Text of the thirteenth to the Romans in plaine English it amounts directly to thus much Let everie soul in England be subject to King and Parliament for they are the higher powers ordained unto you of God whosoever therefore resisteth King and Parliament resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation I would desire no other Text but this to confound the great Chaplains and Champions of the Antiparliamentary cause or to strike terrour into their Loynes if their long conversing with God-dammee's hath not drawn such a Kawl over their hearts that to them damnation is ridiculous Object 3. But doth not Saint Peter say expresly the King is Supreme 1 Pet. 2. 12. Answ 1. It may as well be translated Superiour as Supreme the same word in the 13 of the Romans is translated Superiour higher not highest 2. It is plain the Apostle is not there constituting Governments but giving direction to people to obey the Government they lived under and the Text hath as much strength to enforce subjection to Aristocracie as to Monarchy If the people of Pontus Asia Cappadocia Bithynia were under an absolute Monarchy as sometimes they were being petty Kingdoms crumbled out of the great Monarchy of Alexander and it may be did retain yet the same forme of Government if not of their own yet as lately received from the Romans all that can be enforced from thence is That the Apostle names the Kings of those particular Countries to be such as they were and commands subjection to them but no wayes tyes other Kingdoms to be like unto them Object 4. But we in England by our oaths do acknowledge the King to be Supreme Answ 1. We willingly grant Him to be Supreme to judge all persons in all causes according to His Laws and the established Orders of the Kingdom but not at or by His absolute will or pleasure 2. Whoever considers the title scope and words both of the Oath and the Act of Parliament that enjoynes it will easily see that both the Act and Oath were intended in opposition to that Supremacie which the Pope sometimes challenged and usurped in this Kingdom of England and no more And this to be the true intent and meaning of it appears more fully by that explication or limitation of the Oath made the next Parliament 5. Eliz. Wherein it is declared That that Oath made 1. Eliz. shall be taken and expounded in such form as it is set forth in an admonition added to the Queens Injunctions published Anno 1. of Her Raign viz. To confesse or acknowledge in Her Her Heirs and Successors no other Authority then that which was challenged and lately used by King Henry the eighth and Edward the sixth And by this time you may see how little offensive these two so much boasted Texts are to our defensive Arms Other places of Scriptures the adversaries seem not much to confide in therefore I will passe them over the more briefly yet let us a little consider of them Matth. 26. 52. They that take the sword shall perish with the sword Where Christ seems to rebuke Peter for using defensive Arms against the Officers that came with a pretext of authority to apprehend Christ Answ 1. This is not a reproof of the sword taken for just defence but of the sword taken for unjust oppression and a comfort to those that ●…re oppressed by it for Origen Theophylact Titus Euthimius interp●●● the meaning to be That Christ doth not rebuke Peter for using defensive Arms but to let Peter know that he need not snatch Gods Work out of his hand for God would in due time punish those with the sword that came thus with the sword against him and that these words are a Prophesie of the punishment which the Roman sword should enact of the bloudy Jewish Nation according with the like expression Revel. 13. 10. He that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword here is the patience and faith of the Saints that is This may comfort the Saints in their persecutions that God will take vengeance for them But Secondly Suppose it was a reproof of Peters using the sword then the plain meaning is to condemn Peters rashnesse who drew his sword and never staid to know his Masters minde whether he should strike or not and so reproves those who rashly unlawfully or doubtingly use the sword Adde this That now was the hour come of Christs suffering and not of his Apostles fighting wherein Christ would not be rescued no not by twelve Legions of Angels much lesse then by the sword of man Therefore he saith to Peter put up thy sword c. But intended not that it should alwayes be unlawfull for his people to use the sword in their just defence against unjust violence for then he would never have commanded them but a little before that he that hath two Coats let him sell one and buy a sword Eccles. 8. 2. c. I counsell thee to keep the Kings Commandment c. He doth whatever he pleaseth c. Where the word of a King is there is power and who may say to him what dost thou Answ 1. No man can understand it literally in all things as if every Commandment of the King must be kept as if no actions of the King might be scanned nor reproved by any man as the Canonists say of the Pope That if he lead thousands to hell none may say why dost thou so Surely if Saul command to murder the Lords Priests that commandment need not be kept If David lie with his neighbors wife Nathan may say why dost thou so If Ahab murder Naboth and swallow his Inheritance worship Baal persecute and kill the Prophets of the Lord Elijah may reprove him notwithstanding this Text Who can say unto him what dost thou Secondly The Text plainly enough interprets it self Keep the Kings Commandment according to the Oath of God stand not in an evill thing against him he hath power to do what ever he will Siscelus patraveris effugere non poteris If you commit evill you cannot escape punishment where the word of a King is there is power viz. To punish them that do evill and none to call him to account for doing it and who can say unto him what dost thou Another Text is Prov. 8. 15. By me Kings raign c. Whence they plead That because Kings and Princes receive their authority only from God and the people at the utmost only designe the Person but give him none of his power therefore they may in no case take away his power from him Answ 1. It saith no more of Kings then of Nobles Senators and all other Judges of the earth for it follows By me Princes rule and Nobles even all the

Kingdome let us not through our covetousnesse or cowardize selfe-love or sloth betray our Lawes Liberties Lives Religion into the hands of men from whose hands we befoole our selves if we expect more mercy or lesse misery then the poore Christians of Constantinople found with the Turkes when thankes to their owne niggardlinesse O let it never be so with England they fell into their hands Oh let us labour to prevent their Swords thrusting into our bodies and their Swords into our Soules let our God doe with us what he will let us doe what we should and while we have any money in our purses any blood in our veines or any spirits in us devote all to the maintenance of this rightfull cause and if we perish we perish Nor doe I feare to be for this condemned by any right discerning man as an incendiary to a Civill War I know the miseries of a Civill War Warre is the severest of all Gods judgements and Civill War the cruellest of all Warres where is the greatest hatred the deepest treachery the most unnaturall butcheries where the father murders the sonne the sonne the Father the brother embrues his hands in his brothers blood and whoever gaines all are loosers Quis suror O cives quae tanta licentia belli Oh the madnesse of our age and Countrey if England have such a lust to War can we find no forraigne Enemies but we must Warre against ou● selves and at this time too Cumque superba foret Babylon Spoliand● trophaeis When the proud Turrets of the whore of Babylon are to be levelled with the Earth when Germany when Jreland are to b● rescued out of her bloudy pawes Can we finde no fitter Obj●●● for the fury of the Cannon then our Townes Houses Bodies Bu● alas The Generation with whom we have to deale had rather ● thousand times see the glory of England in the dust then the pride o●Rome And though a civill War be miserable yet no such misery as the peace which they would beteeme us a Sicilian vespers or a Parisian massacre from which good Lord deliver us Save Lord let the King heare us when we call Thus Sir you have my thoughts at large you may either lay this Letter by you or communicate it for the satisfaction of others at your own pleasure I blesse God I am gathering strength and hope ere long by my returne to my Lord and the Army if God please not to smile upon us with a safe Accomodation in the meane time to give a reall proofe that my judgement is the same that formerly it hath been and I hope you believe my affection is the same still to you and therefore without further trouble I subscribe my Selfe Your loving friend Stephen Marshall FJNJS Luther tom 8. 〈◊〉 pag. 206. Iudg. 3. Acts and Monum● vol. 1. p 8 Barcl lib contra ●…narchom Grotius iure bel●… l. 1. c. 4. ●… Answer 〈◊〉 the 19 p●●position ●Chron 〈…〉 to 22. ●● Chry●… Matthias po●●… lib. 3. Sect 3. Sleid. hist l●b. 18. Abbot 〈◊〉 Laliso d●mon stra●… Antichr●… 6. 7. Bils●… differ between Christia●… Bed●…s letter to Wadsworth Rom. 13. 1. ● Pet. 2. 12. Object● Answ. 〈…〉 〈…〉 Ob. 3. Answ. Ob. 4. Answ. Object Matth. 26. 52. Answ. Object Eccle. 8. ● c. Answ. Mercer ad Locum Object Prov. 8. 15. Answ. Num. 16 Object 1 Sam. 8. 11. Answ. ●bject Ob Ans. 〈◊〉 Go●●●●… A●●●●… 〈◊〉 Demon stra●●● Antichr c. 7. Euseb. 10. c. 8. 9 Niceph. Niceph. 9. 42 Socrates 2. c. 10. Socrates l. 5. c. 11. Zo●omen 7. 13. Evagri l. 5. c. 7. Object