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A26679 Allegiance vindicated, or, The takers of the new oath of allegiance to K. William & Q. Mary justified and the lawfulness of taking it asserted, in its consistency with our former oaths, and also with the doctrine of the Reformed Church of England, concerning non-resistance & passive obedience / by a Divine of the Church of England. A. B. 1690 (1690) Wing A957; ESTC R23002 31,180 38

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ALLEGIANCE VINDICATED OR The TAKERS OF THE New OATH of ALLEGIANCE TO K. William Q. Mary JUSTIFIED AND THE Lawfulness of taking it Asserted in its Consistency with our former Oaths and also with the Doctrine of the Reformed Church of England CONCERNING NON-RESISTANCE PASSIVE OBEDIENCE By a Divine of the Church of England LONDON Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pidgeons against the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1690. The Takers of the new Oath of Allegiance to King William and Queen Mary vindicated and the Lawfulness of taking it asserted in its consistency with our former Oaths and also with the Doctrine of the Reformed Church of England concerning Non-resistance and Passive Obedience IT appears sufficiently by this Time I suppose upon Record that the generality of the Reverend Learned and Pious Clergy of this Church have actually taken the Oath in Dispute and their Books every where extant declare that divers of them have written Learnedly in Defence of themselves and their Brethren so doing and have not been wanting in their utmost endeavours to satisfie those of them who yet refuse by offering them all the Arguments they could think of for it and turning every Stone under which they could imagine any considerable objection against it to lie concealed in order to the giving it a satisfactory Solution They have to this purpose unravelled all the Principles of Government and searched into the Reason of them all even from Adam downwards they have particularly with great industry sifted the Legal Constitution of the English Monarchy and the History of all its Monarchs to evidence the Original Contract upon which it is asserted that our Government is founded they have endeavoured to evince the late King to have been a kind of Felo de se as to his Title thereunto by voluntary Abdicating the Throne to which divers Authors also have added his Legal Forfeiture as they suppose by breaking the Original Contract before-mentioned they have fortified the Claim and Title of our present Sovereigns by justifying the late Dutch Invasion together with the rising of the English Nobility and their adherents in the circumstances wherein we then were to assist it they have pleaded the Right of Conquest consequent thereupon if their Present Majesties had thought fit to fix their Throne on that foundation and that being waved by them who have rather chosen to adventure themselves upon the favour of the Nation Assembled in Parliament they have asserted the Legality of the present Parliament for substance although wanting the usual circumstances of Summons c. which in the present conjuncture could not be had to constitute them in all points formally such and by Consequence have inferred the validity of those Acts for the settlement of the Throne which they have made and thereby not only justified the matter of this Oath but also the Authority by which it is imposed and lastly they have by strong Evidence to that Point at least if all other grounds should fail made out the lawfulness if not necessary Duty of paying our Actual Obedience to their Majesties as actually possessed of the Government And yet notwithstanding all these Endeavours of theirs it appears also that divers of the Sacred Function and some of them of the highest Character and Station in this Church have rather than to comply with the rest in taking this Oath already incurred the Penalty of Suspension from and seem inclined yet farther to hazard the being totally deprived which is the Penalty to which Refusers are shortly endangered of their Places and Employments which evidently declares that all that hath been said upon that subject yet hath not been prevalent enough for their plenary satisfaction The consideration whereof I must confess may very well discourage any Person who hath but modesty enough to take a just measure of himself in comparison with those who have Written before so accurately on this Argument as to leave little for any that comes after them to add thereunto from attempting any thing farther of that kind and had certainly had that effect upon my self had I not found it necessary in a sort upon the account of the uncharitable carriage of divers Persons who though it may be they have not so much as looked into any of the Books before-mentioned to understand the Reasons moving us thereto have made it much of their business to censure and condemn both my self and so many of my Reverend Fathers and Brethren as have taken the said Oath to write a few Lines in Justification at least of that which we have done if not also to the conviction of others who still stand out in their refusal and the inducing of them to do the same yet before the approaching expiration of the Term by the Act allowed and the securing themselves in those Stations wherein they may still continue serviceable to this Church to which divers of them as all must acknowledge have hitherto been both a Defence by their learned Pens and an ornament by their personal Qualifications I am sensible I musts needs say by Experience that with the Assertors of some rigorous Principles of Loyalty all the Arguments urged from the Topicks before-mentioned except those of the last sort are of no consideration at all and that even those although they find from them some fairer Quarter then the rest in Thesi or in general yet in the present Case are judged insufficient and unconcluding And this because they are strongly possessed with a persuasion that their former Allegiance is a thing of an everlasting permanent Obligation and in no sort or degree upon any emergency to be transferred from a Prince however dispossessed as one who hath a Title neither forfeitable by any miscarriage nor voidable by any cession or departure unto any other so long as he lives and is not pleased expresly to release it and adhere to the Doctrines of Non-resistance and Passive Obedience as they judge them taught by the Church of England to such a Degree as to pronounce them utterly inconsistent with the Allegiance in this Oath required So that when we have to do with Men of that strain it is necessary that we wave all those former Heads of Arguments above-mentioned and cast the whole stress of this Dispute upon the last in the Issue of this single Question viz. Whether with the saving of those Principles of theirs be they sound or not a Man that professeth Loyalty in its utmost rigours may not yet be at liberty in the present circumstances to take the Oath required to K. W. and Q. M. as actual Possessors of the Throne To this therefore I resolve in this Discourse to confine my self endeavouring to prove the Affirmative and answer all visible Objections to the contrary in the making good the Propositions following The first whereof is this I. That in all Places every one that is by Law in the condition of a Subject owes a Legal Obedience which I take to be no other