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A64277 The vindication of a late pamphlet (entituled 0bedience and submission to the present government demonstrated from Bp. Overal's Convocation-book) from the false glosses and illusive interpretations of a pretended answer / by the author of the first pamphlet. Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705. 1691 (1691) Wing T602; ESTC R37878 32,401 41

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my Lord Clarendon observing that the Word Abdicate is no new Word nor the Caprice and Humour of Princes to abdicate their Kingdoms a new thing And representing it as the hardest Case of Subjects without their Privity Surv. of Lev. p. 94 95. to be left in an instant without any Protection without any Security as a Prey to all that are too strong for them He adds That it is no New Transaction for Kings and Princes to resign and RELINQVISH THEIR CROWN AND SOVEREIGNTY nor may it be the better for being old Yet besides other Accounts there mentioned Some Princes saith he have been so HVMOROVS as upon the FROWARDNESS AND REFRACTORINESS OF THEIR SVBJECTS AND BECAVSETHEY COVLD NOT GOVERNIN THAT MANNER THEY HAD A MIND TO DO TO ABDICATE THE GOVERNMENT AND WOVLD HAVE BEEN GLAD AFTERWARDS TO HAVE RESVMED IT Now I imagine according to the Judgment of that Great Statesman and true Church-man that our Allegiance to the Late King is void And the Letter of which I have sufficient Testimony sent from the Jesuits to King James at Sailsbury advising him to leave the Kingdom with a promising Assurance That he should be Restored and have his ENDS upon us implies something worse than a Caprice or Humour 3. The most that I have had Converse with conclude their Present Majesties to have a Right to as well as Possession of the Crown and that not only from the Law of the Land which receives and owns them as Legal King and Queen but also upon the Appeal which they made to God for the Injustice done them on account of the Impostor which being determined on their sides fairly gives them a Divine Right And if so then the Ground-work of the Gentleman 's whole Answer is undermined and his Building must fall And this the Author in his Pamphet asserted but because he knew not what to say to it he haughtily past it by And thus much for the Principles of some Approved Church-of England-men Then for their Practice The Case of the Engagement represented by the Judicious Bishop Sanderson who plainly intimates some good men to have taken it and which is left almost in an Aequilibrio by that profound Casuist nay and which was taken by a Great and Good Man now with God a Dying Advocate of the Doctrine of Passive Obedience shews the Practices of some that have owned her Principles not to be altogethee repugnant to ours But this is an unpleasing Subject because reflexive upon other men From hence therefore let us proceed to enquire something after the Convocation-Book CHAP. II. An Account of the Convocation-Book and why it wanted the Royal Confirmation THE Sense and meaning of this Convocation being to be enquired after especially in these two things 1. Whether Right must of necessity be united to Authority before our Allegiance can be due unto it And 2. When a Revolution of Government may be supposed to have obtained a thorow Settlement I thought it not amiss to enquire into the Reasons for the calling of the Convocation the circumstances of Affairs when the Book was written and the Causes why it was laid to sleep not being suffer'd to appear with the Royal Confirmation For the understanding of these will mightily assist us to comprehend their meaning And what I have received is thus The Spaniards growing weary of their wars with the Vnited-Provinces seeing Queen Elizabeth the great supporter of the Dutch against the House of Auflria to grow old and knowing that James then King of the Scots was after her decease to succeed her in the Throne of England a Prince of a Peaceable Disposition they made previous Applications to him to pre-engage him when he came to the Crown of England to mediate a Truce or Peace between them and Holland The good Queen according to the course of Nature in some time after dies whereupon the Spaniards by their Ambassador as soon almost as King James was seated on the English Throne renew their Negotiation with him to mediate the foresaid Truce supposing the Vnited-Provinces would scarce refuse his Interposition because at that time he held in his hands some Cautionary Towns of theirs which had been delivered to the late Queen The King being of himself inclinable to Peace and to oblige the Spaniards who had a Pontifical claim to the Crown of England to own and acknowledg his Right and Title to that Crown that so he might secure to himself the certainty of enjoying ease and safety undertakes the Mediation But difficulties arising from the Dutch Pretentions who demanded to be acknowledged a Free and Independent State tho' they had but lately withdrawn themselves from the Crown of Spain His Majesty of Great Britain taking this to be a tender Point and of great consequence to all Crowned Heads if a Province or Principality having shaken off their Ancient Lord might set up for a Free and Independent State desirous also to over-rule the Dutch in their Allegations to this Claim on the apprehension of a Fear that it would void the overtures of the designed Truce That he might do it with the greater appearance of Authority and Judgment he resolves to consult his Convocation about the Origine of Government its various Forms Alterations and Modifications intending them especially to exalt the Sacredness and Grandeur of Monarchy Accordingly the Convocation go to work and deduce the Power of Government from its natural and prime Original taking notice what it was in it self whence Tyranny and Arbitrary Power usurped upon the Patriarchal How that again was retrenched and the True Fatherly Government setled amongst his own People the Jews till the Captivity of Babylon giving also an Account what became of them afterwards what Revolutions they underwent till they and all the Western World were made subject to the Roman Eagle This led them to treat of the Variation of Government by the Providence of God who casts down Kings and sets up Kings who alters Kingdoms and turns them into Aristocratical or Democratical States and on the contrary States into Dukedoms Elective Monarchies and the like As also what Obedience ought to be paid to the said Governments when they are once throughly setled upon such Revolutions laying down a Rule when People with a safe Conscience may nay ought to pay Obedience to their Authority But their Determination herein touching too hard upon the Claims of Sovereigns and the Royalties of Monarchies of which scarce ever Prince had more tender feeling than that his Majesty of Britain King James is displeased with it and them charging them that they had dipped too deep into what all Princes did reserve amongst the Arcana Imperii as from his Letter at the end may be seen and by Orders sent by Mr. Sollicitor restrains them from medling any farther in it And this I believe might be a Reason why the Convocation which had promised to treat of the Government of the whole World did not handle more particularly the Case of Free