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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40101	A vindication of the divines of the Church of England who have sworn allegiance to K. William & Q. Mary, from the imputations of apostasy and perjury, which are cast upon them upon that account, in the now publish'd History of passive obedience / by one of those divines.	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1689 (1689)	Wing F1728; ESTC R2186	6,632	16

A Vindication OF THE DIVINES OF THE Church of England Who have Sworn Allegiance to K. William Q. Mary From the Imputations of APOSTASY and PERIURY Which are Cast upon Them upon that Account in the Now Publish'd History of Passive Obedience By One of those DIVINES It is impossible but that Offences will come but woe unto him through whom they come c. Luke 17. 1. Licens'd August 27th 1689. I. Fraser LONDON Printed for Brabazon Aylmer at the Three Pidgeons over against the Royal Exchange Cornhill 1689. A Vindication OF THE DIVINES OF THE Church of England c. I Should hardly have thought it much worth any ones while to Concern himself about the now Publish'd Book Intituled The History of Passive Obedience were it not to prevent Atheistical and Debauched Persons making use of it to the Scandalizing of weak and inconsiderative People against Religion and the more hardening themselves in their Contempt thereof by seeing so great a Body of the Ministers of this Church so exposed to the World for Apostates and Perjured Wretches as they are in this Book But it seems to me to be absolutely necessary for this Reason to take at least the Design of this Book into Consideration which is all I intend to do And the apparent Design of it is as I now intimated to make the World believe That the Generality of the Divines of the Church of England are fallen under the Guilt of most Shameful Apostasy and consequently of Perjury too in the Oaths they have Taken to King William and Queen Mary Had this History come abroad some considerable time before the First of August I confess I should not have pass'd such a Censure upon it but had been obliged to hope That 't was piously and charitably intended to prevent our Clergy's Scandalizing their People and Violating their own Consciences But since it comes thus late the Exposing of those who have taken these Oaths 't is most evident is at least the principal Design of it And how well such Work as this does become Christians and Protestants and Members of our Church who to justifie their Refusal of these Oaths and to commend themselves to the World as Stanch-men and steady to their Principles are content to sacrifice to their own Reputation the Good-Names of all but a very inconsiderable Number of their Brethren I leave to their own Consciences and serious Thoughts if ever they are at leisure to think seriously or are capable of making sedate Reflexions All those of the Clergy that have taken these Oaths are as expresly as can be without running the most Apparent Danger of the Law blackned with Apostasy from the Doctrine of the Church of England subscribed by them and very many of the most Eminent of them by Name with basely deserting that Principle which they have heretofore publisht to the World in Print and been Zealous Maintainers and Avowers of viz. That of Passive-Obedience or Non-Resistance of the Higher Powers upon any Pretence whatsoever But I can scarcely desire a more easy Task than to shew that these New Oaths are no whit repugnant to the Asserting of the most Absolute Passive-Obedience and that those who have skrewed up this Point to the very highest Peg as I ever thought some have done it much too High thro' their Non-attendance to the Constitution under which we live may Lawfully take these Oaths without recanting any thing they have Preached or Printed upon this Argument And own William and Mary without Fear of Contradicting what they have held about this Matter as not only de Facto but de Iure too their King and Queen For First Can a Prince who is Justly provoked by another Prince to whom He oweth no Allegiance gain a more unquestionable Title to His Crown than that of Conquest when reasonable Satisfaction hath been first Denied Him And will the highest Asserters of Passive-Obedience affirm it to be due from Those who are under no Obligation of Allegiance Now this was the Case of the Prince of Orange For 1. He was no Subject to King Iames. 2. King Iames had given Him very just Provocations Surely his making so great Advances towards the setting up of Popery in his Kingdoms and the bringing in of a Foreign Power consequently and the overthrowing of the Laws and quite Changing the Government must needs appear to all impartial Persons to be just Provocations since He was so very nearly Concerned in these Actings by Reason of His PRINCESS'S and His Own Right of Succession to the Government of these Kingdoms But what more Sensible Provocations could the Prince receive than was King Iames his giving Him so great Reason to believe that 't was his Design to Deprive His Princess of Her Title of next Successor to the Crown and for ever to Exclude the immediate Line 3. The Prince having Demanded in His Declaration Satisfaction from King Iames and promis'd to Referr His Cause intirely under God to a Free Parliament and that He would make no worse use of His Army in the mean time than for His own necessary Security he would by no means yield to any thing of Compliance but betook himself to the most Vigorous Opposition of Him he could possibly make And when he found himself forsaken of the best Part of his Army and that the Prince grew much too strong to be Encountered by him instead of yielding to His Demand of a PARLIAMENT he Revoked that Summons of one which before the Princes Landing He was perswaded to send forth and leaving those who had to the last adhered to him to shift for themselves as well as they could away he Fled both a First and a Second time Fled Flung away the Seals and leaving no Representative behind him left the Nation without Government Not to mention Here his putting himself wholly into the Hands of the Greatest and most Formidable Enemy his three Kingdoms and all Protestant Nations have in the World. Now What was this but a plain Conquest 'T was such a Conquest in all its Circumstances as hath ever been acknowledged to give an unquestionably Just Title as far as concerns the Conquered Prince I give this Limitation because I am aware 't will be Objected that though King Iames was Conquered the Nation was not they not liking his Cause so well as to side with him but generally Received the Prince of Orange as a Glorious Instrument which they hoped God Almighty had raised up to bring them Deliverance from the Evils they Suffered and the much Greater they saw very near Approaching them And those that now refuse to Swear Allegiance to Him were observed to be as forward as others in Expressing their Affection to Him at least many of them In Answer hereto it must be acknowledged that the Nation was not Conquered But all that follows from hence is That the Prince would not have acquired a Right to the Crown against the Nations Consent He had a very Justifiable Plea against King