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A62891 Short strictures or animadversions on so much of Mr. Croftons Fastning St Peters bonds, as concern the reasons of the University of Oxford concerning the covenant by Tho. Tomkins ... Tomkins, Thomas, 1637?-1675. 1661 (1661) Wing T1839; ESTC R10998 57,066 192

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Kingdom But let them not nourish carnal pride for His Kingdom was not to be here All which can be gathered from hence is That Christians as such cannot claim Secular Honors or if they have them they are not by reason of them to be supercilious toward but more useful to those who want them not to scorn but to help their Brethren This doth not all prove That if the Civil Magistrate at whose disposal Honours are will dignifie Clergy-men they may not accept it when it may be the concernment and the welfare of Church and State which are no such Enemies as that they cannot be administred to by the same Persons I wonder how so much is so securely built on this Text when it cannot be made out that Christ spake these words to the Apostles as in the capacity of Clergy-men That Clergy-men either as so or as Christians have not an eternal Right to Secular Honours I grant Christ bequeathed no such thing but that He any where made them uncapable if the Civil Magistrate who is the Fountain of Honour bestows any upon them I no where read He left those things as he found them to be bestowed as he whose right it was to dispose of them should see cause Christ would certainly have sharply and plainly reprehended such an Universal Custom had he intended to remove it But seeing He and his Apostles said nothing against it they certainly intended it to remain as before The Exception to the third Article is That there is a limitation put upon an absolute duty To defend the Kings Person and Authority in the preservation of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdom Though the King is really bound to those things yet his neglect of his duty doth not discharge us of ours To this Mr. Cr. replyes Those words are not a limitation of duty but a predication of the capacity the Parliament and People were in and so the meaning is We being in the preservation of the true Religion and Liberties of the Kingdom shall endeavour to preserve the King c. An Interpretation not to be made good by Grammar To which I must needs confess this though it may as easily be reconciled as to their Actions All Declarations and Sermons were but Satyrs against the King they represented Him equally an Enemy to God and Man Religion and Liberty upon which score they justified Violences as great as they would have his Crimes thought In short they had this pretence to deprive him of all power and that he was not fit to be trusted with any Let any man but ask himself what case the King was in what usage he had or might expect in those dayes he would readily grant this Interpretation of Mr. Cr. which is indeed as far from the sense of their words as truth of their actions to shew them to be as Loyal as he should be thought by Mr. Cr. friendly who should revile and persecute him all wayes imaginable for Non-conformity and then should thus manifest to all the world his tenderness to him should engage multitudes of his powerful and enraged Enemies in a Covenant to defend Mr. Cr. in defence of the Rites and Ceremonies of the Church of England A Parenthesis would be in Mr. Cr. Eye a slender ground of our good will toward him This is not only the natural and practised meaning of that phrase but the confessed and owned one Mr. Cr. Legislators the Commons in Answer to the Scotch Commissioners 28. November 1646. p. 21. acknowledge and plead for this sense of those dangerous words They are to preserve the King c. Relatively viz. In the preservation of c. And frequently in that Declaration blame the Scots for mentioning the Preservation of the King and omitting that clause upon which they were bound to defend him This being then the natural and confessed meaning of those words and in Mr. Cr. own jugdement sinful p. 103. Because as he truly there urges Allegiance and so the preserving the Kings Person and Authority is an absolute duty founded in the Relation without regard to the Quality Piety or Impiety of the Person c. And this is a duty we are bound to God to perform If there were no more against the Covenant then this Mr. Cr. must acknowledge the Covenant to be as to the matter unlawful and so in his own esteem obliging to nothing but Repentance because it endeavours to bind us to to what he owns to be sin But if this which Mr. Cr. is ashamed to own either because he takes it not to be true or else not seasonable be not the true meaning of those words and the King for misusing his Authority is not to be deprived nay even then they swear to preserve it I will not say What meant that Resolve pleaded in the aforesaid Answer to the Scots p. 65. That until satisfaction and security be given to both Kingdoms the King was not to be admitted to come to them with Honor Freedom and Safety If to dispose of every thing in the Nation without and against his command be to preserve his Authority I wish They had been so preserved What mean the Votes of Non-Address 1647. Recalled I confess but let us consider it was when Affairs were so much changed that the Army was ready to give them the same Law they had given the King to defend them just so Nay I shall go on What means the Loyalty they so much brag of now The Isle of Wight Treaty All Offices Civil Military Peers Counsellours Iudges Marriage of his own Children in effect all the Regalia Call you this preserving his Authority Those horrid words are in themselves clear and if they had not been so their Opinions had made them so In the conclusion of this third Article p. 104. After the supposed Jeer of serious Casuists he tells us They must grant that where the words of an Oath seemingly doubtful may they must be taken in a good sense The Oxf. men were in this case of another mind where an Oath is so doubtful I am rather to refuse for fear it should engage me upon a sin and so I might be engaged to dishonour God for his own sake An Oath is to be taken in the sense of him that gives it otherwise it is no security but a cheat Shall I then strain a sense upon an Oath which the words offer not not to say will not admit and the Authors I am sure pursue not To the fourth Article The Exception is It will protect Impiety and necessitate Barbarism it layes a necessity on the Son to accuse his Father c. and makes way for those who are sick of their Fathers c. To which the Reply is p. 104. All penal Statutes for Felony Treason The Oath of Allegiance Supremacy the Protestation the Law Deuteronomy 13.6.7 8 9 10 11. do the same As to the Law of the Land it looks upon the harbour Criminals receive from near Relations in