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A80276 A complaint and petition of the whole kingdome of England for satisfaction of conscience, and avoiding rebellion. 1643 (1643) Wing C5612; ESTC R232719 20,510 29

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A COMPLAINT AND PETITION OF The whole Kingdome OF ENGLAND For satisfaction of Conscience and avoiding Rebellion Printed for W. Webb 1643. TO THE HONOVRABLE HOVSES OF PARLIAMENT WHereas your Petitioners having formerly contributed freely and liberally to the King and Parliament in conjunction do now refuse further to contribute or pay conceiveing them in opposition as by reason His Majesties Person was invaded in battell at Keinton contrary to the many Declarations of taking up Armes for the safety of His Majesties Person so in regard there is no expresse care of His Person and Honour in your late Ordinance for the assessing the Twentieth part in London nor in your Declaration for leavying of money in the Counties And whereas this their refusall is meerly out of Conscience according to that information they have concerning the Divine Constitution of particular Kings in their severall Kingdomes and of subjection to them both Active and Passive and of the damnablenesse of Resisting from First the Word of God Dan. 4. 17. 25. 32. where thrice in one Chapter it is said That the Kingdomes be Gods and he gives them to whom he will 1 Sam. 26. 9. Who can stretch forth his hand against the Lords Annointed and be guiltlesse And the same blessed spirit which calls David the Lords Annointed Psal 89. 20. doth call Cyrus a Heathen Prince the Lords Annointed also Esa 45. 1. Rom. 13. Let every soule be subject to the higher Powers for there is no Power but of God The powers that be are ordained of God whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation Yea we acknowledge in our Booke of Common-Prayer that King CHARLES is Gods Minister and that he hath Gods Authority and so fighting against him we fight against God himselfe Secondly Mr Calvin and other Protestants their Exposition on Rom. 13. and 1. Pet. 2. Thirdly The Harmony of Reformed Churches concerning Magistracy Fourthly The Doctrine of the Church of England in the Bookes of Homilies delivered concerning civill obedience Fifthly From the Lawes of the Land which declare it to be Treason to leavy Warre against the King in this Kingdome and to encounter in fight and kill such as are assisting to the King or come to helpe him or to aid in those cases And the Action of the Earle of Essex was adjudged Treason though In the reigne of Q. Eliz. he pretended nothing but removing evill Counsellors from the Queene Now that which is evill in its owne nature cannot be the subject of any command nor induce any obligation upon any man by any Authority whatsoever Remonstrance May 19. And we may not doe evill that good may come of it Rom. 3. 8. Sixthly Also in regard of the late Protestation relating to the said Doctrines and to His Majestie respectively which Protestation you have bound your selves to maintaine and all those that doe any thing in pursuance of it You would at least be pleased in your present undertakings for Religion and for the Law of the Land and the Liberty and Property of the Subjects to proceed in the way of Religion without violence to the Conscience in a case that concernes no lesse then Salvation or Damnation As you professe your tendernesse of the conscience even in matters of indifferency And that first your Authenticall Divines Dr Burgesse Mr Marshall c. may publish something for the resolving of Conscience in this way clearely out of the Word of God and home to the Action at Keinton taking notice also That His Majestie tooke up Armes for the maintenance of the Lawes concerning the publike worship of God and for the Priviledges and freedome of Parliament notoriously invaded by Brownists and Separatists and that now He continues them also for the necessary defence of His Person manifestly in danger since the battell at Keinton To which satisfying the Premises your Petitioners farre from contemptuousnesse and obstinacy against the cleare Word of God and Lawfull Authority shall ingenuously condescend and readily make payment of these severall Rates accordingly And pray for c. FINIS THE NECESSITY OF Christian Subjection ROM 13. 5. VVherefore ye must needs be subject not onely for wrath but also for conscience sake WOuld men but meditate or were they perswaded of the truth of the Prophet's speech 1 Sam. 15. 22 23. Behold to obey is better then Sacrifice and to hearken then the fat of Rams for Rebellion is as the sinne of Witchcraft and stubbornnesse is as Iniquity and Idolatry Were they I say perswaded of this truth there would not be so little hearkening to the commands of Authority nor so little obeying what they heare nor would men runne so fiercely into the fearefull sin of Rebellion onely to maintaine and justifie their owne sacrifice of fooles which is indeed no other then their Eccles 5. 1. Olympiodor in loc foolish imaginations have devised and their vaine thoughts have set up as an Idoll to themselves Or were wee not fallen into those last and worst of times prophecied of by the Apostle 2 Tim. 3. 1. 5. wherein men that make shew of godlinesse yea many that make most shew of it have onely a shew but deny the power of it being proud cursed speakers disobedient to parents Proud indeed when they dare exalt themselves against Gods Vicegerent Cursed speakers when His Majesties large Declaration p. 12. 13. 225. 256. 257. c. they dare libell and slander Prince and Prelate Disobedient to Parents Naturall Ecclesiasticall and Politicall were we not I say fallen into such times I should not need to urge the Apostles inference which the unseasonable sinnes of these seasons make so seasonable Wherefore ye must needs be subject c. In which words Infert conclusionem Principaliter intentam Aq. wherein Concludit Paraenesin subjectionis ejusque necessitatem Rol. shewing that we must obey the Magistrate not onely for feare of punishment but much more because that although the Magistrate hath no power over the conscience of man yet seeing he is Gods Minister he cannot be resisted by any good conscience Gen Notes ex Calv. Bez. In qua duas potissimum urget causas ob quas potestatibus necessariò obediendum Marlor 1. First their power to cause feare of wrath 2. Secondly our conscience to obey Gods ordinance In respect of both which we must be subject not onely for wrath but also for conscience sake Wherein I shall consider these 5 particulars 1. The Illation Wherefore 2. The Duty subject 3. The Necessity must needs 4. The persons obliged Ye 5. The Reasons perswading and those twofold 1. From feare of wrath although not onely for wrath 2. For conscience But also for conscience sake 1. The Illation and inference in this word Wherefore being Aquin. Lyr. Calv. Bez. Marlor Rocello a conclusion wherein Quod initio praeceperat de praestandâ Magistratibus obedientiâ nunc per modum collectionis repetit sed