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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46942	An argument proving, that the abrogation of King James by the people of England from the regal throne, and the promotion of the Prince of Orange, one of the royal family, to throne of the kingdom in his stead, was according to the constitution of the English government, and prescribed by it in opposition to all the false and treacherous hypotheses, of usurpation, conquest, desertion, and of taking the powers that are upon content / by Samuel Johnson.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1692 (1692)	Wing J821; ESTC R2049	28,065	64

the English of God's Providence is As God would have it Now when this is applied to Usurpation which is Robbery and Wrong in the Highest Degree and to the Conquest and Enslaving of a Free Nation which is the most outragious Oppression to say that these are by God's Providence is to say that Robbery is as God would have it and Oppression is as God would have it But this all the World knows is contrary to God's known and revealed Will and therefore as the Atheists deny God so these Men make him to deny Himself I hope I shall ever adore God's Providence whilst I live and do it with more Understanding when I am dead and therefore I shall be sorry to see the greatest Injustice in the World fathered upon it That Usurpation or Conquest or any other wicked Thing are by God's Providence I absolutely deny but that they are by Divine Permission and may use the Stile of Bishops that I allow Is it not enough to prostitute Pulpits to the mischievous Flattery of Passive Obedience which were made for publishing the Everlasting Gospel of Christ and nothing else but they must slander Providence too But the best of it is that these Interpreters of Providence who would fain have the bestowing of Crowns and Titles when it is the Peoples Gift and the re●●●●●ing of Westminster-Hall Law by their own iury Pulpit-Law and the direction of all Publick Affairs by handling a Text pick'd out of a private place in the Psalms are easily overthrown in the very Ground-work of their Iudicial Astrology For the Disposeal of all other things is attributed to God in Scripture as well as Promotion and if this Promotion be attained by wrongful and wicked Means such as Usurping Conquering and Enslaving a Nation plainly are it is Blasphemy to ascribe this ill-gotten Promotion to God For instance Prov. 16. 33. The Lot is cast into the Lap but the whole Disposing thereof is of the Lord. Now I say to apply this Text to a foul throw and cogging the Dice is Blasphemy and to say that God has disposed and transferred the hundred Pound Stake to this false Gamester and that now he has a Divine Right to it is repeated Blasphemy The Bible is a Miscellaneous Book where dishonest and time-serving Men may ever in their loose way find a Text for their purpose I could give so many Instances of this in the late Times as would be hateful and tedious But this I say that Eternal Righteousness Iustice and Truth Upright Honesty the Right of the Case and the Reason of the Thing must always govern the Sense of Scriptural Expressions For Iustice and Righteousness are the same in Heaven as they are upon Earth and if the Notion of it were not the same in both Places it were vain to tell us that God is Iust and Righteous for we could not tell what that means and more vain to bid us be like him in those Divine Perfections if we did not know them when we see them But if there were never a Passive-Obedience-Man left in England which I hope to see yet false Titles are of dangerous Consequence If we are a Conquered and Enslaved People as the Simoniacal Parson said by his bought Preferments we came Honestly by it for we paid the Penny for it The Hollanders have had Six hundred thousand Pounds for it besides great Sums which cannot yet be placed to Account Now I am of Opinion that these are dangerous Matters for the Dutch are Merchants We shall have Conquests and Titles bought and sold and trumpt upon us perhaps sooner perhaps 500 Years hence For not to mention Danegelt after the Restoration of the Saxons in Edward the Confessor and Harold and after the Succession of five Norman Kings in Richard the First 's Time Philip of France demanded the Sister of the King of Denmark with no other Dower than the Danish Right to England and the Assistance of a Fleet and an Army for one Year Which the Danes not complying with for fear of the Vandals on one hand and the English Courage on the other Philip at last took her with a Dower of 10000 Marks which was I believe the better Bargain But as the Historian says he therein designed a Bloody Business for the Realm of England Gervas Chron. p. 1244. Molitus est Regno Angliae cruentum negotium Knyghton p. 2406. If Philip had succeeded in this Bloody Business we have false Prophets now-adays that would have hallowed it and made a Divine Right of it in these following words And therefore it is that God though he has infinite ways yet commonly chuses to employ Men in this Service He either finds them at home that are not afraid of the Power as they ought to be or he brings them in from Foreign Countries that is these Danes and French Whistling for the Fly out of Egypt or the Bee out of the Land of Assyria In plain words stirring up a Pharaoh or a Nebuchadnezzar against them Now in obscure words here had been both Fly and Bee whistled in but for all these little Interpreters of Prophecies I am satisfied that our Ancestors would have Whistled them out The old Popish Clergy were Englishmen and were in at Magna Charta and the Lawyers can best tell Whether the Cathedrals they left behind them are not since Forfeited for not reading Magna Charta publickly to the People every Year as is enjoined by two Acts of Parliament for which reason they were each of them Intrusted with a Record of those English Rights I do not now speak of that Charter's being continually Preached down I love the Memory of the Abbot of St. Albans in William the Norman Duke's Time who not being satisfied with his Title when he was marching his Army towards that Place fell'd all the Trees cross the Road and laid Blocks in his way and harassed all his Army And when the Duke askt him why he did so he answered because he knew of no Business the Norman had there and if all Honest Englishmen had done the same he had never come so far as St. Albans to ask him that Question I admire the Presence of the Prior of Clerkenwell in the time of Hen. the 3d as I take it it is in History when in a Dispute about a Point of Right the King meant to overawe him by saying in King James's way to the Magdalen-College Men Am not I your King Yes says he while you govern according to Law but no longer I hate Popery but I love Relicks I know whom I have spoke to all this while in this tedious Address You are my Countrey and therefore I submit it wholly to Your great Wisdom and if you dislike any thing in it I wish it unsaid Only I will abide by this in which I can be positive that I intended it intirely for his Majesty's and my Countrey 's Service in Conjunction and he that talks of their having a Separate Interest ought