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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60236	Simeon and Levi, brethren in iniquity a comparison between a papist and a Scotch presbyter, or, An account of the antient and modern Jesuits, in point of doctrine and practice, carefully extracted and parallel'd : for the benefit of all His Majesties loyal subjects, who are not willing to be cheated out of their loyalty, religion, and lives, and at length their souls, and all under a specious pretence of religion, by such men as make godliness their gain, and religion the stalking-horse, to all their black designes.		1679 (1679)	Wing S3788; ESTC R12823	4,742	7

course of Nature were before their Princes Therefore Princes are not Superiour to the rest by Nature in Right of Fatherhood but are settled by the Suffrages and Consent of the People Thereupon according to Mr. Buchanan's Doctrine Princes are born for the Good of the People and not the People for their Prince Therefore it is Lawful to take up Arms for Religion not only against any Foreign Prince but against their own or any part of the Realm Yet in a free Commonwealth the Supreme Magistrate ought rather to be questioned in a course of Law That it was well done of the Switzers to free themselves from the House of Austria And that David might lawfully have killed Saul because he gave his Wife to another Man expell'd him from his Native Country murdered the Priest for doing some good Offices to him This is Buchanan 's Commentary upon Calvin 's Text. Mr. Beza If a Prince or Chief Magistrate that is lawfully invested with Power shall either unjustly spoil and deprive his Subjects of their Rights or Priviledges or otherwise oppress them that then the ordinary and inferiour Magistrates are to oppose him and by Gods appointment they are bound to protect their Fellow-Subjects against him I 'll come now to the Doctrine of a whole Synod and Assembly of theirs at Glasgow which tells us It is lawful for Subjects to Covenant and combine without the King and to enter into Bond of mutual Defence against him That an Assembly may abrogate Acts of Parliament and discharge their Fellow-Subjects from their Obedience to them if they any way reflect upon the business of the Church they also deny the Kings Right of Calling and they did continue to Sit and Act notwithstanding his Majesties express Order for their Dissolution See King Charles the first 's Declaration Buchanan tells us Though the King be greater than any one Subject yet he is less than the whole for the People are of greater Authority than the King having Power to bestow the Crown where they please and of making Laws and that Kings are but Masters of the Rolls That the People have the same power over the King as He hath over any one Subject This Doctrine hath been both practised and preached by Penry Vidal Coppinger Hacket and Arthington in Queen Elizabeths days also by Mr. Cartwright in his Admonitions Mr. Rutherford who was lookt on as the Chariot and Horsemen of Presbytery he tells us That the Power of a King is but fiduciary that the Sovereign Power is Originally and Radically in the People that the King is in Dignity inferiour to the people There is a Court of Necessity as well as a Court of Justice and the Fundamental Laws must then speak it 's with People in this extremity as if they had no Ruler Mr. Knox very fairly tells us That Subjects may not only lawfully oppose their Kings when they do any thing contrary to Gods Law but also that they may execute Judgment upon them So that if a King be a Murderer Adulterer or an Idolater he shall suffer according to Gods Law not as a King but as an Offender For if a King prove a Tyrant then all his Subjects are freed from their Oath of Allegiance and Obedience Yea it were good saith he that there were Rewards for those that shall kill Tyrants as well as formerly for those killed Wolves or other beasts of prey Vid. his Church-Hist And lest you should say I have none but Scotish Authors for what I have said be pleased to take notice that Mr. R. B. in his Holy Common-wealth saith If a People bound by Oath shall depose their Prince and chuse and covenant with another they may be obliged by the latter notwithstanding their former covenant The real Sovereignty among us was in the King Lords and Commons and if the King raise War against such a Parliament in that case the King may not only be resisted but ceaseth to be a King That the Presbyters abolished Kingly Government in the State is most true and Episcopacy in the Church sold Crown and Church Lands made it Treason to deny the Supremacy of the Commons null'd all Honours granted by the King since 1641. made Scotland one Common-wealth with England and made it Death to proclaim the Lawful Heir King Vid. Scobels Collections Englands Solomon knowing what Locusts they would prove to this Nation gave his hopeful Son Prince Henry this precaution Take heed to such Puritans who are the very Pests in the Church and Commonwealth whom saith he no Deserts can oblige neither Oaths nor Promises binde I protest before the great God and since I am here upon my Testament it is no place for me to lye in you shall never finde with any Highlands or Border-Thieves greater Ingratitude and more Lyes and vile Perjuries than with these Phanatick Spirits I could heartily wish that his Son and Grandson had not found him so true a Prophet They not only Preach this Doctrine but put it in practice For who murdered Henry Lord Darnly who married the Queen of Scots whom they hanged on an Apple-tree The Scotch Presbyterians Who Murdered Arch-Bishop Beaton of St. Andrews and said they were sent by God to do such godly Acts only cause they imagin'd he was a Persecutor of Gods people The Presbyterians Vid. Knox's Church-History Who Murdered King Charles of ever-blessed Memory The Presbyterians in his Politick Capacity as they call it and the Independents in his Natural Who Murdered Dr. Sharp Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews and raised Rebellion shortly after The Presbyterians Who was it that in our late Wars Plundered and Sequestred all the Kings Loyal Subjects and then cryed out They did but as the Israelites rob the Egyptians The Presbyterians TO Conclude from this Parallel it appears that the Popish Presbyterians and Presbyterian Papists are perfectly united and have set up their Centre in one Principle and that although they seem different in outward Forms and Appearances they differ nothing in Reality and Essence The one has already Murthered their Soveraign a Brave and Generous Prince the other have designed it and would do it assoon as they could The difference lies in the Time and Action not in the Will and Intention therein they are both united I advise therefore all my Country-men that as they are careful to avoid the Paw of the Bear so that they should as well eschew the Mouth of the Lion The one is seen and known a● a distance and therefore Dreaded the other are masked and covered with the Lambs Cloathing that they might the more certainly and Infallibly destroy Pray pull off the Vizard and be no longer deceived for you will finde the Gall of the Dove as bitter as the Poyson of the Serpent FINIS