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A96595	Vindiciæ regum; or, The grand rebellion that is, a looking-glasse for rebels, whereby they may see, how by ten severall degrees they shall ascend to the height of their designe, and so throughly rebell, and utterly destroy themselves thereby. And, wherin is clearly proued by holy Scripturs, ancient fathers, constant martyrs, and our best modern writers, that it is no wayes lawfull for any private man, or any sort or degree of men, inferior magistrates, peeres of the kingdom, greatest nobility, lo. of the councel, senate, Parliament or Pope, for any cause, compelling to idolatry, exercising cruelty, prastizing [sic] tyranny, or any other pretext, how fair and specious soever it seems to be, to rebell, take armes, and resist the authority of their lawfull king; whom God will protect, and require all the blood that shall be spilt at the hands of the head rebels. And all the maine objections to the contrary are clearly answered. / By Gr. Williams, L. Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2675; Thomason E88_1; ESTC R204121	92,613	114

Crown and therefore Jehoida the chiefe Priest having gathered together the principall Peers of the Kingdome and the Centurions and the rest of the people shewed them the Kings son whom for six yeares space he had preserved alive from the rage and fury of Athalia which had slain all the rest of the Kings seed and when they saw him they did all acknowledge him for the Kings son they crowned him King and he being crowned they joyfully cryed God save the King and then by the authority of the new crowned king that was the right heire unto the Kingdome they put to death the cruell Queen that had so tyrannically slain the Kings children and so unjustly usurped the Crowne all that while And therefore to alledge this example so justly done to justifie an insurrection contrary to justice doth carry but a little shew of reason And I say the like of the Macchabees and Antiochus that neither he nor any other Macedonian Tyrant had any right over them but they were unjust usurpers that held the Jewes under them in ore gladii with the edge of their swords and were not their lawfull Kings whom they ought to obey and therefore no reason but that they might justly free themselves with their swords that were kept in bondage by no other right then the strength of the sword 8. 8. Example answered For the example of Thrasibulus Junius Brutus and other Romans or whosoever that for their faults have deposed their Kings Examples not to be imitated I answer with Saint Augustine that Exemplo paucorum not sunt trahenda in legem universorum we have no warrant to imitate these examples for though these things were done yet we say they were done by Heathens that knew not God and unjustly done contrary to the law of God and therefore with no blessing from God with no good successe unto themselves and with lesse happinesse unto others but it happened to them as to all others that do the like to expelle mischiefe and to admit a greater as besides what I have shewed you before this one most memorable example out of our owne Histories doth make it plaine In the time of Richard the second the Nobility and Gentry murmured much against his government in brief they deposed him The ill successe of resisting our superiours and set the Crown upon the head of the Duke of Lancasher whom they created King Henry the fourth The good Bishop of Carlile made a bold and excellent speech to prove that they could not by any law of God or man depose or dispossesse their lawfull King or if they deposed him that they had no right to make the Duke of Lancaster to succeed him but he good man for his paines was served as S. Paul and others were many times for speaking the truth committed to prison and there was an end of him but not an end of the story for the many battels and bloodshed the miseries and mischiefes that this one unjust and unfaithfull act produced had never any period never an end till that well nigh an hundred thousand English men were slaine in civill warres Trussel in his supplement to Damels History whereof 2 were Kings 1 Prince 10 Dukes 2 Marquesses 21 Earles 27 Lords 2 Viscounts 1 Lord Prior 1 Judge 139 Knights 421 Esquires and Gentlemen of great and ancient Families a far greater number a just revenge for an unjust extrusion of their lawfull King whose greatest misery came from his great mildnesse And therefore these things being well weighed in the the ballance of the Sanctuary in the scales of true wisedome it had been better for them as it wil be for us all others patiently to suffer the crosse that shall be laid upon us untill that by our prayers we can prevail with God that for our sins hath sent it in mercy to remove it then for our selves to pluck our necks out of the coller and in a froward disobedience to pull the house as Sampson did upon our own heads and like impatient fishes to leap out of the frying-pan into the fire All the pressures that wee have suffered since the first yeare of our King are not comparable to the miseries that this one yeares civill warre hath brought upon us from hard usage that we impatiently conceived to most base and cruell bondage that we have deservedly merited or at the best to bring many men to many miseries before we can attain unto any happinesse and so as the Poet saith in this very case among the Romanes when for their liberty and priviledges as they termed it in Pompeyes time Excessit medicina modum the remedy that they procured hath proved farre worse then the disease they suffered and I doubt not but ere long the Rebels in this Kingdome will feelingly confesse this to bee too true when they shal more deeply taste of the like miseries as they have brought as well upon many of their own friends as others If you alledge the time of Richard the third how soone he was removed and how happily it came to passe that Henry the seventh succeeded I answer briefly that Richard the third was not only a cruel bloody Tyrant but he was also an unjust Usurper of the crown and not the right King of England and that there is a great deal of difference betwixt rebelling against our lawfull Kings which God hath justly placed over us and expelling an usurping tyrant which hath unjustly intruded himselfe into the royall throne This God often hath blessed as in the case of Eglon Athalia Henry the seventh and many more which you may obviously finde both in the Greek and Romane stories and the other he alwayes cursed and will plague it whensoever it is attempted Object After I had answered these objections I lighted upon one more which is taken out of 2 King 6.32 where the Objector saith when Ahab sent a Cavalier a man of blood to take away the Prophet Elisha's head as he sate in his house among the Elders did Elisha open his doore for him sit still til he took off his head in obedience to the King No he bestirred himselfe for the safeguard of his life and called upon others to stand by him to assist him and a little after he saith surely he that went thus farre for the safety of his life when he was but in danger to be assaulted would have gone further if occasion had been and in case the Kings Butcher had got into him before the doore had been shut if he had been able and had had no other means to have saved his own head but by taking away the others there is little question to be made but he would rather have taken then given a head in this case I answer Sol. that who this Goodwin is I know not I could wish he were none of the Tribe of Levi The Ministers of Chist should not be incendiaries of waite 1. Because I finde him such an

they have inconsiderately done to throw them out let them more advisedly revoke and call them in againe and they whose breeding hath beene in knowledge and their calling is to doe justice and to teach truth will helpe and not hinder them to understand the truth and to proceed in righteousnesse And so you see who these men were in regard of their places CHAP. III. Sheweth the assured testimonies of a good and lawfull Governour their qualifications or duties to them and wherein our obedience to them consisteth SEcondly 2. How these Governours were qualified for their places we are to consider Quales fuere how these men were qualified for their places touching which these two points are to be handled 1. Modus assumendi the manner of obtaining it 2. 2. Points discussed Facultas exequendi the ability and fidelity of discharging it 1. 1. How they obtained their places I told you before that many doe obtaine their places by sinfull meanes as many of the Popes and Romane Emperours by poysoning and murthering their Predecessors have unlawfully stept into the Thrones of Majestie and so did Henry the fourth by the unjust deposition of Richard the second Many usurp then places and Richard the third by the cruell and secret murthering of his poore innocent Nephewes attaine unto the Crowne of England And in such manner of assuming government there is just cause of resisting and a faire colour of rebelling against them if you call it a Rebellion when men discharge their duties in defence of justice to oppose usurpation But neither Moses nor Aaron came so to the places of their government For 1. 1. Moses had a twofold testimony to justifie his calling Moses had a double testimony to approve his calling to be from God The first was Internum to assure himselfe And the second was Externum to confirme the same unto the people For 1. 1. Inward When Moses said unto God Who am I that I should goe unto Pharaoh the Lord answered I will be with thee ad protegendum dirigendum saith the glosse and this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee After that you have brought the people out of Egypt you shall serve God upon this Mountaine and that may assure thee that I have sent thee and will bring thy people unto Canaan as I have brought them into this wildernesse 2. 2. Outward which was a threefold sign 1. Of his Rod. That the people might be assured he was lawfully called God gave unto him a threefold signe 1. Of his Rod that being cast to the ground was turned to a Serpent but taken by the tayle it turned to a Rod againe to shew that when the rod of goverument is throwne out of the Magistrates hand the people are like the brood of Serpents People without government like Serpents a malitious and a viperous generation but being taken into the hand of government they prove a royall and a glorious Nation 2. The hand thrust into his bosome and taken out 2. Of his Hand was leaprous but thrust againe and taken out was made whold to signifie that a good Magistrate out of the bosome of the Law must put out the hand of justice both to wound and to heale to kill and to make alive as the Poet saith Parcere subjectis debellare superbos To defend the innocent and to punish the wrong doer 3. 3. Of the Water The water taken out of the river and cast upon the drie ground should be turned into blood to imitate unto them that the blood which was spilt by Pharaoh when their children were murthered and drowned in the rivers should be required and revenged upon the Egyptians when by the government of Moses the carkasses of those outragious oppressours should be cast out of the Red Sea and laid upon the drie ground Thus Moses shewed that he was lawfully called 2. For Aaron 2. Aarons calling Iustified Heb. 5. the Apostle makes him the pattern of all lawfull entrance into this calling when he saith that No man taketh this honour upon him but he that is called as Aaron was and Moses manifested the lawfulnesse of his calling unto all Israel when according to the number of their 12. Tribes he caused 12. Rods to be put in the Tabernacle of witnesse and of all them the Rod of Aaron onely which was for the Tribe of Levy Numb 17.8 was budded and brought forth buds and bloomed blossomes and yeelded Almondes And so it was apparant to all Israel that these men came lawfully to their government 2. For their ability and fidelity to discharge their places 2. Their qualifications for their places the malice of their adversaries could not charge them with any omission they doe not say they have governed amisse but they would faine governe with them And to make this more apparent 1. 1. Of the abilities of Moses The Spirit of God testifieth of Moses that He was faithfull in all Gods house and in that respect called the man of God the servant of God whose whole care was for his Master and for the sweetnesse of his disposition he is said to be a very meeke man above all the men that were upon the earth for his love to his people Tertul. de fuga in Pe secut Tertullian makes him the figure of Christ Cùm adhuc Christo non revelato in se figurato ait si perdis hunc populum me pariter cum eo disperde for his zeale of Gods honour he was most fervent and therefore severe in punishing the worshippers of the golden Calfe and for his justice and uprightnesse he wronged no man for his intellectuals he was exceeding wise and learned in all the learning of the Egyptians 2. 2. Of the abilities of Aarun For Aaron how fit he was to be a Priest will appeare if you consider those two vertues that are the most requisite for the Priesthood as Moses sheweth when he prayeth Let thine Vrim and thy Tummin be upon the man of thy mercy that is omitting all other interpretatious 1. 1. His ability to teach Abilitie to teach For 2. Sanctitie of life For 1. Malach. 5 Tim. 3.2 The Priests lips must preserve knowledge he must be apt to teach si Sacerdos est sciat legem Dei si ignorat legem ipse se arguit non esse Sacerdotem Domini Hieron in Haggai 2. Aug. de doctr Christ l. 4. c. 16. But God himselfe saith that hee knew Aaron was an eloquent man and could speake well and he promised unto Moses that He would be with his mouth to teach him what he would say and therefore I know not who can say any thing against him herein when God saith he can doe it so well and ingageth himselfe that he will helpe him 2 2. His uprightnesse of life For the Integrity of his life I need not goe further then my Text when