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A46818	The prerogative of primogeniture shewing that the right of succession to an hereditary crown, depends not upon grace, religion, &c., but onely upon birth-right and primogeniture, and that the chief cause of all or most rebellions in Christendom, is a fanatical belief that temporal dominion is founded in grace / by David Jenner ...	Jenner, David, d. 1691.	1685 (1685)	Wing J661; ESTC R17940	69,745	218

other and oft-times thorough heats (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. and animosities the publick Weal is neglected and every one drives on his own private Interest and seeks to save himself to the ruine of the Common-wealth Wherefore upon these Considerations Nicocles rationally urged that no Form of Government could better secure the Common-wealth from Intestine Broils and from Foreign Invasions than that of Monarchy which could at pleasure Muster up Forces wage (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. War and carry it on vigorously to the effecting its desired ends And to confirm this his Opinion he brings instances of several Common-wealths especially that of the Carthaginians who in time of War for the better success of their Affairs did invest some single person such as Hannibal with Kingly * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Power during their Wars And he instances also in that of the City of Athens 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which of all Cities after their Rebellion most hated Monarchy yet even Athens constituted some single person Generalissimo and intrusted him with a Regal Authority and at last when their Republick Affairs flew malis Avibus upon the wings of ill-luck They chose Solon for their King But he being as great an Hater of Monarchy as was Timon of Mankind Refused their profer 4. In Monarchy says Nicocles State-businesses may more privately be deliberated and consulted upon and therefore without discovery may more successfully be managed to the Terrour of the Enemy and to the great advantage of the Kingdom than in Democracy where by one or other the Secrets of State are frequently discovered and their Consultations Votes and Resolves are made known before they are ripened or before they can be put into Execution which has proved very fatal and detrimental to many Re-publicks And here by the way we may note that by some Wise men it has been thought no part of National Prudence or State-Policy in our late House of Commons here in England to Order every day their own Debates Votes and Resolves to be publickly Printed for by so doing They fomented the several Factions in the Nation and exasperated the Disaffected people against the King and his Government and more particularly against his Royal Highness the Duke of York And which was worst of all they by their printed Votes discovered and revealed not onely their own but also the King 's Secrets and Counsels unto his Foes as well as his Friends 5. Nicocles arguing as an innocent Heathen draws an Argument to prove the Excellency of Monarchy above all other Forms of Government from the Regimen of the Gods themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. For the very Gods whilst they were in a Free Common-wealth could not agree how to govern the World but did bitterly clash and wrangle among themselves So that at last Necessity forced Them to chuse a King who should be Supreme and Monarch over all the other Gods And the Lot fell upon Jupiter who was immediately proclaimed Supreme Monarch over all the rest And when this was done then the World was peaceably Governed and all things prospered as well as Heart could wish Wherefore as Nicolces of old did so we at present may rationally conclude That of all the Forms of Government Monarchy deserves the Supremacy CHAP. III. That all Kings and their Lawfull Heirs ought by Right of Primogeniture to Reign and Govern Successively whether they be Morally Good or Bad whether Infidels or Christians Papists or Protestants THAT Succession to the Imperial Throne ought to be by Virtue of Primogeniture and not of Grace will be the Task of the following Sections to prove SECT I. The Proposition proved by Humane Authority of Heathens IN Plato's time Kings were either Elective 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Law and Custome of particular Nations as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Carthage And as at this day in Polonia Or they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hereditary according to Primogeniture as in Lacedemon and (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Diog. Lacrt. Plato l. 3. Macedonia for the Lacedemons and Macedonians were not onely for Kingly Government but also for the due and regular Succession of their Kings in the right (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. ibid. Line To the same purpose Aelian informs us scil That (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aelian Hist l. 6. c. 13. among the Grecians their Kings reigned successively according to Birth-Right and particularly Gelon in Sicilia the Leuconian Kings in Bosphorus and the Cypselidae in Corinth Though as he reports the Legal Succession of their Kings by Primogeniture seldom ran farther in a direct lineal Descent than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto the third Generation by reason of frequent Insurrections and bloudy Rebellions in which too often some powerfull Vsurper or other mounted the Throne even as Oliver Cromwell lately did here in this Our Kingdom and cut off the Right Heir Thus Might over-coming Right turned the Stream of Regal Government out of its proper Chanel and forced it to run at least for a while a by-way Nicocles the aforementioned Emperour strenuously defends his own just Title to the Crown by virtue of his Birth-Right when he assures the World that he came to the Crown not by Usurpation nor by any illegal and sinister way but honestly (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Isocrat Nicocl Orat. 3. and justly to wit by Inheritance descended from his Progenitors down to his Father and from his Father immediately to Himself SECT II. The Propsition That Succession to the Throne ought to be by Virtue of Primogeniture and not of Grace is farther proved by Divine Authority AS Humane so also Divine Authority speaks the same Truth scil That all Kings and their Lawfull Heirs whether good or bad vertuous or vitious ought successively to Reign and Govern To this purpose very pertinent are the Interrogatories which Elihu put to Job c. 34. v. 17 18. Shall even he that hateth Right Gover And wilt thou condemn him that is most just Is it fit to say to a King Thou art wicked and to Princes Ye are ungodly For the right understanding of which Interrogatories it must be premised That through gross mistake Elihu rashly concluded that pious Job had unworthily repined at God's severe hand of Providence towards him and therefore to convince Job of his supposed errour does Elihu expostulate with him saying Shall they who are Haters of Righteousness and Justice by virtue of their Right of Succession and Inheritance Govern and Reign over their Subjects and that by God's own appointment And what wilt not thou O vain Man suffer God himself the King of Heaven and Earth to govern act and doe what seemeth him best with his Creatures But thou wilt presume to censure thy Maker and say He is not Just in his Dealings with Thee Surely Reason teaches thee this Lesson That if thou mayst not

killing his said Sovereign King Zachariah than what God aforehand had decreed should be done to the House of Jehu for his and their Hypocrisie and Wickedness Yet notwithstanding Shallum's executing God's Decree He was deservedly Condemned for a Traytor and at length Vengeance seized upon him By these and other Instances which might be alledged it is evident That Treason and Rebellion although Commenced upon never so Religious a pretence very seldom if ever went unpunished And therefore we Christians may pertinently urge in this case of Treason and Rebellion what Christ alledged in that of Offences Matth. 18.7 Woe to the World because of Offences for Offences will come but Woe to them by whom the Offence cometh So here Woe to the World because of Treasons and Rebellions for Treasons and Rebellions will happen as long as Youth are not duely Catechised and men are not better and more Loyally Principled But Woe to those Men by whom Seditions Treasons and Rebellions do come For the Divine Nemesis will undoubtedly pursue and over-take them either in this World or in that to come SECT IV. The Proposition proved by Reason and the Common Sentiments of Religion REason and Religion dictate it to be a thing absolutely sinfull and unlawfull for any Subjects whatever High or Low if they be Subjects in Parliament or out of Parliament to Depose their Lawfull Prince And that it is also unlawfull for any Subjects The Bill of Exclusion unlawfull by a Bill of Exclusion or by any other Means to put by the Lawfull Heir from the Crown for fear as was lately pretended He should alter Religion and so bring many Evils upon the Nation Now that it is utterly unlawfull and sinfull for any Subjects to doe thus Reason dictates Because to preclude a Lawfull Heir from the Crown for fear of future Evils which may happen in his Reign and Government is truly 1. Malitious To suppose a fault in the Right Heir before there is one and to Act upon such a Supposal savours of the height of Malice and Dis-ingenuity In truth so to doe in our apprehension is no better than to Hang a Man first and then to Try him afterward 2. Atheistical So to doe is to trust more to Man's Policy than to God's Wisedom more to Man's Care than to God's Providence for the prevention of suture Evils The Holy Scriptures assure us that the Heart of the King and of his Right Heir is in the hand of the Lord Prov. 21.1 and as the Rivers of Water he turneth it whither soever he will But this late Fanatical Doctrine of Deposing Kings and of Excluding the Right Heir from the Crown for want of Grace and for fear of future Evils that may possibly be done by Him speaks the contrary For this their Doctrine avouches for a Truth that the Heart of the King and of his Successour is not in the hand of the Lord Or if it be that then God will not turn it so as to doe any Good to the People And therefore the People especially in Parliament for the Good of the Common-wealth ought to Usurp God's Prerogative and take the Heart of the King and of his Lawfull Heir into their own hands and dispose of it as they the People shall judge best Now What is all this but in effect not onely to Depose and Dethrone an Earthly Prince and his Lawfull Heir but also to Depose and Dethrone Almighty God himself Nay What is it in plain English but for the People to take the Reins of Government out of God's hand into their own and to Rule the World according to their own exuberant fancies Nay What is it at the best but to doe an apparent Evil that a Contingent Good may come on it Which Principle is Antichristian and Condemned for such by Saint Paul who assures us That they who maintain such an irreligious Tenet scil Let us doe Evil Rom. 3.8 that Good may come Their Damnation is just And here it is to be farther noted That if it be as has been proved to be a sin for the Subjects upon any pretence whatever to Depose their King and to Exclude his Lawfull Heir from the Throne for fear of any Evil that may happen through his ill Government Now if this be a sin Then to be sure much more is it a sin for any Subjects to endeavour That a Law might be made to Disinherit the Lawfull Heir of the Crown upon the pretences aforesaid For 1. To make such a Law is truly to make a Law directly to oppose and contradict the unalterable Law of Inheritance which says that the Right Heir by Primogeniture shall Inherit and the other known Law of God That He who hateth Right shall Govern And therefore it was a notorious Sin Opposite to God's Law of Inheritance an Antichristian Act in the late Shaftsburian-Associators to move for a Bill of Exclusion of his present Royal Highness James Duke of YORK from Succeeding in the Throne notwith-standing his undoubted Right thereunto by Primogeniture upon a presumptive jealousie that He would not be a Friend to the true Episcopal-Protestant Religion of the Church of England as now by Law Established For by this Attempt they endeavoured to have set up a New Law of Man against the Ancient Law of God which Commands as we have heard already that the Right Heir shall Govern although he hate Righteousness and although he be a Belial an Idolater And the Law of God is so far from either Deposing a Lawfull King or Precluding the Right Heir as that it will not suffer any Subjects whatever to say Their King is Wicked or that their Princes are Vngodly 2. The Cause of Civil Wars and Sedition To make a Law for the Exclusion of the Lawfull Heir from the Crown is to establish Sedition and Faction by Law And it is not onely to cause but also to perpetuate an Intestine and Civil War by Law as our present most Wise and most Gratious King prudently and too truly urged in his late Declaration giving that for one Reason why neither in Honour nor in Conscience could He give his Royal Fiat unto that unnatural and irreligious Bill of Exclusion For if such a Bill should pass into a Law then there must inevitably follow a Bloudy Civil War Which can please none but them who delight in Bloud and love to sish in troubled waters And which will be worse The said War will in all likelihood continue untill the longest Sword shall have carried all before it And who knows but that Might may once again overcome Right as it did at Worcester Fight and in the late Cruel Rebellion Now Reason assures us That upon passing the Bill of Exclusion into a Law there most certainly will follow a Civil War and that because There will be in the Kingdom two Opposite irreconcilable Abettors for the Crown and their Adherers such as 1. The Right Heir by Primogeniture Excluded and his