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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49115	A full answer to all the popular objections that have yet appear'd, for not taking the oath of allegiance to their present Majesties particularly offer'd to the consideration of all such of the divines of the Church of England (and others) as are yet unsatisfied : shewing, both from Scripture and the laws of the land, the reasonableness thereof, and the ruining consequences, both to the nation and themselves, if not complied with / by a divine of the Church of England, and author of a late treatise entituled, A resolution of certain queries, concerning submission to the present government.	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing L2967; ESTC R19546	65,688	90

in the simplicity of their hearts not knowing the intended Rebellion Besides the War against David was most unnaturally raised by Absolom his Son and Subject moved by his declared Ambition 2 Sam. 15.4 O that I were made judge in the land And altho' it be said that David fled out of the Land that was only for the convenience of his Army that came to his succour 2 Sam. 17.24 whom he conducted over Jordan to Mahanaim a fortified City on the Borders that had Walls and Gates nor did his people desert him for he had a numerous Army and great Commanders Captains over Thousands and over Hundreds and with him were the Priests that carried the Ark for whose safety David was especially careful and the Wood of Ephraim where Absolom was slain and his Army defeated was near to Jordan and that part of the River very narrow for David and his men speedily past it over in Boats. And yet the people had a notion of setting Absolom on the Throne in David's absence that they might have Justice administred for 2 Sam. 19.10 They had anointed Absolom and Hushai among the rest saluted him saying God save the King 2 Sam. 16.16 Yet David retained the hearts of his Subjects for 2 Sam. 19.9 All the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel saying The King saved us from the hands of the Philistines and delivered us from our enemies and now he is fled before Absolom And Zadok and Abiathar the Priests prevailed with Amasa to turn the hearts of all the men of Judah to King David and as one man they invited him and all his Servants to return Object If God send a wicked Prince for the punishment of the sins of a people it is their duty to submit to the punishment of their iniquities as our Church Homelies instruct us in these words Homely the first against Disobedience p. 280. For Subjects do deserve through their sins to have an evil Prince and then to rebel against him were double and treble evil by provoking God more to plague them Let us either deserve to have a good Prince or let us patiently suffer and obey such as we deserve and whether the Prince be good or evil let 〈◊〉 according to the Scriptures pray for him for his continuance and increase in Goodness if he be good and for his amendment if he be evil for Reges quando boni muneris est Dei quando mali ex merito populi We may bonos Imperatores 〈◊〉 expe●or● quoscunque c●lirare So Taci●us says And we ought to indure wicked Princes as we do 〈◊〉 or Scarcity which as of God's s●●ing for there being in Nature a Vicissitude of Earthly things good and evil succeeding each other we must receive evil at the hands of God with as willing a submission as we do good things and the return of good things will satisfy for our calm submission to evils as God blessed the later end of Job by doubling all his injoyments and as after a short persecution in the Marian days the Protestants enjoyed a long tranquility under Q. Elizabeth c. and as none can so none ought to resist the will of God. Ans It must be granted that there is no evil befals a City or a Nation but it is the Lords doing either by his permission or his commission but it is as certain that God not approves of all that he permits to be done in the World and when God doth afflict a people for their sins that which is done justly by himself by way of permission cannot be justified by the Agents for want of a Commission 2ly God may punish a Nation by Fire Famine or Sword yet it is the duty of such as suffer under those Judgments to pray against them and by the known rule Pro quibus orandum pro iis laborandum they may use all lawful endeavours against them If God permit Fire to destroy my Habitation or Robbers to plunder me it is just with God to deal lo with me yet I may and ought to endeavour the quenching of that fire and as I am able to resist those Robbers otherwise it would not be lawful for Christians to fight against those Turks and Tartars which invade Christendom for the destruction of their Religion when in respect to God such Invasions are made for the punishment of their sins viz. their unchristian Divisions and Corruptions of the Doctrine of Christianity And if such a Prince as the King of France meerly for his ambition or for propagating his own Superstition shall invade the Dominions of Protestant Princes or destroy thousands of his own Subjects contrary to his own Edicts may they not defend themselves against such unjust Invasions of their Rights and Religion or at least may they not pray against them or flye from his furious attempts And yet this is a degree of resisting him Yet the Church of England hath not been guilty of these misbehaviours in any of these respects for as long as the late King continued among us we continued to pray for him and the whole Militia were at his command had he thought fit to intrust them We followed the advice of Moses even when we had a Howling Wilderness on the one side and a Red-Sea on the other to stand still i. e. to keep our stations and duties waiting for God's salvation who in due time sent us a Joshua with whom were the Priests of the Lord and the Ark of the Covenant to whom the swelling streams of Jordan gave way and opened a passage and gave us an entrance to our Canaan not only by dry Land but without shedding of Bloud a Blessing greater than that vouchsafed to Israel And should we like Sampson lye still in a dead sleep and not shake off those bonds while we are able by which the Philistines would have bound us and sported themselves in our destruction When St. Peter was imprisoned by Herod Acts 12.7 God sent an Angel at the Prayers of the Church which were made incessantly for him at whose presence his Chains fell off and the first second and third Gates of the Prison were opened and the Angol bid him arise quickly and gird himself and follow him which if St. Peter had not done he had certainly been wanting to his own preservation The same Apology which David made for himself may serve for the oppressed but peaceable Subjects of England 1 Sam. 24.11.12 Moreover my father see the skirt of thy garment in my hand for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe and killed thee not know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hands and I have not sinned against thee yet thou himself my soul to take it The Lord judge between me and thee and the Lord avenge me of thee but my hand shall not be upon thee And vers 17. Saul said to David Thou art more righteous than I. As for Tacitus though he were a Heathen yet

it was in his power and was perswaded by his Men to have taken it away to whom he thus answers 1 Sam. 26.10 The Lord shall smite him or his day shall come to die or he shall descend into battle and perish i.e. he will assault me and may perish in that attempt which he wilfully attempting may be slain and then I shall be innocent but if I should slay him in cold Bloud and with an intention to destroy him I should be guilty nor was David affrighted from joyning himself with the King of Achish in a Battle against Saul in which Battle Saul perished which was more than his self-defence that so Saul's Army might be weakned or diverted from the pursuit of him Whence it follows that although we hold the King's Person be inviolable yet if he shall unjustly expose himself in a War to destroy his Subjects they may justly raise an Army to defend themselves and though the King should casually perish they are innocent The Blessing pronounc'd by Amasas on David shews Gods approbation of his intended Defence 1 Chron. 12 18. It follows also that a Prince in such a case as David was may joyn himself with the Enemies of his oppressing Soveraign which doubtless will hold in the case of our present King's uniting himself with the confederate Protestant Princes in Defence of their Religion Laws and Liberties which are in danger Albericus Gentilis Professor of Civil Law in Oxford under Queen Eliz. distinguisheth of a threefold lawful Defence 1. Necessary 2. Profitable 3. Honest and says He is necessitated against whom an Enemy comes Armed or prepares Arms on which the War against Methridates was accounted just because of his preparations which their Adversaries accounted a more real Declaration of War than any words Pia arma quibus nulla nisae in armis relinquitur spes He who would keep himself out of Danger must meet and prevent it which is a point of greater Wisdom and Courage than to expect it and revenge it it is also more safe and easie to prevent a future than to redress a present Evil. Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur Hostis We presently slay a Serpent at sight not staying till he hurt us and suffer not noxious Weeds or Thorns to grow up but grub them up by the roots while they are young if we expect the first stroke it may kill or disable us Venjenti occurrite morbo is good advice to a body politick as well as natural If our Adversary have declared his will and is preparing a power to hurt us we may not carry to receive the first blow but anticipate the evil as Gladiators are wont to do Yea it hath been always practised to put a stop to the ambition of great Monarchs who have unjustly invaded one Man's Dominions lest he should attempt the like upon others and hence the Princes of Christendom have been careful to preserve an equal balance between growing Empires Posse nocere sat est quodque potest alios perdere perde prior We may as justly remove impendent evils as those that are actually befallen us The whole World is but one great City and tho some part of Mankind is nearer than others yet our Charity should extend to all Si non homini tamen humanitati Thus Baldus and both Civilians and Canonists determine That it is a fault to omit the defence of another but of ourselves a treachery Siracides Eccl. 4. Free him to whom injury is done out of the hand of the Injurious Constantine says We ought to account of the injuries done to others as our own And if this be the duty of private men much more of Princes and if in the other cases much more in the case of Religion Thus Justine answered the Persians That he ought to defend the Christians whom they would compel to forsake their Religion Thus Constantine helped the Christians that were oppressed by Maxentius and Q. Elizabeth assisted the Hollanders against the Spaniards who sought not only to destroy the Protestant Religion there but having broken down that Pale of Europe as Lipsius called it they should have extended their Tyranny farther Dr. Ferne pleading the Cause of King Charles the First grants That Personal Defence against the sudden Assaults of the King's Messengers if illegal tho' the King be present is lawful even to warding of the King's blows and to restrain his hands and rescue their innocent Brethren out of his hands as the People did Jonathan from the hands of Saul And if a King should joyn with Robbers or Pirates by Land or Sea the Subjects might lawfully defend themselves tho' the King were in their company It is well known that the Emperour the Pope and almost all the Princes in Christendom do joyn to prevent the ambitious Designs of the King of France insomuch that they will rather assist England and Holland than suffer them to fall into the hands of the French and if Popish Princes agree in this for the preservation of their Dominions from an ambitious and aspiring Monarch tho' of their own Religion much more may a Protestant Prince for the recovery of his own Right and for the preservation of the just Rights Laws Liberties and Religion of his Allies and Confederates Aeneas Sylvius If a King contemn the Laws and Subjects all to his Lust will not the States in such a case depose him and chuse another who shall swear to govern by Law as reason tells us it ought to be Aquinas speaking of deposing Tyrants says They are not guilty who do it though obliged to them by Oath for he deserves the People should not trust him who transgresseth the Duty of a King. Object The people of Israel might as well judge David to have abdicated his Kingdom as the people of England King James for great complaints were made against David by Absolom concerning the Male-administration of Government and his Adultery and Murther are in the Sacred Record besides upon the approach of Absolom's Army he fled out of the Land. 2 Sam. 19.9 Ans As to David's personal miscarriages they were done in secret scarce two or three made privy to those designs whence that expression in Ps 51. Against thee only have I sinned intimating that it was not known to his people So Nathan told him 2 Sam. 12.12 Thou didst it secretly but I will do this before all Israel And Uriah being dead and his Wife consenting there was none against whom David had sinned as some do Comment but these personal sins did not make him obnoxious to the censures of his people As for the Administration of the Kingdom it was a forged Accusation of Absolom to steal the hearts of the people from his Father for the Holy Ghost beareth witness to the contrary Ps 78. ult He fed them according to the integrity of his heart and ruled them prudently with all his power And Absolom's Conspiracy was secret and a sudden surprize the men that followed him went