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The advocate of conscience liberty, or, An apology for toleration rightly stated shewing the obligatory injunctions and precepts for Christian peace and charity.
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Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688.
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1673
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Wing W627; ESTC R17873
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Church of England guilty of Fanatick Principles because Taylor one of their renowned Doctors and Bishops writes for liberty of Prophecying And of Murder and Theft c. because some of them are condemned every Sessions Whence an English Divine ingenuously speaketh We cast an aspersion on a sort of people whose tried loyalty in all vicissitudes of dangerous troubles as it should have altered your judgments so their grievous sufferings for loyalty should from the Charity of our Profession have found rather pity for their afflictions than aspersion on their innonence So good deserving an opinion they know Papists deserve from these times that no security needs to tye them deeper Nor can there be any apprehension of the least danger from them to his Majesties Person or State for in point of fidelity they have given unquestionable proofs by their actions as their enemies witness Needham in his Book Interest will not lye saith ' Papists adhered generally 'to the King Oliver pressed by Cardinal Mazarine for liberty to Papists said they were his greatest enemies lib. Of Treaty at St. John de Luze They can say two things no profession else can viz. that no person of Honour or Estate among them was ever against the King and on the contrary hardly any one so qualified but did assist him Who can therefore look on those men as to have any honesty wisdom or charity who are ever grudging and repining at the least favour indulged to a faithful loyal and sociable people and can never rest satisfied with their own unlimited immunities unless they see others contemned afflicted and abused When by all the Apostolick Rules of Christianity we should help and compassionate and not make it our business to supplant one another Before I answer the vulgar objections and undeserved clamours so confidently though without any legal examination and process according to justice and judgment laid upon them and so frequently though disingenuously urged against them I will shew more largely what they teach concerning loyalty and fidelity to their King and Country 1. It is an undoubted verity generally taught in all their Councils Canons Synods Divines Civilians c. that our duty to God cannot be complied with without an exact performance of our duty towards our Soveraign to obey him not for advantage private interest or temporal concerns but of Conscience Nay what other Sectaries have bogled at if the King should be a Heathen and make Laws contrary to the Gospel we ought not to resist but patiently endure No Roman Catholick can be true to his Religion who is not true to his Prince and Country Saint Peter and Saint Paul did vehemently press obedience to the Emperours in Nero and Claudius times who were Idolaters No Divinity can be warranted from Scripture against evil Princes but Prayers and Tears Whatsoever they command which is not contrary to the great Charter of the word of God I am bound in Conscience to obey If they command any thing repugnant evidently to Gods revealed Will I must obey them still though not actively in doing what they command yet passively in submitting to those penalties they shall inflict He that proclaimed the Prerogative of Kings vos estis Dii taught the World People are to obey Xephlon in vita Mar. Anton. tells us Solus Deus est Index Principum God alone is the Judg of Kings I know no sin against the second Table set forth in more bloody colours by Catholick Authors than this of disobe dience to Governours they saying it is compounded of Homicide Parricide Christicide and Deicide They compare it to Witchcraft where the partie intends and covenants with the Devil himself God commanded the Amalekite who had a hand in Sauls death to be slain before his eyes Sheba blowing a Trumpet against David is stiled a Son of Belial What made Jeroboâ—m so infamous in Scripture but because he lifted up his hand against the King 1 King 11. 26. an irreverent or wry word against the King is in Scripture called Blasphemy Proverb 27. thou shalt not blaspheme the Gods And Naboth was accused in that he did blaspheme God and the King Curse not the King no not in thy thoughts for a bird in the air shall carry the voice is it fit to say to the King thou art wicked and to Princes ye are ungodly Job 34. 18. It hath been observed God hath signally punished those wrongs have been done to his Vicegerents What an unluckie time was it and accompanied with a deluge of miseries when Kings were taken away from Rome and Consuls set up We read in our Annals after Richard the Second was deposed followed a War wherein a hundred thousand were slain besides what of late in our memorie What more hurtful and hateful Creature than the Locusts Yâ—â— they are observed only to have no King if we obey not the King who is a visible God how shall we obey God who is an invisible King Since the lines of our peace and happiness do meet and center in him as in our common Father Who can think that any natives of a Land professing themselves followers of Christ who in the days of his humiliation was obedient to Caesar that he wrought a miracle to give him his due and expecting a protection from a lawful Prince should once demur to swear and yield Obedience Mens ears are open saith a learned Divine to receive any tragical complaints concerning their Governours Sheba's Trumpet is pleasant Musick to that great Beast the common people they hearken with both ears to Detractions and Calumnies against Governours that they are tyrannical Bishops are Antichristian Popery is coming in apace the Gospel is adulterated Justice obstructed Profaneness countenanced What Hurricanes will these men raise I even tremble any should profane the Pulpit poison the Air or which is worse the very hearts of men with such seditious and devilish Doctrines Who can chuse but renounce that way of Discipline which startles at renouncing War with the King For my part as Lactantius said to Constantine the same say I of our Soveraigns Restauration Ille dies foelicissimus illuxit c. Whose Person if we be not worse than Heathens we ought to love and honour and whose prosperity we ought to pray for His unquestionable Title and most noble and high Descent and Birthright cannot but strike a reverential aw upon us for it may lineally and successively be derived from the British Scottish Danish Saxon and Norman Princes above two thousand years which is more antient and truly noble than any Prince in the World caâ— shew A Prince whose great Judgment Gentility Educarion candid Nature Meekness Generosity Benignity and justness in Dealing all the world cannot but know and may imitate And his very enemies if he can contract any must if not injudiciously passionate or deserve in some measure to be ranged in the Categories of fools and mad men acknowledg But we our selves his Subjects are more pathetically sensible of the