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A80756	The royal prerogative vindicated in the converted recusant convinced by Scripture, reasons, fathers, and councils, that the oath of abjuration (compared with those of allegiance, and supremacy) containeth nothing, but what may be lawfully taken by every pious Christian, and loyal subject; and that the known doctrine, and discipline of the Church of England, in opposition to Popery on the one hand, and all sects, and schisms on the other, is the safest way to peace and loyalty here, and salvation hereafter. To which is annexed The King's supremacy in all causes, ecclesiastical, and civil, asserted in a sermon preached at the assises at Monmouth before Sir Robert Hide, one of his Majestie's judges, March 30. 1661. / By John Cragge, M.A.	Cragge, John, M.A.	1661 (1661)	Wing C6790; Wing C6786; Thomason E2261_1; Thomason E2261_2; ESTC R210148	173,676	266

noxa injustitiae perjurii absolvatur Sigebert Anno 1088. teach the people that they ow no subjection to wicked Princes and that although they have taken the Oath of Fealty yet do they ow them no Allegiance neither are they perjured that think ill against their Supreme Majesty yea he that obeyeth the King or Supreme Magistrate is reputed an excommunicate person and he that taketh part against him is absolved from the crime of injustice and perjury From this Diabolical Principle it was that Pope Boniface the Third absolved Phocas from his fealty to the Emperour Mauritius Pope Zachary assoiled Pipine and other Frenchmen of their Oath of Allegiance and fidelity made to Childerick King of France (c) Caesar â Summo Pontifice non est excommunicatus solum sed reliquis potentioribus Principibus mandatum est ut Imperaterem alium designarent Carion Chron. lib. 3. pag. 202 Pope Hildebrand or Gregory the Seventh dispensed with Rodolph Duke of Suecia for his Oath he had taken to the Emperour Henry the Fourth his liege Lord. Histories are as full of such examples as the Deserts of Arabia of Quick-sands or dangerous wilde Beasts Gent. There are very few Catholicks but are convinced that Bishops of Rome have transgressed in the frequency of their Absolutions and misapplication of their Pardons and Dispensations yet this prejudices not the Papal power to grant Absolutions and Dispensations when there is just cause Minist There can be no just cause for absolving Subjects of their Oath and ty of fealty to their Sovereign for the reason formerly assigned that I engaged to insist upon in this last Article which was (d) Vinculum illud officii quo majestatis suae subditi ad ipsum teneantur perpetuum esse solvique sine piaculo non posse Andreros The Bond and Obligation whereby people are obliged in duty to their chief Magistrate is perpetual indissoluble and may not lawfully be broken In so much as it is grounded upon the fifth Commandment and so the Law of Nature which even your own Angelical Doctour acknowledgeth to be out of the reach of Papal absolution or dispensation as being (e) Naturale jus ab exordio rationalis creaturae nec variatur tempore sed immutabile permanet Aquinas 1. 2. Quaest 94. Art 5. immutable from the very beginning of the rational Creature and that moral Commandments are such as they are altogether (f) Praecepta Decalogi sunt omnino indispensabilia Aquin. 1. 2. q. 100. Art 8. in Decreto Dist 5. indispensable by any power Gent. What if Supreme Magistrates be Tyrants Infidels Hereticks Apostates or Renegadoes from the truth may not the Pope absolve their Subjects from former Oaths and Engagements To what end serve those Arrows of Dispensation Excommunication the Seal of Confession if they may not be levelled at such Marks Minist Even Tyrants Infidels Hereticks Apostates are so harnessed with the Panoplie of the Law of Nature and the Moral Law that they are impenetrable by these pretended Papal Darts maugre the Romish Conclave which I shall demonstrate in order First Tyrants are shot-free as appeareth by Saul who injuriously hunted David's Soul sought his life 1 Sam. xxiv 12. 1 Sam. xxii 23. who was faithful amongst all his Servants 1 Sam. xxii 14. recompensed him good for evil 1 Sam. xxiv 18. who commanded Doeg to fall upon the Priests of the Lord and slew fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen Ephod and smote Nob the City of the Priests with the Edg of the Sword both men and women children and sucklings 1 Sam. xxii 18 19. with a conflux of many other crimes which importuned the Lord to revenge yet David though no private man but designed to a Kingdom and General of the King's Army durst presume of no dispensation from the High Priest to disingage himself to Saul when he had him at an advantage but out of tender touch of conscience cryed out when his Servants pressed him to lay violent hands upon him The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my Master the Lord 's Anointed to stretch forth mine hand against him seeing he is the Anointed of the LORD Which signal Loyalty presidential to all Posterity Optatus elegantly describeth saying (g) Occasionem victoriae David habet at in manibus incautum securum adversarium sine labore poterat jugulare sine sanguine constictu multorum poterat bellum mutare in caedem pucri ejus occasio sua debant ad victoriam opportunitas hortabatur stringere jam caeperat ferrum tre jam caeperat armata manus hostium in jugulos sed obstabat plena divinorum memoria mandatorum hortantibus se puerts occasionibus contradicit tanquam hoc diceret Sine causa mr Victorit provocas frustrà me in triumphū invitas vole●am host●● vincere sed prius ost divina praecepta serva re non inquit mutam manum in Vnctum Domini repressit cum gladio manum dum timuit o'cum servabat inimi●um Optatus lib. 2. Adversits Parmenianum David had the opportunity of victory in his hands he might have slain his unwary and secure Adversary without labour have changed War into Slaughter without Blood and Skirmish of many both his Servants and the occasion perswaded the opportunity encouraged to Victory now he began to draw his Sword now his armed Troops began to make at the Enemies throats but the perfect Remembrance of God's Countermand did hinder he checks his Servants and occasions that egged him on as if with this Soliloquie O Victory thou causelesly provokest me th●● invitest me to triumph in vain I am willing to conquer mine Enemie but more willing to observe the precepts of the Deity I will not saith he lay mine hand upon the Lord 's Anointed He plucked back his hand with his Sword and while he feared the Oil he preserved his Enemy Gent. David and Saul lived under the Law it may be pretended that the Bishop of Rome the Evangelical High-Priest hath more superlative Power then the Legal High Priest had Minist A pretense indeed but groundless for the Apostle Saint Paul bids every Soul be subject 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the higher Powers which was then the Tyrannical Emperour Nero and his Commissioners Tertullian adviseth to submit to the Emperour Severus who was the (h) Severus quintâ post Neronem severissima Persecutione Ecclesiam excruciavit Anno Christi 205. Orosius Baronius fifth Persecutour of Christians after Nero for having declared that (i) Malè velle malè facere malè dicere malè cegitare de quoqudin ex aequo vetdri quod in neminem licet cò forsitan magis nec in ipsum qui per. Deum tantus est licere hoc est Imperatorem Tertul Apol. 1. cap. 36. we are interdicted by the word to do evil speak evil think evil of any he gathers that we are much more interdicted to act any of these things