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hand_n	david_n	lord_n	saul_n	9,635	5	10.3237	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42273	The grumbletonian crew reprehended being reflections upon the ungrateful and unmannerly behaviour of that new-upstart sect: occasioned by the scrupling to take the new oath of allegiance. Together with some good advice, to such of them, as are yet capable of it; and not too far advanced towards Bedlam. By Sir P. Philopolites. With allowance.	Philopolites, P., Sir.	1689 (1689)	Wing G2164; ESTC R223697	5,726	13

been under terrible Apprehensions a long while of being destroyed by the desperate Steerage of that Pilot who was intrusted with the Government which when he had Stranded and run a Ground Abdicated and then forsook the same as a Wreck in the Sea. Upon this there are other Pilots that are desir'd to use their Skill and Gare in weighing and poising up again this sameforsaken and sinking Vessel Truly I am satisfy'd as to my own Particular in such a Case as this our Obligation to the first Pilot ceases of course and we may enter into a new Agreement and Obligation to the latter without asking any Question for Conscience Sake Allegiance being Naturally due to those that can and do protect us and not to him that is out of that Capacity to say nothing which may sound more harsh We as private Persons had no Hand either one way or other in setting up of the present Power upon the Declension of the former but we find it set up to our Hands And being set up in such a Solemn manner as at present we see it is I think according to the said Apostle's Rule we ought to be subject to it for the aforesaid Reasons given in the Text and not by a Desperate and Disloyal refusal render our selves Obnoxious to the Government we live so happily under And upon this Ground as the same Apostle farther enlargeth I think we must needs be subject not only for Wrath but even also for Conscience Sake And to be a little farther serious in this Matter do but consider still the desperate Condition we were lately in this cannot be denyed I trow and also the late seeming impossibility of our Deliverance so that we were ready to conclude with David in his Case that he should certainly one Day perish by the Hand of Saul I say do but consider this Seriously in all its Circumstances too many to be enumerated and we must conclude this late Revolution in England to be more immediately the Lord's doing than perhaps is to be parallel'd in any History since the writing of the Holy Scriptures And tho' we be bound in Matters of Government to Persons and Families so long as their Supremacy continues yet God the great Proprietor and Lord of all is not so but pulls down one in Cases of Male-Administration and then sets up another Disposing of all the Kingdoms of the World as he pleases And when this is done still I say all Persons in a private Capacity especially ought to submit without hesitation or doubt And truly all others be they who they will ought well to consider how they slight such apparent Providences of God as have appear'd in this mighty Salvation that he has rais'd up for us least whilst they seem to struggle with Men they fight against God. But I 'le trouble the Reader with no further Arguments upon this Topic but shall say something in Reference to the Laws of our Land which so far as they intrench not upon the Law of God are the Measures of our Obedience and this I hope will tend somewhat farther to every ones Satisfaction in this Matter We have now a King and Queen de facto and de jure too I do not in the least doubt and at present supposing it only de facto if then by the Law of the Land as my Lord Coke says Treason may be Committed against a King that is only so de facto then sure Allegiance is due of course to such a King for where no Allegiance is due no Treason can be Committed And if so it will consequently follow that no reasonable or legal Exception can be made against taking the New Oath of Allegiance to our present and truly Gracious King and Queen whom God long preserve with Life and Happiness in that Dignity to which by his own Right Hand and Holy Arm he hath advanced them And let it ever bear part in our Magnificate that he hath put down the Mighty from their Seat and hath exalted the Humble and Meek And let the Church of England now confess and say that his Mercy endureth for ever And that the time is now come about indeed that she hath a King for her Nursing Father and a Queen for her Nursing Mother And not only Titular but true Defenders of the Faith. I know we have at this time some who say they are Friends to the Church of England and I hope in the main are really so who yet by their Imprudent and Undutiful Behaviour towards the Government take the ready way to bring her out of Credit with it But let them as well as Dissenters from the Church beware least they have not false Brethren amongst them who manage another Interest than what they intend Tuta fruquesque via est per amici fallere nomen It is not so long since but that we may very well remember what Drudgery we have been put upon under the Notion of Service both to Church and State by a Generation of Vipers that intended to have eaten through the Bowels of both and now have no hopes left them of retriving their lost Cause but our Divisions Consider what advantage they have taken of it ever since the Reformation of the Church of England from that of Rome And when we have considered it let us behave our selves as those who believe it so that our Demeanour and Condescention one towards another in this happy Juncture may utterly for ever frustrate the languishing Hopes of the common Enemy to us all Let us not rip up one anothers failings there have been too many on all sides but let our Love to one another cover that multitude of Faults which otherwise may go very near to shame us all For the Truth is some of us have been such overgrown Tories as if there had gone but a pair of Shears between them and the worst of Papists And others hot Enthusiastical Whigs as bad as either of the former And tho these Devil's Brats in the time of our late Heats and Animosities have been often laid at honest Men's Doors who had no reason to own them yet that there have been and yet are some such amongst us is but too true and evident And tho these possibly may not lay their Heads together in order to the Management of their ill Designs yet like Sampson's Foxes they all carry Fire-brands in their Tails and by their running several ways do more mischief perhaps than if they kept together And now I must needs say I know none but the poor Trimmer that can plead not Guilty to this Indictment tho he has been represented as one of the worst of Sinners and snarl'd at on every side whilst he has been Industriously endeavouring the good of all But further I must also say he was not for all that easily beaten from his Post but thought it better to be always a Trimmer than sometimes a Fanatic otherwhile a Tory and at last a Papist as many others have been according as their Interests serv'd them But to say no more of him at present let it now suffice that tho he could never reconcile himself to that blundering sort of pretended Loyalty lately in Fashion yet that he is now acceptable in the true Notions of it to our present King and Queen meerly for his Principles sake of moderation towards all Men is very evident And in that alone he can acquiesce and be content without Place or Preferment the main Stake being secur'd And thus far my just Indignation against the Murmurers of our Times has carried me which is farther than I at first intended But however give me leave now to enlarge a little farther and mildly to recommend to their consideration over again the more than ordinary Footsteps of Divine Providence so plainly seen in God's late Merciful Dispensations towards us and which have been so well set forth and expressed in some late Printed Sermons of the most Eminent Divines of the Church of England to which I refer them And in particular let that twice Auspicious 5th day of November and of the Years of 88 not pass by us without a due regard of something very remarkable in them upon that account Upon the Ist 5th of November we were delivered with our King and on the last 5th of November we may well say we were delivered from him In the first 88 from ill Designs against us abroad And in this last 88 from worse at home And now to conclude let us all as one Man Purge out that sour Leaven that yet remains with many of us and not abuse that mild and gentle Government which now God has set over us least he should in just Judgment take away the Golden Scepter and reduce us again under the Iron Rod for then the most that we can suffer will be the least that we deserve We now may all do well exceeding well if it be not our own faults But if Jealousies of no Man knows what and strange Fancies and Chimaera's be set up like Men of Straw to fight with to the disturbance in any manner of that sweet Peace which otherwise we might all enjoy then let the ill Effects thereof I pray God lye at their Doors only that causes it and let them be filled with the Fruit of their own doings FINIS