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Marriage by the morall law of God vindicated against all ceremonial laws of popes and bishops destructive to filiation aliment and succession and the government of familyes and kingdoms
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Lawrence, William, 1613 or 14-1681 or 2.
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on the same Some make Nothi and Flii naturales all one as Nov. 99. de Nothis makes Nothus the natural Son and illegitimate as Insulanus Naturalis Filius à vulgo barbarorum dicitur qui sit ex illegitimo toro suscitatus sed parum aptè est enim Filius naturalis qui sanguine natura est tuus non adoptione factus A natural Son is he who is by Blood and Nature thine and not made so by Adoption Cato says there is no such word in Latine as Nothus nor any of the like signification but that which comes nearest it is Spurius and Plutarch says it was a name amongst the Romans as Sextus and Decimus and Caius were and as other names were was written short with two of the first Letters S P. but whether it was a name of honour or dishonour is not known as appears by Hartm Pistor lib. 1. q. juris q. 30. only it is said of them that they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fatherless which is less suspicious of dishonour then before for they called their god Vulcan 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fatherless and their god Mars was brought out by Juno without a Father as they would have us beleive and the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or fatherless did signifie only an Orphan whom misfortune had deprived of his Father And it was therefore true what Cato before said Romans had no such word or thing as Nothus That the Latines had no word amongst them which agreed in signification with Nothus in Greek and having no such word they must have no such thing for if they had had such a thing they would questionless have had a word to express it So as Anti-Christian Christian Rome against the fatherless is worse then Pagan Rome and neither Papal nor Episcopal Religion is pure but unclean for it is declared Jam. 1.27 Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this to visit the fatherless but it seems they think they have a better Scripture of Coke and Littleton of non habet ipsum patrem to defend them as if it were a sufficient cause to rob a Child of what is dearer then his life his good name and lay Ignominy on him because he is fatherless but let them remember though the fatherless hath no Reverend Father in God to own him he hath a greater even God himself for so he is called Psal 68.5 Father of the fatherless and though he is forsaken as David by his natural Father and Mother yet may he say as he saith Psal 27.10 When my Father and Mother forsake me then the Lord will take me up And as there was no Nothus amongst the Pagan Romans so there was no illegitimation amongst them or the Greeks but all natural Children were legitimate and Probation of Filiation was a Probation of Legitimation Legitimation or Illegitimation of a natural Child impossible for there was no such word or thing as Legitimation or making Children legitimate who were not born so it being impossible to make a Child or a Son of such a man who was not born so or to make any not to be the Child or Son of such a man if he were born so till the Bishops made Marriage a Sacrament and made infatuated People beleive such absurdities as were impossible to be beleived of any but à mente captis as of transubstantiation of two Persons into one Person of transubstantiation of the Children of the Wife into Children of the Husband of making the Child of the man not to be his Child nor of his Blood nor of his Sib or Kin and making the Child born of the Mother not to be her Child nor she of kin to it and the like unheard of Fopperies in former Ages and accordingly Connan lib. 2. cap. 16. num 5. saith That amongst the ancient Lawyers there is no such word to be found as Legitimation and if not of Legitimation there could be none of Illegitimation or Bastardy To translate therefore the word Nothus into a word of so many ambiguous significations as are so many Authors variant and contradictory on the same and into a word which was not nor the thing it is made signifie in Rerum natura at the time of writing Nothus is a false and a foul translation Fourthly A word in Scripture which is modest ought not to be translated into a word of Scurrility but Nothus or a Counterfeit is a word modest it is therefore filthily and falsely translated into inhonestum infame vocabulum which they would derive a Sporo Pudendo Muliebri Fifthly The word Nothus doth not revile the innocent Child with the Crime of the Malefactor but Coke though it be said 1 Cor. 6.10 No Revilers shall inherit the Kingdom of God reviles God's Eldest Daughter Nature to be a Whore and her Children to be Bastards for he saith Aerd signifies Nature and Base signifies Base and a Bastard is a Base-natural or one born of base Nature if therefore he makes the Child a Bastard he must make the Mother a Whore and by making her Children Base he makes none Noble but the Children of the Whore of Babylon of whom she is deliver'd by the Man-Midwifry of a Priest in a Temple There being therefore no such word in the whole Original Scripture Old Testament or New which signifies a Bastard or illegitimate Child nor any such thing amongst the Hebrews or Barbarous Nations themselves as illegitimation of natural Children nor in Rerum Natura amongst the wild Beasts Monsters and Serpents as illigitimation of their Young till that more and monstrous old Serpent and Romish Dragon appear'd described Rev. 12.3 Having Seven Heads and Ten Horns and Seven Crowns upon his Heads And his Tail drew the third part of the Stars of Heaven and did cast them to the Earth and the Dragon stood before the Woman which was ready to be delivered for to devour his Child as soon as it was born And Verse 16. And the Earth helped the Woman and the Earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the Flood which the Dragon cast out of his mouth And the Dragon was wroth with the Woman and went to make War with the remnant of her seed which keep the Commandments of God and have the Testimony of Jesus Christ Now though none here undertake to unfold Mysteries or expound Prophecies yet it will be a more proper Exposition then the Episcopal translation of Mamzer and Nothus and their Expositions on the same If any should say allusively though not prophetically and expound Prelacy to be the Dragon with many Heads and Horns Woman-kind to be the Woman the multitude of Provincial and Ecclesiastical Laws of Marriage to be the Flood of Waters cast out of the Dragons mouth against the Woman the illegitimation of all Children not born of a Marriage made by a Priest in a Temple to be the standing of the Dragon before the Woman ready to be deliver'd for to
Bells Transform'd to Ring to Weddings and to Knells To an Aceldama their Church turn'd next And the dead Bones for Burial-Fees they vext Their restless rest thus purchased in vain They then for Reliques dig'd them up again And sell their Merits though of Tyburn-Saints And Heaven to all whose Purse or Faith not faints Oh Joseph of Arimathea nam'd And on the British-Shores for ever fam'd Whose Ship of Olive-planks from Palestine Of Tidings glad the Pacquet brought Divine The Sea Nymphs danc'd each with a Triton Mate For joy thou mad'st their Isles the Fortunate Oh tell us had thy Vessels such broad sides Of Canon as that which in Tybur rides Whose roaring Thunder beats and buries Towns Cities and Churches Kingdoms and their Crowns And sinks them how or whither none can tell To Time-set Limbo's or Eternal Hell Or from thy Bark being then the Western-Church Thy Passengers to leave so in the lurch Did'st thou cast overboard and in the Dark Leave them there to be snapt by the old Shark That thou their Cargo rifle might'st the while And Gold and Silver like a Pyrat vile Tell us did Christ the great or lesser Curse Teach who were bad before to make them worse Or Bless or Curse not did he who did say Intend and mean the clean contrary way Who left his Peace did he bid to annoy Who came the World to save would he destroy From Satan who so oft deliver'd men Them back again did he cast to his Den He in this World who Kingdom would have none Did he bid Priests Depose Kings from the Throne Deliverance to Captives who did Preach Priests them to starve in Prison did he Teach When Peter warm'd did for his Master mourn All whom he Master'd did he bid him burn No Joseph no this was not the good Seed Thou brought'st and Sow'd'st whereon the Flocks might feed The Evil One those Fiery tasted Tares Sowed and them intangled with Snares None but the Devil from th' Infernal Pit Doth Curse and Ban and Fire and Brimstone Spit Great Hus and Jerom now for ever blest Oh two true Witnesses Slain by the Beast Whose Treachery safe Conduct gave to both But basely perjur'd broke it and his Oath You who made tremble the Infernal States And dared Attacque black Dis at his own Gates What was your Doctrine which so terrified The pompous Popedom in its highest Pride You held and that made them so highly hate That Bishops could not Excommunicate This did you both from thence to Heaven raise And sent you thither Crown'd with Fiery Bays And Sparks of you to Stellifie this sent With Protestants the British Firmament Brave Hero's now the horned Miter pull From Phalaris of Rome his Brazen Bull Hear your dead Martyrs how they do you press And cry from all his Fiery Furnaces Dismount his Canons from the Battlements Of his Church-Catholick which get his Rents Take from the Building but the Thunder-stone Oh then for ever down falls Babylon An Epode on Protestants Excommunicated by Papists What though with Bans and Curses They Rob and Kill and take our Purses In highest Faith come on And know there hath or shall be none Happy decreed by Fate But who first was or is unfortunate Arm Arm against the Devil He 'l flie and all his Spirits Evil. And Beast with Seven Heads At this time was a great noise in the Countries of Armies seen rising out of the ground and others in the Air. If on your Land or Sea he treads To fight him never spare Soldiers and Poor each one then take your share What though whole Armies rising From Earth are fearful hearts Surprising And Daemons of the Air Fighting in Clouds tempt to Despair What though they come from Hell There 's no Enchantment against Israel Hark how our Canons Thunder And keep the Romish Canons under Their Organs grunt and whine Our Flutes and Haubois are Divine And Cornets to the Skie Sound for Religion and for Liberty Angels to hear grow prouder Than their 's our holy Musick louder And valiant Souls shall bear From Death to Musick 's highest Sphere Who burn would not like a Brand That thus renown'd may die with Sword is hand Whether an Union can be of Protestant-Parliaments and Churches without a true Test between Papist and Protestant Test between Papist and Protestant Neither Protestant-Parliaments or Churches can be Known without a true Test much less therefore can they be United Whether Recusancy to pray in a Temple or in the Form of Common-Prayer is a true Test between Papist and Protestant A true Test ought to Provide and see that there be none in it of the Servants of the Lord but the Worshippers of Baal only 2 Kings 10.23 But in this of Recusancy to pray in a Temple are all the true Worshippers of God in Spirit and Truth if we may believe Christs Precept and Designation of them at large before Debated p. 210. c. in Reference to the Omnipresential Worship of God Christ in thy Closet bids thee Pray Thine is there both the Church and Key What though no Bishop walk'd it round Gods being there makes holy Ground The mischiefs of Compelling Protestants to a Form of Common-Prayer appear too much in being the occasion of the first breaking out of the late miserable Civil Wars and the Irreparable loss of his then Majesty the mischiefs of Compelling Papists to Protestant-Churches appear in this That one Church-Papist is more Dangerous than an Hundred open Absenters and they who truly understand the Danger of Mixing would rather think it prudent like the Primitive Christians to have a Non-Communion with Idolaters and their Ostiarii as they had to see none crept into the Places of their Convention for Prayer than compell such Bloody Spies incensed by Penal Laws thither to betray them Whether Recusancy to receive the Sacrament in a Temple or in the Common-Form is a true Test This likewise is before Discuss'd p. 212. and Examples of the frequent Poisoning the Sacrament by the Priest p. 240 241. To compell therefore any Eminent Protestants to Receive the Sacrament of such Persons of whom they cannot be assured were to be Accessary to their Murder Whether Subscription to the 39. Articles is a true Test 'T is shewn before That no true Test ought to endanger the Conscience of any Protestant but 't is notorious that the greatest part of Protestants are Dissentients in Conscience to divers Doctrines of the 39. Articles and therefore Subscription to the same is no true Test nor ought to be Imposed on them 1. Because these 39. Articles were made by the Bishops Anno 1562. in the Fourth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth while the Papist Peers were yet in Parliament and in Power who with the Bishops in their Front were too hard for her and of whom she might then say Res durae Regni Novitas me talia cogunt She was not able to perfect Reformation at one Stroke 2. Because