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A63550	The True loyalist wherein is discovered, First, the falsehood and deceipt of the solemn league and covenant, Secondly, that there is no salvation out of Christ, Thirdly, that the pope is the Anti-Christ, the man of sin, or the son of perdition, cum multis alias, &c. / by a true loyalist.	True loyalist.	1683 (1683)	Wing T2756; ESTC R31985	66,689	159

himself and his own Laws How great the judgment of these blasphemers and Rebels against the Lord and the King shall be I cannot determine because it is unspeakable St. Peter saith If the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and sinner appear i 1 Pet. 4.18 Where then say I shall these appear That fall so far short of Nominal Loyalists that in Statu quo in the condition they are in fall far short of Heaven The nominal Loyalist hath something in him that is good more than his Essence or being his profession is good if his life were answerable but the profession of these is as Diametrically opposite to Religion as their Loyalty which consisteth only in Rebellion Moreover the nominal Loyalist though he pay his Tribute and Taxes c. only out of a servile fear yet by his outward conformity and obedience he declares himself to be a member within the Pale of the Church where he hath the means which God hath ordained to make him if he be not wanting to himself a True Christian and a True Loyalist in time And not only so but he also helps to preserve the publick peace and safety of the Nation whereby he peaceably enjoys many temporal blessings or at least keeps himself secure from temporal punishments as Ahab averted the temporal wrath of God by outwardly humbling himself k 1 Kings 21.29 But these Rebellious wretches are good for nothing they are no better than the very Heathens and Publicans l Mat 18.17 they are good neither for their Souls nor for their bodies they are Sots as well as sinners not only spiritual fools but natural and inconsiderate fools in the deepest Grain they not only excommunicate themselves from the ordinary means of True Loyalty and salvation and break peace and unity both in Church and State by their divisions but they also disturbe even their own quiet in this life by bringing punishments upon themselves by and for their Rebellion And how much are those Publicans and Tax-gatherers to blame too that make no more Conscience to empty the Kings Exchequer that they may fill their own Coffers or some ways or other build up themselves out of the ruins of the Kings Tribute than these Holy-cheats do to pay it Touch not mine Anointed m 1 Chron 16.22 is a prohibition to hurt the King not only in his Body but in his Estate too It is theft to steal the goods of any but to cheat and rob the King of his Tribute c. is a sin no less than Sacriledge For Tribute c. belongs to the King not as he is a person Civil but Sacred Anointed with Holy Oyl to be Gods Minister and Vicegerent n Rom. 13.4 5 6. And therefore to rob Gods Clergy of Tythes c. is also the cursed sin of Sacriledge because the High Priest the Representative of them all Rom. 11.16 was also Gods Anointed Anointed with Holy Oyl to his Sacred Function as well as the King Zech. 4.14 These are the two anointed ones or Sons of Oyl which stand by the Lord of the whole Earth This Targum expounds of Joshua and Zorobabel who were anointed the one for the Princely Government the other for the Priest-hood with the self-same Oyl o Numb 35.25 and accordingly God himself with relation to the days of Christ doth call this sort of theft Sacriledge Will a man rob God saith he yet he have robbed me but yet ye say wherein have we robbed thee 't is answered in Tythes and offerings Ye are cursed with a curse that is surely and greatly cursed for ye have robbed me even this whole Nation Mal. 3.8 9. 1 Cor. 9.14 'T is Sacriledge then the cursed and damnable sin of Sacriledge to rob God in the Ministers of his holy word and Sacraments But how much rather to rob God in the King his Minister and Vicegerent Surely if nearness of relation will make any distinction as touch not mine anointed goeth before do my Prophets no harm p 1 Chron. 16.22 it must needs be the greatest Sacriledge of all next to the robbing God in himself of his immediate Rents and dues of prayer and thanksgiving Render therefore to all their dues especially to God and Caesar Tribute to whom Tribute is due Custom to whom Custom Fear to whom Fear Honour to whom Honour Rom. 13.7 But 3. and Lastly The falsehood and deceipt of the Solemn League and Covenant discovered as the true Loyalist is obedient to his King in paying of him Tribute and Taxes c. so also in all his other Laws and Ordinances he still considers that his King is appointed by God to be his Minister and Vicegerent for the External government of his Church and therefore out of love and fear to God and obedience to his Laws in serving of whom the people have only perfect liberty q James 1.19 2.12 2 Cor. 3.17 Rom. 8.21 he most freely sweareth fealty to him to be true to him and obedient And accordingly he rejoyceth when the Oath of Allegiance is imposed upon him and the whole Nation because it is for confirmation of Loyalty and subjection that thereby there may be an end of all strife and all both in Church and State may enjoy Peace the more securely r Heb. 6.16 17 In which respect saith Solomon I counsel thee to keep the Kings Commandment and that in regard of the Oath of God Å¿ Ecclesiastes 8.2 The True Loyalist though he would obey his Kings Commandment either actively or passively without an Oath his Conscience being bound before by the Law of God yet because God wills such an Oath for confirmaon of the lawless in outward obedience with the just and Loyal t 1 Tim. 1.9 he the more willingly takes and keeps it that so there may be an end of all strife for certainly he must be a notorious Rebel indeed that will not keep his Kings commandment in regard of his Oath if he had no other obligation for an Oath if it be only in such things which are not contrary to the will of God is so Sacred and obliging a thing that it bringeth the wrath and vengeance of God upon him that breaketh it u Joshua 9.20 Numb 5.21 and therefore saith Solomon it is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy to wit who taketh an holy Oath upon him and after vows to make enquiry w Pro. 20.25 to wit whether his Oath or Vow be any ways prejudicial to his Body or Estate or not x Ps 15.4 For which cause when Joshua and the Princes of the Congregation had made a Peace with the Gibeonites upon Oath they durst not break it though it were so disadvantagious that the Israelites murmured against them and their enemies had obtained the League by guile and craft y Joshua 9. and when King Saul in a battel against the Philistines had adjured the Israelites not to

a handful as it were and some of them disloyal too against a multitude 1. Therefore O ye Prophane and ungodly Loyalists though God forbid any such sad times should come again to try your Loyalty in yet it is behoofeful that you as well as those that call themselves the Godly Party purge out all your sins by a true timely and unfeigned repentance and holy resolutions of better obedience that your Hypocrisie and deception may also vanish as well as theirs Mat. 12.41 42. Unless you mean to have the very Gentiles rise in judgment against you for being under the light of Nature better Loyalists than you under the glorious light of the Gospel For all men are obliged even by Nature it self to venture their dearest blood for the safety of their King Our Saviour himself who came to fufil the Law of Moses and perfect the Law of Nature u Mat. 5.17 hath confirmed it for a never dying Maxim If my Kingdom saith he were of this World then would my Servants fight c. John 18.36 And no marvel that it should be thus for the King as he is Gods Vicegerent and our Supreme head and Governour is as the men of Israel said of King David worth ten thousand of us w 2 Sam. 18.3 yea more than us all the very light of the Nation x 2 Sam. 21.17 This proves that the King is Major Vniversis contrary to that false Childish Fanatical and Antimonarchical distinction that he is Major Singulis Minor Vniversis Be ye then as Loyal in your resolutions as you are in your professions and as careful of your Kings preservation as Abishai and the men of Israel were of King David's y 2 Sam. 21.17 Lest for your neglect of a duty of so high a concern the greatness of your Talent bring upon you a greater Curse than that of Meroz Luke 12.48 Curse ye Meroz said the Angel of the Lord Curse ye bitterly the inhab●●●nts thereof Because they came not to the help of the Lord to the help of the Lord against the Mighty Judges 5.23 2. Though no pretence at last shall excuse any Gainsaying and Rebellious people z Rom. 10.21 but all that despise dominion and speak evil of Dignities must without discrimination perish in the Gainsaying of Core a Jud. 8. to the 22. yet be ye wary how ye offer any occasion to your weaker brethren to be Revolters from their Loyalty or obstinate in their Fanaticism by mixing your Loyalty with prophaneness lest you aggravate your Torments in Hell by making your selves guilty of their sin and punishment as well as your own You have seen in or from our late times of Rebellion what confusion and destruction our Old prophane Loyalists brought upon their King and Country by shaming so good a Cause which they owned How they filled our Land like Rama with mourning by their Cursing and Cursed Oaths b Jer. 23.10 Mat. 2.18 even bitter mourning as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon c Zech. 12.11 Mal. 3.5 Ecclesiasticus 23.11 And finally what Aegyptian Bondage and darkness they enwrapped the whole Nation in both Church and State by moving Fanaticks as was pretended with their drunkenness and debauchery to extinguish the light of England In a word therefore take ye warning in time and follow their pernicious examples no more lest you find death in your Pots indeed d 2 Kings 4.40 the death of your Souls to all eternity e 1 Cor. 6.9 10. But manifest your Allegiance by adorning your Loyalty with holy lives answerable to your professions Tit. 2.10 that thereby you may both remove all objections and colours of Rebellion from any that watch for matter of advantage and exception against you and offer them as great an occasion to imbrace True Loyalty if they will accept it as they have from all True Loyalists if they were not wilfully blind and obstinate that so the more hearts being united to the Lord and the King we may get the more strength to resist our Enemies and the more securely enjoy Peace amongst our selves both in Church and State Now 2. As the True Loyalist when he is in the place of a True Conformist honours God not only with reverence but with his substance f Prov. 3.9 Mic. 4.13 so the True Conformist when he is in the place of a True Loyalist honours his King not only with due respect and esteem but also with maintenance The same man in one respect renders unto God the things which be Gods and in the other he renders unto Caesar the things which be Caesar's g Luk. 20.25 Prayer and thanksgiving he pays to God as his immediate Rents and dues Tythes and offerings mediately in his Stewards and Ministers But Tribute or Taxes c. he renders unto his King or Caesar in a more special manner as he is Gods Minister and Vicegerent and next under him his supreme Head and Governour Therefore it is very remarkable that our blessed Saviour who pay'd Tribute himself which his pretended Vicar refuses to do to shew the great necessity of this duty Dr. Boys upon the dominical Epistles and Gospels p. 163. never did any miracle about honour or money except this one of giving Tribute unto Caesar Mat. 17.27 The consideration of this moves the True Loyalist to pay his Tribute and Taxes c. to his King freely and voluntarily out of love and fear to God and his Commandments Whereas the Nominal Loyalist though he also pays Tribute and Taxes c. to his King as well as the True yet he pays them unwillingly and by constraint out of fear of the Kings authority and the Penal Laws of the Land But the True Loyalist I say considers that his King is Gods Minister and Vicegerent appointed by him for the good of his Church both as a rewarder for the praise of them that do well and as a revenger to execute his wrath upon them that do evil And therefore as the Apostle hath taught him h Rom. 13.3 4 5 6. he pays his Tribute and Taxes c. with all subjection not only for Wrath but also for Conscience-sake By this you may perceive that though the True Loyalist and the nominal agree in this that both of them pay Tribute and Taxes c. to their King yet in the mode and ends of their paying they differ as much as a servile fear and a filial yea a Humane fear and a Divine the fear of God and the fear of man How much then are Quakers and such Godly gulls to blame who thinking they do God good service in resisting the higher Powers chuse rather to suffer imprisonment or any affliction in the World than to pay any Tribute or Taxes c. at all And glory in it too and plead Conscience for the same as if God the jealousie of whose honour burneth like fire was the Author of Rebellion against

Numb 33.55 Josh 23.13 Judg. 2.3 Finally to make us savour our peace with perpetual delight and complacency that as the peace which we now enjoy was at first ingratiated * Desiderata diù magis place●t unto us by a long desire so it may still continue in the same perfection by having such examples among us to remind us of our former bondage and tribulation Well then since we have such a perfect peace and order in all things both in Church and State that I may say with a safe conscience that our condition as far as I can possibly under stand is more happy than any Nations under the Sun let us be wise and keep our selves well while we are well if we know when we are well in the fear of the Lord and the King and no more disturb our own quiet by meddling with them that are given to change In which words we must observe this difference that it is one thing to change and another thing to be given to change the first denotes only a single act and if it proceed no farther it is most commonly a remarkable sign of a mutation from the worse to the better our Lord himself who changes not y Mal. 3.6 did thus change the Law into the Gospel legal Types and shadows into good things to come z Heb. 10.1 And with the Law he also changed the customs which Moses delivered into the customs of the Gentiles a 2. Cor. 17. Rev. 21.5 as for example he not only changed the Judaical custom of falling down to worship into ours of bowing but to shew the sublimity of the Gospel above the Law the earthliness of the one and the heavenliness of the other b Gal. 4.9 Col. 2.14 He also changed their custom of discalceation or putting off the Shooes or Sandals in token of reverence when they went to the house of God c Ec lesiastes 5.1 Exod. 3.5 Acts 7.33 into ours of putting off the Hat or uncovering the head in token of honour to Christ our Head d 1 Cor. 11.3 4. For these words which are too often mistaken by the weak do clearly express Christs will in this change though St. Paul did then only begin to effect it as all Reformations are wrought by degrees for there was no such custom as this of uncovering the head established as yet among the Corinthians nor in any of the Churches of God e Ver. 16. the only custom then extant to pay reverence by to God in his Sanctuary and Ordinances was that of discalceation among the Jews from whom the Corinthians they being then in St. Pauls absence frequently among them to supplant the new founded truth had without all doubt learned this custom to put off their Shooes whilst their heads at the same time were covered in their holy Assemblies Wherefore St. Paul to make way for a thorough Reformation as before he had commended them for keeping Christs Ordinances as he delivered them f Ver. 2. so now having reproved them for dishonouring of Christ their Head in being covered c. in their holy Assemblies lest he should marr all again by his severity doth endeavour to remove from them all matter of contention by leaving them to their own choice of these customs Whether they would give God reverence by the custom of uncovering the head which was to take place or whether by the custom of discalceation or putting off the Shooes which as yet was not laid aside he left them to their own freedom he had rather indeed that they would have accepted of the former yet as the case now stood he did not much matter whether so long as God as yet had his due honour in either And for the same reason too he took Timothy and Circumcised him because of the Jews g Acts 16.3 And so also though he was free from all men yet the Church being but yet in its Infancy he became servant to all both Jew and Gentile that he might gain the more unto Christ h 1 Cor. 9.19 to ver 24. But now the Church is setled and grown to a perfect man we must stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and not be entangled again with the yoke of Bondage We must no more use the Judaical custom of discalceation and cover our heads in Gods house and Ordinances nor any more be Circumcised if we do behold as the same Apostle hath also taught us Christ shall profit us nothing i Gal 5.1 2. For so we shall be debtors to the whole Law k Vers 3. and consequently concluded under its Curse eternal wrath l Gal. 3.10 This change therefore was good superlatively good to those that have interest therein m 2 Cor. 3.6 God is to be ever blessed in that the Priesthood being changed there was made of necessity a change also of the Law Heb. 7.12 And 2. Time was too when we changed the Romish Religion into ours according to the Primitive rule of Reformation n Mat. 19.8 because they had first changed it from the unerring rule of Gods word Therefore there was a necessity of this change also lest otherwise by not coming out of her we partake of her sins and receive of her Plagues Rev. 18.4 But the second to be given to change is always a true sign of a mutation from the better to the worse Neither doth it at any time denote a single act only but always an evil habit or disposition of mind it is a product of the natural man which is always greedy of novelties And such were our Changers they were taken with novelties as our martyred Soveraign * ΕΙΚΩΝ Β ΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ again most wittily observeth like Children with babies very much but not very long they were possessed with the evil spirit of Fanaticism and therefore must needs be restless in their condition as a man distempered with a Fever is always desirous to change his place though it be never so soft and easie till by his tumbling and tossing he hath made it hard indeed So Fanaticks are never satisfied with their condition let the times be never so good till they have made them as bad as may be with their changing We have lately seen that they did as much injury both in Church and State by their frantick zeal and curiosity as an Ape in a Glass shop move and remove till they had marr'd all And how often too since our last blessed Reformation have our old Fanaticks or their spawn troubled Authority to suppress their Conventicles from rising and seeking a change Most wisely therefore hath Solomon given us this seasonable Caution to meddle not with them that are given to change viz. not only though chiefly to meddle not or have any hand at all with them in their changing but also to that end to have as little society * Evil communication you know corrupteth good manners have a care