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A66598	Conscience satisfied in a cordial and loyal submitting to the present government of William and Mary in three discourses justifying the Williamites against the Jacobites : the first being animadversions on a book intitutled The doctrine of non-resistance, or, Passive obedience no way concerned in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and the Jacobites, the second on I Sam. 23.30 ... the third on Dan. 5.20 ... / by Tim. Wilson, rector of Kingsnoth in Kent.	Wilson, Timothy, 1642-1705.	1690 (1690)	Wing W2949; ESTC R38313	57,754	74

Land of Judah Then David departed and came into the Forest of Hareth where were many secret places v. 5. And Abiathar the Priest who escaped Saul's cruelty fled to David and joyned with him v. 20 c. Which still justifies Self-defence in case of Oppression He had the Ephod in his hand Whether this were by chance as some Expositors say or by choice he light upon the High Priest's Ephod saith Mr. Trappe that had the Vrim and Thummim in it It was surely a sweet Providence of God for the comfort of his poor Servant David Hence God answered not Saul by Urim and Thummim 1 Sam. 28.8 For it was now with David not with Saul This Ephod thus brought saith one was more than if many thousand Souldiers had come to David After his departure from Keilah David abode in the wilderness in strong holds and remained in the Mountains in the wilderness of Ziph and God still preserved him v. 14. of this Chapter of our Text. Ziph belonged to the Tribe of Judah and the Mountains of this Region were craggy and full of clefts of Rocks and therefore places of good shelter and defence Yea David's cause was so plain and good that Jonathan Saul's Son would not joyn with his Father agianst David but made a League with him v. 18. Again v. 29. David dwelt in strong holds at Engedi He would not trust Saul For he knew the disposition of Saul his inconstant mind and unbridled violence especially since an evil Spirit had troubled him Again 1 Sam. 24.2 Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats What need Saul have three thousand men if David did not defend himself And v. 22. David and his men gat them up into the hold He would not trust Saul who had so often promised and broke his word And verily in Matters of so great concernment Credulity argues great Folly Tr. Saul was faithless and David had no reason to believe him And 1 Chron. 12.8 the men of might and the men of war forsook Saul and joyned themselves to David The Tribe of Gad was near to Moab and in a desert place through which David wandred and therefore they joyned with him And v. 17. David went out to meet them and answered and said unto them If ye be come peaceably to me to help me my heart shall be knit to you but if ye be come to betray me to mine Enemies seeing there is no wrong in my hand the God of our Fathers look thereon and rebuke it Did not David tho' yet a Subject to Saul take up Arms and make forcible Resistance It is said expresly v. 18 19. Then David received them and made them Captains of bands And there fell some of Manasseh to David when he came with the Philistins against Saul to Battel And when ever Amasai uttered those words v. 18. whether before or after David had the Kingdom I need not dispute it is evident that they argue the goodness of David's cause The Spirit came upon Amasai who was chief of the Companies and he said Thine are we David and on thy side thou Son of Jesse Peace Peace be unto thee and Peace be to thy helpers for thy God helpeth thee It was a Form of Salutation familiar with the Jews when they wished prosperity and good success to any person And the Ingemination shews their Zeal And the whole demonstrates that for the Innocent to defend themselves even by force of Arms is very pleasing to God Thus I have demonstrated that it may be deduced from this Text That it is lawful for Subjects to defend themselves by force of Arms against the oppression and violence of their Kings I shall now enter upon the second Question Whether it may be deduced from any other Grounds I am for the Affirmative of this Question It may be deduced from Scripture or Reason That it is lawful for Subjects to defend themselves c. And here it will be convenient to set down what is agreed upon on both sides First That all Governours in their several Dominions and Places are to be honoured according to their several Dignities and Titles with due homage and Allegiance of all their Subjects We must render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's Honour to whom Honour is due Fear to whom Fear Tribute to whom Tribute And this out of Conscience and for the Lord's sake who hath made them his Ministers Secondly It is a most hainous Sin a Crime of a deep dye by thought word or deed to derogate from the honour of our Governours or to indeavour to raise Factions and Discontents among their Subjects He that any way despiseth Dominion or speaketh evil of Dignities is a vile Transgressor Thirdly To resist Governours when they rule according to Law is to oppose God's own Ordinance And therefore Rebels ought to be most severely punished by Governours themselves and shall certainly indure God's wrath without Repentance and receive Damnation Fourthly Every Subject is bound by all good means to assist his Governours in the due Execution of Law and Justice and to hazard Life it self upon his Lawful Commands and to discover all Conspiracies Treasons or Violence offered or intended to be offered to his Person Fifthly Every Christian Subject living under the Government of a Prince of an idolatrous heathenish or false Religion is not therefore loosed from the Bond of his Allegiance But he must readily yield Active Obedience to all lawful Commands of his Governours and Passive Obedience so called that is He must quietly and meekly suffer when the Laws of his Governours Command that which is against the Laws of his God and his Saviour whom he ought to fear in the first place Sixthly Every Governour is bound in Conscience to defend and protect his Subjects in their lawful Rights and Liberties and not to Command any thing that God hath forbidden And if he doth oppress them by illegal Impositions or punish them for a good Conscience he is guilty before God and must expect the vengeance of God who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Seventhly Every Oppression or Corruption in Government is not presently sufficient to defend our selves by force But it must be such Oppression as tends to the Dissolution of the Government to the Destruction of Liberty to the Ruin of the Subjects or to the Change of Religion by Law Established And in this Case also Defensive Arms are not Lawful till Petitions and all other good means which may prevail with our Governours be used and yet fail of their end Thus as I conceive I have impartially represented both parts And I know no man of Worth Piety or Learning who will not easily assent to these Conclusions I shall now confirm my Opinion that it is lawful for Subjects to defend themselves by force of Arms against the Oppression and Violence of their Kings First Because God never gave

conclude if it be false as I have elsewhere demonstrated it ought to be extirpated out of the World Fifthly It is Agreed That they that believe Passive Obedience were not thereby bound to Assert the Misgovernment of James the Second Because tho' they are to justifie His Authority yet they must not His Crimes Sixthly As for Desertion I need not meddle with it be it as he saith P. 6. Let us now see wherein we differ First I have with some Impatience to use this Gentleman's words in the beginning read the Scandalous Reflections that He makes upon those who have of late opposed Passive Obedience and justified Defensive Arms in some Case without which we had been all Slaves His Design in this Discourse he says is to put an end as far as he can to this unseasonable Dispute P. 2. and yet he justifies Passive Obedience at a very high Rate as if a Man could not be a Son of the Church of England yea scarce a good Christian that denies it And he loads it with this Odium P. 2. They can be no Friends to Government in General nor to Him that is K. W. or His in Particular who are so Zealous to have the Doctrine of Nonresistance Extirpated out of the World And he charges us with this ridiculous Consequence That it is Lawful for every man to Rebel against his Lawful Prince whenever he thinks it necessary Answ This is a foul Aspersion We say the Cause must be real plain and evident And in this present Case supposing Defensive Arms lawful I desire no better Advocate or Orator to represent our Grievances than this Gent. See P. 5 8 16 18 23. And yet I suppose few Men accuse him of Irreverence to Crowned Heads as the Phrase is Tho' a man that opposes Passive Obedience would be invidiously declaimed against for half so much But we know that St. Paul speaking of the Emperor's Persecution calls him a Lion the most fierce and cruel of Beasts But at another time owning his Authority and in respect of that to use the words of a Learned and Eloquent Presbyter of my Acquaintance His Christianity allows him as high Complements to King Agrippa Acts 26.2 3. With great deference to his Authority and Knowledge nay and to his Honour and Goodness tho' a Heathen or little better and otherwise very obnoxious But because we are so often charged as if we did not give due Honour to Kings give me leave to illustrate our Case in no very long Speech Great Sir We are your Majesties most humble and most dutiful Servants and Subjects we look upon our selves as bound in Conscience to hazard our Lives and Fortunes in the Preservation of your Majesties Person Crown and Dignity and of our Religion Liberty and Property But we fear that Evil Counsellors move your Majesty against us and endeavour Innovations and our Ruin by Illegal Courses It is a great Grief and Sorrow of heart to us to see these Evils and in all Humility upon-our Knees we beseech your Majesty to Redress our Grievances But if your Majesty is resolved to persist in these mischievous Courses as we humbly conceive we believe we may with a good Conscience defend our selves and not offend God and his Laws The King perhaps may wax hot with anger and call us Factious Seditious Rebels and cast us into Prison c. Then comes another sort of the King's Subjects Dread Soveraign We your Majesties most faithful Subjects and Servants without any Reserve will stand by your Majesty against all Enemies whatsoever and we esteem it our bounden Duty Actively to obey all your Commands that are not contrary to the Word of God and our Religion and when they are Passively to submit to your Majesties Pleasure under our Oppressions and never to Resist The King trusts these Men is exceedingly pleased with their great Expressions of Loyalty Honours them makes them his Confidents takes them into his Councels rewards them with great Preferments in Church and State Not long after the King is in great Fear and Distress by reason of Enemies He sets forth a Proclamation to all his Loving Subjects to assist Him and Repel the Force of the Invader and his Rebellious Subjects who joyn with him They return this Answer Great Sir Our Lives are at your Majesties Service but we have many Grievances first to be redressed and we see your Majesty is resolved on these illegal Exorbitant Courses p. 8. and therefore we are not to be blamed tho' we withdraw from your Service And the best of the Primitive Christians would have done the same thing if it had been their Lot to have faln under such a Prince We deny that we your Majesties Subjects are bound to stand by you and fight for you p. 7. For your Majesty hath notoriously invaded and destroyed all our Civil and Religious Rights and Liberties and designed the Ruin and Destruction both of them and us and would give us no assurance we could rely on to do otherwise for the future And therefore if it be unlawful to Resist it is also as unlawful to Assist and Enable your Majesty to destroy the true Religion the English Liberties and Immunities nay the very Nation I dare swear if the late K. were made Judge He would say the first sort of Subjects were honest plain dealing true-hearted Men and if He had hearkened to their Counsel both He and His Subjects might have been happy But what He would say of the other sort of Subjects I cannot tell tho' I can shrewdly guess And Now I hope they will never tell us more of being irreverent to Crowned Heads Adam got Fig-leaves to hide his Nakedness and the Sons of Adam are too like him and love to hide their Sins rather than confess them But what a Juggle is this God forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the Lord's anointed but if my Neighbour will tho' I have strength enough I will not oppose him I am not bound to assist the Lord 's Anointed for He will not call a Free and Legal Parliament and redress our Grievances P. 2. 6. and elsewhere If this be the Doctrine of Passive Obedience I dare say every wise Prince as soon as he understands it will root it out of his Dominions by not trusting such men If I resist I am damned if I assist our Religion and our Nation is ruined I never taught Active Obedience to the lawful Commands of the King if I did I have forgotten it tho' I taught Passive Obedience when he commanded illegally And therefore if Cut-throats with a barbarous Assassination will Murther the King I will stand by and see them and wash mine hands in Innocency when I have done because the King would not call a Free Parliament when I thought it necessary I perceive that tho' this Gentleman would not Subscribe the Association with David's Confederates and take up defensive Arms against Saul's Tyranny and Oppression yet if Saul would not