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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70493	A vindication of the primitive Christians in point of obedience to their Prince against the calumnies of a book intituled, The life of Julian, written by Ecebolius the Sophist as also the doctrine of passive obedience cleared in defence of Dr. Hicks : together with an appendix : being a more full and distinct answer to Mr. Tho. Hunt's preface and postscript : unto all which is added The life of Julian, enlarg'd.	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.; Ecebolius, the Sophist. Life of Julian.	1683 (1683)	Wing L2985; ESTC R3711	180,508	416

Constitution of our Government of which they are utterly ignorant P. 8. These like Dotterels Apes and Parrets who have no more understanding than those Animals are perpetually repeating any thing though never so destructive to Church and State that is suggested by any Popish Mercenarie Writer if he hath but the cunning to bestow an idle Complement upon the Church or calls Rogue or Villain seemingly or in pretence for their sakes I hope our Bishops have not hired any for such purposes especially if he can furnish to their young Invention any Topicks of Raillerie against an Imaginary Presbytery and against the Parliaments c. a very fair Capacitie and Recommendation this as they imagine to Preferment These are the men I confess for whose sake I writ the Postscript The Preface then it seems was writ for the Bishops But this unmerciful man hath not yet done lashing our young Divines P. 10. Too many of the young Clergie says our Aristarchus do assist the Gentrie in their Loyal Debauches most scandalously for the service of the Church and maintaining the honour of their Order These degenerate Levites are magnifying perpetually the priviledges of their Tribe extolling their Order yet in terms that disgrace it and by their lives they vilifie it And now like the old Persecutors he hath wearied himself to torment poor Innocents I hope our young Divines have yet so much of their Grammar-learning for the Subject is scarce capable of the more serious Stelliteuticks of the Vniversity-studies as to return some Reflections on the laborious Travels of this infamous Tom Coriat and make him feel what it is Ludere cum Sanctis in our Lawyers Latine i. e. to play with Edge-tools In the mean time his own folly and impietie will chastise him it being evident that Mr. Hunt deals with the Bishops not onely as men use their Dogs who feed them with a bit and a knock but as Butchers are wont to use their Hogs who claw them and scrape them a little that they may with more conveniencie cut their Throats He advanceth them as it were on a Pinacle of the Temple that he may cast them down the more irrecoverably He tells us p. 15. that Calvin Beza and P. du Moulin Monsieur Moyne Claude and de l'Angle highly approved of the Order and Office of Bishops And from Grotius that Non debent res bonae damnari quia sunt qui iis abutuntur That good things ought not to be condemned because there are some that do abuse them Yet p. 11. he tells them also the Apostolicalness of their Order will not secure it if they do not fill up the dutie of their Office i. e. if they do not fully comply with his designe And p. 12. he remembers them that there are Churches of Christ that do make a shift without their Order and Religion need not perish though the Order fail So that it is plain that by the word Order he means Episcopacy and insinuates that it is a needless thing it may be grub'd up root and branch And is not this a fair Apologie for his real intention to serve the Bishops P. 23. He complains that too many eminent men in our Church are brought to a dead Neutralitie and thereby we are brought to this pass That Religion it self must be the devoted thing to the rage and folly of the Priests of that Religion As if they had all conspired to be felo's de se And on this ground he proclaims his Curse ye Meroz against them as execrable Neuters P. 6. he says They have raised a bitter Zeal against that Separation which themselves have contrived fomented and promoted and it is brought to that pass that those are accounted Church-Fanaticks though Conformists that cannot contentedly see and endure the neerer approaches of ruine both of Church and State These are their fear and their hate the Sons of Anak the Giants of the Land that they imagine so insuperable that they are for making themselves a Captain and returning back into Egypt p. 7. This he repeats p. 46. where he endeavours to lay the sin of Corah c. upon those who in our days do most faithfully adhere to Moses and Aaron and would excuse those who having lost their Corah and other renowned Leaders by an exemplary Divine Judgement did the very next day murmur again against Moses and Aaron falsely accusing them who were the meekest men upon Earth of taking too much upon them i. e. of ruling by an Arbitrary power and making themselves absolute For so v. 13. of that 16th Chapter they accuse Moses of seeking to make himself altogether a Prince and v. 14. he is accused of seeking to put out the eyes of the People as Mr. Hunt also doth p. 13. Postscr We are used saith he as Sampson bound and our eyes put out and made sport for the Philistimes I fear Mr. Hunt will hardly have his eyes opened till as the mole he comes to die With such murmurings as these they so provoked Moses that the Lord was angry with him for their sakes and as the Author of Julian's life observed of the Prayers of the Christians in Julians time they contrived and effected his death for he dyed in the Land of Moab and was not to enter into Canaan Who they are that murmur at the Conduct of Moses and Aaron is too visible to be denied viz. they that accuse them of Arbitrary Government that proclaim themselves the Holy People they who hearken to those false Spies that discourage the people with stories of Insuperable evils of being certainly miserable and having a War entailed on the Nation fire and faggot and an Inquisition c. For my part I think these murmuring Prognosticators are they who are for making another Captain in the room of Corah and going back again to Egypt And though we do not look on these as the Sons of Anak invincible Giants yet are they as the Canaanites were to Israel thorns in our sides They are still troubling us with their wiles and their lyes their Associations and Consults their Seditious Libels and Pamphlets such as these of our two Authors their Doleman and the Rights of the Kingdom Their Plato Redivivus their No Plot and Sermons of Persecution and Daniel in the Den which like the Frogs and Plagues of Egypt are croaking in every corner and infecting every part of the three Nations They which cry up those for the godly Party and devout Men that are inspired with Scruples from God himself on purpose to put a bar against the proceedings of Moses and Aaron By such men and means the truth is we are brought into a great strait we have a deep Sea before us and a howling Wilderness behind us And yet we murmur not our Sins have deserved these things Nor do we think of making any other Captains to our selves than those whom God in great mercy and by many Miracles hath preserved and continued unto us We are not for Egypt in