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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60215	Sidney Redivivus, or, The opinion of the late Honourable Collonel Sidney as to civil government wherin is asserted and clearly proved, that the power of kings is founded in the consent of the people, who have a right to call them to an account for male-administration and to restore themselves to their native liberty : by which the late proceedings of the nation against James the II are justified : together with some reflections on what is said by ill men against the present government, by another hand.	Sidney, Algernon, 1622-1683.	1689 (1689)	Wing S3764; ESTC R10306	10,924	21

himself with that Divine Character This is the Scope of the whole Treatise the Writer gives such Reasons as at present did occur unto him to prove it This seems to agree with the Doctrines of the most Reverenced Authors of all Times Nations and Religions The best and wisest Kings have ever acknowledged it The present King of France hath declared that Kings have that happy want of Power that they can do nothing contrary to the Laws of their Country and grounds his Quarrel with the King of Spain Anno 1667 upon that Principle King James in his Speech to the Parliament Anno 1603. doth in the highest degree Assert it the Scriptures seem to declare it If the Expulsion of Tarquin the Insurrection against Nero the Slaughter of Caligula or Domitian the Translation of the Crown of France from Merovius his Race unto Pepin and from his Descendants unto Hugh Capet be not good Acts of State there is not a King in the World has any Title to the Crown he bears nor can have any unless he could deduce his Pedigree from the Eldest Son of Noah and show that the Succession had still continued in the Eldest of the Eldest Line and so Deduced to him Every one may see what advantage this would be to all the Kings of the World and whether that failing it were not better for them to acknowledge their Crowns by the Consent of Willing Nations or to have no better Title unto them than Usurpation and Violence which by the same ways may be taken from them So much as to this Subject in his last Speech by which you may see that as he lived in this Opinion he was not afraid to Die in it as being fully perswaded of its agreeableness to Divine Truth at whose Bar he was in a few Minutes to receive a juster Sentence than that by which he suffered And the worst that I shall wish that Instrument of Cruelty who was his Judge is That seeing he is far from being so sit to Live in this World he may be as fit to go into another as that Worthy Gentleman was but this I am confident of he will never be able to reflect upon his own Tyranny and the Abetting of it in others with that Serenity of Mind and Tranquility of Soul as this Noble Patriot did upon his Opposition to it when according to the good Laws of the Kingdom and the Righteous Judgment of God Inquisition shall be made for Blood of which a great deal is to be found in his Skirts that threatens him with Divine Vengeance according to the Prayer of this Worthy Gentleman That if Inquisition was to be made after Blood it might fall upon those who Persecuted him for Righteousness sake It hath been an old and true Observation that the Blood of the Saints is the Seed of the Church and I do not know but it may be also said that the Blood of Patriots is the Seed of Asserters of the Peoples Liberty for since the Effusion of this Gentlemans Blood and that of others we have had a plentiful Harvest of such as have Asserted the Civil and Religious Rights of the Nations and that nothing might be wanting to Crown our Mercy we are Blessed with a Magnanimous and Religious King who as he ventured all for their Redemption will do the same for their preservation But notwithstanding of what is here said by this Worthy Author and may others upon this Subject there is a Party in the Nation who are so much under the Conduct of their own Lusts that to have a full Liberty of Wallowing in them they surceased no endeavours to bring others and themselves too under the Tyranny and Lusts of the two Late Kings and are now enraged to see the People Delivered tho' not many Months ago they were loudest in their Clamours against the Male Administration of the Late James the II. when they found themselves in hazard of Smarting by the Rod they had prepared for others Whereupon breaking through all the pretended tyes of Allegiance which they had so often Ratified with Dam 'em and Sink 'em and Swallowing down of brim-full Bumpers they were very active in over-turning his Government either by deserting or appearing against him Amongst this kind of Men who despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities are these Murmurs and Discontents which do occasion such a ferment at this time in the Nation It is not unworth the while to observe the difference betwixt the Discontented now and such as were so in the two last Reigns the latter being generally all who had any Sobriety in their Practice or Zeal for the true Religion and Laws of the Kingdom whether Church-men or Dissenters the former being not one in a Hundred other than the Ignorant and Profane who are a Scandal to all Humane Society and particularly to the Church of England under whose Name as Vermine under a Roof they Shelter themselves and indeed there is no other way left for that Society to rid themselves of the Infamy which is likely to fall upon the whole because of them but by some publick Testimony to declare their Abhorrence of such deny them their Communion and Preach up Obedience now as much as in the two Late Reigns there being infinitely more Reason to do so at this time than there was at that His Present Majesty whom God long Preserve having by the Miraculous Hand of the Omnipotent been made our Redeemer by the Consent of the People an undoubted Title to the Soveraignty and by his Prudent and Legal Administration not only acquir'd a Right to an Obedience from Fear but Love the most Sacred and Inviolable Foundation of Dominion These Instruments of wickedness that they may pass their Black Designs of re-enslaving the Nations have recourse to their old Exploded Arguments that the King is accountable to none but God That they have an Hereditary Right of Succession and that the Accusations as to the Earl of Essex's Murther the Imposing of a Prince of Wales c. have never been proved against the Late King and that therefore he has been unjustly dealt with These and others of the same sort are as considently talked of amongst such Men as if they had never been concerned in contrary Practices either by Acting Deserting or Silence in all which as they were Influenced by a corrupt Principle of mistaken Self Interest then they are by the same engaged in opposite Practices now I shall touch a little upon those Arguments and Conclude That the King as King that is Governing according to Law is accountable to any but God few will deny because therein he Acts according to his Commission from the body of the People who it is to be supposed are content to see the same put in Execution and there being no Power Superiour to theirs but Gods there can be no other to call him to an Account in that Case But the Question is Whether the Person Cloathed with the Kingly Authority