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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27165	No treason to say, Kings are Gods subjects, or, The supremacy of God, opened, asserted, applyed in some sermons preached at Lugarshal in Sussex by N.B. then rector there, accused of treason by James Thompson, Vicar of Shalford in Surry, and the author ejected out of the said rectory for preaching them : with a preface apologetical, vindicating the author and sermons from that false accusation, relating the manner of his ejection, and fully answering the narrative of the said Vicar, now also parson of Lurgarshal / by Nehemiah Beaton ...	Beaton, Nehemiah, d. 1663.	1661 (1661)	Wing B1568; ESTC R17272	43,029	53

returned into the Crown-office and upon the motion of Sir William Wild in the publick Court of the Kings Bench at Westminster upon reading the Record confirmed by my Lord Chief Justice and three more of his Majesties most reverend Judges upon the eleventh day of February last N. Beaton To what purpose are the Kings Bench the Crown Office Sr William Wild the Lord Chief Justice the most Reverend Judges mentioned unless to perswade the Reader that I had a second hearing But this he durst not affirm it would have been too gross Let the Reader then know that though I therefore obtained a Writ of Certiorari because I was informed it would produce a second hearing yet I found my self wholly deceived for no Witness was examined pro or con nor enquiry made into the truth of any matter of fact or the merits of the Cause c. What advantage then is this to his Cause now managing against my Reputation What if the Judgment had been thus confirmed a thousand times is it any proof of my guilt But Reader we have both now appealed he by printing his Charge I by publishing my defence to a Court of Equity thy Conscience and here sure the reading of the Judgment or his suggestions will not without more ado produce a confirmation But thou wilt hear and weigh both parties and then though my Adversary being first in his own tale might seem righteous yet when thou hast considered how I have come after and searched him I am as certain I shall by thy justice be absolved as Mr. Thompson is I was by the Justices condemned Which absolution of all sober unbyassed persons though it leave me as far from my Living as before yet would I not exchange for more than my Adversary enjoyeth by my condemnation For though a good name be not as precious as it is to be named with a good conscience yet it is to be prized above a good yea the best Living But if it should be the lot of these Papers to fall into the hands of persons whom malice prejudice or interest will not suffer to receive satisfaction or at least will cause still to pretend they are unsatissied As I regard not their censures so can I easily foresee and could as easily obviate and answer all their cavils and objections but shall take notice only of one for the sake of some honest but very weak persons whom they may think to startle with it Object But can any man imagine that such a Charge could be forged or framed without any ground That five men would have sworn it that c. Answ Consider Reader whom these Objectors wound whilst they thus strike at me They not only offend and accuse the whole Generation of the righteous but do Crucifie again the Lord of Glory and put him to open shame For if a man must needs be guilty because condemned Then what an Impostor and Malefactor must he be who is holy harmless separate from sinners For he was accused of blasphemy condemned as a Traytor and enemy to Caesar his prosecutors Priests the Witnesses many and of considerable quality And if they thus called and condemned the Master of the house is it any wonder that they deal thus with those of his houshold Mat. 10. 25. I am accused for calling the Queen Harlot Adulteress Why with the very same train did the devil blow up the Ministry of that holy Father and faithful servant of Christ Chrysostome Adversus Joannem calumnias struunt Sermones ipsius quosdam assumentes ut dictos in probrum Reginae invidiose divulgantes They forged calumnies against him taking hold of some speeches of his and maliciously spreading and divulging them as spoken in disgrace and reproach of the Queen But what stirred up his Accusers Why he had so freely and sharply reproved their wickedness and prophaneness that they resolve some way or other to rid themselves of such a burden and this was the likeliest way What if I never spake against his Majesties right of Succession Yet I had spoken against some mens Swearing Cursing Debauchery c and that was not put into the Act for confirming of Ministers as a cause why they should not be confirmed and the other was I shall conclude with the words of the learned Bishop Sanderson for they are as his use to be worth the transcribing That there should be mighty ones sick with longing after their meaner neighbours vineyards that there should be crafty heads to contrive for greedy great ones what they unjustly desire that there should be officious instruments to do a piece of legal injustice upon a great mans Letter that there should be Knights of the Post to depose any thing though never so false in any cause though never so bad against any person though never so innocent that an honest man cannot be secure of his life so long as he hath any thing else worth the losing Of all this saith he here is an instance in my Text. He doth not say that of all this my Case is an instance nor will I now but when any man goes about to shew wherein the parallel failes he may know more of my mind till then no more as to my own vindication But though I began with my own vindication and have hitherto solely attended it yet shall I not conclude till I have also vindicated that noble Knight Sir Richard Onslow from those ealumnies and slanders which in this sheet he hath published against him for he hath done me the honour to abuse me with that worthy and honour able person With whose vindication I should have begun as the more considerable and noble subject had not I considered that till I had cleared my self I should but sully another by undertaking his defence And here though I shall not set down his words at length as before yet shall I not do him the least wrong but give thee the substance such as they have of them Only first I must acquaint thee with the occasion of this his Schedule Some malicious persons had published several Libels against Sir Richard Onslow for the smoak of envy and detraction will alwaies pursue the fairest in which they accused him to be the great enemy and ejector of many learned loyal and Orthodox Divines That is they accused Moecenas to be a hater of Poets and Alexander an enemy to valour Well against these Libellers Collonel Gardiner sends out a hue and cry in which he discovers the folly and falshood of that accusation and names many learned loyal Orthodox Divines whom Sir Richard was a refuge to in the late storms and amongst others his only mistake reckons up this James Thompson Which I call a mistake not that Sir Richard had never done him a Curtesie but because he reckons him amongst Learned Orthodox Divines Now in answer to this hue and cry of Collonel Gardiners comes forth this narrative A great part of which he spends in telling his Reader

it is a false and foule slander But what if he had five hundred to swear it as who knoweth but there may be so many Knights of the Post in England and if there be I know none more likely to know them doth he think that judicious and impartial men cannot or will not distinguish between swearing and proving or that Witnesses are to be valued by number and not by weight But it seems Reader Mr. Thompson fears an after-clap and hath mustered his forces for a second hearing for he saith they are ready For my part though I do not pretend to much reading or learning yet so much Philosophy I have learned that à privatione ad habitum non datur regressus and so much History have I read that I know also that that Axiome faileth almost as seldome in Civil and Politick privations as in privations natural so that in that vast and large Catalogue of oppressed and ejected Innocents which both sacred and prophane History presents us you cannot find scarce one of a hundred that was ever relieved or restored I do not therefore feed my self with hopes of enjoying again what I am most unjustly deprived of though yet of this I do not despair nor shall decline any but seek by fit means opportunities of effecting it but these are not the hopes I live upon nor about this do I at all trouble my self but do in patience possess my soul being assured that if here I have not a second nor more succesful hearing there is a day coming in which it is impossible the avarice or malice of an Informer the perjury of Witnesses or partiality of Judges should hurt me This is the day I look for and desire to prepare for and much better would it become and more highly doth it concern Mr. Thompson to make ready against that day in which there will be something saved or lost that is more worth than the Rectory of Lurgarshal or Empire of the World And if there should be twenty five or five or one that have listed themselves and are ready to swear this notorious falshood let me beseech them to think seriously of that day and cast up what it will profit them by endeavouring to deprive me of my living or good name to lose their own souls I say to lose their souls for though I dare not say with Chrysostome It is impossible that any perjured person should be saved yet this I may safely say that as a man can hardly commit a greater sin so there is no sin of which fewer repent and escape thereby the damnation of hell For a man to tell a lie to a Magistrate sitting in the place of God as a judge this is with Ananias not to lye unto Man but God For a man to kiss therefore to kiss that blessed Book the Gospel of truth that he may thereby betray and destroy his innocent brother doth not this prove him possessed with Judas his devil For a man to disclaim all help from God all benefit by the Gospel if he speak not the whole truth and nothing but the truth for so he saith So help me God and the contents of this Book when he is ready to speak what he knows not to be true or knows certainly to be false this is by being witness against his brother to become his own judge and to pass a sentence so terrible upon himself that even devils would tremble at it and yet he challengeth God to execute it And now what if thou hast known a man commit this sin or sins for it breaks both Tables at one blow and yet he hath neither with Ananias fallen down dead In the act nor with Judas fallen down headlong and burst asunder after the act nay what if thou hadst known a sinner commit this evil an hundred times and yet his daies be prolonged Yet think not better of the sin nor of the sinners condition nor be encouraged thereby to commit it for unless he repent he is but reserved for greater punishments That large roll of Curses twenty Cubits long and ten Cubits broad took its flight from the Temple at the very instant in the which he committed that sin and hath been ever since upon the wing and it will enter into the house of him that sweareth falsely by the name of God and it shall remain in the midst of his house and shall consume it with the stones thereof and the timber thereof Zech. 5. 3 4 5. The Lord grant that the guilty may prevent the execution of this dreadful doom by a speedy hearty and thorough repentance and that all others may hear and fear and do no more so wickedly Which is all I have to say of his Witnesses either already sworn or who he saith are ready to swear He next informs thee who were my Judges James Thompson Before nine of his Majesties Justices of the Peace at Midhurst on the 19th day of Decem last though three of the said Justices took little notice of it viz Mr. Shirley Mr. Henry Onslow Mr. Lee and refused subscription a Judgment was ordered to be drawn up and signed by the other six Justices that the said N. B. had maliciously preached against his Sacred Majesty that now is his Right and Succession to the Crowns of these Realms and that he ought not to be confirmed into the Rectory into the which he had intruded N. Beaton Of my Judges I was resolved once to have said nothing not only because Non tutum est adversus eos scribere qui possunt proscribere but because they all of them professed they passed this Sentence most unwillingly and therefore only did it because the Witnesses swearing as they did they said they durst not but do it But seeing Mr. Thompson will needs tell the world who they were that refused to subscribe the Judgment I cannot but say that I heartily wish he had as well told who they were that did subscribe it and then I should have been most willing to have left it to the Readers judgment after the reading of this vindication whether deserved the greatest honour But seeing he hath not I shall not That Mr. Shirley Mr. Onslow Mr. Lee refused subscription is most true but that they took little notice of the Charge the Witnesses c. is a most impudent Thompsonism For they therefore refused subscription because they took notice of what others did not And if ever that second hearing come of which you seem to be affraid you and others will find they took so much notice of some passages not fit for me to mention yet highly conducing to my vindication that you will have no advantage nor others credit by their taking little notice But why talk I of a second hearing Mr. Thompson would fain gull his unwary Reader into a belief that my Cause hath been twice heard and judged already For saith he James Thompson Which Judgment was immediatly stopt by a Writ of Certiorari yet afterwards was