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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77471	A brief resolution of the present case of the subjects of Scotland in order to Episcopal government, by sacred authority re-established in this kingdome. Or, Episcopus Scoticanus redivivus. For the satisfaction of the people. Authore Phil-Alethio.	Phil-Alethio.	1661 (1661)	Wing B4645; ESTC R223956	14,376	22

consequently how sinful is easie to discern by comparing these Oaths c. with the irrefragable Propositions above set down And therefore if any according to our last Proposition good Subject or Subjects have been drawn by any pretence perswasion or force whatsomever to bind himself by Oath or Covenant against Episcopal Government which was and now again is established by Law he hath not sworn in justice but engag'd himself to the certain prejudice of His Soveraign's just Right by a sinful combining with private Subjects against His Authority to the doing of many things contrary to established Law and which is most impious by endeavouring to introduce the form of a Solemn Oath upon a matter so incapable of and indisposed for such a Form if any I say hath been thus engag'd he is obliged in duty and conscience to disclaim reverse and renounce his said act otherwise beside the horrid scandal which he shall draw upon the Reformed Religion he doth run himself upon the breach of the third Command by making his Oath a bond of iniquity And for the further satisfaction of the satisfiable it may ponderate that the power imposing these Oaths was originally invalid and naught and where the fountain is corrupt the streams issuing thence can by no means run clear Nam quod deest in causa deest in effectu and therefore what is done in vertue of such invalid power can scarce amount to right or lawful as grounded upon such a rotten Basis of pretended Authority And which ought exceedingly to stisfie Subjects in their dis-obligation from these ensnaring tyes Our Father I mean Pater Patriae without whose consent no vow or engagement of the childe is obligative as we may see Numb 30. 4 5 c that a Virgin or a Wise making a vow without consent of the Father or Husband is dis-obliged therefrom if the Husband or Father hearing of the vow do disallow thereof and we being in a moral sense as much at the dispose of the King the Father of the Countrey the Civil Father of us all if not more then Children at the dispose of their natural Parents whileas the vows forsaid are dispenc'd and irritate by Him they can be no more binding tyes to us suppose them otherwise lawful and we His diffent being any wayes signified to us are dis-oblig'd and no more bound but may forgo these vows and in our so doing the Lord will forgive us as it is in Numb 30. 6. forgive us not for that we renounce these Vows that being duty but for our rash or cowardish engagement in them without due consent that being our sin If it be said that our Civil Father His Majesty His consent was indulg'd to these Engagements which may therefore be still suppos'd to be binding To this it is replied First This doth not take away the unlawfulnesse of any of these Oaths and Vows which were undertaken antecedently to any Royal and Authoritative consent thereto procured so that such who before that before-alleg'd consent did engage in these combinatory Oaths did therein heinously sin so that these are thereby oblig'd to nothing but Repentance The first Swearing and Covenanting at least being rebellious and sinful But Secondly Any Royal consent that ever was procured or granted was a violented coacted consent and therefore in Law to be look't upon by all honest Subjects as a non-consent coactus enim consensus nullus so that the Princes involuntary and constrained yeelding and ceding to a prevailing Faction affords and layes no just title or ground of obligation no not upon Himself in the exteriour Court much lesse upon His Subjects N●m ex actione involuntaria non nascitur obligatio reg juris vid. cod hb. 2. tit 20. And then Thirdly That supposed consent of our present Soveraign is obvious to the eye of all the World to have been forc'd and coacted He being by a Faction in this Kingdome at that time most undutifully and disloyally kept as a Noble Prisoner rather then a free King and by them violented to give colour of life to these things which in their very nature did bereave Soveraignty of its breath and therefore that consent is now repeal'd as appeareth from His Majesties present Resolutions and His High and Honourable Council their Proclamation of the date September 1661. relating to Church-Government So that hence no shew of any title of obligation as to these Vows and Oaths doth affect the Subjects but rather to the contrary His diffent being of equal force to disoblige as His consent is to ty or oblige And now by this time I trust it doth appear that for any stiffly to oppose the setlement of this Church by Episcopacy is so unwarrantable that none who hath any sense of Religion to God of charity to their Mother-Church or of grateful duty to their Gracious King will presume to justifie and if any will prove so peevish Subjects I trust know better how to value Peace being so harrassed and spoil'd by the late intestine Divisions then to be so easily engag'd again to devote that little blood and treasure which remains to the sinful and ambitious lusts of a few men whom though our King and this Kingdom were not able to call to an account which yet they may find yet there is a God in heaven who seeth all their hearts and will one day judge and be aveng'd of all such their sinful actions By what is said men may see at any time how weak the cords of an unlawful Oath Vow or Engagement are and how little they bind save only to Repentance and that for their unadvised rashnesse if spontaneously undertaken and for their cowardise if through fear submitted to By this also it may appear to how little purpose men make use of these tyes and fetters that bind not in truth but only ensnare like to those cords wherewith Sampson was bound and as easily upon occasion broken asunder being that there wants a twisting-in of these conditions required in the Propositions premised to strengthen and confirm them nay so far are they from holding fast the person Engaged that upon a due back-search and examination they help to set him looser when as he shall seriously bethink himself of the guilt and burden of sin he yet lyes under Nam tolerabilius est promissum non facere quod turpe est Ambros de offic lib. 3. cap. 12. no other way of escape then but by a speedy cancelling of the obligation Briefly and to conclude this short word for satisfaction in which we have appeared upon no other incentives but of conscience of Loyalty and of zeal for order and beauty in this our Mother-Church of the Scrupulous Where the Promise or Oath both for matter and manner is rightly undertaken we cannot be too anxious and solicitons in keeping of it so Matth. 5. 33. Religiose observa juramentum was one of Pythagoras his first lessons to his Disciples yea God himself hath vouchsased it a room within the catalogue of his most glorious titles of being faithful and keeping Covenant otherwise where fraud or force with the like shall happen to interpose and withall the matter in many respects above-specified be injustifiable concerning such an obligation when or wheresoever undertaken the best resolution in my humble opinion is that it is ill taken and worse kept nay and is of it self void from the beginning and binds to nothing but what I heartily wish all may find in the end REPENTANCE FINIS Si quis necessitate coactus juraverit pignusve posuerit quo is ad insidias Domino suo parandas vel ●pem injuste cuivis ferendam adstringitur resiliat potius quam quo coepit insistat suademus L L. Alured c. 1. Consilium prudensque animi sententia jurat Et nisi judicii vincula nulla tenent