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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70705	The letter which was sent to the author of the doctrine of passive obedience and jure divino disproved, &c. answered and refuted wherein is proved, that monarchy was not originally from God. That kings are not by divine appointment, but that all government proceeds from the people. That the obedience required in Scripture, is to the laws of the land, and no otherwise. That resisting of arbitary power is lawful. That the oath of allegiance to to the late King James was dissolved before the Prince of Orange (our present King) landed. That upon the non-performance of an oath on one side, the other becomes void, is plainly prov'd from several examples in scripture. That protection is the only cause of allegiance, and that obedience or allegiance is due to the present government is proved from Scripture, law and reason; and those texts of scriptures which relate to government, or monarchy, are explained.	True son of the Church of England.; True son of the Church of England. aut; N. N. aut; A. A. aut	1689 (1689)	Wing N45; ESTC R223803	26,704	41

suffer Death for conspiring against him My Reason is because the publick would suffer more by the impunity of had Subjects than of evil Kings 'T is more reasonable a King should lose his Right of Governing call it what you will for endeavouring to overthrow the Government than that it should be overthrown by him and the People lose the Right of being governed according to Law which being done they must by Consequence be Slaves to his Arbitrary Will and Pleasure The Community would suffer more by one Evil King than by an Hundred Bad Subjects because the Subjects are punishable for the least Misdemeanour and the King not When a King ceases to govern by Law he ceases to govern and when he ceases to govern he ceases to be King And this was the Case of King James before the Prince of Orange Landed Pray observe the Reply to the 18th and 19th Paragraphs 23. The Authority of no King but the King of Kings is boundless and absolute So that the Kings of the Earth may command things that are sinful and which none are obliged to perform This is a certain Verity and it agrees with my Quaery 24. The Word Loyal 't is true comes from the French La Loy and signifies one that is true to the Laws Now he who is so will perform his Duty both to his King and his Countrey and will not be Rebel either to the one or the other How can I be true to my King and Countrey if I let men rebel against the Laws by violating them every day Though they Act by the King's Command by the Advice of false Counsellours yet are they Enemies to him and Rebels to the Government because it tends to the Ruin of both 25. Passive Obedience is neither Popery nor Slavery establisht vy Law but the Doctrine of Iesus Christ grievous to none but those who desire to use their Liberty as a Cloak of Maliciousness This is far from a direct Answer to my Assertion wherein I said and do again affirm That Passive Obedience is Popery established by Law and by consequence Slavery when ever the Prince shall please I ask if King James when here had put Papists into all Places of Trust relating to the Choice of Parliament-men which he had already begun throughout England and required them to return Papists to Parliament and upon their Meeting they should have Established Popery as the Parliament did in Queen Mary's dayes as no doubt they would I would fain know how far we should have been from Slavery and all this by the Doctrine of Passive Obedience without which they could not pretend to Establish their Religion It is not the Doctrine of the Gospel or of Jesus Christ to be Passive beyond the Laws and Customs of the Countrey this were to make Christ the Author or approver of Confusion and Destruction amongst Mankind instead of Justice and Order 'T is against all the sence of Scripture and Reason of Mankind to say that God Almighty created Mankind to be subject to Princes and of the Peoples making too that in Case they should overthrow the Government or use the People like so many Beasts instead of rational Men and Persecute them with all manner of Cruelty or endeavour ●tterly to destroy them though they lived quiet and peaceable Lives yet that they should not defend and secure themselves from all such evil Designs If God expects such Subjection surely it would have been mentioned in Scripture but as he is no Respecter of Persons at the great Tribunal so who can imagine that he is such a Respecter of Persons on Earth as to set up or allow one Man so much above another as in the foregoing sense What can be said of such Men that assert Passive Obedience in the strictest sence but that they have degenerated from Nature in cherishing a Doctrine which tends not only to the Destruction of themselves but to the rest of Mankind according to the Will and Pleasure of the Prince Good God! to what a degree of Folly and Madness are some Men arrived at to assert a Doctrine which if once believed and practised inevitably tends to the Destruction of Christianity and to all humane Societies 't is a Doctrine not fit for savage Heathens much less for rational Men. These are the only Men fit to be compared to Papists and are as necessary for the support of the Mother Church as Fire and Faggot the one prepares them for Destruction whilst the other Destroys them 26. The Assistance which Q. Elizabeth gave to the Hollanders and French Protestants against their lawful Sovereigns as also the Business of Rochel in King Charles the First 's time are improperly argued against the Doctrine of Passive Obedience Independant Princes for Reasons of State best known to themselves may help their Neighbours without injuring the Doctrine of Passive Obedience One Prince may assist another for Political Ends against another Prince or State but he cannot assist his Subjects who are in actual Rebellion against him though their Pretensions be never so reasonable without committing a notorious Sin according to the Doctrine of Passive Obedience because He that is aiding and assisting to Rebels is as guilty of Rebellion as if he were actually in it 27. Oh do not revile the King though he lay in Ashes much less whilst he is on this side of the Grave I question not but that the Vnfortunate King James 's Life will be more favourably represented in History than you have here described him You seem to be bery angry with him because he endeavours to re-establish himself with the Sword and yet you have given to every Man even the meanest Cobler the Right of Self-preservation as entire under Civil Government as he had in a State of Nature Vpon my Word Sir this is very hard and unequal dealing at once to Abdicate your King and at the same time complain of him for endeavouring to recover his Right I have as Honourary a Respect for a King as any Man whatsoever whilst he continues his Kingly Office that is Governing according to the Laws of the Countrey but when he shall degenerate and break all his Sacred Oaths and Promises and destroy the very Foundation of Government which ought to be kept inviolable then have I Reason to turn my Love into Contempt I having as all Men ought to have a real and truer Love for my Countrey and its excellent Constitution than for ten Thousand Kings who shall endeavour to destroy it I have not reviled the ●ate King James but spoken the Truth as will appear by what follows Were not his Creatures as Papists and Popishly affected put into Places of Trust by his Means during his Brothers Reign and Parliaments Prorogued and Dissolved And was he not believed by most of the Nation to be the Head of the Popish Plot these are sufficient to prove that he Conspired against the People and Government when Duke of York I need not mention his

Actions when King ●hey being fresh in every Man's Memory Self-preservation ●s inherent to all Men but it does not follow that a King who has ●enounced his Throne and abandoned the Kingdom should endeavour to re-establish himself through a ●ea of Blood though the Government is provided with ●nother Governour What right hath a King to the Throne ●ut from the People If you can make out your Doctrine of Jure Divino then you may lay Claim to such Rights for your King James as neither the Law or Reason does or can allow 28. That God did originally Institute Monarchy I do say but that we are Commanded to obey Kings exclusively to all other Government doth not follow and I do not maintain If God did Command or Appoint the World to be Governed by Kings and that he hath not revok'd that Decree then it does follow that all other Government is sinful because any thing contrary to the Appointment or Command of God is a Sin. 29 30. We have very little Account of the World from the Creation to the Flood but by what appears we may safely conclude that God then Governed his People by a Paternal Monarchical Authority and afterwards Melchizedeck Abraham and the Patriarchs were great Kings and Princes Moses was King of Jeshurun the Iudges were so many Monarchs for the time being and so all along the Jews were under a Monarchical Government and therefore it was their Fault to desire a King after the manner of the Nations when they already had such a Regal Government as God thought fit to appoint Nimrod is not the first Monarch but the first mighty Hunter or cruel Tyrant we meet with in Scripture but consider I pray whether the Dominion which God gave unto Adam did not make him the first and greatest Monarch upon Earth and if so this makes not a little for the Jure Divino Doctrine which term of Art yet I prosess my self not to be in love with Doth not God himself tell us That by him Kings reign doth he not say of David He hath exalted one chosen out of not by the People doth he not call Cyrus an Heathen King his Anointed and are we not told what horrid Wickedness was committed when there was no King in Israel All these things shew that Monarchy is from God and that there were Kings in the World before Nimrod unless you understand by Kings only such wicked Persons as he was as you seem to do But yet though this be true yet 't is not absolutely necessary that all the World should be Governed by Kings any more than that all Churches should be necessarily governed by Bishops because 't is certain that Episcopacy was Instituted in the Church by our Saviour and his Apostles I never 'till now heard That a Paternal which is a Fatherly Authority was a Kingly Authority It cannot be supposed that Adam was a King upon the Authority which God have him of having Dominion without it be understood over the Fish of the Sea and the Fowl of the Air and the Cattel c. nor because God bid him be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth and subdue it because there was nothing to subdue except Beasts he being the first Man of the Creation It can mean nothing else than that he should have Power or Authority as Father over all his Children and subdue them if they were Rebellious in disobeying his Commands But to proceed After the Flood the Twelve Sons of Jacob were Patriarchs that is chief of the Fathers or chief Head Prince of the Family and such was Abraham who was called a Father not a King of many Countries The Judges were not Monarchs for the time being but Rulers over the People Act. 4.8 With what Face can you assert that the Jews were all along under a Monarchical Government when 't is certain there is not the least Intimation thereof in Scripture Melchisedeck was a Type of Christ being both King and Priest he was King of Righteousness and King of Salem which is King of Peace without Father or Mother having neither beginning of Dayes nor end of Life Heb. 7.2 3. He was a Sovereign King and High Priest of the Church and such was Christ not using Authority like unto worldly Kings Deut. 34.10 speaking of Moses There arose not a Prophet since in Israel whom the Lord knew face to face he being a very Holy Man and such a singular Prophet and whom the Lord had such a respect for that he buried him Himself Ver. 6. therefore it may with Reason be concluded that God gave him an Honour above other Prophets by making him a King and likewise Milchisedeck ●as a Type of Christ But these Kings did not act by their own Will but by the Will and Appointment of Almighty God We read of no other King or Kings over the Children of Israel 'till they desired a King. Isa 44.28 45.1 Thus saith the Lord to his Anointed Cyrus he is my Shepherd and shall perform all my pleasure whose right hand I have holden to subdue Nations before him But doth God call any other Heathen Kings his Anointed of which there was a great Number during the time of the Children of Israel Was not St. Paul by the appointment of the Almighty one of the chief of the Apostles though he had been a violent Persecutor And it may very well be thought that God by a particular Providence caused Cyrus to be made King by whom he design'd to subdue Nations and therefore may be very properly called his Chosen or Anointed for in the first Year of his Reign he made a Decree to build the House of God c. Ezra 5.13 14. I do once more affirm that Nimrod is the first King mentioned in Scripture Gen. 10.9 Deut. 16.18 19. The Children of Israel are commanded to make Judges and Officers throughout their Tribes of which they had Twelve Gen. 49.28 Mat. 19.28 which were Societies And they shall Judge the People with just Judgment not wresting Judgment or respecting Persons This was the Government that God had appointed over the Children of Israel which was by Judges and Prophets not by Kings But suppose these Judges were Kings according to your Assertion it follows that the People have right to Elect their Kings by Divine Appointment This makes not a little against the present pretended Jure Divino Doctrine yet 't is certain that there was many Kings by Divine Appointment in the time of the Children of Israel but that they are so now I do absolutely deny Pray Sir examine this Paragraph well for I do positively charge you with Wresting the Scriptures and making very false Assertions I require you to prove that Kings are by the Command or Appointment of Almighty God which done I 'le prove such Government to be necessary and that all others are sinful 31. Some sort of Allegiance is due to hint from whom we receive Protection that it is the only Foundation of Allegiance I