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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66831	Loyalty amongst rebels the true royalist, or, Hushay the Archite, a happy counsellour in King David's greatest danger / written by Edward Wolley ...	Wolley, Edward, 1603-1684.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3266; ESTC R31822	59,179	224

Kingdomes or Dominions or to authorise any Foreign Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his Subjects of their Allegiance and obedience to his Majesty or to give license or leave to any of them to bear Arms raise Tumults or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royal Person State or Government or to any of his Majesties Subjects within his Majesties Dominions Also I do swear from my heart that notwithstanding any Declaration or sentence of Excommunication or Deprivation made or granted or to be made or granted by the Pope or his Successours or by any Authority derived or pretended to be derived from him or his See against the said King his Heirs or Successours or any Absolution of the said Subjects from their Obedience I will bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty his Heirs and Successours and him and them will defend to the uttermost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatsoever which shall be made against his or their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such Sentence or Declaration or otherwise and will do my best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty his Heirs and Successours all Treasons and Trayterous Conspiracies which I shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do further swear That I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical this Damnable Doctrine and Position That princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And I do believe and in conscience am resolved that neither the Pope nor any person whatsoever hath power to absolve me of this Oath or any part thereof which I acknowledge by good and full Authority to be lawfully administred unto me and do renounce all pardons and dispensations to the contrary And all these things I doe plainly and sincerely acknowledge swear according to these expresse words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation or mental evasion or secret reservation whatsoever And I do make this Recognition and acknowledement heartily willingly and truly upon the true faith of a Christian So help me God c. The Oath of Supremacy I A. B. Do utterly testifie and declare in my conscience that the King 's Highnesse is the onely Supream Governour of this Realm and of all other his Highnesse's Dominions and Countries as well in all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal And that no Foreign Prince Person Prelate State or Potentate hath or or ought to have any Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preeminence or Authority Ecclesiastical or Spiritual within this Realm And therefore I do utterly renounce and forsake all Forraign Jurisdictions Powrs Superiorities and Authorities and do promise that from henceforth I shall bear Faith and true Allegiance to the King's Highnesse his Heirs and lawfull Successours and to my power shall assist and defend all Jurisdictions Priviledges Preeminences and Authorities granted or belonging to the Kings Highness his Heirs and successours or united and annexed to the Imperial Crown of this Realm So help me God and by the contents of this book These Platforms and models of Oathes as they are of holy use to unite our fidedelity to God and Man so they are of Divine Authority and seem to be influential from Heaven from whence we have the Sacred example so the Scriptures testifie Exod 33.1 Depart hence unto the Land which I swear unto Abraham Isaac and Jacob. Thus divine usage is very frequent with God Deut 1.8.34.35 Psal 95.9 Luk. 1.73 Heb. 6.13 Heb. 7.21 And as God pleased to confirm his promise with an Oath So King David Gods annointed voweth and sweareth calling on God and praying Lord remember David and all his Afflictions how he swear unto the Lord and vowed to the mighty God of Jacob. Psal 132.1 2. And Solomon his royal Son gave Counsel to all his subjects and all the world I counsel thee to keep the Kings commandement and that in regard of the Oath of God Eccles 8.2 Having now set fourth the sacred ☜ Oaths and obligations of the Kings and Queens of England and of some of the cheif Officers and Ministers of State together with the Homage of the Ecclesiastical Hirarchy and temporal Nobility and of the three great Officers of Court the Lord high Steward the Master of the Horse and the Lord Chamberlain by their Oathes as privy counsellors under whose immediate command and power all servants at Court are sworn to fidelity and obedience in their respective relations and ranks of order degrees and subordinations It is plain and easie to every rational subject to discern and see the most excellent form of Government that the prudence and piety of former ages hath conveyed to the English to this present time and we cannot do less then admire and magnifie the gracious providence and riches of Gods favours to the Kingdome of England who hath with the golden chain of harmonious Government so lincked Kings and Queens to himself and all their subjects and people to their soveraign Princes that no Kingdome under the canopy of Heaven hath a better frame of Government either for Church or State or the transaction of Ecclesiastick or civil concernments and affaires in which there is such an incementing concatenation by wholesome laws and customes for justice and the happy preservation of all the peoples Rights that as the King may sit as happily and securely on his Throne as any Monarch on earth so his people may as prosperously thrive under his gracious Government and reposing themselves under their own vines and figtrees as cheerfully enjoy the inestimable blessings of their own just rights and labours Milk and Hony with the overflowing favours of Peace and Plenty How great a crime must it then be to wrest or break one of the invaluable lincks of this golden concatenation which Soveraign Princes graciously please to strengthen and consolidate if possible by their sacred Oathes to God which cannot but indear and more oblige ingenuous subjects to greater exactness of duty and fidelity considering that these pious proceeding are more acts of Grace and voluntary and Princely condescentions flowing from the fountaines of their own royal goodness being methods of high degrees of kindness and love where words or promises and those at their royal wills and pleasure are to be looked on not only as certainties and assurances but as deeds and compleat performances The civil Law expecteth as much from Noble men and Persons of Honour that there words be equally esteemed as their deeds m Promissa nobilinm pro factis habentur And Iser c. 1. Tantum fidei legalitatis presumitur in Nobilibus ut si quicquam promiserint id per equesit certum ac indubitatum ac si jam factum esset And Iser c 1.

or alteration though from a discontented party or reconciled enemy in policy was not to be refused or unacceptable for though it might not much strengthen the King yet in some proportion it did debilitate and weaken the enemy and it might be probably hoped that as some branches had fallen from the Rebellious body others might follow their example or at least learn from them that an Army or party like a house or Kingdome divided within it self hath no long duration and cannot stand this declension from evil principles as it was an external testimony of repentance and grace so it must be acknowledged to be good service and a fair praeludium to future good effects but duty and endeavour of this Nature may rather and more fitly be reputed expiations for former crimes then pretensions to reward and merit which ever as the acute School men testify i Moritum importat aqualitatem justitiae Aquin. 3. quas 19. implyeth and importeth an equality of justice and right and justice doth not beg but boldly plead for desert and merit and to have and receive its rights not out of bounty or favour but as its due and debt a soveraign Throne cannot endure such petulant and bold pleaders This temper were rather tolerable in equals and Kings know none then inferiours and might better sute with commanders and soveraign Kings acknowledge none but God Rex a Deo primus nulli secundus then with those who have been offenders and in the highest priviledges ought to attend as humble petitioners So then though the service be never so infinite yet rising from the art and power of those who have so deeply offended there can be no pretences to merit which in a second reveiw is not to be granted or admitted without a lessoning diminution to the prerogatives of soveraignty which is so absolute that it cannot endure any intimation of command k Meritum est actio qua justum est ut agenti aliquiddetur Aquin. 3.49 c. 6. Now merit as the Schools teach is an action whereby it is not only might but necessary that reward and recompence be payed as a debt to him who hath acted now when the Actions and prevarications of those who have so highy injured and deeply wounded soveraignty and disturbed the peace and prosperity of three Kingdomes are ballanced and put into the Scales with their good works of loyalty though never so weighty they will be found utterly too light for reward or merit and rather justly prove objects of their Princes grace and clemency and in case their soveraign like Ahasuerus have inclined his royal Scepter towards them and thereby testified his bounty and goodnesse and so capacitated them with royal favour trust and honour these obligations as they magnifie the virtue of the Prince so they are as so many stronger chains to bind those who are obliged by them to greater perfection of loyalty and more exact and vigilant performances of their duty or else those favours will prove as so many witnesses to evidence against them and to accuse them of odious and monstruous ingratitude Meritum congrui condigni Aquin. l. 2. q. I 14. c. 6. And as to the medium or modification of the School distinction of condignity or is not to be admitted in this case for that of condignity or adequate merit is absolutely taken away and that of congruity or rather conveniency is totally and intirely to be recommended to the Princes Will Grace Wisdome and Iudgement who as he pleaseth may promote or punish as well as pardon by act of indemnity or amnesty as to royal pleasure shall seem expedient Apologies and excuses in delinquents thus exploded and all pretences to merit in those who have legally forfeited their lives liberties and estates by the laws of the land utterly abrogated what refuge can such offenders fly and address to as cordials to preserve their honour or their consciences perhaps some may plead their promise their vow their protestation their engagement or the covenant or their abjuration these were if righty judged exammined cunning subtile and sinful designs in the projectors and contrivers who framed them were Trumpets of Rebellion Sedition and faction sounded and blown up by those who promoted them and proved as snares to their Souls who either weakly submitted or with temporizing appetites did greedily swallow them and these cobweb lines spun out of the body womb of a venimous spider are not strong enough to hold a subjects hand or heart from his duty of faith allegiance towards his Soveraign and each one of these feeble and subsequent obligations being sifted by truth and reason as well as laws and justice will crumble to nothing before the oathes of allegiance and supremacy and the light of that duty that by municipal decrees by the laws of nature birth-right every subject oweth to his Prince being born under his prerogative and power in any of his Kingdomes or Dominions First as to promises l Promissio est actus iationis quia est enuntiatio ordinatio alicujus T. Aquin. 22. quae 88. a. 1. which are the suddain and usually most transient verbal obligations and ought to be effected of all persons of understanding Religion and Honour they ought ever to be acts of sound reason and judgement raised on good foundations and duly considered before they come to be published and proclaimed by the tongue or signed by the hand and even the strictest promises or paroles do not oblige the Faith or Honour of him that m Promissa non debent securari si estillicitum quod promittiur vel si sint mutatae conditionis personarum vel negotiorum Ad hoc ergo quod homo debeat servare quod promiserat oportet ut sit licitum quod promittitur quod omnia immutata permaneant Aquin. 22 ae quest 110. a. 35. promiseth if what be promised be illicit or unlawful or if the conditions of Persons or affairs be changed and altered These essentials rightly considered what ever promises have been made by subjects against the soveraignty of their Princes liberties of their Country laws of the land do fall to the Ground dissolve of themselves because of their illicit ununlawful foundation And as to the mutation of persons or affaires subjects are not to make new promises of combination or conspiracy against the true old principles of faith and true allegiance to their Kings for whether they sit gloriously and puissantly on their thrones or by any black misfortune are reduced to a low degree their character is indelible and being Gods vice-gerent in all conditions their subjects owe them reverence and true allegiance The first scruple thus easily blown over the second may prove of lesser difficulty some more zealous then judicious proceed further and plead they have not only promised but vowed now a vow seems to be a cord of stronger twisting the rather because an act of more