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land_n	king_n	law_n	people_n	7,366	5	5.0891	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33246	A defence of the present government under King William and Queen Mary shewing the miseries of England under the arbitrary reign of the late King James II, the reasonableness of the proceedings against him, and the happiness that will certainly follow a peaceable submission to, and standing by King William and Queen Mary / by a divine of the Church of England.	Claridge, Richard, 1649-1723.	1689 (1689)	Wing C4432; ESTC R35640	5,241	12

A DEFENCE OF THE Present Government UNDER King William Queen Mary SHEWING The Miseries of England under the Arbitrary Reign OF THE Late KING JAMES II. THE Reasonableness of the Proceedings against him and the Happiness that will certainly follow a peaceable Submission to and Standing by King William and Q. Mary By a Divine of the Church of England LONDON Printed for R. Baldwin in the Old-Bayly 1689. Licensed May 16. 1689. J. Phraser A DEFENCE OF THE Present Government WHat miserable Circumstances we lay under during the late arbitrary Reign by Rapes and Violences committed upon our Religion and Laws by the impudent Violation of the most sacred Oaths and Promises by the Invasion of Property and general Corruption of Justice is a thing so palpable and notorious that 't is allmost incredible any men but Papists should be in Love with it and yet by sad Experience we find there is a degenerous Race of Protestants among us that seem to be fond of their former Slavery and like the Children of Israel are hankering after the Flesh pots of Aegypt they are infatuated with the name of Divine Right of Monarchy and being carried headlong with that fallacious Notion fall into a Frenzy and Madness against the present Lawfull Authority Almighty God has no where determined in his Word a Model for our Civil Government but has left us as all other Nations to such a Form as shall be agreed upon by the People and where this Agreement is not 't is not properly Government but Tyranny for without it the Judicious Mr. Hooker says There is no reason why one man should take upon him to be Judge or Lord over another because for the Manifestation of this their Right and mens more peaceable Contentment on both sides the Assent of them who are to be governed seemeth necessary And a little after he says All publick Regiment of what kind soever seemeth evidently to have risen from deliberate Advice Consultation and Composition between men judging it convenient and behoovefull And what he says concerning the Power of Government he applies to the Power of Making of Laws whereby to govern and shews That the lawfull Power of making Laws to command whole politick Societies belongs so properly to the same entire Societies that for any Prince or Potentate of what kind soever upon Earth to exercise the same of himself and not either by express Commission Immediately and Personally received from God or else by Authority derived at first by their Consent upon whose Persons they impose Laws it is no better than mere Tyranny And he adds Laws they are not therefore which publick Approbation hath not made so The Judgment of this great Man I could back with very many good Authorities but there is no need he alone being Instar Omnium Equal to All whose Five first Books of Ecclesiastical Polity have been received as Oracles even by those very Persons who now differ from him When this Authour makes for them as he does abundantly in vindicating Church Ceremonies then he is the LEARNED JUDICIOUS Mr. HOOKER but when he goes against their Interest though not against the Truth then he is decried and branded with being Erroneous But t is not Mr. Hooker's Fate alone to be thus dealt with for they treat all Authours as ill that are against their Exotick and new fangled Notions of Sovereignty and Allegiance For when the Authour is not for them they resolve to be against the Authour though it should be against Reason The Jewish Theocrasie is no Precedent to the English Monarchy there God immediately governed he gave that Nation all their Laws Moral Judiciary and Ceremonial but we can make no pretence to such a Divine Conduct we must have recourse to the wholsome Laws and Customs of our Countrey for our Direction in Civil Proceedings Neither our Saviour nor his Apostles intermeddled with Civil Government but left that as they found it Christ's Kingdom was not of this World and therefore he and his Apostles meddled no farther with the Kingdoms of the World than to teach all their Duties in their respective Stations the Magistrates to rule and the People to obey in the Fear of God. I know not where they command a Passive Obedience to Illegal Violence if the Law be for a Man it cannot be Rebellion in him to defend himself by it but if the Law be against a man then he has a proper Reason for the exercise of Non-resistence The Apostle bids us be subiect to the Higher Powers because the Powers that be are ordained of God. Rom. 13 11. But he does not command us this without restraction for Rulers must not be Terrour to good Works but to the evil being appointed for the punishment of evil Doers and for the Praise of them that doe well 1 Pet. 2. 14. This is the End of their Government and the reason of our Obedience When they govern as according to the Laws of our Countrey and discourage Vice by Punishing it and encourage Vertue by Rewards Resistence is then Rebellion with a Witness but when Rulers fail in all this and of Nuysing Fathers which they should be degenerate into bloody Murtherers of their Countrey which they ought not to be Resistence is not Rebellion but a just and lawfull Defence against unjust and unlawfull Oppression The Standard then of our Civil Goverment is the Law of the Land It is superiour to all Orders and Banks of Men and looks with an equal Aspect upon the Prince and People According to this Law we ought to be governed and when contrary to this Law we are invaded as we were in the late King's time in every thing that was near and dear to us we may justly defend our selves against such illegal Doings at home and join with a Stranger that will take upon him to protect us against the Cruelties of an Arbitrary Power In such a Case as this we may take the best means we can for our Safety Must the Lives of Innocent Millions be endangered to gratifie One Man's Arbitrary Lust Must Popery be set up contrary to our Laws and Oaths as well as Scripture and the best Antiquity Must we deny our Senses and Reason to become Christians Must we be forc'd to embrace a Religion that has not so much Charity in it as Mahometanism and much less moral Justice and Honesty And must we be content to wear the Chains and Fetters of Ecclesiastical and Civil Slavery when we may enjoy a Gospel Service which is perfect Freedom and live under the easiest and best of Governments Should we consent to all this as it cannot be avoided if the late King's Interests must be advanced Bedlam or Bridewell were the fittest place for us There has nothing been done saving some enormities of the Mobile in this great and wonderfull Revolution but is justifiable before God and the World from Scripture from Reason and the Constitution and Practice of this Kingdom Let us go according to