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lord_n	bloody_a	glory_n	great_a	127	3	2.1249	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46813	Beaufrons, or, A new-discovery of treason under the fair-face and mask of religion, and of liberty and conscience : in an answer to the Protestant reconciler ... / by one of His Majestie's chaplains.	Jenner, David, d. 1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing J657; ESTC R32980	46,367	116

is Founded in Grace and Godliness And among them the Censores Judges of the Governour 's Grace and Godliness are the people of that Independent Congregational Church unto which the said Governour or Magistrate belongs For as was hinted before every Governour must be a Member of some Individual Congregational Church And before he can be admitted a Member he must declare The time of his Conversion The Marks and Evidences of his Conversion This he must doe in the open Face of the Congregation where every Individual Member of the Church is a Judge of his Grace and Fitness And if it be objected That he has not given sufficient Evidence of his Conversion then he shall not be admitted a Member of their Church Nor shall he be chosen a Governour or Magistrate of their Common-Wealth And all because he wanted Grace This is the constant Doctrine and Practice of the Independents in New-England And although this kind of Doctrine and Practice may be consistent with a Common-Wealth Yet we are sure it is Diametrically Opposite to the very Being of Monarchy which Jure Divino challengeth to it self a Regal Supremacy over all its Subjects whether Ecclesiastick or Civil And hence it is that all Independents are against Kingly Government to wit Because they are against Kingly Supremacy The Independents indeed would allow of Kingly Government if their King would let them chuse him and if he would submit himself to their Congregational Censures and Orders And in case their King should by them be found unfit for Government through want either of Grace or Prudence if then he would suffer himself quietly and meekly to be Deposed by them Upon These Terms and no other will or can the Independents according to their professed Principles admit of a King For hence it came to pass that Because the Independents in the Late Rebellion were of Opinion That King Charles the First was an Vngodly Man One void of Grace an Idolater and therefore Vnfit for Government Hence it was That They the Independents Deposed Him and then Cut off His Head and that as They termed it by the Axe of High Justice And Because after they had Murthered the Father they Feared that The Son King Charles the Second did also want Grace and trod in his Father's Steps and would not love the People of God i. e. Themselves Therefore it was That they the Independents strove by force of Arms with all their Might and Main to keep him Out of the Royal Throne For proof of this Witness a most virulent Independent Writer in his Treatise Intituled PEACE and TRUTH MOSES and AARON Kissing each Other The Authour of the said Treatise Writes his Name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. John Blackbdell In his Preface to the Independent Army Dissuading them from Setting up the Present King in the Throne of his Father He Writes thus God was angry with the Israelites for desiring a King and that Page 7. because God was against the Form of Kingly Government and preferred the Government of Judges before that of Kings And what Will you desire a King Now Dear Friends Page 9. Concerning the Fruits that came by Kings I Appeal to God to his Sacred Word to the Records to the Chronicles to the experience both of our own and other Nations Whether Kings have been to be compared with those Judges for Have not Kings been addicted to Vices and very empty of such Graces as were requisite for Men in such eminent Places Kings were neither the first nor the best way of Government God disliked Kings and loved Judges And I verily believe These are the very times in which God will destroy corrupt Government and Governours and will give and restore to us Judges as at the first I am not desirous says he to call back those things that are done and past and therefore Page 14. Touching the late King's Death Consider that we cannot recall that What then Are you Resolved to set up the Eldest Son upon the Throne of his Father Consider well of it Can you tell whether He will care for the Flock Can you tell whether he will prove wise or foolish Will you expect Grapes from Throns Do you see any Tokens of Godliness in Him David saith Page 15. That he loveth those that love the Lord and hateth those that are God's enemies And Page 22. he highly commends the Army for Defending the Rump and Common-wealth against the King and his Party And Page 25. he upbraids Prinn and the Presbyterian Party for shewing their Teeth but durst not Bite for going about to Manacle King Charles the First and for endeavouring to restrain and lessen his Regal Power But durst not strike where his strength lay to wit his Head Whereas the Independents did better for by Cutting off his Anointed Head they deprived Him of all Strength The Scripture says he is evident Page 31 34 That the People have Right in divers Cases Yo Depose and Punish wicked Kings and Governours when the Said People are Strong enough to Doe it Though says he wofull experience tells us How hard a matter it is for a People to get Strength enough to Remove a King though never so apparently Delinquent And therefore Dear Friends Let us be warned * * Pray Mark this Not to admit of the Son lest when he is in the Throne we shall not be able to Remove him But that which is most Prodigious of all and which speaks This Saint-like Independent a Worse and more irreconcileable Enemy to the King than any other except some of his own Gang and Sect is this That this Authour was so far from excusing The King's Murther as that he impudently Glories in that Bloudy and Hellish Action and dignifies the Regicides with the Title of The Worthies of the Lord And whereas it had been Objected That the Jesuits and Papists had a great hand in carrying on the late War against the King and in Cutting off his Sacred Head This Authour Johannes Melaina Bdella Page 41. denies that it was the Jesuits or Papists Doings But boasts that it was onely the Independents and their Godly Army whom Almighty God crowned with success it was they who conquered the late King and his mighty Host who By God's Law Deposed him and then after a fair and open Tryal justly Condemned him to Suffer Death for his Delinquency and Treason towards the people committed to his Government Oh the height of Villany and impudence not onely to commit Murther and Rebellion but also to Vaunt and Glory in it and without Blushing to proclaim their own shame and with a Brazen Forehead to stand at the Market Cross and cry O ye good People Believe us we we the Godly Independents that walk by Scripture-Rule We the People of the Lord and no body else are the Saviours of the Nation We and not ye Cowardly faint-hearted Presbyterians We and not ye wicked Jesuits nor ye Idolatrous Papists We