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A28559	The doctrine of non-resistance or passive obedience, no way concerned in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and the Jacobites by a lay gentleman of the communion of the Church of England, by law establish'd.	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.	1689 (1689)	Wing B3451; ESTC R18257	35,035	42

attainting of many hundreds of the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland who were fled to England But the Town of London-Derry holding out and an Army being every Day expected from England the 18th of July this Parliament was prorogued till October And notwithstanding their Act for Liberty of Conscience and the dreadful Expectation of a sudden Revenge from England the Popish Clergy took possession of the Tithes and Church Revenues and many of the Protestant Clergy were clapt up in Prison in order to be sent into France All that our discontented Party here in England have to say to all this is That we must not believe all is told as out of Ireland but they mean That we must believe nothing of it but call in King James and try if he will use us at the same rate We have a Proverb That Experience is the Mistress of Fools and certainly none but such will come a second time under her Discipline when they have so lately tried it and see every Day hundreds of the Nobility Gentry and Clergy of Ireland flee hither to save their Lives with the loss of all besides who agree very exactly one with another in these dreadful Stories Now let it be considered That nothing was asked by the Bishops in their Proposals and by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in their Petition of the 17th of November but a free and legal Parliament and the redress of our Grievances and that this was the principal thing insisted on by the Prince of Orange in his Declaration viz. That a free and legal Parliament might settle and adjust all things in Difference or Dispute and that it was obstinately refused till the 28 th of that Month and then granted when it could be no longer denyed the greatest part of the Nobility and Army being then gone over to the Prince Let also that Passage in the Proclamation of the 30th of November be considered For the reconciling all Publick breaches and obliterating the very Memory of all past Miscarriages We do hereby Exhort and kindly Admonish all our Subjects to dispose themselves to Elect such Persons for their Representatives in Parliament as may not be byassed by Prejudice or Passion but qualified with Parts Experience and Prudence proper for this Conjuncture and agreeable to the Ends and Purposes of this Our Gracious Proclamation And after this that by his Message of the 8th of December sent by the three Lords to the Prince of Orange He promised That he would consent to every thing that could be reasonably required for the security of those that came to it that is to the Parliament And that the 10th of December he sent for the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and Sheriffs of London to Whitehall and again passed his Word to them That though the Queen and Child were gone for France He would stay with them And though this Evening he received such an Answer from the Prince to his Proposals that he could not but acknowledge It was fairer than he could or did expect Yet after all these solemn ingagements he burnt the Writs for the Summoning a Parliament and went the very next Morning away for France as his Roman Catholick Friends had foretold he would above a fortnight before And who accordingly sent a Letter to him whilst he was at Salisbury perswading him to come back from thence and withdraw himself out of the Kingdom and leave it in confusion Assuring him That within two years or less the Nation would be in such Disorder that he might come back and have his Ends of it That is Ruine both our Civil Rights and our Religion When all these solemn promises were thus easily broken or rather never intended to be kept at the very time they were made and all those he has since made have been violated in Ireland where only he had power to keep or break his word what can we conclude but that as a Minister of State told our Planters It is very undecent not to say undutiful to tax this King with his Promises Who of all Mankind has shewn the least regard in time past to them and for time to come can never be blamed for any breach the Parties that take his word being alone responsible for their Incorrigible folly Some of these Men have confessed to me That if ever he be restored they expect to be treated as they were before without Truth Justice or Mercy but yet if it be his Right he must have it And they cannot think his Right can be determined but by Death or a voluntary surrender or a Conquest made by meer Foreigners to the utter Ruine of the English Nation And they will admit no Answer to these their Scruples but what shall be palpable convictive to that degree that they can make no Objection against it Now if they admit all the dreadful consequences that attend this relapse and yield up both Church and Nation to certain and inevitable ruine only that they may not be damned for Perjury and Disobedience to a King that has left them when he might have staied and now offereth to return and do what he then refused What shall we also consent and sacrifice our selves and our Posterity to the humour or scruples of these Men Shall we suffer the English Church Liberties and the very People of England to be destroyed to gratifie two or three hundred persons I have been told from good hands That one of our Bishops said Though he could not satisfie his own Scruples yet he thought the English Nation fools if ever they suffered King James to return and I may from hence reasonably conclude the far greatest part of our Scruplers are satisfied in the main and do heartily wish they could also be of the same mind with the rest of their Brethren in the rest so that the cause is half obtained against them and those that shall finally persist will I hope not meet with much Compassion it being scarce possible there should not be a very great deal of Will in so much blindness Our Neighbours abroad have observed with wonder That England was delivered from an Arbitrary Government which threatned the Ruine and Desolation of the whole Nation and the Destruction of our Religion without the shedding any of our Blood and that the Army of our Deliverer has committed no Disorder or Rapine in any of our Places through which it passed Now one would think the manner of our Deliverance were a Mercy almost equal to the Deliverance No they cry if King William the Third had entered England as William the First did and had slain fifty or sixty thousand English Men in a Battle then it had been a true Conquest and would have justified our submission and God would not have been offended with us if we had transferred our Allegiance from the beaten James to the Victorious King William Now if Men were like Beasts altogether distitute of the use of Reason and capable of no Reflection but the

were extraordinarily dreadful for their Religion Why did they not appear in the defence of some of these poor miserable Emperors who were thus slaughtered one upon the neck of another How could they satisfie their consciences to pay their Allegiance to thirty Emperors in one hundred and ten years and suffer above twenty of these to be deposed and murthered without ever in the least concerning themselves what became of them or who was in the Imperial Throne Certainly here was some reason for this it was not Cowardice never in any Age were there greater numbers of Heroical Martyrs than in this Century four of the ten Persecutions fell in this short period of time and they bore them with all the bravery that any of their Ancestors had shewn The Deposing Doctrine was not then dreamt of At the end of this dreadful Century they were as Innocent as at the beginning of it there was never a Traytor or Usurper to be yet charged upon the Christian Church Well but what then why did they suffer the Pagans to murther their Princes at this rate How could they in conscience pray for thirty Emperors in one hundred and ten years most of which were stained with the Royal Bloods of their Predecessors and who had no other Title than that of a Prosperous Usurpation and a successful Rebellion Let the Iacobites of our Age come forth now and try if they can justifie these Primitive Christians in all this let them produce their Arguments and form Apologies for them which shall not at the same time be unanswerable Objections against their own Practice All that I can say for these Holy Menl is this They followed the Example of our Saviour and as he said in another case who made me a Judge and a divider of Civil Inheritances or of the Titles and Claims of Princes So they said here who has given us Power or Command to interest our selves in these things If we do our Duty and submit to and pray for those Powers that we find set over us by Men as the Instruments by God as the great disposer of Crowns and Scepters we are safe for it is he that Ruleth in the Kingdoms of Men and sets over them The basest of Men such as Oliver Cromwel was Kings given to sinful Nations in his Wrath and sometimes as suddenly again taken away in his Anger and at others continued longer for the Tryal of his People or the chastisement of wicked Men. St. Austin saith Let us ascribe the gift of Kingdoms and Imperial Powers to none but the True God he that gives eternal felicity in the Kingdom of Heaven to none but the Pious but the Earthly Kingdom both to the good and to the bad as he pleaseth who is not pleased with injustice For though we should in this case say all we know yet it would at last be impossible for us to search the hearts of Men and by a clear discovery to judge of the justice of God in relation to Kingdoms That one True God therefore who needs neither the Approbation Judgment nor assistance of Men when he pleased and as far as he pleased gave the Empire of the World to the Romans who gave it before that to the Assyrians and Persians And a little lower He that gave the Kingdom or Empire to Marius gave it to Julius Caesar he that gave it to Augustus gave it also to Nero He that gave it to Vespasian and Titus two merciful sweet Princes gave it also to Domitian a most cruel Prince And that I may not be forced saith he to run through all the Particulars he that gave it to Constantine a Christian gave it to Julian an Apostate whose great parts and Sacrilegious and detestable curiosity was deceived by the love of Empire who trusting afterwards in those vain Oracles to which he was too much addicted and being too secure of the Victory they had promised him burnt his Navy on the Tigris which should have supplied his Army with Provisions and rashly pursuing irrational Designs was deservedly cut off in the Enemies Country Now I would fain have our Jacobites tell me whether the same True God has abandoned the Government of the World and when he did so Did he give the Empire of the World to Nero to Domitian to Julian the Apostate all Usurpers and some of them Murderers of their Predecessors nay to Marius who was the very Image of Oliver Cromwel and has he not since that done any thing of that Nature Did not he that gave the Kingdom of England to King James give it also to King William Did not the Primitive Fathers submit to and pray for Nero Domitian and Julian though Murderers and Usurpers as well as to Claudius Titus and Constantius It was well known Claudius left a Son whose birth was never questioned and that Nero was set up by the Intriegues of Agrippina his Mother Yet St. Paul owned his power to be God Rom. 13. For in that Princes Reign this Epistle was written as Bishop Pearson proves in his Annals of St. Paul pag. 15. But the Christians were few in number then Well but they were numerous enough in the second and third Century but they were all of St. Augustin's mind then too and left God to dispose of the Kingdoms of the World as he thought fit Now how did they know that he had given the Empire in their times to this of that Man but by the event and was that sufficient to justifie them in their acquiescing in and submitting to the Will of God thus discovered and will not the same be sufficient to us too Is not the same Providence as powerful and as vigilant in our times as in theirs For my part I was none of them that did or durst have resisted or Rebelled against King James but when he chose rather to leave his Kingdom than to do his Subjects Right it was just with God and Men to confirm the Election he had made and seeing he would not continue in the Station God had placed him in that of a Regular and Limited Monarchy but aspired to an Absolute and unlimited Arbitrary Empire and persecuted those who had set him up and preserved him in his Throne It was just I say that God should say unto him as he did to Saul Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord he hath rejected thee from being King. Seeing you have provoked and deserted your People and have fled into a strange Country when you might by observing your Oath and your Laws have lived happily in your own you shall the fruit of your own folly and I will give it to a neighbour of thine that is better than you Now I would fain know of my Country men who are still dissatisfied what I or any of the other Members of the Church of England who never resisted King James till he left us have done more than the Primitive Christians did in the like Circumstances and I