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lord_n	day_n	people_n	see_v	12,123	5	3.4423	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58226	Reasons against petitioning the King for restoring the deprived bishops without repentance by a divine of the Church of England.	A. B.	1690 (1690)	Wing R474; ESTC R14464	9,255	8

Tranquillity to all Generations As for those who think it is sufficient for the saving their Consciences if they swear Allegiance to King William as King de facto not de jure I do very much question it non tali auxilio nec defensoribus istis tempus eget this present Cause needs no such Advocates I see not how they can excuse and defend those of the Nobility Gentry Clergy and Commonalty who did invite the Prince of Orange over and hazard their All in his Cause after his landing Debile fundamentum fallit opus The Superstructure can be no stronger than the Foundation and if the Prince of Orange had no just ground for his Undertaking I see not how his Adherents can be justified I say not that the business of the Prince of Wales was the only ground for his now Majesties Undertaking but I think it was a principal one which considered in its Causes Concomitants and Effects is abundantly sufficient for Vindication of the present Settlement and for ever stopping the Mouths of all its Opposers I do not build the Justice of his Majesties Cause upon bare Success but yet a righteous Cause I hope is not the worse for being blessed by God with wonderful and astonishing Success 15. That which in my Observation makes the Enemies of the Government to bear ill-will to it is Hatred to impartial Godliness The Devil doth not use to envy Men Prosperity in Wickedness but the more they prosper in Wickedness the more he is pleased they may take their fill of it he will not disquiet them And if the present Settlement were only Prosperity in Evil Satan would not envy and he so much against it as it is visible he is by his Agents and Instruments King David once said ● am this day weak tho Anointed King and these Men the Sons of Zervi 〈…〉 〈◊〉 too hard for me 〈…〉 the Lord shall reward the Doer of Evil according to his Wickedness 2 Sam 3. 39. There have been among us and yet are Sons of Zerviah too hard for the Government but the comfort is the Government is like the House of David waxing stronger and stronger and these Sons of Zerviah the Doers of Evil wax weaker and weaker The Sons of Zerviah were those who adhered to David against the House of Saul and were Men of great Interest and Power they were a Combination and Faction in the State who took advantage of the Weakness and Infancy of the Government to the compassing of their own Ends and politick Designs against the general good of Prince and People The like we have among us at this day but the Lord shall reward the Doer of Evil according to his Wickedness 16. I see not how ●●y Man can be a good Man who is 〈◊〉 peaceable Man and I see not how a Man can be peaceable who governs himself ●● unpeaceable and seditious Principles Loyalty and Allegiance to the higher Powers is an essential Branch of the fifth Commandment comprized in our Baptismal Covenant and taught to Children in the common Catechism And tho many may be loyal to their King and Country who are void of holy Love and Loyalty towards God yet I see not how a Man can be truly holy and loyal towards God who is not a good Subject a good Common-wealths Man who is not zealous for the publick Good who governs himself by Principles destructive of human Society 17. Upon the same grounds that the Persons petitioned for scruple Allegiance to their present Majesties they might have scrupled Allegiance to those who were last in the Throne and the Subjects of any King now on Earth may scruple Allegiance to their Soveraign For I would ask them what better Right to the Throne had the late King James after his Brother's death than their present Majesties now have They will say The Right of Succession Very well Now all sides grant that a successive 〈◊〉 A certain Grand Jury were severely reproved by an emi●ent Judg for offe●ing this Petition which is a suffi●ient E 〈…〉 ce of the Illegality thereof Kingdom is no Inlargement of Right but a Continuation of what the Predecessor had For he that succeeds succeeds in universum jus defuncti into all the Right of the deceased Now because there cannot be processus in infinitum infinite proceeding therefore of necessity we must come to some first in whom the Monarchy began But no legal and just Monarchy can begin and be constituted without mutual Compact and Covenant tacit or express between Prince and People It were easy to shew this at large from Scripture Natural Reason the Custom of Nations and approved general Usage and the Concessions of Adversaries Now this Right their Majesties have as good as Will. the Conqueror had and as good as Henry the 7th had As for the grand Objection of a former Obligation to the late King the Answer is that he was as truly and as strongly bound to us as we to him and we did not first forsake him but he forsook us we did not resist lawful Authority but only those who pretended Authority but really had none For no Law whether Divine or Humane gave the late King Authority to impose upon the Consciences of all in three Kingdoms a feigned Prince of Wales to the Exc●u●ion of the right Heir and overthrowing the Right of Succession He by engaging in defence of this Villany did engage against God against the Law against common Honesty against the common Good and made himself no legal Monarch but a Subverter of the Legal Monarchy and so he did discharge us from all ties of Allegiance o him and it became our Duty by force of Arms to stand up for the legal Monarchy against its Enemies FINIS