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A66600	God, the King, and the countrey, united in the justification of this present revolution containing also animadversions on Dr. William Sherlock's book intituled, The case of allegiance due to soveraign powers, stated and resolved, according to scripture and reason, and the principles of the Church and England / by Tim. Wilson ...	Wilson, Timothy, 1642-1705.	1691 (1691)	Wing W2950; ESTC R8407	46,572	49

which concern the Duty of Subjects and the Publick Good And as for the Instances in Scripture out of the Books of the Kings and Chronicles it is plain that there was a Covenant between the King and People And after the Deposing of Athaliah all the Congregation made a Covenant with the King in the House of God 2 Chron 23.3 And what doth a Covenant signifie if it may not be defended and justified If such a dead Dog as I am were worthy to admonish an English Monarch I would advise him to make Law the Rule of his Reign and shew his Prerogative in Acts of Bounty Mercy and Mitigation of the Rigour of some severe Laws And I would not tell him that it is Rebellion for an Innocent Subject to defend himself And yet I imagine that I am as great a Friend to Monarchy and to the Church of England as the greatest Passive-Obedience-Doctor is 4. We have the End of Government For the good of the whole Sodiety Power and Authority is ordained of God for the Happiness of Mankind By this we are legally secured against wicked Men in our Houses Possessions Lands and Estates in our Liberties and Properties and in whatsoever belongs to us as Members of a Civil Society Political Order is a just Disposition between King and Subject as well as between Subject and Subject God is the Author and Lover of Order and an Enemy of Disorder and Confusion And Government was constituted by the singular Wisdom and Providence of God for the good of his Creatures From hence I may deduce these Inferences 1. Hence the Power and Authority of Kings and Governours is clearly Divine They are constituted Rulers by God and are his Ministers And therefore Honour and Obedience is due to them for the Lords sake 1 Pet. 2.13 2. Hence it follows evidently That Princes and Governours ought to Rule in Gods fear and so perform their Office as Gods Vicegerents administring Justice impartially knowing whose Authority they have Hence Princes are called Pastors of the People and Fathers of the Countrey And should bear the Name of Gods and Children of the most High not only in Power but in Goodness 3. Hence it necessarily follows that all Subjects ought to reverence and honour their King and Governours with most humble Service Homage and Obedience in all things But of this more anon 2. I shall consider the several kinds The most common Distribution is into Monarchy Aristocracy and Democracy The first kind or Form of Government is Monarchy I approve of this as best according to the saying of the most Famous Poet The Rule of many is not good Let there be one Ruler one King to whom God gives the Scepter He is King who hath Supream Power subject to none And a Monarch is either Absolute or Conditional And again either Elective or Successive Elective when in a Kingdom a Person of a new Family or of the same Family is chosen Successive when the next Heir Male and in some Kingdoms the Female is owned and proclaimed Thus the Kingdom of England is by Inheritance and Succession And our King never dies as we say But the King of England is not Absolute but Limited And hath Lords and Commons without whom he cannot make nor repeal Laws And we have Magna Charta unviolable And the Subjects great Felicity and no less the Kings Honour who Rules not over Slaves but Freemen 3. I shall shew the Latitude of Subjection It is a Civil Filial Fear of the King And excludes all things that tend to his Dishonour and includes all things that tend to his Honour It contains all Duties and Services required of Subjects to their Prince There is an universal Obedience next under and after God in all things Legal due to the King who Reigns by the Ordinance and Appointment of God Native Religion and true Christianity is the greatest Interest of Princes A good Conscience and pious Heart abhors Obmurmurations Factions Seditions Rebellions or whatsoever can be conceived to disturb the Souls subjection to the Higher Powers It is gross Hypocrisie to pretend to follow the Holy Jesus and not render to Caesar the things which are Caesar's I am sure that Christ and his Apostles taught Subjection to the Roman Emperor as the Ornament and Honour of their Religion This Subjection first forbids light and vain thoughts of the Kings Authority and Person 2. Uttering Wicked and Trayterous words speaking evil of him Thou shalt not revile the Gods nor curse the Ruler of thy People Exod. 22.28 And curse not the King no not in thy Thought Eccles 10.20 And the Holy Ghost brands them with the odious name of filthy Dreamers who despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities St. Jude ver 8. In brief It excludes all retaining of his Dues Tribute Custom c. all Cheating him of his Revenue all Disobedience to his wholsom Laws all Contempt or Violation offered to his Sacred Person 2. Subjection includes or comprehends all Duties of a Christian Subject to his King For that which is in one place Let every Soul be subject to the Higher Powers is in another Fear the King and Honour the King And in the Fifth Commandment Honour thy Father and Mother Here as by Father and Mother all Superiors are meant not only our Natural Parents but also our Political Father our Governours especially the Supream Magistrate the King As it is well explained in our Church-Catechism To Honour and Obey the King and all that are put in Authority under him Which also is the Interpretation of all sober Divines So by this word Honour all kinds of Duty and Services from all Inseriors to their Superiors respectively are comprised So to Honour as to Fear Love and Obey them c. This is expressed also by St. Peter Submit your selves unto every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as Supream or unto Governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil doers and for the praise of them that do well This is yet more fully and largely set down by St. Paul Rom. 13. Where this Doctrine is not only declared but pressed and confirmed by many strong and solid Reasons We must needs be subject not only for Wrath but also for Conscience sake v. 5. If you make Conscience of your ways give the King his Due There is nothing more plain than this Chapter for Subjection to the King and Submission and respect to his Officers without murmuring and repining when according to Law they demand their Dues The humble Christian and obedient Subject who willingly submits to the Kings Laws may be assured that in that particular he pleaseth God and he always hath the Testimony and Satisfaction of a good Conscience But the stubborn and disobedient who will not render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's assuredly displeaseth God and can never quiet his Conscience but runs the hazard of a most ignominious esteem in

words of the Reverend Dr. Fern Monarchy however we cannot say it is Jure Divino by Divine Precept commanding all Nations to be so governed or Jure Naturae by Nature's Law inforcing it is plainly ductu Naturae by Nature leading men from Paternal to Legal Government and exemplo Divino as I may say by Divine example and insinuation We suppose as the Sacred Historian tells us that Adam and so Noah after the Flood by Gods blessing begat Sons and Daughters These spread over the face of the Earth some in Asia some in Africa some in Europe c. And these God indued with Reason and they lived or should have lived by the Light of Nature Gods own Law written in their hearts And as face answereth to face in a glass so the heart of man to man And when they encreased greatly for orders sake or because some were lawless and living without the fear of God oppressed the weak Natural Prudence which is the Light of God in Man taught them to Covenant with one Ruler and to have common society and mutual help and some Rules Laws and Customs to determine Controversies between Family and Family Man or Man for the publick good To this first Constitution all were bound both Rulers and Ruled and this could not be changed ordinarily but by the Heads of such Societies or Families If any man can disprove this by Reason or Scripture we would gladly see it As for our own Countrey it is manifest in the most antient Histories and Chronicles that ever I read that we have been governed by Kings all along But we have had an Heptarchy and not always Lineal Succession And when England was one Monarchy under Egbert in the year of Christ 818. or thereabouts we shall find the Succession altered for the publick good as the late Author of the Vnreasonableness of Separation upon the account of the Oaths hath largely shewed out of Mat. Westminster and Mat. Paris and others But still all this supposeth an Agreement between the King and People originally And no doubt Monarchy and all Government will stand best upon its own Foundation And what men agree to all conscientious men will observe according to the mutual Oath of King and People And it is so far from being an inconvenience that it is the only true and just Title of all Royal Families And it is a prejudice to the King to say otherwise For the best and wisest men submit only upon Condition and Covenant We know that Nature teacheth all men to prevent Ruine and this is the Law of God But let us come to the Dr's great Principle the disposal of Providence p. 12. God governs the rest of the World removes Kings and sets up Kings only by his Providence that is then God sets up a King when by his Providence he advanceth him to the Throne that is I think God sets up a King when he sets up a King a self-evident Principle and puts the Sovereign Authority into his hands Then he removeth a King when by his Providence he thrusts him from his Throne and takes the Government out of his hands c. I can make no other sense of this but that God doth it when he doth it But how shall it appear to us that it is Gods Providence either to remove or set up a King The Dr. answereth There are but three ways whereby God gives this Power and Authority to any person either by Nature or by express Nomination or by the Disposal of Providence p. 11. If this be not Trifling I know not what is If any man should ask the Dr. Who made him Master of the Temple and he should answer God made him so or it was the disposal of Providence would he not smile tho' this is true But the Question asked is about the Humane Principal Efficient subordinate to God and his Providence But the former never comes into question among Christians It is confessed it was Gods Providence that exalted Joseph and all Kings I can hardly forbear but I have always reverenced the Dr. and therefore will say no more but Lord have mercy upon us the sinful Sons of Adam O the power of Prejudice As for Gods Providence in this Revolution I have published my thoughts in a Discourse entituled Conscience satisfied in a Cordial and Loyal Submission to the present Government of King William and Queen Mary and I must refer the inquisitive Reader to that Treatise p. 11 c. But here farther that we may consider what the Doctor saith we must distinguish of Gods Providence It is either 1. Immediate and extraordinary Or 2. Mediate and ordinary 1. The immediate and extraordinary Providence of God is when God works what he will besides or against the means and order appointed by himself in Nature And this is done in all Miracles which are effected to this end that we may know that the Omnipotent Creator and Governour of all things acts most freely by means or without means And this is manifest either 1. In punishing his Enemies Or 2. In preserving his Servants Thus God immediately by a Deluge from Heaven drowned the Old World confounded the Language of the Rebels at Babel rained Fire and Brimstone out of Heaven upon Sodom drowned Pharaoh and his Host in the Red Sea after all those former Plagues and Judgments upon him Thus God commanded the Earth to open and swallow up those proud and hypocritical Rebels Corah and his company By this the Sun stood still and the Moon stayed till the people had avenged themselves on their Enemies Josh 10.13 By this to deliver good Hezekiah and his people Israel the Angel of the Lord smote in the Camp of the Assyrians one hundred fourscore and five thousand 2 King 19.35 On the other side God by his extraordinary Providence gave Abraham a Son in his old age commanded the Ravens to feed his zealous Servant Elijah multiplied the Widdows Oil and preserved the three Children in the Fiery Furnace and the like Hence the Psalmist concludes The Lord alone doth great wonders Psal 136.4 But I suppose the Dr. doth not mean that God makes any King or Queen thus by Miracle He did not send an Angel to set the Crown on their Majesties Heads on the days of their Arrival in London or on the day of their Election by the Convention of Estates or on the day of their Coronation 2. Therefore there is a mediate and ordinary Providence of God And that is when God by Creatures or second Causes produceth those Effects to which those Creatures or Causes by the constant accustomed Order of Nature are appointed and made by God Thus by food and nourishment he sustains us by Physick and Medicines he removes diseases and heals the sick by his Word Read and Preached he declares his will to sinners and perswades them to believe and obey Thus we read Man doth not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of

upon us with Respect when we pay him all Legal Obedience out of Conscience and venture our Lives and Fortunes in defence of his Crown and Dignity as well as of our Laws and Properties Why may not we hope for Preferment Honour and Commendation as well as those who never practise what they teach When I have lived to see their Senses too much for their singular Divinity But however we fare in this World I am of Opinion that a King should do Justice a Priest should teach Truth and a Souldier should Fight for a good Cause and leave the Success to God The Happiness of a Kingdom is in a Princes Ruling as a Father and Subjects obeying out of Love rather than meer necessity Obj. 2. This occasions Subjects to Rebel when they think fit To this I say besides what I have formerly written that the Doctrine of Non-Assistance which is now become common is as bad if not worse than our Doctrine of Resistance in some Case Now the Dr. owns the former p. 50. saying Thus far I think the Subjects may be very guiltless who do not drive the King away but only suffer him quietly to be driven away or to escape out of his Kingdom for this is no Rebellion no Resistance but only Non-assistance which may be very innocent For there are some Cases wherein Subjects are not bound to assist their Prince and if ever there were such a Case this is it I grant Non-Assistance and Resistance are not the same in all cases I grant we are not bound to assist our King in Illegal Commands But I should think that if we may not resist him in his Illegal and Arbitrary Commands we ought in Conscience to assist him in his Legal Commands especially in the preservation of his Person Crown and Dignity And I am sure that the late King would have called this a Seditious and Rebellious Doctrine as well as ours But thus the poor King was cheated And the Dr. may say as well as think in his heart p. 27. Let him go if he cannot defend himself Well I commend the Dr. in this case for Teaching Subjects to sleep in a whole skin But in troth I think it is more plain dealing and the King had better be told that in the same case they will not assist him they will resist that is in case of Universal Oppression I will suppose for once that David was against Defensive Arms and Resistance in any case and upon this supposition let us hear his Judgment and Resolution 1 Sam. 26.15 16. David said unto Abner Art not thou a valiant man and who is like unto thee in Israel Wherefore then hast thou not kept thy Lord the King for there came one of the people in to destroy the King thy Lord. This thing is not good that thou hast done As the Lord liveth ye are worthy to die because ye have not kept your Master the Lords Anointed Abner might have replied to David if he had been taught by the Dr. Sir the King is in pursuit of you when you are innocent and that illegally cruelly causlesly maliciously and therefore tho' I must not resist I may not assist nor see your innocent blood shed Take my Master Lord and King and do what you will with him Here I must desire the Dr. to reflect upon his Conscience in the fear of God And I dare appeal to the Judgment of any moderate conscientious and learned Papist or to the Judgment of any indifferent man in the World if our Doctrine be not as honest as this In this case Non-Assistance is as bad as Resistance for the Prince must certainly infallibly and inevitably fall into the hands of his Adversaries with this aggravation That those he trusted deceived him To this purpose we may consider that distinction of the Efficient Cause mentioned by the School-men It is either 1. Physical Or 2. Moral The Physical Cause is that which hath a real influx towards the Effect or that which truly and of it self contributes to the Being of the Effect The Moral Cause is that which tho' it doth not really operate in producing the Effect yet it is such in ordine Moris in order to Manners as they say as if it really conferred Being to the Effect and that because the Effect that follows is no less imputable to it than if it had produced the Effect by a real influx such are causes consulting commanding and not hindering when they ought to hinder But I have sufficiently lashed this Doctrine elsewhere As for the rest of the Book it is either what we grant or what hath been already answered or contains the Dr's Arguments to perswade the Clergy that have not taken the Oaths And I see no reason why the Arguments should not prevail with them if they will lay aside prejudice But I believe the Dr. may Preach Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance upon Rom. 13. long enough before he will gain one rational and considering man For the Male-administration of the late unhappy King and the Tyranny Pride and Insolence of the Jesuits instead of frighting them out of their senses have frighted the Commons of England into their senses that they will rather believe they merit Salvation if the Protestant Faith allowed it than that they are guilty of that Resistance which the Apostle saith shall receive Damnation for joyning with the Prince of Orange and his Confederates in this Revolution Wherefore I shall conclude with these three Propositions 1. In our Case Defensive Arms were lawful 2. King William and Queen Mary with their true Friends can be justified no other way 3. This Doctrine as I have explained it is neither contrary to the Church of England nor more prejudicial or dangerous to Monarchy than any other Principle as will appear I hope to any who will impartially consider what I have written in a Treatise called Conscience Satisfied in a Cordial and Loyal Submitting to the present Government of King William and Queen Mary and in another small Discourse in Answer to the History of Passive Obedience and in a Fast Sermon on Josh 5.13 Art thou for us or for our Adversaries And I think that the Thanksgiving-days and the Fasting-days and the Collects and Prayers read and the saying Amen by all the Members of every Congregation is a Justification of what hath been done in this Revolution unless men are gross Hypocrites and honour God with their mouths without their hearts And whatever some late Bishops and Governours of the Church have done I am sure the first Blessed Reformers honoured all Protestant Churches as Sisters and their Divines and Ministers as Brethren I know not why Luther and Calvin and Arminius tho' they differ in some Opinions should not all still be honoured as faithful Servants of Christ And here I shall produce a few of our Divines most famous who speak honourably of them as all men that hate Faction in the Church ought to do The Reverend Bishop Jewel Reply