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A70493	A vindication of the primitive Christians in point of obedience to their Prince against the calumnies of a book intituled, The life of Julian, written by Ecebolius the Sophist as also the doctrine of passive obedience cleared in defence of Dr. Hicks : together with an appendix : being a more full and distinct answer to Mr. Tho. Hunt's preface and postscript : unto all which is added The life of Julian, enlarg'd.	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.; Ecebolius, the Sophist. Life of Julian.	1683 (1683)	Wing L2985; ESTC R3711	180,508	416

justifie resistance of lawful Powers having in effect not onely drawn the Sword but cast away the Scabbard We are told of one that was ready to kick an Emperour and of others that play'd with his Beard but this is little less than kicking at the Crown and striking a blow at the root to render the whole Family as glorious as they made the Father of it Unless he can give some other sence of it than this Rather than not exclude the D. we will exclude the glorious Family of the Stuarts And in what sence he calls it a glorious Family needs his explication But will the Exclusion of the D. as certainly prevent our misery as his Succession effect it Did you never read how zealous some Priests and Pharisees were for a Bill of Exclusion against a far better person John 11.47 48. What do we for this man doth many Miracles if we let him thus alone all men will believe on him the Romans will come take away both our place nation And did not the passing that Bill make way for the Romans to bring all their fears on their own heads And was not our late dear King excluded from Crown Kingdom and life upon such fears and was that a means of our Peace and Happiness I wish I could say our fears now are as false as they were then We have his R. H. Declaration for our Security viz. That the Members of the Church of England are the best supporters of the Crown Insomuch that if it fall to him to be concerned he will ever countenance and preserve them and it And p. 225. Why may we not suppose that a Popish Successor will defend his Regalia against the Pope Our Ancient Kings did so in the Reign of Rich. 2.16 c. 5. In a Statute of Praemunire the Parliament declares That the Crown of England against the Encroachments of the Pope hath been so free at all times that so hath been in no earthly subjection but immediately subject to God in all things touching the Regalty of the same Crown and to none other And God defend say they that it should be submitted to the Pope and the Laws and Statutes of the Realm be by him defeated and avoided at his will in perpetual destruction of the Soveraignty of the King our Lord his Crown Regalty and of all his Realm And I hope his Royal Highness will say as they did God defend Moreover the Commons say That the things so attempted viz. purchasing Bulls from Rome executing Judgments given in the Court of Rome translating of Prelates out of the Realm or from one Preferment to another be clearly against the Kings Crown and Regalty used and approved of the time of all his Progenitors Wherefore they and all the siege Commons of the same Realm will stand with our said Lord the King and his Crown and Regalty in the Cases aforesaid and in all other cases attempted against him and his Crown and Regalty in all points to live and to dye And moreover they pray the king and him require by way of Justice that he would examine all the Lords in the Parliament as well Spiritual as Temporal severally and all the Estates of the Parliament how they think of the Cases aforesaid which be so openly against the Kings Crown and in derogation of his Regalty how they will stand in the same cases with our Lord the King in upholding the rights of the said Crown and Regalty The like promises were made by the Lords Temporal and Spiritual and the default was to be punished by a Praemunire which is To be put out of the King protection and their Lands and Tenements Goods and Chattels forfeited to the King and that they be attached by their bodie if they may be found and brought before the King and his Council there to answer to the Cases aforesaid c. Now if these professed Papists did so resolutely and unanimously contest the Regalia against the Pope what greater zeal and resolution may we justly expect from a Protestant Parliament for such we may have if it be not our own fault if the Pope or any Agents of his should attempt to destroy the foundations of our established Religion and Laws Moreover in the days of Queen Mary we read how much time and what contrivances and largesses it cost that Queen to form a Parliament to lier liking though then the Nation were mostly Papists and how much they contended still for the Regalia against the Pope and reserving of Abby-lands c. to the Purchasers nor when all was done did any man suffer without publick process in form of Law there were no throats cut nor bloudshed by private Messengers or Assassinates as we are taught to expect from every Justice of Peace and Tything man p. 85. and by I know not what Janizaries and that we shall be slain to see what Grimaces we make p. 89. Besides the number that suffered in her five years were not comparable to the number that have been slain in one hours fight during the Rebellion nor indeed to those that were Martyred for their Religion and Loyalty by illegal proceedings in the Mock-Courts of Justice during that Vsurpation the number of the Marian Martyrs being not above three or four hundred though they were too many Now a Wise man should look back upon the mischiefs that have befallen the Nation by resisting the lawful Prince and the endeavours to alter the Succession from the right Heir as well as forward upon the mischiefs that may never be and which upon a supposition of a Popish Successour are aggravated almost beyond a possibilitie of being effected Remember what it cost the Nation when the Succession to the Crown was disputed between the Houses of York and Lancaster There perished in that War as Historians do account two Kings one Prince ten Dukes two Marquesses twentie one Earls twentie seven Lords two Viscounts one Lord Prior one Judge one hundred thirtie nine Knights four hundred twentie one Esquires and of the Gentrie and Commons an incredible number So that in such cases the Remedie is generally worse than the Disease I have not said this God is my witness to abate the just and honest care of the Nation to keep out Poperie by such timely provision as his Majestie and his great Council shall see most probable but to allay the inordinate Hearts which may set the whole Kingdom in a sudden flame onely to prevent the fear of the suffering a Trial of our Faith if God should call us to it And I cannot consider without some horror what sore and long Wars and Devastations may follow upon a Bill of Exclusion as well as on a Popish Successor And if of two evils the least is to be chosen I should rather if the Will of God so be submit to my lot how hard soever under such a One than that the whole Nation should be rent in pieces again either by a Rebellion at home or Invasions

A VINDICATION OF THE Primitive Christians In point of Obedience to their Prince AGAINST The Calumnies of a Book intituled THE Life of Iulian Written by ECEBOLIUS the Sophist As also the Doctrine of Passive Obedience Cleared in Defence of Dr. HICKS Together with an APPENDIX Being a more full and distinct Answer to Mr. Tho. Hunt's Preface and Postscript Unto all which is added The Life of Julian enlarg'd LONDON Printed by J. C. and Freeman Collins and are to be sold by Robert Kettlewell at the Hand and Scepter over against St. Dunstan's Church 1683. TO THE Most Reverend Father in God WILLIAM By Divine Providence Lord Archb p of Canterbury Primate of all England and Metropolitan And one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council c. May it please your Grace ALthough as Solomon says Every thing is beautiful in his season and there was a time when a Cup of cold Water was an acceptable Present to an Emperour yet should I not have presumed to offer so mean a Present to so Great a Person as a little Water in a homely Vessel taken up in haste and disorder as men are wont to do when the Neighbourhood is on fire had it not been that the Fire-brands which I endeavour to extinguish have not onely been scattered up and down among combustible matter through the Nation but that the Boutefeus have been so desperately bold as to throw some of their Fire-balls into the August Assembly of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council Such was the Barbarous Celeusma the Answers to Dr. Stillingfleet c. and now a Traiterous Preface and Postscript dedicated by one Tho. Hunt to the Right Honourable John Earl of Radnor c. Lord President of his Majesties most Honourable Privy-Council I am well assured that that Judicious and Noble Lord hath either so contemned those seditious and treasonable Libels as not to vouchsafe them the Reading or if he hath read them that they kindled a just indignation in his loyal breast and condemned them to the fire as designed to set the Nation in a flame The Author tells us truly that the reason of his Dedication was to create a Prejudice and the thing is self-evident that the greatest Adversaries which that Noble Lord hath if at least he hath any for I know he can have none but among the factious and seditious Rabble that are acted by such Seducers could not have offered a greater Affront to a Person of his known Wisdom and Integrity than such a Dedication amounts unto and therefore I doubt not but those fiery Darts which that Author hath shot against so firm a Fortress of Religion and Loyalty will recoil on his own head If men of such fiery tempers have presumed of favour from so Great Persons I cannot but hope for your Graces pardon who have endeavoured though in a hasty and rude manner to extinguish those Wilde-fires which they have kindled for God onely knows how great a matter a little such fire blown as it is with popular breath may kindle if not timely prevented The Devil was wont to carry on his designes formerly as an Angel of Light and then the deluded Instruments deserved some pity But now that he appears in his proper Colours a Noon-day-Devil breathing our flames of fire and a horrible stench none but such as are by his Sorceries and Witchcrafs become his covenanted Servants would seek to bring others under the same sins and condemnation with themselves as being already self-condemned and having sinned away all hopes of mercy from God or man All those Coals of Sedition and Rebellion which were raked up under the Ashes of this ruined Nation and which we might in reason hope had been quite extinguished by the enjoyment of Peace and Truth Prosperity and Plenty for twenty years together have been secretly fomented and are now publickly scattered to cause a New Conflagration I humbly beg your Graces patience to mind the present Age how ready they are to be led over the same Precipices by the same Impostures and by some of the same men by whom the former Age was ruined onely they were led on by degrees and colourable pretences the Snare was not spread in their sight as it is now in ours who are perswaded with open eyes and a dreadful prospect of Rebellion and Damnation before us to cast our selves headlong into them both It was after a long Progress and unhappy success of the former War that John Goodwin and others published his Evangelium Armatum his new Gospel-liberty affirming That the lawfulness of Resistance is now discovered to Gods Church as the necessary means to ruine Antichrist for the Kings of the Earth saith he will never be perswaded to effect this great and holy work and therefore the People must He in the 30 31 32 pages of his Anti-Cavalierism among many other Passages hath these words which every Christian that reads them must abhor Amongst many other Truths which were of necessity to be laid asleep for the passing of this Beast Antichrist unto his great power and authority and for the maintaining and safe guarding of him in the possession thereof this is one of special consideration That Christians may lawfully in a lawful way stand up to defend themselves in case they be able against any unlawful Assaults by what Assailants or by what pretended Authority soever made upon them for had this Opinion been timeously enough and substantially taught in the Church it would certainly have caused an Abortion in Antichrists birth and so have disappointed the Devil of his first-born had not the Spirits and Judgments and Consciences of men been as it were cowed and marvellously embased and kept under and so prepared for Antichrists Lure by Doctrines and Tenets excessively advancing the power of Superiours over Inferiours and binding Iron yokes and heavie burdens on those that were in subjection doubtless they would never have bowed down their backs so low as to let such a Be ●●…rule over them they would ne●… have resigned up their Judgements and Consciences into the hands of such a Spiritual Tyrant as he So that you see there was a special necessity for the letting of Antichrist into the world yea and for the continuance of him in his Throne that no such Opinion as this which we speak of whether truth or untruth should be taught and believed I mean which vindicateth and maintaineth the just Rights and Liberties and Priviledges of those that live under authority and subjection to others Whereas now on the contrary that time of Gods preordination and purpose for the downfal of Antichrist drawing neer there is a kind of necessity that those truths which have slept for many years should now be awakened and particularly That God should reveal and discover unto his faithful Ministers and other his servants the just bounds and limits of Authority and Power and consequently the just and full extent of the lawful Liberties of those that live in subjection Evident it