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A96595	Vindiciæ regum; or, The grand rebellion that is, a looking-glasse for rebels, whereby they may see, how by ten severall degrees they shall ascend to the height of their designe, and so throughly rebell, and utterly destroy themselves thereby. And, wherin is clearly proued by holy Scripturs, ancient fathers, constant martyrs, and our best modern writers, that it is no wayes lawfull for any private man, or any sort or degree of men, inferior magistrates, peeres of the kingdom, greatest nobility, lo. of the councel, senate, Parliament or Pope, for any cause, compelling to idolatry, exercising cruelty, prastizing [sic] tyranny, or any other pretext, how fair and specious soever it seems to be, to rebell, take armes, and resist the authority of their lawfull king; whom God will protect, and require all the blood that shall be spilt at the hands of the head rebels. And all the maine objections to the contrary are clearly answered. / By Gr. Williams, L. Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2675; Thomason E88_1; ESTC R204121	92,613	114

Crown and therefore Jehoida the chiefe Priest having gathered together the principall Peers of the Kingdome and the Centurions and the rest of the people shewed them the Kings son whom for six yeares space he had preserved alive from the rage and fury of Athalia which had slain all the rest of the Kings seed and when they saw him they did all acknowledge him for the Kings son they crowned him King and he being crowned they joyfully cryed God save the King and then by the authority of the new crowned king that was the right heire unto the Kingdome they put to death the cruell Queen that had so tyrannically slain the Kings children and so unjustly usurped the Crowne all that while And therefore to alledge this example so justly done to justifie an insurrection contrary to justice doth carry but a little shew of reason And I say the like of the Macchabees and Antiochus that neither he nor any other Macedonian Tyrant had any right over them but they were unjust usurpers that held the Jewes under them in ore gladii with the edge of their swords and were not their lawfull Kings whom they ought to obey and therefore no reason but that they might justly free themselves with their swords that were kept in bondage by no other right then the strength of the sword 8. 8. Example answered For the example of Thrasibulus Junius Brutus and other Romans or whosoever that for their faults have deposed their Kings Examples not to be imitated I answer with Saint Augustine that Exemplo paucorum not sunt trahenda in legem universorum we have no warrant to imitate these examples for though these things were done yet we say they were done by Heathens that knew not God and unjustly done contrary to the law of God and therefore with no blessing from God with no good successe unto themselves and with lesse happinesse unto others but it happened to them as to all others that do the like to expelle mischiefe and to admit a greater as besides what I have shewed you before this one most memorable example out of our owne Histories doth make it plaine In the time of Richard the second the Nobility and Gentry murmured much against his government in brief they deposed him The ill successe of resisting our superiours and set the Crown upon the head of the Duke of Lancasher whom they created King Henry the fourth The good Bishop of Carlile made a bold and excellent speech to prove that they could not by any law of God or man depose or dispossesse their lawfull King or if they deposed him that they had no right to make the Duke of Lancaster to succeed him but he good man for his paines was served as S. Paul and others were many times for speaking the truth committed to prison and there was an end of him but not an end of the story for the many battels and bloodshed the miseries and mischiefes that this one unjust and unfaithfull act produced had never any period never an end till that well nigh an hundred thousand English men were slaine in civill warres Trussel in his supplement to Damels History whereof 2 were Kings 1 Prince 10 Dukes 2 Marquesses 21 Earles 27 Lords 2 Viscounts 1 Lord Prior 1 Judge 139 Knights 421 Esquires and Gentlemen of great and ancient Families a far greater number a just revenge for an unjust extrusion of their lawfull King whose greatest misery came from his great mildnesse And therefore these things being well weighed in the the ballance of the Sanctuary in the scales of true wisedome it had been better for them as it wil be for us all others patiently to suffer the crosse that shall be laid upon us untill that by our prayers we can prevail with God that for our sins hath sent it in mercy to remove it then for our selves to pluck our necks out of the coller and in a froward disobedience to pull the house as Sampson did upon our own heads and like impatient fishes to leap out of the frying-pan into the fire All the pressures that wee have suffered since the first yeare of our King are not comparable to the miseries that this one yeares civill warre hath brought upon us from hard usage that we impatiently conceived to most base and cruell bondage that we have deservedly merited or at the best to bring many men to many miseries before we can attain unto any happinesse and so as the Poet saith in this very case among the Romanes when for their liberty and priviledges as they termed it in Pompeyes time Excessit medicina modum the remedy that they procured hath proved farre worse then the disease they suffered and I doubt not but ere long the Rebels in this Kingdome will feelingly confesse this to bee too true when they shal more deeply taste of the like miseries as they have brought as well upon many of their own friends as others If you alledge the time of Richard the third how soone he was removed and how happily it came to passe that Henry the seventh succeeded I answer briefly that Richard the third was not only a cruel bloody Tyrant but he was also an unjust Usurper of the crown and not the right King of England and that there is a great deal of difference betwixt rebelling against our lawfull Kings which God hath justly placed over us and expelling an usurping tyrant which hath unjustly intruded himselfe into the royall throne This God often hath blessed as in the case of Eglon Athalia Henry the seventh and many more which you may obviously finde both in the Greek and Romane stories and the other he alwayes cursed and will plague it whensoever it is attempted Object After I had answered these objections I lighted upon one more which is taken out of 2 King 6.32 where the Objector saith when Ahab sent a Cavalier a man of blood to take away the Prophet Elisha's head as he sate in his house among the Elders did Elisha open his doore for him sit still til he took off his head in obedience to the King No he bestirred himselfe for the safeguard of his life and called upon others to stand by him to assist him and a little after he saith surely he that went thus farre for the safety of his life when he was but in danger to be assaulted would have gone further if occasion had been and in case the Kings Butcher had got into him before the doore had been shut if he had been able and had had no other means to have saved his own head but by taking away the others there is little question to be made but he would rather have taken then given a head in this case I answer Sol. that who this Goodwin is I know not I could wish he were none of the Tribe of Levi The Ministers of Chist should not be incendiaries of waite 1. Because I finde him such an

Magistrates Peeres The Conclusion of the whol Parliaments Popes or whatsoever you please to cal them to give so much liberty unto their misguided consciences so far to follow the desires of their unruly affections as for any cause or under any pretence to withstand Gods Vice-gerent and with violence to make warre against their lawfull King or indeed in the least degree and lowest manner to offer any indignity either in thought word or deed either to Moses our King or to Aaron our High Priest that hath the care and charge of our soules or to any other of those subordinate callings that are lawfully sent by them to discharge those offices wherewith they are intrusted This is the truth of God and so acknowledged by all good men And what Preachers teach the contrary I dare boldly affirme it in the name of God that they are the incendiaries of Hell and deserve rather with Corah to be consumed with fire from Heaven then to be beleeved by any man on Earth CHAP. X. Sheweth the impudency of the Anti-Cavalier How the Rebels deny they warre against the King An unanswerable Argument to presse obedience A further discussion whether for our Liberty Religion or Lawes we may resist our Kings and a patheticall disswasion from Rebellion I Could insert here abundant more both of the Ancient and Moderne Writers that doe with invincible Arguments confirme this truth Anti-Cavalier p. 17.18 c. but the Anti-Cavalier would perswade the world that all those learned Fathers and those constant Martyrs that spent their purest blood to preserve the purity of religion unto us did either belye their owne strength * Yet Tertul. Cypr. whom I quoted before and Ruffin hist Eccles l. 2. c. 1. and S. August in Psal 124. and others avouch the Christians were far stronger then their enemies and the greatest part of Iulians army were Christians or befoole themselves with the undue desire of overvalued Martyrdome but now they are instructed by a better spirit they have clearer illuminations to informe them to resist if they have strength the best and most lawfull authority that shall either oppose or not consent unto them thus they throw dirt in the Fathers face and dishonour that glorious company and noble army of Martyrs which our Church confesseth prayseth God and therefore no wonder that they will warre against Gods annointed here on Earth when they dare thus dishonour and abuse his Saints that raigne in Heaven but I hope the world will beleeve that those holy Saints were as honest men and those worthy Martyrs that so willingly sacrificed their lives in defence of truth could as well testifie the truth and be as well informed of the truth as these seditious spirits that spend all their breath to raise armes against their Prince and to spill so much bloud of the most faithfull Subjects But though the authority of the best authors is of no authority with them that will beleeve none but themselves yet I would wish all other men to read that Homilie of the Church of England where it is said that God did never long prosper rebellious subjects against their Prince were they never so great in authority or so many in number yea were they never so noble so many so stout so witty and politique but allwaies they came by the overthrow and to a shamefull end Yea though they pretend the redresse of the Common-wealth which rebellion of all other mischiefes doth most destroy or reformation of religion whereas rebellion is most against all true religion yet the speedy overthrow of all Rebels sheweth The Homily against rebellion p. 300 301. that God alloweth neither the dignity of any person nor the multitude of any people nor the weight of any cause as sufficient for the which the subjects may move rebellion against their Princes and I would to God that every subject would read over all the six parts of the Homilie against willfull rebellion for there are many excellent passages in it which being diligently read and seriously weighed would worke upon every honest heart never to rebell against their lawfull Prince And therefore the Lawes of all Lands being so plaine to pronounce them Traytors that take armes against their Kings as you may see in the Statutes of England 25. Edw. 3. c. 2. And as you know it was one of the greatest Articles for which the Earle of Strafford was beheaded that he had actually leavied warre against the King The Nobles and Gentry Lords and Commons of both Houses of Parliament in all Kingdomes being convicted in their consciences with the truth of this Doctrine doe in all their Votes and Declarations conlude and protest and I must believe them that all the leavies monies and other provision of Horse and Men that they raise and arm are for the safety of the Kings person and for the maintenance of his Crowne and Dignity Nay more then this the very Rebels in this our Kingdome of Ireland knowing how odious it is before God and man for subjects to rebell and take armes against their lawfull King do protest if you will believe them that they are the Kings Souldiers and doe fight and suffer for their King and in the defence of his Prerogatives But you know the old saying Tuta frequensque via est sub amici fallere nomen the Devill deceiveth us soonest when he comes like an Angel of light and you shall ever know the true subjects best by their actions farre better then by their Votes Declarations or Protestations for Quid audiam verba cum videam contraria facta When men doe come in sheepes cloathing and inwardly are ravening wolves when they come with honey in their mouthes and gall in their hearts and like Joab with peace in their tongue and a sword in their hand a petition to intreat and a weapon to compell I am told by my Saviour that I shall know them by their works not their words And therefore as our Saviour saith Not he that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven So I say not he that cryeth peace peace is the sonne of peace but he that doth obey his Prince and doth most willingly whatsoever hee commandeth or suffereth most patiently for refusing to doe what hee commandeth amisse This is the true Subject Well to draw towards the end of this point That is when the Commonalty guide the Nobility and the Subjects rule their King of our obedience to our Soveraigne Governour I desire you to remember a double story the one of Plutarch which tels us how the tayle of the Serpent rebelled against the head because that did guide the whole body and drew the tayle after it whithersoever it would therefore the head yeelded that the tayle should rule and then it being small and wanting eyes drew the whole body head and all through such narrow crevises clefts and