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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59114	The history of passive obedience since the Reformation	Seller, Abednego, 1646?-1705.	1689 (1689)	Wing S2453; Wing S2449; ESTC R15033	333,893	346

Impiety but to charge them with faults they have not is shameless Blasphemy SECT III. To this purpose also the Author of a discourse concerning Supreme Power and common right calculated for the year 1641. but publish'd an 1680. is very full and pertinent I must recommend the Book to the Reader while I cite only one passage out of it Kings have a right of security against all Violence P. 33. they are above all humane judicature and only under God as the People are under them for which God styles himself Lord of Lords and King of Kings Sam. Otes Chaplain to Sir Francis Walsingham Lond. 1633. fol. P. 206 207 c. and other Persons of Honor in his Seventeenth Sermon on S. Jude's Epistle v. 8. Our Lord Jesus performed all Obedience to Rulers even then when they were Heathen and knew not God his precept was Give to Cesar the things that are Cesars his practice he paid tribute and Paul 1 Tim. 2.1 willeth the Ephesians to pray for them even then when like Manasses they poured out blood like water and made Towns and Cities swim with blood as he did Jerusalem when like the Chaldees ☜ they gave the dead bodies of God's Servants unto the Fowls of the air and the Flesh of his Saints unto the Beasts of the field When like Antiochus they burnt all Libraries and consumed the days of the Christians like smoak and their Bones were burnt like an hearth when they were like Pelicans in the Wilderness and like Owls in the Desarts when they did eat ashes like bread and mingled their Drink with weeping and to shew the constant practice of this not to go back like the shadow of Ezekiah 's Dyal to the time of the Law the Jews are commanded to pray for Nebuchadnezzar tho as a Man he deserved not the Name of a Man but a Beast yet as a King he is called the Servant of the Most High God. Mr. Rob. Bolton Batchelor in Divinity and Preacher of God's Word at Broughton in Northamptonshire in his Epistle Dedicatory to the Honorable Sir Rob. Carre Gentleman of the King's Bed-Chamber A gracious Man about a Royal Person is a goodly sight and full well worth even a King's Ransom For never any except himself truly fear the great God of Heaven can possibly be cordially and conscionably serviceable to any of our earthly Gods A Principle so clear and unquestionable that no Man of Understanding and Master of his own Wits except himself be notoriously obnoxious can have the face to deny it Please they may be politickly plausible flatter extremely and represent themselves to ordinary observation as the only Men for Loyalty and Love but if we could search and see their hearts we should find them then most laborious to serve themselves and advance their own Ends when they seem most zealous for their Sovereign's Service Achitophel in the sunshine of Peace and Calmness of the Kingdoms did accommodate himself to the present both in Consultations of State and religious Conformity but no sooner had this hollow-hearted Man espy'd a dangerous Tempest rais'd by Absalom's unnatural Treachery but he turn'd Traytor to his natural Lord When he observ'd the Wind to blow another way he follow'd the blast and set his Sails according to the Weather which made David after complain but it was thou O Man even my Companion my Guide and Familiar We took sweet Counsel together c. Wherefore let great Men without Grace profess and pretend what they will and protest the Impossibility of any such thing as Hazael did in another Case yet ordinarily in such tumultuous times and of universal confusion for the securing of their temporal happiness which without timely turning on God's side is all the Heaven they are like to have in this World or the World to come I say upon a point of great Advantage and Advancement with safety they would fly from the declining State and down-fall of their old Master tho formerly the mightiest Monarch upon earth as from the Ruins of a falling House And it can be no otherwise for they have no internal Principle or supernatural Power to illighten and enable them to set their shoulders against the Torrent of the times and be overflown with it But now he that truly fears God would rather lose his high Place nay his Posterity as much Hearts-blood if he had it as would animate a whole Kingdom than leave his lawful Sovereign Lord in such a Case upon any terms tho he might have even the Imperial Crown set upon his own Head. For Conscience that poor neglected thing nay in these last and looser times even laughed at by Men of the World yet a stronger tye of Subjects hearts unto their Sovereigns than Man or Devil is able to dissolve ever holds up his Loyal Heart erect and unshaken when all Shebnas Hamans and Achitophels would hide their heads and shrink in the wetting Which Conscience of his if upon such occasion he should unhappily wound he knows full well it would follow him with guilty Cries for his so base temporizing and traytorous flinking all the days of his life Mr. To. 2. Ser. 8. p. 637. Faringdon If we make no better use of our Liberty than to fling it over our shoulders and wear it as a Cloak of Maliciousness the spirit is ready to pull it off and tell us our duty that for all our liberty we are to serve one another that Christianity destroys not relations of Son to Father of Servant to Master of Wife to Husband of Inferior to Superior but establisheth them rather and his Practice was according to his Doctrin for he was an Eminent Confessor to Loyalty in that great Rebellion as was also his dear Friend Mr. Chillingworth between whom there was a great Sympathy of Sentiments and Sufferings for both were harass'd for Preaching the same truth His first Ser. before the King on 2 Tim. 3.1 2 c. p. 6 7 c. especially the later but nothing could affright him from his duty which obliged him freely to reprove the vices of the Age he lived in the chief actors in this bloody Tragedy which is now upon the Stage who have robb'd our Sovereign Lord the King of his Forts of the Persons of many of his Subjects and as much as lies in them of the hearts of all of them is it credible that they know and remember and consider the example of David recorded for their instruction whose heart smote him when he cut off the hem of Saul 's garment they that make no scruple at all of fighting against his Sacred Majesty and shooting Muskets and Ordnance at him which sure have not the skill to choose a Subject from a King to the extreme hazard of his Sacred Person whom by all possible obligations they are bound to defend do they know think you the general rule without exception or limitation left by the Holy Ghost for our direction in all such cases

setting up others the deposition of Edw. 2. was as horrid Treason as was imaginable or possible to be in nature and does doing wickedly create a lawfulness if so all sins and villanies by the perpetrating them lose their natures to be evils and become lawful wickedness can be no president p. 16. no such thing as Government can be if the governed may judge and execute their Governor I wonder how Mr. Baxter can dispense with the Scriptures against using force to Kings or destroying them his distinction of Parliamentary right will not serve the turn since it is absolutely forbidden as is proved from Exod. 22.28 Ezr. 6.10 Ps 51.4 Eccl. 10.20 Prov. 24.21 1 Sam. 26.9 Rom. 13. 1 Tim. 2. 1 Pet. 2.13 P. 19. 17. which texts having some of them a relation to very Tyrants shew directly the nature of supreme Governors to be born by the People whatsoever their condition be to call them Gods is an exemption from all humane Tribunals above the condition of Mankind subject to God only as Supreme Governors cannot in nature be other I think that God would take it ill that we should mock him p. 20. ☜ p. 22. to set up a King to govern and then to reserve a Power to destroy him God doth somtimes give evil Governors and doth he not likewise give them power God himself forespake in Saul and then concluded the People in these words 1 Sam. 8.18 then i.e. when they were oppressed by their King shall they cry out i. e. seek help of God because there are no humane remedies as Grotius expounds it and call to God for help i. e. there was no means of resistance to be used on their part Kings were when Parliaments were not P. 23. we cannot suppose here in England any time of Government without Kings the Parl. therefore was a creature merely of the King's will and creating the King is the sole judge of the safety p. 27. or danger of the Republick Supremacy is the sole governing Power p. 53. and Government is a constant being the other that of Parl. but at times and by occasion that must needs be a strange Government p. 54. where the Sovereignty is divided and lying in divers powers when they differ the People are distracted in their obedience therefore the 11. of Henr. 7. was made to avoid the mischief of a divided commanding Power tho it be a gross Law and against truth many times ☜ because Usurpers did possess the Throne it is not possible to fansie governing power with a power in the People p. 57. ☜ or any Party out of the King to resist his power for then he should govern no longer than the governed Party were disposed to obey and so no Government at all there can be no such thing as a conquest of Subjects over their King p. 64. p. 65. it is Desertion or Treason not Conquest there is no footstep or mark from God of the Peoples title over Kings or their making them or giving them their Power Parliaments have declared for titles p. 69. but never can make any nor deprive right it is true divers Usurpers have had Parliament Test for their Warrant for those have most need of it but still it was acted under power enforcing and so it was nothing p. 70. but merely so long as the Power lasted Conquest is only a great Riot and multiplying of Rapines and Man slaughters it is all wickedness which is only distinguish'd from common wickedness as it transcends all other actings of Wickedness and such is conquest by excess of Wickedness to make it self above offending and punishment and if so then it cannot be in the submission of the People who are first conquer'd before they consent none of these things make right for if the outed Prince can recover and regain power these things vanish as unlawful one instance with us in England of sixty years discontinuance yet when it recovered power to act all the Usurpation went for nothing and the old came in as Right not as Conquest SECT V. Bishop Wren in his abandoning of the Scotch Covenant P. 49 50. God disposed of the Kingdom of Abiah but otherwise by Man it could never else have been done rightly nor would it ever have held no Man not all the Men in the Kingdom whatsoever is told you of the Power of the People by those that worship that many headed Monster had Power or Authority to alter that Covenant of God with David more than they had to alter that Covenant of day and night in their Seasons says God himself if Men would believe him Jer. 33.21 they were never to meddle with it unless God himself gave order expresly in it Bishop Laney We were in a sad case not long since in this Kingdom by a Civil War. Sermon at Whitehall Mar. 18. 1665 / 6. p. 19 c. they Covenanted first to extirpate the Government of the Church in this they were too bold with the King's Scepter at the next turn they take hold of his Sword too and engage themselves to a mutual defence against all opposition tho a self defence may be allowed as natural to all it is against private not publick opposition and then too as Divines generally resolve Cum moderamine inculpatae tutelae never to the hurt of others every Man may defend himself clypeo but not every one gladio the Sword is the Kings and he that takes it from any hand but his where God hath placed it shall perish with the Sword. Bishop Pearson aggravating the sin of the Gunpowder Traytors Serm. No. 5. 1673. p. 14 20 25. says Touch not mine Anointed is the voice of God nor must we do evil that good may come thereof such Mens damnation is just I cannot chuse but remember those words which I read so frequently in the Scriptures God save the King God save the King God save him from the open Rebellion of the Schismatical Party the ruin of his Father God save him from the secret Machinations of the Papal Faction the danger of his Grand-father God save the King and let all the People say Amen SECT VI. Francis Lord Bishop of Ely hath frequently asserted the same great truth The Church of Rome 's Fifth-Monarchy-Men assertors ‖ Serm. bef the King Jan. 30. 168 0 / 1. p. 13 P. 17. I mean of the Papal Universal Monarchy in the Murder of Conradine King of Naples and Sicily were beforehand with our Fanaticks and taught the Art of killing a King ceremoniously the Life and Person of the King his Office his Crown and Dignity ought to have been inviolable and sacred in the Eyes of all his Subjects if he be the soul of the Nation then it follows P. 18. that his Power is derived from above and is held from none under Heaven and as none but God can judge both Soul and Body so none but God is a competent judge