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A34269 A Confutation of sundry errors in Dr. Sherlock's book concerning allegiance 1691 (1691) Wing C5812; ESTC R20781 14,713 16

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justifying our swearing Allegiance to them that they have legal Right to the Throne for unless they have legal Right to it they have no Right at all and having no Right they must needs be Usurpers and being so it is only an equivocal Allegiance that can be due to them But equivocal Allegiance will not suffice Analogum per se positum stat pro famosiori significato The Law enjoining us to swear Allegiance to them cannot in reason be thought to mean equivocal Allegiance such for kind as is due and payable to an Usurper but it must needs mean that kind of Allegiance which is naturally due from Subjects to one that is rightful Prince before God and Men and no Usurper And if there should be any Ambiguity or colour for scruple touching the Sense of the Oath it is abundantly cleared by this one thing that the Law makers by enjoining the Oath must needs mean that kind of Allegiance which fully agrees with the Publick Prayers in the Liturgy constantly used by the Law-makers and imposed upon all Conforming Ministers which is not equivocal Allegiance but the same that was due and p●id to Q. Elizabeth K. James I K. Charles I and his Son successively viz. full and compleat Allegiance without all Equivocation For no one can use say amen to and heartily join in these Prayers for their present Majesties without All Hypocrisy and Deceit who thinks them to have no legal Right to the Throne that they are but Usurpers And therefore the Non-swearers consistently to their own Principle refuse to use the prescribed Forms in the Liturgy for their present Majesties tho tantùm non they admire the Liturgy The Doctor by supposing it neeedless to dispute whether their present Majesties have legal Right to the Throne and undertaking to prove that they have Right tho no legal Right that they have God's Authority and yet no legal Right doth greatly err For there are but two kinds of Right Legal or Evangelical Evangelical Right doth not come into question for that is founded in Regeneration and Heavenly Adoption and is wholly supernatural and invisible Either they have legal Right or they have none And it is plain they have for it lies upon the Non-swearers to prove that they are manifest Usurpers which they can never do but by carrying us into the dark Labyrinths of Law and History which can only confound and serve to make plain things obscure but can prove nothing against their Majesties Right Error 10. We have no Example in Scripture that any People were ever blamed for submitting to the present Powers whatever the Usurpation were p. 21. Confut. We read of good King Hezekiah that the Lord was with him and he prospered whithersoever he went forth and he rebelled against the King of Assyria and served him not 2 King 18.7 Now either this his Rebellion against the King of Assyria was sinful before God or it was not If yea then I see not how this Scripture can agree with it self for it doth manifestly imply that God was with Hezekiah and did prosper him in this his Rebellion against and refusal to serve the King of Assyria and so is the Opinion of the generality of Interpreters who acquit Hezekiah from all Sin in this Matter there being no Divine Obligation upon Hezekiah to serve and be tributary to the King of Assyria If it was not sinful then here is an Instance of an honest and justifiable Rebellion against an Usurping Power and consequently had Hezekiah submitted to the Usurpation of the King of Assyria he had been blame-worthy Curse ye Meroz said the Angel of the Lord curse ye bitterly the Inhabitants thereof because they came not to the help of the Lord to the help of the Lord against the Mighty Judg. 5.23 It is plain from the Context that King Jabin for twenty Years did mightily oppress Israel and usurp Dominion over them and here the Inhabitants of Meroz a City or Town in Israel are cursed by the Angel of the Lord for not concurring with Deborah and Barak and their Brethren the Israelites in warlike resistance and opposition against the usurping Tyrant and Oppressor Jabin After Jeroboam had set up false Worship in Israel and cast off the Lord's Priests from executing their Office unto the Lord they and after them out of all the Tribes of Israel such as set their Hearts to seek God came to Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their Fathers So they strengthned the Kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam the Son of Solomon strong three Years 2 Chron. 11. Here the Subjects of King Jeroboam are praised by the Spirit of God for leaving him and going over to King Rehoboam and taking part with him against Jeroboam and consequently they had been blameable if they had done otherwise Error 11. Our Saviour's Argument relies wholly on the possession of Power Whose Image and Superscription hath it p. 21. Confut. That our Saviour's Argument relies wholly on Possession be it right or wrong so as to oblige Men to pay the very same kind of Allegiance to a manisest Usurper which is due to a most rightful King which is the principal point aimed at and contended for by you is not true Our Saviour did not bring in any new Doctrine touching Sovereignty and Subjection but by his Doctrine and Example taught every Soul to be subject to the Higher Powers according as his Apostle Paul doth But it was never the Apostle's meaning to confound the distinction between a notorious Usurper and one that is notoriously no Usurper but rightful King before God and all the World as to Subjection and Allegiance But though the present King should be a manifest Usurper yet may nothing be attempted against his Person Crown and Government which is against the Common Good and Quiet when the Remedy will be worse than the Disease but where the Common Good and Quiet of the Realm cannot be upheld without removing the Usurper there it is lawful and laudable to remove him and to set the right Owner in the Throne but it can never be lawful to do so by the right Owner for Evil is not to be done that Good may come Error 12. Why should we think the Apostle here intends a Distinction unknown to Scripture And let any Man judg in what Perplexities this Sense of the Apostle's Precept would involve the Consciences of Men For these are great Disputes among Learned Men and how then should Unlearned Men understand them And I cannot think that the Resolution of Conscience in such Matters as all Mankind are concerned in should depend upon such Niceties as Learned Men themselves cannot agree in p. 19. Confut. Learning is an excellent Gift of God and greatly serviceable to his Kingdom and Glory but when destitute of Heavenly Wisdom and Grace rightly to use it it becomes the Devil 's great Engine whereby he upholds Atheism Infidelity Heresy Schism Idolatry Superstition and false Religion in the World and