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A67247 The antidote: or, a seasonable discourse on Rom. 13. 1 Shewing the necessity and reasonableness of subjection to the higher powers. With an account of the divine right or original of government. By John VValker, M.A. Walker, John, 1650-1730. 1684 (1684) Wing W392; ESTC R222266 59,633 307

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THE ANTIDOTE OR A Seasonable Discourse on ROM 13.1 SHEWING The Necessity and Reasonableness of Subjection to the Higher Powers With an Account of the DIVINE RIGHT Or ORIGINAL of GOVERNMENT By Iohn VValker M. A. Honour thy Father and Mother that thy days may be long upon the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Exod. 20.12 LONDON Printed by Th. Hodgkin for Anthony Stephens Bookseller near the Theatre in Oxford 1684. To the Honoured SIR ROBERT SAWYER Attorny General to His Most Sacred MAJESTY of GREAT BRITTAIN c. Honoured Sir THough the Real Esteem and Great Veneration I have for Your Integrity and Worth hath been the cause of the Trouble yet I fear it will not be Justification and Excuse for the boldness of this Address Not but that I know You to be a Person of very great Candor and Condescension of Complacency and Goodness very ready to Accept and Commend Encourage and Promote any Undertaking of this Nature any thing that may perswade and contribute ought unto Loyalty and Obedience in so Seditiously and Rebelliously Profligate an Age. And indeed it was this Consideration viz. of that Great Love to the Subject here Treated of that gave me the Assurance and Confidence of Prefixing Your Name to this so mean a Discourse I could not but perswade my self but that to One who hath so vigorously and eminently Asserted and Practised Loyalty and Fidelity to His Prince and Sovereign such seasonable and necessary Truths as are here delivered would from how mean a Hand soever be very grateful and acceptable Especially when there are so many Sheba's Sons of Belial still blowing the Trumpet to Rebellion and endeavouring to Dethrone the Lords Anointed and to Involve these Nations in a Miserable and Bloody War a Lamentable Confusion and Ruin It was a prospect hereof that at first excited me to Pen what I here Present You with and that hath now encouraged the Publication I am not very Solicitous what Entertainment it will meet with there is nothing that will please or satisfie some Men that are obstinately resolv'd and prejudic'd against a Truth be the Arguments from Scripture and Reason otherwise never so cogent and convincing Nor am I so vain and fond as to imagine and believe that I shall turn Apostle and convert such unreasonable Ethnicks It is utterly impossible to perswade a Man that the Sun shines if He will not believe His own Eyes and it is as difficult to convince any one of the Truth how perspicuously and fully soever Represented and Demonstrated that rejects all Scripture and Reason in the disquisition It is this that hath rendred me hopeless as to any profit and advantage that this sort of Men will reap from this Discourse but as to reasonable and ingenuous Men all that will open their Eyes and see I doubt not but that They will find enough and sufficient to convince and perswade Them of and to confirm Them in the Truths here represented and it is for such as These that I have taken all this pains However it comes not to inform and instruct You it being only a Copy and Transcript of Your Life and Practice and as such I Hope You will Vouchsafe it Shelter and Protection under Your Roof and the Author a place amongst Those that really Honour You it being the Highest of His Ambition to be in all Sincerity and Faithfulness Your Most Obedient and Humbly Devoted Servant John Walker THE PREFACE READER MY Design when I first Writ and now Publish this Discourse was and is to Serve Truth my King and my Country To do my duty as a Minister and Christian as a Good and Loyal Subject and to Act as One that had a real Tenderness Care and Concernment for the Prosperity and Welfare of that National Community whereof He is a Member To serve Truth by Opposing Censuring and Refuting those damnable and false Doctrines and Positions that have been but too much the Iudgment and Practice of too many amongst us and that have abundantly contributed to all that Faction Sedition and Rebellion that have so frequently dar'd and threatn'd Authority To serve my King by giving a Iust and Rational Account of the grounds and causes of a Dutiful Subjection and Obedience to be paid unto Him and thereby perswading unto and enforcing its performance as also by more largely and particularly shewing what it is and wherein it consists And my Country by endeavouring to unite and conjoyn all the Parts of this Great Body with the firm Band of Fidelity and Allegiance and thereby under the Divine Protection and Goodness secure a lasting Happiness and Peace unto the whole Vnion in the Body Politick being like to that in the Body Natural its best defence and preservative And this being my design I doubt not but that I shall have the concurrent Approbation and Suffrage of all Good Men. But to all this it may be Objected that it hath been already perform'd by Others and then what need of this Whereunto I return First That I have so far adverted to the Objection as to suppress the Publishing of this Piece for above a Year it being so long since it was prepared and fitted as it is now presented to the view of the Reader Secondly That when a general Ruin threatens We do not call in only the help of the Neighbourhood but of the whole Country and this being so much our case it need not be wondred at if I out of an honest Zeal for the Prosperity of Sion have put to my Helping Hand and endeavoured to avert the destruction and Ruin of the best State and Church in the World But Thirdly I answer That I never heard of or saw any Author that hath so fully and largely and in that method treated of the Subject as it is here perform'd So that this as to me may be a sufficient Apology and Reason for the Publication and a reasonable and satisfactory Answer to the Objector As to others if any such there shall be that are so unreasonable as to Object that I have put a Text of Scripture before it and thereupon bottom'd and grounded my Discourse I do not think it worth my while to make any Reply it not being likely that They should be pleased or delighted with my Comment that are not so with St. Paul's Text. Although I could tell Them that this Discourse was principally Design'd to perswade to Practice and that therefore I judg'd I could not so well effect this as by Discoursing from so Good and Iust an Authority And for my part I always apprehended and believ'd that there could be no more effectual way of convincing or better method of Reasoning and Discoursing especially on Subjects of this Nature than by Scripture and Reason and They that will not be satisfied by this are too foolishly capricious and have too much of the Buffoon so as to be consider'd or taken notice of by any grave and sober Writer and till They can