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A96592	Jura majestatis, the rights of kings both in church and state: 1. Granted by God. 2. Violated by the rebels. 3. Vindicated by the truth. And, the wickednesses of this faction of this pretended Parliament at VVestminster. 1. Manifested by their actions. 1. Perjury. 2. Rebellion. 3. Oppression. 4. Murder. 5. Robberies. 6. Sacriledge, and the like. 2. Proved by their ordinances. 1. Against law. 2. Against Equity. 3. Against conscience. Published 1. To the eternall honour of our just God. 2. The indeleble shame of the wicked rebels. And 3. To procure the happy peace of this distressed land. Which many feare we shall never obtaine; untill 1. The rebels be destroyed, or reduced to the obedience of our King. And 2. The breaches of the Church be repaired. 1. By the restauration of Gods (now much profamed) service. And 2. The reparation of the many injuries done to Christ his now dis-esteemed servants. By Gryffith Williams, Lord Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1644 (1644)	Wing W2669; Thomason E14_18b	215,936	255

that they destroy all images and are just such as the Prophet David speakes of which have done evill in Gods Sanctuary and have broken downe all the carved worke thereof with axes and hammers that have set fire upon his holy places and have defiled the dwelling place of Gods name even unto the ground for it is almost incredible how barbarously worse then any Turkes or Jewes they have broken down those rare and sweet instruments of Musick the Organs of our Churches and have defaced those excellent pieces of worke that to the honour of God were made and set up in the windowes of our Churches in Canterbury Winchester Lincolne and the other Cathedrals by the best Artists in Christendome which is a most horrible fact no wayes commanded in this precept and an irreparable losse to us and our posterity and therefore the Prophet David calleth these defacers of such carved and painted workes set up in his house the adversaryes and enemies of God vers 4 and 5. vers 11. foolish people vers 19 and 23. the haters of God vers 24. and the blasphemers of his name vers 11. for none but such would have done such Prophanations as is done in Gods house but let them take heed lest the Prophets prayer should light upon them lift up thy feete O God that thou mayest utterly destroy every one of these enemies which hath done this evill in thy Sanctuary 3. For swearing not vainely but falsly most wickedly Ps 74. v. 4. 3. How they forswear themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Menand perjurium est nequiter decipere credentem Aug. 4 How they prophaned the Sabboth and for-swearing themselves over and over againe and againe and having more dispensations and absolutions for their perjuries by their holy Prophets then ever the Popes gave for adulteries it is incredible to thinke and impossible to number the heads of these transgressions and therefore if you beleive that God was in earnest when he gave this precept you may be assured he will not hold them guiltlesse that are such transgressors of it 4. For the day wherein we should serve our God in his Church most reverently some of them worship him more unmannerly then some of those blinde Indians that worship the Devill himselfe and others of them muster their men plunder their neighbours and murder their brethren which they beleive to be the best way to sanctify the Sabbath and for which resting from their worke thus religiously to serve the Lord let them take heed left God should sweare in his wrath that they shall never enter into his rest 5. How they curse their Fathers and Mothers 5. They curse their Father and their Mother that their dayes may be long in the Land which their pretended Parliament hath promised to give them for the King is the Prince and Principall Father of us all and the Prophet saith of such men they shall curse their King and their God Esay 8.21 and the Bishops are their Fathers too and they have cursed them long agone and I feare they will not cease to curse them till their curses fall upon their owne heads and for all other bonds of duty and relations of Wives unto their Husbands Children unto their Parents Servants unto their Masters they are Preached asunder to make way for the liberty of the Subject to Rebell by authority against his Soveraigne 6. How many they have murdered 6. Whereas God saith thou shalt doe no murder they gave that first commission though they had not the least colour of any authority to give it to kill slay and destroy and it is most lamentable to consider how many thousands they have murdered and how they are thought worthy of the greatest honour and the best reward that have killed most of Gods faithfull servants and the Kings loyall Subjects 1. How they loosened the reins to all lust ho● fonte deri vata clades in patriam populumque fluxit Horat. car l. 3. 7. For adulteries Fornications and all Uncleannesse they may now freely doe it lust may flow like the river whose bankes are broken downe when they have overthrowen those courts of Justice and were never at rest till they had most violently suppressed the power and execution of all Ecclesiasticall censures that were the chiefest barres and hinderances of these unlawfull lusts 8. How they are like Argivi fures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8. For stealing they have changed the name but not the nature of it for under the pretence of preserving to us the propriety of our goods they have not stollen but plundered away that is robbed us of all our goods and carried them into those Rebellious Townes that are now the dens of these theeves and are stronger in their wickednesse then the hils of the robbers and that which makes this sinne most sinfull Ps 94.12 is that it is established by a Law 9. They have justified the Cretans 9. How they belyed all sorts of good men Quomodo Deus pater genuit filium veritatem nempe sic diabolus lapsus genuit quasi filium mendaciū Aug. super Ioh. Habac. 2.9 and proved themselves the right bastard sonnes of the father of lyes filling all and every corner of this Kingdome with palpable intolerable and incredible lyes slanders and false witnesse-bearing against God against his Annointed against the Church and against all the reverend governours of the Church all religious Protestants and all the loyall Subjects of this Nation that the Angels doe now blush and the Devils doe laugh and rejoyce to see they are so fruitfull in begetting so many children so perfectly formed and so compleatly perfected in their owne image and likenesse and if ever the saying of Gildas was true they have proved it now Moris continui gentis erat sicut nunc est Gildas de excidio Britan. ut infirma esset ad retundenda hostium tela fortis ad civilia bella infirma inquam ad exequenda pacis ac veritatis insignia fortis ad scelera mendacia 10. They have coveted an evill covetousnesse 10. The extent of their covetousnesse when they coveted all evill unto themselves not onely their neighbours houses goods and lands and all that are theirs but also the patrimonie of the Church the revenues of the Clergy and all the rights and prerogatives of the King to be intayled upon themselves and their faction that so they and theirs might be both Kings and Priests and all not to God but to themselves and their fellow Rebels in the government of this Kingdome And as they have thus transgressed all the old Commandements of the Law How they transgressed the new Commandement of the Gospell Gen. 4.9 so they come no wayes short in transgressing the new Commandement of the Gospell for their love to their brethren is now turned to perfect hatred when they say not with Cain am I my brothers keeper but with Apollyon I will be

their Decree and appointed the penalty and whosoever rejected their order or refused their judgement they excommunicated him from all society and he was then deemed of all men as an ungodly and a most gracelesse person Thus did they that had but the twilight of corrupted nature to direct them judge those that were most conversant with the minde and will of the gods to be the fittest Counsellors and Judges of the actions of men and I feare these children of nature will rise in judgement to condemne many of them that professe themselves to be the sonnes of grace for comming so short of them in this point 2. The Jewes also which received the oracles of God 2. Among the Iewes were injoyned by God to yeild unto their Priests the dispensation both of divine and humane Lawes and the Lord enacted it by an irrevocable Law that the judgement of the High Priest should be observed as sacred and inviolable in all controversies and if any man refused to submit himselfe unto it Deut. 17. his death must make recompence for his contumacy And Iosephus saith Si judices nesciunt de rebus ad se delatis pronunciare integram causam in urbem sanctam mittent convenientes Pontifex Propheta Senatus quod visum sit pronuncient Ioseph contra App. lib 2. and in his second booke against Appian he saith Sacerdotes inspectores omnium judices controversiarum punitores damnatorum constituti sunt à Moyse the Priests were appointed by Moses to be the lookers into all things the Iudges of controversies and the punishers of the condemned And they were of that high esteeme among the Iewes that the royall bloud disdained not to match in marriages with the Priests as Iehojada married the daughter of King Iehoram 2. Chron. 22 11 and in the vacancie of Kings they had all the affaires of the Kingdom in their administration and when they became tributaries unto the Romans after Aristobulus the royall government was often annexed to the Priesthood and S. Paul argueth from hence 2. Cor. 3.7 8 9. that if the administration of death was glorious how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious for if the ministration of condemnation be glory much more doth the ministration of righteousnesse exceed in glory or otherwise it were very strange that the Ministers of the Gospel should be deemed more base and contemptible because their calling is farre more glorious and excellent yea so excellent Esay 52.7 that to all good Christians the Prophet demandeth quàm speciosi pedes eorum Priests imployed in secular affaires And for the discharging of secular imployments we have not onely the example of the Priests and Prophets of the Old Testament 1. Among the Jewes Psal 99.6 but we have also the testimony and the practice of many godly Bishops and Fathers of the Church of Christ under the New Testament to justifie this truth For Priests Prophets among the Jewes exercised secular jurisdiction 1. Not onely Moses and Aaron that were both the Priests of the most high God and the chiefe Judges in all secular causes but also Joseph had his jurisdiction over the Egyptians Daniel had his Lieutenancie over the Babylonians and Nehemias was a great Courtier among the Persians and yet these secular imployments were no hinderance to them in the divine worship and service of God So Ely and Samuel both were both Iudges and Priests together and the most religious Princes David Solomon Iehosaphat and others used the Priests and Levites at their command in the civill government of their Dominions for when David caused all the Levites to be numbred from 30 yeares old and upward and that they were found to be 38 thousand he appointed 24 thousand of them to be over-seers of the workes for the house of the Lord and he ordained the other six thousand to be Iudges and Rulers in all Israel 2. Chron. 23.4 and so did Iehosaphat likewise * 2. Chron. 19.11 The place explained for though the last verse of the said chapter seemes to put a difference betwixt the Civill matters and the Ecclesiasticall affaires yet it is rightly answered by Saravia that this errour riseth from a misconceived opinion of their government as if it were the same with the government of some of our reformed Churches which was nothing lesse for if you compare this place with the 26. chap. of the 1. Chron. vers the 29 Sigonius legit super opera ●●●a ad regis officia pertinent l. 6. p. 315. 30 and 32. you may easily finde that the Kings service or the affaires of the King doth not signifie the civill matters or the politique affaires of the Kingdome over which Amarias here and Hashabia and his brethren there 1. Chron. 26.30 were appointed the chiefe Rulers 1. Sam. c. 8. but it signifieth those things which pertained to the Kings right betwixt him and his subjects as those things that were described by Samuel and were retained and perhaps augmented either by the consent of the people or the incroachment of the succeeding Kings as the speciall rights of the Kings over which Zebadias the sonne of Ismael was appointed by Iehosaphat to be the Ruler and the businesse of the Lord is fully set downe vers 10. to be not onely the Church affaires but all the affaires of the Kingdome betweene bloud and bloud Vers 10. betweene Law and Commandement Statutes and judgements over which the Priests and Levites were appointed the ordinary Judges and the Interpreters of the Law as well Civill as Ecclesiasticall for the Lord saith plainly Ezech 44.23 Vide locum Sigon ait circa judicium sanguinis ipse insistent that every question and controversie shall be determined according to the censure of the Priests which certainly he would never have so prescribed nor these holy men have thus executed them if these two functions had beene so averse and contrary the one to the other that they could never be exercised together by the same man 2. In the Primitive times under the Gospell Salmeron saith 2. In the Primitive Church Salmer tract 18. in parabol hominis divitis lo. 16. num 1. that in the time of S. Augustine as himselfe teacheth Episcopi litibus Christianorum vacare solebant the Bishops had so much leisure that they were wont to judge of the quarrels of Christians yet they did not so spend their time in judging their contentions that they neglected their Preaching and Episcopall function and now that they doe judge in civill causes consuetudine Ecclesiae introductum est ut peceata caverentur And Bellarmine saith Non pugnat cum verbo Dei Bellar. de Rom. Pont. l. 5. c. 9. ut unus homo sit Princeps Ecclesiasticus politicus simul it is not against the Word of God that the same man should be an Ecclesiasticall and a Secular Prince together when as the same man may