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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43648	An apology for the new separation in a letter to Dr. John Sharpe, Archbishop of York, occasioned by his farewell-sermon, preached on the 28th of June, at St. Giles's in the Fields.	Hickes, George, 1642-1715.	1691 (1691)	Wing H1841; ESTC R12652	21,953	20

you believed you could write Satisfactorily upon the Subject but you were afraid the Government would not like your Reasons and in truth my Lord you had reason for what you said for no Government can like this time-serving and precarious Principle of swearing Allegiance unto Princes Indeed a distressed Government may connive at it in a time of Exigence but it can never approve it it may be content with it upon Force when it can have Allegiance paid upon no better terms but when it grows strong enough it will despise such beggarly Elements of Subjection being the Anthers of then to condign Punishment and order their Books to be burnt by the hand of the Common Hang-man For my own part I am not afraid to tell your Grace that I hope to see such Bishop and Priests become Base and Contemptible in the Eyes Loth of King and People that expound St. Paul as you and Dr. Sherlock have done contrary to the Rules of moral Equity and Justice and advance Allegiance to the Government upon a Principle that is destructive to it and the true and lasting Peace of the Kingdom in which our Happiness does consist No Divines of the Church of England but you and Dr. Sherlock and a few more since the Revolution ever so expounded Rom. 13.1 and 1 Tim. 11.1 2. and I have so good Opinion of the Constancy of our Clergy to their Principles that I verily believe were your Exposition proposed to the Convocation they would condemn it as contrary to right Reason and the moral Duties of Religion acording to which all the general and unlimitted Precepts in the Gospel concerning relative Duties ought to be limitted and understood Doth not Nature it self at first hearing teach us that the Apostle by higher Powers and Kings in those two places meant rightful higher Powers and Kings And will not you your self grant that in other places where he or other Apostles exhorts Children to obey their Parents Wives to obey their Husbands Servants their Masters and the People their Pastors that he me us only such as are truly and rightfully so though according to you own Observation He makes no restriction or distinction what Father Husbands Masters and Pastors are to be obeyed and what not But you imply that the reason of this Exhortation to pray for Kings is general and are not the Reasons as general upon which he exhorts us to perform our relative Duties of our other Superiours as hath been observed in the several learned Answers to Dr Sherlock to which I humbly refer your Grace for your better information in the following Order as I have read them with great Delight and Satisfaction The Title of an Vjurper after a through Settelement examined p. 39 and forwards The Duty of Alleg ance settled upon its true Grounds according to Scripture and Reason Chap. 3. Dr. Sherlock 's Case of Allegiance considered Sect. 3. The Examination of the Arguments drawn from Scripture and Reason in Dr. Sherlock's Case of Allegiance in the Examination of Sect. 4. Pag. 28 I have taken upon me to direct your Grace to these particular places in hopes that you will read them and impartially examine the Reason of these learned Anthours against Dr. Sherlock's way of Expounding the Apostle Rom. 13.1 and by consequence against your own who after this manner have expounded the Apostle's Precept of Praying for Kings in a Sense as unlimitted as he hath done the other of Subjection to them viz. of Praying for Kings without distinction provided they are in Possession of the Throne These Expositions my Lord as some Men think reflect upon their Majesties and the Acts of Recognition and if you have no more to say to justifie your Praying for them Exaltabunt Jacebei the Adversaries I fear will have occasion to triumph My Lord I could name some great Men among you who when they were directed to read some of their Books replied that they were satisfied and desired not to be unsettled but I expect better things from a Person of your Candour and Ingenuity Nay my Lord I think you are bound in Honour and Conscience to examine your Adversaries Reasons against the unlimitted Sense of the Apostle's Exhortations for fear you should happen to be in the wrong and continue to delude the People by an Exposition of his Words apparently contrary to the dictates of natural Reason and by consequence to the meaning of that holy Spirit by which the Apostle wrote You cannot but know that this unlimitted Sense in which you expounded the Apostle is of ill Fame and hath been generally disapproved by the learned Divines of our Church it was insisted on it the times of the late Usurpation by Phanatical time-serving Writers but rejected with disdain by the Martyrs and Confessors of Loyalty among the Suffering Clergy-men as it now is by Jacobeans It was so expounded by Mr. Jenkins who in the late Usurpation argued for Subjection as Dr. Sherlock doth now and was ever after Infamous for it and exposed without Mercy for it by your old Acquaintance Dr. Grove now Bishop of Chichester as you may see in the Margent ‡ Answer to Mr. Jenkins's Farewell Sermon p. 15. It is a most excellent Presertative against Tower-hill But what is this famed Position of the Doctor 's As far as I can learn it was laid down in these very Words or to this purpose Regimen Politicum fundatur in Provident à D●i Extraordinarià This Mr. Jenkins calls his asserting Providential Disposal though one might conjecture what this means yet it had not been so clear without the Comment which he has made upon it in the beginning of his humble Petition to the Supreme Authority the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England in short it is this That whoever they be that get the Power into their hands the Providence of God evidently appears in removing others and investing them with the Government And he looks upon it as his Duty to yield to this Authority all active and chearful Obedience even for Conscience sake This is a fine pleable Principle as a Man can wish 't will lap about your Finger like Barbary Gold Thus when King Charles the First of blessed Memory had the Power in his hands this was an Extraordinary Providence and the Right of Government was in him But stay it may be the Dector had not studied the point so soon but to be sure when the Parliament got the better that was an Extraordinary Providence ideed and then indeed without doubt they were the Supreme Authority as this Petitioner styles them and so was Oliver Cromwel and so was Richard and so was the Rump and so was the Committee of Safety and so was I know not who and so round until his Majesties most happy Restauration and then because there was an Extraordinary Providence in that so is he too and so Mr. Jenkins is as good a Subject as can be desired and so he had been whoever had come And