Prince the hurt will be their own and they punish themselves but if it be necessarily to their well-fare it is no injury to him But a King that by war will seek reparations from the body of the People doth put himself into an hostile State and tells them actually that he looks to his own good more than theirs and bids them take him for their Enemy and so defend themselves if they can Pag. 424. XVII Though a Nation wrong their King and so quoad Meritum causa they are on the worser side yet may he not lawfully war against the publick good on that account nor any help him in such a war because propter finem he hath the worser cause Thes. 352. And yet as he tells us pag. 476. we were to believe the Parlaments Declarations and professions which they made that the war which they raised was not against the King either in respect of his Authority or of his Person but onely against the Delinquent Subjects and yet they actually fought against the King in person and we are to believe saith Mr. Baxter pag. 422. that men would kill them whom they fight against Mr. Baxter's Doctrine concerning the Government of England in particular HE denies the government of England to be Monarchical in these words I. The real Soveraignty here amongst was us in King Lords and Commons Pag. 72. II. As to them that argue from the Oath of Supremacy and the title given the King I refer them saith Mr. Baxter to Mr. Lawson's answer to Hobb's Politicks where he sheweth that the Title is often given to the single Person for the honour of the Common-wealth and his encouragement because he hath an eminent interest but will not prove the whole Soveraignty to be in him and the Oath excludeth all others from without not those whose interest is implied as conjunct with his The eminent dignity and interest of the King above others allowed the name of a Monarchy or Kingdom to the Common-wealth though indeed the Soveraignty was mix'd in the hands of the Lords and Commons Pag. 88. III. He calls it a false supposition 1. That the Soveraign power was onely in the King and so that it was an absolute Monarchy 2. That the Parlament had but onely the proposing of Laws and that they were Enacted onely by the Kings Authority upon their request 3. That the power of Arms and of War and Peace was in the King alone And therefore saith he those that argue from these false suppositions conclude that the Parlament being Subjects may not take up Arms without him and that it is Rebellion to resist him and most of this they gather from the Oath of Supremacy and from the Parlaments calling of themselves his Subjects but their grounds saith he are sandy and their superstructure false Pag. 459 460. And therefore Mr. Baxter tells uâ—… that though the Parlament are Subjects in one capacity yet have they their part in the Soveraignty also in their higher capacity Ibid. And upon this faâ—…se and trayterous supposition he endeavours to justisie the late Rebellion and his own more than ordinary activeness in it For IV. Where the Soveraignty saith he is distributed into several hands as the Kings and Parlaments and the King invades the others part they may lawfully defend their own by war and the Subject lawfully assist them yea though the power of the Militia be expresly given to the King unless it be also exprest that it shall not be in the other Thes. 363. The conclusion saith he needs no proof because Soveraignty as such hath the power of Arms and of the Laws themselves The Law that saith the King shall have the Militia supposeth it to be against Enemies and not against the Common-wealth nor them that have part of the Soveraignty with him To resist him here is not to resist power but usurpation and private will in such a case the Parlament is no more to be resisted than he Ibid. V. If the King raise War against such a Parlament upon their Declaration of the dangers of the Common-wealth the people are to take it as raised against the Common-wealth Thes. 358. And in that case saith he the King may not only be resisted but ceaseth to be a King and entreth into a state of War with the people Thes. 368. VI. Again if a Prince that hath not the whole Soveraignty be conquered by a Senate that hath the other part and that in a just defensive War that Senate cannot assume the whole Soveraignty but supposeth that government in specie to remain and therefore another King must be chosen if the former be incapable Thes. 374. as he tells us he is by ceasing to be King in the immediately precedent Thes. VII And yet in the Preface to this Book he tells us that the King withdrawing so he call the murdering of one King and the casting off of another the Lords and Commons ruled alone was not this to change the species of the Government Which in the immediate words before he had affirmed to be in King Lords and Commons which constitution saith he we were sworn and sworn and sworn again to be faithful to and to defend And yet speaking of that Parlament which contrary to their Oaths changed this Government by ruling alone and taking upon them the Supremacy he tells us that they were the best Governours in all the world and such as it is forbidden to Subjects to depose upon pain of damnation VVhat then was he that deposed them one would think Mr. Baxter should have called him a Traytor but he calls hâ—…m in the same Preface the Lord Prorector adding That he did prudently piously faithfully and to his immortal honour exercise the Government which he left to his Son to whom as Mr. Baxter saith pag. 481. he is bound to submit as set over us by God and to obey for conscience sake and to behave himself as a Loyal Subject towards him because as he saith in the same place a sull and free Parlament had owned him thereby implying That a maimed and manacled House of Commons without King and Lords and notwithstanding the violent expulsion of the secluded Members were a full and free Parlament and consequently that if such a Parlament should have taken Arms against the King he must have sided with them Yea though they had been never so much in fault and though they had been the beginners of the VVar for he tells us in plain and express terms VIII That if he had known the Parlament had been the beginners of the War and in most fault yet the ruine of the Trustees and Representatives and so of all the security of the Nation being a punishment greater than any faults of theirs against the King could deserve from him their faults could not disoblige him meaning himself from defending the Common-wealth Pag. 480. And that he might do this lawfully and with a good Conscience he seems to be so
Unbiast consciences to be just Pag. 15. We may answer all Queries about the Reign of Christ thus the blind begin to have their eyes unscal'd the lame do walk at liberty proud ones are abâ—…s'd the mighty ones are put from their seats errors discountenanc'd â—…ruths inquir'd after Ceremonies and Superstitions are cast out monuments of Popery and Paganism cast down Pag. 35. Mr. Caryl on Luke 10. 20. Rejoyce not that the Spirits are made Subject untâ—… you c. * THere is very little difference between Devils and wicked men I may say without breach of charity Devils Incarnate are made subject this day and their Subjection is the subject of this days rejoycing Pag. 22. Mr. Charles Herle before the House of Lords Jan. 15. 1643. on Psal. 95. 1. O come let us sing unto the Lord c. * IN vain shall you in your Fasts with Joshua lie on your faces unless you lay your Achans on their backs in vain are the high praises of God in your mouthes without a two edged Sword in your hand Pag. 31. The same again he has in Sermon on Gen. 22. vors 2. before the Lord Maior and Aldermen pag. 23. adding * the blood that Ahab spared in Benhad ad stuck as deep and heavily on him as that which he spilt in Naboth Mr. Herle in his Preface before his sermon on 2 Sam. 21. 16 17. Preach'd before the Commons Novemb. 5. 1644. HE is neither true Protestant nor true English-man that doth not with all thankfulness and admiration look upon the greatness of the contribution which the concurrent streams of our Sister Nation of Scotland brings to both those interests of Church and State Pag. 14. * Do justice to the greatest Sauls sons are not spared no nor may Agag or Benhadad though themselves Kings Zimri and Cosbi though Princes of the People must be pursu'd into their Tents This is the way to Consecrate your selves to God Pag. 16. Mr. Herle on 1 Kings 22. 22. I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all the Prophets Before the Commons 1644. * IF the Devil can but once get a Prophet to leave Gods Service for the Kings he hath taken a Blew already and is ready for as deep a Black as Hell can give him Pag. 28. * There can be nothing plainer than that the Houses of Parlament without the Kings personal concurrence are still a Court of Judgement Pag. 38. * The Houses are not onely requisite to the acting of this power of making Laws but co-ordinate with his Majesty in the very power of acting Pag. 42. Mr. Jerem. Burroughs on Isa. 66. vers 10. in a Thansgiving THere was corruption both in Church and Common-wealth Idols were set up in Dan and Bethel i. e. in the places of Judgement and in the House of God Pag. 37. * The greatest blow that ever was given to Anti-christian Government is that which now it hath had Babylon is fallen is sallen so fallen as it shall never rise again Pag. 44. This is the Curse of God on that party notwithstanding God sets himself against them yet they will not come in and repent for God takes no pleasure in them to give them repentance Pag. 58 59. Mr. Obed. Sedgewick on Esther 9. vers 1. in a Thanksgiving sermon Jan. 15. 1643. * NEver were there grosser Idols in Rome than those things as they were used by some and what is abus'd by superstition ought not to be retain'd Pag. 33. Mr. Alexander Henderson before the Lords and Commons Thursday 18. of July 1644. on Mat. 14. 21. In his preface to that sermon THe principal theam and matter of the Solemnity of the day we take for an answer of the prayers of the faithful in the three Kingdoms Mr. John Strickland of New Sarum in his Thanksgiving Novemb. 5. 1644. on Psal. 46. 7. * THe execution of Judgement is the Lords work and they shall be cursed that do it negligently and cursed shall they be that keep back their Sword from blood in this cause you know the story of Gods message unto Ahab for letting Benhadad go upon Composition Pag. 26. * Such a generation of men there were amongst us that by compliances with Idols and Idolatry went about to drive God away and what consistence can there be between the Ark and Dagon between God and Idols Pag. 32. Mr. Matthew Newcomen on Neh. 4. XI Novemb. 5. 1642. A Dam â—…ontzen a Jesuite has drawn a plot for cheating of a people of the true Religion by Art of Legerdemain the Method this be pleased to observe how exactly the late times have moved according to these Rules When Abbies were demolish'd they found in their vaults and ponds heaps of Sculs and bones monuments of their smother'd cruelty I doubt not but the abolishers of High Commission have found as manifest evidence of their cruel practices heaps of the blood of Innocents Pag. 30. Those Traytors of the fift of November laid their Fire-works in the Bowels of the earth these have laid theirs in the bosom of our Soveraign whereby they have Captivated not onely the multitude but the Throne it self Pag. 35. Mr. Joh. Ward before the House of Lords on Deut. 33. 16. 'T Is nâ—…w more than manifest that Rome and Hell had long since taken counsel by working to extirpate all Protestant Religion as for dissolving Our Laws the introducing Arbitrary Government it was but a design on the by to Cajole and hire the Court to their party Pag. 16. * The Scots were necessitated to take up Arms for their just defence and against Anti-christ and the Popish Priests Pag. 18. A Lamp hath been seen to walk between the divided pieces many Testimonies of the goodness of our God in the remembrance of his Covenant Pag. 21. Mr. John Bond Master of the Savoy before the House of Commons on Isaiah 25. 9. 1645. Octob. 8. * COme hither you malignant Atheists come hither gâ—…ash your teeth and let your eyes rot in their holes Pag. 5. My sute is concerning the Covenant that it may not be obtrudeâ—… without due preparation as the Spaniards baptized the Americans bâ—… droves Pag. 36. Give them time first to disgorge themselves of their direful Anti-Covenant perjurious combinations Pag. 36. Let them â—…irst shave their heads and pair their nails as the strangâ—… Virgin of old was commanded to do and so let them enter into that sacred and dreadful Covenant Pag. 37. If hereafter the Tide of Victory shall turn again and you shall bâ—… brought low yet I beseech you remember this day in which you are to give thanks for five Victories that there was a day when God serv'd you in with five Pheasants in a dish with a feast of fat things Pag. 38. Mr. Francis Woodcock before the House of Commons Feb. 19. 1645. on Gen. 49. 23. In his Preface to the County and City of Chester aster the surrender of Chester THe Church in the foremost times was harrased by Rome heathen in these last
denyed and too impious to be defended though I could answer that I am not at all beholding to a Chirurgeon for setting that leg which he himself first put out of joynt yet I desire them to remember that they never attempted the Restauration of his Majesty till they were visibly in the very jaws of the Fanaticks who were then seizing upon their Tythes and Churches the last morsell of the spiritual Revenue so that it is shrewdly to be suspected that had not the Tythe-pig cryed lowder in their ears than either their Conscience or the word of God they had never been awakened to attempt that which since it has been effected so many of them have not obscurely repented of And so much may suffice to answer their Pretences to Piety and the power of Godliness To their next plea that they are now persecuted I shall only make this reply That I desire the World to take notice that those Persons who turned almost all out of their livings that adhered to their lawfull Soveraign who sent sucâ—… with their Wives and Families a begging as durst not deflower their Consciences with down-right Perjury and having sworn Canonical Obedience to the most Reformed Church in the World durst not by a contrary Oath swear and endeavour its extirpation Those also who procured that murdering Order from a bloudy Tyrant and Usurper that every Episcopal Divine should not only be uncapable of a Benefice but also disabled to exercise any act of his ministerial Function as Preaching Baptizing or the like nor yet suffered to get some little subsistence by teaching School no nor lastly to live in any Gentlemans house who out of Pity might take him in to keep him from Starving All which are such unheard-of Instances of barbarous Tyranny that the Spight of the Heathen Neros Dioclesians Julians all circumstances considered was much inferiour to them Now I say I desire the World to take notice that those who were partly the Authors partly the Procurers of these hideous remorseless Actions are those poor gentle suffering Lambs of Christ that now bleat out Persecution Having thus answered their pleas or rather their Noise I shall in a word or two give an account of the following book It presents us first with a short Collection of the Sayings and Doctrines of the great Leaders and Abetters of the Presbyterian Reformation of their pious and peaceable maxims which like razors set with oyl cut the throat of Majesty with so keen a smoothness and then to bring up the rear of this spiritual Brigade and withall to shew further that the cause of our Church is so united to that of the Crown that the same who malign one strike as boldly at the other I have thought fit to bring the Papists and the Hobbians upon the same Stage as venting Doctrines no less pernicious to the Civil than to the Ecclesiastical State For a testimony of which I have here given a Taste of each of them of the first out of Mr. White of the second out of the Author of the Leviathan and great Propagator of the Kingdom of Darkness I selected the writings of Mr. White as being the most Compendious and effectual way of Probation For if He who writes and pretends enmity against the Jesuites for being Disturbers of the Peace of States and Kingdoms and underminers of the Prerogative of Kings and so by this catches at the reputation of being moderate I say if this Person shall yet be found a pestilent assertor of such maxims as eat out the Rights and Titles of all lawfull Princes then let men take an estimate of their known Treasons and King-killing Doctrines from the Poyson and Virulence of their very moderation And therefore I earnestly entreat the Reader diligently to peruse that Paragraph that exhibits to him the collection of Mr. Whites Principles I have this now in the last place to add that the Reader must not here expect a full rehersal of thesâ—… mens Doctrines but only a Taste or Specimen He that can endure the raking of Dunghils longer than I can let him have recourse to their Writings let him lanch out into the Ocean of the Presbyterian Pamphlets and Sermons an Ocean in which the Papists may see the face of their disloyal Doctrines as in a Glass and in which the Leviathan himself may sport and take his pastime There seems to be a more than ordinary Significance in that Saying of the Prophet that Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft and that I conceive not only for its equal malignity but also for its peculiar Analogy and cognation for if we reflect upon the late Instances of it amongst our Selves we shall find that the People could never be brought to Rebell till their Preachers had first Bewitched them But I hope the World will be so far unbewitched as to read this Collection with their farewell-Sermons lately printed together and exposed to sale with so much Ostentaâ—…ion Of which I shall say this that they may very properly be called Fare-well-Sermons since experience is like to manifest that their Con-gregations never fared so well as when such Seducers preached their Last Mr Edmund Calamies Theses Pag. 22. THE Lords and Commons are as the Master of the House 2. The Parliament whom the people chuse are the great and only Conservators of the peoples liberties p. 38. They are the chief Magistrate Custodes vindices utriusque tabulae p. 37. for they are the Ministers of God for good and revengers to execute wrath upon him that does evill Rom. 13. 4. which being by Saint Paul expressly spoken of the Highest Powers he applies to that part of the two Houses that sat at Westminster without nay against the Kings command p. 9. That all those that fought under the Kings banner against this Parliament fought themselves into slavery and did endeavour by all bloudy and treacherous waies to subvert Religion and Liberties p. 12. That the King that should have been a head of gold was an iron head to crush its own body in pieces p. 18. Those that made their peace with him at Oxford by returning to their Loyaltie were Judasses of England and it were just with God to give them their portion with Judas p. 13. Those that ingaged in this Cause and in the Covenant which was an oath for their goods were unjustly charged with Rebellion p. 38. That it was Gods cause and it shall prevail at last p. 29. That it is commendable to fight for Peace and Reformation against the Kings command These are Mr. Calamies Doctrines in his Sermon preached before the Lords Dec. 25. 1644. printed by â—…hristopher Meredith by his own appointment directly contrary to St. Peter who tells us that the King is the Supreme and not any one or two Houses of Parlâ—…ament without him contrary to St. Paul who â—…ells us that whosoever severally or conjunctly shall resist much more that shall fight against this Highest Power resist the ordinance of God and
confident that in his Preface he makes as it were a challenge saying that if any man can prove that the King was the highest power in the time of those Divisions and that he had power to make that war which he made he will offer his head to Justice as a Rebel As if in those times of Division thâ—… King had lost or sorfeited his Soveraignty and the Parlament had not onely a part but the whole Soveraignty in themselves IX Finally Mr. Baxter tells us Pag. 486. That having often searched into his heart whether he did lawfully engage into the War or not and whether he did lawfully encourage so many thousands to it he tells us I say that the issue of all his search was but this That he cannot yet see that he was mistaken in the main cause nor dares he repent of it nor forbear doing the same if it were to do again in the same state of things He tells us indeed in the same place that if he could be convinced he had sinned in this matter he would as gladly make a publick recantation as he would eat or drink which seeing he hath not yet done it is â—…vident he is still of the same mind and consequently would upon the same occasion do the same things viz. sight and encourage as many thousands as he could to fight against the King for any thing that calls it self or which he is pleased to call a full and Free Parlament as likewise that he would own and submit to any Usurper of the Soveraignty as set up by God although he came to it by the murder of his Master and by trampling upon the Parlament Lastly That he would hinder as much as possibly he could the restoring of the rightful Heir unto the Crown And now whether a man of this Judgement and of these affections ought to be permitted to Preach or no Let any but himself judge Mr. Stephen Marshal in his Thanksgiving Sermon on Psal. 124. vers 6 7 8. before the House of Commons Sept. 7. 1641. Upon the peace concluded between England and Scotland PAge 40 41. Many are grieved at the great things God has done for us as in the eighth of Ezekiel v. 14. A company of women sate weeping for Tammuz cause they had lost their Idol Pag. 45. This year have we seen broken the yokes which lay upon our Estates Liberties Religion and Conscience Pag. 49. Look to your families do as Jacob did at Bethel when he payed his vow of thanksgiving unto God he made all his family bury their Idols under an Oak Mr. Stephen Marshal in his Sermon Preach'd to the House of Commons at their day of Thanksgiving June 15. 1643. For the discovery of a dangerous desperate and bloody Design tending to the utter subersion of the Parlament and of the famous City of London THe viol now pouring out is the Lords work and he will see it done doubt ye not Pag. 9. The first Engineers that battered the walls of this great Babylon Who were they but the poorer and meaner sort of people that at the first joyn'd with the Ministers to raise the building of Reformation pag. 15. In Scotland what great things hath the Lord lately done by very weak means hardly the fift part of the Nobility appearing for them scarce one fourth part of the Kingdom owning the Cause Pag. 18. Were not the Book of Service and the Book of Canons obtruded on them the Occasion of their late mercies and the Tyranny of a few of their Prelates a means to unburthen them of their whole Prelacy Pag. 18. To what a dead low ebb were We brought our liberty almost swallowed up and turned into slavery our Religion into Popery Pag. 18. The Prelates late Canons and Oath purposely contrived for the perpetuating of their Hierarchy and their other treacherous endeavours against the State joyning with the Papists and with them labouring to bring all into Confusion hath helped thus far toward the taking them away both Root and Branch Pag. 19. The Roman Emperors wasted the Saints in ten several persecutions but all these were nothing in comparison of this destroyer all their loins not so heavy as the little fiuger of Anti-Christ Pag. 25. You are in part Honorable and well-beloved one of the Angels who are to pour out the vial of the wrath of God Pag. 37. Had this bloody contrivance took effect this Honorable Assembly had been made as a Parlament of Paris the greatest Instruments of the Kingdoms Slavery and vassallage for time to come Pag. 39. Think now how deeply you are engaged and brought under the curse of God if you perform not this Solemn Covenant think how horrid a thing it will prove sor any of you to stand perjured men before God in matters of such consequence Pag. 41. All Protestant Writers do agree that we are under the pouring out of some one or more of these seven Vials some think the fourth Vial is now pouring out on the Anti-Christian world others the fift on the throne of the Beast Pag. 44. I dare speak it as confidently as I believe the Revelation to be Divine Scripture that what Viol so ever is now pouring out the issue will be Anti-christ shall lose and Christ shall gain Pag. 45. Mr. Stephen Marshal in his Sacred Panegyrick Preached to the two Houses of Parlament his Excellency the Earl of Essex Lord Maior Court of Aldermen c. Upon occasion of their Feasting to testifie their thankfulness to God for their Union and Concord Janu. 18. 1643. on 1. Chron. 12. 38 39 40. All these came with a perfect heart to Hebron to make David King over Israel c. DAvid persecuted by Saul did not onely take up Arms for his own defence but many of the choisest men of the Tribes did joyn with him and all this while King Saul was alive and David but a private man and one that had sworn Allegiance to him Pag. 7. Now beloved give me leave to speak my thoughts freely I will set aside my Text and the matter I have in hand and yet I will confidently affirm that our days now are better than they were seven years ago because it is better to see the Lord executing Judgement then to see men working wickedness and to behold a People lie wallowing in their blood rather than apostating from God and embracing Idolatry and Superstition and banishing the Lord Jesus from amongst them Pag. 18. If there be any in this Assembly that thinks not this a sufficient Retribution and Satisfaction for all his twentieth part for all his contributions for all his payments and hazards I sâ—…y he is blind I sâ—…y his heart is not right with God he hath no share in this business Pag. 20. Carry on the work still leave not a rag that belongs to Popery lay not a bit of the Lords building with any thing that belongs to Anti-christ but away with it Root and Branch Head and Tail till you can say
Now is Christ set upon his throne Pag. 21. * Noble and resolute Commanders go on to fight the battels of the Lord Jesus Christ for so I will not now fear to call them Pag. 21. * All Christendom except the Malignants in England do now see that the question in England is whether Christ or Anti-christ shall be Lord and King Pag. 21. Ten thousand times cursed are they who have provoked Our Soveraign to raise Arms to destroy his Nobles and Commons and Divines and this most honoured City and even all who have been faithful Pag. 28. Mr. Stephen Marshal after Naseby fight in a Thanksgiving Sermon on Psal. 102. 18. ALL the Countries where the Gospel had prevail'd have faithsully stood to God in his cause the rest nurst up under Popery and Superstition both Lords Commons and Gentlemen and whole Commons did endeavour to fight themselves into slavery and labour to desâ—…roy the Parlament that is themselves and all that is theirs Mr. Marshal in his Sermon on Micah 7. 1 2. 1644. BElieve this cause must prosper though we were all dead our Armies overthrown and even our Palaments dissolved this cause must prevail Mr. Edmund Calamy in his Sermon before the House of Peers June 15. 1643. on Joshua 24. 15. REligion is that which is pretended on all hands The defence of the Protestant Religion this news we hear daily from Oxford and for this purpose there is an Army of Papists to defend Protestant Religion just as the Gun-powder Treason that would have blown up the Parlament for the good of the Catholike Religion Pag. 24. Few Noblemen and Gentlemen appear on the Parlament side not many mighty not many Noble thus it was in Christs time the great men and great Scholars crucified Christ. Pag. 30. The Cause you mannage is the Cause of God the glory of God is embark'd in the same Ship in which this cause is and you may lawfully say as Joshua does Josh. 7. 9. What wilt thou do unto thy great name and Numb 14. 15 16. And as Joshua said to Israel Numb 14. 7. So doth God to you fear not fear not the people of the land for they are bread for us their defence is departed from them and the Lord is with us fear them not Pag. 53. I may say without uncharitableness you have the major part of Gods people on your side Pag. 55. He that dies fighting the Lords battel dies a Martyr Pag. 57. Mr. Thomas Case in his Epistle Dedicatory to the Commons House in Parlament before his Sermon on Ezek. 20. 25. GOd in you hath graciously begun to make good that Evangelical promise Zech. 12. 8. In defending this his English Hierusalem he hath made him that was weak among you as David you have conquer'd the Lyon aâ—…d the Bear and shall not that uncircumcised Philistine that numerous Beast who hath not ceast to blaspheme the Armies os the Living God become like one of these behold â—… he lies groveling at your feet there wants nothing but cutting off his head They cryed down the Sâ—…bbath as a ridiculous or at least a superfluous Ceremony Pag. XI * thus they make the King glad with their wickedness and he that could bring Jeroboam an argument to justifie his Idolatry he was a well-come man at Court Pag. 12. Mr. Case on Ezra 10. 2 3. Preach'd before the House of Commons SOme have sinn'd seducingly and Jesuites could never have been more desperate I am sure they might have been less guilty they have sinn'd against their light murthered their Principles they have suck'd in with their Mothers milk* spare them not I beseech you though they crouch and cringe and Worship you as much as they have done their high Altars Pag. 15. Ah Brethren I would not have you redeem their lives with your own heads Pag. 16. How the Presence and Preaching of Christ did scorch and blast those Cathedral Priests that unhallowed generation of * Scribes and Pharisees and perfected their Rebellion into that unpardonable sin against the holy Ghost Pag. 33. Mr. Case on Dan. XI 32. 1644. Before the House of commons on a day of Thanksgiving for the Victory given to Sir William Waller against the Army of Sir Ralph Hopton HAd not the Spirit of the Lord wrought to a wonder of wisdom and power we might have sate down long before this made our Wills anâ—… bequeath'd our poor children every one of them Popery and Slavery for their sorrowful Patrimony Pag. 9. Cursed be he that withholdeth his Sword from blood that spares when God saith strike that suffers those to escape whom God has appointed to destruction Pag. 24. Mr. Case on Isa. 43. 4. In a Thanksgiving for taking Bridgwater and Sherbourn * WHat a sad thing is it my Brethren to see our King in the head of an Army of Bahylonians refusing as it were to be call'd the King of England Scotland Ireland and chusing rather to be call'd the King of Babylon Pag. 18. Prelacy and Prelatical Clergy Priests and Jesuites Ceremonies and Service-Book Star-Chamber and High Commission Court were mighty impediments in the way of Reformation God hath mightily brought them down Pag. 19. * The Father having given to him Vid. Christ all power both in heaven and in earth and the rule and Regiment of this Kingdom he hath committed to Monarchies Aristocracies or Democracies as the several combinations and associations of the People shall between themselves think good to elect and erect God leaves people to their own Liberty in this Case Pag. 26. Mr. Thomas Case Psal. 107. 30 31. in his Thanksgiving Sermon for Surrender of Chester * ALas alas they have put out the eyes of his Majesty and carried him away Captive our King is in Babylon among Idolaters and Murtherers we have no King Mr. Joseph Caryl in his Sermon on Nehe. chap. 9. vers 38. Preach'd at the taking of the Covenant Octob. 6. 1643. THere is much sin in making a Covenant on sinful grounds and there is more sin in keeping it but when the preservation of true Religion and the Vindication of just Liberties meet in the ground-work yea may swear and not repent yea if you swear yea must not repent Pag. 18. Take the Covenant and ye take Babylon The Towers of Babylon shall quake and her seven hills shall move Pag. 21. It is Shiboleth to distinguish Ephramites from Gileadites Pag. 22. When we provoke God to bring evil upon us he stays his hand by considering the Covenant Gen. 9. 15. Now as the remembrance of the Covenant on Gods part stays his hand so the remembrance of the Covenant will be very effectual on our part to stay our hands tongues hearts from sin Pag. 27. Not onely is that Covenant which God hath made with us founded in the blood of Christ but that also which we make with God Pag. 33. Mr. Caryl on Revel XI vers 16 17. before the House of Commons April 23. 1644. OUr war has been proved over and over to
be said they intend not to hurt the Kings Person yet might I not as well have hurt his Person in the day of Battel aâ—… any of them that were swept away from abâ—…ut him by the fury of the Ordnance which put no difference twixt King and Common Souldiers Pag. 19. They answer by faying That though this is the hardest case that can be put against Defensive Armes yet first By what Rule of Conscience or God is a state bound to sacrifize Religion Laws and Liberties rather than endure that the Prince his Life should come into any possibilities of hazard by defending them against those that in his Name are bent to subdue them Pag. 18. Secondly If he wiâ—…l needs thrust himself upon the hazard when he needs not whose fault is that And a little after in the same Answer As if a King disguized should offer any private violence a watchman that would not or even might not hurt him being known were without blame if he knock'd him down or killed him as he might in like case a disorderly private person Now in Battel to many or most and especially to the Gunners that give fire to the Ordnance he is altogether disguised and so they are blameless in reference to his personal hurt that fault is wholly his own and those wicked Counsellors that have thrust him upon the fury of the Battel Pag. 20. To Doctor Ferne's saying It is a marvellous thing that among so many Prophets reprehending the Kings of Israel and Judah for their Idolatry cruelty and oppression none should call upon the Elders of the people for this duty of resistance They Answer That even in the reign of the best Kings not onely the Peoples hearts were usually unprepared and in their greatest seemings hypocritical and treacherous but also the Princes Elders and Nobles were exceedingly corrupt Now if they were so bad in good times who can marvel if they were stark naught where the King was naught and helpers forwarders of his Idolatries Cruelties and Oppressions And why should it then be expected that the Prophets should call upon them to resist the King being on their side and they on his Pag. 20. 21. It is not absolutely true that men are bound Universally as by an Ordinance of God to set up live under Government in the Doctors sense that is absolutely and without power to resist Pag. 31. Either all mankind are not bound to be under Government and all the Doctors teâ—…ts and reasons are alleged in vain or else Kings and Monarchs are also under some Government at least of the Representative Body of their people according to what was before alleged from our Lawyers Rex non habet superiorem praeter legem Curiam Comitum Baronum c. Pag. 32. We argue not that the people have power to recall that Regal Authority wholly upon any Case of Mal-administration All that we plead for is Power to administer a part of it upon Necessity which he will not administer for good but rather for evil And there are not many things that were altogether ours and in our disposing before we part with them but are still so far Ours to use them again in our Necessity for that turn at least Pag. 35. A Prince onely inherits what was given the first of the Nation or others since by consent of the people and by written Law or Custome he must claim any power he will exercise or else he cannot plead any right title to it and his qualification of power admits of Increase or Decrease as he and the people agree and consent His power is altogether derived by Election and Consent first and last whence I will infer no more but as before that therefore in Case of necessity the people may use so much of it as may suffice to save themselves from Ruine Pag. 39. The late Usurpers own'd as a Holy State set up by Almighty God MAster Sam. Slater in a Sermon Preached at S. Edmunds Bury in Suffolk upon the 13. of Octob. 1658. Being a day set apart for Solemn Fasting and Humiliation and seeking a blessing upon His Highness the Lord Protector This Sermon he intitles The Protectors Protection or the Pious Prince guarded by a Praying People In this Sermon Pag. 57 58. He hath these words Oh! pray for your Governours and in a more special manner for him whom God hath made chief over you and by his Providence called to the Supreme place of Magistracy in the Nation God hath been pleased of late to make a sad breach among Us taking away from Us our former Pilot the late Renowned Protector who when he had fought the Nations Battels carried us thorow the wilderness preserved us from the rage and fury of our Enemies and brought us within sâ—…ght of the promised Land gave up the Ghost laid down his leading Staff and his life together with whose fall the Nation was shaken his death covered all the faces of sober and considerate Persons with paleness and their hearts with sadness as if Peace Prosperity Resormation the Gospel all lay drawing on and would be buried in the same grave with him But bâ—…essed be God Divine Grace vouchsafed to cast an eye towards us and to visit us in our low estate there is another Pilot placed in his room VVhile he directs the Course let us fill the Sails with our Praying breath Moses it is true is dead but we have a Joshua succeeding him let us pray that what the other happily begun this may more happily finish and bring the accomplishment of all your right-bred hopes and what they said to Joshua let us say unto his Highness According as we hearkned unto Moses in all things so will we hearken unto thee onely the Lord they God be with thee as he was with Moses Jos. 1. 17. And pag. 60. Our Prince riseth gloriously pray that he might nâ—…t set in a cloud Our hopes concerning him are great pray that they may not be blasted Thus He. Mr. Baxter in his Five Disputations of Church-Government and Worship in the Epistle Dedicatory to Richard Cromwel He delivers the sense of his Party in these words MAny are perswaded you have been strangely kept from participating in any of our late bloody Contentions that God might make you a Healer of our Breaches and imploy you in that Temple-work which David Himself might not be Honour'd with And he adds This would be the way to lift you highest in the Esteem and love of all Your people and make them see that You are appointed by God to be an Healer and Restorer and to glory in You and to bless God for you as the Instrument of our chiefest good My earnest Prayers for your Higness shall be that you may rule us as One that is ruled by God c. The same Mr. Baxter in his Holy Common-wealth in the Epistle Dedicatory or Preface to the Army pag. 6. He call'd those Usurping Powers that
in the State thereof and if this was the guilt of the House of Lords by other practices and proceedings more than by an indifferencie and compliance with the Hamiltonian invasion to help the King to such a power I know not what to answer for them It is then undeniable that the third Article of that National Covenant was â—…ever meant by those that made it or that took ir to be opposite to the sense of the Oath of Allegiance but altogether agreeable thereunto What then the meaning of that Article is must needs also be the true sense of the Oath of Allegiance That Article then doth oblige you to preserve the Right and Privileges of the Parlament and the Liberties of the Kingdom in your Calling absolutely and without any limitation but as for the Kings person and Authority it doth oblige you onely thereunto conditionally and with a limitation Namely in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of this Kingdom If then the King did not give to the Representatives of the Nation that assurance which was satisfactory and necessary that their Religion and Liberties should be preserved none of his Subjects were bound either by their Allegiance or Covenant to defend his person and the Authority which was conferred upon him The Oath of Allegiance therefore was bottomed upon the Laws which the Representatives of the Nation in Parlament had chosen to be observed concerning their Religion and the Liberties of the Kingdom which he refractorily either casting off or seeming to yield unto in such a way that no trust could be given him that he would keep what he yielded unto the Parlament did actually lay him aside and voted that no more Addresses should be made unto him from which time forward he was no more an object of your Oath of Allegiance but to be look'd upon as a Private man and your Oath by which you were engaged to be true and faithful to the Law by which the Religion and Liberty of the Kingdom was to be preserved did still remain in force which if it may be the true substantial sense of the present Engagement which you think is contradictory to this Oath and to the National Covenant then you are to look well to it that you be not mistaken for to an indifferent eye it may be thought so far from being opposite to the true sense of either that it may be rather a confirmation of the ground for which both the Oath of Allegiance and the third Article of the National Covenant was then binding And then also this I am confident of to be able to let you see further that although you may think that the effect of this Engagement is materially contrary to some intention which you had in the third Article of the Covenant yet that by the Act of the Engagement you are so far from breaking your Covenant that except you take it and observe it faithfully you will not onely materially but formally break that very Article of the Covenant for which you scruple the taking of the Engagement For the words must be taken in the sense which they can directly bear â—…nd which do impart the main end for which the Covenant was taken for the main end of this very Article whereof you make a scruple was evidently to preserve the Parlament and Common-wealth for it self and iâ—… need so required also without the King Now this is that which the Engagement doth directly also require for which cause I say that by vertue of this very promise you are bound to take the present Engagement and if you take it not that you make your self a transgressor of that very Article which you pretend to keep for if you refuse to be true and faithful to the Common-wealth as it is now established you do what in you lyeth to make the remaining Knights of Parlament and the beginnings of our settlement void which though at first it was not intended to be without a King yet it was cleerly presupposed in the Article it self as possible to be without him and consequently that although he should not be yet that the Common-wealth by the Rights of Parlament and the Liberties of the Nation should be preserved which is all that now is sought for by the Engagement Where you may take notice that although you and I as private men ought not to make our selves judges of the rights which superiors pretend to have in and to their places yet that they are not without a Judicature over them in those places for the subordinate Officers belonging to a State are bound to judge of the Rights of those that are over them both by which they stand in their places of Supremacy and by which they proceed in their actings toward Subjects lest they be made the instruments of Arbitrary power and tyranny and then also the law-making power which in all Nations resides by the Law of Nature in the convention of the Representatives of the whole body of the people whether it be made up of the heads of families or of chosen Deputies who are intrusted with a delegated power from all the rest doth make or unmake Rights in all places and persons within it self as it from time to time doth see cause HAving thus surveyed the dangerous Positions and Principles of the Presbyterians their brethren that it may be evident to the world that the enemies of our Church are equally enemies to our Monarchy it will not be amiss to lay down some of the Principles of the Papists and the Hobbians In which not to multiply citations we will for one of the first of these take father White who is counted the most moderate of them in his Book Intitled the Grounds of Obedience and Government And for the next Mr. Hobbs himself in his Books one called Leviathan and the other de Cive which he so magnifies that he affirms that part of Philosophy to which the handling of the Elements of Government and Civil Societies belongs is no older than that Book Of the dispossession of a Supreme former Governour and of his Right by Mr. White a Romanist pag. 132. c. in His Grounds of Obedience c. NOw our Question supposeth the Governour not to have come to that extremity but either to have been good or innocent or that it is doubtful whether his excesses deserved expulsion or at least if they did deserve it of themselves yet the circumstances were not fitting for it but the expulsion hapned either by the invasion of a stranger or the ambition of a Subject or some popular headless tumult for these three ways a Magistrate comes forcibly and unjustly to be outed of his power And first if the Magistrate have truly deserved to be dispossessed or it be rationally doubted that he hath deserved it and he be actually out of possession In the former case it is certain the Subject hath no obligation to hazard for his restitution but rather to hinder
were then laid by The best Governours in all the world that have the Supremacy whom to Resist or Depose is forbidden to Subjects on pain of Damnation and pag. 8. He crys out shall the best of Governours the greatest of mercies seem intolerable O how happy would the best of ohe Nations under heaven be if they had the Rulers that our Ingratitude hath cast off And pag. 484. speaking of the Usurpers whomsoever he meant he saith He is bound to submit to the present Government as set over us by God and to obey for Conscience and to behave himself as a loyal Subject towards them In the book intitled The Marrow of Modern Divivinity publickly commended by Mr. Caryl Mr. Burroughs Mr. Strong Mr. Sprigg and Mr. Samuel Prittie EVangelista in the Dialogue being a Minister of the Gospel doth instruct Neophytus or the young Christian in these following words Pag. 201. In case you be at any time by reason of the weakness of your faith and strength of your temptations drawn aside and prevailed with to transgress any of Christs Commandments beware you do not thereupon take occasion to call Christs love to you into question but believe as firmly that he loves you as dearly as he did before you thus transgressed For this is a certain truth as no good in you or done by you did or can move Christ to love you the more So no evil in you or done by you can move Him to love you the less c. There are other things in that Book as that The Law of Christ neither justifies nor condemns And that in the Covenant betwixt Christ and his there is no more for man to do but onely to know and believe that Christ hath done all for him Out of Mr. Baxters Five Disput. of Right to Sacraments Dispute 3. Pag. 329. HE that hath oftentimes been drunk may have true grace and be in number of the godly and Pag. 330. How many professors will rashly rail and lie in their passions how few will take well a reproof but rather defend their sin How many in these times that we doubt not to be godly have been guilty of disobedience to their guides and of Schism and doing much to the hurt of the Church a very great sin Peter Lot and 't is like David did oft commit greater sins And Pag. 326 327. A man must be guilty of more sin than Peter was in denying and forsivearing Christ that is notoriously ungodly yeâ—… then Lot was who was drunk two nights together and committed incest twice with his own daughters and that after the miraculous destruction of Sodom of his own wife and his own miraculous deliverance Nay a man that is notoriously ungodly in the sense in hand or unsanctified must be a greater sinner thâ—…n Solomon was with his seven hundred wives and his three hundred concubines and gross Idolatries when his heart was turned away from the Lord God of Israel which appeared to him twice and commanded not to go after other Gods but he kept not that which the Lord commanded Mr. Baxters Five Disputations of Church Government and Worship are thus Dedicated To His Highness Richard Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland The Epistle begins SIR THese Papers are ambitlous of accompaning those against Popery into your Highness presence for the Tender of their Service This would be the way to lift You highest in the esteem and love of all your people and make them see that you are * appointed by God to be an Hea'er and Restorer and to glory in you and to bless God for you as the Instrument of our chiefest good Your Zeal for God will kindle in your Subjects a Zeal for you Parlaments will love and honour you Ministers will heartily pray for you and teach all the people to love and honour and obey you I crave your Highness favourable aceptance of the tendered service of a â—… faithful Subject to your Highness Rich. Baxter In Mr. Baxters Key for Catholikes and Epistle Dedicatory to the same Richard IT is onely the necessary defence of your life and * dignity and the lives of all the Protestants that aâ—…e under your Protection and Government and the Souls of men that * I desire You have your Goverment and we our lives because the * Papists are not strong enough Give not leave to every seducer to do his worst to damn mens souls when â—…ou will not tolerate every Traytor to draw * your Armies or people into * Rebellion If You ask who it is that presumeth thus to be your Monitor It is one that * rejoyceth in the present happiness of England and * earnestly * wisheth that it were but as well with the rest of the world and that honoureth * all the providences of God by which we have been brought to what we are and he is one that * concurring in the common hopes of greater blessings yet to these Nations under * your Government was encouraged to do what you daily allow your Preachers to do and to concur with the rest in the Tenders and some performance of his Service That God will make you a Ruler and preserver of his Churches here at home and a successful helper to his Churches abroad is the earnest Prayer of your Highness * faithful Subject Richard Baxter Out of the Quarrel of the Covenant delivered in three sermons Sept. 27. 30. Oct. 1. 1643. By Thomas Case one of the Assembly of Divines TO murmur at the Covenant Mr. Case calls the voice of Rebellion Pag. 19. The Covenant it self he calls a pure and heaven'y Ordiâ—…ance Pag. 21. Out of Mr. Case his Book of the Covenant delivered in three sermons A. D. 1643. IS Prelacy indeed the way of Gospel-government c What is it then that hath destroy'd all Gospel Ordeâ—… and Government and VVorship in these Kingdoms as in other places of the Christian world even down to the ground hath it not been Prelacy Pag. 45. Object But there be that will tell us these have been the faults of the Persons and not of the Calling Pag. 46. Answ. 5. Was not that Calling as bad as the Men You may as well say so of the Papacy in Rome for surely the Prelacy of England which we swore to extir ate was the very same Fabrick and Model of â—…cclesiastical Regiment that is in the Antichristian world Yea such an evil it is that some Divines Venerable for their gâ—…eat Learning as well as for their eminent holmess did conceive sole Episcopal Jurisdiction to be the very seat of the Beast upon which the fifth Angel is now pouring out his Vial which is the reason that the Men of that Kingdom gnaw their â—…ongues for pain and blaspheme the God of heaven Pag. 47. His Majesty is bound by his Coronation Oath to confirm these Laws Quas vulgus elegerit which the Commons shall agree upon and present unto