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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70493	A vindication of the primitive Christians in point of obedience to their Prince against the calumnies of a book intituled, The life of Julian, written by Ecebolius the Sophist as also the doctrine of passive obedience cleared in defence of Dr. Hicks : together with an appendix : being a more full and distinct answer to Mr. Tho. Hunt's preface and postscript : unto all which is added The life of Julian, enlarg'd.	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.; Ecebolius, the Sophist. Life of Julian.	1683 (1683)	Wing L2985; ESTC R3711	180,508	416

Constitution of our Government of which they are utterly ignorant P. 8. These like Dotterels Apes and Parrets who have no more understanding than those Animals are perpetually repeating any thing though never so destructive to Church and State that is suggested by any Popish Mercenarie Writer if he hath but the cunning to bestow an idle Complement upon the Church or calls Rogue or Villain seemingly or in pretence for their sakes I hope our Bishops have not hired any for such purposes especially if he can furnish to their young Invention any Topicks of Raillerie against an Imaginary Presbytery and against the Parliaments c. a very fair Capacitie and Recommendation this as they imagine to Preferment These are the men I confess for whose sake I writ the Postscript The Preface then it seems was writ for the Bishops But this unmerciful man hath not yet done lashing our young Divines P. 10. Too many of the young Clergie says our Aristarchus do assist the Gentrie in their Loyal Debauches most scandalously for the service of the Church and maintaining the honour of their Order These degenerate Levites are magnifying perpetually the priviledges of their Tribe extolling their Order yet in terms that disgrace it and by their lives they vilifie it And now like the old Persecutors he hath wearied himself to torment poor Innocents I hope our young Divines have yet so much of their Grammar-learning for the Subject is scarce capable of the more serious Stelliteuticks of the Vniversity-studies as to return some Reflections on the laborious Travels of this infamous Tom Coriat and make him feel what it is Ludere cum Sanctis in our Lawyers Latine i. e. to play with Edge-tools In the mean time his own folly and impietie will chastise him it being evident that Mr. Hunt deals with the Bishops not onely as men use their Dogs who feed them with a bit and a knock but as Butchers are wont to use their Hogs who claw them and scrape them a little that they may with more conveniencie cut their Throats He advanceth them as it were on a Pinacle of the Temple that he may cast them down the more irrecoverably He tells us p. 15. that Calvin Beza and P. du Moulin Monsieur Moyne Claude and de l'Angle highly approved of the Order and Office of Bishops And from Grotius that Non debent res bonae damnari quia sunt qui iis abutuntur That good things ought not to be condemned because there are some that do abuse them Yet p. 11. he tells them also the Apostolicalness of their Order will not secure it if they do not fill up the dutie of their Office i. e. if they do not fully comply with his designe And p. 12. he remembers them that there are Churches of Christ that do make a shift without their Order and Religion need not perish though the Order fail So that it is plain that by the word Order he means Episcopacy and insinuates that it is a needless thing it may be grub'd up root and branch And is not this a fair Apologie for his real intention to serve the Bishops P. 23. He complains that too many eminent men in our Church are brought to a dead Neutralitie and thereby we are brought to this pass That Religion it self must be the devoted thing to the rage and folly of the Priests of that Religion As if they had all conspired to be felo's de se And on this ground he proclaims his Curse ye Meroz against them as execrable Neuters P. 6. he says They have raised a bitter Zeal against that Separation which themselves have contrived fomented and promoted and it is brought to that pass that those are accounted Church-Fanaticks though Conformists that cannot contentedly see and endure the neerer approaches of ruine both of Church and State These are their fear and their hate the Sons of Anak the Giants of the Land that they imagine so insuperable that they are for making themselves a Captain and returning back into Egypt p. 7. This he repeats p. 46. where he endeavours to lay the sin of Corah c. upon those who in our days do most faithfully adhere to Moses and Aaron and would excuse those who having lost their Corah and other renowned Leaders by an exemplary Divine Judgement did the very next day murmur again against Moses and Aaron falsely accusing them who were the meekest men upon Earth of taking too much upon them i. e. of ruling by an Arbitrary power and making themselves absolute For so v. 13. of that 16th Chapter they accuse Moses of seeking to make himself altogether a Prince and v. 14. he is accused of seeking to put out the eyes of the People as Mr. Hunt also doth p. 13. Postscr We are used saith he as Sampson bound and our eyes put out and made sport for the Philistimes I fear Mr. Hunt will hardly have his eyes opened till as the mole he comes to die With such murmurings as these they so provoked Moses that the Lord was angry with him for their sakes and as the Author of Julian's life observed of the Prayers of the Christians in Julians time they contrived and effected his death for he dyed in the Land of Moab and was not to enter into Canaan Who they are that murmur at the Conduct of Moses and Aaron is too visible to be denied viz. they that accuse them of Arbitrary Government that proclaim themselves the Holy People they who hearken to those false Spies that discourage the people with stories of Insuperable evils of being certainly miserable and having a War entailed on the Nation fire and faggot and an Inquisition c. For my part I think these murmuring Prognosticators are they who are for making another Captain in the room of Corah and going back again to Egypt And though we do not look on these as the Sons of Anak invincible Giants yet are they as the Canaanites were to Israel thorns in our sides They are still troubling us with their wiles and their lyes their Associations and Consults their Seditious Libels and Pamphlets such as these of our two Authors their Doleman and the Rights of the Kingdom Their Plato Redivivus their No Plot and Sermons of Persecution and Daniel in the Den which like the Frogs and Plagues of Egypt are croaking in every corner and infecting every part of the three Nations They which cry up those for the godly Party and devout Men that are inspired with Scruples from God himself on purpose to put a bar against the proceedings of Moses and Aaron By such men and means the truth is we are brought into a great strait we have a deep Sea before us and a howling Wilderness behind us And yet we murmur not our Sins have deserved these things Nor do we think of making any other Captains to our selves than those whom God in great mercy and by many Miracles hath preserved and continued unto us We are not for Egypt in

call the King to an account the Estate is Democratical if the Peers it is Aristocratical but if indeed it be Monarchical neither nor both can judge their Prince In the first Homily against Rebellion p. 1. our Church says that in reading of the Holy Scriptures we shall find in very many places as well of the Old Testament as the New That Kings and Princes as well the evil as the good do reign by Gods Ordinance and that Subjects are bound to obey them The Augustan Confession Article 16. Christians must necessarily obey the present Magistrates and Laws except when they command to sin French Confession Article 11. We ought to obey Laws and Statures pay Tribute and bear other burdens of Subjection and undergo the Yoke with a good will although the Magistrates should be Infidels so that Gods soveraign Authoritie remains inviolate The Belgick Confession All men of what dignitie qualitie or state soever they be must subject themselves unto the lawful Magistrates pay them Imposts and Tributes and please and obey them in all things not repugnant to the Word of God Also pray for them that God would be pleased to direct them in all their actions that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life under them in all pietie and honestie The Helvetick Confession Let all Subjects honour and reverence the Magistrate as the Minister of God Let them love and assist him and pray for him as their Father let them obey him in all his just and equitable Commands and pay all Imposts Tributes and other Dues faithfully and willingly And in case of War let them also lay down their lives and spill their bloud for the good of the Publick and of the Magistrate willingly vailiantly and cheerfully For he that opposeth himself to the Magistrate provoketh the heavie wrath of God upon himself The Bohemian Confession Let every one yield subjection in all things not contrarie to God to the Higher Powers and their Officers whether good or bad The Saxonick Confession The more a Christian is sincere in Faith the more he ought to subject himself to the publick Laws But I shall end where I began with the Doctrine of our Martyrs and Confessors who sealed with their bloud the Truths that they published with their Pens for whom in vain do we build and garnish Monuments of Fame to their memories while we are Apostates from their Doctrine and Practice The first Reformers of our Religion in the Institution of a Christian man on the Fifth Commandment say That Subjects be bound not to withdraw their Fealtie Truth Love and Obedience from their prince FOR ANY CAVSE WHATSOEVER IT BE ne for any cause may they conspire against his person ne do any thing towards the hinderance or hurt thereof or of his estate And by his Commandment they are bound to obey all the Laws Proclamations Precepts and Commandments made by their Princes and Governours except they be against the Commandment of God And likewise they be bound to obey all such as are in Authoritie under their Prince as far as he will have them obeyed They must also give unto their Prince aid help and assistance whensoever he shall require the same either for suretie preservation or maintenance of his Person and Estate or of the Realm or of the defence of any of the same against all persons And there be many examples in Scripture of the vengeance of God that hath fallen upon RVLERS and such as have been disobedient to their Princes But one principal example to be noted is of the Rebellion of Core Dathan and Abiram made against their Governours Moses and Aaron For punishment of which Rebels God not onely caused the Earth to open and to swallow them down and a great number of other people with them with their houses and all their substance but caused also a fire to descend from Heaven and to burn up two hundred and fiftie Captains which conspired with them in the Rebellion And again on the Sixth Commandment No Subjects may draw their Sword against their Prince for what cause soever it be nor against any others saving for lawful defence without their Princes license And it is their dutie to draw their Swords for the defence of their Prince and Realm whensoever the Prince shall command And although Princes which be the chief and supreme Heads of Realms do otherwise than they ought yet God hath assigned no Judges over them in this world but will have the judgment of them reserved to himself Sir John Cheek who was Tutor to King Edword the Sixth and a person of great Learning and Integrity in his Book called The true Subject to the Rebel speaks to this purpose If you were offered persecution for Religion you ought to fly for it and yet you intend to fight If you would stand in the truth you ought to suffer like Martyrs and you would slay like Tyrants Thus for Religion you keep no Religion and neither will follow the Council of Christ nor the Constancy of Martyrs And then asking the people why they should not like that Religion which Gods word established the Primitive Church authorized and the whole consent of the Parliament confirmed and his Majesty had set forth he says Dare you Commons take upon you more Learning than the Chosen Bishops and Clerks of this Realm have I suppose that the Author of Julians Life might transcribe that Act of Queen Mary above-mentioned out of Mr. Prynnes second part of the Loyalty of pious Christians c. where we have it printed at large p. 65. from whence he might very honestly have told us Mr. Prynnes Judgment of such Prayers as were made against the Queen who p. 64. says That Queen Maries zealous Protestant Bishops Ministers and Subjects likewise made constant prayers for her But some over-zealous Anabaptistical Fanaticks using some unchristian expressions in their prayers against her That God would cut her off and shorten her daies occasioned this special Act against such prayers And having repeated the Act he adds p. 66. These prayers were much against and direstly contrary to the Judgment of Archbishop Cranmer Bishop Farrer Bishop Hooper Rowland Taylor John Philpot John Bradford Edward Crome John Rogers Laurence Sanders Edward Laurence Miles Coverdale Bishop of Exon and others of our Godly Protestant Bishops and Ministers who soon after suffered as Martyrs They in their Letter May 8. 1554. professing that as Obedient Subjects we shall behave our selves towards Queen Mary and all that be in authority and not cease to pray to God for them that he would govern them all generally and particularly with the Spirit of Wisdom and Grace and so we heartily desire and humbly pray all men to do in no point consenting to any kind of Rebellion or Sedition against our Soveraign Lady the Queens Highness but where they cannot obey but they must disobey God there to submit themselves with all patience and humility to suffer as well what the will and pleasure