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A43657
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Jovian, or, An answer to Julian the Apostate by a minister of London.
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Hickes, George, 1642-1715.
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Wing H1852; ESTC R24372
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of Julian Caesar He would not have made Julian Caesar The Nature of Julian's Elective Succession and the Manner in which Nazianzen hath expressed himself about it obliged our Author so to speak For Naz. in the (‖) Invect 1. p. 50. Place which he cites useth the most emphatical word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to express how Constantius made or created Julian Caesar for as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to make or ordain a Clergy-man so in Ecclesiastical Writers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies to make create or constitute a King as the Greeks called a Caesar and so it is used by the Septuagint for the making of Saul Ishbosheth Kings because they were Kings purely by (‖) 2 Sam. 8. 22.2 Sam. 2.9 Vid. 1 Sam. 12.1 Is 7.6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Schol. Election And because Julian was made Caesar as they were made Kings purely by Election therefore Naz. ascribes it wholly to the (†) p. 50. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Invect p. 50. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 64. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 65. Goodness Bounty of his Elector and last of all makes it as free an Act in him to bestow the Caesarship upon Julian as it was in (‖) p. 66. Alexander the Great to give King Porus his Life and Kingdom after he had conquered him If then Constantius made or created Julian Caesar as our Author is forced to confess where was his Birthright Therefore to prevent this cross Question in the Mind of his Reader he tells him in the (†) P. 27. Margent That a Romaen Caesar was somewhat like the Prince of Wales or the King of the Romans That he was more than somewhat like the King of the Romans we will grant him but this somewhat like will appear to be a very piteous somewhat if Caesar be compared with the Prince of Wales For First The Caesarship only made a man a (†) Spartianus in Celonio Commodo Maximianus atque Constantius Caesares dicti sunt qaasi quidam Principum filii viri designati Augustae Majestatis haeredes Candidate and Expectant of the Empire or some part of it 2. It was conferred upon many as well as upon one for Antoninus Pius left two and Constantine four Caesars and in this case they might be all equal Expectants of the Empire either in common Caâ—sabon in locum Ut essent Caesares velut Candidati quidam Imperii designati ejus Haeredes or in several Jurisdictions 3. After the Emperor had freely conferred this Honour upon any man he might as freely without any regard to Birth or Birthright devest him of again as Constantius did Gallus and as (‖) Misit ad milites literas quibus jussit ut abregaretur nomen Caesaris Alexandro Lamprid Vid. Herod l. 5. Heliogabalus designed to do to his Brother Alexander Probus to his Son (†) Pater si vixisset abregare saepius cogitavit filio Caesaris nomen conferre Constantio Pomp. Laet. in Carino Carinus (*) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Zosim l. 3. p. 710. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 711. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Zonar t. 3. p. 18. and Constantius himself to Julian a little before he usurped the Empire 4. The Emperor had free Power to confer this Dignity upon whom he would and to give it to Strangers as Nerva did to Trajan and Maximian Hercideus to Constantius (†) Valentiniano Principi percunctanti quemnam ad Imperii consortium assumeret Dagalaiphus respondet fidentiùs Si tuos amas Imperator optime habes fratrem â—si rempub quaere quem vestigas Amm. Marcell l. 26. postponing their own Blood 5. It gave no proper Right or Title but only a bare Recommendation to the Augustusship and it was in the Power of the Army and Senate whether or no they would choose the person recommended by that Character if there was but one or how many of the Number when there were more These things being evident from Matter of Fact I desire the Author or rather his Superviser the Lawyer to tell me in which of these Particulars Caesar and the Prince of Wales are alike Can the King of England make any man or any but one man Prince of Wales can he confer that Dignity upon many at once can he devest the Prince of it after he has once invested him in it Is it any thing more than a mere state of Honour and greater Liberty or Emancipation Doth it give the Prince any new Right or Expectation to the Crown or is he to be chosen unto it by any Army or Senate after his Fathers death I protest when I consider these things it almost tempts me to believe That these Men like many others are for an Elective and Republican sort of Monarchy and that they heartily wish that Caesar and the Prince of Wales were not only somewhat but altogether alike I hope I have made it as clear to any Impartial Reader that the Roman was an Elective as that the English is an Hereditary Monarchy fixed in one Family and Lineally descending in proximity of Blood and yet as if the Right and Title of Julian were of the same nature with that of his R. H. to the Brittish Throne Saith he (‖) P. 22. The Fathers and yet he mentions but one had the Conscienoe to set aside such a Title as this and 100 more such to secure their Religion If they had not they had been very much to blame and I dare boldly affirm That all the Fathers of our Church would set aside Ten Thousand such Titles to secure theirs I mean 10000 such Titles as Julian or Constantine either had by Birth for upon supposition that God interposed and declared them Emperors that Declaration must pass as it did in Saul's Case for an Elelection and proves that they were not Heirs of Hereditary Monarchies for then it had been needless for God to interpose For what need God for example have declared Constantine Emperor if he must necessarily have succeded his Father as Sons of Hereditary Monarchs do it had been sufficient for him to let him survive him if he would have had him succeed As for that Passage in Eusebius l. 8. c. 13. where after he tells us That Constantine was declared Supream Emperor and Augustus by the Army then he adds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and long before this by God himself the Supream Emperor of all This Expression if it be not purely (†) Such as that in Pliny's Panegyric to Trajan Principem tamen nestrum liqueret divinitùs constitutum A Jove ipso coram ac palam repertus Quem tandem exorata terris numina dedissent c. And that of Eumen to Constantine Nobis praecipue te principem dii creaverunt Grat. Act. Const Aug. Panegyrical then to expound Eusebius by himself it relates to the special Providence which presided over Constantine and was visible in