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A70765	Anti-Paræus, or, A treatise in the defence of the royall right of kings against Paræus and the rest of the anti-monarchians, whether Presbyterians or Jesuits. Wherein is maintained the unlawfulnesse of opposing and taking up arms against the Prince, either by any private subject, inferiour magistrate, the states of the Kingdom, or the Pope of Rome. Confirm'd from the dictate of nature, the law of nations, the civill and canon law, the sacred scriptures, ancient fathers, and Protestant divines. Delivered formerly in a determination in the divinity schooles in Cambridge, April the 9th. 1619. And afterwards enlarged for the presse by learned Dr. Owen. Now translated and published to confirme men in their loyalty to their king, by R.M. Master in Arts.	Owen, David, d. 1623.; Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.	1642 (1642)	Wing O703; ESTC R6219	56,080	108

doth not punish but love him that doth well but if he be evill he doth not hurt but purge he is not therefore a terrour to him that doth well But the wicked ought to fear because Princes are appointed to punish the wicked Thus he part 3. quest 48. memb 2. art 1. Dost thou heare Paraeus the Power of the Superiour though cruell and unjust doth not hurt but purge the Righteous Will you heare Aquinas The Faith of Christ is the beginning and cause of Righteousnesse and therefore by the Faith of Christ the order of Justice is not abrogated but confirmed and the order of Justice requires that the Inferiours obey the Superiours otherwise the state of humane affairs cannot be preserved and therefore the Faithfull by the Faith of Christ are not excused from their obedience to secular Princes in 2.2 q. 104. art 6. Have you it now Paraeus Faith doth not subject the Superiours to the Inferiours against the Order of Justice neither doth it permit the Power of the Sword to the Subject against the Prince upon any cause because that inordinate Power would tend to the destruction of all humane things See the seventh reason from the opinion of Protestant Divines The Faithfull Flock of Christ long since and at this Day obey the Turk not without horrible injury yet are they Subject and alwaies have been not for wrath but for Conscience sake and amongst the Protestants Luther Melancthon Brentius Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury Tyndall and Barnes doe condemne this error with an Anathema To whom I add the famous Example of a brave Prince an Example acceptable to God wholsome for the Common-wealth honourable to the Prince which I would have thee Reade Paraeus that thou mayst learn to be wise in * Berchet in explicat controversiae Gal licanae c. 7. Servinus pro libertate Ecclesiae Statu Regni Tom. 3. Monarchiae Romanae p. 202. Berchetus and Johannes Servinus I will relate it in briefe When in France after the Massacre in Paris the reformed Religion seem'd as it were deserted and almost extinct which I thinke could not be done without horrible injury A certain King powerfull in strength rich in Gold and dreadfull in his Navy with whom when the King of France was at odds he dispacht a solemne Embassage to Henry King of Navarre and other Protestants it was commanded the Embassadors that they should set the Protestants and Papists at strife together and to Arme Prince Henry who lived at Bearne under the Government of the Christian King against the King which they endeavoured with all Art and cunning attempt Note but in vain Henry a good Subject and as another David being himself to be King he would not fore-run the Day of the Lord. The Embassadors offered large rich and bountifull Conditions amongst the rest there was tender'd three hundred thousand Crowns in readinesse to make preparation of War and a necessary summe for continuing the War was to be payd every Moneth Henry a faithfull Christian a good Prince de prived of his Wife removed from the publique Administration of the Common-wealth and for whose sake the King had banisht very many Protestants and slain their Pastors I would have you Paraeus to acknowledge the words of your own Bucan yet did not Henry stretch out his hand against the Lords Annoynted he would have none of their Gold he refused the Conditions and dismist the Embassadors as Witnesse of his Faith towards God his faithfulnesse towards his King and his peaceable mind towards his Country There remains now no starting hole for you Paraeus here was an horrible injury done to the Inferiour Magistrate as well as others yet because a Lawfull Power was wanting to Henry which you Dream to be ordinary against the Power ordained by God he chose rather according to Christs precept to suffer a Greivous Injury with patience than according to your Prescript to resist the Power ordained by God What hath been the Religion of the Protestants This is Paraeus and ever has been the Religion of the Protestants not to offer but to suffer injuries to render good for evill and not to represse Persecutors placed in Authority by Force or Sword but procure their favour by Patience Love and Benevolence which truth even the more moderate Papists themselves do not abhorre who are averse from the Tyranny of the Papall Monarchy and the popular Anarchy of the Puritans William Barclay may be one in stead of all his Words are these Oftentimes there happens causes for which we are not bound to doe the commands of the Magistrate namely when he commands contrary to the commands of God But there can be no cause why we should resist him executing the unjust sentence of condemnation Note and requiring punishment out of malice under pretence of Authority because he has power ordained him by God which if he abuseth he is to be restrained by lawfull means not by the violence of the Subjects and after a few Lines Nothing remains to the guilty but that he commit his cause to the knowledge of the Omnipotent God and that he expect his Judgement who is King of Kings and the Judge of all Judges he will undoubtedly chastice and correct the injustice of the sentence by the severity of his eternall Justice Thus he lib. 3. c. 10. Remember Paraeus this your horrible injury and repent The Fourth Moderating Condition David Paraeus If they cannot otherwise be safe in their Fortunes Lives and Consciences Doctor Owen O the Blindnesse of the Primitive Church of the Ancient Fathers to whom that light of a New Gospel hath not shined Those men born to misery or this Divinity is false have altogether erred who were so willing patiently to undergoe the pangs of Martyrdom and when they were both the more in number and the stronger in power would not by Force and Arms defend their Fortunes from the Tyrants their Lives from the Persecutors or their Faith from Hereticall Kings The first Moderating Condition David Paraeus That under pretence of Religion or Justice they seek not their own Doctor Owen Justice and Re●igi on the pretence of Rebellion A Subject of what condition soever he be who resists the King seeks not his own but covers other Mens Goods yet obtains them not unlesse he pretend justice and Religion Lucifer himself doth not deceive Men but as transformed into an Angell of Light neither doth Vice deceive any Man unlesse it assume the name of Honesty What need of pretence Paraeus Rebellion it self is Justice and Religion and by how much any is more expert in Treachery and Treason by so much is he accounted the more Just and Holy I would to God this our Age were not an eye-witnesse of this Religious Justice Let an inferiour Magistrate inforce his Superiour into Order though to the diminution of Majesty Buchanan a Man if we give any credit to the Consistorians T. B. L. D. most excellent and the

beautified with candid innocency and purple Martyrdome there is a deepe silence of this power Indeed those Ancients choose to suffer any thing for righteousnesse-sake and to be crowned with Martyrdome rather than by repelling violence with force or by resisting publicke Anthority to be accounted guilty of impiety against God or rebellion against the Emperours Justin Martyr in his Apology for Christians to Antonius Pius describes the duty of Subjects That we may worship the true God saith he we willingly obey you Emperours whom we acknowledge Kings and Princes and we pray that there may appeare in you equall wisdome joyned with your Royall Power Tertullian also to Scapula President of Carthage Concerning the Majesty of the Emperour we are defamed yet cannot the Christians be found to be either Albinians Nigrians or Cassians a Christian is no mans enemy much lesse the Emperors whom knowing him to be constituted by God it is necessary that he reverence and honour and that he desire his safety with the whole Roman Empires we reverence the Emperour therefore as second to God and what he is he hath received from God inferiour onely to God c. The same Author in his Apologeticke relates the prayers and devotions of the Christians For the Emperour persecuting the Church The Christians with their Arm 's spread because they are innocent with their heads bared because they blush not lastly from their hearts they pray for all Emperours a long life a secure Empire a safe home Valiant Armyes a faithfull Senate a loyall People a peaceable World and whatsoever is the desire and wish of Man and of Caesar The Founders of the Presbytery were wont to pray otherwayes in Scotland From the Guysian blood good Lord deliver us The most desperate Contrivers of that Powder-Treason prayed otherways in England whom I think it were fit they were parg'd with Hellebore rather then refuted with Reason Holy Athanasius speaking of the supreame Empery of Kings hath these words ad Antioch quest 55. As God is King and Emperour over all the World and doth excercise a power over all things which are in Heaven and in Earth so is the Prince and King set over earthly things who of his owne accord doth what he will even as God himselfe The day would faile me if I should recite to you the testimonies of Ignatius Arnobius Iraeneus Lactantius Ambrose Hierome Basil Hillary Chrysostome Nazianzen Cyrill Optatus Milevetanus Leo the first Fulgentius Gregory the first Bernard and others And Augustine shall be one for all Epist 42. ad fratres Madaur Ye see the Temples of Idols partly decayed without repaire partly thrown down partly shut up partly changed to other uses and the Idols themselves either broken or burnt or destroyed and the very powers of this world which sometime for these Idols sake persecuted the Christian people overcome and subdued by Christians not resisting but dying The seventh Reason from the Authority of Protestants The Protestants vary not an haire 's breadth from the Doctrin of the Ancient Church Yet is it an usuall thing with the Papists to accuse the Church purg'd from the dregs of Popery both of defection from the Catholike Faith and of Sedition in a constituted Polity Hear from Cardinall Alanus the common calumny of the Papists in respons ad Jnstit Brittan c. 4. The Protestants saith the Cardinall desperate and factious men So long as they have Princes and Kings indulgent to their wills they know well how to vse that prosperous estate of Fortune but if their Princes crosse their desires or the Laws be against them presently they breake the bonds of Loyalty despise Majesty every where they rage with Slaughters Firings and Plunderings and run headlong into the contempt of all divine and humane things Thus he To the wiping off this foule calumny I will set down a few sayings of a few men that the Adversryes may blush if they have not wholly cast off all shame of Man and feare of God As for the followers of the Presbytery I number them with the Jesuits whose manners they imitate rather then with the Protestants I call God to witnesse I never yet found any man devoted to the Idol of the Pre●bytery who was not as great an anemy to the Regall Majesty as to the Episcopall Dignity Sleidan doth expresse the opinion of Luther at large com lib. 5. From whence I have taken these few words No man saith Luther who moves Sedition can be excused although he have a just cause he must repaire to the Magistrate and attempt nothing privately All Sedition is contrary to Gods precept who disalowes and detest's it Thus he Philip Melancthon neither thought nor spake otherwayes Although it be the Law of Nature to repell force with force yet is it not lawfull by force to repell the force exercised by the Magistrate Although we seeme to promise obedience upon this condition if the Magistrate command things lawfull yet is it not therefore lawfull to repell the unjust force of the Magistrate by force Although Empires be obtained and possessed by wickednesse yet the Ordinaion of the Empire is the worke of God and the good creature of God There is therefore no force to be taken up against the Magistrate These words hath Melancthon in Luther Tom. 1. pag. 463. Brentius dissents not from them the Government of a Prince as he hath it in Resp ad Art Rustic may be evill two wayes First when any thing is commanded contrary to the Faith as to renounce God Here is the Apostl's saying good We must obey God rather than Man Let not the Subject by any means use violence against the Magistrate let him suffer any evill patiently let him not strike again but be quiet and suffer any discommodity rather than obey his wicked commande Secondly the Government of a Prince may be evill when any thing is commanded contrary to publike Justice of which sort is the exaction of a mans goods or the punishing of his body in those kinds of injuries Obedience becomes a Subject for if he betake himselfe to Arms his sentence is past he that smiteth with the sword shall perish by the sword Thus Brentius Under Henry the eight Cranmer Arch-Bishop of Canterbury together with the Bishops and other the the more famous Divines of the Kingdome in a booke concerning the Institution of a Christian man hath these words If Princes shall do contrary to what their duty requires they have not in this world any Judge set over them by God but are to render an account to God who hath reserv'd to himselfe alone the judgement of them But it is horrible wickednesse for the Subjects to raise Sedition or Rebellion although their Princes be evill But God is to be pray'd unto in whose hand are the hearts of Kings that he would alluminate them by his Spirit whereby they may rightly use the Sword committed to them to Gods glory Thus they Least any man should slanderously report that this