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A93064	The dignity of kingship asserted: in answer to Mr. Milton's Ready and easie way to establish a free Common-wealth. Proving that kingship is both in it self, and in reference to these nations, farre the most excellent government, and the returning to our former loyalty, or obedience thereto is the only way under God to restore and settle these three once flourishing, now languishing, broken, & almost ruined nations. / By G.S. a lover of loyalty. Humbly dedicated, and presented to his most Excellent Majety Charles the Second, of England; Scotland, France and Ireland, true hereditary king.	G. S., Lover of loyalty.; Searle, George, attributed name.; Sheldon, Gilbert, 1598-1677, attributed name.; Starkey, George, 1627-1665, attributed name.	1660 (1660)	Wing S3069; Thomason E1915_2; ESTC R210007	99,181	247

Bloud and thou O righteous God give them Bloud to drink and let that be their portion for they are worthy of it But by the way I question not but the sober modest and pious Presbyterians will see your Delusion You urge not Queen Elizabeths aversenesse to their Reformation as accounting it to be indeed Reformation Your contrivance to eject Hirelings out of the Church by taking away Tythes shewes how well you like them or any other true Gospel Preachers when you discover it to be your design to have all Maintenance for the Ministry to be paid out of the publique Exchequer for so what could be expected more from such Preachers then was found in Ahabs Prophets who eat their Bread at his Wife Jezabels Table It is a fatal Plot against Religion to have the Maintenance of all its Ministers to proceed as a State Gratuity bestowed upon them in requital of their pains and labour For what could be hoped in such a case but that all must turn State-pleasing Preachers or begge and who upon that score would educate their Children that they might be capable of the Ministry or what conscientious man durst adventure on that Profession in which he must goe against the light of his Conscience or begge But I shall leave this as having I suppose spoken to it satisfactorily your next whining complaint against Monarchy is that Episcopacy and it are inseparable To which an Answer is ready that Mr. Milton is grossly mistaken It is certain that Monarchy is where Bishops have no place not are so much as known witnesse the Persian Tartarian Turkish and Indian Monarchies and Bishops on the other hand have been for many years owned and acknowledged and to this day are in place and esteem among those who are not under Kings witnesse the Popish Cantons in Switzerland the Venetians Genoeses and Hamburghers which last are a kinde of Republique although they owe and pay Homage to the King of Denmark By which it is evident that the Crown may return without readmitting the Mitre and it is likely that Episcopal Lordly power will hardly get footing again in the Nation the Barons and other Nobles in Parliament who were alwayes firm to Monarchy still opposing and endeavouring to lift out the Lords Spiritual from having jurisdiction among them as is evident by very many of their Speeches to that purpose to this day publiquely extant yea and his Majesty consented to the divesting them of all but their Title and Office submitting their Lordly Jurisdiction and Revenues to the disposall of the Parliament Concerning whose Office and extent of Power it is not now convenient nor seasonable to argue and dispute nor Wisdome to determine without Disputation only I shall adde that if Monarchy and Episcopacy were necessarily inseparably link'd it were a strong argument for the excellency of that sort of Church Government but the contrary is most manifest namely that what Government Kings most approve is by them chiefly countenanced or at least what the consent of most Divines under their Jurisdiction confirms as most agreeable to Scripture that is permitted and allowed So the Presbytery prevailed in Scotland to the ruine of Episcopacy yet Kingly Government was not upon that account rejected by them Adde to this that most of the Presbyters in the Nation interceded for the Kings life protested and Remonstranced against his Death and the Scotch Nation the most strict Presbyters reputed treated with received and Crowned our Hereditary now living King Charles the Second Son to his murdered Father and yet readmitted not Episcopacy This only I shall say that as a just splendid Monarchy may be limited so as to consist together with the most absolute and reall true Freedome of a flourishing State so a pious Church overseeing Episcopacy and a Godly moderate Presbytery are res diversae nomine tantum only nominally differing but really the same Call the Bishop and the Presbyter by one name and let the wisest gravest and most Exemplary pious be reputed the Moderator of the rest and let him be accounted worthy of double honour and have it and I see no remaining reall ground of animosity but that both like Christian Brethren may goe hand in hand together to oppose the common Enemies of the Church both Popish and Sectarian As for that blessing which you take notice of Mr. Milton that the Plague hath been for so long a time a stranger to London it is a great mercy and so to be acknowledged but I suppose your conclusion from thence that our Government during this time hath been more well-pleasing to God then formerly is most pitifully extorted and therefore for shame you do but obscurely bring i● in however it is clearly to be collected from your words that you mean so Gods usage with his People is not to be expounded recording to that Pattern of yours His own people the Jewes before they were to enjoy the Blessing promised to Abraham Isaac and Jacob to them and their seed after them were first brought down into Egypt and there indured sore bondage before this Promise came to be accomplished That a great Plague began the Reign of King James and a greater the Reign of his murthered Son Charles in Gods usual way of dealing with his people if it were significant might argue an Elation of spirit in those two Princes in respect to the numerousnesse of the Subjects of the Kingdome of England which was lately united to the Scottish Diadem in King James the first Scotch King that swayed the English Scepter But withall it argued those Princes with David to be persons in esteem with God and therefore to chastise them he took them into his own hand cutting off many of their Subjects which went very near to their hearts as being the Fathers of the Nation and so they were affected with the Death of their Subjects as a Parent is with the Funerals of his children But when the Nation waxed wanton against God through surfetting on his blessings and rendred him not the thanks that was due to his Name for so happy an union of two Protestant Nations and increase of Mercy in the successive Reigns of three scarce before parallel'd Princes in our Nations at least so succeeding one another and so long continued the last being for wisdome piety true valour and yet Christian patience not to be matched by any that went before him to whom as under God the main prop and hope of our happinesse the Lord had graciously given a plentifull and most promising Off-spring we I say being not only brutishly ingratefull for but profanely despising these so rare Mercies it pleased God to deprive us of them suffering this our Josiah to be not slain by Pharaoh necho but murdered by his own Subjects and as much as in them lay branch and root to be cut off in one day blowing in his anger at once both in Church and State taking away the antient and honourable in both and suffering the