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A persvvassion to loyalty, or, The subject's dutie vvherein is proved that resisting or deposing of kings (under what spccious [sic] pretences soever couched) is utterly unlawfull / collected by D.O.; Herod and Pilate reconciled
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Owen, David, d. 1623.
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Wing O704; ESTC R36621
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A Persvvassion to Loyalty OR THE SVBIECTS DVTIE VVherein is proved that resisting or deposing of Kings under what specious pretences soever coached is utterly unlawfull Collected by D. O. Dedicated to all dutifull Subjects LONDON Printed 1642. To the dutifull Subject THe Puritan-Church-Policie and the Iesuitical society began together a See M. Heokers preface And the preface of Cheâ—â—nic before his examen against the 〈…〉 of the Councell of Trent the one in Geneva 1536. and the other in Rome 1537. since their beginning they have bestirred themselves busily as he that compasseth the b Iob. 1.7 Earth or they that coasted sea and land each one in his order The Puritan to breake downe the wall of Sion by disturbing the peace of the Reformed Church the Iesuite to build up the ruines of Babilon by maintaining the abhomination of the deformed Synagogue These though brethren in sedition and heady are head-severed c Mat. 23.15 the one staring to the Presbytery and the other to the Papacy but they are so fast linked behind and tayle-tyed together with firebrands betweene them that if they be not quenched by the power of Majesty they cannot chose when the meanes are fitted to their plot but set the Church on fire and the state in an uprore Their many and long prayers their much vehement preaching and stout opposition against orders established their shew of austerity in their conversation and of singular learning in their profession as the evil fiend transformd into an angell of light brought them first to admiration Whereby they have not only robbed widowes houses under pretence of prayer ransacked their seduced disciples by shew of devotion but also battered the courts of Princes by animating the Peers against Kings and the people against the Peeres for pretended reformation And wheras God hath inseparably annexed to the Crown of earthly Majesty a supreme Ecclesiastical soveraignty for the protection of piety and an absolute immunity from the juditiall sentence and Martiall violence for the preservation of policie These sectaries bereave Kings of both these their Princely prerogatives exalting themselves as the sonne of perdition above all that is called God 2 Thel 2.3 4. Least they might seeme sine ratione insanire to sow the seeds of Sedition without shew of reason Caedem faciunt Scripturarum as the heretikes in Tertullians time were wont to do in materiam suam they kill the Scripture to serve their turnes and pervert the holy Word of the eternall God by strange interpretation and wicked application against the meaning of the Spirit by whom it was penned the Doctrine of the Church to whom it was delivered and the practice of all the Godly as well under the Law as the Gospel that did beleeve understand and obeyit to maintaine their late and lewd opinions I have in my hand above forty several places of the old and new Testament which both the brethren of the enraged opposite faction do indifferently quote and seditiously apply in defence of their dangerous opposition and damnable error against the Ecclesiasticall supremacy and the indeleble character of royal inunction Vnto the which places falsly expounded perverted and applyed I have added the interpretation of the learned Protestants since the time of Martin Luther who began to discover the nakednesse of the Romish Church 1517. More especially insisting in the a K. Henry 8. K. Iames. The Cranmer Io. Whitgist Rich. Bancrost Archb. of Cant. Henry Earle of Northampton Robert Earle of Salisbury most mighty Kings the most reverend Prelats The L. Burleigh L. Treasurer of England The L. Elsmere L. Chancelor of England The L. Stafford The L Cooke B. Jewell B. Horne B. Pilkington B Elmere B. Couper B. Bilson B. Babington B. Andrews B Barsow B Bridges D. Ackworth D. Saravia D. Cosens D Surcliffe D. Prythergh D. wilkes D. Morton D. Tocker M Bekinsaw M. Foxe M. Nowell M. Hooker and many others honourable Lords loyall Clergy and other worthy men that have in the Church of England learnedly defended the Princely right against disloyall and undutifull opponents I protest in all sincerity that I have not detorted any thing to make either the cause it selfe or the favourers of it more odious than their own words published with the general approbation of their severall favorits do truly infer and necessarily inforce I hope the loyall Subject and Godly affected will accept in good part my endeavour and industry intended for the glory of God the honor of the King and the discovery of the seditious The displeasure of the Malecontented-factious which can no more abide the truth then the owles can light or the frantique the Physitian I neither regard nor care for Farewell The Table of the Book The duty of Prelates Peeres People by Scripture Chap. 1. Pag. 1. Fathers of the first 300 yeares cap. 2 pag. 3 second 300 yeares cap. 3 pag. 6 third 300 yeares cap. 4 pag. 14 fourth 300 yeares cap. 5 pag. 16 fift 300 yeares cap. 6 pag. 20 Sedition of Putitans Papists Concord in the matter of sedition cap. 7. p. 24. Discord in the manner of sedition cap. 7. p. 24. Danger of their doctrine to Prince People cap. 8. p. 26 Puritan-Jesuitisme or the generall consent of the principall Puritans and Iesuits against Kings from the yeare 1536 untill the yeare 1602 out of the most authentique Authors cap 9. p. 27. The first Chapter proveth by the test mony of Scripture that Kings are not punishable by man but reserved to the Judgement of GOD. KINGS have their Authority from God a Rom. 13.1 and are his Vicegerents in earth b Pro. 8.15 to execute justice and judgement for him amongst the sonnes of Men c 2 Chron. 196. All Subjects as well Prelates and Nobles as the inferiour people are forbidden with the tongue to revile Kings d Exo. 22.28 with the heart to thinke ill of them e Eccl 10.20 or with the hand to resist them f Rom. 13.2 The great King of Heaven doth impart his owne Name unto his LIEUTENANTS the Kings of the Earth and calleth them Gods with an ego dixi g Psal 8 2.6 Whose Word is Yea and Amen with this only difference that these Gods shall dye like men h Psal 82.7 and fall like other Princes Wherefore Nathan the man of God must reprove David i 2 Sam. 12.7 that he may repent and be saved And the Sages Iudges and Nobles without feare or flattery must advise and direct Roboam k 1 Reg. 12.7 Other attempts against Kings the King of Kings hath neither commanded in his Law nor permitted in his Gospel David saith Ambrose nullâ—s Legibus tenebatur c. David though he were an Adulterer Apolog. David cap. 10. and an Homicide was tyed to no Law for Kings are free from bonds and can by no compulsion of Law be drawn to punishment being freed by the power of Government Thus far Ambr. Saul the
the grace of God that he is to Lewes the noble Prince with instance of prayer offreth himselfe in all things serviceable Concord is profitable to every Realme and Iustice much to be desired these vertues are the mother of devotion and the consecration of all honesty But whosoever seeketh after civill dissention and incenseth other to the effusion of bloud he is a murtherer and partaketh with him who gaping for bloud goeth about seeking whom he may devoure The worthy vessell of election that was taken up to the third Heaven protesteth saying Let every soule submit himselfe to the higher power there is no power but from God He that resisteth power resisteth the ordinance of God If that be true which some men prate among women and the vulgar sort that we ought not to be subdued to the Kingly power Then it is false which the Apostle teacheth that every soule must submit himselfe under power and superiority Can the truth lye Epist Wald. quae habetur in appendice Marian Scot. Did not Christ the Lord speake by the Apostle Why do we provoke the Lord Are we stronger than he Doth not he thinke himselfe stronger than the Lord the resisteth the ordinance of God Seeing there is no power but of God What saith the Prophet Confounded be they that strive against the Lord and they that resist him shall perish Rodolphus Hermanus Egbertus with many other Princes resisted the ordinance of God in Henry the Emperor but loe they are confounded as though they had never beene for as their end was ill their beginning could not be good c. Haec ille Pope Paschalis seeing the bad successe of those seditious subjects which his predecessors Gregory and Vrbanus had armed against Henry that worthy Emperor did perswade the Emperor's own son against all Law of God Nature and Nations to rebell against his father The Bishop of Leige tooke the Emperors part against this young Prince for the which he was excommunicate his Church interdicted and Robert Earle of Flaunders commanded by the Pope as he hoped to have the forgivenesse of his sins and the faof the Church of Rome to destroy that Bishop and his false Priests The Churchmen of Leige terrified with the Popes excommunication and fearing the Earles oppression wrote an Apology for themselvs about the yeare 1106. Epist Leodiensium apud Simonem Scard We are excommunicate say they because we obey our Bishop who hath taken part with his Lord the Emperor These are the beginnings of sorrow for Satan beeing loosed compasseth the earth and hath made a division between the Prince and the Priest who can justly blame the Bishop that taketh his Lords part to whom he hath sworn allegiance Perjury is a great sin whereof they cannot be ignorant that by new schisme and novell traditions do promise to absolve subjects from the guilt of perjury that forsweare themselves to their Lord the King c. In the progresse of their Apology they determine three great questions First whether the Pope hath power to excommunicate Kings Secondly to whom it belongeth to inflict temporall punishment when Church-men offended against Faith unity or good manners And thirdly what remedy subjects have against their Kings that are impious or tyrannous Si quis respectu sancti Spiritus c. If any man having respect to the Spirit of God shall turn over the old and new Testament he shall plainly find that Kings ought not at all or very hardly be excommunicate whether we consider the etimology of their names or the nature of their excommunication Even til this day hath this point been questioned and never determined Kings may be admonished and reproved by such as be discreet and sober men for Christ the King of Kings in earth who hath placed them in his own stead hath reserved them to his own judgement c. Their answer to the second question is grounded on the testimony of Saint Augustine the practise of Princes and the authority of Paul Kings say they and Emperors by their publique Lawes have forbidden heretiques to enjoy any wordly possession Wherfore seeing we are no heretiques and that it belongeth not to the Pope but to Kings and Emperors to punish heresies why doth our Lord Paschalis send Robert his armour-bearer to destroy the possessions and to overthrow the villages of the Churches which in case they deserved destruction ought to be destroyed by the Edict of Kings and Emperors which cary the sword not without good cause c. For answer to the third question they shew by sundry places of Scripture that there is no other helpe against evill Princes than prayer and patience Nihil modo pro Imperatore nostro dicimus c. We will for the present say nothing in defence of our Emperor but this we say though he were as bad as you report him to be wee would endure his government because our sins have deserved such a Governor Even such a Prince ought not to be resisted by violence but endured by patience and prayer Moses brought many plagues upon Pharaoh whose heart God had hardened but it was by prayer and the lifting up his hands to heaven And S. Paul requireth prayers to be made for all men for Kings and such as are in authority which Kings were neither Catholikes nor Christians Baruch also from the mouth of the Prophet Jeremy wrote unto the Iews which were captives unto the King of Babylon that they must pray for the life of Nabuchadnezzar the King of Babylon and Balthazar his son that their dayes in earth may be as the dayes of Heaven Epist Leod. c. S. Paul teacheth why we ought to pray for evill Kings namely that under them we may lead a quiet life It would becom an Apostolike man to follow the Apostles doctrin it were propheticall to follow the Prophet c. Thus far they in their Epistle Apologeticall He that wrote the life of this Emperor Henry the 4 Vita Hen. 4 quo supra an auncient a modest and an impartiall relator of such occurrents as happened in his time declareth his dislike of the Popes practises and the Germaines tumults against their said Soveraigne Lord. Magnum mundo documentum datum est A great instruction was given to the World that no man should rise against his master For the hand of Rodolph being cut off shewed a most just punishment of perjury he feared not to violate his fidelity sworn to the King and his right hand was punished as if other wounds had not beene sufficient to bring him to his death that by the plague of the rebellious the fault of rebellion might be perceived Thus far he The sixth Chapter proveth the same by the testimony of the Writers from the 1200 yeares downward I Will for conclusion produce Otho Frisingensis Thomas Aquinas Gratianus Philip the faire King of France the Parliament of England in the time of Edward the 1 Vincentius and Aeneas Silvius that afterward was Pope by