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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47486	Tyranny detected and the late revolution justify'd by the law of God, the law of nature, and the practice of all nations being a history of the late King James's reign and a discovery of his arts and actions for introducing popery and arbitrary power ... : wherein all the arguments against the revolution are fairly propounded and candidly answer'd ... / by Ric. Kingston.	Kingston, Richard, b. 1635?	1699 (1699)	Wing K616; ESTC R27456	101,348	297

the very first Descent that it could never be throughly setled in after Ages The Truth is before the Flood the Scripture is so silent in this matter that no Man can affirm whether the Government of the World in those yearly Ages was Regal Aristocratical or Paternal and consequently not in which Form to fix this pretended Divine Right without offering injury to the other Nor after the Flood do we mind this Right granted to Noah in greater proportion than to his Sons in common Which was to acquire what they could and enjoy what they acquir'd for these are the words of their Charter to subdue the earth and * Gen. 9. possess it The New Testament gives no greater incouragement to this pretence of Divine Right than the Old for tho' in the Theocracy Kings were set up by God yet that method ceas'd when Shylo came and tho' the blessed Jesus and his Holy Apostles were very pressing in those Moral duties of Obedience to Superiors yet they no where asserted a Divine Right nor prescrib'd any Forms of Government or making alterations but yielded a cheerful Submission to the Reigning Powers where they came without calling their Titles into doubtful Disputations Now seeing we cannot find this Divine Right of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession granted by the Law of God as founded in Paternal or Patriarchal Authority nor Morally impress'd on human Nature nor possitively Reveal'd in holy Scripture which I shall particularly discourse hereafter let us descend into our own Histories and if we cannot find it there we must leave it as a Chimera or a politick Stratagem to Introduce Tyranny Democracy was the first Government in this British Isle Their Druids serv'd both for Priests and Judges the whole Nation were a barbarous People that knew not God and worship'd Idols And it would seem strange to search for a Pearle in this Dunghil to derive a Pedigree from these bruitish Ancestors or build a Divine Right of Succession upon such a Heathenish foundation when a Human Right is more Eligible and Honourable After the Druids succeeded a Race of Lords or Petty Kings that divided Britain into eight and twenty Provinces and chang'd the Democracy into an Aristocracy every Province paying Allegiance to their own Lord and because among such a Medly it would be hard to find from which of them to derive a Divine Right of Succession I shall leave it as too Nice and Intricate a matter and pass to the Romans Whose Government when Julius Caesar made his first and second Descent into Britain was Aristocratical and he himself had then no greater title than Dictator and if we examine the whole time of their continuance here which was Five hundred Years we shall find that all the several Governors came in by Intrusion Usurpation Adoption Confirmation or Purchase but not one of them ever claim'd by Hereditary Succession Britain being abandon'd by the Romans they elected Vortigern Earl Cornwall King but upon the Leudness and Debauchery of his life and neglecting the true Interest of the Kingdom they Depos'd him and chose his Son Vortimer and after his decease upon promising to Govern more Regularly by a new Election re-inthron'd Vortigern who was Conquer'd by the Saxons whom he call'd in to assist him in his Wars against the Picts and Scots so that here also we have quite lost all pretences to a lineal Succession from the Britains or a pretended Power from God to Oppress and Ruin his People The Saxons were a Wild Illeterate and Barbarous People living by Plunder and Rapine Souldiers of Fortune without any certain Habitation and having no Title of their own as they Demean'd themselves could very ill pretend to have one from God nor could their Heptarchy introduce a Divine Right among us for then we must allow seven Kings at once to Govern by Divine Right in England The Danes drove out the Saxons injoy'd the Monarchy many Years and after much strugling were repuls'd by the Saxons and they again by the Danes among whom were so many Kings Banish'd Murther'd and Depos'd that 't is impossible with any kind of certainty to fix a Succession from any of them For Edward the Confessor that succeeded Harold the last Danish King in England and in whom for want of Issue that Line was extinguish'd had no Hereditary Right 'T was at first indisputably in Edward Son of Edmond Ironside Father to Edgar Etheling his Nephew during his Life and after his Decease to that Edgar who was also Nephew to the Confessor Harold Son of Earl Godwyn that without other Ceremony set the Crown upon his own Head had no pretence of Right to it tho' as affairs then stood was very fit for it for Edgar Etheling was then living and claim'd it tho' he wanted Power to maintain his Right and so Harold kept the Crown till he was depriv'd of that and his Life by one of another Family and a Foreign Nation which has utterly destroy'd all pretensions to the Divine Right of Succession in this Kingdom unless you will make God the Author of all those horrid Murthers Devastations and Confusions that were committed by many of these Princes in acquiring their Crowns And here I must pursue the Succession from the Norman Race William the First was Illegitimate and had no Right but from his Sword and the Peoples submission and Electing him after he had subdu'd King Harold and the latter Right he always preferr'd before the former William the second was Elected against the Right of his Elder Brother Robert who was then living Henry the first was Elected King Favente Clero Populo his Elder Brother Robert being living at the same time and claim'd the Crown in Right of his Birth King Stephen was Elected a Clero Populo and Maud who had the Right of Succession was excluded Henry the second came in by consent yet he had no Hereditary Right for his Mother Maud the Empress Daughter and Heir to Henry the First was then living King John had no Right of Succession for he had an Elder Brother Jeffery Earl of Brittany who had issue Arthur and Eleanor whose Heirs for ought we know to the contrary may still have a being in the World but John tho' Arthur his Eldest Brother's Son was then living was Elected a Clero Populo and being divorc'd from his Wife had Henry the Third by his new Queen Henry the third was Crown'd and settl'd in the Kingdom by the general Election of the People tho' he had no Right to the Succession for Eleanor Daughter to Jeoffry his Father's Eldest Brother was then living Roger Mortimer Earl of March Son of Edmund by Philippa Daughter and Heiress to Lionel Duke of Clarence a younger Son of Edward the Third was by Parliament in the 9 R. 2. declared Heir apparent to the Crown which could not be but by vertue of an Act of Parliament Henry the Fourth came to the Crown by way of Election and in the eighth Year