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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70493	A vindication of the primitive Christians in point of obedience to their Prince against the calumnies of a book intituled, The life of Julian, written by Ecebolius the Sophist as also the doctrine of passive obedience cleared in defence of Dr. Hicks : together with an appendix : being a more full and distinct answer to Mr. Tho. Hunt's preface and postscript : unto all which is added The life of Julian, enlarg'd.	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.; Ecebolius, the Sophist. Life of Julian.	1683 (1683)	Wing L2985; ESTC R3711	180,508	416

shall know or hear of to be against him or any of them And I do farther swear That I do from my heart abhor detest and abjure as impious and heretical this damnable Doctrine and Position that Princes which be excommunicated or deprived by the Pope may be deposed or murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever And all these things I plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken and according to the plain and common sence and understanding of the same words without any Equivocation or mental Evasion or secret Reservation whatsoever c. Now let any man judge whether you have not taught the Jesuits themselves how to equivocate and to make void that solemn Oath by affirming that there can be no such person as an Heir to the Crown while the King is living Your own distinction of an Heir Apparent and Presumptive seems a sufficient Confutation of your sensless Assertion Besides though it may be true of a Testamentary Heir that he is not actually so till the death of the Testator yet a Legal Heir upon whom an Estate is intailed as the Royal Crown of England is upon the next in Bloud is truly an Heir and ought to inherit And in this Opinion I am confirmed by the Apostle Gal. 4.1 who says That though the Heir as long as he is a child i.e. as long as his Father liveth differeth nothing from a servant yet he is Lord of all and if he be a Son or next in Bloud to a Prince whose Kingdom is hereditary then is he his Heir v. 7. as St. Paul argues You seem to grant that this is the Law-sence of the words Heirs and Successors in an Act of Parliament as in the Duty of Excise granted to the King his Heirs and Successors But an Oath of Allegiance you say ought to be conceived in plain words and in the common sence of those words Which I should think to be that which the Lawyers that penned that Oath and the Lawgivers that enjoyned it did intend and unless you will justifie Papists in their Equivocations and absolve them from the obligation of that Oath it cannot be taken in any other but the Law-sence Well say you if it be so and so it must be let them be sure to keep it in that sence in which they have or should take it at sixteen years of age in the Court-Leet viz. I will be true Liegeman and true faith and troth bear to our Soveraign Lord the King that now is and to his Highness Heirs and lawful Successours Kings and Queens of this Realm of England To which you add this pitiful and worse than Jesuitical Evasion It is plain to every body that no one certain or known person in the world hath any interest at present in the Oath of Allegiance besides his Majesty that now is For which you give this as a Reason which is none at all For who shall be King or Queen of England hereafter none but God himself knows And if God by whom Kings reign had not wonderfully restored his Majesty we should have had none at this time But God by a Miracle hath restored the right Heir against all oppesition Pag. 21. He brings in another Objection against the Bill of Exclusion fetched from the Common-Prayer to which I perceive he is no great Friend viz. No Church of-England-man can be for it with a good Conscience being to the prejudice of his R. H. because we there pray that God would prosper him with all happiness here and hereafter Now by the way no such words as here and hereafter are expressed though we grant they are implied under the word All. But we especially though not onely intend it to that happiness which flows from the Spirit and grace of God and may bring him and all the Royal Family to Gods everlasting Kingdom and as a means thereunto that he would endue them with his holy Spirit and enrich them with his heavenly Grace You say No man in the Communion of the Church of England prays that Prayer more heartily than you do But if you do indeed think him to be a Julian and your self such as those Christians that sayd their Prayers backward that prayed him to death and would not so much as desire his conversion this would certainly be a Curse in the mouth or heart of any Protestant And I hope there are no such in the Communion of our Church though you intimate that they were all such in the Primitive Church and that we should be such also for p. 96. you say You find not one single wish among the Antients for Julian's conversion but all for his down-right destruction It is a good Rule that Pro quibus orandum pro iis laborandum We should by a meek and Christian behaviour inforce our Devotions for 't is the Prayer of the Righteous man that availeth much If we could thorowly inspect the Arguments that prevailed for the reputed defection of that Prince I believe the unchristian behaviour of those who oppose his Succession was most cogent And who knows but our amendment moderation and meekness might yet reclaim him But to pray coldly without faith for what you say p. 22. there is no hope and to act contrary to your Prayers is to beg a denial And I hope many others pray more heartily than you do For when we pray God to indue him with his Holy Spirit c. we pray that he may return to the Protestant Religion and not that he may be exposed to an invincible Temptation and a kind of necessity to extirpate it as you maliciously accuse us Nor are we to distrust the power of divine Grace either to restrain or sanctifie those whom we pray for and so to limit the Holy One of Israel as if he had not the hearts of Kings in his hand or had no rule over the Governours of the world Cambden p. 5. of his Remains reports that when Brithwald the Monk was troubled about the Succession the Bloud Royal being almost extinguished he heard a voice saying The Kingdom of England is Gods Kingdom and God will provide for it And why should not we acquiesce in the same Divine Providence P. 79. You argue against a Popish Successour à possibili because he may be a Persecutor Some have accounted both our present Soveraign and his Father of blessed memory such they sent the One out of the world with an Exit Tyrannus though the meekest and most gracious Prince in the world and what the effects of a Bill of Exclusion as some men would manage it may be is dreadful to consider But as you suppose the Popish Successessour may be so I suppose he may not be a Persecutor And for the proof of this I appeal to your Friend Plato Redivivus who in p. 207. gives an instance in the Prince of Hanover who was perverted to the Roman Church went to Rome to abjure Heresie and returning home

valiant Christians the tenth man of whom when Maximian had caused to be executed for refusing to slay their Fellow-Christians and to offer Sacrifice to his false Gods Mauritius taking the rest of the Legion aside used this Oration unto them as Eucherius Archbishop of Lions relateth in the Acts of their Martyrdom I congratulate your Vertue most worthy Fellow-Souldiers that for the love of Religion the Command of Caesar wrought no fear at all in you You have seen your Fellow-Souldiers in a manner with rejoycing minds to have been delivered up to a glorious death How did I fear lest any of you as it was easie for armed men to do under pretence of Defence should by lifting up his hands give interruption to their most blessed Funerals I had now readie at hand for the forbidding this attempt the Example of our Christ who by the Command of his own mouth Put up thy Sword which was unsheathed by his Apostle teaching thereby that the Vertue of Christian-Confidence is greater than all Weapons here Christ our God did clearly Prohibit our minds and hands that none with mortal hands should resist the Divine Work but rather with ever-continued Religion add a consummation to the work begun Hitherto we have read examples inserted into the Holy Scriptures but even now we our selves have beheld whom we ought to imitate After this Maximian having commanded a second decimation of those that remained among which it is likely that Mauritius suffer'd Exuperius taking the Ensigns of his Legion spake thus My most worthy Fellow-Souldiers I hold as you see the Ensigns of a secular warfare but to those Arms I provoke you not I excite not your Courage and Valour to such wars as these another kind of fight is to be chosen by us It is not by these Swords that you can make your way to the Kingdom of Heaven And then wisheth this Message might be returned to the persecuting Emperour We are thy Souldiers indeed but withal Gods Servants to thee we owe our imployment in the War to him our Innocence from thee have we received the reward of our labour to him we are beholding for the beginning of our life we cannot so follow thee in this though our Prince as to deny God who is our Maker and whether thou wilt or wilt not is thine also As for us even this necessitie of our Life doth not drive us to Rebellion Despair it self which most strengthneth men in dangers hath not been able to arm us against thee Behold we have our Weapons and yet resist not as willing rather to die than overcome and chusing rather to perish innocent than live Traitors If to what thou hast already decreed against us thou wilt add more be it Fire Torture or Sword we are ready for it WE ARE CHRISTIANS and such as our selves we cannot persecute Consider O Caesar the courage of this Legion our Weapons we cast away and thy Executioner shall find our hands unarmed but our breasts armed with the Catholick Faith Kill us down with us without all fear we offer our Necks to be cut off by the Swords appointed to slay us And so they were all cut in pieces and each of them were more than Conquerours obtaining a Crown and Kingdom infinitely more glorious than that of the Roman Empire Now suppose some Dissenting Apostate Chaplain of that noble Army that had rather lose his Religion than his Life and had more hopes to divide the spoils of a Temporal Crown than to trust his Saviour for an entire Eternal one had held forth to them after this manner My dearly beloved Brethren fellow-Souldiers and fellow-Saints we have hitherto hazzarded our Lives under a Pagan and Tyrannical Prince who hath employed us as a Forlorn Hope on all desperate designs purposely to destroy us and though he be drunk with the bloud of our Brethren now spilt before our Eyes yet doth he thirst after ours also having appointed us as so many Sheep for the Slaughter Hearken my beloved the Kings of the Earth ever were and ever will be Enemies to the King of Heaven It is not I but the Spirit of God by David tells you The Kings of the Earth set themselves and the Rulers take Counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed but the same Spirit tells us that notwithstanding he hath set his King upon the holy hill of Sion who shall break the Kings of the Earth with a Rod of Iron and dash them in pieces like a Potters Vessel and his Saints shall have the honour of binding their Kings in Chains and their Nobles with Fetters of Iron Moreover Brethren we read how in old time for the sake of his Elect God reproved Kings saying Touch not mine Anointed and do my Prophets no harm It is true that God hath appointed Government as his Ordinance but he hath not tied us up to Monarchie which all the Wise men of Greece have rejected and called them all by the name they deserved Tyrants And though our Emperours came in upon us by Conquest and Surprize yet we have been governed heretofore by a Senate and sometime the Senate and sometime the Souldiery have cut off their Emperours for their Arbitrary Government and set up others in the room So that if we grant the Office to be from God yet the person appointed to that Office is a Creature of man or a Humane Creature and they that set them up may pull them down for they are appointed to be a terrour to evil-doers and to be the Ministers of God to us for our good But when he is a Murtherer of them that do well as we see by this bloudy Execution on our Fellow-Souldiers he is the Devils Minister not Gods and in resisting we fight not against him but the Devil that is in him Besides that which this Tyrant intends is such an arbitrary Act of his own that the great Senate whose Counsel and Authority he hath rejected are afraid of the like cruelty and would be glad to be restored to their Authoritie Let us therefore be no longer Servants of such men but stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free Hath not he made us his First-born higher than the Kings of the Earth Are not we a Royal Priesthood and have not the Saints a promise that they shall inherit the Earth The Gentiles may permit Kings to exercise Lordship over them but it ought not to be so with us 'T is in vain to expect till the Emperours become Christians we Christians must make our selves Emperours at least we may divide the Empire among us and set up Christ alone to rule as King in the midst of us in a HOLY COMMON-WEALTH And now is the time or never If we should tamely submit to the Tyrants Sword our Religion which is bound up in our Lives will perish with us and the Generations yet unborn will curse us Did not Moses slay the Egyptian that assaulted his Brother and were not the