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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75493	An apologetick for the sequestred clergie of the Church of England. Disclaiming and detesting the late unnatural, presumptuous, unparallel'd and antichristian proceedings, against the honor and life of the best of Kings, our most dear and dread sovereign Lord and King, St Charls the martyr. / Communicated in a letter to a religious and loial gentleman, his honored friend.		1649 (1649)	Wing A3537; Thomason E554_7; ESTC R205760	14,269	25

his own for there hee will endure nec priorem nec parem to set the world on fire to raise up Seditions and to shake the verie foundations of Government and Order But wee have not so learned Christ nor can the Principles of Christian Doctrine consist with such Unchristian Practises Wee spake openly to the world wee ever taught in the Temple whither the people alwaies resort and in secret have wee said nothing Ask not of us Ask them that heard us what wee have said unto them Behold they know not what wee said S. Job 18.20 21. First wee appeal to God and next to them who knew the manner of our Life and Doctrine if they would testifie that after that waie which they call Malignancie for so they mis-call the Doctrine and Practise of our Christian brethren so worship wee the God of our Fathers so have wee been taught as the truth is in JESUS to Fear GOD and the KING and not to meddle with them that are given to Change beeing assured by the Spirit of Truth who cannot lie That their destruction shall arise suddenly and who kneweth the ruin of them both Knowing therfore this Truth and terror of the Lord lest wee should incur the just reward of partaking in the sins of other men which wee have labored to prevent and hinder both by our Example and Discourses Wee do in the Name of God ad liberandas animas nostras to clear our souls of the Innocent blood of our Just and Righteous PRINCE Declare the late presumptuous Proceedings against his Life and Honor to bee Jesuitical and Antichristian contrarie to the Faith once delivered to the Saints and ever professed by the Catholick Church of Christ and in special by the Church of England Wee acknowledg and declare to all the world that the KING is solo Deo minor as in the old Divinitie of Tertullian That Sub or Co-ordination destroie the eternal Mishpat the righteous Law of God planted in Nature and consigned in the Holie Scriptures for the absolute independent and Supreme Dominon of God's Vicegerent the Sacred Majestie of His Anointed That Hee is not by anie Law of God or Man accomptable to his Subjects no not in the supposed case of male-administration satis erit ut Deum exspectet ultorem was thought by the old Christians a sufficient thunder-bolt to keep Him in good order That Hee hath no Superior upon Earth to exercise Jurisdiction over Him That Against Thee onely have I sinned could not bee truly said by King David upon any other consideration but His unquestionable Exemption from all Humane Judicatories That Hee is a King by Him alone by whom Hee is a man without all Papal or Popular dependence And that the Cursing of the King but in our Thought much more the slandering and reviling with our Tongue much more the Deposition and Dethroning but above all the Taking of His Life is a Crime of deepest stain and the highest breach of all the Laws of God and Men. These SIR are no new receiv'd opinions of Yesterdaie or of this later Age They antedate the Aera of Christianitie and are contemporarie with Nature and it were easie work to fill whole volumes with the glorious Names of our Fathers who lived and died in the promulgation and mantenance of this Faith which now suffering under the odious Name of Malignancie Court-Divinitie and flattering of Princes was the chief quarrel of the world against us to the dishereson of us in our temporal fortunes and which was far more grievous to the eternal ruin of those pretious souls for vvhich Christ died vvhom by the stopping of our mouths and the perverting of the Truth by the mouths of Ababs Prophets substituted unduly and intruded against all Law and Conscience into our Cures it laie not in the power of our Christian Charitie to save from the deep ingagement of the wrath of God upon them here nor which is worse the entailing of an eternal curse upon their Memorie and without Repentance upon their Souls And now SIR what need of farther witnesses of our Integritie and Innocence what Reason can object or laie on us the imputation of so great a guilt what could wee hope might possily prevail when the engagement of our Fortunes Lives and Souls the best and dearest pledges wee could stake could not procure that credit unto us or mercie to themselvs as to divert them from those horrid waies which know no end but Hell and desperation And with these onely wee could very well have satisfied our selvs in point of Conscience and have offered them to God for His acceptance But more wee have to saie by waie of Plea which like pack-thred and paper wee shall cast into the bargain And that upon this double consideration 1. Of the seeming Improbabilitie of the Attempting an Action of so extravagant a nature 2. Of the Impossibilitie of good Success in case wee had appeared 1. For the first what wise and honest man could rationally imagin that such unnatural unheard of Thoughts could probably possess the hearts of anie who had not first cast off Humanitie and Reason not to speak of Conscience and Religion What Hazael would not startle at the motion of so horrid so unparallel'd impietie and utter his detestation of it in his language Am I a Dog Wee presumed the Actors in that fatal Tragedie would not bee so injurious to themselvs as to take that for a fault in Us Our Dis-beleeving of so prodigious an Intention the Beleeving of which to have been deliberated by anie who had respect to Conscience or Honor was conceiv'd by us too great a breach of Christian Charitie which wee our selvs though present on the Stage were loth to suffer to be so far invaded notwithstanding all that terrible pomp and such extravagant Preparations Wee hoped better things from them who had assumed the Name of Reforming-Christians and of Saints Nor durst wee while wee labored to bee innocent by questioning or prejudging their innocence endanger ours But indeed beside our Charitie which if S. Paul bee right Thinketh no evil which cannot bee it self if but suspitious had wee not Reason too Can Christians bee induced to believ that Oaths and Vows and Protestations could bee no stronger ties upon the Saints then Cords or Wit hs were in the hand of Sampson Or els that Regicide a crying sin would bee a just satisfaction to an incensed God for all our former faults and villanies Or that the breaking of the Fift the Crown Command could make atonement for the breach of Nine 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 O Sorcerie how hast thou broke forth to the supplanting of Christianitie and Reason Rebellion is as the sin of Witchcraft wee often heard before wee see it now 2. But the second the Impossibilitie of good success in ease wee had appeared vvhich vvas strongly confirmed to us whether wee reflected on 1 Our selvs 2 The Managers of the Design or 3 Others both of