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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70765	Anti-Paræus, or, A treatise in the defence of the royall right of kings against Paræus and the rest of the anti-monarchians, whether Presbyterians or Jesuits. Wherein is maintained the unlawfulnesse of opposing and taking up arms against the Prince, either by any private subject, inferiour magistrate, the states of the Kingdom, or the Pope of Rome. Confirm'd from the dictate of nature, the law of nations, the civill and canon law, the sacred scriptures, ancient fathers, and Protestant divines. Delivered formerly in a determination in the divinity schooles in Cambridge, April the 9th. 1619. And afterwards enlarged for the presse by learned Dr. Owen. Now translated and published to confirme men in their loyalty to their king, by R.M. Master in Arts.	Owen, David, d. 1623.; Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.	1642 (1642)	Wing O703; ESTC R6219	56,080	108

more holy or more orthodoxe Bishops and Priests then under Theodosius yet have they not made known to us this way of avoiding the Violence of Tyranny It is shall be and hath been the common opinion of all Catholicke men agreable to the Writings of the Prophets the Precept of Christ the doctrine of the Apostles and the practise of Christians that the King which sins hath God alone to take vengeance from whom alone he takes his being whose Court he cannot decline and Judgement he cannot elude he ought not to be violated by men although he degenerate into a Tyrant and abuse that power which he hath received from God Which seeing it is so it remains that I weigh well what remains of your new Divinity David Paraeus Because against whom defence by the Magistrate is lawfull against them private defence is lawfull in case of necessity when that which is done by the Magistrate cannot be had because then the Laws arme them also who are private men But in case of necessity defence is lawfull by the Inferior Magistrate against the Superior and by the Superior against the Inferior Therefore also then private defence is lawfull Doctor Owen The absurdity of this reason concerning private defence Paraeus follows his old wont He confounds things different and unlike as if they were the same and by comparing things different he cunningly draws the unwary Reader into the Trappe Those things which are invol'd by him in a multitude of words I will declare more plainly The sonne hath the same Power over the Father that he hath over the Servant the Wife over the Husband which she hath over the Handmayde the Servant over the Master which he hath over the Slave the Marriner over the Ship-Master which he hath over the Pirate The Subject over the Prince which the Traveller hath over the Robber He that proves this shall be crown'd with Hellobore and drinke till he surfeit The purging Iuice that whole Anticyra affords That which follows concerning the threefold Power of the Superiour against the Inferiour and the Inferiour against the Superiour and of private revenge against them both is turned over and over and with it's confused turnings exceeds my capacity neither have I what to answer Yet the Divine Law hath which is the Rule of our words and actions which no man ought to swerve from Concerning the King it is commanded Destroy him not for who can lay his hand on the Lords anointed be guiltlesse 1 Sam. 26.9 Christ the eternall Law-giver and the faithfull Interpreter of the Law given The Apostles whom Christ endued with the graces of the Holy Spirit and with infallibility of Judgement for the direction of all Christians The truely Apostolicall Men and all Christians who in the time of the ten Persecutions have illustrared the whole World with their Faith and Charity and sealed the Orthodoxe Doctrine with their Blood Christ I say the Apostles and Apostolicall Men all patiently suffered Kings most infamou● for their Tyranny Wickednesse and Cruelties and not onely patiently suffered but also performed all Honour and Reverence to them and taught all indifferently to doe the same by Word and Example Not for wrath but for Conscience sake as in the presence of the living God who alone is the Witnesse greater then all exception of their innocency and free Subjection That which Christ taught and did a Christian ought not to gainsay and if he doe were he an Angell he shall incurre the heavy course of an Anathema The King that Steward which the Lord not the Servant may cast out Besides the King is the Minister of God and that great Steward which Christ hath set over his whole Family If that Steward shall beginne as that wicked Servant in the Gospell to despise his Lord to neglect his duty to smite his Fellow-Servants to eate drinke and be drunken it is not in the power of the whole Family not of the Pope not of the States of a Kingdome not of the promiscuous Vulgar if they be in the Family of Christ to remove the Steward constituted and for over them all by their Lord the comming of him that appointed him is to expected who alone can call the Steward to account and put him out at his pleasure Therefore Paraeus you do talke in vaine of a lawfull Means to depose Kings quest 3. pag. 49. Yet neither can commend the Author nor designe the Executor nor determine the forme thereof I inquire for the Authour in the Word of God not in your Commentary's which being without witnesse is without Reason and deserve no beleife I desire the executour not confirmed by humane Appointment but by Divine Authority It is Adulterate Impious and Sacrilegious saith Cyprian which is instituted by humane presumption that the divine ordinance should be violated That which you inculcate concerning the Brethren of the Kingdome is a meere Dotage and has no being but in your braine God is not the Authour of this Anarchy neither may man be the Executor One man compared with another is either his Superiour his Equall or his Inferiour the Superiour is no way 's Subject to the Inferiour the Inferiour is every way Subject to the Superiour and an Equall has no Rule over his Equall That the matter may be the more evident in this Supposition view well the Jewish Polity The manner of the Jewish Polity with the degrees and order thereof the Decurians are above the people the Quinquagenarians above the Decurians above them the Centurians over whom the Tribunes bear rule over them the Seventy Elders of whom Moses alone is Judge who is Subject neither to each severall nor to all joyntly but to God alone He himselfe that I may use the words of Ambrose was held by no Laws because Kings are free from the bonds of offences and are not cal'd to puishment by any Laws being secure in the power of their Empery Thus he upon the 50 Psalme As concerning the Meane themselves I deny not but that there are some ordained by Christ which the Saints long since have used The meanes to avoyd or destroy Tyranny and Christians ought alwayes to use such as are Flight Patience Prayers and Teares Christ himselfe sought his safety by Flight The Martyrs offer'd up their Soules to God with patience and by Patience the Confessours preserv'd the Faith entire By Prayers the Sons of the Church have still overthrown the Tyrants whose Ensigne-Bearer and Captain of the Lords Host Saint Ambrose has these words I know not how to warre I know how to greive I can weepe I can mourne against Arms Souldiers Gothes my teares are my we apons otherways I neither can nor ought to resist In his Oration against Auxentius post Epist 32. Basil the great well appointed for Battell I will not saith he betray the Faith through the losse of Goods through Banishment or Death I have no wealth more than a torne Garment and a few Bookes I sojourne