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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46964	Remarks upon Dr. Sherlock's book, intituled, The case of the allegiance due to soveraign princes, stated and resolved, &c.	Johnson, Samuel, 1649-1703.	1690 (1690)	Wing J842; ESTC R220008	13,889	15

in his Patriarcha and that it will serve the turn of every Usurper is evident nor does the Doctor deny it But that the Possession of the Throne and the actual Administration of a Government creates a Right the Doctor is positive in not such a Right as shall Entitle a King to be what we poor Lay-men call a King de Jure but to be a Rightful King with respect to God And why so Why because the Most High Ruleth in the Kingdom of Men and giveth it to whomsoever he will and setteth over it the basest of Men. It is he that removeth Kings and setteth up Kings Shall there be evil in the City and the Lord hath not done it They are the Ministers of God All Power is of God the Powers that be are ordained of God I exalted thee out of the dust and made thee Prince over my people Israel Now I cannot understand the Doctor 's Inference from such Expressions as these That God governs the World and that all things come to pass by his Providence I hope is past dispute And that such expressions as these are to be understood only of God's Ordinary Providence in the guidance of Humane Affairs will perhaps appear by the common style of Scripture in ascribing all things of what kind or nature soever natural or moral good bad immediately in words to the first Cause God is said to instruct the Plowman in discretion and to teach him And that his skill cometh from Isa 28. 26 29. Exod. 35. 31. the Lord of Hosts which is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working So God filled Bezaleel with the Spirit of God in wisdom in understanding and in knowledge and in all manner of workmanship Thunder is said to be the Voice of God God hardned Pharaoh 's heart Is there evil in the City and Job 40. 9. the Lord hath not done it So God sets up Princes and removes them by the Events of Providence But that their Authority is derived immediatly from God or that they have when setled in the Throne any other Authority than what the Constitution of the Government allows much less that they can have an Authority from God in opposition to a Legal Right I shall believe when I see a Prince work greater Miracles than Curing the King 's Evil to Justify the delegation of such Authority The Doctor throughout this Discourse runs upon a notion of Mens Duty to Princes only as if the Persons of Princes were the sole Objects of our Duty and Obedience That is his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and proceeds from his Ignorance of the Nature of Humane Laws in Political Governments It is a notion that suits only with a Despotical Government which is down-right Tyranny nor has the Doctor an Idea of any other And if he had not been invincibly prejudiced against the Truth by the ignorance of his Education in things of this nature that excellent Discourse of Mr Johnson's in answer to his Book of Non-Resistance would have had another effect upon him than a scornful Reprinting of his own Book in answer to it His second Section is taken up with proving from Bishop Overal's Book That though the Church of England has been very careful to instruct her Children in their Duty to Princes to obey their Laws and submit to their Power and not to resist though very injuriously oppressed and that those who renounce these Principles renounce the Doctrine of the Church of England that she takes care to condemn all those wicked means whereby changes of Government are made yet she teaches that when such changes are made the Authority is God's and must be obeyed Here we learn that if this be the Doctrine of the Church of England then by the Laws of God as the Church of England understands them and teaches them to her Children all the People of England are Slaves For to be injuriously oppressed is to be oppressed contrary to Law Executio Juris non habet injuriam No Man can pretend that he or any body else is injured when the Laws have their Course But from very injurious oppressions the true Sons of the Church of England have no redress because they must not resist the Authority of God which the Prince Regnant is invested with Whatever the Constitution of the Government be whatever Laws your Forefathers have provided for the continuance and preservation of it whatever Legal Right you may fancy you have to your Lives Liberties Religion Properties if you assert and defend this Legal Right in opposition to the very injurious oppressions of your Princes who in a Limited Government as yours is acknowledged to be have but a limited Power by Law yet in so doing you oppose the Authority of God And so your Laws are but Cobwebs your Legal Right an Imaginary Notion Your Princes have an Authority from God to cancel your Laws and dispose of you and your Rights as they see Cause Thus by the Doctrine of your Church as this Gentleman Represents it you are in no better a condition than if you were Subjects to the Grand Seignior Your Forefathers who fought for your Liberties in opposition to the Tyranny of K John K Henry the 3d K. Edw. the 2d c. and who if they had acknowledged such an irresistible Authority of their Princes as the Doctor contends for and had not vindicated the Government by force of Arms you their Posterity had long before now been in the same or a worse condition than the Peasants of France were all Traytors and Rebels tho warranted by the Laws of the Land to make opposition nay and sworn so to do by the King 's own Commission as particularly in the Reign of King John and King Henry the third This Notion of an Irresistible Authority in your Princes because they have Gods Authority was not then hatch'd nor did it appear in the World till the degeneracy of the Reformation brought it forth For Queen Elizabeth's Parliaments and Convocations were of another Opinion as has been proved by many Instances of their giving her Subsidies to relieve distressed Subjects against their own Princes and when Sibthorp and Manwaring broached those Traiterous Positions in King Charles the first his time they were impeached in Parliament and severely censured for it Yet notwithstanding all this Clergy-man will have it to be the Doctrine of the Church which if it were pursued does unavoidably destroy the State and therefore by his own Argument pag. 44 can be no good Doctrine because if pursued it would subject all Human Societies to be destroyed whereas he acknowledges the End of Government to be the preservation of Human Societies And he has the assurance to publish his Conceits of this kind under a Government that has been happily setled amongst us in opposition to and in spight of these slavish Conceits of some of our Clergy A Government which those who contributed to erect this Doctor brands with the loudest Calumnies and yet under