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A48761 Animadversions on the Scotch covenant Wherein all may receive satisfaction as to the illegality of it, and be easily perswaded to the renunciation thereof. By J. L. J. L. 1662 (1662) Wing L26; ESTC R216515 18,797 31

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great import But I must pray you not to call them the Proceedings of the Kingdome For it was but the proceedings of a Faction in that Kingdom a Multitude being driven in to them meerly out of Fear to secure themselves from their Violences and how much you and your Brethren here have sinned in violating Mens Consciences by your imposing upon them the Covenant you have reason to know in part already and will one day know more when you shall come before an impartiall Judge That the late King as you call him but the blessed MARTYR you might did in a hostile way set himself to over throw Religion Parliaments Laws and Liberties is most false For all the world knows he died for their Preservation You go on to shew us next that For every Breach of Covenant Subjects should not lay aside a King That is to speak plain depose him Except the Breaches be such as overthrow the Fundamentals of the Covenant with the People Why what then you doe not say in terms they may depose him in that case but you imply it For you say Except the Breaches be such So if they be such or you judge them such it seems they may Yet afterwards you think you make amends by charging private persons To be very circumspect about that which they doe in relation to the Authority of Kings It seems they may doe something only they must be circumspect in it Yet Page 24. so inconstant is he to himself that he honestly saith the Conspiracy of Subjects against their Kings is a wicked Course And he thinks he acquits them very highly that those Godly Pastors as he calls them in King James his time did not intermedle in shewing their judgement that the King should be suspended from the exercise of his Royall Power though they suffered persecution for their Honesty and Freedome That is for their bold and unreasonable Discourses before the King But what the judgment was both of them and of their Master before them J. Knox is to be seen in his Writings and theirs I will not spend time in transcribing many passages out of Knox his Treatises are to be had and in them it is to be seen that he is for more then Deposing but for that plain in his History Page 37● Princes saith he for just Causes may be Deposed but what those just Causes are he keeps close in his own breast for an angry Assembly they conceive may determine that Knox to England and Scotland Fol. 78. If Princes be Tyrants against God and his Truth their Subjects are free from their Oaths of Obedience which if then they as well as the Estates may suspend and what not Buchanan de jure Regni pag. 61. Populus Rege est praestantior melior Populo jus est ut imperium cui velit deferat And Viretus complains much in his third Dialogue of white Divels Fol. 252. That so much Power is put into the civill Magistrates hands whereupon he calls them Temporall Popes Why doth he complain of these Men amongst us for the practice of Regicide when they and their Masters have given them the Principle These are wayes to set all the world in combustion for when ever any discontented Party shall say the King is a Tyrant to God and his Truth then they may fall upon him and Depose him and we know there was never much time between the Deposition of Kings and their being Murdered Pag. 11 In the top of the 11. Page you are to be minded that you recite a Text against Resisting the lawfull Power and in the 10. you are expresly For resisting by Arms. You complain that the Sectaries cover their Destroying of Kings with Christ's Interest And we complain some Sectaries cover their keeping under and resisting of Kings with Christs Interest The Author of the Ecclesiastical Discipline J. C. and generally all of them divide the Church into two Moyeties viz those that are to govern as Pastors Doctors and Elders and those which are to obey as Magistrates of all sorts and the people And Beza against Erastus speaks plainly and tells us that Princes have no more to doe with matters of the Church then Ministers have with the Affairs of the Commonwealth Briefly Submittere Sceptra Christo is with the Romane Catholick Ponitifici with these Men as the Learned Bishop in his Tortura Torti Page 34 observes Presbyterio which Beza is bold to call Tribunal Christi and this Author Page 24. The Kingdome of Christ more then once Pag. 12 Prayers you say Are to be made for Kings that are not in Covenant I and active Obedience to All in all lawful things is to be performed where that cannot be passive must be yielded You say you do not count these Enemies who professe Repentance and declare themselves for the Cause and Covenant Are the Cause and Covenant two distinct things you should have said for the Cause of the Covenant though indeed there be no cause for the Covenant It is strange you should commend to Christians Repentance for doing their Duty Pag. 14 For the Malignants he tells them Little Good is to be expected from them well and how much good have the Covenanters done Every one can tell you they have begger'd three Kingdoms and are not yet quiet but would quite destroy them though they find their Discipline and Government of this Nation as incurrent as Parallels Pag. 15 Prayers saith he are not much in request at Court He cannot forbear a fling at King or Court for ought I know there are the best Prayers where are the best Subjects For never tell us of Obedience to God whom you have not seen if you be deficient in the Expression of it to Men whom you have seen He sayes They deceive Kings that make them believe Presbyteriall Government cannot suit with Monarchy King James who knew these Men Intus in cute was wont to say No BISHOP no KING and we have seen the sad Truth of the Apothegme in our days so soon as they had gotten out One they sought to destroy the Other Pag. 16 You confound things so strangely that it is hard where to take you but yet it is plain that you would have Kings to have Nothing to doe in the Government of the Kirk in this true Romanists yet for a shift you can decline them to For your Brethren at the Conference at Hampton Court complained of the Bishops that they were not Friends to the Kings Supremacy yet I believe none Greater none have maintained it more stoutly Indeed we do not allow to Kings Sacerdotalia Officia but the ordering the establishing of all things that concern Religion must proceed from Him He is mixta Persona cum Sacerdote and so we see that Moses gives the Ceremonies not Aaron David orders the courses of the Priests Levites and Singers by those Councils were called Edicts made about Religion and the Affairs of the Church You tell the King he is