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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

not it selfe to them therefore the Son is not bound to appeach his Father nor the Wife her Husband nor the Servant his Master secretly inticing or forcibly compelling him to Idolatry and although the appeachment of Father Husband or Master is not expresly forbidden yet because God gave an absolute and perfect Law to which nothing may be added and from which nothing may be detracted that is understood to be forbidden which is not exprest but especially because Penall Laws are to be restrained as Tostatus hath it upon Deut. 13. q. 3. That which is not lawfull to do or at least which God requires not to be done against a Father an Husband or Master we may by no means do against the King who as is before said is the Father of His Country the Husband of the Common-wealth and the supreame Lord of all His Subjects Lastly this Condition is repugnant to the Evangelicall precepts for if they be Blessed Note who do suffer Persecution for Righteousnesse sake then are they not Blessed who will not suffer Persecution for Righteousnesse sake because in that they doe nor suffer but rise up against their Persecutors they are convinced of sinne and by sinning get to themselves Damnation The Third Moderating Condition David Paraeus When some horrible injury is offered them Doctor Owen Christ himselfe suffered horrible injury which Peter willing to Vindicate he was repressed by our Lord. The Persecutors in the times of the Primitive Church did afflict the Christians with horrible injuries and under Constantius the Arrian Emperor the Catholique Faith did suffer the most Horrible of Injuries which in the former and purer age of the Church did not so much as think of Revenge Baronius himselfe will witnesse it who writing about the Yeare 350. saith When Christians first began to be Antimonarchians Hee first the Christians Captain enraged with a cursed desire of reigning conspired against the Christian Emperors whereas in times past not so much as a Common souldier could be found who sided with the rebelling tyrants against the Emperors although they were Heathens and Persecutors of Christians From Christ those Christians and true Catholiks did the Faithfull learn their patience under the Turkish cruelty and the Protestants under the Popish Tyranny which I think Pareus I will speak freely The evils which follow upon the Doctrine of Antimonarchians You do horrible injury to Christ himself all good Christians yea even to mankinde by this your Doctrine which now rageth throughout the Christian World to the conspiracies of Citizens slaughters of Princes and proscriptions of Kings to the ruine of the Faith and almost utter destruction of Christianity it selfe Paraeus condemned by King James the Bishop of London and his Clergy and by the whole Universitie of Oxford From whence it was that the most Soveraign King Head under Christ of the Church of England the true Defendor of the Catholique Faith and assertor of the Christian Truth purged your Commentaries with sire The Bishop of London a Man greater than praise can make him born to the good of the Church of the Country and of Learning it selfe together with his whole Clergy condemned this your fourth question concerning the Civill Power of Heresie and Sedition Your foure Propositions brought to strict Examination the Universitie of Oxford did not weigh in a Popular Scale but corrected them by the Gold-Smiths Ballance and that by a Publike Decree of the whole Universitie Why might not our Soveraign King commit to the revenging Flames why might not the Orthodox Bishop passe sentence and condemne why might not the Academian Muses altogether banish what Christ the Apostles Fathers Schoolemen Protestants and more moderate Papists have all at all times in all places utterly rejected Of so great an heap I will give you a small handfull Antimonarchians opposed by Christ Christ I say unto you that ye resist not evill but whosoever shall smite thee on the one Cheeke turn to him the other also Math. 5.39 Apostles Peter This is thankworthy if a Man for Conscience towards God endure griefe suffering wrongfully for what glory is it if when you be buffeted for your faults you take it patiently but if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is acceptable with God 1 Pet. c. 2. v. 19. Ancient Fathers Tertullian One Night could worke our revenge abundantly with a few fire-brands were it a thing lawfull with us to render evill for evill far be it that the Divine Sect should either seek revenge by humane fire or grieve to suffer that whereby it is approved So he in his Apology Tell me Paraeus how could Tertullian live under the Sword of Persecutors without horrible injury Nazianzen Julian was repressed by the Tears of Christians which many abundantly shed having that onely remedy against the Persecutors in Julian orat 1. They had other remedy Paraeus being Judge If Julian the Apostate the vilest of Emperours had offered some hainous injury to the Christians Ambrose It was required of me that I should appease the People I answered It was my part and Duty not to stir them up it was in the hand of God to appease them Epist 33. It had been here your part Paraeus to have stirted up a Popular Revenge for the hainous injury offered by the Arrian Emperor Prosper of Aquitania Let present evils be endured till the promised blisse be obtained let the unfaithfull be born with by the faithfull and the plucking up the Tares differed although the wicked rage yet is the cause of the just even in this time the better who by how much they are assaulted the more fiercely by so much they are Crowned the more gloriously Sent. 99. Declare to us Paraeus what shall be the violence of the wicked against the Righteous without horrible injury my dulnesse cannot apprehend it Bernard If all the World should conspire against me to force me to attempt any thing against the Royall Majesty yet would I fear God and not dare rashly to offend the King ordain'd by him for I am not ignorant how I have Read he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God Epist 170. to King Lewis Darest thou not Bernard to remove the horrible injury offered even to the whole Clergy all whose goods King Lewis had invaded and which was worse he would heare no admonitions for Amendment or Restitution as Robert Gaguinus hath it lib. 6. without doubt either Bernard err'd or Paraeus dotes School-men Let us turn aside if you please into the Schooles where presently will meet us our Countryman Alexander de Hales who concerning the Duty of Subjects towards their Princes has these words The evill ought to be subject for the fault of their unreasonablenesse but the good f●r that Duty they owe to the Divine Ordinance and the benefit of purging themselves From whence Ambrose upon that Princes are not a terrour c. If the Prince be good he