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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

ANTI-PARÆUS OR A Treatise in the Defence of the Royall Right of KINGS Against Paraeus 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 9 th 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. Printed at York by Stephen Bulkley 1642. To the Honourable Sr. THOMAS GLEMHAM KNIGHT Collonell Generall and Governour of the CITY of YORK Sir A Brest Fortified with Loyalty is the CITY of Refuge this Worke flyes to whereof your Noble Selfe being Governour it craves with Boldnesse a Gracious Entrance and doubts not of your Favourable Protection If my particular Duty did not engage me your Noble Worth would soone Invite me to Dedicate my Labours to your Honourable Patronage for who shall better Patronize that Worke whose Subject is Loyalty than he who is a Loyall Subject who better encourage the Pen in the Cause of Kings than he who with Glory hath engaged his Sword in the Kings Cause But Sir I will not detract from your Worth by presuming to declare it being a thing better known by your Actions than I can expresse by Words Onely this whilest this CITY gloryes so much in being under your Government the Souldiers under your Command give the Scholler leave to glory in being under your Patronage Goe on Sir in your Loyalty to the Crown and God shall Crown your Loyalty let your aime still be Gods Glory and your Soveraignes Honour and that shall make for your Soules Happynesse and this Kingdomes Peace Sir York March the 10. 1642. Your most humbly Devoted Servant R. MOSSOM To the Reader wishing Loyalty and Peace COurteous Reader If thou enquirest after the Author know he was a Man of so much Piety as to write nothing but what his conscience told him was the Truth and of so much Learning as to maintaine the Truth he writ Howsoever then thou dost censure the weaknesse of the Translatour yet cast no aspersion upon the Authour Let him Rest who is departed to his Eternall Rest and hath left this Worke as a Lecture of Loyalty which if thou readest shall either helpe to convince thy Conscience or without Repentance to condemne thy Soule Take heed therfore to thy self that whilst thou resists a Gratious King thou resist not the Holy Spirit too who is the Spirit of Truth It is as well out of love to thy Soule as duty to my Soveraigne that I have published this present Treatise in thy Mothers Tongue That if thou hast lift up thine hand against thy King in Rebellion thou mayst lift it up again to God in Prayer for Pardon and that as thou desirest to professe thy self a true Christian thou mayst declare thy selfe a true Subject This Worke was written above twenty yeares since and therefore free from the prejudice of the Times envy and flattery And know such hath bin my faithfulnesse in the Translation that I have rather chosen to lose of the Lustre of the Stile than to detract from the Sincerity and Truth of the Matter The Language is plaine being intended especially for the Vulgar who most need instruction in this lesson of Loyalty their disobedience arising from their Weaknesse though others from their Wilfulnesse whose Judgement will be the greater Let me prevaile with thee Christian Reader to lay aside all private Respects which may prejudice the Truth of this Worke for Saint Augustines rule is most firme quamdiu blanditur sibi dulcis est iniquitas amara est veritas Truth will taste bitter to that Palate which pleaseth it selfe with the sweetnesse of Impiety Do thou with as much Sincerity read as the Authour writ and when thou art convinct in judgement how great an Impiety it is to rise up against a most Wicked Prince consider what an height of Impiety they arise to who rise up against a most Pious King if they receive to themselves Damnation who resist a Nero a persecuting Emperour what shall they receive to themselves who take up Arms against our Charles a most gracious Soveraigne if it be a Sinne to oppose that King who violates how great a Sinne is it to injure thy King who protects the Laws of the Kingdome I will not detayne thee longer from that Satisfaction thou shalt receive in perusing this Booke there thou shalt find all the Adversary's objections fully answered the truth it selfe fully cleared be obedient to the Truth and I doubt not but thou wilt be loyall to thy King If otherwise take this with thee at thy Farewell Qui insurgit in Christum Domini insurgit in Dominum Christi he that riseth up against the Anoynted of the Lord riseth up against the Lord of the Anoynted The Preface AFter that the People of Israel had escaped the darkenesse of Ægypt and the Wildernesse they were infested from the East by the Ammonites from the West by the Philistines from the North by the Assyrians and from the South by the Ægyptians So even now the Faithfull Flocke is every where from every place Impugned whilst Tyranny rageth Heresie prevaileth Schisme overspreadeth Hypocrisie deceiveth and all Impiety encreaseth against the soundnesse of Faith the fervour of Charity and the integrity of Life to the seducing if it were possible the very Elect of God whom Christ hath committed also to the Trust of Kings by whose Laws the Church is fortified and by whose Arms she is defended against the incursion of the Enemyes the perfidiousnesse of Heresie the divisions of Schisme the flattery 's of Hypocrisie and the corruption of Manners Deceitfull Ministers leave no stone unmoved that they may exclude the King from the charge committed to him which they endeavour by denying the Authority Regall in matters Ecclesiasticall by taking away the Royall Power in matters Politicall and by usurping the Soveraignty in both The Authority Ecclesiasticall is deny'd by the Papists Christians ought to be subject to Kings as Supreame that is true indeed but in those things only which appertain to the State Politicke So Bellarm. de Pontif. l. 1. c. 7. By the Disciplinarian The Civill Power is referr'd to things Earthly and Temporall but the Ecclesiasticall is referr'd to things Spirituall and which appertaine to the Worship of God from whence it is that the Ecclesiasticall Power is usually stiled jus poli the right of Heaven the Civill jus soli the right of Earth So Bucan loco 43. Sect. 5. Majesty must creepe on the ground whilst those our Spirituall Masters placed in the Clouds doe from high behold it below them

was feigned and therefore spoken to flatter the King I will adde the opinions of others the most learned of that age who lived under the Crosse of Persecution who wrote in the troublesome time of Banishment and who suffered most cruell Death for the Truth of Christ William Tyndall an Exile for Religions sake and Martyr under Charles the fifth put forth a Booke concerning a Christian mans obedience in the nineteenth yeare of Henry the eight's Reigne when the Cardinall a Butchers Sonne led away the Lambs of Christ by flocks to the Slaughter in which he describes the authority of the King and the duty of Subjects according to the rule of the Gospell David saith Tyndall spared Saul if he had slayne him he had sinned against God In every Kingdome the King who hath no Superiour judgeth of all He that attempts any mischiefe to the Prince being a Tyrant or Persecutor or with a stubborne hand toucheth the Lords anoynted is a Rebell against God and resists Gods Ordinance As often as a private man offends he is held guilty to the King when the King offends he ought to be reserv'd to the tryall and vengeance of God And as it is not lawfull to resist the King upon any pretence whatsoever so is it not lawfull to rise up against the Magistrate who is sent by the King to execute those things which are commanded by the King Thus he Robert Barnes condemned to the fire in the year 1541. in a Tract concerning humane constitutions he prescribes the best forme of obedience to Subjects living under wicked Princes If the King saith he endeavouring to root out the faith of Christ shall forbid the hearing of the Word or receiving of the Sacraments under the penalty of some great Fine or danger of Death God is to be called upon with faithfull prayers the King petitioned with humble supplications that he will be pleased to revoke his decree if he will not doe it it becommeth a loyall Subject to cleave to the Truth and patiently to bear the violence offer'd by the King He that cannot fly a raging Persecutor let him patiently suffer the losse of goods the tearing of his members yea a Christian ought to suffer most cruell death for the truth according to the example of Christ whosoever shall rebell for Religions sake shall be guilty of eternall damnation Thus Barnes They who in the Reigne of Queene Mary renounced Popery refused to believe the breaden God were constrained to undergo the most exquisite kinds of torments after many Calamities Miseries Chains Fetters Hunger Thirst Cold and other Punishments great without measure many without number being condemned to the Flames they offered up their holy Soules an acceptable Sacrifice to God of whom not any man either in his fore-spent life or brought to the place of punishment being now laying down his life did contemne the royall Majesty though so cruell No man cursed the Queen destroying her People the Church of God contrary to her publicke protestation no man was found who refused obedience yea no man who did not humbly pray for her So the Men of God and dutifull Subjects by leaving to posterity a famous example of obedience and patience by leading an innocent life free from sedition they sealed with one and the same blood the duty of Allegiance and the purity of their faith We have not now place to speak of the Protestants under Ferdinand Maximilian and Radolphus Emperours of Germany and under Elizabeth of blessed memory Queen of England God I hope will grant an opportunity I cannot passe by one anoynted by the Lord with the oyle of saving Grace and singular Knowledge above his fellows the pillar of the Church the prop of the Common-wealth a most expert Champion of Christ against Anti-Christ and the new Arrians a most invincible Warriour in the cause of Kings against the Papall Tyranny the Cardinall impostures and Puritannicall seditions the restorer of the Episcopall Dignity and most eager opposer of the Presbyteriall Anarchy the Defendor of the Catholick Faith the truly peaceable King in his golden treatise concerning the true Law of free Monarchy pag. 48. The wickednesse of him that ruleth ought not to subject the Ruler to them over whom God hath appointed him to be Judge if it be not lawfull for a private man to prosecute an injurie against a private Adversary seeing God hath committed the sword of Vengeance to the Magistrate alone how much lesse dost thou think it lawfull either for all the people in generall or some in partiticular to usurpe the sword to which they have no right against the publicke Magistrate to whom alone it is committed Thus the most royall King Seeing the Papall and Tribunitian power is contrary to Nature is disalowed by the Law of Nations the Civill and Cannon law seeing it can find neither foundation in the Word of God nor patronage from the Ancient Fathers nor entertainement with the most learned of the Protestants but is rejected antiquated and exploded by all with one mouth I confidently aver that it is the meer devise of Papists and Puritans seditious men odious to God injurious to Kings devised to the ruine of the Common-wealth and destruction of Religion Therefore I conclude according to the Dictate of Nature the Law of Nations the Civill and Canon Law the sacred Scriptures the Orthodox Fathers and most Famous Doctors of the Reformed Church It is not lawfull to resist the King violating the Fundamentall Laws of the Kingdome 1. Pet. 2.17 Feare God Honour the King FINIS