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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64271	Obedience and submission to the present government, demonstrated from Bishop Overall's convocation-book	Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705.	1690 (1690)	Wing T597; ESTC R2448	6,580	24

it holds Analogy with those Proceedings wherein GOD hath already Notify'd His Holy Will and Pleasure I think this will hardly be deny'd and therefore all that remains is to produce some Precedents wherein Royal Authority has been Translated and GOD hath own'd it for his immediate Doing For if his Head was Interpos'd there I see not how we can Exclude it here Therefore First When Kings have Illegally Oppressed their Subjects and been too Arbitrary in their Imposition GOD hath been pleas'd 〈◊〉 Discharge them of their Trust The ●eason of which is because they are GOD's Roresentatives and therefore what they doby Implication is and cannot but be Interpreted to be GOD's Work and then as he saith of the Judges in the Execution of their Office 2 Chron. That they Judge not for Man but for the LORD who is with them in the Judgment The Wrong if they do any is an Injury to GOD whose Judgment it is suppos'd to be which Injury he will not suffer to go unpunish'd So the Usurpations of Princes being Reflections upon GOD whose Trustees they are his Honor stands Engag'd when our sins are sufficiently punish'd by such Scourges to Vindicate its own Innocence in Removing or otherwise Animadverting upon them that so abus'd his Trust We have a notable Instance of this in Rehoboam who being Rejected of the People because of his Resov'd Usurpations and Endeavouring to Regain his Right by the Sword is forbid by GOD for which Prohibition the Reason that is given by no mean States-Man my Lord Clarendon is this Because I had been in the Fault himself The Applicaon I leave to the Reader Secondly The Instance of Time is another Mark of GOD's Interposition For when His Church is on the Brink of Ruin and the Designs against Her have been so prevalent that it is not in the Power of Man to over-rule Them than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He is a Present GOD in Trouble This the Deliverance of the Israelites out of Aegypt will Attest who have made upon it this Comfortable Observation then whenever the Tale of Bricks i. e. The utmost Servitude is imposed Moses i. e. A Deliverer is near at hand And the Methods prescribed by Father Parsons for the Reduction of England to the Roman Yoak found in the Closet of the Late King James and so religiously observ'd throughout his Reign is too great an Evidence of our design'd Extirpation for Impudence it self to deny Thirdly The Way and Manner of this Revolution which was without Bloodshed and Battles i. e. Such as beseems the God of Peace doth confirm the same For not to enlarge on this I desire any of the Non-Jurors to speak plainly if they do not think the Peaceableness of the Restoration of King Charles to be an unanswerable Testimony of God's Work and Interposition for my part I must confess I always did And then I know not how to deny the Infatuation of his Brothers Desertion to intimate that the same Hand that restored the One was very much Confenting to the withdrawing of the Other I have done and will provoke no Man by Reflections but yet I earnestly intreat our Non-Juring Brethren to Consider First That the refusing of an Oath which may Lawfully be taken as this in Controversie may if what these Canons say be True makes the Refusers Responsible for the Want of all that Good which their Officiating in their Cures might have produc'd together with all that Unsettledness in the STATE which their Example hath encouraged Secondly If what I have produc'd be the Canonical Doctrine of the Church of England let them be advised of the Mischief of that Fatal Division which their Obstinacy will bring amongst us and is already design'd if not begun in a Form of Prayer pretended though I think it smells too strong of Jesuite to be theirs Therefore for the Sake of Peace whereof Christ is the Head and his Doctrine is the Gospel For the Sake of our Church threatned with a more Affecting and Pathetical Division than ever For the Sake of the Reformation which this Breach above all things will prejudice and above all for the Sake of GOD Whose Truth and Worship if another Revolution come are as far as we can see to be extinguish't I entreat and beg of you seriously to lay aside all Passion Heat and Peevishness and whatever else may byass your Reason and Consider if what I have wrote be the Genuine Doctrine of the Church of England For if it be not I must Acknowledge my Mistake and beg GOD Pardon for the Guilt which by taking the New Oath I have incurr'd which till my Conscience be more enlightened I am so far from suspecting that I would not as my Conscience for more Kingdoms than King James has lost be in the same Guilt with those who by refusing to take the Oaths Contribute too much to the Designs of such as will favour neither Them nor Us if our Sins should ever prevail with GOD to give them the Ascendency Which GOD prevent for the Merits of His Son the King of Peace and Truth Amen FINIS