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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55347	Passive obedience, stated and asserted In a sermon preached at Ampthill in Bedfordshire, upon Sunday, Septemb. 9. 1683. being the day of thanksgiving for the discovering and defeating the late treasonable conspiracy against His Sacred Majesities person and government. By Tho. Pomfret, A.M. rector of Ampthill, and chaplain to the Right Honourable Robert []ar, of Atlesbury.	Pomfret, Thomas, d. 1705.	1683 (1683)	Wing P2800; ESTC R217677	14,786	37

with it chearful under it and refer the rest to God And this will make way for my third Proposition III. If we do well we will rather suffer patiently than take revenge upon or resist the Power which God has set over us If the Authority be just Obedience is necessary not always to do what is commanded for it may be Evil and then God must be obey'd not man yet to man so much Obedience even in that is due as to submit patiently to the penalty is inflicted on us though it be unjust Indeed naturally every man has a Right of Resistance to repell an Injury from himself yet this his private power for peace and quiet sake is restrain'd with bounds by that Superiors power under which he is So that being a Member of a Common-wealth or Kingdom he has no Resistance lawfull permitted to him but what is indulged or commanded to him by the Law under which he lives which certainly denies him any resistance of the supreme Power it it self be it what it will else were there no way left to quiet any time the Seditious or conserve the publick peace neither could the Majesty of the supreme Authority be defended were there left to the Subjects a liberty to gainsay or withstand much less to resist it whence it comes that there are so many cautelous and even scrupulous Laws invented by Parliament to keep the Person and Power and Dignity of the supreme Governour Sacred and Inviolable Therefore as to that pretence that by nature we have a freedome to withstand force by force and may deliver our selves by the destruction of that Power which would inslave us it is to be consider'd That in all establish'd Governments the People have devested themselves from the rights and practices of those Liberties and Defences which otherwise they might make and enjoy For because it was soon found out that every single man would be a Prey to any other that was stronger than himself therefore all people thought it necessary to combine themselves into Societies and unite their Strength by putting it all into the hand of one man who should defend all the rest Now the Conclusion from hence is if the power of defending and revenging of wrongs be committed by the People to one Man for the ends of Government then this Power is given from themselves and stated in the Supreme there to remain The same natural reason that makes Government necessary making it as necessary that the Governour be obeyed but then he cannot be judg'd nor he most not be resisted for the Supreme cannot be both above and under the People but it is so if the People can avenge their own wrongs for that which avenges must also be supreme which because in no Monarchy the People are therefore they must be quiet and patient for how can they right themselves against him whom they cannot call to judgement The very Heathens saw this necessary subjection without any other light than what Nature gave them Principi summum imperium Dii dederunt subditis obsequia gloria relicta est says Tacitus The divine Power has given the supreme Arbitrament of all things to the Prince the only glory left to Subjects is Obedience Aequum atque iniquum Regis imperium feras Seneca The Kings Command be it just or unjust must be suffer'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is all the reason Euripides gave in this case Governours they are and therefore must be obeyed Nor was Passive Obedience due only to the supreme Magistrate but to all the rest proportionably to inferiour Governours to Fathers and Masters It was Roman Law Miles qui castigare volenti Centurioni resisterit si vitem tenuit militiam mutat si ex industria fregit velmanum Centurioni intulit capite punitur That Souldier which resists his Captain when he comes to beat him for his faults if he lay hold upon his Commander's Cudgel shall be presently discarded but if he break it or lay hold upon him he shall die for it Aristotle though he spoke not Law spoke the ground of it when he said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 If a Magistrate strike us we must not strike again And Cicero for our Parents says the same Non modo reticere homines parentum injurias sed etiam aequo animo ferre oportet We must bear our Parents injuries with silence and patience so natural Piety does enjoin us Servants were bound to a more strict obedience to their Masters by the Civil-Laws which are nothing else but Conclusions deduced from the Principles of Natural Reason and are in this back'd by the Judicial Thus even Nature taught them which yet makes all equal but however born to be obedient to the state wherein they are to be And all this is but reason for the inferiour having either by voluntary Choice as Servants or by Natural descent as Children or by condition of state or succession as Subjects given up their right of all and the dispose of themselves to the wisdome and discretion of their Governors have no reason to resist their Commands and Injunctions because in so doing they contradict themselves first willing and desiring one thing in their supreme Governour who is vertually each of them and then the contrary by a new affection of their own 'T is requisite therefore that one of these be repeal'd the first is not now in our power to do 't is out of our hand without a limitation The second therefore we must correct either by submitting to what the other shall think just or by suffering for transgressing it when we cannot do it with a safe and quiet Conscience Yet in all this with St. Augustine's order Si aliquid jusserit Curator faciendum non tamen si contra Proconsul jubeat aut si Consul aliquid jubeat aliud Imperator non utique contemnis potestatem sed eligis majori servire If an inferiour Magistrate command we must Obey yet if the superiour injoyn the contrary we must suffer the inferiour's violence against us but do what the superiour bids us But I leave Nature and Reason because men have forgot them and I might upon the same account omit Scripture also but it is the Word of Eternal Truth and we must not slightly pass over it And in it how read we In the Old Testament at the first institution of Kings 1 Sam. 8. 11. when he had told them how their King should use them usurp upon their Land and Vineyards and Wives and Children and take of them what he pleased What then shall they lift up themselves and stir against him No ye shall cry out in that day for the King which ye have chosen you vers 18. There is all the remedy you have in case of his Tyranny and Oppression to cry out in that day unto the Lord. And it is strange if any License of Resistance was ever granted by Almighty God that in a People so obstinate so ready to perverseness as the