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A89087
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The Bishop of Carlile's speech in parliament, concerning deposing of princes Thought seasonable to be published to this murmuring age.
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Merke, Thomas, d. 1409.
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1679
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Wing M1827; ESTC R225562
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and Revelation from God and are no more set down for our imitation than the robbing of the Ægyptians or any other particular and priviledged Commandement but in the general Precept which all Men must ordinarily follow not only our Actions but our Speeches also and our very thoughts are strictly charged with Duty and Obedience unto Princes whether they be good or evil the Law of God ordaineth That he which doth presumptiously against the Ruler of the Deut. 17. 12. people shall die And the Prophet David forbiddeth to touch the Lords Annointed Thou Psal 105. 15. shalt not saith the Lord rail upon the Judges neither speake evil against the Ruler of the Exod. 22. 28. People And the Apostles do demand further that even our thoughts and Souls be obedient Act. 23. 5. to higher Powers And least any should imagine that they meant of good Princes Rom. 13. 1. 13. only they spake generally of all and further to take away all doubt they make express Tit. 3. 1. mention of the evil For the Power and Authority of wicked Princes is the Ordinance 1. Pet. 2. 13 14 17. of God and therefore CHRIST told Pilate that the Power which he had was given 1 Tim. 2. 2. him from above and the Prophet Esay calleth Cyrus being a Prophane and Heathen Rom. 13. 2. Prince the Lords Annointed For God stirred up the Spirit even of wicked Princes to do John 19. 11. his will and as Jehosaphat said to his Rulers they Execute not the Judgment of Man Cap. 45. 1. but of the Lord In regard whereof David calleth them Gods because they have their 2 Chron. 36. 2. Rule and Authority immediately from God Which if they abuse they are not to be 2 Chron. 19. 6. adjudged by their Subjects for no Power within their Dominion is superior to theirs Psal 28. But God reserveth them to the forest Trial Horribly and sudainly saith the Wiseman Sap. 6. 5. will the Lord appear unto them and a hard Judgment shall they have The Law of God commandeth that the Child should be put to death for any contumely done unto the Parents But what if the Father be a Robber If a Murtherer If for all excess of Villanies odious and execrable both to God and Man Surely he deserveth the highest Degree of Punishment and yet must not the Son lift up his hand against him for no offence is so great as to be Punished by Parricide But our Countrey is dearer unto Quintil in declam Cic. offic lib. 1. us than our Parents and the Prince is Pater patriae the Father of our Countrey And therefore more sacred and dear unto us than our Parents by nature and must not be violated how imperious how impious so ever he be Doth he command or demand our Persons or our Purses we must not shun for the one nor shrink for the other For as Nehem. 9. 37. Nehemiah saith Kings have Dominion over the Bodies and over the Caettel of their Subjects at their pleasure Doth he enjoyn those actions which are contrary to the Laws of God We must neither wholly Obey nor violently Resist but with a constant Courage submit our selves to all manner of punishment and shew our subjection by enduring and not performing Yea the Church hath declared it to be an Heresie to hold that a Prince Alphons a cast in lib. de haeres in verb. Tiran Dom. Sot lib. 5. de just jur q. 1. artic 3. may be Slain or Deposed by his Subjects for any disorder or default either in Life or else in Government there will be faults so long as there are Men And as we endure with Patience a Barren Year if it happen and unseasonable Weather and such other defects of nature so must we tollerate the imperfections of Rulers and quietly expect either reformation or else a change But alas good King Richard what such Cruelty What such Impiety hath he ever committed Examine rightly those Imputations which are laid against him without any false Circumstance of aggravation and you shall find nothing objected either of any truth or of great Moment It may be that many errours and oversights have escaped him yet none so grievous to be termed Tyranny As proceeding rather from unexperienced Ignorance or corrupt Counsel than from any natural and willful Malice Oh how shall the World be pestered with Tyrants if Subjects may Rebel upon every pretence of Tyranny How many good Princes shall dayly be suppressed by those by whom they ought to be supported If they leavy a Subsidy or any other Taxation it shall be claimed oppression If they put any to death for Trayterous Attempts against their Persons it shall be exclaimed Cruelty If they do any thing against the Lust and liking of the People it shall be proclaimed Tyranny But let it be that without Authority in us or desert in him King Richard must be deposed Yet what right had the Duke of Lancaster to the Crown Or what reason have we without his right to give it to him If he make Title as Heir unto King Richard then must he yet stay until King Richards death For no Man can succeed as Heir to one that liveth But it is well know to all Men who are not either wilfully Blind or grosly Ignorant that there are some now alive Lineally descended from Lionel Duke of Clarence whose Off-spring was by Judgment of the High Court of Parliament holden the eight Year of the Raign of King Richard declared next Successor to the Crown in case King Richard should die without Issue Concerning the Title from Edmund Chrouchback I will pass it over seeing the Authors thereof are become ashamed of so absurd abuse both of their own knowledge and our Credulity and therefore all the claim is now made by right of Conquest by the Session and grant of King Richard and by the general consent of all the people It is a bad Wooll that can take no colour But what Conquest can a Subject pretend against his Soveraign where the War is insurrection and the Victory high and Heinous Treason As for the resignation which King Richard made being a pent Prisoner for the same cause it is an act exacted by force And therefore of no force and validity to bind him And seeing that by the Laws of this Land the King alone cannot alienate the Ancient Jewels and Ornaments partaining to the Crown surely he cannot give away the Crown it self and therewithal the Kingdome Neither have we any custome that the people at pleasure should elect their King But they are always bound unto him who by right of Blood is right Successour much less can they confirm and make good that Title which is before by violence usurped For nothing can then be freely done when liberty is once restrained by fear So did Scylla by terrour of his Legions obtain the Law of Vellia to be made whereby he was created