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A56078 The Protestant admirer, or, An answer to the vindication of a popish successor 1681 (1681) Wing P3819; ESTC R2851 6,555 4

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of Commons Fiery Zealots Turbulent Zealots and Robbers of those they should Honour and Obey By this His Majesty may perceive how you would let fly your Reflections at him also if he should not please you What Sir have you a mind to set King and people at variance who are now at peace And do you think to scare His Majesty from agreeing with his Parliament in providing for the future welfare of the Kingdom in this Matter I will say to you as the Angel of God said to Satan Zech. 3.2 The Lord Rebuke thee the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem Rebuke thee 12. I Admire you should account it such a Wickedness and sin against God to dis-inherit a Successor as if the whole Law of God were violated surely you have not considered that Scripture Sin is the Transgression of the Law Now God did never make a Law either for his own people Israel or for the Nations of the World that the next of Blood to the Crown must always wear it Truly Sir I cannot find any such Law of God in our Protestant Bible And if there is no such Law that doth always command such a Succession it cannot be a sin against God sometimes to let such a Succession be laid aside for it 's written in another place Where there 's no Law there is no Transgression And besides this we find in the Holy Scriptures that those who were not next of blood to the Crown did wear it by Gods Approbation David succeeded Saul in the Government and not any of Saul's Children Solomon succeeded David and not David's Eldest son and I hope these Successors may be well called the best of Princes But suppose it could be proved that God had Established such a Succession of Princes in Israel as you plead for that will not prove that England is bound to such a Model of Government as Israel had for the Nations of the World who were in Being at the same time of the Government of Israel were not bound to have such a Government as they had and if any venture to affirm they were bound in this case then mark what may be concluded from it viz. That when the Government of Israel was by Judges then should the other Nations have changed their Kings into Judges also Indeed Sir I do think you will not be in hast to charge those Nations with sin as you do charge your own Nation though they did not Conform to Israel's Government Furthermore consider by the same Reason that Israel's Princely Government must be England's Rule so must the Priestly Government be a Rule also and this is a ready way to destroy the Church of England as it is now Established for which you will have no thanks from our Protestant Clergy Therefore Sir for the time to come Learn to be wiser than to Charge either King Parliament or people with sin against God when no Law of God is broken SIR I Beseech you Consider what a strange work you have undertaken in perswading the Protestants to Embrace and accept of a Popish Successor 1. First In thus doing you put all the Protestants in England to venture all their Happiness in the hands and under the power of one that is taught by the See of Rome not to keep Faith with Hereticks and will be required by the Authority of Rome to make his people Turn or Burn. How then can England as it is now a Protestant Kingdom be safe under such a Prince Truly Sir we Protestants had rather for the present let you call us O ye of little Faith than that you should cry out of us hereafter O ye of great Folly 2. Secondly you put the Popish Successor upon wronging of his Conscience to obtain a Crown for he must Solemnly swear at his Coronation before God and the Kingdom That he will Maintain and Defend the Protestant Religion and all other the Rights and Priviledges of the People according to the Laws of the Kingdom and we have sufficient cause to believe thus to swear is contrary to his principles and Conscience and Authority of Rome And should he be true to his Oath after taking it the Authority of the See of Rome would soon Excommunicate him Depose and Murther him Now therefore that all true Protestants in England may be free from all the Dangers that attend them in this Case and that a Popish Successor may be free from all the Dangers that attend him in this Case Let all true Protestants cry to God that the King and Parliament may agree together to Establish a good Protestant Successor And let all the People Say Amen Amen FINIS