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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36199	Dr. Sherlock's Two knights of Brainford brought upon the stage in a congratulatory letter to Mr. Johnson : occasioned by the doctor's vindication of himself in taking the oath of allegiance to Their Majesties after the time, indulg'd by the law, was expired.		1690 (1690)	Wing D1766; ESTC R31333	34,233	42

If the first shut God out of the Government the other brings a Deity upon the Stage as Familiarly as Poets with their Fictions or Players in their Machines And it is observable that tho God is made the Actor and Authorizer of the Event he is render'd a Nonassister of either of these Kings as well as the Subjects are Divine Right and Divine Providence poizing the Scales According to that of the Poet. Victrix causa Diis placuit sed victa Catoni Where the Hero has a more noble and generous Character than his Gods But that I may not only overthrow the Doctors Startleing Scheme of Government without advancing page 3. another I conceive these Propositions may do more good in the World 1. That Allegiance is a Legal Bond or Tye importing Active as well as Passive Obedience to Legal Authority 2. That he to whom Allegiance is not due is not Legal King nor has Right so to be or ever can be without a new Submission of the People either of Free Choice or by Constraint unless it be by the visible Designation and Appointment of God Almighty 3. That no Divine Law or just Inference from thence sets aside Humane Constitutions suitable to Christianity and beneficial to Civil Societies 4. That no Divine Interposition or Act of God which is not so visible as may satisfie all Men before the Success what is the Will of God can be said Authoritatively to alter or diminish Rights to Crowns or the Liberties or Properties of Subjects 5. That Humane Constitutions may be vertually Repeal'd or Suspended when they cease to answer the main end or Law the good of the respective Societies 6. That they who contributed towards our present Settlement did what had been justifiable tho they had fail'd of Success the late King having long before ceased to be a Legal King 7. That Their Majesties are our sole Lawful and Rightful King and Queen according not only to the Supreme Law the publick Good but to the positive Laws and Constitutions of this Government known and declared as there has been occasion in all Ages from the first Foundation of this limited Monarchy 8. That they no more consult the Honor and Interest of their Majesties than the common Safety who now advance the old decanted Doctrine of Non-Resistance and Passive Obedience to a Power exercis'd without any regard to legal Right or humane Laws Dr. Sherlock owns it as it was taught by himself and Dean Hicks to be a meer Jacobite The Doctor now sets it forth in a new shape with King William's Livery but it 's only a Picture in a Scene which cannot stir to help in any Exigency He makes it the Doctrine of Fate which was taught by one Sect among the Heathens and laugh'd at by all others He who has baptiz'd it by the Christian Name of Providence can find no other Godfather to it but himself yet is far from promising and vowing in its Name that it shall manfully resist the Devil and all his Works it is enough not to assist If the Devil and his Agents get the better their Authority is God's Ordinance and it is no Sin to follow whither Fate draws But the Doctor has taken it from common Drudgery and honorably confin'd it to the Government of States and Kingdoms in private Robberies it gives not the Robber Authority over Persons as it does to Usurpers he has only Right to what it puts into his hand Pag. 24. This Doctrine which is always attendant upon Fate or Providence is the Clergie's Writ of ease the Prince's false Friend and changeable Courtier but professed Enemy to the rest of Mankind It served the King-craft of James I. though he had not the Courage to give Sanction to those Canons which would enforce it by Spiritual Thunder proved Fatal to his Son enabled the two Brothers to Revenge the Contempt of it seem'd to expire under the last but gave dangerous Symptoms of Life and Vigor upon the Abdication Since this evil Spirit now haunts the Land again it is a Task worthy of your Pen to send it well whipped to the place from whence it came and to 〈◊〉 it to its native Shades that it may never rise in dark Clouds to blacken our Deliverance Pref. Pag. 4. This the World expects from you and is earnestly desired by Sir Your Faithful Friend and Servant FINIS Page 32. Line 7. Read that is believe