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A49781	The right of primogeniture, in succession to the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland as declared by the statutes of 24 E.3 cap 2. De Proditionibus, King of England, and of Kenneth the third, and Malcolm Mackenneth the second, Kings of Scotland : as likewise of 10 H.7 made by a Parliament of Ireland : with all objections answered, and clear probation made : that to compass or imagine the death, exile, or disinheriting of the King's eldest son, is high treason : to which is added, an answer to all objections against declaring him a Protestant successor, with reasons shewing the fatal dangers of neglecting the same.	Lawrence, William, 1613 or 14-1681 or 2.	1681 (1681)	Wing L691; ESTC R1575	180,199	230

were since called Harlots from her name Arlotte yet we find no proof of any Inchastity in her only she could Dance Ala mede de France and if they can prove she was Guilty of any worse and were an Harlot it only makes the President the stronger that the Law and Custom at that time and Countrey was that the Duke's eldest Son though by a Woman taken without any Ceremony of a Priest or Temple ought after the Death of the Duke succeed to the Dukedom neither was this way any other Law or Custom than what is already shewn to have been amongst the Princes of the Hebrews Greeks Romans and all other Nations not inslaved by Superstition to receive the Forms of Marriage and acknowledge the Supreme Jurisdiction of them to be in the Bishop of Rome or their own Prelates or Pontiffs by which Examples it appears That by the Brittish Scottish and Norman Laws the eldest Sons of Kings by Women not Prohibited to be Married by the Law of God though not Joyned by a Priest in a Temple or any other Episcopal Ceremony yet by Right of Primogeniture they succeeded in the Governments of their Fathers Dominions It will be asked how then came the ancient Law of God and the Land to be changed concerning these matters of Marriage Filiation and Succession and the Jurisdiction to be got or pretended to be in Episcopal hands to Judge and Dispose of Marriage Filiation and Successions both to the Crown and Lay-Inheritances according to Canonical Laws and not the Laws of God nor the Land To which is answered Hugh Capet an Usurper of the French Crown to curry favour with the Pope first disinherited natural Children That as to Normandy and other the English Dominions after acquired in France as Bodin says fol. 741. Hugh Capet was the first that made a Law in France That natural Sons that is to say such whose Parents were not Married by the Popish Ceremonies of a Priest in a Temple should not be Heirs nor succeed to the Kingdom And at last strain'd his Law to that Degree of unnatural Cruelty and Folly that it was Enacted That natural Children should not be accounted natural Children which Nonsence in that time of Popery was not only followed by the French but imitated to get Money by the English and Scotish Ecclesiastical and Common Lawyers who as hath been already shewn would not admit natural Children to be Sib Kin of Consanguinity nor Children to the Father who begot or the Mother who bare them as if it had been in the Power of Hugh Capet and them to overthrow or change the Laws of God and Nature Prohibition of Marriage Sans Ceremony a French Toy to disinherit all Protestant Children So likewise by a French Decree as saith Everard p. 24. All Children born in Marriages not Blessed by a Romish Priest are made incapable to succeed to the goods of Father or Mother the Law of Capet was plotted by the French Bishops to get themselves Supremacy of disposing the French Crown which foundation of Power they commonly got from Usurpers to the intent that by their Ecclesiastical pretence of Authority they might protect a false Title and disinherit the true Heirs of the Blood Heylin in his Geography p. 186. saith That Popes strengthen themselves by unlawful Marriages of Princes and not by lawful and p. 101. Popes strengthen themselves by unlawful Marriages and Successions of Princes and not by lawful That Hugh Capet being a Prince of a strange Blood was hoys●d up by the People to the Prejudice of Charles of Lorrain the true Heir of France as Brother to Lotherius and Uncle to Lodovicus the last King of the Line of Pepin And p. 129. he saith The occasion why Capet was chosen and Charles of Lorain refused was this Charles Son to Lewis the Fourth King of France being left to the courtesie of his Brother and by him not regarded was by Otho the Emperor invested in the Dutchy of Lorain Anno 984. which containeth one Marquisate five Earldoms and divers Baronies The eldest Son likewise of Lorain is intitled Prince of Barry for which cause that he received Lorain from the Emperor Charles shewed himself so alienated from the French and wedded to the Germans that the French after the Death of his Cousin Lewis the First rejected him and chose Hugh Capet for their King This Charles had one Son named Otho and one Daughter called Hermingrade from her descended Isabel Wife to Phillip the Second uniting the Bloods of Pepin and Capet to the great content of her Grandchild St. Lewis who being a Man of a very tender Conscience is said never to have Joyed in the Crown of France till it was proved that by the Mothers side he was the right Heir of Charles of Lorain whom Hugh Capet had so unjustly dispossessed French and Popish Laws of Marriage seek to destroy all English Heirs and the Protestant Religion So it appears this French Law against Natural Sons was made to disinherit the true Heirs of the Royal Blood of France and to inherit the Certificate Heirs of the French Bishops and the other French Law mentioned against all Succession of the Children whose Parents at their Marriage received not the Benediction of a Romish Priest was made on Design to disinherit all Protestant Children The Law of Theodora against Natural Heirs was to Disinherit the true and Inherit adulterous Heirs The Law of Trent nulling all Marriages without a Priest and Witnesses was to set to Sale Community of Women to raise Rents out of Stews to lay a Tribute on Marriage and inslave the Successions of Kingdoms and private Patrimonies to the will of Popes and Bishops Are there any Degenerous English so much Frenchified as will impose French Laws of Succession on the English Crown Capet's Law not to be compared with the Law of Edw. the 3d. Shall Hugh Capet's Laws dare to contend with this Law of Edward the Third who beat and Conquered the greatest Navies and Armies of France and in tryal by Battel at Cressey proved his Right better to the Title of King of France than the Heir of Capet his and had the same Heir of Capet taken Prisoner in Battel by the Black Prince the Heir of this Statute Are there any so false Protestants as to introduce such Popish Laws as disinherit all Protestant Children Are there any so prophane Christians as will prefer the Ceremonial Laws of Men above the Moral Laws of God It hath been shewn thus far by the Examples of so many Kings of this Island of Great Britain that their Legitimation and Succession thereby to the Crown were by the Moral Law of God and not by the Ceremonial Laws of Romish or Brittish Bishops and none dared in Great Britain though they did in France assume the Supremacy of Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction above the Royal and Parliamentary in Declaring the Successors of the Crown or if they did they were overthrown in like manner may

vers 20. Thou knowest the Commandments And Rom. 7.8 Sin taking occasion by the Commandment wrought in me all manner of Concupiscence for without the Law Sin was dead By which appears that where there 's no Commandment there 's no occasion for a Nitimur in Vetitum to kindle Concupiscence to Sin nor much less can there be Sin it self For where there 's no Prohibition nor Command there 's no Law and where no Law as is already said there 's no Transgression Salvation by no Legislator Judge or Law but of God 3. The Scripture teacheth That men can be saved by no Law but the Law of God nor by any Legislator or Judge but God which is proved Jam. 4.12 There 's one Lawgiver who is able to save and to destroy who art thou that judgest thy Brother And vers 11. He that speaketh evil of his Brother and judgeth his Brother speaketh evil of the Law and judgeth the Law but if thou judge the Law thou art not a Doer of the Law but a Judge And Isa 33.22 The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Lawgiver If therefore the Law of God is the only Law by which Men and Women are saved in Marriage Matrimony and Child-bearing as well as all other Acts of Humane life and God is the only Legislator and Judge of them then ought their Lawfulness without Ceremony to be judged only according to the Law of God and where there 's no Law of God Prohibiting Marriage without Ceremony nor Commanding it with Ceremony the Law of God declares it Lawful without Ceremony because nothing can be Lawful or Unlawful but in reference to the Commandments and Laws of God Ceremonies rejected by the Scripture 4. The Scripture rejecteth all Ceremonies done without Commandment from God Isa 1.12 When ye come to appear before me who hath required this at your hands to tread my Courts Bring no more vain Oblations Incense is an abomination unto me c. Ceremonies false Translated Ordinances 5. The Scripture teacheth all Rites and Ceremonies to have been only Temporary till a Time of Reformation and to be abolished by Christ as Heb. 9.1 The first Covenant had Ceremonies For the Original word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ought to be Translated Rites or Ceremonies and not Ordinances or Laws as the Latin Translation is and appears to be intended and is so Expounded by the Text it self Vers 2 3 4. which names a Tabernacle Candlestick Table and Shewbread Vayle Golden Censer and Ark overlaid with Gold And v. 9. Gifts and Sacrifices which could not make him that did the service perfect as pertaining to Conscience And vers 10. Meats and Drinks and divers washings and carnal Ceremonies imposed on them until the time of Reformation All which are an Enumeration of what we call in English and should have been Translated Ceremonies and not Ordinances or Laws As likewise Colo. 2.14 ought to have been Translated Blotting out the hand-writing of Ceremonies that was against and which was contrary to us And took it out of the way nailing it to his Cross And ought not to have been Translated Ordinances or Laws Mission to teach is no Mission to make Ordinances For the Original words used in this Text are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The word Dogma is a Derivative from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies to Teach which word Teach gives not Authority to be a Legislator or to Command or give Ordinances or Laws as Ex. 24.12 And the Lord said unto Moses Come up to me into the Mount and be there and I will give thee Tables of Stone and a Law and Commandments which I have written that thou mayest teach them Here Moses hath no Authority to be a Legislator nor to make a Law or Commandments or Ordinances but only to teach those made by God In like manner Mat. 28.19 Christ saith to his Disciples Go therefore and teach all Nations And vers 20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you So neither doth here the Authority of teaching make the Disciples either Legislators or Judges nor give them Power to give Laws Ordinances or Commandments to the Nations but only to teach them the Commandments which Christ gave to the Teachers themselves If therefore the Original word Doceo gives no pretence to Translate what signifies only Teaching to be making Ordinances much less doth the Derivative word Dogma which according to Isidore Derivatur à Putando i. e. hoc puto esse verum hoc puto esse bonum is derived from thinking that is to say I think this to be true I think this to be good And is the Thought or Opinion of Doctors on a Law or Ordinance much less pretence I say doth such Derivative give to call Thoughts and Opinions the Laws and Ordinances themselves These Thoughts and Opinions then ought not to have been Translated Ordinances but Ceremonies because Ceremonies have only Thoughts and Opinions of men and no Law of God for them And so doth the Text expound it self that it intendeth not Ordinances but Ceremonies as ver 20. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the Rudiments of the world why as though living in the world are ye subjects to Ceremonies Touch not taste not handle not which all are to perish with the using after the Commandments and Doctrines of Men which things have in deed a shew of Wisdom in Will-worship So the Pope is but a Thinker of all his Ceremonies of Marriage And all his Ceremonies of that and the rest are but Thinkings as the Bell tinketh Ceremonies are Will-worship and abolished by Christ so the Fool thinketh and hath taken so many first and second Thoughts on the tinking of this Silver Bell of his Profit that he knows that if once the Truth of the Doctrine should be spread and believed That Christ hath abolished all Ceremonies The Commandments of God of Marriage cannot be limited by or to the Ceremonies of men because Marriage where commanded by God is not a thing indifferent it would ruin him and all other Popes who are Masters of them 6. It being made the Express Command and Ordinance of God Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth And 1 Tim. 5.14 That the younger women marry and bear Children if the adding or diminishing or limiting of this Law or Commandment of God by prescribing to them Papal or Episcopal Ceremonies should make them unlawful then first would it be in the power of Popes and Bishops to make God's Commands things indifferent which they might change or null or they might set all Carnal Copulation and Childbirth to Sale by imposing such Ceremonies as none shall be able to pass without first giving notice to the Priest and paying him what Fees he pleaseth of which see more Lib. 2. p. 96 97. Secondly this prescribing or Compulsion to Ceremonies in Marriage punisheth Lawfuld Childbirth in Mothers and causeth infinite Murders of Children which Vid.