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A46818	The prerogative of primogeniture shewing that the right of succession to an hereditary crown, depends not upon grace, religion, &c., but onely upon birth-right and primogeniture, and that the chief cause of all or most rebellions in Christendom, is a fanatical belief that temporal dominion is founded in grace / by David Jenner ...	Jenner, David, d. 1691.	1685 (1685)	Wing J661; ESTC R17940	69,745	218

other and oft-times thorough heats (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. and animosities the publick Weal is neglected and every one drives on his own private Interest and seeks to save himself to the ruine of the Common-wealth Wherefore upon these Considerations Nicocles rationally urged that no Form of Government could better secure the Common-wealth from Intestine Broils and from Foreign Invasions than that of Monarchy which could at pleasure Muster up Forces wage (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. War and carry it on vigorously to the effecting its desired ends And to confirm this his Opinion he brings instances of several Common-wealths especially that of the Carthaginians who in time of War for the better success of their Affairs did invest some single person such as Hannibal with Kingly * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Power during their Wars And he instances also in that of the City of Athens 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which of all Cities after their Rebellion most hated Monarchy yet even Athens constituted some single person Generalissimo and intrusted him with a Regal Authority and at last when their Republick Affairs flew malis Avibus upon the wings of ill-luck They chose Solon for their King But he being as great an Hater of Monarchy as was Timon of Mankind Refused their profer 4. In Monarchy says Nicocles State-businesses may more privately be deliberated and consulted upon and therefore without discovery may more successfully be managed to the Terrour of the Enemy and to the great advantage of the Kingdom than in Democracy where by one or other the Secrets of State are frequently discovered and their Consultations Votes and Resolves are made known before they are ripened or before they can be put into Execution which has proved very fatal and detrimental to many Re-publicks And here by the way we may note that by some Wise men it has been thought no part of National Prudence or State-Policy in our late House of Commons here in England to Order every day their own Debates Votes and Resolves to be publickly Printed for by so doing They fomented the several Factions in the Nation and exasperated the Disaffected people against the King and his Government and more particularly against his Royal Highness the Duke of York And which was worst of all they by their printed Votes discovered and revealed not onely their own but also the King 's Secrets and Counsels unto his Foes as well as his Friends 5. Nicocles arguing as an innocent Heathen draws an Argument to prove the Excellency of Monarchy above all other Forms of Government from the Regimen of the Gods themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. For the very Gods whilst they were in a Free Common-wealth could not agree how to govern the World but did bitterly clash and wrangle among themselves So that at last Necessity forced Them to chuse a King who should be Supreme and Monarch over all the other Gods And the Lot fell upon Jupiter who was immediately proclaimed Supreme Monarch over all the rest And when this was done then the World was peaceably Governed and all things prospered as well as Heart could wish Wherefore as Nicolces of old did so we at present may rationally conclude That of all the Forms of Government Monarchy deserves the Supremacy CHAP. III. That all Kings and their Lawfull Heirs ought by Right of Primogeniture to Reign and Govern Successively whether they be Morally Good or Bad whether Infidels or Christians Papists or Protestants THAT Succession to the Imperial Throne ought to be by Virtue of Primogeniture and not of Grace will be the Task of the following Sections to prove SECT I. The Proposition proved by Humane Authority of Heathens IN Plato's time Kings were either Elective 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to the Law and Custome of particular Nations as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Carthage And as at this day in Polonia Or they were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hereditary according to Primogeniture as in Lacedemon and (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Diog. Lacrt. Plato l. 3. Macedonia for the Lacedemons and Macedonians were not onely for Kingly Government but also for the due and regular Succession of their Kings in the right (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. ibid. Line To the same purpose Aelian informs us scil That (c) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aelian Hist l. 6. c. 13. among the Grecians their Kings reigned successively according to Birth-Right and particularly Gelon in Sicilia the Leuconian Kings in Bosphorus and the Cypselidae in Corinth Though as he reports the Legal Succession of their Kings by Primogeniture seldom ran farther in a direct lineal Descent than 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unto the third Generation by reason of frequent Insurrections and bloudy Rebellions in which too often some powerfull Vsurper or other mounted the Throne even as Oliver Cromwell lately did here in this Our Kingdom and cut off the Right Heir Thus Might over-coming Right turned the Stream of Regal Government out of its proper Chanel and forced it to run at least for a while a by-way Nicocles the aforementioned Emperour strenuously defends his own just Title to the Crown by virtue of his Birth-Right when he assures the World that he came to the Crown not by Usurpation nor by any illegal and sinister way but honestly (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Isocrat Nicocl Orat. 3. and justly to wit by Inheritance descended from his Progenitors down to his Father and from his Father immediately to Himself SECT II. The Propsition That Succession to the Throne ought to be by Virtue of Primogeniture and not of Grace is farther proved by Divine Authority AS Humane so also Divine Authority speaks the same Truth scil That all Kings and their Lawfull Heirs whether good or bad vertuous or vitious ought successively to Reign and Govern To this purpose very pertinent are the Interrogatories which Elihu put to Job c. 34. v. 17 18. Shall even he that hateth Right Gover And wilt thou condemn him that is most just Is it fit to say to a King Thou art wicked and to Princes Ye are ungodly For the right understanding of which Interrogatories it must be premised That through gross mistake Elihu rashly concluded that pious Job had unworthily repined at God's severe hand of Providence towards him and therefore to convince Job of his supposed errour does Elihu expostulate with him saying Shall they who are Haters of Righteousness and Justice by virtue of their Right of Succession and Inheritance Govern and Reign over their Subjects and that by God's own appointment And what wilt not thou O vain Man suffer God himself the King of Heaven and Earth to govern act and doe what seemeth him best with his Creatures But thou wilt presume to censure thy Maker and say He is not Just in his Dealings with Thee Surely Reason teaches thee this Lesson That if thou mayst not

such Modern Authours we find none that are for Absolute Obedience to Princes whether Good or Bad Papists or Protestants For All the Recusant and Anti-Protestant Writers such as the Papists and the Classical and the Congregational Authours according to their several Principles are onely for Obedience to Princes and the Civil Magistracy with a Condition and Limitation Thus the Papists * Tho. Aquinas Sum. 22 a. quaest 10. a. 1. R. Bellarm Praefat. in Barcl strongly urge Obedience to Kings But it is onely in Temporals and that too with Submission to the Pope's Supremacy But if a King shall meddle with matters Spiritual and Ecclesiastick without the Pope's Laws the said King shall be Excommunicated and all his Subjects discharged from their Allegiance and from paying Homage and Obedience to him their King In like manner Calvin and all the Classical Divines commonly called Presbyterians write much for Obedience to Kings and to All in Authority But it is with a Jesuitical Proviso to wit That their Kings and Governours be Godly And it is also with submission to their Presbyterian Classis and Consistorian Power which they set above the King especially in matters Spiritual and Ecclesiastick And not unlike do the Congregational Divines commonly called Independents talk much for and preach up Obedience to the Civil Magistrates But it is with the same forementioned Proviso scil That their Magistrates be endued with Grace and do Govern the People according to God's Word and with a submission to their Independent Cougregational-Churche's Power and Censures As is plainly and sufficiently proved in a late Book intituled BEAVFRONS Chap. 2. Presbyterians No Protestants Chap. 3. Independents No Protestants Chap. 6. p. 56 57. Impossible for Papists and Dissenters whilst they are true to their own Principles to be Obedient and Good Subjects to the King Unto which Book and Chapters above mentioned we refer the Reader And by the way we cannot but Advise all young Men especially the young Divine whether in the Vniversity or elsewhere to be very cautious how he reades and understands and follows the Modern Authours especially Calvin Beza Peter Martyr Rolloc Polanus Frederick Baldwin Cursellaeus c. Hugo Grotius de jure Belli Pa. For they and others of their Party together with the Papists and Jesuists plead and argue stiffly for Obedience unto the King and the Secular Powers but yet they All have their several Mental Reservations and cunningly distinguish * Rolloc and Fred. Baldw. n Rom. 13.1 between the King's Person and his Power and in the close of their arguings they All declare it to be Lawfull for the Subjects to Resist the King and the Civil Magistrates even with force of Arms in Defence of the true Religion and in the Suppression of Tyranny and Oppression Thus Grotius himself (a) Si Rex reipsa etiam tradere regnum aut subjieere moliatur quin ei Resisti in hoc possit non dubito aliud est enim imperium aliud habendi modus qui ne mutetur obstare potest populus Grot. de jur Bel. Pa. l. 1. c. 4. § 10. asserts This they all affirm to be Lawfull contrary to Primitive Christianity and directly contrary to the sound and Loyal Doctrine and Pratice of the Protestant Church of England And therefore it will be of little sorce and validity to bring the Testimony of Modern Writers to confirm the Doctrine of Obedience to Princes both Good and Bad Papists and Protestants unless it be that of the Episcopal Protestants who own and plead for the King's Supremacy And therefore are the Onely Protestants in the World However to gratifie the Reader we will present him with a few Sayings of some of the Anti-Protestant Modern Writers as to the point of Obedience to all in Authority Jo. Calvin in his French Comment and Sermons on Job Jo. Calvin Serm. 131. on Job 34. c. 34. v. 17 18. has these words as they are Translated by Arthur Godling out of French into English to wit We must Obey and Honour all in Authority because they are not set up by chance or hap-hazard but by God and his Providence And if God sets over us a Tyrant it is for the punishment of sin and it is the Duty of all men meekly to bear their punishment and to take it as a Scourge of God and if we Resist we strive not against Mortal Men but against the Heavenly Judge p. 675. To the same purpose writes Peter (a) Dua sunt subjectiones una Politic● Civilis cui subjiciuntur omnes homines qui si quid offenderint in Leges expectant à justis Magistratibus carcerem mulctam pecuniariam exilia mortes externas poenas c. Pet. Mart. loc Com. de Magistrat p. 1018. § 10. Martyr how that all men ought to be Obedient to the Civil Powers and if any offend then it is the Magistrate's Duty to punish the Offenders according to the Merit of their Delinquency And speaking against the Pope's Supremacy he adds That a King (b) Quamvis Rex possit removere inutilem ac noxium Episcopum non tamen Episcopus potest vicissim Regem si peccaverit dejicere ibid. § 12. has power to Depose a wicked Bishop But no Bishop whatever has power to Depose a King although wicked And Polanus is of opinion That all Hereditary Monarchs ought to Reign and (a) Si absolutam Monarchiam habet est in fide ejus perstandum etiamsi Tyrannus evasit etiamsi nihil minus praestet quàm quod ex officio erat Regum Principum Polan Syntag. l. 10. c. 62. Govern although they should be Tyrants and that the People ought to persevere on in their Allegiance and Obedience to them II. Modern Authours who are for Absolute Obedience to Princes whether Morally Good or Bad Orthodox or Erroneous Papists or Protestants Gerhard treating on the Question Q Whether He ought to Reign and Govern who has Apostatized from the true Religion A. Answers in the Affirmative And positively asserts That (b) Si jure Successionis juxta Leges sundamentales pacta conventa ad eum pertinent Imperii Fasces qui à verâ Religione alienus est tum propter Religionis diversitatem non est privandus suo jure quia Religio Ecclesia non abolet Politias ac jura Politica c. Gerhard de Magistratu Pol. Sect. 106. He to whom the Crown belongs by Right of Succession ought to Reign and Govern notwithstanding his Apostacy and Alenation from the true Religion And that because Diversity of Religion deprives no man of his Right To this Foreign Authour we will add the Judgment of the Church of England as now Established and as it is delivered to us in Her Homily of Obedience Second Part. The words of the Homily are these Scil. Hom of Obedience 2d Part. p. 72. All Subjects are bound to obey them that is Kings and Magistrates as God's Ministers yea although