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A47892	No blinde guides, in answer to a seditious pamphlet of J. Milton's intituled Brief notes upon a late sermon titl'd, The fear of God and the King preached, and since published, by Matthevv Griffith, D. D., and chaplain to the late king, &c. addressed to the author.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1279; ESTC R13799	10,710	20

Reasons You Argue First the Putting down of Kingship and then the Tacit confirmation of that Act by the last Session who without any Address to any King or Restitution of any Kingly Right summoned the next to come by the Writ formerly Appointed of a Free Commonwealth To your Assumption that Kingship was put down I cannot subscribe till I am better satisfied by what Authority for no Form of Government can be altered but by consent of all the Parties to it In short the late King was Destroy'd Kingship Abolish'd the House of Lords Disauthoris'd and at least 7. parts of 8. of the Commons Members secluded by the same Power Come to your Inference now That halts of all four There was no King because they did not mention him you are a little bold methinks to lay your Brat at the Parliament Door and Father your opinions upon them that in the case would not declare their own Reasons of State of Honour and Convenierce might very fairly move them to suspend Suppose they thought it Prudence to refer all to the next Convention without so much as a Debate whether a King or No and upon this point of extreme necessity the Nation running headlong into another War without the Interpose of a new Representative rather dispence with something of Informality in the Writs than otherwise to hazzard the main Issue of the Publique weal If all this be not yet enough I hope the re-minding the Nation of the COVENANT and their own refusal of the Oath of ABJURATION will content you Your 4th Page runs away in some mistakes concerning Gideon a Person Call'd and set apart by God himself guided by Divine Inspirations and Acting without Partnership the work he was employ'd upon A little further you deny the King the Power of life and death urging Page 4. that 't is against the declared Judgements of our Parliaments nay of our Laws which reserve to themselves only the power of life and death c. I 'LL not deny but a Parliament is above the King That is The King is greater in Conjunction with his two Houses than by Himself but still this weakens not the force of my assertion which is that Kings must necessarily have that power without it they 're no Kings and 't is the same thing in all Governments whatsoever 't is one of the Prerogatives Inseparable from supreme Authority But since you urge the Declar'd Judgements of our Parliaments in favour of your opinion I should be glad to see them Now for the Laws 't is true they Pronounce Life or Death but the King 's left at Liberty to Take or to Remit the forfeiture at pleasure Enough is said of this If I were b●…nt to Cavil your 5th Page would afford matter abundantly where you extravagate upon the word Anointed but That is more Peculiarly the Doctor's Businesse and I refer you to him So are your slips Page 6. but Those I cannot passe without a marque For There you shew your Teeth I might have said your Eares to boot But how will you confirm one wrested Scripture with another I Sam. 8. 7. They have not rejected thee but m●… grosly misapplying these words which were not spoken to any who had resisted or rejected a King but to them who much against the will of God had sought a King and rejected a Commonwealth wherein they might have liv'd happily under the Reign of God only their King Let the words interpret themselves v. 6 7. But the thing displeased Samuel when they said give us a King to judge us And Samuel prayed unto the Lord And the Lord said unto Samuel barken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee for they have not rejected thee but they have rejected me that I should not reign over them Hence you conclude so indissoluble is the Conjunction of God and the King O notorious abuse of Scripture when as you should have concluded So unwilling was God to give them a King So wide was the disjunction of God from a King Mr. Milton when your hand was In another verse methinks should not have over-charg'd you and 't is the very next too As they have ever done sayes God to Samuel since I brought them cut of Egypt even unto this Day and have forsaken me and served other Gods even so doe they unto thee This would have given you light to read the Rest by and possible have done you the same service which you pretend to doe the Doctour But none so Blind as they that will not see especially had you but taken in likewise the verse next Antecedent to your Quotation which speaks the motive to their such Desires as the other does fairly imply the Reason of Gods Disapproval of them 't was a hard misse and an industrious one I fear to scape the 5 and 8 verses without the which the 6 and 7 which you make use of have no intelligible Coherence Make us a King say they to Judge us like the NATIONS v. 5. and after That v. 8. God charges them with inclinations to Idolatry so that the inference is open They had a hankering after the Gods of the Nations as well as the Kingship and That moved the All seeing wisdome that knew their hearts to tell Samuel saying they have not Rejected Thee bùt Mee a Speech applyable to their Disobedience rather than to their Proposition God is r●…jected in the rejection of his Ministers This is a stubborn Text Sir and will not mould as you would have it Had not they against the will of God sought a KING and rejected a Common wealth you tell us that they might have l●…v'd HAPPILY under the reign of God onely their King Indeed you have the best intelligence I beseech you how doe you know this whom God loves he chastens and persecution in this world is the Portion of the Saints It 's true their obedience to God here would certainly have rend●…ed them Happy hereafter but this is not the Happinesse you drive at Look back now upon the 3. verse of the same Chapter and there you 'll find some Reason to apprehend the contrary For Samuel being Old and having made his sonnes Judges over Israel the Text sayes that his sonnes walked not in his wayes but turn'd aside after Lucre and took Rewards and perverted Judgement c. now if from hence you can perswade your self into a good opinion of a Popular Government I cannot blame your stickling for the Rump But that this mis-rule should please God your modesty I hope will not pretend to offer You 'll say however that the Popular form did I 'll not contend about it Did not the Regall too as much in David a King of God's particular choice and a man after his Own Heart So that you gain little by the odds of a Free-State in ballance against Monarchy In one word The Saviour of the World was a KING and a King of Jewes Grant or Denie at pleasure

NO Blinde Guides In ANSWER To a seditious Pamphlet of J. MILTON'S INTITULED Brief Notes upon a late Sermon Titl'd the fear of God and the King Preachd and since Publishd By Matthew Griffith D. D. And Chaplain to the late KING c. Addressed to the Author If the Blinde lead the Blinde Both shall fall into the Ditch LONDON Printed for Henry Broome April 20. 1660. NO Blinde Guides c. Mr. Milton ALthough in your Life and Doctrine you have Resolved one great Question by evidencing that Devils may indue Humane shapes and proving your self even to your own Wife an Incubus you have yet Started Another and that is whether you are not of That Regiment which carried the Herd of Swine headlong into the Sea and moved the People to beseech Jesus to depart out of their coasts This may be very well imagined from your suitable practises Here Is it possible to read your Proposals of the benefits of a Free-State without Reflecting upon your Tutours All this will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship me Come come Sir lay the Devil aside do not proceed with so much malice and against Knowledge Act like a Man that a good Christian may not be affraid to pray for you Was it not You that scribled a Justification of the Murther of the King against Salmasius and made it good too Thus That murther was an Action meritorious compared with your superiour wickedness 'T is There as I remember that you Common place your self into Set forms of Rayling two Pages thick and lest your Infamy should not extend it self enough within the Course and Usage of your Mother-tongue the Thing is Dress'd up in a Travailing Garb and Language to blast the English Nation to the Universe and to give every man a Horrour for Mankind when he Considers You are of the Race In This you are above all Others but in your ICOMOCLASTES you exceed your self There not content to see that Sac●…ed Head divided from the Body your piercing Malice enters into the private Agonies of his struggling Soul with a Blasphemous Insolence invading the Prerogative of God himself Omniscience and by Deductions most Uuchristi●…n and Illog●…cal aspersing his Last Plet●…es the almost certain Inspirations of the Holy Spirit with Juggle and Prevarication Nor are the Words III fitted to the Matter The Bold Design being suited with a conform Irreverence of Language but I do not love to Rake long in a Puddle To take a view in particular of all your Factious Labours would cost more time than I am willing to afford them Wherefore I shall stride over all the rest and pass directly to your Brief Notes upon a Late SERMON Titl'd The Fear of God and the King Pr●…ch'd and since Publish'd by MATTHEW GRIFFITH D. D. and Chaplain to the late KING c. ANy man that can but Read your Title may understand your Dri●… that you Charge the Royal Interest Party thorough the Doctour's sides I am not ●…old enough to be his Champion in all particulars nor yet so Rude as to take an Office most properly to him Belonging out of his Hand Let him acquit himself in what concerns the Divine and I 'll adventure upon the most material parts of the Rest. but with this Profession that I have no design in exposing your Mistakes saving to hinder them from becoming the Peoples Your Entrance is a little Peremptory and Magisterial methinks but that shall be allowed you ' please you wee 'll see how Pertin●…nt it is and Rational I Affi●…md in the Preface of a late discourse Entitl'd The ready way to establish a free Commonwealth and the dang●…rs of readmitting Kingship in this Na●…ion that the humor of returning to our old bondage was instilld of late by some deceivers and to make good that what I then affirmd was not without j●…st ground one of those deceivers I present here to the people and if I prove him not such I refuse not to be so accounted in his stead TO the First give me leave to mind you that you make an Observation of things Past amount to a foretelling of what 's to come This Sermon was not Preach'd when that Humor you mention was Instill'd Next You 'll as hardly satisfie the people that you your self are no Deceiver as prove the Doctor one of those you meant And thus I 'll I●…stance KINGSHIP is your old Bondage RUMPSHIP ours Forgive the Term You were Then pas●… the One we are now God be thanked past the Other and should be as loth to Return as You. Yet you are Tampering to delude the People and to withdraw them from a Peaceable and Rational expectancy of good into a mutinous and hopeless attempt of mischief By your own Rule now who are the Deceivers We that will not Return to our old Bondage or you that would perswade us to 't Your next Paragraph talks of Purgatives Myrrh●… Aloes c. It may be an Apothecaries Bill for ought I know and I have no skill in Physique As little shall I concern my self in your unmannerly descant upon the Epistle which is the Business of your Second Page The Third conteins your Gloss upon the Text and that I shall examine The Text Prov. 24. 21. My son fear God and the King and meddle not with them that be seditious or desirous of change c. Letting pass matters not in controversie I come to the main drift of your Sermon the King which word here is either to signifie any supreme Magistrate or else your latter object of fear is not universal belongs not at all to many parts of Christendom that have no King and in particular not to us That we have no King since the putting down of Kingship in this Commonwealth is manifest by this last Parlament who to the time of thir dissolving not only made no address at all to any King but summond this next to come by the Writ formerly appointed of a free Commonwealth without restitution or the least mention of any Kingly right or power which could not be if there were at present any King of England The main part therefore of your Sermon if it mean a King in the usual sense is either impertinent and absurd exhorting your auditory to fear that which is not or if King here be as it is understood for any supreme Magistrate by your own exhortation they are in the first place not to meddle with you as being your self most of all the seditious meant here and the desirous of change in stirring them up to fear a King whom the present Government takes no notice of NOt to contend about the Large or Limited Sense of the word KING since 't is agreed upon at all hands to signify Supreme Authority and where a Single Person governs to denote the Monarch The issue rests upon this Point Is there or is there not at present any King of England You say No I 'm of another mind Compare our

I have you in a Net Why would you meddle with a Chapter that you were sure would burn your fingers There 's no Relief you see against Authority 'T is well you stopp'd short of that Lex Regni which Samuel opens to the People beginning at the 11. verse of the same Chapter from whence lyes no Appeal Truly your insincerity in this Section is more exposed than I could wish it Under the Reign of God onely their King you say This expression doubtfully implies you a Millenary Doe you then really expect to see Christ Reigning upon Earth even with those very eyes you Lost as 't is reported with staring too long and too saw●…ily upon the Portraiture of his Vicegerent to breake the Image as your Impudence Phrases it It is generally indeed believed you never wept them out for this Losse In my Passage from hence to your Frog-morall I cannot but remember you that there was a Plague of Frogs as well as a Fable Frogs that crept into the Kings Chambers and into the Houses of his Servants c. Now to your Fable Nor are you happier in the relating or the moralizing your Fable The frogs being once a free Nation ●…aith the Fable petitioned Jupiter for a King he 〈◊〉 amongst them a log They foun●… it insensible they petioned then for a King that should be active he sent them a Crane a Sto●…k saith the fable which straight fell to pe●…king them up This you apply to the reproof of them who desire change whereas indeed the true moral shews rather the folly of those who being free seek a King which for the most part either as a log lies heavie on his Subjects without doing ought worthie of h●…s dignitie and the charge to maintain him or at a Sto●…k is ever pe●…king them up and devon●…ing them Mr. Milton to agree with you as far as possible if One Log be so Intollerable for the Burthen or One Stork for the Cruelty and Greedinesse what do you think of 40. Storks and every Stork a Log in his belly What do you think of a Grand Arbitrary Perpetual Counsel and no more Parliaments according to your Gratious Proposition Page 8. of your Free and easie way c. And in regard that in a free Commonwealth 〈◊〉 who are greatest are Perpetual Servants and Drudges to the publique at their own cost and Charges neglect their own Affairs yet are not Elevated above their Brethren L●…ve soberly in their Families walk the Streets as other men may be spoken too freely familiarly friend●…y without Adoration Page 4. What do you think of the Rump Parliaments Perpetuating it self under the name of That grand Counsel Page 10. the Government being in so many Faithfull and Experienced hands next under God so Able especially Filling up their number as they intend and abundantly sufficient so happily to govern us P. 11 c. Alas these Gentlemen are very Pigeons not a Stork among them do not deceive your self Sir you 're one of those they have Fed of the same Plume and Kind ask but the honest party of the Nation and they shall tell you that Tom. Scot and his Associate Patriots can Peck as well as Bill Now we have Play'd let 's to our Book again and be a little Earnest You charge the Doctor in your 8. Page for saying That by our Fundamental Laws the King is the highest power Page 40. If we must hear mooting and Law-lectures from the Pulpit what shame is it for a Dr. of Divinitie not first to consider that no law can be fundamental but that which is grounded on the light of nature or right reason commonly call'd moral Law which no form of Government was ever counted but arbitrarie and at all times in the choice of every free people or their representers This choice of Government is so essential to their freedom that longer then they have it they are not free In this ●…and not only the late King and his posteritie but Kingship it self hath been abrogated by a law which involves with as good reason the posterity of a King forseited to the people as that Law heretofore of Treason against the King attainted the Children with the Father MEthinks you might have spar'd your Criticism upon the word Fundamental being a Term that Usage hath authorized were nothing more in 't and soberly I do not find but it may stand a nicer Test than perhaps you 'll impose upon it No Law you say can be Fundamental but that which is grounded in the ●…ight of Nature or right reason which no FORM of Government was ever counted c. So that tho' GOVERNMENT it self directs to Fundamentals yet the Specification of it into such or such a FORM does not You are Queint Sir shew me Government without a Form further than in Notion and only Notional must be the Laws too that support it Obedience to Superiors is a Moral Fundamental and wh●…re to One or More vested with unconditionate Dominion I mean as to the Power of Revocation we ●…n e Contract a Duty as the Person and Authority are Inseverable so is the Obligation Indispensable which by a Fundamentall Law is become du●… as well to the King himself as unto Kingship I shall be tedious if I unty all your knots The Choice you say is Arbitrary so 't is in Mariage that is till we have pass'd away our Freedom but you are for Divorce I see as well of Governours as Wives Your next now is a shrewd one is it your own I pr●…y●…e This choice of Government you tell us is so essential to the Peoples Freedoms that longer then they have it they 're not free In truth you 're in the Right Is any People Free where there is any Government This is somewhat worse than the Doctors FUNDAMENTALL FREEDOME and GOVERNMENT in Politiques Contra-Distinguish one another have a care of this argument for if the People are Free to Chuse they 'll never Chuse any of your Friends again But if the King his Posterity nay and Kingship it self have been abrogated by a Law That 's another matter By what Law I beseech you By the Law of a little Faction that dares not put their heads upon a Tryal by the Establish'd Law of the Land your next shift is wretched If that no Law must be held good but what passes in FULL Parliament then surely in exactnesse of Legality no Member must be missing c. I Answer you that it is not the Actual sitting of All but the Liberty of All to Sit not the Fullnesse of the House but the Freedom of the Members It is one thing a Law that 's made in the Absence of many of the Members that might have been Present if they would and are possibly fined for non-attendance and another thing the Vote of a tenth Part of That Body which it self entire is but the third Part of the Legislative Power This Remnant too by force of Armes violently ●…cluding the Rest.