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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63550	The True loyalist wherein is discovered, First, the falsehood and deceipt of the solemn league and covenant, Secondly, that there is no salvation out of Christ, Thirdly, that the pope is the Anti-Christ, the man of sin, or the son of perdition, cum multis alias, &c. / by a true loyalist.	True loyalist.	1683 (1683)	Wing T2756; ESTC R31985	66,689	159

draw Rebels to Loyalty and to encourage True Loyalists therein for it is taken ab utili from the great good that flows from the Ministry of the King to the bodies and souls of them that are obedient and do good he is the Minister of God to thee for good k Rom. 13.3 4. be thy Prince good or bad there is no exception in this respect he is still the Minister of God to thee for good Si honus August Serm. 6. de verbis Dom. secundum Mat. nutritor est tuns saith St. Austin si malus tentator tuus est if thy Prince be wicked and Tyrannous he is thy temper to exercise thy patience whereby he becomes the cause of thy eternal good by thy temporal evil But if he be good and Religious a true defender of the Faith he is thy Nurse yea a nursing Father to the whole Church whereby he becomes the Minister of God to thee for thy greater good both Temporal and Eternal 1. For thy praise do that which is good and thou shalt have praise of the same l Rom. 13.3 Governours are sent by the King not only for the punishment of evil doers but for the praise of them that do well m 1 Pet. 2.14 Yea if thou beest good and obedient thy King by the influence of his good Government will not only promote his own honour n 1 Sam. 2.30 but will be the Minister of God to thee for thy praise in all fear thou the Lord and the King and thou shalt have no need to praise thy self the lips of others even strangers shall give thee praise enough o Psa 15.4 Pro. 27.2 Yea thy very enemies shall be at peace with thee p Pro. 16.7 2. For thy profit both in Church and State 1. In the State to protect thy body and estate from the rage of enemies and adversaries both within and without the Common-Wealth that thou mayest enjoy thy Meum and Tuum with the more peace and security 2. In the Church to defend thy Faith in its integrity both by the assistance of godly Preachers and learned Antagonists in the cause of Christ and by a strong fence of right Order and Discipline that thou having no letts nor hinderances in thy Religion mayest not only have temporal happiness but also eternal Therefore St. Paul exhorts us very earnestly to make supplications Prayers intercessions and giving of thanks not only for all men in general but for Kings in a special manner and for all that are in authority that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty for this is good saith he and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour Who will have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth q 1 Tim. 2.1 2 3 4. To wit by the means of wise and Religious Princes such as was Constantine the Great that great Favourer of Religion and Defender of the Faith No Salvation out of Christ Be wise now therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth r Psa 2.10 Consider that as you have your power not from your selves or from your Subjects but from God so not for your selves to satisfie your own lusts carnal ends and interest but also for God to rule his people nurse his Church and contain it in order This is the end for which all Kings are ordained the care of the Church is their great Depositum the very burden of their charge Å¿ Isa 44.28 49.23 But alas all have not obeyed the Gospel of Christ t Rom. 10.16 The Turks and Jews do yet stand out and the fulness of the Gentiles is not yet come in u Rom. 11.25 though no people are found so Barbarous but they will have some form of Religion or other to acknowledge a God by as all India East and West sheweth Yet many Kings of the Earth and Heathen Rulers are so far from embracing Christ and his Gospel that they still set themselves and take Counsel together against the Lord and against his Anointed saying Let us break their Bands asunder and cast away their Cords from us w Psa 2.2 3. Ecclesiastical History will inform you that almost all ages of the Church have felt the rage of their persecution x Acts 4. But let them go on they are left without excuse all have heard the glad tidings of Salvation the sound of the Gospel hath gone out into all the Earth and the words of it unto the ends of the World y Acts 2. Rom. 10.18 Psal 19.4 Neither let them dream that Salvation can be had in any thing out of Christ and his Gospel They indeed seeing through the glass of their punishments the cursed nature of Original sin to be ebullient in their members do with much Zeal and Devotion worship God ignorantly in some Idol or other z Acts 17.23 thinking by their childish Idolatry and vain Incense and Oblations either to expiate their sin and the sad effects thereof or to win Gods favour unto them a 1 Kings 18. But alas they are so far from doing of that that robbing God of his due honour by their Idol-worship they so much the more provoke him to anger against them b Jer. 11.17 It is as vain a thing for them to imagin that they cane be saved by the works of their own hands as to conceit that they were made by them or are preserved common reason teaching them if their understanding were not darkned c Ephes 4.18 That the former is as impossible to be done as the latter without the Omnipotent hand of a Deity for Gods infinite justice being wounded by sin deliverance from it is a new Creation and a Resurrection from Death and Damnation to life again and therefore cannot possibly be effected by any thing but by Christ God as well as man and man too as well as God for both those Natures Divine and Humane must necessarily be in the person of him who is our Redeemer or else a peace could never have been concluded between God and man If he had not been God he could not have satisfied the infinite justice of God by fulfilling all righteousness for man d Mat. 3.15 which man as man by reason of his finiteness and imperfect holiness could never do for himself And if he had not been man the satisfaction could not have been made in the same nature which sinned without which the satisfaction had been null for want of mutuality You see then that Salvation from the Wrath of God cannot possibly be obtained by any vain and Anger-provoking worship which you perform but only by Christ and his Mediatorship God dwelling in our flesh perfect God and perfect man And therefore the Word of God than which there is nothing so rational doth impute our Salvation only to Christ neither is there Salvation in any other for there is none other name

hence are justly condemned two sorts of men amongst us 1. Those that dare presume to stile themselves the Godly Party and yet refuse all Loyalty to their Prince That pretend very much to fear the Lord and yet are not afraid to dishonour their King And who are such but only our Pharisaical Puritans and Fanaticks Time was we know when those Godly-gulls and Holy-cheats made the deluded people of this Kingdom to believe that he did fear God the most who did the least honour his King that he was the most godly who would offer the most affronts and indignities to his Prince Nothing was counted with them a greater piece of Piety than to stir up the people against their Soveraign by raising jealousies and casting abroad rude and scandalous Pamphlets almost every day to libel and disgrace him Which as that Holy Martyr King Charles 1. Himself saith in his Divine meditations * ΕΙΚΩΝ ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΗ that Golden Manual like sparks in great conflagrations did fly up and down to set all places on Fire Yea he was thought to be the most Religious who was the best Incendiary to set a well ordered Kingdom in a Flame Hist of Indepen Compleat Part. 1. p. 55. and could cheat the giddy multitude the most into Rebellion no Ambassador to him that was the greatest Herauld of War and like a Geneva Bull could roar out loudest from the Pulpit Up ye Fanaticks Arm Arm ye are the only Godly party who have as much right to Rob the King and his Loyal Subjects as the Israelites had to spoil the Egyptians g Exod. 3.22 all that you can find is your own But only you must not think that you like ravening Wolves can make a prey of their possessions unless you hide the designs of your pride and covetousness under Sheeps clothing h Mat. 7.15 If therefore you have any lingering mind after the wages of unrighteousness i 2 Pet. 2.15 as we know you have as any Balaams of us all then you must deal wisely k Exod. 1.10 imitate our Language and behaviour to the life know no other godliness but your espoused gain l 1 Tim. 6.5 and make Religion but a stalking Horse to Rebellion regard not the voice of Conscience lest it interrupt you but yet be sure to carry it always about you that it may be ready to further your sinister ends and proceedings with its outward shews and varnish Be ye as Hypocritical in raising a Rebellion against your King as ambitious Absalom was when he raised a conspiracy against his Father m 2 Sam. 15. though like David he be a man after Gods own heart yet pretend ye that there are some grievous abuses in Church and State which if you were made Rulers and Judges your integrity would quickly remedy that so your Godly party being strengthned by the stoln hearts of others you may accomplish your ambitious and covetous ends the more assuredly to the temporal ruin and downfal of your King and Country O! Tell this not in Gath nor publish it in the streets of Askalon lest the Daughters of Philistins rejoyce lest the Daughters of the uncircumcised triumph n 2 Sam. 1.20 For time was then too when these cursed Cains and Amalekites did all of them combine together and were not afraid to stretch forth united hands to destroy the Lords anointed o ver 14. And yet forsooth they pretended that it was out of fear to God to promote his Cause and his Glory Yea they thought they did God good service to kill their King and make him a glorious Martyr for God and his Country as Christ our Prince of peace foretold his Disciples of the like that was to happen unto them to make them stable in their persecutions p John 16.1 2 For as these Rebels did this Barbarous Villainous and unparallel'd act because they had no saving knowledge of God the Father and Christ God-man the Son q ver 3. So our Martyred Soveraign like King David in all his troubles though both had their failings demonstrated himself to be a true Disciple of Christ indeed for notwithstanding all the various modes whereby these proud and impudent wretches had him in great derision yet he declined not from Gods Law r Ps 119.51 But the guilty Consciences of these Parricides the true seed of Corah and his Complices two hundred and fifty Princes of the Assembly all of them Parliament men of their own Election ſ Numb 16. told them that the murder of their Soveraign was not enough to keep those Places Dignities and Power which before they had usurped from him unless they barred all his Heirs from succeeding Therefore though they consisted of two juntoes and were divided into two adverse Factions the one Presbyterians who to use their own distinction murdered the King in his Political Capacity and the other Independents who murdred him in his natural Yet they most firmly agreed in making an Act * Hist Independ Compleat Part 2. p. 140. p. 241. Part 4. p. 22. for the Dethroning of his Highness James Duke of York and all the Royal Family not sparing so much as the Kingly Office it self Especially therein they united themselves together against the next Heir to the Crown our now most gracious Lord and King as unanimously and as solemnly as those two deadly Enemies Herod and Pilate were made friends against Christ t Luk. 23.12 They hunted him from place to place for his life as Saul King David like a Partridge upon the Mountains u 1 Sam. 26.20 most inhumanely saying like the Husbandmen in the Parable w Luk. 20.14 this is the Heir come let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours Yet they had the impudence to pretend that all was but expedient for the good and welfare of the whole Nation the Glory of God the safety and liberty of the people Salus populi is the common pretence of all Rebels Caiaphas pretended the same for Crucifying Christ it is expedient saith he that one man die meaning Jesus and that the whole Nation perish not x John 11.50 And Cromwell too pretended the like for the murder of our Soveraign unless he die the whole nation must perish but as that which was pretended to be so much for the safety of the Jews brought a fearful destruction upon them so this which was pretended to be so much for the Glory of God and the Liberty of the People hath been seen by woeful experience for twelve years together to have been the very bane and ruin of the Nation When was there ever more slavery and bondage in the State And when more Anarchy and confusion in the Church Munster it self saw but the Prologue to our Tragedy But to maintain this their Usurpation they still persisted in their old Hypocritical zeal and re-inforced it too with such wonderful shews of godliness that if it were possible they