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A25438 Animadversions on a discourse entituled, God's ways of disposing of kingdoms 1691 (1691) Wing A3189; ESTC R11078 29,781 39

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the Tears flow decently and in order God will raise up to them a Deliverer in some Foreign Sovereign Prince till then they must wait And for their Comfort P. 32. though all their Proceedings towards their Deliverance by War have an Original Nullity even their Invitation of a Foraign Prince how great soever the Occasion be yet a Forraign Prince need not be very scrupulous If he be of their Religion P. 45. He hath discovered an Hostile Mind towards the Professors of it Na Pufendorf allows Subjects to use even an absolute Prince as an Eneiny if he discover an Hostile Mind towards them Nay allows this to any one whom the Prince thus casts out of the Number of his Subjects Pufend. Elim Jurisprud P. 340. and they are persecuted upon the Acount of their Religion their Persecutor having discovered an Hostile Mind against all of the Religion this is a Cause of War which will justifie the Arms of a Foreign Prince But Religion is not to be preserved by any Sword that is not Canonically ordained or Consecrated If a Foreign Prince see himself in extream Danger of suffering an intollerable Injury P. 36. by another Prince's Oppression of his own People though God had given them up for Slaves then he may make an open actual Invasion Ibid. in Defence of another Kings Subjects but rather to ward off the Injury which he was in danger of suffering But this Rule is not limitted to an intollerable Injury but may be extended to justifie a War P. 24. Princes have no other way to right themselves for the least Injury P. 30. Their Rights and Injuries are inseparably Joyned with those of their Kingdoms and Nations c. They must insist upon those Rights with which God hath entrusted them for others more than themselves It is not only their Interest but their Duty so to do upon the receiving or fearing the least Injury and it is not only Lawful but a Duty to God for the Sakes of their own Subjects to right themselves by War But the Sufferings of the People of other Nations are then only to be relieved by a Foregin Prince when he has a particular Interest or Cause of his own and receives immediate Prejudice thereby or fears that he may Indeed P. 47. As it is necessary c. so when it is necessary to do this for themselves then they ought to do it much the rather for the Sakes of their oppressed Brethren no sufficient Cause it seems is to be found in that common Relation between Mankind Grotius de Jure Belli pacis lib. 2 c 25. Sect. 6. Postrema latissimeque patens est hominum inter se conjunctio que vel sola ad opem ferendam sufficit upon which alone Grotius and others would justifie the Heroes of Past Ages who have undertaken the Deliverance of oppressed Nations meerly for the Sake of common Humanity and as they were fit Objects of their Compassion They who confine Deliverers to selfish Ends seem to envy them their greatest Glory or to have been so sordi● themselves as to have had no Idea of this Vertue and like Mr. Hobbs to draw a Scheme of Humane Natur● from too solitary a Dwelling at Home Whatever Latitude was given to warrant the Expeditions of Soveraigns here they are confined because per haps some could not imagine that they should take Pleasure in what is so disinterested But for Subjects P. 32. how much soever oppressed they have no Right to make War without Leave of their Prince Ibid. None have Right of making War but they that are in Soveraign Power Whoever it seems is in Soveraign Power though he be not the Supream or Chief in Power he is no Subject and you may be sure the Prince will never give his Subjects leave to make War against himself It must therefore be some Foreign Soveraign Prince who makes War against the oppressing Prince otherwise the War is not only unjust P. 32. but no Right can be accquired by Success there is an original Nullity in all the Proceedings Very good But let us now apply this to our present Case that we may come out of the Clouds To make the Discourse pertinent it must be admitted that a War was made upon the late King while he continued King and that he was dispossessed against his Will Here I would ask this serious Question Is not our Deliverance and the Settlement of the Crown occasioned thereby Vid. Pref. No other Doctrine than that which has been received and past for cur rent in the Church of England ever since the Reformation not only condemned but rendered a meer Nullity by the plain Consequence of this Doctrine insinuated as the Doctrine of the Church of England All must agree that King William while he was but Prince of Orange and Stadholder of Holland was invited over by many of the Nobility Gentry and Clergy of this Land that his Arms were joyned by Men of all Orders immediately upon his Landing that he was upon the late King 's Withdrawing petitioned to accept the Administration of the Government and after that freely chosen togetheir with his Princess to supply the vacant Throne without any Force offered by him to the late King or the People much less setting up for himself and compelling them to declare him King This I take to be the true State of the Question but if we suppose such a State of it as may make the B s Discourse consistent and to purpose it must be admitted 1. That all they who invited the Prince to assist them departed from the Doctrine of the Church of England 2. That however he having had Success thereby immediately became rightful King and that all who were for the Regency or opposed his being King equally departed from the Doctrine of the Church of England But upon the true State of the Case there may naturally arise these two Questions not here to mention more 1. Whether if King James were conquered Vid. P. 49. it was by the then Prince of Orange or by the People of England and whether the Prince or the People took the Dominion from the late King against his Will 2. Whether the Deliverance in which his present Majesty was so gloriously instrumental was according to this Discourse by a Soveraign Prince That our King was not a Soveraign Prince barely as Stadholder of Holland must be granted and then as to the Principallity of Orange even according to this Book though the Cause of War between the French King and the States or their Stadholder were unjust on that King's side yet it was not only lawful but a Duty for the Subjects of that Principality P. 57. to obey the French King Nay the Government is so far setled in that King that we are to presume a Right for says he Wheresoever this is once setled P. 51. whether by length of time or even sooner by general Consent