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A persvvassion to loyalty, or, The subject's dutie vvherein is proved that resisting or deposing of kings (under what spccious [sic] pretences soever couched) is utterly unlawfull / collected by D.O.; Herod and Pilate reconciled
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Owen, David, d. 1623.
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Wing O704; ESTC R36621
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A Persvvassion to Loyalty OR THE SVBIECTS DVTIE VVherein is proved that resisting or deposing of Kings under what specious pretences soever coached is utterly unlawfull Collected by D. O. Dedicated to all dutifull Subjects LONDON Printed 1642. To the dutifull Subject THe Puritan-Church-Policie and the Iesuitical society began together a See M. Heokers preface And the preface of Cheâ—â—nic before his examen against the 〈…〉 of the Councell of Trent the one in Geneva 1536. and the other in Rome 1537. since their beginning they have bestirred themselves busily as he that compasseth the b Iob. 1.7 Earth or they that coasted sea and land each one in his order The Puritan to breake downe the wall of Sion by disturbing the peace of the Reformed Church the Iesuite to build up the ruines of Babilon by maintaining the abhomination of the deformed Synagogue These though brethren in sedition and heady are head-severed c Mat. 23.15 the one staring to the Presbytery and the other to the Papacy but they are so fast linked behind and tayle-tyed together with firebrands betweene them that if they be not quenched by the power of Majesty they cannot chose when the meanes are fitted to their plot but set the Church on fire and the state in an uprore Their many and long prayers their much vehement preaching and stout opposition against orders established their shew of austerity in their conversation and of singular learning in their profession as the evil fiend transformd into an angell of light brought them first to admiration Whereby they have not only robbed widowes houses under pretence of prayer ransacked their seduced disciples by shew of devotion but also battered the courts of Princes by animating the Peers against Kings and the people against the Peeres for pretended reformation And wheras God hath inseparably annexed to the Crown of earthly Majesty a supreme Ecclesiastical soveraignty for the protection of piety and an absolute immunity from the juditiall sentence and Martiall violence for the preservation of policie These sectaries bereave Kings of both these their Princely prerogatives exalting themselves as the sonne of perdition above all that is called God 2 Thel 2.3 4. Least they might seeme sine ratione insanire to sow the seeds of Sedition without shew of reason Caedem faciunt Scripturarum as the heretikes in Tertullians time were wont to do in materiam suam they kill the Scripture to serve their turnes and pervert the holy Word of the eternall God by strange interpretation and wicked application against the meaning of the Spirit by whom it was penned the Doctrine of the Church to whom it was delivered and the practice of all the Godly as well under the Law as the Gospel that did beleeve understand and obeyit to maintaine their late and lewd opinions I have in my hand above forty several places of the old and new Testament which both the brethren of the enraged opposite faction do indifferently quote and seditiously apply in defence of their dangerous opposition and damnable error against the Ecclesiasticall supremacy and the indeleble character of royal inunction Vnto the which places falsly expounded perverted and applyed I have added the interpretation of the learned Protestants since the time of Martin Luther who began to discover the nakednesse of the Romish Church 1517. More especially insisting in the a K. Henry 8. K. Iames. The Cranmer Io. Whitgist Rich. Bancrost Archb. of Cant. Henry Earle of Northampton Robert Earle of Salisbury most mighty Kings the most reverend Prelats The L. Burleigh L. Treasurer of England The L. Elsmere L. Chancelor of England The L. Stafford The L Cooke B. Jewell B. Horne B. Pilkington B Elmere B. Couper B. Bilson B. Babington B. Andrews B Barsow B Bridges D. Ackworth D. Saravia D. Cosens D Surcliffe D. Prythergh D. wilkes D. Morton D. Tocker M Bekinsaw M. Foxe M. Nowell M. Hooker and many others honourable Lords loyall Clergy and other worthy men that have in the Church of England learnedly defended the Princely right against disloyall and undutifull opponents I protest in all sincerity that I have not detorted any thing to make either the cause it selfe or the favourers of it more odious than their own words published with the general approbation of their severall favorits do truly infer and necessarily inforce I hope the loyall Subject and Godly affected will accept in good part my endeavour and industry intended for the glory of God the honor of the King and the discovery of the seditious The displeasure of the Malecontented-factious which can no more abide the truth then the owles can light or the frantique the Physitian I neither regard nor care for Farewell The Table of the Book The duty of Prelates Peeres People by Scripture Chap. 1. Pag. 1. Fathers of the first 300 yeares cap. 2 pag. 3 second 300 yeares cap. 3 pag. 6 third 300 yeares cap. 4 pag. 14 fourth 300 yeares cap. 5 pag. 16 fift 300 yeares cap. 6 pag. 20 Sedition of Putitans Papists Concord in the matter of sedition cap. 7. p. 24. Discord in the manner of sedition cap. 7. p. 24. Danger of their doctrine to Prince People cap. 8. p. 26 Puritan-Jesuitisme or the generall consent of the principall Puritans and Iesuits against Kings from the yeare 1536 untill the yeare 1602 out of the most authentique Authors cap 9. p. 27. The first Chapter proveth by the test mony of Scripture that Kings are not punishable by man but reserved to the Judgement of GOD. KINGS have their Authority from God a Rom. 13.1 and are his Vicegerents in earth b Pro. 8.15 to execute justice and judgement for him amongst the sonnes of Men c 2 Chron. 196. All Subjects as well Prelates and Nobles as the inferiour people are forbidden with the tongue to revile Kings d Exo. 22.28 with the heart to thinke ill of them e Eccl 10.20 or with the hand to resist them f Rom. 13.2 The great King of Heaven doth impart his owne Name unto his LIEUTENANTS the Kings of the Earth and calleth them Gods with an ego dixi g Psal 8 2.6 Whose Word is Yea and Amen with this only difference that these Gods shall dye like men h Psal 82.7 and fall like other Princes Wherefore Nathan the man of God must reprove David i 2 Sam. 12.7 that he may repent and be saved And the Sages Iudges and Nobles without feare or flattery must advise and direct Roboam k 1 Reg. 12.7 Other attempts against Kings the King of Kings hath neither commanded in his Law nor permitted in his Gospel David saith Ambrose nullâ—s Legibus tenebatur c. David though he were an Adulterer Apolog. David cap. 10. and an Homicide was tyed to no Law for Kings are free from bonds and can by no compulsion of Law be drawn to punishment being freed by the power of Government Thus far Ambr. Saul the