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A47255 A dialogue between two friends occasioned by the late revolution of affairs, and the oath of allegiance by W.K. ... Kennett, White, 1660-1728. 1689 (1689) Wing K300; ESTC R16675 26,148 42

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though a King's Eldest Son be a Prince by Birth and the first legitimate Male Offspring of an Earl a Lord the Day of his Nativity yet those are Birthright Priviledges accruing to them not from Nature but the Laws of the Nation Thus Royal Blood and Descent from Ancient Progenitors are only imputative Qualities and have so little Relation to Nature that they are only Praemia Virtutis Rewards for Heroick and Generous Actions that the persons concern'd or their Forefathers were eminent for Jac. These Commands that are Moral and perpetually to oblige are esteemed as Natural but the Duty of Obedience is Moral and perpetually to oblige if the Fifth Commandment be so which makes me account it Natural Will. As we are Subjects the Duty of Obedience is a perpetual Obligation and after a manner essential to us But our Allegiance has not its Foundation in Nature or her Operations but in the Relation we bear to a Soveraign And more than this the Fifth Commandment doth not evince This Precept is Moral and perpetually to oblige but the Rational part of it is grounded not in Nature but in Gratitude For as Aristotle observes Man is a Sociable Animal and there is nothing more destructive to Society than Ingratitude and Unthankfulness And since Children have not only their very Being but their Well-being also from their Parents no Obligation can be greater or more obligatory to the foresaid Duties So that were our Filial Obedience founded in Nature as you fondly imagine the Obligation to that Duty would not be half so strong and valid Besides Natural Duties have respect to the whole Species and by this Argument the Bonds and Obligations to Obedience are General and every man that is a Parent may challenge as strict a Duty of Obedience from us as our immediate Parents that begat us and the Reason of this is because Nature is equally concern'd for the whole Species as for an Individium But the Doctrine contrary to this is so plain and evident from the general practice of the World that it needs no proof For though we are by Nature equally allied to all being first in the Loins of Adam afterwards in Noah yet this Relation is never term'd more than Common Humanity And how firm or lasting soever we esteem those Ties and Obligations you mention which is really nothing but Friendship the Second or Third Age commonly expunges them if disobliging Carriage distance of Place or want of Converse effect it not in much less time That Paternal Love and Filial Affection is not founded in Nature seems plain and evident from those different Degrees of Love Men generally bear to the Legitimate and Spurious Issue and that 't is cherished by Converse and made firm and solid by process of Time is more than probable from the affectionate Nurse whose Excess of Love to the tender Babe does often transcend the affectionate Mothers Yet 't is clearly manifest Man has a Natural Appetite or Desire to survive in his Posterity as irrational Creatures have of preserving their Species But this proves nothing against the Argument because the Issue of the latter in riper years are not by Nature obliged to the Duties of Gratitude and Obedience That the Fifth Commandment enjoyns us Obedience to our Superiors is beyond all controversie true and the Reason is because in the beginning of Government Soveraighty was part of the Paternal Power but to speak in our common Language if the Duty of Obedience in a Natural Son to a Natural Father be not a Natural Duty much less can this Argument prove Natural Allegiance due to our Civil Parents Jac. The Parliament Conven'd in the Twenty Fourth Year of King Henry the Eighth's Reign stiles England an Empire govern'd by a Soveraign Head to which there is a Body Politick joyn'd composed of all sorts and degrees of People who are bound next under God to render unto their King Natural Allegiance Will. Natural Allegiance in that Act of Parliament is only a Rhetorical Flourish spoken after the largest acceptation of that Word not that Allegiance flows from Nature but because 't is a Duty so proper intrinsical and Essential to a Subject quâ talis For mens very incorporating themselves into a Civil Society without the Obligation of Formal Oaths doth sufficiently evidence a tacit acknowledgment of Allegiance to the Caput Communitatis because without it 't is impossible to defend and preserve the Body Politick Jac. This Discourse I confess is somewhat Rational but I can't suddenly digest a thing so Novel Will. What you term Novelty proceeds from the vulgar Expressions of Men and want of a more serious and weighty Inspection into the Doctrine And this will appear more Rational if we consult the Specimen of Government in general The great and fundamental Law of Nature is Self-Preservation 't is the Magna Charta of all Constitutions and the very End and Design of Government it self 't is a Principle so deeply radicated in Nature that 't is engraven upon every man's heart Had indeed our First Parents maintain'd the Original Beauty and Brightness of their Creation and preserved Nature in her state of Rectitude Justice had been our Director Innocence our Guide But by that Fall of theirs the Nature of Man was so depraved and vitiated his Passions so transporting his Desire so covetous his Revenge so implacable that Meum and Tuum were measured only by Strength and Power the Longest Sword was the best Law a securer Title than Prescription it self Thus the more powerful preyed upon and devoured the weaker so that Nature destroyed her own works And the best course to countermand those Hostile Proceedings and preserve this grand Principle of Nature was mens moulding themselves into Tribes associating into Colonies Thus when a Company of Men whether many or few it matters not for Majus Minus non variant Speciem are unanimously incorporated into one Society for the securer Maintainance of Peace Correction of Vice Reformation of Manners and the more equal Administration of Justice Laws were enacted Constitutions made and Statutes provided to redress all private Grievances among themselves and to protect the Society from the open Hostility of Publick Invaders And since neither Plaintiff or Defendant was fit to be Judge of his own Plea nor the Mobile Vulgus easily induced to a joynt Method a Unanimous Consent in opposing the Common Enemy a single person if Monarchical Government or several in other Constitutions of such Vertue Prudence and Fortitude as the whole Society thought fit to confide in was elected as an Impartial Arbitrator in all Cases whether private or publick And to him or them was committed the sole Executive Power of these Laws in all Differences the Definitive Sentence was according to Law to be expected from his or their mouth And this Supream Authority being both Judge and Protector of the whole Corporation to advance the Grandeur of such Authority and compleatly to capacitate him or them for the Execution
commonly the first men make they oblige themselves by that Covenant made with God to perform all Christian Duties which respect either God their Neighbours or themselves and especially to the Works of Piety Justice and Charity Now After-Obligations can never bind such to opposite Duties Obligatio prior praejudicat posteriori as in case of Marriage A Pre-contract with one Party voideth After contracts with any other And if a man convey Lands to several Persons by Deeds of several Dates the first Conveyance stands in force and all the rest are void Thus the Oath of Allegiance though design'd and taken in your sense becomes void and inobligatory because it finds men formerly engaged to contrary Duties FINIS Books lately Printed for Richard Chiswell Dr. PATRICK's Sermon before the Prince of Orange 20 Jan 1688. Sermon before the Queen at Whitehall March. 1. 1688. Sermon at St. Paul's Covent Garden on the first Sunday in Lent being a Second part of a Sermon preached before the Prince of Orange A Letter written by the Emperor to the late King James setting forth the True Occasion of his Fall and the Treachery and Cruelty of the French. King William or King Lewis wherein is set forth the inevitable necessity these Nations lie under of submitting wholly to One or Other of these Kings and the matter in Controversie is not now between K. William and K. James but between K. William and K. Lewis of France for the Government of these Nations Books lately Published A Letter written by a Clergy man to his Neighbour concerning the present Circumstances of the Kingdom and the Allegiance that is due to the King and Queen 4 o. The Case of Allegiance in our present Circumstances considered in a Letter from a Minister in the City to a Minister in the Country 4 o. A Sermon preached at Fulham in the Chappel of the Palace upon Easter-day 1689. at the Consecration of the Right Reverend Father in God Gilbert Lord Bishop of Sarum By Anthony Horneck D. D. 4 o. The Judgments of God upon the Roman Catholick Church from its first Rigid Laws for Universal Conformity to it unto its last End. With a Prospect of these near approaching Revolutions viz. The Revival of the Protestant Profession in an Eminent Kingdom where it was totally suppressed The last End of all Turkish Hostilities The general Mortification of the Power of the Roman Church in all Parts of its Dominions By Drue Cress●ner D. D. A Breviate of the State of Scotland in its Government Supreme Courts Officers of State Inferiour Officers Offices and Inferiour Courts Districts Jurisdictions Burroughs Royal and Free Corporations Fol. An Account of the Proceedings of the Convention of the Estates of Scotland from their first sitting down to this time which will be continued Weekly An Account of the Reasons which induced Charles II. King of England to declare War against the States General of the United Provinces in 1672. and of the Private League which he entred into at the same time with the French King to carry it on and to establish Popery in England Scotland and Ireland as they are set down in the History of the Dutch War printed in French at Paris with the privilege of the French King in 1682. Which Book He caused to be immediately suppressed at the Instance of the English Embassador Fol. A Discourse concerning the Worship of Images Preached before the University of Oxford the 24th of May 1686. By George Tallie Sub-Dean of York For which he was suspended 4 o. Some Considerations touching Succession and Allegiance 4 o. Reflections upon the late Great Revolution Written by a Lay hand in the Country for the satisfaction of some Neighbours 4 o. The History of the Desertion or an Account of all the Publick Affairs in England from the beginning of September 1688. to the Twelfth of February following With an Answer to a Piece called The Desertion discussed in a Letter to a Country Gentleman By a Person of Quality 4 o. Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Historia Literaria a Christo nato usque ad Saculum XIV Facili Methodo digesta Qua de Vita illorum ac Rebus gestis de Secta Dogmatibus Elegio Stylo de Scriptis genuinis dubiis supposititiis ineditis deperditis Fragmentis deque variis Operum Editionibus perspicue agitur Accedunt Scriptores Gentiles Christianae Religionis Oppugnatores cujusvis Saeculi Breviarium Inseruntur suis locis Veterum aliquot Opuscula Fragmenta tum Gracd tum Latina hactenus inedita Pramissa denique Prolegomena quibus plurima ad Antiquitatis Ecclesiasticae studium spectantia traduntur Opus Indicibus necessariis instructum Autore GVILIELMO CAVE SS Theol. Profes Canonico Windesoriensi Accedit ab Alia Manu Appendix ab ineunte Saculo XIV ad Annum usque MDXVII Fol. 1689. Dr BVRNET now Bishop of Salisbury his Life of Dr. William Bedell Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland to which are annexed the Letters betwixt him and Wadsworth abou● Religion Two Letters written upon the Discovery of the Popish Plot together with a Collection of several other Tracts and Discourses Written by him betwixt the years 1678. and 1685. To which is added a Letter written to Dr. B●rnet giving an account of Cardinal Pool's Secret Powers The History of the Powder-Treason with a Vindication of the Proceedings thereupon An Impartial Consideration of the five Jesuits dying Speeches who were Executed for the Popish Plot 1679. A Vindication of the Ordinations of the Church of England In which is demonstrated That all the Essentials of Ordination according to the Practice of the Primitive and Greek Churches are still retained in the Church Reflections on the Relation of the English Reformation lately printed at Oxford In two Parts 4to Animadversions on the Reflections upon Dr BVRNET's Travels 8vo Reflections on a Paper intituled His Majesty's Reasons for withdrawing himself from Rochester Enquiry into the present State of Affairs and in particular Whether we owe Allegiance to the King in these Circumstances And whether we are bound to Treat with him and call him back or no Sermon preached before the Prince of Orange 23d Decemb. 1688. Thanksgiving Sermon before the House of Commons 31. Jan. 1688. Eighteen Papers relating to the Affairs of Church and State during the Reign of King James II. Seventeen whereof were written in Holland and first printed there the other at Exeter soon after the Prince of Orange's Landing in England Letter to Mr. Thevenot containing a Censure of Mr. Le Grand's History of King Henry the Eighths Divorce To which is added A Censure of Mr. De Meaux's History of the Variations of the Protestant Churches Together with some Reflections on Mr. Le Grand 1689. h Regale Servitium quia specialiter pertinet ad Dominum Regem Britton sol 187. * Quod initio vitiosum est non potest tractu temporis convalescere * Contra Constantum Augustum † De Regibus Apostaticis * Lib. 1. de jure Belli cap. 4. † Pag. 306. † Iurare nihil est aliud quam Deum testem invocare Assumere Deum in testem dicitur jurare