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A65419	A vindication of the present great revolution in England in five letters pass'd betwixt James Welwood, M.D. and Mr. John March, Vicar of Newcastle upon Tyne : occasion'd by a sermon preach'd by him on January 30. 1688/9 ...	Welwood, James, 1652-1727.; March, John, 1640-1692.; Welwood, James, 1652-1727.	1689 (1689)	Wing W1310; ESTC R691	40,072	42

A VINDICATION Of the present Great Revolution IN ENGLAND IN FIVE LETTERS Pass'd betwixt Iames Welwood M. D. and Mr. Iohn March Vicar of Newcastle upon Tyne Occasion'd by a SERMON Preach'd by him on Ianuary 30. 1688 9. before the Mayor and Aldermen for Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance Licensed April 8. 1689. London Printed and sold by R. Taylor near Stationers-Hall 1689. THE PREFACE READER NOthing can excuse me even to my self for thus appearing in Print but the occasion of it backt with a Command I could not disobey Not many Months ago the posture of Affairs in Europe threaten'd no less than the utter extirpation of the Reform'd Religion and Re-establishment of a Yoke so happily thrown off the Age before The French King more from the weakness of his Contemporary Princes and a fatal Friendship packs up with the Two last Kings of England than either by his own Strength or Mony had rendred himself so formidable abroad and absolute at home as enabled him to fall on his Protestant Subjects in a Path untrodden by the worst of the Primitive Persecutors themselves seeing in this even the favour of Dying was denyed them And neither the mighty Services they had done that King in preserving the Crown upon his Head in his Minority nor the solemnest Sanctions ratified by Oath could secure these poor Victims from the Villany and Cruelty of Popish Counsels The on-looking Protestant States stood amaz'd at this Tragick Scene and all the Assistance they were able to give their distrest Brethren was that of Prayers and Tears they themselves expecting to appear next upon the mournful Theater The Accession of a Popish Prince to the Throne the barefac'd Invasions of Liberty and Property the palpable Incroachments on Laws and Fundamental Constitutions with that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Popish Confidence a Prince of Wales were Events too great and important not to awaken England out of a Lethargy the reiterated Promises of preserving the Protestant Religion as by Law establish'd had cast her into And as some Diseases are not known till past cure all the effect of her awakening was to see her Case desperate and her Ruine inevitable Things were in this deplorable State when his present Majesty led by the Hand of Heaven and sway'd by the glorious Motives of Honour and Religion to save us from the precipice of Ruine ventur'd on an Enterprize unexampl'd in the Records of Time. This stupendious Attempt including in its Womb the Fate of this and all other Reform'd Churches of Christendom was seconded with the Prayers and alternate Hopes and Fears of all good Men who justly considered the then Prince of Orange's Interest with that of our Religion Lives and Liberties were embarkt in one and the same Bottom The Almighty was pleas'd beyond the ordinary Tracts of Providence to meet the Nations pressing Misery and to bring our Deliverer to the Capital City there to be addrest with the just thanks of a People he had sav'd from Destruction and the humble offer of the Government Military and Civil for that Iuncture It was at this very time that I had the unhappiness to be hearer of a Sermon preach'd by Mr. March in which his now Majesties Glorious Enterprize and the Concurrence and Actings of the Nobility and Gentry of England were scandaliz'd with the name of Rebellion and the now Lord Bishop of Salisbury treated in the rudest manner for a Papen said to be his viz. An Enquiry into the Measures of Obedience c. which Mr. Vicar undertook in his Sermon to refute To hear such a Discourse so tim'd and to find its approbation eccho'd by the Gentlemans Admirers was a thing very unpleasant to me to see a Prince condemn'd in the Pulpit by the very Men he came to save and the People cajol'd by Plausible Insinuations into a bad Opinion of so great a Deliverance were too pressing Motives to break Silence And if I may add one particular Swasive to these of a more publick Nature the friendship betwixt the Learned Doctor Thomas Burnet Physician and me and the Obligations I have to him could not permit me without a breach of Gratitude to bear his Brother My Lord Bishop of Salisbury the honour of our Country so scurrilously treated without taking some notice of it These were the Inducements that extorted my First Letter and that occasion'd the rest And what Consequents these Lines have produc'd if thou be acquainted in the Country where they were writ thou canst not but know and if a Stranger tho I should tell thee thou canst scarce believe I design'd an Answer to his Sermon if I had been allowed a Copy which to oblige Mr. Vicar to send me I wrote the First so that the many Digressions in the other two will I hope meet with thy favourable Construction since I was necessitated to them by tracing of his I have done when I have told thee Thou canst not be more a loser in reading this than I in writing and exposing it to the Censure of the World contrary to my Inclination and perhaps to my Interest J. W. London April 1. 1689. To the REVEREND Mr. John March Vicar of NEWCASTLE Newcastle Feb. 1. 1688 9. LEST your narrow Acquaintance in the World and the Retirement your Humor obliges you to should occasion your Ignorance of the Sentiments the most thinking part of your Hearers have of your other days Sermon I have given my self the trouble to write these few Animadversions upon it which be pleased to take in good part as coming from a Person who as he scorns to flatter you so he hates to treat you any otherwise but as a Gown-man and a Gentleman The first thing which occurs to me in your Discourse is of such a nature as the Learned World and Men of Breeding have ever disdain'd I mean your unmannerly way of treating a Gentleman whose Reputation is uncapable of being in the least tainted by any such waspish Expressions as yours Dr. Burnet has made a Figure in the World of no contemptible Magnitude and such an one as obliges the Roman Catholicks themselves whom none ever more disobliged to treat him in their Writings with the just Character a Person of his vast Learning deserves If in France amidst the heat of Persecution against those of his own Religion if in Italy yea in Rome it self Dr. Burnet has been carrest by all the Learned of the Romish Persuasion notwithstanding his immortal Writings against them could it be dreamed that in so Noble and Antient a Corporation as this of Newcastle and in presence of so many Worthy Gentlemen the Magistrates thereof any of the Black-Robe would venture to treat this Dr. Burnet with the scurrilous and indecent Epithets of a Man that has made a great bustle in the World an Apostate from the Church of England a seditious Inquirer a scandalous Pamphleteer and the like and to repeat such Expressions seventen times in less than three quarters of an hour Was this

evil doers nor Ministers of God for our Good except in the sense that afflictions and plagues are and so they are defective in the necessary Qualities of these higher powers to whom Subjection is enjoin'd in the Text. In your seventh paragraph after some expressions becoming the gravity of a Divine you will needs vindicate once more your not making any distinction when you term'd self defence an old Phanatick principle and the reason you give is because the Apostle made none in your Text. By the same reason you would make but a sorry comment upon many places of Scripture to instance one for all our Saviour commands us to swear not at all Now would it be here impertinent to distinguish betwixt the kinds of Oaths in order to explain what Oaths are lawful and what not because our Saviour made no distinction You have unluckily stumbled upon the Euripus in contradicting me for saying that it flow'd and ebb'd ten or twelve times in the natural day and you very confidently allow it no frequenter tides then the River Tyne This in any other would be called an unaccountable mistake the fewest motions any Author allows it being five Tides in the four and twenty hours And that my account is true I refer you to Sir George Wheelers Travels where that ingenious Gentleman gives you an exact Scheme of the ebbing and flowing of this Streight as he had it upon the place from Father Babin and the Millers thereabouts When upon this score you satyrically envy the happiness of Travellers I think such men as you are much more happy then they if Claudians description of the happy man of Verona be good For it seems he took Benacus lake for the Ocean and you take measures of all the Seas of the World by the River of Tyne Next you tell me you expected from me a great many Citations out of the Roman Law for resistance of higher powers and because of your dissapointment you charm me with four Heroick Lines Sir I did indeed tell you the Roman Laws fixt a great many boundaries to the Magistrates power and that the Tribunitial Office was lodg'd in the Plebeians for that very cause I also told you the Romans were of all People the most impatient of Slavery and gave you a hint why after the Government of Rome became more despotick the Emperours were oblig'd to confound the Tribunitial power with the Imperial dignity and all this you wisely pass over It were to transcribe too great a part of the civil Roman Law to instance all the Laws and Sentences against Arbitrary Government But let these two suffice at present The first is of Theodosius the younger Cod. Iustin. lib. 1. tit 24. Princeps tenetur The Prince is bound to the Laws on the Authority whereof his Authority depends and to the Laws he ought to submit The second is of Constantinus Leo in Bizantin pro communi The end of a King is the general good which he not performing he is but the counterfeit of a King. These two I rather instance because the first is a more ample commentary upon Trajans expression to the Praetor than I can my self agree to And the second a clear cofirmation of what I said in stating of the question that Princes divest themselves of that sacred Character by their trampling upon Laws As to your Rhyming albeit you have aped Cleveland in a great many expressions of kindness to my Countrey and have coppied verbatim out of one of his Letters that raillery of the Mares eating Thiftles yet you come not altogether up to the Stile of that ingenious Poet in your lofty Verses In the end of this Paragraph you tell me that my two last Paragraphs are such an Augean Stable of unkind falsities as will tire Hercules to clear and because they contain no Argument you vouchsafe them no other answer but get thee behind me Satan I acknowledg that in these Paragraphs I take notice of more than one single Augean Stable but you know with whose furniture Replenish'd And pray Sir is 't a falsity that you entail'd no less then damnation upon these that meddled with the Kings Forts Army Revenue c. Seeing not only in that Sermon but in your first Letter you repeat it in express words Was there no matter of Argument in what I told you of your rash Censures being levelled no lower than a Crown'd Head Was it not proper for you to answer what I said in relation to you charging me with Scandalum Ecclesiae for checking your inveighing against the Nobility of England Is it a falsity that you neither preach'd your self not would allow your Pulpit to others on the Thanksgiving day appointed for the late mighty Deliverance When you cannot but know that all honest Men of the Place exclaim'd against you for it And you know best what it meant instead of a Sermon on that day to have read in one of the Churches the Homily against Rebellion I am loth to rake up any more of the dung of this your Augean Stable since the naming of Particulars might occasion such Consequences as I do not wish you And my silence herein should oblige you to a blush for your manner of treating me But when you call all these things falsities you put me in mind of the Nature or rather Epologue of that Animal who darkning his own Sight by shutting his head into a hole fancies himself invisible to others Above all things I cannot dream how you came by the Office of an Exorcist I took it for one of the Orders of the Romish and not of the Reform'd Church but I confess I 'm oblig'd to you for a great many things I never knew before Now because your heavy charge of Rebellion was so clearly levell'd against the Nobility and Gentry of England for their medling with the late King's Forts Castles c. And by ther Resisting his Forces which more then once you say is but an other name for Rebellion It were easie to demonstrate that the Nobles and People of England have not only done so before in former ages but depos'd their Tyranizing Princes and alter'd the direct and Lineal Succession of the Crown tho they justly adher'd to the Royal Blood I shall only give you one instance of each of these As to their Resistance and medling with Forts c. We have the famous instance in King Henry the III. from whom the Magna Charta was obtain'd by the Nobles and People of England by the edge of their Swords Of the second Richard II. was a memorable Example where neither the fresh remembrance of his excellent Father nor his own promises of amendment could save him from having fourteen Articles of Maleversation exhibited against him and then deposed Of the altering the direct Lineal Succession we have a paramount instance in Cooke 4. inst p. 36.39 where notwithstanding Iohn de Beaufort Son to Iohn of Gaunt was in his Legitimation formally and expresly excluded from the Crown of England yet the Parliament entail'd the Crown upon Henry VII heir of Lyne to this Iohn of Beaufort and to the heirs of King Henry's Body and that even before his Marriage with Princess Elizabeth of the Family of York who in Cook 's opinion had the nearest right to the Crown in her own Person As to your last Paragraph I deserved to be laught at if I had troubled my self with a formal answer to your Physical questions as you call them Yet methinks I should have had more thanks for giving you a hint of your Distemper without a Fee then to have my words repeated otherwise then I wrote them For I spoke nothing of the principal Cause of diseases but told you that a Redundancy of Choler with a little of adust Melancholly produces more Tragedies in the Body of Man then the Iuice of the Pancreas is capable to do and perhaps you find it so to your own cost Let us not quarrel for the honor of the discovery of the Circulation of the Blood. If you be pleased to compare Andreas Cisalpinus and Harvey together I hope you will alter your opinion and if you send to me for the former it may ease you of a Pisa or Oxford journey Before I leave this I cannot but admire your skill in the Belles Letters for I have often read that Laurels were wreath'd about the Victors head but that they were stuck in their bosoms I owe it to your discovery I expected you would rather have bestowed it on Solomon then on Cisalpinus which I gave you a fair opportunity to do but when any thing of Divinity comes in the Play you are as silent as the Moon in an Eclipse to use your own words tho I knew not before she was more silent at time then any other and would be gladly informed what Language at other times she Speaks As to our Law Question I am not much concern'd on either side being in no great hazard of being either a Vicar or his Curat You know the reason why I proposed it and you may do in it as your Christian Wisdom shall dictate to you But what a wretched notion have you of the term Iure Divino when you confound it with not being contrary to the Law of God And that you fall not into so gross a mistake a second time I refer you to the excellent and learned Author you named his Irenicon where you may learn a better definition of it After so Learned an Answer to my Letter I expected one to my Postscript and thought you might perhaps teach the World some middle way betwixt the poor Protestants of Ireland's Resisting King Iames and their tamely yielding up their Throats to be cut but this so seasonable a Secret you keep to your self Thus I have done with you and your Letter and never any of Loyolla's Sect injoyn'd a more nauseous Penance on their Votaries then I on my self in giving you an Answer Take it as the last you shall be troubled with from SIR Your humble Servant James Welwood ERRATA Page 11. Line 14. for in this read in Thesi. p. 16. l. 27. for Barly r. Barclay p. 22. l. 27. for bold fright r. bodily fright