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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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wicked Emperour Constantius but appeared at his command and endured his pleasure to the admiration of the Arrians and the confirmation of the Christians as we find in Athanasius Trahitur Liberius ad Imperatorem c. Liberius was haled to the Emperor when he came to his presence he spake freely Cease saith he O Emperor to persecute the Christians go not about by any meanes to bring hereticall impiety into the Church of God Liberius quo supra apud Athanas We are ready rather to endure any torture than to be called Arrians Compell us not to become enemies unto Christ Fight not against him we beseech you that hath bestowed the Empire upon you Render not impiety to him for his grace persecute them not which beleeve in him least you heare Acts 9.5 it is hard for thee to kicke against the pricke Oh would to God you did so heare it that you might as Paul did beleeve it Loe we are at hand and come to your presence before our enemies the Arrians can invent any thing to informe against us we hastened to come at your command though we were assured of banishment that we might abide our punishment before any crime could be objected much lesse prooved against us Whereby it may appeare that all Christians are as we now be undeservedly punished and the crimes laid to their charge not true but fained by sycophancy or deceitfull subtilty Thus spake Liberius and every man admired his resolution but the Emperour for answer commanded him to banishment Thus far he Pope Liberius had not learned the language of his successour Pius Quintus when hee bellowed against our late Queene nor that principle of the Puritans that the inferiour officer may use force of armes against the chiefe Magistrate that shall become a tyrant whereof every seditious sectary will be judge and not only defend himselfe and his own people but also any other that shall fly unto him Politia Christ. lib. 6 cap. 3. Which opinion Lambertus Danaeus avoucheth contraty to the Law the Gospel and the generall consent of all Orthodoxall Fathers Hilarius a Bishop of France wrote the same time to this same Emperor in most humble manner Hilarius ad Imper. Constant Benefica natura tua domine beatissime Auguste Your milde nature most blessed Emperor agreeing with your gracious disposition and the mercy which floweth aboundantly from the fountain of your fatherly godlinesse do assure us that we shall obtaine our desire We beseech you not only with words but also with teares that the Catholique Churches be no longer oppressed with grievous injuries and endure intollerable persecutions and contumelies and that which is most shamefull even of our brethren Let your Clemency provide c. Surely if it had then been known that the Pope by his absolute power or indirect authority could have punished or deposed Kings which the Papists avouch or for the Peeres or the People to have done it which the Puritanes affirme some of these old Bishops would have pressed that point against this hereticall Prince which abused his sword to the blaspheming of Christ the murthering of the Saints the seducing of many thousand soules by strenghtning maintaining and establishing the Arrian error But they took it to be no Christian mans part to beare armour no not defensive against his Prince though never so wicked cruell or ungodly Holy Athanasius confesseth the power of Kings to bee of God and their impiety not to be punished by man Sicut in toto mundo Deus Rex est Imperator potestatem exercet in omnibus As God is King and Emperor over all the World Ad Antioch quest 55. and exerciseth his power in all creatures so the King and Prince is over all earthly men and doth by his absolute power what he will even as God himself Haec ille When it was objected against this reverend Father Athanasius that he had incensed Constans the religious Emperor of the West against Constantius Apolog. Athan ad Constant in the behalfe of the persecuted Christians he cleared himself from that accusation in an Apology to the said Emperor Constantius The Lord saith he is my record and his annointed your brother that I never made mention of your Majesty for any evill before your brother of blessed memory that religious Emperor Constans I did never incite him against you as these Arrians do slander me but whensoever I had accesse unto him I recounted your gracious inclination God knoweth what mention I made of your godly disposition Give me leave and pardon most courteous Emperor to speake the truth The servant of God Constans was not easily drawn to give eare to any man in this kind I was never in such credit with him that I durst speake of any such matter or derogate from one brother before another or talke reproachfully of one Emperor in the hearing of another I am not so madde neither have I forgotten the voyce of God which saith Curse not the King in thine heart and backbite not the mighty in the secrets of thy chamber for the birds of the ayre shall tell it and the winged foule shall bewray thee If then the things that be spoken in secret against Princes cannot be hid Is there any likelyhood that I in the Emperor's presence and before so many as continually attended his person would say any thing otherwise then well of your Majesty Thus far Athanas L Cook in his speach at Garnets arraignement This is sounder and seemelier doctrin for Subjects than that which Henry Garnet and Robert Tesmond taught some Romish Catholike Gentlemen of England who imployed Thomas Winter into Spaine in the month of December Anno Dom. 1601 to make request to the Spanish King in the behalfe and names of the English Pope-Catholiques that he would send an army hither into England for the advancement of their Catholique cause and to promise that the forces of the Papists here should be ready to do him service against the late Queen The selfe same doctrin of sedition was published in the yeare after viz. Anno Dom. 1602 by Guilielmus Bucanus a man of no mean esteeme among the Puritans and that at the earnest request of Beza and Goulartius the chiefest Ministers of the Church of Geneva if the Author himselfe belye them not whose words are as followeth Subditis 〈◊〉 fit publica manifesta jaevitiâ— licet fieri supplices implorare auxilia ab aliis suscipere eorum defensionem aliis Regibus licet Subjects when they endure publique and manifest wrong Loc. com Theol. loco 77. p. 845. may lawfully become suppliants to foraign States and crave their ayd against their Princes and other Kings ought to take upon them their defence and protection So far Bucan Subjects must square their subjection according to the rule of Gods Word not after the affection and fancies of men a 1 Sam. 22 â—8 Saul commanded Doeg to murther 85 Priests to destroy
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