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A46673	Philanax Anglicus, or, A Christian caveat for all kings, princes & prelates how they entrust a sort of pretended Protestants of integrity, or suffer them to commix with their respective governments : shewing plainly from the principles of all their predecessours, that it is impossible to be at the same time Presbyterians, and not rebells : with a compendious draught of their portraictures and petigree done to the life, by their own doctors dead hands, perfectly delineating their birth, breeding, bloody practices, and prodigious theorems against monarchy / faithfully published by T.B.	Janson, Henry, Sir, 1616 or 17-ca. 1684.; Pattenson, Matthew. Image of bothe churches.; T. B. (Thomas Bellamy)	1663 (1663)	Wing J482; ESTC R16845	67,408	173

with Protestants of Integrity Indeed there needs no other argument to convince and confound this accursed League but the bare subscription of this Monsters name to it as a principal in the Contract whom the world must needs judge very unlike to be a fitting instrument to advance the Cross of Christ and to reform Religion Yet this was the man upon whose head the Union did agree to set the Crown of Hungary Now I do wish that the partial Reader would look upon Germany and see the Picture of Troy on fire see the image and horror of War which we have already pretty well tasted of and by the same means and how well it would please them to see which of late we were very near the face of London and Middlesex c. so disfigured with wounds and desolation and they who are now most forward to blow the coals of discord and sedition and to inflame a State with fury and quick-silver may quake and tremble when they shall consider in what devastation all that beautiful Country of the Empire hath lain long mourning and groaning The Provinces about the Rhine were wholly wasted and impoverished by the Soldiers on both sides especially Worms all Tillage was suspended Traffick decayed Trades ceased Taxes imposed new Fortifications still charged the Countrey Men were not masters of their own Goods and above a hundred thousand men then accounted to be slain These are the fruits of Civil Wars which are bitter to them that taste them as I think we in England have done sufficiently if we do not yet long for more And these are the very fruits and effects of Calvinism it self if we can yet take warning of it and not be longer deluded with the pitiful pretence of Protestancy of Integrity For their justifying sole Faith can never justifie without it bring Charity in her bosom and the true marks of Charity bring Patience Humility Zeal and Obedience strongly conjoyned in one link Now the little Patience Humility or Obedience that these new Evangelists our Hot-spur Protestants of Integrity have shewed convince their Zeal to be counterfeit and Faith to be fruitless Could ever Charity have directed these godly Bethlemites to invade the Duke of Bavars Territories if he refused to stand Neuter Charity sure did not counsel Anhalt in his Letters to Donau 1619. Charity doth not use to direct Christians to sollicite the Turks assistance against their Emperors and Princes the Nursing Fathers of Gods Church as Pag. 80. Cancellariae Nor to set down such Plots as they intended Pag. 42. 32. 66. But these Minions of Geneva now called Protestants of Integrity bring Religion to plead in the defence of their Union and that they endeavored onely to punish Ochosias for consulting with the Idol of Acharon and to root out all superstition Here indeed is the voice of Jacob but the roughness of Esau words of Saints but actions of Devils All must be presently Idolatry and Superstition that does not please their humor Besides could they shew as good a warrant as Elias did Did God call them did God authorize them to deprive their Princes Per me Reges regnant By me Kings raign was Gods own Proposition 1 Pet. 2.13 and St. Peters commands us to be subject to every humane creature for God whether to a King as excelling or to Rulers c. I am sure there is no ground for such a doctrine as to degrade and depose the King and these Protestants of Integrity must needs finde St. Paul in his Thirteenth Chapter to the Romans Rom. 13 1. to be of another Religion Exeunt Paraeus Gracerus cum Bethlehem Gabore with all his Protestants of disloyalty and enter some if we can finde them of better of Integrity So we change our Scene into the Netherlands The Cockatrice is now arrived in Holland and Zealand that horrible Akeldama and Field of Blood and the Theater of most tragical and lamentable stories Now as you have heard the Axioms and Positions at large before of those grand Patriarchs of our pure Protestants of Integrity so the practices and tyrannies of these their followers are here best to be discovered and above all the actions of their Conspiracy in the Union of Utricht were the most capital and infamous A device it was perfectly framed according to the rules of Junius Brutus and in imitation of their great Grand-father the Swiss before spoken of and of his sanctified Cantons which of it self is argument strong enough to convince them of Rebellion though they have been ever pleased to march under the notion of Religion and naming their War Bellum Sacrum a Holy War This Union was made by the States 1578. who seeing the fortunate proceedings of the Duke of Parma and the whole course of the Malecoutents entered into a perpetual League comprised in Twenty Articles for their mutual support and union as they were pleased to term it First They of Holland Zealand Friezland and Gilders did joyn contra omnem vim quae sub praetextu nominis Regis aut Religionis inferretur Against all force that might be offered under the pretence of the name of King or of Religion After that the Prince of Orange and they of Antwerp and Gaunt came with him into the League and subscribed it the Fourteenth of February 1579. The which was afterwards confirmed at the Hague 20 July 1581. And the scope of all this was to abandon and expel the King of Spain and to depose him from his own dominion and inheritance Therefore upon that they established an Edict Que le Roy de Espagne est deschen de la Seigneurie du Pais Bas That the King of Spain was faln from his Soveraignty over the Low-Countreys And to make it more authentical they devised a form of Abjuration from the King and a particular Revocation and Dispensation of their former Promise and Oath of Obedience in these words J. W. N. Do swear avow and bind my self to the Provinces united to be loyal and faithful to them and to aid them against the King of Spain Coment un bon Vasall du Pais Bas as a good Subject of the Low-Countreys And when they had taken that Oath they broke all the Kings Seals pulled down his Arms seized and entred upon his Lands Rents Customs and all other Hereditaments and took the same into their own hands and as absolute Lords they coyned money in their own names placed and displaced Officers of the State banished all the Kings Counsellors published Edicts possest the Church-Lands supprest all that were of another Religion besieged Amsterdam and used all the Marks and Notes of Soveraignty in their own names Did not their Brethren here that were equal Protestants of Integrity do just the same things in England Now the Reasons they gave why the King of Spain had forfeited his Title and Right were these First The suppressing of their Religion Secondly For oppressing them with Tyranny Thirdly For abrogating their Priviledges and for

gross errour feares what it should love by virtue and can hardly have any knowledg of or approach to the Deity but by violation of his Clemency a thing most hateful to him through a false presumption of his severity They must be very silly souls sure and have very little or no feeling of the divinity that can apprehend God whom we hourly find to be infinitely merciful to be as Terrible as a Minos or a Radamanthus mentioned in Poetical Fables who were alwayes represented in those Fictions to be most Spiteful Deities to come and pry into all humane actions to number all mens steps and taking pleasure to prepare punishments for them were wont to raise themselves immortal Trophyes upon poore Mortals ruins It would be a pretty piece of Christianity one would think now to be preached amongst us that devotion and all labours in Religion should be undertaken by us without any relaxation perpetual disturbancies undergone by Christians without any repose and miseries without any remedy or comfort at all This sure must be thought the oxtream of all extreams and fit only for our Protestants out of their wits that now call themselves Protestants of Integrity but I sear will be found to be Protestants of pure knavery I mean those Hypocrites and formal Professors of Religion treated of whom we may very well compare to those Oxon of Baal who are cut and mangled for Sacrifice into little Gobbets but notwithstanding receive no fire from Heaven just so these pittifull creatures this sad sort of Christians do most miserably macerate and almost kill themselves to sacrifice only to the opinions of the world and their own bruitish appetites without ever tasting the consolations of God A true good Christian in the mean time endeavours so to distribute his fastings watchings prayer repast recreations and studies with so prudent an oeconomy for the service of his God that he holds his life most admirably interlaced between Action Contemplation and repose that he makes on earth a perfect figure of Angels ascending and descending and receives already so great a tast of those benefits which he is to hope for in the other world that he seems to have his soul in heaven whilst he dwells upon the earth to fathom mysteries and with his beatified understanding to enjoy an Antepast of Paradise it self Who then can with more justice and reason shew forth a jolly cheerfull countenance and make the clarity of his heart break forth at his eyes and lips then such a Christian How well this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Character agrees with the sad Professors of this age let the whole world judge who are just such as Seneca described some of his time Seneca Tristes omnia deplorantes quibus nulla non causa in querelam placet semper presentibus infesti Sad and melancholly Companions alwayes complaining of every thing and nothing displeased still with the present state of Affairs and then concludes upon this kind of mal ' contents Aegri proprium est animi nihil diu pati mutationibus ut remediis uti Their sickly dispositions are alwayes given to change and so use mutations for remedies So that these sad Christians are altogether as dangerous to all Civil States wheresoever they live as to the State of the Church and are only fit to hold compliance with that sort of people whose Religion is to worship a Cat. The last 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Symptom of true Christian Religion is Humility the stars we know are best beheld in the bottom of a Pit and the most radiant splendors of a Christian do appear in a profound humility St. Cyprian therefore sayes of this transcendent virtue that it is Primus Religionis introitus ultimus Christianitatis Exitus The gate of all Religion and the very Crown of Christianity for who can think that that man will be faithfull at all to Jesus Christ that can be unfaithfull to that holy v●rtue which shined so 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in him the whole cours of his life upon earth being nothing else from the Crib to the Cross but a constant moving Homily of humility The Sun we see which is the Prince of Planets dispelleth always all the grosest thickest and stiffest vapours and draweth the thinnest and most subtil to himself how much more then that we do attenuate lesson and annihilate our selves by the practice of this caelestial virtue of humility so much the neerer we are sure to approach to the Son of righteousuess and true glory But our pure Protestants of Integrity are so overgrown with Pride of Spirit that it may be quickly seen how far they run out of the road of Christianity Their Pride is far greater then that of the old Pharisee who boasted only that he was not as other men are but they boast themselves to be what all others should be and so prescribe themselves to be pure patterns of Perfection to all the world But it is we know the terriblest blow in the whole world when a man is wounded in the head by his own proper judgment Pride and Presumption We come to the end of most things by strength of Industry stones are pulled forth from the very entrals of men the head is sometimes opened to make vapours issue out but what hand hath ever drawn a false opinion out of the brains of a spiritually prond and presumptuous man All seems green saith Aristotle to those that look upon the water and all is good and specious Arist to such as behold themselves in proper love Better it were according to the counsels of the old Fathers of the desert to have one foot in Hell with a docibility of spirit than a hand or arm in heaven with ones own judgment To be short this unhappy Pride of Spirit commits a massacre upon the whole chain of holy virtues It marres all that can be called good in a man let this cursed dram be infused and all together will signifie no more than a wholsome medicament with a commixture of poyson in it It is such a spiritual venom that it turnes the sublimest virtues into specious vices and makes them become but holly Trayters to the souls of men Thus if the pulses of our pure brethren these Protestants of Integrity be judiciously felt the world may quickly find their adulterate new no Religion From these proud melancholick malcontent hypocritical Spirits it is that all those impious doctrines of disobedience and rebellion have proceeded as you will see proved by the process of this discours T is plainly they and only they that have sturred up the ashes of old Rubelais here again amongst us and do still so delight themselves to convers with putrifaction that under their wings we do daily behold new vermin to arise in the Church which endeavour to gnaw and dissipate all that hath any Piety or fear of God in Christianity Nor are they only content to throw poyson and putrifaction into

high and mighty Lucifer Now truly to make these presumed deer children of God thus to proceed from their Father the Devil may be taken for a bitterness and extremity of passion in me against that Party and hate to their persons which I protest before God I am clear from for I have and alwayes had many of my neerest relations unhappily engaged that way but only a detestation of their impious opinions and more prodigious practices which do cleerly demonstrate them to be deriv'd from the Divel or all the world besides to be so For the doctrines of the whole Church of Christ have alwayes been diametrically opposite to theirs if they then stand upright in the sight of God Christianity it self must of necessity fall to ground which God has promised never to suffer Over and abone all this I did ever presume the derivation of those Doctrines to be from the Devil long before I made this strict search and inquisition into their extract and petigree and my reason was onely this because their positions did not at all consist with humanity and therefore man nor any power humane could at any time be founder or undertake to be defender of them We have seen sufficiently already how much these terrible Tenets do contradict both reason and Religion Canon Lawes and Divine Relveations the opinions of all Primitive Christians and the practice of the whole Church nay are they not most cleerly convinced by Civil and Common Law nay Philosophy and Common sense The Law is plain Legibus non alligati sumus we are not tyed to Lawes who then is capable to judg a King that is above Lawes though it is a great part of their goodness to observe Lawes as the same Emperour declares Legibus tamen vivimus● and again digna vox est Majestate regnantis legibus alligatum se Principem profiteri It is a Princes dignation to descend to oblige himself to Lawes and the reason of all this is because he is presumed to be a living Law The Law again is plain as has been shewed already that no war can be made without the Authority of the Prince sine qua est laesa Majestas otherwise it must be treason and this I say is a fundamental Law in every Monarchy but it is plain our Protestants of Integrity would turn the whole world into a Democracy by leaving the bridle in the peoples hands which what a pretty beast it is when it has assembled its many heads and horns together they best know that have felt its Arietations We in England I am sure have reason to put into our Litanies From a Popular Tyranny Good Lord deliver us Nay heart St. Austin once more the most ancient and learned Father of the Christian Church St. August l. 22. cap. 75. contra Faustum how contrary to the false Principles of these Religionaries he proceeds to back these Civil Lawes with the Law of nature it self Ordo naturalis mortalium paci accomodatus hoc poscit ut suscipendi belli authoritas atque consilium pones Principem sit The course of nature it self accommodated to peace requireth that the only authority and counsel of making War should be in the Prince and he gives a reason for non est potestas nisi a Deo vel jubente vel sinente For there is no power but of God Cap. 76. either commanding or permitting and then he answereth the objection of all those who think they ought by force of Armes to resist their Princes for Religion and that by the example of the Apostles Isti saith he non resistendo interfecti sunt ut potiorem esse docerent victoriam pro fide veritatis oscidi They were not put to death resisting that they might teach us that it is the greatest victory to be slain for the truth The Philosophers themselves may teach the same thing to these wretched Religionaries The King in the Philosophers sence is Anima Corporis Spiritus vitalis Caput membrorum vinculum per quod cohaeret Res publica sine quo nihil Res publica ipsa futura nisi onus praeda si mens illa imperii detrahatur He is the Soul of the Body the vital Spirit the Head of the Members the bond by which the Commonwealth holds together without whom the Commonwealth it self will be but a burthen to it self and a prey to others if this soul of the Empire be taken away This was Senecas opinion Seneca and a sound proposition for if the Soul offend the Body the Body cannot punish it without participation of the punishment Neither is it a proper faculty of the Body to judg but of the Soul and understanding so much Philosophy as this the very Bees understand in their little Monarchy Virgil Georg. as Virgil testifieth of them Rege incolumi mens omnibus una Amisso rupere fidem Whilst the King is well all is well and in union but he being gone all falls in pieces To conclude Let us look a litle upon the Common Law which if any thing by our own Kings condescentions has prov'd prejudicial to Monarchy and its Professours most of them the forwardest Incendiaries and the greatest Knaves in our late troubles yet that gives the King power and prerogative enough for it constitutes him to be the body Politick which is a dignity Royal annext to the natural body whereby he is made Lord Paramount and is not sirnamed as others are but stiled by the name of the Body Politick declaring his Royal Function as Carolus Rex And to shew the Nature Quality Majesty and Prerogative of that Body I pray you observe the Circumstances First It cannot hold lands in joint-Tenancy nor endure a Partner 2. It cannot be seized to uses and so limited 3. It is not bound to give Livery and seizin of Lands nor tied at all to the circumstances of a natural body 4. It is supposed to be everywhere so cannot be Nonsuited 5. It cannot do homage having no Superiour 6. That Body is so precious that the very imagination onely to compass his death is Treason though there be no attempt at all 7. That Body vested in a blood ought to descend and though the natural Body be attainted of Felony or Treason before yet by the access of this Body Politick he is to take his Inheritance for that dignity alwayes purgeth the blood as it did in Henry the Fourth and Henry the Fifth for this Body was founded without Letters Patents not onely by the Civil and Common Lawes but those of Nature and of Nations and for the defence of the people And if Criminal causes cannot disable the descent much less can they disenable his Title when it is descended For the Crown of England is Independent his jura Regalia are holden of no Lord but the Lord of Heaven so it cannot escheat to any being holden of none From this sacred Fountain is all authority and honour derived Judges are created by it and have their Commission from the King to judge both Criminal and Civil Causes The Constables and Marshals Court for Armes and Honour the Chancery for equity the Exchequer for the Revenues of the Crown The King then alone appointing Judges who is I would fain know to judg him I very well understand what a Parliament means which at it is ever summoned by the King so their Acts must be judged allowed and confirmed by the King before they can be Lawes in the Senate rests Consilium but in the King is the power and majesty of the Realm and he is to judg and allow or disallow what he pleaseth In fine as the Spaniard very wittily and truly observes Ni Rey Traydor ni Papa descommulgado No King can be a Traytor nor Pope excommunicated There can be no Judg above the King nor Court of Law higher than the Kings Bench where I shall now be bold to leave these Protestants of Integrity to answer Guilty or Not guilty for their future demerits and let every one joyn with me to say God save the King and deliver him from such Treacherous Friends undermining Adversaries and Hypocritical Religionaries as are our Pretended Protestants of Integrity FINIS