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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64277	The vindication of a late pamphlet (entituled 0bedience and submission to the present government demonstrated from Bp. Overal's Convocation-book) from the false glosses and illusive interpretations of a pretended answer / by the author of the first pamphlet.	Taylor, Zachary, 1653-1705.	1691 (1691)	Wing T602; ESTC R37878	32,401	41

but who had the design of a Scandal could misinterpret it for what is more Intelligible than this that Government in General deriving its Authority from God the Author of Nature and consequently of Humane Societies must signifie that the same God who was the Author of our Nature being Sociable was consequently the Author of Humane Societies which must of necessity follow a Sociable Nature What more strained forced and disturbed than his Explication of it is which first would make me suppose Humane Societies and then Government for they were directed saith he to Society and from that to Government as if there could be Society without Government when Government is only an Administration of Societies Such another disingenious Practice doth he fly to wherein he pretends that quoting a Passage out of the Convocation book P. 25. P. 47. I changed Benedictions into Predictions as if they were all one Whereas the words were not quoted out of the Convocation-book but were my own words put into an Observation that I thence had made so that he might have understood the word Benedictions to have been falsly Printed for Predictions but then he had wanted an Exception against the Author and by such means as these must a Tottering Cause be supported The next thing that he is displeased at is the Gloss I give upon these words That Government is not derived from the People tho their Consent be ordinarily necessary to the Constitution P. 13. both of the Form of Government and the Persons Governing And is it not so ibid. he is silent upon it But it is plain the Convocation never thought so but the contrary But whence proves he this not a word of the Pudding for if you will not believe him he cannot afford to prove it But sure I am the Peoples having notice of God Ch. 17. even his appointing Princes Judges and Kings that they might conform themselves to Obedience and their chearfully and with great Thankfulness submitting themselves to be ruled by them their willingly protesting their Obedience their following them their shouting when they saw them and saying God Save the King and other such Expressions of their Joy and Gladness are no Intimations that their Consent was not had in all that was done Indeed the Canon saith That the King did not receive any such virtue or strength from the People Can. 17. their said Notice Presence and Applause as that without the same the said Callings of God either by Name or by Succession had been Insufficient And elsewhere That when God raised up Judges to Rule and Govern them Can. 13. the Peoples consent was not necessary thereunto But whoever pretended it was when God immediately did Interpose or could so much as imagine it unless we should conceive a People so Foolish as not to Acquiesce in the manifest Choice and Determination of an All-wise and an All-good God or so Besotted as to think they might insist upon their Right against his Declaration which was the Case of Judah And for other the best constituted Governments when the Solemnity of the Coronation is altered He may then but not till then Dispute the Insignificancy of their Consent Well at last however through all the Authors and the Answerers Shufflings and Intermixings we are got to this Point P. 13. That Government derives its Power from God and not from the People And because I thought that herein we should agree I made it the Ground-work of the following as well as it is of the antecedent Discourse and confirmed it and who would think the Answerer should be displeased by having such a pleasing Truth confirmed by three Observations all which are so many Arguments that Government derives its Authority from God For if all Kingdoms now be in some sort Theocracies if the Tenure of Sovereigns be such that God may divest them of that Power and transfer both it and the Duty that is owing to it unto some other Person it undeniably follows that Government derives its Power from God And tho he disproves not one of these nay fairly acknowledgeth the Truth of the two last yet his Captious Humour will not suffer him to pass over the first because there is something that misrepresented he may find occasion to talk of Nothing could be fairer than having observed from the Convocation that all Kingdoms are now in some sort Theocracies I should express it in what sort they were so and this I did by shewing from the Book That God used the Ministry of Civil Magistrates Ch. 35. P. 83. as well in other Countries as amongst his own Peculiar People Israel without any desert of theirs but as in his Heavenly Providence he thought it most convenient This seems to me to respect his Choice of the Persons of the Governours whose Ministry he useth and since this was one Instance of the Theocracy of Israel as the Convocation intimates when they tell us that upon recourse to God he did appoint one for their Prince P. 18. P. 21. chief Captain and Ruler I think in this sort and Sense Christ Jesus to whom all Power both in Heaven and Earth is committed doth for the good of his Catholick Church thus rule the World And for this Kingdom in particular it is something remarkable what Mr. Camden in his Remains relates of one Brithwald a Monk who not long before the Conquest busying his Brain much about the Succession of the Crown because the Royal Blood was almost extinguished had a strange Vision and heard a Voice which forbad him to be Inquisitive of such Matters sounding in his Ears The Kingdom of England is Gods own Kingdom and for it God himself will Provide But the Answerer doth not much oppose this only he complains of a Brood of New Notions amongst which Theocracy is one P. 14. and truly as he interprets it to be only Gods Permissive Providence it is so But then that is a Notion of his own not of the Authors He next takes notice of the Authors Infortunity in proving his Principles who to prove that Providence designs the Person of the Sovereign in other Kingdoms as well as in Judah P. 14 15. instances only in the Kingdom of Judah P. 14. And are not these Pure Proofs But the Author thought he had proved this from the Convocation book and brought those Instances only for an Illustration of the manner how God did it And for the case of Rehoboam whereon I had remarked That God sometimes for the only designed Usurpation of a Prince whose Title and that in an Hereditary Kingdom was altogether indisputable does deprive him of the Government in part or whole and will not allow him so much as to endeavour the regaining of it he finds two things that deserve Reflection the one is That Rehoboam's not regaining the Ten Tribes P. 15. was expresly forbidden by God and so nothing to our Authors purpose Yes therefore to the Authors