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A96595	Vindiciæ regum; or, The grand rebellion that is, a looking-glasse for rebels, whereby they may see, how by ten severall degrees they shall ascend to the height of their designe, and so throughly rebell, and utterly destroy themselves thereby. And, wherin is clearly proued by holy Scripturs, ancient fathers, constant martyrs, and our best modern writers, that it is no wayes lawfull for any private man, or any sort or degree of men, inferior magistrates, peeres of the kingdom, greatest nobility, lo. of the councel, senate, Parliament or Pope, for any cause, compelling to idolatry, exercising cruelty, prastizing [sic] tyranny, or any other pretext, how fair and specious soever it seems to be, to rebell, take armes, and resist the authority of their lawfull king; whom God will protect, and require all the blood that shall be spilt at the hands of the head rebels. And all the maine objections to the contrary are clearly answered. / By Gr. Williams, L. Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1643 (1643)	Wing W2675; Thomason E88_1; ESTC R204121	92,613	114

both ancient and moderne that have confirmed and justified the truth of the former Doctrine Page 70 CHAP. X. Sheweth the impudency of the Anti-Cavalier How the Rebels deny they warre against the King An unanswerable Argument to presse obedience A furthur discussion whether for our Liberty Religion or Lawes we may resist our Kings and a patheticall disswasion from Rebellion Page 78. CHAP. XI Sheweth what these Rebels did How by ten severall steps and degrees 1. Pride 2. Discontent 3. Envy 4. Murmuring 5. Hypocrisie 6. Lying 7. Slandering 8. Rayling 9. Disobedience 10. Resistance they ascended to the height of their Rebellion and how these are the sieps and the wayes to all Rebellion and the reasons which move them to rebeil Page 88 CHAP. XII Sheweth where the Rebels doe hatch their Rebellion The heavy and just deserved punishment of Rebels The application and conclusion of the whole Page 99 THE GRAND REBELLION PSAL. 106.16 Aemulati sunt Mosen in castris Aaron sanctum Domini CHAP. I. Sheweth who these Rebels were how much they were obliged to their Governours and yet how ungratefully they rebelled against them I Am here in this Treatise to shew unto you a Monster more hideous monstrous then any of those that are described either by the Greek or Latine Poets and more noysome and destructive to humane kinde then any of those that the hottest regions of Africa have ever bred though this be now most frequently produced in these colder Clymates The name of it is Rebellion an ugly beast of many heads of loathsome aspect of great antiquity and as great vivacity for the whole world could not subdue it to this very day And this Rebellion the like whereof was never seen from the creation of the world to this very time and I hope shal never be seen hereafter to the day of judgement is fully set down in the 16. The greatnesse of this sin of rebellion is seene 2 wayes 1 From the text 2. From their punishment 1. Of the text of Numbers and it is briefly repeated in the words of the Psalmist Psal 106.16 how great a sin it is and how odious unto God will appear if we examine 1. The particulars of the Text in the 16 verse and but view 2. The greatnesse of their punishment in the next verse 1. The Text containeth foure speciall parts 1. Qui fuere who the Rebels were that did this 2. Contra quos against whom they rebelled 3. Quid fecerunt what they did 4. Vbi fecerunt where they did it And in each of these I will endevour brevity for as the Poet saith Horat. Citò dicta percipiunt docilet animi retinéntque fideles few words do best hold memory and a short taste doth breed the mor eager appetite therefore as all the precepts of Christ were 1. 3. Properties of Christs precepts Brevia 2. Levia 3. Vtilia so my desire shall be to doe herein 1. 1. Part who the Rebels were Then Aemulati sunt they angred and who were they the Prophet answereth verse 7. Patres nostri in Aegypto our Fathers regarded not thy wonders in Aegypt And therefore they were 1. Their own Countrey-men the Israelites 2. Described by foure motions Of their own Tribe as was Corah and his companions and of the nobility of Israel as were Dathan and Abiram and their adherents 3. Of their own Religion such as had received the Oracles of God and did professe to serve the same true and everliving God as the others did 4. Such as had obtained multa magna many great favours and benefits yea Beneficia nimis copiosa and I may say very pretious benesits from them For when God sent Moses his servant and Aaron whom he had chosen these delivered them from bondage and brought them forth with silver and gold and there was not one feeble person among their Tribes saith the Prophet and yet these were the men that rebelled 1. They were their owne Country-men 1. Of the same Countrey of their owne Tribe the seed of Abraham and pertakers of the same fortunes And therefore they should love and not hate they should further and not hinder rejoyce and not envy at one anothers happinesse for though wicked men of desperate fortunes care for none but for themselves Sibi nati sibi vivunt sibi moriuntur sibi damnantur yet not only the heathen Philosophy of Natures Schollers but also the divine verity of Gods elected servants doth teach us that Partem patria partem parentes vendicant the love of our Countrey and to our Country-men should be such as rather to spend our selves to relieve them then by lewd practises to destroy them when by our dissolute debauchment we have destroyed our selves 2. These Rebells were of their own Tribe 2. Of the same tribe of the Tribe of Levi and so knit together indissolubili vinculo with the indisloluble bond of bloud and fraternity and therefore they should have remembred the saying of Abraham their father unto his Nephew Lot Let there be no dissention betwixt thee and me for we be brethren a good Uncle that would never drive his Nephew out of his house at home And we read that affinity among the heathens could not onely keep away the force and suppresse the malice of deadly foes but also retaine pignora juncti sanguinis as Julia did Cesar and Pompey and as the Poet saith Vt generos soceris mediae junxere Sabinae Lucan Pharsa ● ● And therefore why should not consanguinity and the bond of slesh and bloud suppresse the envy of friends and retaine the love of brethren But these prove true the old saying that Fratrum irae inter se inimicissimae the wrath of brethren is most deadly as it appeared not only in Cain against Abel Romulus against Remus and all his brethren against Joseph but especially in Caracalla that slew his brother Geta in his mothers armes and therefore Salomon saith Prov. 18.19 A brother offended is harder to winne then a strong City and their contentions are like the barre of a Pallace not easily broken Nam ut aqua calefacta cum ad frigiditatem reducitur frigidissima est For as water that hath been hot being cold again is colder then ever it was before and as the Adamant if it be once broken is shivered into a thousand pieces so love being turned into hatred and the bond of friendship being once dissolved there accreweth nothing but a swift increase of deadly hatred So it happened now in the Campe of Israel that the saying of Saint Bernard is found true Bern in Cant. Serm. 33. Omnes amici omnes inimici all of a house and yet none at peace all of a kindred and yet all in mortall hatred And as Corah and his companions were so nearly allyed unto Moses of the tribe of Levi so Dathan and Abiram were men famous in the Congregation noble Peers and very popular men heads of their

take upon you more learning then the chosen Bishops and Clerks of this Realme have this was the judgement of that judicious man and I must tell you that Religion never taught Rebellion neither was it the will of Christ that faith should bee compelled by fighting but perswaded by preaching for the Lord sharply reproveth them that built up Sion with bloud Micah 3.10 and Hierusalem with iniquity and the practice of Christ and his Apostles was to reforme the Church by prayers and preaching and not with fire and sword and they presse obedience unto our Governours yea though they were impious infidels True religion never rebelleth and idolatrous with arguments fetched from Gods ordinance from mans conscience from wrath and vengeance and from the terrible sentence of damnation and this truth is so solid that it hath the cleare testimony of holy Writ the perpetuall practice of all the Primitive Saints and Martyrs and I dare boldly say it the unanimous consent of all the Orthodox Bishops and Catholique Writers both in England and Ireland and in all the World that Christian Religion teacheth us never with any violence to resist or with armes to withstand the authority of our lawfull Kings If you say the Lawes of our Land Whether the Lawes of our Land doe warrant us to rebell and the Constitutions of this our Kingdome doe give us leave to stand upon our liberty and to withstand all tyranny that shall bee offered unto us especially when our estates lives and religion are in danger to bee destroyed To this I say with Laelius Laelius de privileg Eccl. 112. that Nulla lex valeat contra jus divinam mans laws can exact no further obedience then may stand with the observance of the divine precepts and therefore wee must not so prefer them or rely upon them so much as to prejudice the other and for our feare of the losse of estate life or religion I wish it may not be setled upon groundlesse suspitions for I know and all the World may beleeve that our King is a most clement and religious Prince that never did give cause unto any of his subjects to foster such feares and jealousies within his breast and you know what the Psalmist saith of many men They were affraid where no feare was And Iob tels you whom terrours shall make affraid on every side Iob 18.11 12 and shall drive him to his feet that is to runne away as you see the Rebels doe from the Kings Army in every place and in whose Tabernacle shall dwell the King of feare for though the ungodly fleeth when no man pursueth him yet they that trust in God are confident as Lyons without feare they know that the heart of the King is not in his owne hand but in the hand of the Lord Prov. 21.1 as the rivers of waters he turneth it whithersoever it pleaseth him either to save them or destroy them even as it pleaseth God hee ordereth the King how to rule the people Bonav ad secundam dist 35. art 2. q. 1. And therefore in the name of God and for Christ Iesus sake let me perswade you to put away all causles feares and groundlesse jealousies and trust your King if not trust your God and let your will which is so unhappy in it selfe become right and equall by receiving direction from the will of God and remember what Vlpian the great Civilian saith that rebellion and disobedience unto your King is proximum sacrilegio crimen and that it is in Samuels judgement as the sin of witchcraft The remembrance of his oath should be a terrour to the conscience of every rebell whereby men forsake God and cleave unto the Devill and above all remember the oath that many of you have taken to bee true and faithfull unto your King and to reveale whatsoever evils or plots that you shall know or heare to bee contrived against his Person Crowne or Dignity and defend him from them Pro posse tuo to the uttermost of your power So helpe you God Which oath how they that are any wayes assistant in a warre against their King can dispence with I cannot with all my wit and learning understand and therefore returne O Shulamite returne lay downe thine armes submit thy selfe unto thy Soveraigne and know that as the Kings of Israel were mercifull Kings so is the King of England 1 King 20.32 thou shalt find grace in the time of need but delay not this duty lest as Demades saith the Athenians never sate upon treaties of peace but in mourning weeds when by the losse of their nearest friends they had paid too deare for their quarrels so thou be driven to doe the like for except the sinnes of the people require no lesse satisfaction then the ruine of the Kingdome I am confident and am ready to hazard life and fortunes in this confidence that the goodnesse of our King The Authors confidence of the Kings victory the justnesse of his cause and the prayers of all honest and faithfull Ministers for him and our Church will in the end give him the victory over all those his rebellious enemies that with lyes slanders and false imputations have seduced the Kings subjects to strengthen themselves against their Soveraigne and all the World shall see that as Christ so in Sensu modificato this Vicegerent of Christ shall rule in the midst of these his enemies and shall raigne untill hee puts them all under his feet And because we never read of any rebellion not this of Corah here A rebellion that the like was never seen which of above six hundred thousand men had not many more then 250. Rebels nor that of Absolon against David who had all the Priests and Levites and the best Counsellours and a mighty Army with him such as was able to overthrow Absolon and twenty thousand men in the plaine field nor Israel against Rehoboam because they did but revolt from him and not with any hostile Armes invade him nor the Senate of Rome against Caesar though hee was the first that intrenched upon their liberty and intended to exchange their Aristodemocracy into a Monarchy nor any other that I can remember except that Councell which condemned Christ to death that was growne to that height to bee so absolute and so perfect a rebellion in all respects as that a whole Parliament in a manner and the major part of the Plebeians of a whole Kingdome should make a Covenant with Hell it selfe yea and which is most considerable that as I understand the beginning of this rebellion in this Kingdome of Ireland was the Commenalty therein should so fascinate the Nobility as to allure them so long to confirme their Votes till at last they must bee compelled in all thhings to adhere unto their conclusions that they whose power was formerly most absolute without them must now bee subordinate unto them that the strength of the people may defend