multitude when they shall be called to answer before Kings and Rulers for his sake Besides even wicked Kings are the just Judgements of God and shall we fight against his Judgements We may no more remove a wicked Prince by murder than seek to asswage the Pestilence by Idolatry but this wicked and ungodly Maxim is never more preach't and proclaim'd abroad than when there is the least reason for it even whilst we are under Religious Kings and Governours However 't is at all times most Diabolically impious because diametrically contrary to the plainest sense of the word of God in which we are taught that by him Kings Reign and Princes decree Justice By him Princes rule and Nobles even All the Judges of the Earth Secondly This Proposition is impious and false because the Kings of England do not derive either their power or form of Government from the People All the Objections about Contracts Covenants Coronation-Oaths c. come at last to this consequence that then God Almighty himself has a less right of Dominion over us because he condescends to incourage our Obedience to him by the Grants and Promises he makes in his Covenant with us For by him and for him do the Kings of this Realm rule over us and from him they receive all that power and goodness which they as his Ministers to us for good communicate unto the People and indeed they have been Ministers to us for good in reducing us from the Barbarism of Heathenish Picts to become the most civiliz'd Nation and best Christians in the world For let but any man without the squint-ey'd malice of Doleman and his Disciples peruse the Chronicles of England and he will find that the people thereof are under God beholding to their Kings for all the good they injoy at this day it may be truly said of the Ancient Britains Populus nullis Legibus tenebatur Arbitria principum pro Legibus erant 'T was Lucius the first Christian King in all the World that sent to Rome for the unvaluable Treasures of the Gospel which he set the higher price upon by his own pious and illustrious example 'T was he chang'd the Arch-Flamins and Flamins and all that mockery of Heathenisin wherein the Devil pretended to ape the Divine Institutions into Arch-Bishopricks and Bishopricks long before the name of a Rebellious Presbyter or of a persidious Jesuit was known upon the face of the Earth 'T was Alfred the Saxon but Christian King of England that divided this whole Realm into Shires those Shires into Lathes Rapes or Ridings those again into Wapentakes or Hundreds those again into Boroughs and then as Jethro advis'd Moses set over them c. 'T was Edward the Confessor that like Justinian collected the Laws that were dispersed into one Body But said the Politician again interrupting me Were they not Laws before he put them in order Without doubt said I they were not until allow'd of by his Predecessors although perhaps they were never inroll'd But hark you Sir I will thank you and so shall all my Neighbours if you can shew me a Copy of the Grant of the People to this King wherein they impowered him to cure them of that nauseous Disease the Struma and when you have done I will as easily prove that they gave the Levites of old power to heal the Leprosie and when I have done I will take care that it shall not be called the Kings Evil but the Peoples Evil for the future But don't so frivolously interrupt me How can the King derive his Power from the People when all Power is originally under God from him The People indeed sometimes chose their subordinate Magistrates as the May or of a City and this choice designs the Person but does not confer the Power which descends by virtue of the Kings Charter and therefore are said 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 such as are sent by him and Lambard in his Archion or Commentary upon the High Courts of Justice in England learnedly derives all the Lay and mixed Courts of Records from the Crown their Original and saies moreover that whatever power is by him that is the King committed over unto other men the same nevertheless remaineth still in himself for as Bracton saith well Rex habet Ordinariam Jurisdictionem omnia jura in Manu sua quae nec ita delegari possunt quin ordinaria remaneant cum ipso Rege Though the Great Council of the Nation to which He gives life may by the same sacred Breath be dissolv'd yet the King never dies and all other inferiour Courts Civil or Ecclesiastical derive their Power from the King by which as well the Sovereign's goodness to the People as that he derives not his Power from them is very manifest Henry the Third granted unto his Subjects that great Charter wherein he Ordained thus * Communia 9 Hen. 3. Placita non sequantur Curiam nostram sed teneantur in aliquo certo Loco Yet the Kings Power is not diminished though Himself and his People thereby both eas'd I might confirm what I defend with innumerable Instances but once I say for all That the Liberties the Priviledges the Power the People have is from this that the King has not his power from them For Thirdly This Proposition is impious and false because the most ready way to Tyranny King Charles the First died a Martyr for the People for their Liberties and Properties and Our Gracious Sovereign King Charles the II. restored them but how long might they have whistled for them had Cromwell's or any other Family continued the Vsurpation About the Year 1410. John de Medicis stoutly maintaining the Liberties of the People of Florence against the Nobles first setled that Soveraignty over them that they pay excise for Herbs and Sallads and but that the Princes of Tuscany have generally prov'd mild and good there is not the least scrit of a Law or compact to limit them For the people who alwaies do such things in a heat and hurry never trouble their heads about such Contracts and Compacts as our santastical Politicians dream of But why is this Proposition so frequently started under so gracious a Prince and so good a Government Oh! without doubt to settle the Nation Why at this Time a-day do we puzzle our heads with prying into the remotest times of darkest Ignorance and Barbarism for an unnecessary uncertainty Oh! by all means to establish Christs Throne But must Christ's Throne be establish't by appealing to the People Was he ever so revil'd in his three Offices before To the People Who it seems need him not in his Prophets to instruct them they can preach to themselves who it seems need him not in his Priests to interceed for them because they can pray for themselves who it seems need him not in his Kings to rule them for they can govern themselves Was he ever so revil'd by people that call themselves Christians Such Doctrine is more suitable
I will thank them and confess my sin to all the world but Malicious railings I take for Rebellions themselves I shall not regard I will not rail on Mr. Baxter replyed Seignior Chr. for 't is a difficult thing to nickname Schism Sedition Murther and Treason but this I must say of his writings If they were made hangings to his House of Office as Olivers Porters Papers are to his Cell he might do himself the kindness of hiding the one side of them that contradict the other for certainly no man living ever gave himself the lie so often or complemented himself into so many titles of Infamy in one breath since the world began no man ever took so much pains to justifie himself as Baxter has to expose and condemn himself For would you know what sin he is most guilty of that is so ready to make his Confession 't is certainly that which he most declaims against how dangerous a thing in his most serious Meditations upon these his superfine Politicks saies he is pride of heart When once it grows to an enormous height it will make men swell with self conceit and think none so fit to govern Countries and Nations as they nor any so fit to teach the Church nor any so meet to judge what is good or evil to the Commonwealth This he saies at the end of that Book wherein he dogmatically prescribes rules of Polity for the State as since he has done for the Church in opposition to all the rules of Modesty and Obedience and contrary to all the Laws of God and man To conclude for all Mr. Baxter's pretences to Gods glory and the increase of Religion these his impracticable whimsies would be so far from procuring that good to this Nation which he promises to himself and pretends to us that they would certainly over-run us with Enthusiastick Knaves and Hypocrites and from Elihu in Job we may learn the fatal consequences of his ridiculous Politicks for we gather from Job 34. 30. that He maketh an hypocrite to reign when he is minded to scourge a sinful people We have learn't said I dear friend we have sufficiently learnt the truth of this by late and sad experience we have found the wicked and dismal Conclusions of this and other villanous Maxims of Fanatical and Hypocritical Policy for twenty years together wherein the Courts of Justice were fill'd with Violence and Oppression the Churches with Sacriledge and Blasphemy the Earth with the dead bodies and Hell with the souls of Rebells wherein there was more wickedness committed in this one Island than in all the world besides so that Foreigners said that the King of England was King of Devils and I will swear that there is none to compare with the white ones THE Third VISION OF GOVERNMENT The CONTENTS The monstrous Loyalty of the Fanaticks Their several Ridiculous Policies the growth and design of the late Hellish Conspiracy The two fundamental Principles of the Good Old Cause First That All Civil Authority is deriv'd Driginally from the People The extreme villany and folly of this Proposition throughly examined and by a Civiliz'd Cannibal condemn'd The Second That Birth-right and Proximity of Blood give no Title to Rule or Government and that It is lawful to preclude the next Heir from his Right of Succession to the Crown The great impiety and folly of this Proposition fully discovered and condemned by an Indian of New-England The Authors and Abetters of them both exposed The great Wisdom and Goodness of our present Gracious Soveraign in securing to this Monarchy the right and lineal descent of the Crown THE more haste the worse speed cry'd a blundering Fellow that stumbled upon me and had almost beaten me down Whither so fast friend what is your business said Seignior Christiano to him I am upon life and death Sir said he pray don't stop or stay me I am going for Cordials for a matter of forty or fifty people in the next room that are all ready to swoon and dye away This broke off our discourse and we hastened immediately to know what was the matter and who they were At our first entrance how wonderfully was I surpriz'd to see Hobbs and Boxter Knox and Buchanan Hunt and Gilby Milton and the Jesuits sitting all together like friends but in a very disconsolate posture Some complained of grievous pains in the Spleen others were sick at the Heart but all of them were most dismally tormented in their heads Whilst I stood looking on them I can tell you what they all ail said a Gentleman to me whom I took to be a Physician I can tell what they ail without feeling their pulses do but follow me He open'd a door which led us into a Court like that of the Scholes at Oxford in the midst of it there was a great Fire and an Officer very solemnly threw a great number of Books into it These are said the Gentleman the Books and Writings containing those infamous Heretical and Blasphemous Propositions which that famous Vniversity condemn'd and sentenc'd in their Convocation July 21. 1683. upon the discovery of the late Hellish Conspiracy And those men you just now past by are Fanatical Wizards who are in pain whilst their charms of Rebellion are burning but yonder Fellow is giving them a refreshing Cordial made of a composition of Impudence Contradiction and Obstinacy and you shall see them all recover themselves immediately What he said prov'd true for Hunt grew presently as brisk as a Body-Louse and smiling and turning himself round about It is very certain said he good people that these Protestant Subjects namely the Dissenters have cheerfully given their Assistance to the support of the Government It is well known that they are an Industrious Trading People that willingly pay whatsoever Taxes the Law requires And it is remarkable that no people ever exprest a greater zeal to oppose the various attacques of a Foreign Anti-spiritual Power than these Dissenters And could I know any one of them that would shrink from his Princes service when his Royal Person and Government are menaced I would esteem him not only a Fool but a Traytor to boot We are very much beholden to you indeed reply'd Seignior Christiano a smart fellow truly I think you wrote the Postscript not long before and what you now say is in a Book entitled Compulsion of Conscience condemn'd and that came out a little after the discovery of the late Conspiracy and would you call him a Traytor Surely Judas himself never look'd damnation in the fate with half that impudence with which the Author of the Postscript has done Hell it self within an inch of the Gallows and thus to justifie his or their pretended Innocency out-does him that hang'd himself and so confest his Treachery What Devil said he turning towards us can trace these Infernal Changlings who if their villany succeeds are Righteous if it miscarries are Innocent Indeed Sir said I they are no Changlings
whole Nations too I will not either name or number the great follies and impieties that you upon this score have committed the greatest of all is that you will not acknowledge them to be what they really are very evil but have a care of the wo that is threatned to them that call evil good and good evil Let me advise you no longer to believe that to be Faith which is Faction let me advise you not to think that to be Religion which is Rebellion let not your Gain be any longer your Godliness and do not imagine Covetousness to be a saving Grace or that labouring for War is the way to Peace change either your Country or your Conditions if you stay at home study to be quiet learn to live in peace in peace A blessing so so much the greater to you by how much the less of it all other Nations under the Heavens do now injoy This little world alone like another Goshen sees and feels the brightest influences of the Sun when as all the habitable World besides is a Land of Darkness of Darkness that may be felt loud Thunders killing Lightnings and deadly Hail are one continued storm from the East to the West from the North to the South the Sword of God and man is drawn to scourge the sinful Age Rivers are stain'd with Blood and devouring Locusts cover and infect the Earth but none of these Plagues come nigh your dwelling You have no hardned or Tyrant Pharoah to deserve them and therefore do not ye your selves bring them Let no croaking Froggs come with noisome Petitions in your Kings Chambers but above all do not Kill the first-born of all the Land lest at last you bring a deluge of Miseries upon you a Sea a red Sea a Sea of Blood to overwhelm you By this time on large Plains upon our right hand methoughts I saw mighty and vast numbers of the Loyal and true hearted Nobility Gentry Clergy and Commonalty of this and other his Majesties Kingdoms and Dominions making their several Addresses to his Sacred Majesty congratulating his Majesty's his Royal Brother's Kingdoms safe deliverance from the late Barbarous Conspiracy I was so extremely pleased with so noble a sight that I almost wept for joy and could not forbear breaking into these expressions I envy not those who either saw Solomon in his Glory Caesar in his Victories or Augustus on his Throne since I this day see our Gracious Sovereign King Charles the Second triumphing in the hearts of his People a Prince who to their vertues has his great Fathers and his Own too shining in the most Illustrious instances of his Valour Conduct and Wisdom But why do I attempt to speak his praises the rising and setting Sun must do it which sees those far distant Countries that are happy under his Government and therefore strives to inrich them with plenty which he influences with peace however we see here before our eyes those in whom both himself and we all are happy his Royal and illustrious Brother James D. of York a Prince of rare and singular virtues who has fill'd the Earth and Seas with his Victories and the whole World with his fame we see the rest of the Royal Family which we hope will be as numerous as 't is truly great being inricht with the vertues and Blood Royal of all the Princes in Christendom and springing from the most ancient Royal Lineage in the World we see the great wisdom of our Royal Sovereign in his choice of all his chief Ministers both in Church and State who every one deserve a Panegyrick but that their good deeds proclaim them better than our best words we see our Monarchs glory and the Kingdoms honour in the loyal liberal and valiant Nobility in the true hearted numerous and charitable Gentry in the loving honest and obedient Commonalty We see the publick glory honour justice and piety of the King and all his loyal Subjects in the many magnificent and pious works of Charity and we hope that all the people of the Land seeing these many these great and good examples will for the future become loyal and obedient under so gracious a Sovereign peaceable and quiet under so good a Government holy and just under such righteous Laws At this Seignior Chr. kneeled down and that said he these things may come to pass we will use better means than the Politicians of a wicked World and therefore as good Christians with the Church let us Pray ALmighty God whose Kingdom is everlasting and power infinite have mercy upon the whole Church and so rule the heart of thy chosen Servant Charles our King and Governour that he knowing whose Minister he is may above all things seek thy honour and glory and that we and all his Subjects duly considering whose Authority he hath may faithfully serve honour and humbly obey him in thee and for thee according to thy blessed word and Ordinance through Jesus Christ our Lord who with thee and the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth ever one God World without End At this such infinite multitudes cry'd aloud Amen Amen that it was like the noise of many Waters or the sound of those loud Thunders at the delivery of the Law at which magnificent 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of the Scales all the Commonwealths that have been under the Sun let them clap in the Ephori of Sparta the Demarchi of Athens the Tribunes and Consuls of Rome the Gentlemen and Senators of Venice the Hoghen Moghen States of Holland the Cantons of Switzerland the Leagues of the Grisons the Elders of Geneva with whole Bundles of Hans Towns and all the late Holy Brethren that are fled to them and I will put but one single Monarchy into the other and it shall as certainly weigh them all down as the Bible does the Pope and his Trinkets the Devil and all his works in the Book of Martyrs What Monarchy is that said he The Ancient and Flourishing Monarchy of England said I a Monarchy which has the singular advantages of all the three known Forms of Government without the Inconveniencies of any one of them a Monarchy so divinely good as neither Jew or Gentile knew of Old and such an one as none other Christians besides enjoy at this day Pray Sir said he give me a short account of it As well as I can said I with all my heart You must know that this Monarchy of England is a Paternal Hereditary Monarchy the Kings thereof not using that absolute Despotical Power which the Kings of Judah sometimes did No mans Life is taken away from him by any of the Kings Messengers but he may clear himself if Innocent or give better satisfaction to the world if guilty by being tryed according to Law And where the Chronicles of England seem to speak the contrary those persons as Tho. Becket c. are to be considered as Traytors in the very act of open Hostility and Rebellion or protected from the proceedings of the Law by the Pope or the People But our present Gracious Soveraign hath given such admirable instances of his great Justice Clemency and Patience as no History can parallel even the very Murderers of his Father who would scarce allow him to speak before their impious Tribunal were permitted to say what they could in their own defence And those very Barbarous Villains that did not design to * at the Ryeâ— allow him time to say his Prayers were not only legally try'd convicted and justly condemned with all manner of regular proceedings but had afterwards the charitable assistance of his own Chaplains And although upon the relation of such an horrid design against his Royal Person if He had cut them all to pieces without any more ado no mortal man could have question'd or have call'd him to an account for it yet such is the malice of that implacable Party that for his great Clemency they insinuate that he wants Courage and for his Justice they do as much as say he is a Tyrant But as the King so are his Laws so good for the People that King James did as truly as solemnly declare That the Common Law of England was as proper for this Nation as the Law of Moses was for the Jews But still to supply the defects of the Common Law we have our Statute Laws which were made at sundry times and upon divers occasions in Parliament and these Laws receive matter from the Lords and Commons but form and life from the King and then our Ecclesiastical and Maritine Courts are governed by the Civil Laws which are the result of the Wisdom and Prudence of the best Law-givers that have been in all Ages and for the Good of others as well as of our own Nation If your Laws said he be so very good how comes it to pass that there are so many Controversies long and vexatious Suits such endless Differences and Quarrels among the Subjects What is the reason that those who have been Factious Turbulent and Seditious should go so long unpunished The Reason Sir said I is because the King will govern by Law but they will not be ruled by it But have a little patience Hemp is not ripe in a day 'T is no Magical plant rais'd by the sin of Witchcraft and yet 't will conjure down the Devil in Time Easter Term is coming on a pace and as some of their mouths have been pretty cool the last great Frost So if others be not more quiet for the Future they will not have so much money to burn in their pockets against the next To your first Question I might Answer by asking you the reason of so many Disputes and Janglings in Religion I am sure you confess that you are satisfied as to the excellency of the Christian Faith and yet you might as well object against the Truth of it because there have been so many Heresies in the Church as against the goodness of our Laws Because there are so many peevish subtil and factious persons in the State There are likewise Hereticks among the Lawyers as well as among the Divines For if the Laws of God are not free from the false Glosses and Expositions of ambitious or covetous Casuists how shall any Law of man escape them To conclude after all our Government is a Miracle of a thousand years working And although some will tell you the Times and Occasions of Enacting or Repealing any Statute Law and the Originals of all our Courts of Judicature Yet considering the many and strange revolutions that attend all sublunary Principalities and Powers 't is a work beyond the reach of the most exquisite Judgment to unravel the whole Series of Affairs that have brought this admirable frame of Government to perfection Truly Sir said he I do not perceive that the People of England have any reason to fear Arbitrary Government under so gracious a Prince or to he weary of a Monarchy so vastly differing from those four which were so formidably represented in the Ancient Vision of the Prophet Daniel I am sure said I there is none in being that may at this day compare with it all the Eastern Empires and Monarchies are absolutely Tyrannical and of the West the people of France have lost their Liberties the Kingdom of Spain suffers extremely by the clashing Interests of the Jesuits with other Orders and their treachery to the House of Austria and so does the Empire of Germany the Kingdoms of Denmark and Bohemia have not been so long Hereditary and the Kingdom of Poland is Elective to this day Now said he you are come to my Native Country I can assure you that there are great Inconveniencies attending the Time of the Interregnum and Election too And however our present Magnanimous and truly Illustrious King has by his Conduct and Valour gain'd himself immortal renown Yet 't is better for the people to have Peace than a prosperous War And the King of England has had as hard a Task and which has required as much Courage and Prudence to subdue and quell his Turkish Protestants at home as the King of Poland had to conquer the Protestant Turks abroad Against which sort of true Protestants the true Turks shall arise in the Judgment
not better for you You are a man of parts that may be very serviceable to your Countrey come come with me I 'le help you to as good a Wife as your heart can wish for some Women will be cruel Queen Mary was a grievous Persecutor not fit to govern a very Jezabel saith Calvin and one that burnt Protestants with their Books and Writings The Youth sate leaning on a Bank answering nothing at last a Messenger came to him with a Letter which we suppose brought more comfort in it than any of us could give him for he had not the power to read it altogether but when he had done he was so ravisht and transported with joy as never was poor Malefactor when unexpectedly reprieved from a most cruel death just ready to be inflicted upon him for he trembled with excess of joy his colour came and went now he stood fixt like an Image without life and then kneeling down My dearest sweetest Sovereign Queen and Goddess cry'd he again weeping I 'le love thee I 'le obey thee all the daies of my life A thousand Beams of gladness dart through me I am all over Sunshine I 'le do homage to the very Wormholes of thy Footstool With this he kist the ground and then arising up and looking sternly on the Non. Con. and the Jesuit he laid his hand upon his Sword and said Traytors Rebels and Villains speak one syllable more in dishonour of that glorious Sex and I 'le cut you both into Atoms But you Sir that spoke against Queen Mary assure your self for what you have said against her already because a Woman I am resolv'd if ever I come to be Justice of the Peace I 'le put the 35th of Queen Elizabeth in execution against all those of your Faction before any other Statute of any Kings whatsoever Oh! Sir said the Non. Con. indeed Queen Elizabeth was a very gracious Queen she was most worthy to Reign Truly said the Jesuit I am not so much against all Women I love them well enough for I am sure we would monopolize them all I say the Queen of Sweeden was a most renowned and glorious Queen The Queen of the South shall not only be celebrated but the North too have had a Queen of as famous memory most worthy to Reign because she refus'd it But mine mine said he is worth them all and she shall Reign and I will live as long as I can that she may long live and Reign over me At these words the Youth very nimbly marcht off and as soon as he was gone Well! said the Jesuit I do and must say that the Salique Law which debars Women from the Crown is a very wise and good Law So 't is indeed sad the Non. Con and very fit to be put in execution upon Occasion for Women are foolishly silly and weak and not at all fit to govern More fit than you are to preach cry'd an odd kind of a person as I thought of the Epicoene Gender Who affronted you cry'd the Non. Con. staring upon h You did said the Hermaphrodite You have injur'd the better part of me which is Woman you say they are foolish weak and not fit to govern which I tell you is contrary to the Law of Nature to the Laws of this Realm and most of all contrary to my Own Experience For when my Manhood has a mind to be reserv'd I find that almost every Drab can pump it out of him but my Womanhood can keep her Counsel better than she can hold her water when my Manhood discovers his love or hatred openly violently and foolishly my Womanhood can more easily hide and cover them than the freckles and wrinkles on her face 'T is my Womanhood makes my Manhood witty wise and valiant and in my self I find by experience that the Women influence direct guide and govern all Men living and since I cannot indure two Principles of Sovereignty in the same Soul and that the Nature of my Body inclines most to the Female Sex I have therefore rightly plac't it in the Woman They were so confounded with this Positive Conviction from one of the Doubtful Gender that they both of them sneakt away and as soon as they were gone that Sovereign said I that pleases them shall be Sovereign it seems as long as they think fit and none else For they measure the Rights of Princes by the rule of their own Interests and whether the Sovereign be Man or Woman it is all one to them if either Her or His Majesty do not favour them so as to let them have their wills they are presently upon the Deposing Vein and rather than want Arguments to incite the People to it they will make use of old ones or borrow of one another Come for once and away I 'le tell you what a strange fancy I have now in my head I do fancy That the time will come when the Spawn of these very Presbyterians Independents c. who now at this time do so magnifie and cry up the Reign of Queen Elizabeth will join with the Jesuits in defence of the Salique Law and wherein they will as much extol and commend the Reign of King Charles the Second However the great Game is that the Sovereignty of England should not remain in one single Person Man or Woman for they are for transferring it to a great many Well! for my part said Seignior Christiano I should not like well to see three or four hundred Suns shining in England at once it is a good Temperate Climate now but then it would be too hot for me For I must tell you that it is much better for England that the Sovereignty should be in One woman than in five hundred Men. And I wonder that the Jesuits who call the Virgin Mary the Queen of Heaven and adore her more than our Saviour himself who is the King of Glory should not pay the Homage of Sovereign Honour to that Sex on Earth to which they pay Divine Worship in Heaven But our Politicians who say in their hearts there is no God there would have no King here They think a great many heads is better than One and one Man 's much better than a great many Womens However the simple and honest Christian is very apt to think that God who is the fountain of all Wisdom and by whom Kings and Queens are made Nursing Fathers and Nursing Mothers of his Church does not limit his Spirit to either Sex That he can inrich one single heart with his Heavenly Grace that it shall prove more instrumental to his Glory and our Good than the Worldly Wisdom and Policy of all Mankind and on the other hand let those Politicians look into the 29th Chapter of Isaiah at the 13th and 14th Verses a Prophet is as good as a Politician because he foresees what will come to pass they only design what they would have come to pass and they will find that God saies Because