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A54586
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The visions of government wherein the antimonarchical principles and practices of all fanatical commonwealths-men and Jesuitical politicians are discovered, confuted, and exposed / by Edward Pettit ...
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Pettit, Edward.
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1684
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Wing P1892; ESTC R272
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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
in process of time will be styled by the Godly of the Land The calling in of the Brethren By my troth a good Dose of Opium a la mode de Turcoise would do well to lay their Politick Noddles asleep But Sir by this your Anatomy of the Saints we ought rather to pity them for their Disease than condemn them for their Sin for if this be the cause of their Phrensies they cannot help them They may and ought replyed he 't is true it has more of the nature of the Devil in it than any other Humour of the body but then consequently 't is more odious to the mind and cannot so soon soften us into a compliance with it as Love or other Passions of that nature But if a man will run into the Temptation he deserves to be punish'd for the Sin He that goes into a Conventicle takes as direct a course to be a Craytor in the sense of S. Peter as he that goes into the Stews to be a Whoremonger in the sense of S. Paul And I do not find that S. Chrysostom condemns any thing more than the very Curiosity of those Christians in his Time that went to the Synagogues of the Jews Truly Sir said I I perceive a man had need have a care how he goes into a Scotch Kirk for he is in a very fair way to a Turkish Mosch Indeed replyed he their Cupolas ' do now and then put me in mind of a Blue Bonnet and now it comes into my head I have observed so many Customs Principles and Practices which are common both to Turks and True Protestants that methinks they all ought to wear Turbants A good way said I to prevent Popish Corner'd Caps Pray Sir said he don 't interrupt me I tell you seriously that the design of Servetus that great Impostor and Heretick of reconciling the Turkish Alcoran to the Christian Religion as he calls it had something more than bare Whimsey and unpracticable Speculation O Lord Sir said I how can that be What fellowship hath Christ with Belial said the Apostle and I may say What Fellowship hath Christ with Mahomet You may as well perswade me that the Loadstone that draws up Mahomets Tomb was a piece of Christs Sepulchre but let us know what the Blasphemous fool would be at He says reply'd my friend 't is easily done 't is but saith he taking away the Article of the Trinity and these two being joyned together a great hindrance would be removed and that the asserting that Article had ingaged to madness whole Provinces I believe then Sir said I that Marvel by his Mischiefs of Creeds and Impositions meant this Madness of whole Provinces That Merry Andrew of Hull made a fair way for his project by vilifying the Athanasian Creed and calling that glorious Champion of the Truth Satanasius which Creed of his you know was composed to distinguish betwixt the Orthodox and the Arian and to confound those Blasphemies from which Mahomet drew his infernal doctrines But Sir said I this is but one man Oh Sir said He those whom He and others call the Sober trading part of the Nation all the impious Heretical and Blasphemous Schismaticks that abuse the Sacred Orders of the Church and vilifie the Sacraments are no small friends of Mahomets The Sober said I What! Because Mahomet forbad the drinking of Wine Why replyed He do you think that the only reason why Mahomet forbad the drinking of Wine was to prevent the evil Consequences of excess and intemperance So 't is said reply'd I Do you think said He that the Devil was such a dull Politician as to discountenance a vice so pernicious to mankind had he not had a design at the bottom of it of more fatal consequence to them Well! I 'll tell you what just now comes into my head I believe that Mahomet was so well acquainted with the frame of the Christian Religion and with the nature of those duties required of us and of the Sacraments enjoyn'd us that he concluded it impossible to overthrow the Christian Faith and make way for his doctrines unless he could abolish the Sacrament of the Lords Supper Now by prohibiting the tast of Wine to his Disciples and Followers that Sacrament according to Christs institution must consequently be neglected or forgotten And now what think you of those who never will receive or of those stupefied Rascals that have abused it with Asymbolical Liquors with Liquors not Symbolical and yet all this while come in for a share with our True Protestants I have often wondred said I at the great progress of so ridiculous and absurd a Religion as Turcism but when I consider the fatal Phrensies of several Hereticks disposing them before hand for it I rest satisfied However 't is no wonder that the Trading part of them should side with Mahomet for they cannot but admire him for leaving his Merchandising to go a Preaching and Fighting What Trades are they of pray said He. Why Sir said I I have heard of Fishmongers Ironmongers and Whoremongers I will not reflect said He upon any mans Calling there are a great many honest men of all Trades excepting of the last if that be one but of the Factious this must be said that without any great stretching of a Metaphor they may e'en turn Musselmen I believe that of the 72 Sects among the Turks there is scarce any one we could not parallel among the True Protestants What is a Silent meeting of Quakers but an Herd of Enthusiastick Mutes And they will no more pull off their Hats than a Turk his Turbant and would sooner chose to call their Congregation together with the noise of a Cryer than with the sound of a Bell. The Turkish Marriages are perform'd by a Caddee or Civil Judge as the Fanaticks by a Justice of the Peace in the late Times How deliciously would our Anabaptists soak and dabble in their Bagnio's And in the doctrine of Fatality they do so jump with our Presbyterians that one would think that the Turks fought under Calvins long Beard instead of a white Horse's Tail Fleaing alive is a Turkish Cruelty threatned by our meek-hearted and such an Assassin as Rumbold would make a true Saracens Head with one eye It was a strange thing and worthy our observation that in the same year wherein our True Protestants put King Charles the First to death that their Brethren of the Thracian Bosphorus should slay Ibrahim the Second their Grand Seignior and still more strange that the Jesuite should so be-devil the uttermost parts of the Earth as about that Time to bring in the holy Tartars to assist those Rebels of China who drove their Emperour Zunchinius to those extremities as to hang himself But to go on one would think that the Foreman of the late infamous Ignoramus Jury had learnt his Art of the most Malicious sort of Turks when amongst them for they hold it meritorious to be perjur'd or bring in a false