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A persvvassion to loyalty, or, The subject's dutie vvherein is proved that resisting or deposing of kings (under what spccious [sic] pretences soever couched) is utterly unlawfull / collected by D.O.; Herod and Pilate reconciled
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Owen, David, d. 1623.
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Wing O704; ESTC R36621
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unjust or otherwise tainted with any crime must bee regarded Wee may not contemne them for their impiety but must reverence them because of their authority by whom they were appoynted our Governours So farre he Fulgentius saith that no kind of Sedition can stand with Religion Cum pro nostra fide libere respondemus c. When we answer freely for our profession we ought not to be taxed with the least suspition of disobedience or contumely seeing we are not unmindfull of the Regall dignity and do know that we must feare God and honour the King according to the Doctrine of the Apostle Give to each one his due feare to whom feare Fulgent ad Thrasim Reg. 1 Pet. 2.7 honour to whom honour appertaineth Of the which feare and honour Saint Peter hath delivered unto us the manifest knowledge saying As the servants of God honour all men love brotherly fellowship feare God honour the King Thus farre Fulgent Our Countriman Beaa for his great learning called Venerable Lib. 4 expos in Samuel â— Sam. 24.6 is of the same mind David saith he for two causes spared Saul who had persecuted him most maliciously First for that he was his Lord annoynted with holy oyle And secondly to instruct us by morall precepts that wee ought not to strike our governours though they unjustly oppresse us with the sword of our liâ—s nor presume slanderously to teare the hemme of their superfluous actions So far he Leo the fourth about the yeare 846. agnised all subjection to Lotharius the Emperours Cap. de 〈◊〉 dist 5. I do professe and promise saith Leo to observe and keepe unviolably as much as lieth in me for the time present and to come your Imperial ordinances and commandements together with the decrees of your Bishops my predecessors It any man inform your Majesty otherwise know certainly that he is a lyer So far Leo. The Bishops of Spaine assembled in a Nationall Councell at Toledo made this Decree against Perjury and Treason Concil Tol. 5. Can. 2 〈◊〉 ann Dom. 636. Quicunque amodo ex nobis Whosoever among us shall from this tune forward violate the oath which he hath taken for the safegard of this Countrey the state of the Gotish nation and the preservation of the Kings Majesty whosoever shall attempt the Kings death or deposition whosoever shall by tyrannicall presumption aspire to the Regall Throne let him be accursed before the Holy Spirit before the blessed Saints let him be cast out of the Catholike Church which he hath polluted by perjury let him have no Communion with Christian men nor portion with the just but let him be condemned with the Devill and his angels eternally together with his complices that they may be tyed in the bond of damnation which were joyned in the society of sedition Thus far the Fathers in that Synod I conclude therefore with these learned Fathers that it is not for the people otherwise then with humility and obedience to control the actions of their Governors but their duty is only to call upon the God of Heaven and so submit themselves to his mercy by whose ordinance the Scepter is fallen into his hand and power that enjoyeth the Crown whether he be good or bad A right of deposing must be either in him that hath an higher power which is only God or in him that hath better right to the Crown which the Pope cannot have because he is a stranger nor the Peeres or people because they are subjects Be the King for his Religion impious for his Government unjust for his Life licentious the subject must endure him the Bishop must reprove him the Councellor must advise him all must pray for him and no mortall man hath authotity to disturbe or displace him as may evidently be seene by the Chapter following The fift Chapter confirmeth this Doctrine by the Fathers of the fourth 300 yeares IN this age of the Church the Popes exalted themselves above all that is called God and upon private displeasures and quarrels did curse and ban Princes incensing their neighbour-Nations and perswading their own Subjects to make war against them as if Christ had ordeined his Sacraments not to be seales of Grace and helps of our Faith but hookes to catch Kingdoms and rods to scourge such Potentates as would not or could not procure the Pope's favour How far these Popish practises did displease the godly and learned I will shew by S. Bernard Waltramus Bishop of Nanumberg the Epistle Apolegeticall of the Church of Leige against Paschalis the Pope and the Author of Henry the fourth his Life Saint Bernard in one of his Sermons upon the words of Christ I am the Vine commendeth the answer of a certaine King Bene quidam Rex cum percussus humana sagitta c. It was well said of a King when he was shot into the body with an arrow and they that were about him desired him to be bound untill the arrow's head were cut out for that the least motion of his body would endanger his life no quoth he it doth not beseem a King to be bound let the Kings power be ever safe and at liberty And the same Father in an Epistle to Ludovicus Crassus the King of France teacheth subjects how to rebell and fight against their Princes Quicquid vobis de Regno vestro de anima Corona vestra facere placuerit Whatsoever you please to do with your Kingdom Bernard Epist 221. your soule or your Crown we that are the children of the Church cannot endure or dissemble the injuries contempt and conculcation of our mother Questionlesse we will stand and fight even unto death in our mothers behalfe and use such weapons as wee may lawfully I meane not Swords and Speares but Prayers and Teares to God When Gregory the 7 had deposed Henry the 4 he gave away the Empire to one Rodolphus Duke of Saxony that was a sworn subject to that distressed Emperor which Rodolph in a battaile against his Soveraigne Lord lost his right-hand and gained a deadly wound After his death the Pope made one Hermanus King of Germany who enjoyed his Kingdom but a little time for he was slaine with a stone which a woman threw upon him from a turret as he made an assault in sport against his own castle Ex vita Henr. 4. quae habetur in fasciculorerum scienâ—io um Colâ—â—â—ae impresso to try the valour of his Souldiers Then did Egbertus by the Popes encouragment ascend the Imperiall Throne whereon he sat but a while for as he stepped aside from his Army into a Mill to rest himself in the heat of the day he was discovered by the Miller to the Emperor's friends and lost his life for his labour During this hurly-burly in that State Walthramus a godly Bishop wrote to one Ludovicus an Earle of the Empire diswading him from partaking with the seditious against that good Emperor whom the Pope had deposed Walthram by