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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

this time I hope the Answerer hath found out a Difference CHAP. VIII The Close and Summary of the Whole THE Summ and Substance of the Whole is this God Delegates to Kings Authority and Power to Govern the People committed to their Charge in his Stead and for their Good And as a King in a Dependent Kingdom constitutes a Deputy and Communicates with his Power part of his Name unto him by making him a Vice-Roy so God by exalting of them to that Great Trust makes them as it were Vice-Gods for of them he saith himself That they are Gods And as the Vice-Roy is Responsible to none but the King that entrusted him so Kings are only Accountable to God whose Power they have and in whose Stead they Rule and if they do abuse his Trust and Power seeing no one else can God hath undertaken to call them to an Account for their Miscariages since as was said in the Pamphlet all their Violations of this Trust reflect upon God whose Trustees they are And this is the Reason that makes him threaten so severely to punish Governors that neglect his Laws and abuse his Power For as the King his Vice Roy so God may Depose them at his own Will and Pleasure And when they Manage Affairs to his Dishonour and the Discouragement of Virtue and Probity as he may so also since he himself holds the Helms of all Governments in his own hands it may be supposed that he will for the sake of Justice Animadvert upon them for shall not the God of the Whole Earth do Right No one else can and therefore He or none must do it And when he doth this it often is by Removing them from that Power and Authority that he had Commissioned them with and as a King on the Complaint of the Misgovernment of a Vice Roy by committing that Charge and Province to Another For God doth Kings and Emperors no wrong though he thus displace them they being Nothing else but his Agents and Officers and to be Employ'd no longer than he knows it to be for the Good of his Church and People When ever therefore for the sake of an Oppressed people he is pleased thus to Remove and Displace an Arbitrary and Usurping Governor and raise another to his Trust and Dignity whom he in his Infinite Wisdom foresees to be more for the Good of his Church and the Glory of his Providence all Good people are in Conscience bound submissively to Comply with God's Doing and yield a Chearful Obedience to his Authority which where-ever it is ought to be Reverenced Now because the Meaning of God in such Revolutions are often Dark and Ambiguous for they may be for our Sins as well as the Sins of our Governors therefore we ought throughly to debate the Case in our own Conscience and unfeignedly and impartially Examine where the Guilt lies in Us or in our Governors for if for some conceived displeasure to their Persons or Government we rashly and too forwardly withdraw from them that Duty we owe we do but add Iniquity to Sin But if we find our selves in such Circumstances that without any sinful Co operation of ours a Door is opened for our Deliverance One scarce can suppose it any thing but God's Gracious Interposition And since God doth by his Providence now what in the days of Prophecy he did by his Immediate Revelations when we see the same Events Consequent upon the same Antecedent Causes and God hath plainly told us by his Word that He hath done the One how can we deny in a Parity of Causes and Events but that the same Hand did also the Other Especially when we see the Injured party flying to God for Help or in the Use of the last Remedy making his Appeal for Justice This is the Summary of the Whole Case and it would be Hard indeed if when Deliverance comes upon our Prayers and Tears We might not embrace it Let those that hanker after the Onions in an Egyptian Bondage fix their Eyes on them till the Effluence of the Acrimony force them to Weep I for my part will Wipe mine Eyes and thank God that there is no Leading into Captivity and no more Complaining in Our Streets To close up All. Since the force of the Argument runs much upon Providence which the Answerer would in this case as a Loofe Sect of Philosophers that he knows of do in others discard from interposing so far as to be an Inducement for Men to Act Agreeably to it I cannot for all him but Conclude with a Remarque of the Wonderful Providence of God in Reserving this Convocation-Book which was so long concealed for the Publication of these Difficult Times and the Determination of so Weighty a Matter I will not say what Party put it forth but there seems to be a Providence in that too But I will say It hath had Good success in Bringing over One that was the Bulwark of their Cause And that it may prove more and more so Successful in prevailing with the Answerer and the Right Reverend the Fathers and Pastors of This our Too much Divided Church is the Hearty and Daily Prayers of the Author which may God Almighty in his own Good Time both Hear and instead of any other Answer Amen A True Copy of a Letter Writ by King James the First to Dr. Abbot concerning the Convocation called Anno 1603. 1. Jac. and continued by Adjournments and Prorogations to 1610. Now in the Hands of a Gentleman of the Temple Good Dr. Abbot I Cannot abstain to give you my Judgment of your Proceedings in your Convocation as you call it and both as Rex in solio and unus gregis in Ecclesia I am doubly concerned My Title to the Crown no body calls in question but they that neither love you nor me and you guess whom I mean All that you and your Brethren have said of a King in Possession for that word I tell you is no worse than that you make use of in your Canon concerns not me at all I am the next Heir and the Crown is mine by all Rights you can name but that of Conquest and Mr. Sollicitor has sufficiently expressed my own Thoughts concerning the Nature of Kingship in General and concerning the Nature of it ut in mea Persona And I believe you were all of his Opinion at least none of you said ought contrary to it at the time he spoke to you from me But you know all of you as I think that my Reason of calling you together was to give your Judgments how far a Christian and a Protestant King may concur to assist his Neighbours to shake off their Obedience to their own Sovereign upon the account of Oppression Tyranny or what else you like to name it In the late Queens time this Kingdom was very free in assisting the Hollanders both with Arms and Advice and none of your Coat ever told me that any scrupled at it in her Reign Vpon my coming to England you may know that it came from some of your selves to raise Scruples about this Matter And albeit I have often told my Mind concerning Jus Regium in Subditos as in May last in the Star-Chamber upon the occasion of Hales his Pamphlet yet I never took any notice of these Scruples till the Affairs of Spain and Holland forced me to it All my Neighbours call on me to concur in the Treaty between Holland and Spain and the Honour of the Nation will not suffer the Hollanders to be abandoned especially after so much Money and Men spent in their Quarrel Therefore I was of the Mind to call my Clergy together to satisfie not so much me as the World about us of the Justness of my owning the Hollanders at this time This I needed not to have done and you have forced me to say I wish I had not You have dipped too deep in what all Kings Reserve among the Arcana Imperii And whatever Aversion you may profess against Gods being the Author of Sin you have Stumbled upon the Threshold of that Opinion in saying upon the Matter that even Tyranny is Gods Authority and should be Reverenced as such If the King of Spain should return to claim his old Pontifical Right to my Kingdom you leave me to seek for others to Fight for it For you tell us upon the Matter before hand his Authority is Gods Authority if he prevail Mr. Doctor I have no time to express my Mind farther in this Thorny Business I shall give you my Orders about it by Mr. Sollicitor and until then meddle no more in it for they are Edge Tools or rather like that Weapon that 's said to Cut with the one Edge and Cure with the other I commit you to Gods Protection Good Dr. Abhor And rest Your Good Friend James R. FINIS