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A26065	Evangelium armatum, A specimen, or short collection of several doctrines and positions destructive to our government, both civil and ecclesiastical preached and vented by the known leaders and abetters of the pretended reformation such as Mr. Calamy, Mr. Jenkins, Mr. Case, Mr. Baxter, Mr. Caryll, Mr. Marshall, and others, &c.	Assheton, William, 1641-1711.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1663 (1663)	Wing A4033; ESTC R4907	49,298	71

while been preserved by what hath been done Little cause have we to be discouraged for those we have to deal with their spirits are base and vile why should we fear those uncircumcised Philistines If you say Well but were it not better we bent all our forces to some Accommodation To that we answer you thus You have to deal not onely with his Majesty but with a Popish party that are about him and what security you can ever have of your peace as was worthily said before except the Scotish Nation comes in for to fasten it it is easie for any one to judge I will tell you but one story about that and because it is suitable unto you I will therefore relate it here It is a Story that I find in the Chronicles that in the days of King Edward the sixt King Edward sends to this City for assistance against the Lords and the Lords send to the City for their assistance likewise and the Common-Councel was called I suppose in this place and there stands up as the story saith a wise discreet Citizen in the Common-Councel and makes this speech unto them First he acknowledges that the cause was right for the Lords for the Kingdom though it were against the will of the King because the King would not then put in execution those Laws that should be but hindered them but yet saith he let me remind you of that that I have read in Fabians Chronicle it was one George Stadley that stood up let me remind you of that when there was a fight between the Lords and the King the Lords send for assistance to the City the City granted their assistance the Lords prevailed the King was taken and his Son a Prisoner afterwards they were both released upon Composition and amongst other things this was one that howsoever the City should be preserved that the City should suffer nothing for what they had done and this Composition was confirmed by Act of Parlament but saith this Citizen what came of it did the King forgive No nor forget for afterwards all our Liberties were taken away strangers were set over us for our Heads and Governours the bodies and the estates of the Citizens were given away and one misery followed after another and so we were most miserably persecuted and here was their Accommodation Have not many of you spent your blood in this Cause yea how many young ones in this City have lost their blood Me-thinks a spirit of indignation should rise in you to vindicate the loss of the blood of your Servants and Children many precious ones that might have lived many years to have done good service for the Lord. Know there shall come a day wherein you shall be calling and crying to God for mercy the success of this evenings work will be recorded against that day when you shall cry for mercy Out of Mr. Obadiah Sedgewick his speech in Guild-hall on Friday the sixt of October 1643. I Know many Objections might be made You have done much already and the sum is great I say no more There is nothing great to a mind that is great and the Cause is great and though the sum of money be great yet their love is greater than all you can lay out to answer their love And say not grumbling we have done often and often I say to you as Christ said to him that asked him How often must I forgive my brother Why seventy times seven times So will I say for this publique Cause you must do and you must do and yet you must do and yet you must do as long as there is a penny in thy purse as long as there is strength in thy hand as long as there is breath in thy body you must be all Servants to Christ and Servants to the Churches of Jesus Christ. The Independents Conclusions from the Presbyterian Principles Mr. John Dury's Considerations concerning the present Engagement with Mr. Caryl's Imprimatur An. Dom. 1649. THe Oath of Allegiance as you know did bind all men as Subjects in Law to be true and faithful to the Kings Person to his Heirs and Successors as they were invested with the authority which the Law did give them nor was it ever meant by the Parlament which Enacted the Oath of Allegiance that any should be absolutely bound to the King and his Heirs as they were men to be true and faithful to their Personal Wills but onely to them and their Wills as they had a Legal standing that is to the Authority conferred upon them by the consent of the People which was testified in and under a Law whereunto the King and his Heirs were bound for the Kingdoms good by Oath So that the Obligations of King and Subjects are mutual and must needs stand and fall together according as the condition by which they are begotten is kept or broken which is nothing else but the Law according to which he and his Subjects agree that he shall be their King and they shall be his Subjects For as you were sworn to the King so he was sworn to you as you were bound to be faithful to him so he was bound to be faithful to his trust nor is he your Liege further than he is faithful thereunto If then he be found unfaithful to his trust you are ipso facto absolved from your Allegiance unto him and if according to Law he receives not his Authority you are not in Law his Subjects at all Now the just and natural foundation of all Laws is the Reason of the Body of every Nation in their Parlament which hath the sole Right to propose and chuse the Laws by which they will be Ruled Where it hath been as I suppose a perpetual custom in this Nation for the Commons at all times to ask and propose the making of Laws and for the Lords and King to give their consent thereunto The Lords as the Judges in cases of transgression and the King as the Executor and publick Trustee for the administration of the common good and wealth thereby for in a Kingdom there is a Common-wealth as the intrinsical substance of the Being thereof for which all things are to be done by King and Lords as the publick servants thereof and Ministers not Masters of State therein If the King then should set himself wilfully to be above this Reason of the Nation which is the onely Original of the Law and refuse obstinately the Laws which they shall chuse to be setled he puts himself ipso facto out of the capacity of being a King any more unto them and if this can be made out to have been the way wherein the late King set himself and that it was the design of the House of Lords to uphold and enable him to follow that way it is evident that so far as he did by that means actually un-King himself as to this Nation so far also they that assisted him in that design did un-Lord themselves

Grace at the nine hundred ninety and nine years end all the good that he had done before had been quite forgotten I know that God will so uphold his children that they shall never fall away but I bring it as a supposition that suppose that Methushelah had forsaken his righteousness all he had done before had been quite forgotten but God hath made a promise never to forsake his Children and that grace he hath begun in them he will finish and I doubt not but that God that hath put it into your hearts to be so liberal already and do so much in this Cause and to be so cordial and so real and to exceed àll other parts of the Kingdom I hope that same God will now finish that good work he hath begun and will crown all his Graces in you with the Grace of Perseverance and that God that hath been the Author of all the good you have done I doubt not but that God will be the finisher and I beseech God to give a blessing to that hath been spoken Mr. Baxter's Theses of Government and Governours in General Collected out of his Book called the Holy Common-wealth I. GOvernours are some limited some de facto unlimited The unlimited are Tyrants and have no right to that unlimited Government P. 106. Thes. 101. II. The 3. qualifications of necessity to the being of Soveraign Power are 1. So much understanding 2. So much will or goodness in himself 3. So much strength or executive power by his interest in the People or others as are necessary to the said ends of Government P. 130. Thes. 133. III. From whence he deduceth 3. Corollaries viz. 1. When Providence depriveth a man of his understanding and intellectual Capacity and that statedly or to his ordinary temper it maketh him materiam indispositam and uncapable of Government though ●…ot of the name Thes. 135. 2. If God permit Princes to turn sowicked as to be uncapable of governing so as is consistent with the ends of Government he permits them to depose themselves Thes. 136. 3. If Providence statedly disable him that was the Soveraign from the executing of the Law protecting the just and other ends of Government it makes him an uncapable subject of the power and so desposeth him Thes. 137. IV. VVhereunto he subjoyns that though it is possible and likely that the guilt is or may be theirs who have disabled their Ruler by delerting him yet he is dismissed and disobliged from the charge of Government and particular innocent members are disobliged from being Governed by him V. If the person viz. the Soveraign be justly dispossest as by a lawful War in which he loseth his right especially if he violate the Constitution and enter into a Military state against the People themselves and by them be conquered they are not obliged to restore him unless there be some special obligation upon them besides their Allegiance Thes. 145. VI. If the person dispossess'd though it were unjustly do afterwards become uncapable of Government it is not the Duty of his Subjects to seek his restitution Thes. 146. No not although saith he the incapacity be but accidental as if he cannot be restored but by the Arms of the Enemies or God or of the Common-wealth VII If an Army of Neighbours Inhabitants or whoever do though injuriously expel the Soveraign and resolve to ruine the Common-wealth rather than he shall be restored and if the Common-wealth may prosper without his restauration it is the Duty of such an injured Prince for the Common good to resign his Government and if he will not the people ought to judge him as made uncapable by Providence and not to seek his restitution to the apparent ruine of the Common-wealth Thes. 147. VVhere by the way we are to note he makes the people judge of this and all other incapacities of the Prince and consequently when or for what he is to be Depos'd or not Restored by them VIII If therefore the rightful Governour be so long dispossess'd that the Common-wealth can be no longer without but to the apparent hazard of its ruine we that is we the people or we the Rebels that dispossess'd him are to judge that Providence hath dispossess'd the former and presently to consent to another Thes. 149. IX When the People are without a Governour it may be the duty of such as have most strength ex charitate to protect the rest from injury Thes. 150. And consequently they are to submit themselves to the Parlament or to that Army which deposed or dispossess'd or murdered the rightful Governour X. Providence by Conquest or other means doth use so to qualifie some persons above others for the Government when the place is void that no other persons shall be capable competitors and the persons doth not he mean the Cromwels shall be as good as named by Providence whom the People are bound by God to choose or consent to so that they are usually brought under a divine obligation to submit to such or such and take them for their Governous before those persons have an actual right to Govern Thes. 151. XI Any thing that is a sufficient sign of the will of God that this is the person by whom we must be Governed is enough as joyned to Gods Laws to oblige us to consent and obey him as our Governour Thes. 153. XII When God doth not notably declare any person or persons qualified above others there the people must judge as well as they are able according to Gods general rules Thes. 157. XIII And yet All the people have not this right of choosing their Governours but commonly a part of every Nation must be compelled to consent c. XIV Those that are known enemies of the Common good in the chiefest parts of it are unmeet to Govern or choose Governours but such are multitudes of ungodly vicious men Pag. 174. So that if those that are strongest though fewest call themselves the Godly Party all others besides themselves are to be excluded from Governing or choosing of Governours And amongst the ungodly that are to be thus excluded he reckons all those that will not hearken to their Pastors he means the Presbyterian Classis or that are despisers of the Lords-Day that is all such as are not Sabbatarians or will not keep the Lords-Day after the Jewish manner which they prescribe and which is condemned for Judaism by all even of the Presbyterian perswasion in the world but those of England and Scotland ouely XV. If a People that by Oath and Duty are obliged to a Soveraign shall sinfully disposse's him and contrary to their Covenants choose and Covenant with another they may be obliged by their latter Covenant notwithstanding their former and particular subjects that consented not in the breaking of their former Covenants may yet be obliged by occasion of their latter choice to the person whom they choose Thes. 181. XVI If a Nation injuriously deprive themselves of a worthy

be said they intend not to hurt the Kings Person yet might I not as well have hurt his Person in the day of Battel a●… any of them that were swept away from ab●…ut him by the fury of the Ordnance which put no difference twixt King and Common Souldiers Pag. 19. They answer by faying That though this is the hardest case that can be put against Defensive Armes yet first By what Rule of Conscience or God is a state bound to sacrifize Religion Laws and Liberties rather than endure that the Prince his Life should come into any possibilities of hazard by defending them against those that in his Name are bent to subdue them Pag. 18. Secondly If he wi●…l needs thrust himself upon the hazard when he needs not whose fault is that And a little after in the same Answer As if a King disguized should offer any private violence a watchman that would not or even might not hurt him being known were without blame if he knock'd him down or killed him as he might in like case a disorderly private person Now in Battel to many or most and especially to the Gunners that give fire to the Ordnance he is altogether disguised and so they are blameless in reference to his personal hurt that fault is wholly his own and those wicked Counsellors that have thrust him upon the fury of the Battel Pag. 20. To Doctor Ferne's saying It is a marvellous thing that among so many Prophets reprehending the Kings of Israel and Judah for their Idolatry cruelty and oppression none should call upon the Elders of the people for this duty of resistance They Answer That even in the reign of the best Kings not onely the Peoples hearts were usually unprepared and in their greatest seemings hypocritical and treacherous but also the Princes Elders and Nobles were exceedingly corrupt Now if they were so bad in good times who can marvel if they were stark naught where the King was naught and helpers forwarders of his Idolatries Cruelties and Oppressions And why should it then be expected that the Prophets should call upon them to resist the King being on their side and they on his Pag. 20. 21. It is not absolutely true that men are bound Universally as by an Ordinance of God to set up live under Government in the Doctors sense that is absolutely and without power to resist Pag. 31. Either all mankind are not bound to be under Government and all the Doctors te●…ts and reasons are alleged in vain or else Kings and Monarchs are also under some Government at least of the Representative Body of their people according to what was before alleged from our Lawyers Rex non habet superiorem praeter legem Curiam Comitum Baronum c. Pag. 32. We argue not that the people have power to recall that Regal Authority wholly upon any Case of Mal-administration All that we plead for is Power to administer a part of it upon Necessity which he will not administer for good but rather for evil And there are not many things that were altogether ours and in our disposing before we part with them but are still so far Ours to use them again in our Necessity for that turn at least Pag. 35. A Prince onely inherits what was given the first of the Nation or others since by consent of the people and by written Law or Custome he must claim any power he will exercise or else he cannot plead any right title to it and his qualification of power admits of Increase or Decrease as he and the people agree and consent His power is altogether derived by Election and Consent first and last whence I will infer no more but as before that therefore in Case of necessity the people may use so much of it as may suffice to save themselves from Ruine Pag. 39. The late Usurpers own'd as a Holy State set up by Almighty God MAster Sam. Slater in a Sermon Preached at S. Edmunds Bury in Suffolk upon the 13. of Octob. 1658. Being a day set apart for Solemn Fasting and Humiliation and seeking a blessing upon His Highness the Lord Protector This Sermon he intitles The Protectors Protection or the Pious Prince guarded by a Praying People In this Sermon Pag. 57 58. He hath these words Oh! pray for your Governours and in a more special manner for him whom God hath made chief over you and by his Providence called to the Supreme place of Magistracy in the Nation God hath been pleased of late to make a sad breach among Us taking away from Us our former Pilot the late Renowned Protector who when he had fought the Nations Battels carried us thorow the wilderness preserved us from the rage and fury of our Enemies and brought us within s●…ght of the promised Land gave up the Ghost laid down his leading Staff and his life together with whose fall the Nation was shaken his death covered all the faces of sober and considerate Persons with paleness and their hearts with sadness as if Peace Prosperity Resormation the Gospel all lay drawing on and would be buried in the same grave with him But b●…essed be God Divine Grace vouchsafed to cast an eye towards us and to visit us in our low estate there is another Pilot placed in his room VVhile he directs the Course let us fill the Sails with our Praying breath Moses it is true is dead but we have a Joshua succeeding him let us pray that what the other happily begun this may more happily finish and bring the accomplishment of all your right-bred hopes and what they said to Joshua let us say unto his Highness According as we hearkned unto Moses in all things so will we hearken unto thee onely the Lord they God be with thee as he was with Moses Jos. 1. 17. And pag. 60. Our Prince riseth gloriously pray that he might n●…t set in a cloud Our hopes concerning him are great pray that they may not be blasted Thus He. Mr. Baxter in his Five Disputations of Church-Government and Worship in the Epistle Dedicatory to Richard Cromwel He delivers the sense of his Party in these words MAny are perswaded you have been strangely kept from participating in any of our late bloody Contentions that God might make you a Healer of our Breaches and imploy you in that Temple-work which David Himself might not be Honour'd with And he adds This would be the way to lift you highest in the Esteem and love of all Your people and make them see that You are appointed by God to be an Healer and Restorer and to glory in You and to bless God for you as the Instrument of our chiefest good My earnest Prayers for your Higness shall be that you may rule us as One that is ruled by God c. The same Mr. Baxter in his Holy Common-wealth in the Epistle Dedicatory or Preface to the Army pag. 6. He call'd those Usurping Powers that

were then laid by The best Governours in all the world that have the Supremacy whom to Resist or Depose is forbidden to Subjects on pain of Damnation and pag. 8. He crys out shall the best of Governours the greatest of mercies seem intolerable O how happy would the best of ohe Nations under heaven be if they had the Rulers that our Ingratitude hath cast off And pag. 484. speaking of the Usurpers whomsoever he meant he saith He is bound to submit to the present Government as set over us by God and to obey for Conscience and to behave himself as a loyal Subject towards them In the book intitled The Marrow of Modern Divivinity publickly commended by Mr. Caryl Mr. Burroughs Mr. Strong Mr. Sprigg and Mr. Samuel Prittie EVangelista in the Dialogue being a Minister of the Gospel doth instruct Neophytus or the young Christian in these following words Pag. 201. In case you be at any time by reason of the weakness of your faith and strength of your temptations drawn aside and prevailed with to transgress any of Christs Commandments beware you do not thereupon take occasion to call Christs love to you into question but believe as firmly that he loves you as dearly as he did before you thus transgressed For this is a certain truth as no good in you or done by you did or can move Christ to love you the more So no evil in you or done by you can move Him to love you the less c. There are other things in that Book as that The Law of Christ neither justifies nor condemns And that in the Covenant betwixt Christ and his there is no more for man to do but onely to know and believe that Christ hath done all for him Out of Mr. Baxters Five Disput. of Right to Sacraments Dispute 3. Pag. 329. HE that hath oftentimes been drunk may have true grace and be in number of the godly and Pag. 330. How many professors will rashly rail and lie in their passions how few will take well a reproof but rather defend their sin How many in these times that we doubt not to be godly have been guilty of disobedience to their guides and of Schism and doing much to the hurt of the Church a very great sin Peter Lot and 't is like David did oft commit greater sins And Pag. 326 327. A man must be guilty of more sin than Peter was in denying and forsivearing Christ that is notoriously ungodly ye●… then Lot was who was drunk two nights together and committed incest twice with his own daughters and that after the miraculous destruction of Sodom of his own wife and his own miraculous deliverance Nay a man that is notoriously ungodly in the sense in hand or unsanctified must be a greater sinner th●…n Solomon was with his seven hundred wives and his three hundred concubines and gross Idolatries when his heart was turned away from the Lord God of Israel which appeared to him twice and commanded not to go after other Gods but he kept not that which the Lord commanded Mr. Baxters Five Disputations of Church Government and Worship are thus Dedicated To His Highness Richard Lord Protector of the Common-Wealth of England Scotland and Ireland The Epistle begins SIR THese Papers are ambitlous of accompaning those against Popery into your Highness presence for the Tender of their Service This would be the way to lift You highest in the esteem and love of all your people and make them see that you are * appointed by God to be an Hea'er and Restorer and to glory in you and to bless God for you as the Instrument of our chiefest good Your Zeal for God will kindle in your Subjects a Zeal for you Parlaments will love and honour you Ministers will heartily pray for you and teach all the people to love and honour and obey you I crave your Highness favourable aceptance of the tendered service of a ●… faithful Subject to your Highness Rich. Baxter In Mr. Baxters Key for Catholikes and Epistle Dedicatory to the same Richard IT is onely the necessary defence of your life and * dignity and the lives of all the Protestants that a●…e under your Protection and Government and the Souls of men that * I desire You have your Goverment and we our lives because the * Papists are not strong enough Give not leave to every seducer to do his worst to damn mens souls when ●…ou will not tolerate every Traytor to draw * your Armies or people into * Rebellion If You ask who it is that presumeth thus to be your Monitor It is one that * rejoyceth in the present happiness of England and * earnestly * wisheth that it were but as well with the rest of the world and that honoureth * all the providences of God by which we have been brought to what we are and he is one that * concurring in the common hopes of greater blessings yet to these Nations under * your Government was encouraged to do what you daily allow your Preachers to do and to concur with the rest in the Tenders and some performance of his Service That God will make you a Ruler and preserver of his Churches here at home and a successful helper to his Churches abroad is the earnest Prayer of your Highness * faithful Subject Richard Baxter Out of the Quarrel of the Covenant delivered in three sermons Sept. 27. 30. Oct. 1. 1643. By Thomas Case one of the Assembly of Divines TO murmur at the Covenant Mr. Case calls the voice of Rebellion Pag. 19. The Covenant it self he calls a pure and heaven'y Ordi●…ance Pag. 21. Out of Mr. Case his Book of the Covenant delivered in three sermons A. D. 1643. IS Prelacy indeed the way of Gospel-government c What is it then that hath destroy'd all Gospel Orde●… and Government and VVorship in these Kingdoms as in other places of the Christian world even down to the ground hath it not been Prelacy Pag. 45. Object But there be that will tell us these have been the faults of the Persons and not of the Calling Pag. 46. Answ. 5. Was not that Calling as bad as the Men You may as well say so of the Papacy in Rome for surely the Prelacy of England which we swore to extir ate was the very same Fabrick and Model of ●…cclesiastical Regiment that is in the Antichristian world Yea such an evil it is that some Divines Venerable for their g●…eat Learning as well as for their eminent holmess did conceive sole Episcopal Jurisdiction to be the very seat of the Beast upon which the fifth Angel is now pouring out his Vial which is the reason that the Men of that Kingdom gnaw their ●…ongues for pain and blaspheme the God of heaven Pag. 47. His Majesty is bound by his Coronation Oath to confirm these Laws Quas vulgus elegerit which the Commons shall agree upon and present unto

in the State thereof and if this was the guilt of the House of Lords by other practices and proceedings more than by an indifferencie and compliance with the Hamiltonian invasion to help the King to such a power I know not what to answer for them It is then undeniable that the third Article of that National Covenant was ●…ever meant by those that made it or that took ir to be opposite to the sense of the Oath of Allegiance but altogether agreeable thereunto What then the meaning of that Article is must needs also be the true sense of the Oath of Allegiance That Article then doth oblige you to preserve the Right and Privileges of the Parlament and the Liberties of the Kingdom in your Calling absolutely and without any limitation but as for the Kings person and Authority it doth oblige you onely thereunto conditionally and with a limitation Namely in the preservation and defence of the true Religion and Liberties of this Kingdom If then the King did not give to the Representatives of the Nation that assurance which was satisfactory and necessary that their Religion and Liberties should be preserved none of his Subjects were bound either by their Allegiance or Covenant to defend his person and the Authority which was conferred upon him The Oath of Allegiance therefore was bottomed upon the Laws which the Representatives of the Nation in Parlament had chosen to be observed concerning their Religion and the Liberties of the Kingdom which he refractorily either casting off or seeming to yield unto in such a way that no trust could be given him that he would keep what he yielded unto the Parlament did actually lay him aside and voted that no more Addresses should be made unto him from which time forward he was no more an object of your Oath of Allegiance but to be look'd upon as a Private man and your Oath by which you were engaged to be true and faithful to the Law by which the Religion and Liberty of the Kingdom was to be preserved did still remain in force which if it may be the true substantial sense of the present Engagement which you think is contradictory to this Oath and to the National Covenant then you are to look well to it that you be not mistaken for to an indifferent eye it may be thought so far from being opposite to the true sense of either that it may be rather a confirmation of the ground for which both the Oath of Allegiance and the third Article of the National Covenant was then binding And then also this I am confident of to be able to let you see further that although you may think that the effect of this Engagement is materially contrary to some intention which you had in the third Article of the Covenant yet that by the Act of the Engagement you are so far from breaking your Covenant that except you take it and observe it faithfully you will not onely materially but formally break that very Article of the Covenant for which you scruple the taking of the Engagement For the words must be taken in the sense which they can directly bear ●…nd which do impart the main end for which the Covenant was taken for the main end of this very Article whereof you make a scruple was evidently to preserve the Parlament and Common-wealth for it self and i●… need so required also without the King Now this is that which the Engagement doth directly also require for which cause I say that by vertue of this very promise you are bound to take the present Engagement and if you take it not that you make your self a transgressor of that very Article which you pretend to keep for if you refuse to be true and faithful to the Common-wealth as it is now established you do what in you lyeth to make the remaining Knights of Parlament and the beginnings of our settlement void which though at first it was not intended to be without a King yet it was cleerly presupposed in the Article it self as possible to be without him and consequently that although he should not be yet that the Common-wealth by the Rights of Parlament and the Liberties of the Nation should be preserved which is all that now is sought for by the Engagement Where you may take notice that although you and I as private men ought not to make our selves judges of the rights which superiors pretend to have in and to their places yet that they are not without a Judicature over them in those places for the subordinate Officers belonging to a State are bound to judge of the Rights of those that are over them both by which they stand in their places of Supremacy and by which they proceed in their actings toward Subjects lest they be made the instruments of Arbitrary power and tyranny and then also the law-making power which in all Nations resides by the Law of Nature in the convention of the Representatives of the whole body of the people whether it be made up of the heads of families or of chosen Deputies who are intrusted with a delegated power from all the rest doth make or unmake Rights in all places and persons within it self as it from time to time doth see cause HAving thus surveyed the dangerous Positions and Principles of the Presbyterians their brethren that it may be evident to the world that the enemies of our Church are equally enemies to our Monarchy it will not be amiss to lay down some of the Principles of the Papists and the Hobbians In which not to multiply citations we will for one of the first of these take father White who is counted the most moderate of them in his Book Intitled the Grounds of Obedience and Government And for the next Mr. Hobbs himself in his Books one called Leviathan and the other de Cive which he so magnifies that he affirms that part of Philosophy to which the handling of the Elements of Government and Civil Societies belongs is no older than that Book Of the dispossession of a Supreme former Governour and of his Right by Mr. White a Romanist pag. 132. c. in His Grounds of Obedience c. NOw our Question supposeth the Governour not to have come to that extremity but either to have been good or innocent or that it is doubtful whether his excesses deserved expulsion or at least if they did deserve it of themselves yet the circumstances were not fitting for it but the expulsion hapned either by the invasion of a stranger or the ambition of a Subject or some popular headless tumult for these three ways a Magistrate comes forcibly and unjustly to be outed of his power And first if the Magistrate have truly deserved to be dispossessed or it be rationally doubted that he hath deserved it and he be actually out of possession In the former case it is certain the Subject hath no obligation to hazard for his restitution but rather to hinder

it ought to be considered that such men see nothing but the outward appearances of what passes in humane negotiations and so there may many circumstances lye hidden from them which would make them think or with otherwise if they knew them As for example home-discontents and forein conspiracies which if understood would make these honest men preferr a war after which there is to follow a peace far exceeding the present quiet and such a one as deserves the intervening disturbance and damages And indeed I allow these men understand not such mysteries of State nor penetrate the value of the hazard But if they do not why are they not also exempted from engaging on those motives and then the rest of the Common-wealth will be but so many private men who must follow the common Again if they think themselves well they manifestly consent to the present Government and therefore cut off the title of the dispossessed Governour Besides who can answer they shall be better by the retu●…n of the dispossessed party surely by common presumption the gainer is like to defend them better than he who lost it But what if an open Enemy should come could or ought the Subjects joyn against him with their new Magistrate If not the whole publick must perish If they may then the case is the same against their old Magistrate since his right stood upon the common peace and that is transferr'd from him to his rivall by the title of quiet possession The Authority of Lawyers insufficient in this Question NO Laws made by the power or agreement of men can judge betwixt Subject and Soveraign in dispute of the common good and Government but only the Tribunals of God and Nature or Divinity and the science of Politicks And therefore the maximes of Law have no force in these questions Now if Princes lose their pretences by the force of Nature it is ridiculous for private men to build hopes upon rotten titles of ages long passed upon weak maximes of Law after Nature by her revolutions hath cast all Law and moral acts and agreements NOw as the malignity poyson of these anti-monarchical assertions render this Author a very unfit Prescriber of political Principles rules of government subjection to the rest of mankind so circumstance of their writing Publication they being published when Cromwell was in possession of the Government and the King dispossessed and in Banishment makes them look so like a publick disswasion of the People to endeavour the restauration of his Majesty who by his Principles ought to have renounced his title to the Government that we leave it to the World to judge whether such a man unless he repent and renounce these wicked assertions be worthy of his Majesties protection being restored to that Government to which he affirms that the Subjects ought not to endeavour to restore their Prince being once though never so unjustly dispossessed Out of Bishop Bramhall's Book against Mr. Hobs call'd The Catching of the Leviathan THE Obligation of a Subject to the Soveraign lasteth no longer than the power by which he is able to protect him Bramhall p. 517. When in a war forein or intestine the Enemies get a final victory so as the forces of the Common-wealth keeping the field no longer there is no protection of Subjects in their Loyaltie then is the Common-wealth dissolved and every man at liberty to protect himself by such courses as his own discretion shall suggest to him p. 517. He that hath no obligation to his former Soveraign but that of an ordinary Subject hath liberty to submit to a Conquerour when the means of his life is within the guards and garrisons of his enemy for it is then that he hath no longer protection from him And concludeth That their total submission is as lawfull as a Contribution p. 518. That they who live under the protection of a Conquerour openly are understood to submit to his Government And that in the Act of receiving protection openly and not renouncing it openly they do oblige themselves to obey the Laws of their Protector to which in receiving protection they have assented p. 518. If the Common-wealth come into the power of its enemies so that they cannot be resisted he who had the soveraignty before is understood to have lost it p. 517. Security is the end for which men make themselves subjects to others which if he in joy not his subjection ceaseth and he loseth not right to defend himself at his own discretion neither is any man understood to have bound himself to any thing or to have relinquished his right over all things before his own security be provided for p. 513. It is manifest that they do against Conscience and wish the eternal damnation of their Subjects who do not cause such doctrine and such worship to be exhibited to them as they themselves do believe to conduce to their salvation or tolerate the contrary to be taught and exhibited p. 514. No man is bound by his pacts whatsoever they be not to resist him who bringeth upon him death or wounds or any bodily damage p. 514. Seeing no man is bound to impossibilities they who are to suffer corporal damage and are not constant enough to endure it are not obliged to suffer it And more fully In case a great many men together have rebelled or committed some other capital crime for which every one of them expecteth death whether have not they the liberty to joyn together and assist and defend one another Certainly they have for they do but defend their lives with the guilty as well as the innocent may do There was indeed injustice in their first breach of duty their bearing Arms subsequent to it though to maintain what they have done is no unjust Act p. 514. FINIS He might have referr'd them to himsel●… p. 460. where he g●…ves the same answer to the same objection Vid. Presace to the Holycommonwealth p. 6. ☞ * The Law saith●… 〈◊〉 h●…bet Rex superior●…m praeter Deum ☜ ☜ ☜ ☜ He ressembleth Richa●…d to Solomen and Oliver to David * By Eulogies and approbations Printed before the Book which commend it to all Readers * Pag. 161. Pag. 119. ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ * The King and his Pa●…ty clea●…ly meant to be th●… Papists ☜ ☜ † ●… Clea●…ly abetting the murdering of the King ☜ ☜ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☞ ☜ ☞ ☞ * He makes it Law●…ul to do that a●… men which we are 〈◊〉 to do by 〈◊〉 L●…ws of Ch●…istianity ●…e 〈◊〉 the 5 Commandment Swe●…t incourage●…ent Excellent comp●…risons ●… between ones natural Prince to whom he hath 〈◊〉 and a Turk or a Thief * See Dr. Ham. of Resisting the Magistra●…e under 〈◊〉 of Relig●…on Hobs his Lev. p. 114. Lev. Le. p. 190. Le. p. 137. Hobs de Civ C. 7. Sect. 18. Ci. C. 13. Sect. 3. Ci. C. 13. Sect. 5. Ci. C. 2. Sect. 18. Le. p. 112.

his Majesty Pag. 49. So hath Prelacy flatter'd it self finding such a party to stand up on it's side among the * rotten Lords and Commons the debauched Gentry and abused people of the Kingdom As thy sword Prelacy hath made many women childless many a faithful Minister peop'eless c. So thy Mother Papacy shall be made childless among harlots ●… your Diocess Bishop'ess and your Sees Lordless and your Places shall know you no more Come my Brethren I say and fear not to take this * Agag Prelacy I mean not the Prelates and * hew it in pieces before the Lord. Pag. 51. None can withdraw from much less oppose this Service but such as bear evil will to Sion and would be unwilling to see th●… ruine and downfall of Anti-christ which this blessed Covenant doth so evidently threaten Pag. 63. A fift Motive to quicken us to this Duty may be even the Practice of the Anti-christian State and Kingdom Popery hath been dextrous to propagate and spred it self by this means And Prelacy that * whelp hath learned this Policy of it's mother Papacy that Lioness to corrobate and raise it self to that height we have seen and suffered by these Artifice●… it being an inconfiderable number either of Ministers or People the Lord be merciful to us in this thing that have had eyes to discover the Mystery of Iniquity which these men have driven Pag. 64. * He that hath been a Malignant or Neutral let him be so no more for I protest against every man that after his striking of this so Solemn and Sacred a Covenant with the most high God shall dare knowingly to persist in any of these mentioned abominations that is adheering to the King c. he is an enemy to Jesus Christ a Traytor to the Kingdoms a State Murderer and a destroyer of himself and his Posterity and at his hands if they miscarry God will require the blood of all these Pag. 101. * It brings Letters of Testimonial with it c. The waters of this Covenant hath been a notable purgation to the Rebels there in Scotland it hath been a Shibboleth to discover them and a Sword in the hand of the Angel of the Covenant to chase or slay them The walls of Jericho have fallen flat before it The Dagon of the Bishops Service-Book brake it's neck before this Ark of the Covenant Prelacy and * Prerogative have bowed down and given up the Ghost at it's feet And what changes hath it wrought in the Church and State what a Reformation hath follow'd at the heels of this glorious Ordinance Pag. 65 66. Epist. Dedicat. Thousands of your Nation are preparing their Brotherly addresses to pay the same debt to the whole Kingdom now almost in as great an exigence as ever the Gibeonites were when their five Kings with all their united fo●…ces were within few days march to take a bloody and unnatural Revenge for their entring into Covenant with Joshua onely we beseech you account it not our distrust or jealousie if sometimes you hear us complaining with the mother of Sisera Why are their chariots so long in com●…ng why stay the wheels of their chariots That is why come not in the Scotish A●…my against the King Out of the Trial of Mr. Love before the High-court of Justice in Westminster-Hall Printed Aug. 1652. MAjor Huntington in his Examination as witness against Love says thus pag. 32. I was told by Major Alford that Bain●… another witness told them he was very sorry he should meddle in that business and that they would never prosper that had any thing to do with him meaning the King for that the sins of him and his father were so great Mr. Love told Adams a Witness against him thus That if the Presbyterians were in Arms again by the blessing of God the Cava●…eering party might be prevented from getting the day Pag. 38. Mr. Love in his defence says thus God is my witness I never drove a malignant design I never carried on a malignant interest I detest both I still retain my old Covenanting Principles from which through the grace of God I will never depart for any terror or perswasion whatsoever c. I do retain as great a keeness and shall whilest I live and as strong an opposition against a malignant interest whether in Scotland or in England or in any part of the world against the Nation where I live and have to ●…his day as ever I did in former times I have all along engaged my estate and life in the Parlaments quarrel against the Forces raised by the King I gave my All And I did not onely deem it my duty to Preach for the Lawfulness of a Defensive War but unless my books and wearing apparel I contributed all that I had in the world I have at this day a great sum due to me from the State which is still kept from me and now my life endeavoured to be taken from me And yet for all this I repent not of what I have done though I could from my soul wish that the ends of that just war had been better accomplished c. Pag. 67. When I was Scholar in Oxon and Master of Arts I do not speak it out of vain ostentation but meerly to represent unto you that what I ●…as I am and what I am I was I was the first Scholar that I know o●… or ever heard of in Oxon who did publikely refuse in the Congregation-house to subscribe unto those impositions or Canons imposed by the Arch-Bishop touching the Prelates Common Prayers And for which though they would not deny me my Degree yet I was expelled the Congregation-house never to sit as a member among them c. About the beginning of the Wars between the late King and the Parl●…ment I was the first Minister that I knew of in England who w●…s accused of Preaching of Treason and Rebellion meerly for maintaining in a Sermon in Kent at Tenerden the lawfulness of a defensive War * at the first breaking out and irruption of our troubles I c. T●…at have in my measure ventur'd my All in the same quarrel that you were e●…gaged in and lifted up my hands in the same Covenant that took sweet counsel together and walked in fellowship one with another c. Attourney General Prideaux in Pag. 102. Thus The Treason is in this The Scots come in with intent to subvert the Government meaning Cromwels Charles S●…ewart to be made King to subvert the Government c. I have prayed unto God many a day and kept many a Fast wherein I have sought God that there might be an agreement between the King and the Scots upon the Interest of Religion and terms of the Covenant Pag. 125. Thus I die cleaving to all those Oaths Vows Covenants and Protestations that were imposed by the Two Houses of Parlament as owning them and dying with my judgement for them to the Protestation the Vow