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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67636	The resurrection of loyalty and obedience, out of the grave of rebellion by the sacred force of the oathes of supremacy and allegiance, which have lain as dead, and out of minde, for diverse years, and here raised up out of the dust, and discovered in their great inviolable force and power unto the people : for the humbling of those that are guilty of the breach of them, the quelling of rebellious principles, and excitement unto the duties of obedience and subjection, according to the tenor of the said oathes.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1660 (1660)	Wing W890; ESTC R38492	13,854	26

perjured sins but are to be lookt upon in religious reason as utterly void and of none effect as those wherein they exceeded their limits and broke the bounds of that power and authority which was committed unto them which were circumscribed unto their operations as the sphear of their activity by those Oaths which they took at their entrance thereupon for it is neither religious nor reasonable that any man or society of men should have power to act against the lawfull Oaths that they have taken and then if we remember that the lawfull Members of the long Parliament did as they were enjoyned by the law of the Nation take the Oath of Supremacy or Allegiance every one of them personally at or before their admittance into the House and that in order to their entrance upon their power to act as members of the Parlia of England it will be easie to conclude first how sinfull and then how altogether invalid and forcelesse all those acts that they have done or shall doe must needs be which are or shall be any way contrary or in the least derogatory to the aforesaid Oathes and how great work there is for Humiliation both to God and his substitute for many and sad things that have been done by some of them as highly and diametrically contrary to those Oathes as it is possible for actions to be contrived The cry is so loud I need not instance but now to come a little closer to the view of these Oathes and to discover what they import and oblige unto Obser VIII That in the first clause of the Oath of Supremacy the King is utterly and conscientiously declared and acknowledged upon Oath to be the onely supream Governour of this Realm and of all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries as well in Spiritual and Ecclesiastical things or causes as Temporal Mark the supreme Governour therefore he hath none above him not but that he and his great Counsell together may have power to do more than he can do alone but that none can act above him in opposition unto him Secondly The onely supreme Governor therefore there is none equall unto him This admits of no rivall in the Throne this excludes not others from Government as his subordinate Instruments nor doth it exclude others from being necessary assistants unto him in some acts of Government as the making of new Laws the abrogation of those that have been already made but it doth exclude all others from the supremacy from being inabled to act above him or contrary unto him or without him or his allowance in those or any other acts of Government and this supremacy of Government in him is solemnly acknowledged in this Oath which is both a law and an Oath of the Nation to extend unto this Realm and to all other his Majesties Dominions and Countries to all Spiritual or Ecclesiastical things causes as well as temporal that is to say as far as God hath committed either of them unto humane secular powers and as to the charge and over-sight of religious matters to see that they be rightly ordered and managed by those that are the proper instruments of Religious Ordinances and that the true Faith be embraced and Religious Duties purely practised by the people in his Dominions and to afford his protection defence encouragement thereunto and to take order that the offices of the Church be rightly established and furnished according to the rule of God and that wholsome laws be provided to those ends and decency and order be observed in Church-discipline and religious performances Obser IX That wherein the said Oath there is a religious disclaimer renouncing of all spiritual or ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Power Superiority Preheminence or Authority within this Realm it doth reasonably suppose that there is none within the Realm that hath any such preheminence above the King in those matters who is before declared to be the onely supream Obser X. That where the people of the Land do promise from henceforth That is for ever to bear faith and true allegiance to the Kings Highness his heires and lawfull successors it binds to obedience subjection and fidelity not onely to the King in present being but unto his heirs and lawful successors and doth bind us to them and every of them in opposition to al violent usurpers unlawfull intruders into the Government of this Nation that can plead no just establishment from the known and fundamentall Laws of this Nation as are all such that do either by fraud or violence intrude themselves into the power of Govenrment XI Whereas this onely bindeth the people of the Land to their power that is the utmost of their power to assist defend all jurisdictions priviledge preheminence and authority granted or belonging to the Kings Highness his heirs and Successours and united and annexed to the imperial Crown of this Realm it doth highly engage all Officers Parliament-members Generals Commanders Soaldiers and all the members of this Kingdome in their several capacities readily diligently to afford their dutiful help and assistance to defend the King in being from all hurt and violence and to maintain his state government and dignity against all opposers whatsoever foreign or intestine in like manner to defend the person life liberty of his Heirs and lawful Successors and to maintaine and assert the said royall priviledges and preheminences unto them and every of them and in case they be fallen into any damage or suffer any wrong or disparagement in any of them it is then the duty unto which all people are engaged by the sacred force of this Oath to use the utmost of their power according to their several abilities to restore recover and right them against all force and violence under which they suffer which doth painly shew what is required of all people and especially of those that have power in their hands at this time for the deliverance and restoring of our afflicted and oppressed Soveraign and how highly they are obliged thereunto and then more especially when God doth by his signal and wonderfull providences admonish them of and lead them on unto their duties Observations concerning the Oath of Allegiance 1. OBserve That the Nation by this Oath doth declare before God and the world the power of kingly Government is that which is established by Law in this Nation and over that and all other the Kings Dominions and that therfore the introducing of another form of Government is contrary to the Law and Constitution of this Nation which the people are bound to maintain 2. That this Regal and Kingly office is seated personally in the King for the time being who according to the Law of this Nation is said never to die but is presently upon his death revived as to this kingly right and office in him also who is the next heir to the Crown 3. That by the express words also of this Oath the Nation and the

People thereof doth not onely declare That the said King for the time being is lawful and rightful King of this Realm and all other his Majesties dominions and Countries and therefore not a King of courtesy or durante bene placito during pleasure no nor yet quamdiu se bene gesserit as long as he shall carry himself well in his office and be free from exception from the multitude or from any others who wil take upon them to be his Judges for then indead he were not like to be permanent since there is ●●●hing more easie than for a people to be perswaded that they are not well governed as judicious Mr. Hooker hath long agoe told us and as long as there is pride and ambition and inordinate affections in mens hearts there will be discontented spirits amongst a people that will be ready to raise seditious clamours and accusations against the Ruler Besides that a Government of a people is attended with so many difficulties that there must needs be failings and some real miscarriages In so much that a people that will bear with no infirmities nor miscarriages in Governours must upon the matter resolve to endure none at all and there is no miscarriage equall unto that But the King is by this Oath acknowledged and declared to have a lawful right of Government in him and then whatsoever force is used to divest him of his power or to disable or bar him from the possession or exercise thereof is true violence and the exercise of might against right and such as flyes in the face of God who is the God of Justice and Righteousness and the great asserter and maintainer of the right of Kings as that which is under him the safeguard and security of all other inferior rights and proprieties so that no success of violent and illegall practices or enterprises can be justly pleaded in barr against this Ruler we will justify that frantick axiome or resolution of the Son of Beliall in Wisdom c. 2. v. 11. Let our strength be the Law of righteousness for that which is feeble is found to be nothing worth and this right of Kings is establisht by the word of Christ himself who is the King of Kings Math. 22.21 and is declared to be very consistent with the right of God Give therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and to God the things that are Gods where the right of Caesar is asserted by Christ himself though he was an Heathen and an enemy to the Gospell And however that of Ezekiell 1.27 as the verses are numbred in our Bibles is interpreted of the right of Christ Yet it may seem to be applied in some sort by the wonderfull operations of Divine providence in this Nation at this time unto our present affairs concernments and to the business we have in hand I will overturne overturne overturne it untill he come whose right it is and I will give it him I am sure it stareth or at least supposeth that there is a right of Government and of the Kingly office and this is of so strong and adamantine a temper that no Steel nor sword can cut it or destroy it 4. It is declared by this Oath that the Pope neither of himself nor by any authority of the Church or See of Rome or by any other means with any other hath any Power or authority to depose the King or to dispose of any of his Majesties kingdoms or dominions or to authorise any foraign Prince to invade or annoy him or his Countries or to discharge any of his subjects of their allegiance and obedience to his Majesty or to give licence or leave to any of them to bear arms raise rumults or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royall Person State or Government or to any of his Majestyes subjects within his Majesties Dominions Where it is observed that the intent of the Oath is to secure the King of the inviolable right and safety of his Government of the obedience and allegiance of his people against attempts of deposition by his subjects against Rebellion and taking up Armes by his subjects against him as also against forraign invasions and the said Oath declares that the Subjects cannot be authorised unto these undutifull and disloyall practices against the King neither by the Pope nor any other with him and therefore it is supposed and implyed not by any other without him which inferrs thus much that none neither the Pope nor See of Rome nor any other hath any Power to depose the King to dispose of his Dominions or to discharge the Subjects of their obedience or allegiance to his Majesty or to give licence or leave to any of them whosoever they are either single or together to do that which it is supposed â fortiori without such license they have no Power of themselves to do viz. to bear Armes raise Tumules or to offer any violence or hurt to his Majesties Royall Person State or Government c. Whereby this Oath and therein the Conscience of the Nation doth upon so dreadfull an Obligation disclaime and disavow all Power to depose the Kings of this Nation in any whatsoever As also all taking up Armes Rebellion and Disobedience against him as wicked and abominable and contrary to the allegiance of Subjects which is asserted in this Oath nor is it imaginable that the intent of those that made this Oath For the security of the King and his Government did mean that themselves or any others in their capacity should take upon them the wicked pretence of any such power which they do here so much abominate in the Pope and others Obser V That the Subjects of this Kingdome in this Oath do swear from their heart not to admit of any Absolution of themselves from their obedience to the King but as the very words of the Oath import notwithstanding any absolution of the said subjects from their Obedience who ever they he that should take upon them to give it them much lesse is it to be supposed that they can Absolve themselves to bear Faith and true Allegiance to his Majesty and not onely to him in being but to his Heirs and Successors and the world knows who it is that the Law and Custome of this Nation states to be the Heir and Successor of the King even the eldest Son of the Predecessor Obser VI. That this National Oath doth binde the people of this Nation in the very expresse words thereof to defend Him and Them that is the King and his Heirs and Successors immediately before mentioned to the uttermost of their power words of a very severe and exact importance admitting of no negligence coldness or excuses against all Conspiracies and Attempt whatsoever mark and tremble to think how this hath been violated which shall be made against His or Their Persons their Crown and Dignity by reason or colour of any such sentence or declaration as is before mentioned

of the Pope or See of Rome or otherwise which doth expressely obliege the subjects to appear for the defence of the King of his Person and Government against all attempts against them by any whatsoever or upon any pretences soever Ob. VII That the people of this Nation are highly obliged in the importance of this Oath with their best endeavour to disclose and make known unto his Majesty in being to his Heirs and Successors all Treasons and Traiterous conspiracies that they shall know or hear of to be against the King or any of his Heirs and Successors Where the conspiracies which are against the King and his Successors have the stile of Treasons and Traiterous conspiracies for the Epithite or Title or Traiterous is not to be understood as a mark of distinction but of aggravation all such the people of this land are bound by thi Oath to reveal unto the King his Successors with their best endeavor whensoever they hear of them or have any knowledge of them to the intent without all doubt that they may be prevented and the contrivers and actors brought to condigne punishment and therefore all concealing of such things and much more all centriving and acting of them or complying with them or abetting of them is gross perjury against this Oath as well as treason against the King and his Heirs and successors Obser VIII That in this Oath the people do with this sacred obligation profess an hearty abhorring detesting and abjuration of that doctrine and position as impious hereticall and damnable that princes which be excommunicated and deprived by the Pope may be deposed and murthered by their Subjects or any other whatsoever which doth undoubtedly disclaime and abjure all deposing and murthering of Kings by their Subjects or others as a practice as impious heretical and damnable as any such Doctrine whether they be excommunicated and deprived by the Pope or no Unlesse any shall be so mad and wicked as to think that their Kings may be murthered or deposed by them or others because they are not excommunicated or deprived by the Pope as if Princes stood in need of the Popes deprivation or excōmunication to secure them from deposition or being murthered by their Subjects then it is obvious enough to any mans consideration how sad and desperate how impious heretical damnable and perjurious against the faith and Oath of the Kingdome The mistake and miscarriage of some hath been of late who would have been therein also examples unto others and those too I think that took this very Oath who instead of abjuring the deposing and murthering of the King have abjured the King himself thereby with a monster of wickedness have sworn down the awful lawful Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance their own Covenant binding them to the Kings posterity the Protestation binding to maintain and defend according to the duty of Allegiance together with the Laws of God and man and all that not onely justice and righteousness but even mercy compassion and gratitude and thankfulness which bindeth the people of this land unto his Majesty And withall it may be full easily discovered in the view of this Oath how wickedly forward some instruments and factours of the Jesuites amongst us that thought not sit to stay for a sentence of excommunication or deprivation from the Pope but have acted these horrid things without it that they have done to the reproach of the Christian profession and the shame and scandal of the protestant Religion and of this Nation I am sorry that it is become so necessary as it is to deal so plainly with them in this matter but it is of great concernment unto them and us in order to their salvation that they should be admonished of their miscarriage that we may not own their guilt by our silence when the world doth somuch cry out against them and that they may if it be possibly repent and be saved which I do earnestly beg of the Lord for them IX Observe that this national Oath doth absolutely disclaim all power in the Pope or in any other to absolve the people from this Oath or any part thereof and doth renounce all pardons and dispensations to the contrary as also all equivocation or mental reservation whatsoever and all this upon the engagement of the true faith of a Christian Lastly observe that in that dreadfull expression in the close of both these Oaths So help me God which is uttered with the hand upon the Gospel and sealed as it were with kissing that holy Book our Interest in Gods help and Salvation by the Gospel is as it were pawned and engaged for out fidelity therein By all this then that hath been said it is clear and evident how highly the people of this Nation are engaged to perform all the duties of these Oaths unto the present King How wicked those actions have been that have been managed against his Father and himself What a sad guilt of perjury there is upon this Nation And how necessary it is there should be a publick Humiliation for this as well as for other grievous sins in this Nation FINIS