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A70765	Anti-Paræus, or, A treatise in the defence of the royall right of kings against Paræus and the rest of the anti-monarchians, whether Presbyterians or Jesuits. Wherein is maintained the unlawfulnesse of opposing and taking up arms against the Prince, either by any private subject, inferiour magistrate, the states of the Kingdom, or the Pope of Rome. Confirm'd from the dictate of nature, the law of nations, the civill and canon law, the sacred scriptures, ancient fathers, and Protestant divines. Delivered formerly in a determination in the divinity schooles in Cambridge, April the 9th. 1619. And afterwards enlarged for the presse by learned Dr. Owen. Now translated and published to confirme men in their loyalty to their king, by R.M. Master in Arts.	Owen, David, d. 1623.; Mossom, Robert, d. 1679.	1642 (1642)	Wing O703; ESTC R6219	56,080	108

doth not punish but love him that doth well but if he be evill he doth not hurt but purge he is not therefore a terrour to him that doth well But the wicked ought to fear because Princes are appointed to punish the wicked Thus he part 3. quest 48. memb 2. art 1. Dost thou heare Paraeus the Power of the Superiour though cruell and unjust doth not hurt but purge the Righteous Will you heare Aquinas The Faith of Christ is the beginning and cause of Righteousnesse and therefore by the Faith of Christ the order of Justice is not abrogated but confirmed and the order of Justice requires that the Inferiours obey the Superiours otherwise the state of humane affairs cannot be preserved and therefore the Faithfull by the Faith of Christ are not excused from their obedience to secular Princes in 2.2 q. 104. art 6. Have you it now Paraeus Faith doth not subject the Superiours to the Inferiours against the Order of Justice neither doth it permit the Power of the Sword to the Subject against the Prince upon any cause because that inordinate Power would tend to the destruction of all humane things See the seventh reason from the opinion of Protestant Divines The Faithfull Flock of Christ long since and at this Day obey the Turk not without horrible injury yet are they Subject and alwaies have been not for wrath but for Conscience sake and amongst the Protestants Luther Melancthon Brentius Cranmer Archbishop of Canterbury Tyndall and Barnes doe condemne this error with an Anathema To whom I add the famous Example of a brave Prince an Example acceptable to God wholsome for the Common-wealth honourable to the Prince which I would have thee Reade Paraeus that thou mayst learn to be wise in * Berchet in explicat controversiae Gal licanae c. 7. Servinus pro libertate Ecclesiae Statu Regni Tom. 3. Monarchiae Romanae p. 202. Berchetus and Johannes Servinus I will relate it in briefe When in France after the Massacre in Paris the reformed Religion seem'd as it were deserted and almost extinct which I thinke could not be done without horrible injury A certain King powerfull in strength rich in Gold and dreadfull in his Navy with whom when the King of France was at odds he dispacht a solemne Embassage to Henry King of Navarre and other Protestants it was commanded the Embassadors that they should set the Protestants and Papists at strife together and to Arme Prince Henry who lived at Bearne under the Government of the Christian King against the King which they endeavoured with all Art and cunning attempt Note but in vain Henry a good Subject and as another David being himself to be King he would not fore-run the Day of the Lord. The Embassadors offered large rich and bountifull Conditions amongst the rest there was tender'd three hundred thousand Crowns in readinesse to make preparation of War and a necessary summe for continuing the War was to be payd every Moneth Henry a faithfull Christian a good Prince de prived of his Wife removed from the publique Administration of the Common-wealth and for whose sake the King had banisht very many Protestants and slain their Pastors I would have you Paraeus to acknowledge the words of your own Bucan yet did not Henry stretch out his hand against the Lords Annoynted he would have none of their Gold he refused the Conditions and dismist the Embassadors as Witnesse of his Faith towards God his faithfulnesse towards his King and his peaceable mind towards his Country There remains now no starting hole for you Paraeus here was an horrible injury done to the Inferiour Magistrate as well as others yet because a Lawfull Power was wanting to Henry which you Dream to be ordinary against the Power ordained by God he chose rather according to Christs precept to suffer a Greivous Injury with patience than according to your Prescript to resist the Power ordained by God What hath been the Religion of the Protestants This is Paraeus and ever has been the Religion of the Protestants not to offer but to suffer injuries to render good for evill and not to represse Persecutors placed in Authority by Force or Sword but procure their favour by Patience Love and Benevolence which truth even the more moderate Papists themselves do not abhorre who are averse from the Tyranny of the Papall Monarchy and the popular Anarchy of the Puritans William Barclay may be one in stead of all his Words are these Oftentimes there happens causes for which we are not bound to doe the commands of the Magistrate namely when he commands contrary to the commands of God But there can be no cause why we should resist him executing the unjust sentence of condemnation Note and requiring punishment out of malice under pretence of Authority because he has power ordained him by God which if he abuseth he is to be restrained by lawfull means not by the violence of the Subjects and after a few Lines Nothing remains to the guilty but that he commit his cause to the knowledge of the Omnipotent God and that he expect his Judgement who is King of Kings and the Judge of all Judges he will undoubtedly chastice and correct the injustice of the sentence by the severity of his eternall Justice Thus he lib. 3. c. 10. Remember Paraeus this your horrible injury and repent The Fourth Moderating Condition David Paraeus If they cannot otherwise be safe in their Fortunes Lives and Consciences Doctor Owen O the Blindnesse of the Primitive Church of the Ancient Fathers to whom that light of a New Gospel hath not shined Those men born to misery or this Divinity is false have altogether erred who were so willing patiently to undergoe the pangs of Martyrdom and when they were both the more in number and the stronger in power would not by Force and Arms defend their Fortunes from the Tyrants their Lives from the Persecutors or their Faith from Hereticall Kings The first Moderating Condition David Paraeus That under pretence of Religion or Justice they seek not their own Doctor Owen Justice and Re●igi on the pretence of Rebellion A Subject of what condition soever he be who resists the King seeks not his own but covers other Mens Goods yet obtains them not unlesse he pretend justice and Religion Lucifer himself doth not deceive Men but as transformed into an Angell of Light neither doth Vice deceive any Man unlesse it assume the name of Honesty What need of pretence Paraeus Rebellion it self is Justice and Religion and by how much any is more expert in Treachery and Treason by so much is he accounted the more Just and Holy I would to God this our Age were not an eye-witnesse of this Religious Justice Let an inferiour Magistrate inforce his Superiour into Order though to the diminution of Majesty Buchanan a Man if we give any credit to the Consistorians T. B. L. D. most excellent and the

bloodshed than the nine years which He reigned with Tyranny The Athenians drove out one Tyrant and brought in Thirty Rome by renouncing Kings did not take away Tyranny but chang'd it That of the Countryman is old Antigonum effodio I Dig up Antigonus when an ill Lord was succeeded by a worse And who is it that knows not the Fable of the Ulcerous Man When the Passenger would have driven the Leeches from off his sores it is said he cryed out Suffer oh suffer them to be these being full suck lesse but being struck off others will come on which feed more hungerly and bite more sharply Histories do relate That many Tyrants have been expold many slain but seldome with benefit to the Common-wealth The slaying of a Tyrant cannot be with a good Conscience Grant it that the slaying of a Tyrant is for the Common Good yet can it not stand with a Good Conscience because it is forbidden by God In a Tyrant three Powers concur of a Father of an Husband and of a Master The Sons cannot banish their Father the Wives may not desert their Husbands nor the Servants chastise their Masters much lesse may the Subjects deprive their King of his Dominion But be it so that they may if he degenerates into a Tyrant since there are many kinds of Tyrannies shall they all have the like reason of condemning the King where the punishment is not proportioned to the fault it is unjust and the fore-runner of a greater Tyranny You cannot be ignorant Paraeus that there is a threefold distinction of Tyranny one doth rage against the humane Laws for a private Benefit with a publique mischiefe another doth violate the Divine Law to the dishonour of the Creator A third doth trample upon both Humane and Divine Laws contrary to all Justice and Piety I confidently aver That all Tyranny whether it offer Violence to God or Man ought to be suffered and may not be abrogated but by him who alone doth unloose the Bond of Kings and girdeth their Loines with a Girdle Job 12.18 Solomon sinned most wickedly by Polygamy and Idolatry without the diminution of His Majesty or amission of his Kingdome Ahab Tyrannously murdered Naboth persecuted the Prophets with Exile and Death he banished Gods true Religion and by his Authority established Baals false Worship whom neither the Inseriour Magistrate nor consent of the People presumed to represse for his Tyranny I confesse Jehu did it by a Power Extraordinary given to him from Heaven not committed to him from the Laws What then could not be done without the Heavenly Oracle at this Day cannot be done without the contempt of the Divine Deity contumely to the Sacred Majesty and mischief to the Common-wealth Hence is that of Peter Martyr God Armed one only Jehu against his Lord which as it was peculiar so is it not to be drawn into example Note And after a few words he tels us That certainly if it be lawfull to cast out of their Kingdomes those who rule wickedly no Princes or Kings will any where be safe for although they govern justly and piously yet can they not alway satisfie the People loc com Clas 4. c. 20. p-965 Neither doth this moderating condition swerve more from true Divinity then from Civill Policy as Bodine hath observed de Repub. l. 2. c. 5. If the Prince be absolutely supreame as are the true Monarchs of France Spaine England Scotland Æthiopia Turcia Persia Muscovia whose Power is not doubtfully questioned nor their high Soveraignty with any of their Subjects divided in this case it is no waies lawfull for any one in particular or for all in generall to attempt any thing de facto or by Order of Law against the Honour and Life of the Prince of Monarch although he hath committed all the kinds of wickednesses and cruelties which tongue can name For as concerning the Order of Law the Subjects have no jurisdiction over the Prince on whom depends all the power and authority of Commanding and who not only can recall from the Magistrates all the power of Judicature committed to them but also he being present the power and jurisdiction of all Magistrates Corporations Colledges Orders and Communities doth cease as we had said before and shall speak more fully afterwards Thus Bodine The Second Moderating Condition David Paraeus When he will inforce them or others of his Subjects to manifest Idolatry or Blasphemy Doctor Owen Christ he lived under the Empire of Tiberius the Principality of Herod and Praesidency of Pilate The Apostles flourished under Caligula Claudius Nero Demitian All Christians lived under Persecutors for the the space of three hundred Years Hiberius Hosius Athanasius Nazianzen Hilary Ambrose Chrysostome Augustine Hierome and many others watered the Church of God with their holy Life and sound Doctrine above a thousand Years from the Birth of Christ of whom not one hath once opened this Mystery But I will nor contest with your Paraeus from their negative authority Christ submitted himselfe in all things not forbidden by the Divine Law to Tiberius Herod Pilate He himselfe performed all the duties of Subjection and gave command that all Christians should performe the like The Apostles declined neither to the right hand nor to the left from the Doctrine of Christ The Christians which were at Jerusalem when James suffered Martyrdome were more in number and greater in Power than were the Persecutors of the Apostles But through the fear and reverence they had of God they suffered themselves to be slain by a few rather then that they would slay any as that Roman Clement relates it recognition lib. 1. f. 9. With the Sect of Christians saith Tertullian it is lawfull to be slain it is not lawfull to slay in Apolog. None of us saith Cyprian when he is apprehended resisteth although our number be the greater ad Demetrianum The Souldiers under Julian the Apostate saith Augustine did distinguish the Lord Eternall from the Lord Temporall and yet for the Lord Eternall they were subject also to the Lord Temporall Upon Ps 124. Because I fear God saith Gregory the Great I fear to intermeddle in the Death of the Lombards In Epist ad Sabinianum As for mine own particular Paraeus If Kings shall draw Men on to Idolatry I had rather imitate the Saints in their observancy than you in your insolency and that I should chuse this rather the Divine Law doth admonish and incite A Law is extant against those who shall seduce and draw aside to Idolatry and Blasphemy Deut. 13.6 If thy Brother the Son of thy Mother or thy Son or thy Daughter or the Wife of thy bosome or thy Friend which is as thine own Soule entice thee secretly saying Let us go and serve other goods c. The Law is expresse concerning a Brother a Son a Daughter a Wife a Friend but as concerning a Father in Husband a Master there is not a Word in the Law The Law therefore extends

more holy or more orthodoxe Bishops and Priests then under Theodosius yet have they not made known to us this way of avoiding the Violence of Tyranny It is shall be and hath been the common opinion of all Catholicke men agreable to the Writings of the Prophets the Precept of Christ the doctrine of the Apostles and the practise of Christians that the King which sins hath God alone to take vengeance from whom alone he takes his being whose Court he cannot decline and Judgement he cannot elude he ought not to be violated by men although he degenerate into a Tyrant and abuse that power which he hath received from God Which seeing it is so it remains that I weigh well what remains of your new Divinity David Paraeus Because against whom defence by the Magistrate is lawfull against them private defence is lawfull in case of necessity when that which is done by the Magistrate cannot be had because then the Laws arme them also who are private men But in case of necessity defence is lawfull by the Inferior Magistrate against the Superior and by the Superior against the Inferior Therefore also then private defence is lawfull Doctor Owen The absurdity of this reason concerning private defence Paraeus follows his old wont He confounds things different and unlike as if they were the same and by comparing things different he cunningly draws the unwary Reader into the Trappe Those things which are invol'd by him in a multitude of words I will declare more plainly The sonne hath the same Power over the Father that he hath over the Servant the Wife over the Husband which she hath over the Handmayde the Servant over the Master which he hath over the Slave the Marriner over the Ship-Master which he hath over the Pirate The Subject over the Prince which the Traveller hath over the Robber He that proves this shall be crown'd with Hellobore and drinke till he surfeit The purging Iuice that whole Anticyra affords That which follows concerning the threefold Power of the Superiour against the Inferiour and the Inferiour against the Superiour and of private revenge against them both is turned over and over and with it's confused turnings exceeds my capacity neither have I what to answer Yet the Divine Law hath which is the Rule of our words and actions which no man ought to swerve from Concerning the King it is commanded Destroy him not for who can lay his hand on the Lords anointed be guiltlesse 1 Sam. 26.9 Christ the eternall Law-giver and the faithfull Interpreter of the Law given The Apostles whom Christ endued with the graces of the Holy Spirit and with infallibility of Judgement for the direction of all Christians The truely Apostolicall Men and all Christians who in the time of the ten Persecutions have illustrared the whole World with their Faith and Charity and sealed the Orthodoxe Doctrine with their Blood Christ I say the Apostles and Apostolicall Men all patiently suffered Kings most infamou● for their Tyranny Wickednesse and Cruelties and not onely patiently suffered but also performed all Honour and Reverence to them and taught all indifferently to doe the same by Word and Example Not for wrath but for Conscience sake as in the presence of the living God who alone is the Witnesse greater then all exception of their innocency and free Subjection That which Christ taught and did a Christian ought not to gainsay and if he doe were he an Angell he shall incurre the heavy course of an Anathema The King that Steward which the Lord not the Servant may cast out Besides the King is the Minister of God and that great Steward which Christ hath set over his whole Family If that Steward shall beginne as that wicked Servant in the Gospell to despise his Lord to neglect his duty to smite his Fellow-Servants to eate drinke and be drunken it is not in the power of the whole Family not of the Pope not of the States of a Kingdome not of the promiscuous Vulgar if they be in the Family of Christ to remove the Steward constituted and for over them all by their Lord the comming of him that appointed him is to expected who alone can call the Steward to account and put him out at his pleasure Therefore Paraeus you do talke in vaine of a lawfull Means to depose Kings quest 3. pag. 49. Yet neither can commend the Author nor designe the Executor nor determine the forme thereof I inquire for the Authour in the Word of God not in your Commentary's which being without witnesse is without Reason and deserve no beleife I desire the executour not confirmed by humane Appointment but by Divine Authority It is Adulterate Impious and Sacrilegious saith Cyprian which is instituted by humane presumption that the divine ordinance should be violated That which you inculcate concerning the Brethren of the Kingdome is a meere Dotage and has no being but in your braine God is not the Authour of this Anarchy neither may man be the Executor One man compared with another is either his Superiour his Equall or his Inferiour the Superiour is no way 's Subject to the Inferiour the Inferiour is every way Subject to the Superiour and an Equall has no Rule over his Equall That the matter may be the more evident in this Supposition view well the Jewish Polity The manner of the Jewish Polity with the degrees and order thereof the Decurians are above the people the Quinquagenarians above the Decurians above them the Centurians over whom the Tribunes bear rule over them the Seventy Elders of whom Moses alone is Judge who is Subject neither to each severall nor to all joyntly but to God alone He himselfe that I may use the words of Ambrose was held by no Laws because Kings are free from the bonds of offences and are not cal'd to puishment by any Laws being secure in the power of their Empery Thus he upon the 50 Psalme As concerning the Meane themselves I deny not but that there are some ordained by Christ which the Saints long since have used The meanes to avoyd or destroy Tyranny and Christians ought alwayes to use such as are Flight Patience Prayers and Teares Christ himselfe sought his safety by Flight The Martyrs offer'd up their Soules to God with patience and by Patience the Confessours preserv'd the Faith entire By Prayers the Sons of the Church have still overthrown the Tyrants whose Ensigne-Bearer and Captain of the Lords Host Saint Ambrose has these words I know not how to warre I know how to greive I can weepe I can mourne against Arms Souldiers Gothes my teares are my we apons otherways I neither can nor ought to resist In his Oration against Auxentius post Epist 32. Basil the great well appointed for Battell I will not saith he betray the Faith through the losse of Goods through Banishment or Death I have no wealth more than a torne Garment and a few Bookes I sojourne