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A96592	Jura majestatis, the rights of kings both in church and state: 1. Granted by God. 2. Violated by the rebels. 3. Vindicated by the truth. And, the wickednesses of this faction of this pretended Parliament at VVestminster. 1. Manifested by their actions. 1. Perjury. 2. Rebellion. 3. Oppression. 4. Murder. 5. Robberies. 6. Sacriledge, and the like. 2. Proved by their ordinances. 1. Against law. 2. Against Equity. 3. Against conscience. Published 1. To the eternall honour of our just God. 2. The indeleble shame of the wicked rebels. And 3. To procure the happy peace of this distressed land. Which many feare we shall never obtaine; untill 1. The rebels be destroyed, or reduced to the obedience of our King. And 2. The breaches of the Church be repaired. 1. By the restauration of Gods (now much profamed) service. And 2. The reparation of the many injuries done to Christ his now dis-esteemed servants. By Gryffith Williams, Lord Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.; Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664.	1644 (1644)	Wing W2669; Thomason E14_18b	215,936	255

for the least medling in these civill affaires doe not onely suffer their owne Preachers to straine at a gnat but also to swallow a Camell when M. Henderson Marshall Case and the rest of their new inspired Prophets shall sit as Presidents in all their Counsels and Committees of their chiefest affaires and consultations either about Warre or Peace or of any other civill cognizance how those things can be answered to deny that to us which they themselves do practice I cannot understand when as the light of nature tels us Quod tibi vis fieri mihi fac quod non mihi noli Sic potes in terris vivere jure poli * Vnde Baldus jubet ut quis in alios non aliter judicet quàm in se judicari vellet And therefore when as there is no politique Philosophy no imperiall constitution nor any humane invention that doth or can so strictly binde the consciences of men unto subjection and true obedience as the Doctrine of the Gospell and no man can perswade the people so much unto it as the Preachers of Gods word as it appeareth by this Rebellion perswaded by the false Preachers because the Principles of Philosophy and the Lawes of many nations do permit many things to be done against tyrants which the Religion of Christ and the true Bishops of Gods Church do flatly inhibit How requisite it is for Kings to delegate civill affaires unto their Clergie it is very requisite and necessary for all Christian Kings both for the glory of God their owne safety and the happinesse of the Common wealth to defend this their owne right and the right of the Clergie to call them into their Parliaments and Counsels and to demise certaine civill causes and affaires to the gravest Bishops and the wisest of the ministers and not to suffer those Rebellions Anabaptists and Brownists that have so disloyally laboured to pull off the Crowne from their Kings head to bury all the glory of the Church in the dust to bring the true Religion into a scorne and to deprive the King of the right which is so necessary for his safety and so usefull for the government of his people that is the service of his Clergie in all civill Courts and Councels And as it is the Kings right to call whom he pleaseth into his Parliaments and Councells That it is the Kings right to give titles of honour to whom he pleaseth and to delegate whom he will to discharge the office of a Civill or Ecclesiasticall magistrate or both wheresoever he appoints within his Real●● and Dominions so it is primarily in his power and authority and his regall right to give titles of honour and dignity to those officers and magistrates whom he chooseth for though the Barbarians acknowledge no other distinction of Persons but of Master and Servants which was the first punishment for the first contempt of our Superiors Gen. 9.25 therefore their Kings do raigne and domineere over their Subjects as Masters do over their servants Saravia c. 28. p. 194. and the Fathers of families have the same authority over their Wives and Children as over their slaves and vassals and the Muscovites at this day do rule after this manner neither is the great Empire of the Turke much unlike this government and generally all the Easterne Kingdomes were ever of this kind and kept this rule over all the Nations whom they Conq●ered and many of them do still retain it to these very times Yet our Westerne Kings whom charity hath taught better and made them milder and especially the Kings of this Iland The mild government of our Kings which in the sweetnesse of government exceeded all other Kings as holding it their cheifest glory to have a free people subject unto them and thinking it more Honourable to command over a free then a servile nation have conferred upon their subjects many titles of great honour which the Learned Gentleman M. Selden hath most Learnedly treated of and therefore I might well be silent in this point and not to write Iliads after Homer if this title of Lord given by His Majesty unto our Bishops for none but he hath any right to give it did not require that I should say something thereof Of the title of Lord touching which you must observe that this name dominus is of divers significations and is derived à domo as Zanchius observeth where every man is a Lord of that house and possession which he holdeth and it hath relation also to a servant so that this name is ordinarily given among the Latinists to any man that is able to keep servants and so it must needs appeare how great is the malice I cannot lay the ignorance when every school-boy knowes it of those Sectaries that deny this title to be consistent with the calling of a Bishop which indeed cannot be denyed to any man of any ordinary esteeme But they will say that it signifieth also rule and authority and so as it is a title of rule and Dominion it is the invention of Antichrist the donation of the Devill and forbidden by our Saviour where he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Luke 22.25 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 16.30 that is in effect be not you called gratious Lords or benefactors which is the proper signification of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 therefore these titles of honour are not fit for the Preachers of the Gospell to puffe them up with pride and to make them swell above their brethren It is answered That there is a double rule or dominion that if our Saviours words be rightly understood and his meaning not maliciously perverted neither the authority of the Bishops nor the title of their honour is forbidden for as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is a title of dominion so it is fit to be ascribed to them unto whom the Lord and author of all rule and dominion hath committed any rule or government over his People and our Saviour forbiddeth not the same because you may find that there is a double rule and dominion the one just and approved the other tyrannicall and disallowed and the tyrannicall rule or as S. Peter saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Pe● 5.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the domineering authourity over Gods inheritance both Christ and his Apostles do forbid but the just rule and dominion they deny not because they must do it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the son of man doth it so the manner of their rule 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Kings of the nations rule with tyranny he prohibiteth but as the servants of Christ ought to rule with charity not with austerity with humility and not with insolencie he denieth not and so he denyeth not the name of Lord as it is a title of honour and reverence given unto them by the King and ascribed by their people but he forbiddeth an ambitious aspiring to it and a proud carriage

that they destroy all images and are just such as the Prophet David speakes of which have done evill in Gods Sanctuary and have broken downe all the carved worke thereof with axes and hammers that have set fire upon his holy places and have defiled the dwelling place of Gods name even unto the ground for it is almost incredible how barbarously worse then any Turkes or Jewes they have broken down those rare and sweet instruments of Musick the Organs of our Churches and have defaced those excellent pieces of worke that to the honour of God were made and set up in the windowes of our Churches in Canterbury Winchester Lincolne and the other Cathedrals by the best Artists in Christendome which is a most horrible fact no wayes commanded in this precept and an irreparable losse to us and our posterity and therefore the Prophet David calleth these defacers of such carved and painted workes set up in his house the adversaryes and enemies of God vers 4 and 5. vers 11. foolish people vers 19 and 23. the haters of God vers 24. and the blasphemers of his name vers 11. for none but such would have done such Prophanations as is done in Gods house but let them take heed lest the Prophets prayer should light upon them lift up thy feete O God that thou mayest utterly destroy every one of these enemies which hath done this evill in thy Sanctuary 3. For swearing not vainely but falsly most wickedly Ps 74. v. 4. 3. How they forswear themselves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Menand perjurium est nequiter decipere credentem Aug. 4 How they prophaned the Sabboth and for-swearing themselves over and over againe and againe and having more dispensations and absolutions for their perjuries by their holy Prophets then ever the Popes gave for adulteries it is incredible to thinke and impossible to number the heads of these transgressions and therefore if you beleive that God was in earnest when he gave this precept you may be assured he will not hold them guiltlesse that are such transgressors of it 4. For the day wherein we should serve our God in his Church most reverently some of them worship him more unmannerly then some of those blinde Indians that worship the Devill himselfe and others of them muster their men plunder their neighbours and murder their brethren which they beleive to be the best way to sanctify the Sabbath and for which resting from their worke thus religiously to serve the Lord let them take heed left God should sweare in his wrath that they shall never enter into his rest 5. How they curse their Fathers and Mothers 5. They curse their Father and their Mother that their dayes may be long in the Land which their pretended Parliament hath promised to give them for the King is the Prince and Principall Father of us all and the Prophet saith of such men they shall curse their King and their God Esay 8.21 and the Bishops are their Fathers too and they have cursed them long agone and I feare they will not cease to curse them till their curses fall upon their owne heads and for all other bonds of duty and relations of Wives unto their Husbands Children unto their Parents Servants unto their Masters they are Preached asunder to make way for the liberty of the Subject to Rebell by authority against his Soveraigne 6. How many they have murdered 6. Whereas God saith thou shalt doe no murder they gave that first commission though they had not the least colour of any authority to give it to kill slay and destroy and it is most lamentable to consider how many thousands they have murdered and how they are thought worthy of the greatest honour and the best reward that have killed most of Gods faithfull servants and the Kings loyall Subjects 1. How they loosened the reins to all lust ho● fonte deri vata clades in patriam populumque fluxit Horat. car l. 3. 7. For adulteries Fornications and all Uncleannesse they may now freely doe it lust may flow like the river whose bankes are broken downe when they have overthrowen those courts of Justice and were never at rest till they had most violently suppressed the power and execution of all Ecclesiasticall censures that were the chiefest barres and hinderances of these unlawfull lusts 8. How they are like Argivi fures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 8. For stealing they have changed the name but not the nature of it for under the pretence of preserving to us the propriety of our goods they have not stollen but plundered away that is robbed us of all our goods and carried them into those Rebellious Townes that are now the dens of these theeves and are stronger in their wickednesse then the hils of the robbers and that which makes this sinne most sinfull Ps 94.12 is that it is established by a Law 9. They have justified the Cretans 9. How they belyed all sorts of good men Quomodo Deus pater genuit filium veritatem nempe sic diabolus lapsus genuit quasi filium mendaciū Aug. super Ioh. Habac. 2.9 and proved themselves the right bastard sonnes of the father of lyes filling all and every corner of this Kingdome with palpable intolerable and incredible lyes slanders and false witnesse-bearing against God against his Annointed against the Church and against all the reverend governours of the Church all religious Protestants and all the loyall Subjects of this Nation that the Angels doe now blush and the Devils doe laugh and rejoyce to see they are so fruitfull in begetting so many children so perfectly formed and so compleatly perfected in their owne image and likenesse and if ever the saying of Gildas was true they have proved it now Moris continui gentis erat sicut nunc est Gildas de excidio Britan. ut infirma esset ad retundenda hostium tela fortis ad civilia bella infirma inquam ad exequenda pacis ac veritatis insignia fortis ad scelera mendacia 10. They have coveted an evill covetousnesse 10. The extent of their covetousnesse when they coveted all evill unto themselves not onely their neighbours houses goods and lands and all that are theirs but also the patrimonie of the Church the revenues of the Clergy and all the rights and prerogatives of the King to be intayled upon themselves and their faction that so they and theirs might be both Kings and Priests and all not to God but to themselves and their fellow Rebels in the government of this Kingdome And as they have thus transgressed all the old Commandements of the Law How they transgressed the new Commandement of the Gospell Gen. 4.9 so they come no wayes short in transgressing the new Commandement of the Gospell for their love to their brethren is now turned to perfect hatred when they say not with Cain am I my brothers keeper but with Apollyon I will be

certainly the authority of Kings is both naturall and divine immediately from God and not from any consent or allowance of men Pineda de rebas Solo. l. 2 c. 2. and Pineda saith Nusquam invenio Regem aliquem Judaeorum populi suffragiis creatum quin si primus ille erat qui designaretur à Deo vel à Propheta ex Dei jussu vel sorte vel aliâ ratione quàm Deus indicasset Neither do I remember any one that was chosen King by the Children of Israel but onely Abimelech the bastard son of Gedeon and as some say Jeroboam that made Israel to sin and the Scripture tels you how unjustly they entered how wickedly they reigned and how lamentably the first Strange that the People should bestow the greatest favour or dignity on ear●h Esay 42.8 that was without question the Creature of the People ended both his life and his Reigne to teach us how unsuccesfull it is to have other makers of Kings than he that is the King of kings and saith He will not give his glory unto another nor hold them guiltlesse that intrude into his Throne to bestow Soveraignty and create Kings at their pleasures when as he professeth it belongeth unto him not to the People to say Yee are gods and to place his own Viceroy to governe his own People Arist p●● l. 3. And therefore though I do not wonder to finde Aristotle of that opinion Vt reges populi suffragio constarent that Kings should be elected by the People and that it was the manner of the Barbarians to accept of their Kings by succession Quales sors tulerit The nature of the people non virtutis opinione probatos such as nature gave them and not those which were approved by the People for their vertues Blac●od p 61. and as T. Li● sai●h Aui serri● hu●liter aut don●atur superse because he was ignorant of the divine Oracles yet me thinkes it is very strange that men continually versed in God's Word and knowing the nature of the People which as one saith Semper aeger est semper insanus semper furore intemperiis agitur and specially reading the story of times should be transported with such dreames and fopperies that the People should have any hand in the election of their Kings for if you briefly run over most of the Kings of this world you shall scarce finde one of a thousand to be made by the suffrage of the people Of all the Kings of the world very few made by the suffrage of the People for Nimrod got his Kingdome by his strength Ninus enlarged the same by his sword and left the same unto his heires from the Assyrians the Monarchy was translated to the Medes and Persians and I pray you how by the consent of the People or by the edge of the sword From the Persians it was transferred to Alexander but the same way and it continued among his successours by the same right and Romulus Ad sua qui domit●s deduxit flagra Quirites did not obtain his power by the suffrage of his People and if you look over the States of Greece we shall finde one Timondas which obtained the Scepter of the Corinthians and Pittacus the Government of the Mitylenians by the suffrage of the People but for the Athenians Lacedemonians Sicyoni Thebanes Epirots and Macedons among whom the Regall Dignity flourished a farre longer time than the popular rule Non optione populi sed nascendi conditione regnatum est Idem pag. 63. their Kings reigned not by the election of the People but by the condition of their birth and what shall we say of the Parthians Indians Africans Tartars Arabians Aethiopians Numidians Muscovites Celtans Spaniards French English and of many other Kingdomes that were obtained either by gift as Abdolonimus received his Kingdome of Alexander Juba the Kingdome of Numidia from Augustus Quintus Curtius and the French King got the Kingdome of Naples and Sicily or by Will as the Romans had the Kingdomes of Egypt Bithini● Pergamus and Asia or by Armes as many of the foresaid Kingdomes were first gotten and were alwayes transmitted afterwards to posterity by the hereditary right of bloud Claud. de 4. cons Honorii And the Poet could say terra dominos pelagique futuros Immenso decuit rerum de principe nasci It behoved the Kings of the earth to be borne of Kings Besides we must all confesse that the King is the Father of people the Husband of the Common-wealth and the Master of all his Subjects Children and servants not allowed to choose what fathers and masters they please and can you shew me that God ever appointed that the children should make choice of their fathers then surely all would be the sonnes of Princes but though fathers may adopt their sonnes as the King may make a Turke or any other stranger a free Denizon yet children may not choose whom they please for their fathers but they are bound to honour those fathers that God hath appointed or suffered to beget them though the same should be be never so poore never so wicked so the wives though while they are free they may have the power to refuse whom they dislike yet they have no such prerogative to choose what husbands they please or if they had I am sure no woman would be lesse than a Lady and the like may be said of all servants Therefore the election of Kings by the People seemes to me no prime Ordinance of God but as our Sectaries say 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A humane Ordination indeed and the corruption of our Nature a meere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and an imitation of what the Poet saith Optat Ephippia bos niger optat arare caballus Just as if the women would faine have that Law of liberty to choose what husbands they please and the servants to make choice of what Masters they like best The People are in all things greedy to have their own wils so the People never contented with whom God sendeth never satisfied with his Ordinance would fain pull their neckes out of God's yoke and become their own choosers both of their Kings and of their Priests and indeed of all things else when as nothing doth please them but what they do and none can content them but whom themselves will choose and their choice cannot long satisfie their mindes but as the Jewes received Christ into Jerusalem with the joyfull acclamation of Hosanna and yet the next day had the malicious cry of Crucifige so the least distaste makes them greedy of a new change such is the nature of the People But though I said before the election of our chiefe Governours may for many respects be approved of God among some States yet I hope by this that I have set down it is most apparent unto all men contrary to the tenet of our Anabaptisticall Sectaries that the hereditary succession of Kings

undutifulnesse will needs transferre this right of ruling Gods Church unto a Parliament of Lay-men the King shall be denuded of what God hath given him and the people shall be indued with what God and all good men have ever denyed them I deny not but the Parliament men as they are most noble and worthy Gentlemen so many of them may be very learned and not a few of them most religious and I honour the Parliament rightly discharging their duties Hugo de Sancto Vict. lib. 2. de sacr fid par 2. cap. 3. Laicis Christianis fidelibus terrena possidere conceditur clericis verò tantùm spirituali● committuntur quae autem ill● spiritualia sunt subjicit c. 5. dicent omnis ecclesiastica administratio in tribus consistit in sacramentis in ordinibus in praeceptis Ergo Laici nihil juris habent in legibus praeceptis condendis ecclesiasticit as much as their modesty can desire or their merit deserve neither doe I gain-say but as they are pious men and the greatest Councell of our King so they may propose things and request such and such Lawes to be enacted such abuses to be redressed and such a reformation to be effected as they thinke befitting for Gods Church but for Aarons seed and the Tribe of Levi to be directed and commanded out of the Parliament chaire how to performe the service of the Tabernacle and for Lay men to determine the Articles of faith to make Canons for Church-men to condemne heresies and define verities and to have the chiefe power for the government of Gods Church as our Faction now challengeth and their Preachers ascribe unto them is such a violation of the right of Kings such a derogation to the Clergy and so prejudiciall to the Church of Christ as I never found the like usurpation of this right to the eradication of the true religion in any age for seeing that as the Proverb goeth Quod medicorum est promittunt medici tractant fabrilia fabri what Papist or Athiest will be ever converted to professe that religion which shall be truly what now they alleadge falsely unto us a Parliamentary religion or a religion made by Lay men with the advice of a few that they choose è faece Cleri I must seriously professe what I have often bewayled to see Nadab and Abihu offering strange fires upon Gods Altar to see the sacred offices of the Priests so presumptuously usurped by the Laity and to see the children of the Church nay the servants of the Church to prescribe Lawes unto their Masters and I did ever feare it to be an argument not onely of a corrupted but also of a decaying State when Moses chaire should be set in the Parliament House and the Doctors of the Church should never sit thereon therefore I wish that the Arke may be brought backe from the Philistines and restored to the Priests to be placed in Shilo where it should be and that the care of the Arke which King David undertooke may not be taken out of his hands by his people but that he may have the honour of that service which God hath imposed upon him For 3. Opinion Of the O●thodox Quia religio est ex potioribus reipublica partibus ut a●t Aristot Polit. l. 7. c. 8. ipsa sola custodit hominum inter se societate● ut ait L●ctant de ira Dei cap. 12. Veritura Troia perdidit primum Deos. 3. As nothing is dearer to understanding righteous and religious Kings then the increase and maintenance of true religion and the inlargement of the Church of Christ throughout all their Dominions so they have at all times imployed their studies to this end because it is an infallible maxime even among the Politicians that the prosperity of any Kingdome flourisheth for no longer time then the care of religion and the prosperity of the Church is maintained by them among their people as we see Troy was soone lost when they lost their Palladium so it is the truest signe of a declining and a decaying State to see the Clergy despised and Religion disgraced and therefore the provision for the safety of the Church the publique injoying of the Word of God the forme of Service the manner of Government and the honour and maintenance of the Clergie are all the duties of a most Christian King which the King of Heaven hath imposed upon him for the happinesse and prosperity of his Kingdome and whosoever derive the authority of this charge either in a blinde obedience to the See of Rome as the Jesuites doe or out of their too much zeale and affection to a new Consistory as the late Presbyterians did or to a Lay Parliament as our upstart Anabaptists and Brownists doe are most unjust usurpers of the Kings right which is not onely ascribed unto him and warranted by the Word of God but is also confirmed to the Princes of this Land by severall Acts of Parliament Therefore the Tyrians ch●y●●d their gods lest if they fled th●y should be destroyed to have the supremacie in all causes and over all persons as well in the Ecclesiasticall as in the Civill governement which being so they are exempted thereby from all inforcement of any domesticall or forraigne power and freed from the penalties of all those Lawes both Ecclesiasticall and Civill whereunto all their Subjects Clergy and Laity Q. Curtius de rebus Alexand. Joh. Beda p. 22 23. and all inferiour Persons and the superiour Nobility within their Kingdomes are obliged by our Lawes and Statutes as hereafter I shall more fully declare Therefore it behoveth all Kings and especially our King at this time seriously to consider what prejudice they shall create unto themselves and their just authority if they should yeild themselves inferiour to their Subjects aggregativè or repraesentativè or how you will or liable to the penall Lawes for so they may be soone dethroned by the unstable affection and weake judgement of discontented people or subject to the jurisdiction of Lay Elders and the excommunication of a tyrannous Consistory who denounceing him tanquam Ethnicum Matth. 18.17 may soone adde a stranger shall not raigne over thee Deut. 17.15 and so depose him from all government For seeing all attempts are most violent that have their beginning and strength from zeale unto religion be the same true or false and from the false most of all and those are ever the most dangerous whose ringleaders are most base as the servile warre under Spartacus was most pernicious unto the Romans there can be nothing of greater use or more profitable either for the safety of the King How necessary it is for Kings to retaine their just rights in their hands the peace of the Church and the quiet state of the Kingdome then for the Prince the King to retaine the Militia and to keepe that power and authority which the Lawes of God and of our Land have granted