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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36461	The triumph of Christianity, or, The life of Cl. Fl. Julian, the Apostate with remarks, contain'd in the resolution of several queries : to which is added, Reflections upon a pamphlet, call'd Seasonable remarks on the fall of the Emperor Julian, and on part of a late pernicious book, entituled, A short account of the life of Julian, &c.	Dowell, John, ca. 1627-1690.	1683 (1683)	Wing D2057; ESTC R8708	83,984	256

Invectives of Julian be embraced as sure Arguments to sully the Honour of the Church of God which is a clear refutation of that Tract and is the Glory of Christianity That the Testimony of Enemies are produced against it which Enemies themselves have given a real Commendation of it when that Julian himself in his Epistle to Orebasius proposes to the Arch Priest of Galatia the Examples and Carriage of Christians to be imitated by the Heathens by that means to render Paganism its self more amiable Reflections upon part of the Book called A Short Account of the Life of Julian IT seems indubitable that a Lawful Heir by a Lawful Authority upon a Lawful Reason may be secluded from his Inheritance The Lawful Authority in England is His Sacred Majesty and the Two Houses of Parliament To them the Lawful Reason must be referr'd But there is a vast difference 'twixt the Laws of England and the Imperial Laws the Succession to the Imperial Crown of England and the Eagles It is known in our Land that nothing has the force of a Law but what is ratified by the King and Two Houses of Parliament His Sacred Majesty to give ease to his People and to appease the angry humours of the Dissenters issued out a Declaration for an Indulgence The Parliament upon the next Convention questioned this Act His Majesty in his Speech to them averr'd that He would stand to his Action They addrest themselves to the King the King return'd that they invaded his Prerogative They reply'd That there was never put an Instance of the like Prerogative It 's otherwise in the Imperial Laws Quod Principi placui Legis habet vigorem What pleased the Emperor was a Law The Reason is thus given for by the Kingly Law which was Enacted concerning the Empire the people did grant unto the Emperor and transfer upon him all their Dominion and Power that whatsoever therefore the Emperor did by his Letters command or in his own Person Decree or by any Prescript enjoyn it was manifest was a Law and Just Titulo 2do Sect. sed quod the same is found C. lib. 1. Tit. 17. Sect. 7. Cum enim Lege antiqua que Regia nuncupabatur c. When by the Ancient Law which was called the Royal all the Right and all the Power with which the Roman people were invested was transfer'd upon the Emperor we will not therefore divide the Laws according to the names of those that Enacted them we will have the whole Code to be our own For how can Antiquity abrogate our Laws which fully evinceth that all right was seated in every Emperor And therefore Justinian intending to reform correct and reduce the former Laws into one Code he would have that call'd his own It was once in the power of the Roman people to chuse their Magistrates the created Consuls and Dictators but they transferring all their Power upon one single Person it was in the breast of that person to enact all Laws and to constitute what Officers he pleased and his Successors And therefore nothing more frequent in the Roman History than the Examples of Emperors by their own Decree making Laws creating Coesars and designing the successive Emperor which is otherwise in England The manner of Succession is determined by the Laws made by the Authority of the King and the Two Houses And 't is observable in the Roman Story that all the power being thus devolv'd upon the Emperor whosoever gain'd the Empire enjoy'd the same power And 't is observ'd the Emperors were created frequently by the Military suffrage It seems a great error therefore in the Author from the Example of Julian to meddle with the English Succession 't is to be acknowledged that Julian by reason of the Barrenness of Eusebia Constantius's Empress and that his two Brothers dyed leaving no Heir Gallus being likewise cut off was the next Heir to Constantius but that title had been invalid if Constantius had not created him Coesar Eusebius and Eumenius the Pagan Orator did say that Constantine came to the Empire by the Law of Nature and a Paternal right But that was Oratory and allusive to the general usage of Kingdoms where the Son succeeds the Father but 't is not so in the Roman Empire Constantius Chlorus was but a Coesar under Maximianus Herculeus the Emperor How could Constantine be by a Paternal right Augustus when his Father was but Coesar But his Father having influenc'd the Army they upon the Death of his Father unanimously saluted him Emperor And Julian being made Coesar by Constantius he gain'd the affection of his Army who after several Victories got over the Germans and Almans the Army saluted him Augustus to which he had no other title but what the Sword gave him and by his Rebellion against Constantius did by the Roman Laws forfeit all his right and title It appears an extravagancy to accommodate Julian's Succession to the Succession of the English Crown The actions and behaviour of the Christians towards Julian do not at all interfere with a passive obedience The Question is thus stated Whether a Prince invested with Dominion may in matters of Religion be resisted by Arms No Christian did during the Persecution ever take up Arms against the Emperor or make the least resistance their Passive Obedience was their glory and their Blood watered the Church of Christ But he rejoyns that the Christians professed a Doctrine contrary to the Laws of the Empire and thereupon a Passive Obedience was necessary But where Religion is the Law of the Country there it may be defended by the Sword Hence the Army under Julian would if they had power have resisted by Arms because they professed that Religion which became the Religion of the Empire and was ratified by the Laws for Fifty years But here certainly is a grand mistake Quod Regi placuit legis habet vigorem and tho' Constantine and Constantius by their Edicts favouring Christianity that Religion was the Religion of the Empire while their Authorities remain'd But Julian a Pagan succeeding he by his Edicts reviving Idolatry it was made the Religion of the Empire And therefore 't was as unlawful for the Christians under Julian to resist him by the Sword as it was for the Christians under the Heathen Emperors to resist them Thus it appears in our English Constitutions King Edward the Sixth in his Parliament established the Protestant Religion whereby that became the Religion of the Country Queen Mary a Papist succeeding gains a Parliament that rejects the Protestant and establishes the Popish Doctrine then Popery became the Religion of the Country and no Protestant during her Reign did oppose her Person or Authority The Protestants in Norfolk and Suffolk were great instruments to set the Crown upon her Head some of whom afterwards patiently endur'd the Flames and none drew a Sword nor after her Coronation was any violent means used against her by which the Authors 2d Ch.

the Spaniards were there What bloody Tragedies have been acted over all Enrope on this account This savours not of the meekness and sweetness of Christianity The Religion of the Holy Jesus must not be reproached by the passions and evil opinions of men 4thly All are not Christians that call themselves so all are not Pythagoreans that are in the School of Pythagoras A feral spirit amongst many who call themselves Christians arises not only from an ill guided Zeal but from Principles contrary to the design of Christianity The Faith of the Lord Jesus is pretended when ambition and temporal prosperity are design'd And this has been undoubtedly the original of infinite slaughters amongst Christians which have been vailed with the glorious pretence of Piety Certainly for Christians to Arm for the recovery of the Holy Land and the redemption of so many Thousand Christians from the slavery that they were then involv'd in was for excellent purpose After the Lateran Council when a great Army was raised for that end by the instigation of the Pope the Swords of Christians in the West were turn'd against the Christians in the East Under that sacred vail was hid the design of reducing the Eastern to the obedience of the Western Church The Ambition of Rome was to set up a Latin Empire Ecclesiastical and Civil in the Greek Church and State The Gun-powder Treason in England whence proceeded it but from ambition The late feral Plot acknowledged to be Devilish by His Sacred Majesty and Three Parliaments Let Religion be pretended what was under the Varnish Coleman a name execrable not only to Protestants but to Romanists a Mushrom gaining favour durst be so arrogant as to attempt the introducing of Popery make the English Scepter truckle to France What was his aim To be a great Minister of State The same was proposed by those who assisted him in these detestable actions Religion was in the Front but in the Rear Great Ministers of State Ecclesiastical Dignities and Military Offices these must be their encouragers Tho' that Coleman durst to his last breath deny that there was any intention to introduce Popery by the Sword which denial of his was a most notorious falsity yet that Fame Dignities and accumulated Riches were the Port to which he Sail'd nothing more clear They who fall from one Religion to another must disguise their Apostacy with the fairest vails of Conscience Salvation and a future Glory Yet they give a reproach to themselves and to Religion when they design their Apostacy to open a Gate for preferment no wonder that these persons prove Persecutors Religion is not to be charged with these bloody actions No they are to be imputed to a damnable hypocrisy and worldly interest Coleman a Ministers Son a pragmatick Sophister in Cambridge went into Flanders changed his Religion turn'd Romanist then went up and down City and Country to make Proselites a person of a daring impudence tho' clearly bafled in disputes would never discover that he was conscious of a foil by one blush Durst proh bone Deus attempt those things which has given the greatest disquiet that ever could have been given to his sacred Majesty to the two Houses to the whole Kingdom to the Three Nations to the Protestant Interest Nay it may justly be averred that no English Romanist ought to pronounce his name without abhorrence and reluctation He can palliate his Villanies with no other pretence than Religion which he designed to promote not by blood or any feral means but by those holy methods which the holy Ghost approves as he attested at his Tryal Non verba sed facta loquuntur His words and actions give an eternal evidence against him Could we imagine that his Life gave an indication of the Heavenly composure of his mind Chrysostom in his so justly famed Books 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 stiles him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the Apostate Why calls he him the Apostate Did he dissert his Religion fall from the Faith of the Lord Jesus No. But being born of rich and illustrious Parents his retiring into the Wilderness or to the top of a Mountain for the privacy of mortification and the more assiduous practice of holiness he at the Twentieth year of his age relinquished his divine Life returned into the City and there lived splendidly his retinue and Table were sumptuous and magnificent for this declining from the severer practice of Holiness Chrysostom condemns him and with all imaginable eloquence and piety endeavours to recall him But we have here an Apostate from the excellent Religion of the Church of England who not only imitates but outvies this Theodorus Theodorus reassumes his estate lives gallantly at the expences of his Patrimonial inheritance Coleman vies with the primest of the Nobility he that sprung up in a Night made his Apostacy the Ladder to climb to the highest preferments and the Favourite to bring him into the Councils of the greatest Princes of Europe and the great encourager to attempt the most notorious villany in the World Is this Faith and Godliness Can Christianity be reproached Must the Faith and Loyalty of the French Nation be condemned for the Treason of a Ravilliack That unchristian designs and secular aims are many times the cause of Christians shedding the Blood of Christians amongst many more Examples I will annex two Upon the death of Liberius Damasus and Vrsibinus were competitors for the Roman Pontificate The people are divided the parties are hot and passionate their heats are so vehement that both Parties fight Damasus his party was superior in this Bloody contest a Hundred Thirty Seven Bodies were found slain in one Church a Church which was once the House of one Sicininus the dissention was so great and fierce that Viventius the Prefect of the City could not appeale it This rage gave a disturbance to the City some time after perhaps the parties were not pacified till Vrsinius was gratifyed with the Archbishoprick of Naples Upon this Marcellinus an Heathen gives us this remark I can't deny considering with what gallantry the affairs of that City are managed that they who are competitors to gain what they so much desire should strive with the greatest ardour and force for when they have obtained their longed-for Dignity they are secure seeing that they shall be enriched with the oblation of Ladies they being gorgeously cloathed they shall be carried up and down in Coaches their Feasts shall be profuse and they shall maintain Tables superior to those of Kings These persons might indubitably be more Blessed if they contemning the splendor of the City would compose their demeanors after the mode of some Provincial Bishops whose spare Diet mean Garments and their Eyes constantly cast upon the Earth commend themselves to the True God and his Genuine Servants Macedonius was certainly an ambitious man Paulus being canonically elected Bishop of Constantinople was commanded by the Emperor Constantius to be removed from that See Phillip