Sovereign And methinks it is very Vnequal for Men that give no Quarter to Loyal Subjects to stand expostulating for Privileges to Revolters Here 's King and Parliament gone at First Dash A A Confederacy Authoriz'd at Next B A Papal Dispensation from Obedience C The King and Three Estates swallowed up in the Assembly D Subjects set above the Law E The Sovereignty vested in the Multitude F Parliaments subordinated to the Kirk G The King Himself Arraign'd and Judgments denounced against him H The Judges Degraded Courts of Justice silenc'd the Rabble passing Sentence on the Supreme Magistrate Deposing of Princes Justify'd I. This is all Plain enough without Exposition But we are Now about to be yet a little Plainer Sect. 9. Principles and Positions A THe Two Houses have Legal Power to Levy Monys Arms Horse Ammunition upon the Subjects even without or against the Kings Consent and to put into safe hands such Forts Ports Magazines Ships and Power of the Militia as are intended or likely to be intended to introduce a Tyranny not only when Arms are actually raised against them but when they discern and accordingly declare a Preparation made towards it Political Catechism Page 7.1679 B A King abusing his Power to the Overthrow of Religion Laws and Liberties may be controll'd and oppos'd And if he set himself to overthrow all these by Arms then they who have Power as the Estates of a Land may and ought to Resist by Arms because he doth by That Opposition break the very Bonds and overthrow all the Essentials of this Contract and Covenant This may serve to justifie the Proceedings of This Kingdom against the late King who in a Hostile way set himself to overthrow Religion Parliaments Laws and Liberties Douglase's Coronation Serm. Page 10.1951 C The Lords and Commons are as the Master of the House Calamy's Sermon Decemb. 25. 1644. Page 22. The Parliament whom the People Chuse are the great and only Conservators of the Peoples Liberties Ibid D The Parliament of the Commonwealth of England without the King 1651. were the Supreme Authority of this Nation Jenkins's Petition Octob. 15. 1651. E The Sovereignty here among Us is in King Lords and Commons Baxter's Holy Commonwealths Page 72.1659 F The Government of England is a Mixt Monarchy and govern'd by the Major part of the Three Estates assembled in Parliament Parliament Physick for a sin-sick Nation Page 111. G The Houses are not only requisite to the acting of the Power of making Laws but Co-ordinate with His Majesty in the very power of Acting Ahabs Fall Page 42. H Resolved That in case of Extream Danger and of His Majesties Refusal the Ordinance agreed on by both Houses for the Militia doth oblige the People and ought to be obeyed by the Fundamental Laws of This Kingdom Vote of both Houses March 15. 164â— Ex. Col. 112. I Resolved That when the Lords and Commons in Parliament which is the Supreme Court of Judicature in the Kingdom shall declare what the Law of the Land is to have This not only question'd and controverted but contradicted and a Command that it should not be obey'd is a high breach of the Priviledge of Parliament Ex. Col. 114. March 16. 1641. K The Lords and Commons in Parliament do declare That it is against the Laws and Liberties of the Kingdom that any of the Subjects thereof should be commanded by the King to attend Him at His Pleasure but such as are bound thereto by special Service Ex. Col. 193. May 17. 1642 L The Towns Forts Treasure Magazine Offices and the People of the Kingdom and the whole Kingdom it self is entrusted unto the King for the Good and Safety and best advantage thereof and as This Trust is for the Use of the Kingdom so ought it to be menag'd by the Advice of the Houses of Parliament whom the Kingdom hath Trusted for That purpose Third Remonstrance May 26. 1642. Ex. Col. 266. M A Parliament may dispose of any thing wherein His Majesty or His Subjects hath a Right in such a way as that the Kingdom may not be expos'd to hazard or danger thereby Ibid. 267 N The Votes of the Lords and Commons in Parliament being the great Council of the Kingdom are the REASON of the King and of the Kingdom Ibid. 278. O Supreme Head and Governour over all Persons in all Causes as it is meant of singular Persons rather than of Courts or of the Collective Body of the whole Kingdom c. And to speak properly it is only in His high Court of Parliament wherein and wherewith His Majesty hath absolutely the Supreme Power and consequently is absolutely Supreme Head and Governour from whence there is no Appeal Remonstrance May 26. 1642. Ex. Col. 703. P The Kings of This Realm ought to be very tender in denying both Houses of Parliament any thing that concerns the Publick Government and good of the Kingdom and they ought to deny themselves and their own Understandings very far before they Deny Them and that upon this ground because they lie under the Obligation of an Oath to pass such Laws if they be Just and Good for the Kingdom And it must Then be a Tender Point for a Prince to judge otherwise of those Laws that are Represented unto Him as such by the Representative Body of the whole Kingdom Ibid. Pag. 715. No Presidents can be Bounds to the Proceedings of the Parliament Ibid. Pag. 726 Q A Parliament may dispose of any thing wherein the King or any Subject hath a Right in such a way that the Kingdom may not be endanger'd thereby And if the King being humbly sought unto by His Parliament shall refuse to joyn with them In such Cases the Representative Body of the Kingdom is not to sit still and see the Kingdom perish before their Eyes and of this danger THEY are Judges and Judges Superiour to all others that Legally have any Power of Judicature in This Kingdom Ibid. No Member of either House ought to be medled withal for Treason Felony or any other Crime without the Cause first brought before Them that they may judge of the Fact and Their leave obteined to proceed Ibid. The Sovereign Power doth reside in the King and both Houses of Parliament And His Majesties Negative Voice doth not import a Liberty for His Majesty to deny any thing as He pleaseth though never so requisite and necessary for the Kingdom Ibid. 727. R When there is certain appearance or grounded suspicion that the Letter of the Law shall be improv'd against the Equity of it that is the Publique Good whether of the Body Real or Representative then the Commander going against its Equity gives Liberty to the Commanded to refuse Obedience to the Letter Ex. Col. Pag. 152. S The Clause wherein we Swear the Preservation and Defence of the Kings Person and Authority doth lye under some restreint by That limitation In the Preservation and Defence of the True Religion and Liberties of the Kingdom To
Government in despite of the Magistrate Sect. 12. Reformation by Blood A YOu cannot Preach nor Pray them down directly and immediately Well! that which the Word cannot do the Sword shall Reyner to the Commons Aug. 28. 1644. Pag. 12. B Episcopacy must not only be pull'd up but the Bishops must be hang'd up before the Lord and the Bloodiest and Sharpest War to be endur'd rather then the least Error in Doctrine or in Discipline A Scottish Sermon Kings large Scotch Declaration fol. 404. C Those mine Enemies that would not have me Reign over them bring them hither and slay them before me Those Men that rise up in cursed Practises to change Religion to bring in Idolatry and False Worship to Depose Christ from his Throne and set up Anti-Christ in his Place Noble Sirs in your Execution of Judgment upon Delinquents Imitate God and be Merciful to none that have sinn'd of Malicious wickedness Let not your Eye pity any who in This bloody Quarrel have laid the Foundation of their Rebellion and Massacres in Irreconcileable Hatred to Religion and the Government of Jesus Christ. Case's Sermon to the Court Martial Aug. 17. 1644. D As Josiah put to death those that follow'd Baal so may the Parliament those that will not return and leave Antichristianism Marshalls Serm. March 26. 1645. That Anti-Christianism that was sworn in the Covenant to be rooted out Pag. 45. E I will confidently affirm that our days now are better then they were seven years ago because it is better to see the Lord Executing Judgment then to see Men working Wickedness and to behold a People lye Wallowing in their Blood rathen Apostatizing from God and embracing Idolatry and Superstition and banishing the Lord Jesus from amongst them S. Marshall to Both Houses c. Jan. 18. 1643. Pag. 18 Carry on the Work still leave not a Rag that belongs to Popery lay not a bit of the Lords Building with any thing that belongs to Anti-Christ but away with it Root and Branch Head and Tayl till you can say Now is Christ set upon his Throne Ibid. Page 21. F The Cause you manage is the Cause of God the Glory of God is embarkt in the same Ship in which This Cause is E. Calamy's Sermon to the Peers June 15. 1643. Page 53. He that dyes fighting the Lords Battle dyes a Martyr Ibid. Page 57. G Cursed be he that withholdeth his Sword from Blood that Spares when God saith Strike that suffers those to escape whom God has appointed to Destruction Case on Dan. 11.32 Page 24. To the Commons H The Execution of Judgment is the Lords Work and they shall be Cursed that do it negligently And Cursed shall they be that keep back their Sword from Blood in This Cause Strickland Nov. 5. 1644. Page 26. I The Lord is pursuing you if you execute not Vengeance on them betimes Faircloth on Josh. 7.25 Page 48. Why should Life be further granted to Them whose very Life brings Death to all about them Ibid. K Though as Little Ones they call for Pitty yet as Babylonish they call for Justice even to Blood Bridges on Rev. 4.8 Page 11. L Let us not out of any worldly respects of Estate Wives Children Honour good Nature Justice Compassion Care of Trade of Laws grow slack and lazy in our Undertakings upon the Success of which the Eyes of Christendom are fix'd But let us proceed to shed the Blood of the Vngodly L Dec. 19. 1642. M It is Commendable to fight for Peace and Reformation AGAINST the Kings Command Calamy's Sermon Decem. 25. 1644. Pag. 29. N Do Justice to the greatest Saul's Sons are not Spar'd no nor may Agag nor Benhadad though themselves KINGS Zimri and Cosbi though Princes of the People must be persn'd into their Tents This is the way to Consecrate your selves to God Herle Sermon to the Commons Nov. 5. 1644. Pag. 16 In vain are the high Praises of God in your Mouths without a Two-edged Sword in your hands Ibid. Jan. 15. 1643. Page 31. O If you would have a Peace with Popery a Peace with Slavery if you would have a Judas Peace or a Joab's Peace you know the Story he kiss'd Amasa and then Kill'd him If you would have a Peace that will bring a Massacre with it a French Peace It may be had easily But if you would have a Peace that may continue the Gospel among you and bring in a Reformation c. Such a Peace cannot be had without Contribution toward the bringing in of the Scots Calamy's Speech at Guild-Hall Octob. 6. 1643. Notes on Sect 12. YOu have here Fourteen Paragraphs so Sanguinary and Salvage that if they had not Christian Names to them a body would take the Authors of them for Saracens And to go a little farther with you yet Thirteen of the Fourteen are the Work of Dissenting Divines Not of Mr. Calamy's Wicked Profane Drunken Ministers as he was pleas'd to Baptize the English Clergy but of the Godly Sober Pious and Religious Ministers as he thought fit to distinguish those of his own Party Let the Reader Judge nâ—w if These be not fit Workmen to be employ'd in the Repairing of our Breaches One more now and I have done Sect. 13. The Murther of the Late King Encouraged and Justify'd A WE propound that That Capital and Grand Author of our Troubles the Person of the King may be speedily brought to Justice for the Treason Blood and Mischief he is guilty of Armyes Remonstrance Nov. 16 1648. P. 62. B Have you not sins enow of your own but will you wrap your selves up in the Treachery Murther Blood Cruelty and Tyranny of others Tho. Brooks Sermon before the Commons Decemb. 26. 1648. Pag. 17. Prepâ—ration to the Kings Murther Set some of those Grand Malefactors a Mourning that have caused the Kingdom to Mourn so many years in Garments Rolled in Blood by the Execution of IVSTICE c. Ibid. Pag. 19. C The King of Syria came against Israel and by the mighty power of God he and his Army were overthrown and the King was taken Prisoner Now the Mind of Gâ—â— was which he then discover'd only by that present Providence that Justice should have been executed upon him but it was not Whereupon the Prophet comes with Ashes upon his Face and waited for the King of Israel in the way where he should return 1 Kings 20.42 and as the King passed by he Cry'd unto him Thus saith the Lord because thou hast let go a Man whom I appointed for Destruction therefore Thy Life shall go for his Life Now see how the King of Syria after this answers Ahab's Love About Three years after Israel and Syria engaged in a New War Benhadad's Life was once in Ahab's hand and he ventur'd Gods displeasure to let him go But see how Benhadad rewards him for it Fight neither against small nor great but against the King of Israel Honourable and Worthy If God do not lead you to do Justice upon
up in Blood and One that never suck'd in any other Principles but Prerogative and Tyranny Ibid. Pag. 23. M. Charles the First rather chose to submit to the Justice of an Ax in a Hangman's Hand than to sway a Scepter with Equity None-such Charles Pag. 167. Notes on Sect. 5. YOu have here A the Strain and Spirit of a True Covenanting-Brother And they all sing the same Note For they do not only Abjure the Government but they Abjure Repentance too swearing never to make Defection to the Contrary Part But all the Days of their Lives Zealously and Constantly continue therein against All Opposition and promote the same accordingly to their Power against all Lets and Impediments whatsoever In B you find the Petitioner for Indulgence Excommunicating his Sovereign The Paraphrase of C is according to the Stile of This Age only crying No Tory No Courtier at an Election the branding of Honest Men with being Popishly affected and he that will not run Riot with the Rabble is made a Pensioner of France D. and E. Complaining of Persecution In F. you see what work the Doctor makes with the Defender of the Faith G H. I.K.L. are as so many Daggers in the Heart of Sovereignty it self But it is according to the Principles of the True Protestants of Munster that still begin with Religion and end with Treason Pray say if it be not a thousand pities now after all these Complements upon His Sacred Majesty and His Blessed Father that these High-flown Dissenters should not be taken into the Government When these People set up for Pillars of the Church it were a kind of Injustice not to Allow the Kings Judges to put in too for Ministers of State Sect. 6. The Presbyterians Opinion of the Covenant 1. BE astonished O Heavens and tremble O Earth Let the Sun it self be cloath'd in Blackness at this so horrid an Impiety What! Abjure such a Covenant A Covenant so solemnly taken A Covenant for the Matter of it so Religious so Holy c. And must This Covenant be Abjur'd now This Covenant Is not God's Own Word and God Himself too after a sort Abjured in That Act whoever are guilty of it c. The Highest of all Crimes imaginable a Crime that murthers Conscience that murthers Souls that murthers Religion it self a Crime against the First Table most immediately against the Sovereign God and the greatest of that Nature that Men can be guilty of Speeches of the three Regicides Pag. 5. and 6. The Cause says Bark stead lies in the Bosom of Christ and as sure as Christ rose the Cause will rise again Ibid. Pag. 16. I die cleaving to all those Oaths vows and Protestations that were imposed by the Two Houses of Parliament as owning them and dying with my Judgment for them Love 's Tryal Printed Aug. 1652. The convincing Demonstration that there lies no Obligation on me or any other Person from the Oath commonly call'd The Solemn League and Covenant is a Knot cut by the Sword of Authority while it cannot be loosed by Religious Reason Short Survey of the Grand Case Pag. 23.1663 O the Burning of the Covenant in England and the Causes of Wrath in Scotland shall certainly be follow'd with such a Fine and Fierceness of Indignation as shall make Authors Actors Abetters and Rejoycers thereat know what it is to give such an open defiance to the Almighty A Covenant Burnt and Burnt by Authority in the sight of Heaven with such Hell-black Solemnities where the great God is altera pars contrabens for Reformation of Religion according to his Word and Righteousness in walking before him is such a Sin as may make every Soul to tremble at the fore-thoughts of what God will do for vindicating his Glory from that Contempt thereby cast upon him I wish that the Burning of that City into Ashes where that Covenant was Burnt together with that None-such Plague and War may make them take warning ere it be too late who did this Wickedness O England England I fear I fear thy Woe hasteneth the Wrath of God is upon the Wing against thee both for breach of Covenant and wiping thy mouth as if thou hadst done nothing amiss Thou hast stood and seen thy Brothers Day Alas for thy Day when Others shall stand aloof from thee for fear of sharing in thy Judgments Poor Mans Cup c. Pag. 19. We shall not nor cannot enter upon the particular Declaration of that Grace Constancy and Courage by which the Lords Faithful Witnesses were sustein'd and did bear Testimony to the Word of his Truth the Holy Covenant and the Cause and Work of God Napthali Pag. 162. I bear my Witness unto the National Covenant of Scotland and Solemn League and Covenant betwixt the Three Kingdoms of Scotland England and Ireland These Sacred Solemn Publique Oaths of God I believe can be loosed nor dispensed with by no Person or Power upon Earth Napthali Pag. 207. I bear my Witness and Testimony to the Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government of the Church of Scotland by Kirk-Sessions Presbyteries Synods and General Assemblies Popery and Prelacy and all the Trumpery of Service and Ceremonies that wait upon them I do abhor I do bear my Witness unto the National Covenant of Scotland and Solemn League and Covenant c. The Testimony of James Guthrie Minister at his Death at Edinbourgh June 1. 1661. And so of every Man of the Party that Dy'd for the Rebellion in Scotland Notes on Sect. 6. BY This Covenant was designed the Subversion of the Government and by the force of This Covenant it was accomplish'd They do all of them assert the Obligation of it to the very Death and by virtue of This Covenant it is that they have Confederated afresh in Scotland to murther the King and all that serve under Him Now if This be their Principle let any Man consider the Consequence of admitting any Unrenouncing Covenanter by an Act of Special Grace into the Government after so full a Proof and Exposition of the Meaning of That Covenant and so frank a Declaration of their Resolution to make it good Sect. 7. Dissenters Liberty of Conscience THe Scots did not only resolve to take the Covenant themselves but enjoyn'd it throughout the whole Kingdom Sir Henry Vane's Speech at a Common Hall Octob. 27. 1643. Page 4. They enjoyned it upon the Penalties that those that should not take it or should defer it should be esteem'd Enemies to Religion to his Majesties Honor and to the good of the Two Kingdoms that they should have all their Rents and Profits Confiscate That they should brook nor enjoy any Office or Benefit in that Kingdom that they should be cited to the next Parliament to Answer the not taking of it and to be proceeded with there as Enemies to the State and to Religion and to receive such farther Punishment as by the King and Parliament should be put upon them Ibid. Page 5. And that particular
account shall be taken by the several Presbyteryes of all who shall refuse or shift to swear and subscribe and that they be proceeded against with the Censures of the Church as enemies to the Preservation and Propagation of Religion S. Marshall Ib. Page 11. We give now Publick Warning to all Neuters to rest no longer upon their Neutrality but that they address themselves speedily to take the Covenant and joyn with all their power in the Defence of This Cause against the Common Enemy c. Otherwise we do declare them to be publick Enemies to their Religion and Country and that they are to be censur'd and punish'd as professed Adversaries and Malignants Declaration of England and Scotland Jan. 30. 1643. If any Person or Persons whatsoever shall at any time or times hereafter use or cause the aforesaid Book of Common Prayer to be used in any Church Chappel or Publick Place of Worship or in any private place or Family within the Kingdom of England or the Dominion of Wales or Port and Town of Berwick every such Person so offending therein shall for the First Offence pay the sum of Five Pounds of Lawful English Mony For the Second Offence Ten Pounds and for the Third shall suffer one whole years Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize Ordinance of Parliament Aug. 23. 1645. for putting the Directory in Execution Resolved upon the Question by the Commons assembled in Parliament that all Persons that have or shall come and reside in the Parliaments Quarters shall take the National League and Covenant and the Negative Oath notwithstanding any Articles that have been or shall be made by the Souldiery June 2. 1646. What Person soever having taken the Solemn League and Covenant shall go into the Enemies Quarters without Drum Trumpet or Pass shall Dye without Mercy An Article of War Notes on Sect. 7. LEt any Man that has but Eyes in his head compare Cases now Here 's a Rebellious Oath of Conspiracy opposed to an Authoritative Oath of Canonical Obedience and Allegiance Here 's a pretended scruple of Perjury in breaking a Treasonous Oath and no bones made of the Perjurious violation of a Legal One Here 's a Nullity against an Act of State and this is not the worst on 't neither Those very Men that forced a Rebellious Oath upon all people without Exception to the utmost Extremity of Tyranny and Rigour Contrary to Law are now complaining of persecution under the Common Rule of a Legal Provision Declaring at the same time that they are still determin'd to persue the ends of their aforesaid Covenant which were manifestly the subversion of the Government You see likewise how Unmercifully they dealt with People in the Case of the Common Prayer And yet who but these Men to Mutiny for Liberty in the very point wherein most injuriously they made all their Fellow-Subjects Slaves Sect. 8. The Power of the Kirk A. THe Assembly is Independent either from King or Parliament in matters Ecclesiastical B. It is lawful for Subjects to make a Covenant and Combination without the King and to enter into a Bond of Mutual Defence against the King and all persons whatsoever C. Subjects may appeal from the King and Council to the next General Assembly and Parliament and in the mean time before their Appeals are heard and discussed they may disobey the King and Council D. An Assembly may abrogate Acts of Parliament and discharge Subjects of their Obedience to them if they any way reflect on the business of the Church E. The Protestation of Subjects against Laws establish'd whether it be made coram Judice or non Judice before the Judges or the People doth voyd all Obedience to those Laws and dischargeth the Protesters from any Obligation to live under them F. A number of Men being the Greater part of the Kingdom may do anything which they themselves conceive conducing to the Glory of God and the good of the Church notwithstanding any Laws standing in force to the contrary Kings Large Declaration Fol. 407. deincep G. The Rights and Priviledges of Parliaments and the Liberties of the Kingdom are the Suburbs of the Gospel and an Inheritance bequeathed by God to Nations and Kingdoms and under That Notion Holy These be the Outworks of Religion the Lines of Communication as I may so say for the defence of This City Case's Covenant Renew'd 1643. P. 52. H. Such a height of Opposition to the Lords Anointed as never since Man was upon the Earth was there such a Supremacy framed into a Law whereby Name and Thing of all Kingly Power is plainly and explicitly taken from and extorted out of the hand of our blessed Lord Jesus Christ and given unto and setled upon the King O dangerous and Unsetling Settlement Now the Incommunicable Prerogative of Him who is King in Sion and whose Right it is to give Laws to Rule his own Church and House is alienate and appendent to the Imperial Crown of the Nation The most manifest unmasked high and horrid Usurpation of the Throne of Christ that ever the World saw But its Impossible he can sit long who sets himself upon the Mediators Throne For the Arm of Jehovah shall snatch and hurry him thence Be wise now therefore O ye Kings c. is a necessary caution here Poor Mans Cup Page 21. H. The Presbytery may forbid Unjust Suits of Law and so doth the Scripture as scandalous to Christians Our General Assembly is no other then Christs Court Acts 15. made up of Pastors Doctors and Brethren or Elders They hold I believe with warrant of Gods Word if the King refuse to Reform Religion the Inferior Judges and Godly Pastors and other Church Officers may Reform If the King will not Kiss the Sun and do his Duty in purging the House of the Lord may not Eliah and the People do Their Duty and cast out Baals Priests They may Swear or Covenant Without the King if he Refuse and build the Lords House Themselves 2 Chron. 15.9 and Relieve and Defend one another when they are oppressed They Depos'd the Queen for her Tyranny but Crown'd her Son All This is vindicated in the following Treatise This Assembly is to judge what Doctrine is Treasonable It is true Glasgow Assembly 1637. Voted down the High Commission because it was not consented to by the Church and yet was a Church-Judicature which took upon them to judge of the Doctrine of Ministers and deprive them and did encroach upon the establish'd lawful Church-Judicatures Rutherfords Preface to Lex Rex Notes on Sect. 8. DO These People talk of the Lordlyness of Prelates when His Holyness Himself never claim'd so much Bare-fac'd as these Papal Protestants do both Challenge and Practice And it is not the Slavery but the Masters that we ought to be most asham'd of Nor will the Impatient and Imperious Humour wait for the season of their Power but while they are yet in shackles Themselves they are Imposing upon their
which we Reply It maintains him as far as he is a King He may be a Man but sure no King without the Lists and Verge of Religion and Laws it being Religion and Laws that make Him a King Case's Covenant Renew'd Page 54. T Princes for just Causes may be Depos'd If they be Tyrants against God and his Truth their Subjects are Freed from their Oaths of Obedience The People have the same Power over the King that the King hath over any one Man The making of Laws doth belong to the People and Kings are but as Masters of the Rolls Dan. Pos. Lib. 1. Cap. 4. U He that resisteth the King commanding in the Lord resisteth the Ordinance of God but he who resisteth the King commanding that which is against God resisteth no Ordinance of God but an Ordinance of Sin and Satan Lex Rex Pag. 267.1644 W Convention of the Subjects in a Tumultuary way for a Seditious End to make War without Warrant of Law is forbidden but not when Religion Laws Liberties Invasion of Foreign Enemies necessitate the Subjects to Convene tho' the King and Ordinary Judicatures going a corrupt way to pervert Judgment shall refuse to consent to their Conventions Rutherford's Lex Rex Pag. 464. X Our Fundamentals were not made by our Representatives but by the People Themselves and our Representatives themselves Limited by Them which it were good that Parliaments as well as People would observe and be faithful to For no Derivative Power can Nul what Their Primitive Power has established The Englishman Page 11.1670 Y The Priviledges and Lawful Prerogatives of the Sovereign must veil in cases of necessity unto this high and supreme Law The Safety of the People Then no less must the Priviledges of a Parliament yield unto This. Lex Rex Pag. 159. If we be sworn to maintain the Kings Person and Authority in the Defence of the Liberties of the Subject then whoever prefers the Liberties of the Subject to his Person or Authority are not Traytors or Rebels Ibid. Pag. 251. Z Noblemen ought to Reform Religion if the King will not The Commonalty concurring with the Nobility may compel the Bishops to cease from their Tyranny and by their Power Bridle the cruel Beasts They may lawfully require of their King to have True Preachers and if he be negligent they justly may themselves provide them maintain them defend them against all that do persecute them and may retein the Profits of the Church Livings from the other sort The Nobility and Commonalty ought to Reform Religion and may remove from Honors and punish whom God hath condemned Deut. 12. of what Estate or Condition soever The Punishment of such Crimes as touch the Majesty of God doth not appertain to Kings and Chief Rulers only but also to the whole Body of the People and to every Member of the same as Occasion Vocation or ability shall serve to revenge the Injury done against God Dan. Pos. Lib. 1. Cap. 4. If the Magistrates shall refuse to put Mass-mongers and False Preachers to death the People in seeing it perform'd do shew that zeal of God which was commended in Phineas destroying the Adulterers and in the Israelites against the Benjamites Dan. Pos. Lib. 2. Cap. 1. a Judges ought by the Law of God to summon Princes before them for their Crimes And to proceed against them as against all other Offenders Evil Princes ought by the Law of God to be Depos'd and Inferior Magistrates ought chiefly to do it When Magistrates do cease to do their Duties the People are as it were without Officers And then God giveth the Sword into Their hands and he himself is become immediately Their Head For to the Multitude a Portion of the Sword of Justice is committed From the which no Person King Queen or Emperor being an Idolater is excepted they must Dye the Death c. God will send to the People which are willing to do their Duty but are not able some Moses or Othoniel If they know any Jonathan they must go unto him to be their Captain and he ought not to refuse them By the word of God a Private Man by some Special Inward Motive may Kill a Tyrant as Moses did the Aegyptian as Phineas did the Lecherous and Ebud did King Eglon c. It is lawful to kill wicked Kings and Tyrants and both by Gods Law and Mans Law Queen Mary ought to have been put to death as being a Tyrant a Monster a Cruel Death c. The Subjects did kill the Queen's Highness Athalia Jebu killed the Queen's Majesty Jezebel Elias being no Magistrate killed the Queen's Majesties Chaplains Baal's Priests These Examples are left for our Instruction Where this Justice is not executed the State is most Corrupt Dan. Pos. Lib. 2. Cap. 1. b Whensoever a King or other Superior Authority creates an Inferior they invest it with a Legitimacy of Magistratical Power to punish Themselves also in case they prove Evil Doers Right and Might well met Page 7.1648 Princes derive their Power and Prerogative from the People and have their Investitures meerly for the Peoples Benefit Jus Populi Page 1.1644 If the Prince fail in his Promise the People are exempt from their Obedience the Contract is made void and the Right of Obligation is of no force It is therefore permitted to the Officers of a Kingdom either all or some good number of them to suppress a Tyrant Vindiciae contra Tyrannos Pag. 120 121 1648. It is lawful for any who have the Power to call to account a Tyrant or wicked King and after due Conviction to depose and put him to death if the ordinary Magistrate hath neglected or deny'd to do it The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates 1649. Notes on Sect. 9. THe First Clause A has been of great Vse to the Protestant Mercuries and Intelligences for the shaping of their Addresses B A Dispensation again C. D. E. F. G. The King is Depos'd by the Dissenters H The Two Houses above the King I Calls the King to an account for not submitting to the Two Houses K Allows Him to be Master only of His Own Domestiques L The Two Houses are the Kings Guardians and M may Dispose of Kings and Subjects Rights at pleasure N The Votes of the Two Houses are the REASON of King and Kingdom O Singulis Major Universis Minor P The King bound to pass whatever Bills the Two Houses offer Him tho' against His Judgment Q No Member of either House to be Touch'd for Treason without leave R The Equity of the Law set up against the Letter of it S The King distinguish'd from the Person T Princes Deposable by the People U Obedience and Resistance Conditional W People may Convene against Authority X The Fundamentals of Government are from the People Y And so is Sovereignty to which both Kings and Parliaments must vail Z. and a. Popular Violence and Reformation Justifi'd Deposing and Killing of Kings b Gives the Constable a Commission
to lay the King by the Heels Let the Reader take Notice that These are not the Wild Speculations of sick-brain'd Phanatiques but Positions Rooted in the very Foundations of the Separation Subversive of the very Ordinance of Government and not only asserted by Votes and Arguments but put in practice upon the Lives and Liberties both of Prince and People Sect. 10. Tumults Encourag'd and chiefly by the Able Holy Faithful Laborious and Truly Peaceable Preachers of the Gospel Petition for Peace Pag. 4. A THe Land is sore Troubled there 's no place nor being for a faithful Minister of the Word Our Blood cryeth for Vengeance against the Bishops If This Persecution be not provided for 't is the Case of many a Thousand in England great Troubles will come of it Dan. Pos. L. 2. Cap. 10. It astonishes us to foresee what Doleful Effects our Divisions would produce Proposals Pag. 12.1661 B The Act for suppressing Conventicles is a Law dishonourable to God destructive to the Gospel and pernicious to most of the sober People of the Nation Quaeries upon the Proclamation for enforcing the Laws against Conventicles c. Pag. 12. Qu. Whether the Saints ought not to continue the assemblies of their Worship of God without or against the Consent of their Magistrates they being commanded so to do Matth. 28.18 19 20. Heb. 10.25 c. Pag. 14. C When the Ark of God is taken the Ministers of Christ are driven into Corners the Souls of our Wives and Children are in danger to miscarry Calamy's Serm. Dec. 28. 1662. Pag. 8 Where are our Moseses our Eliah's Where are those that lay to heart the danger of the Ark of God Pag. 10. It is not your Wicked Ministers that can settle the Ark It is not your Prophane Drunken Ministers No it must be your Godly Sober Pious and Religious Ministers Pag. 17 18. D That Truth for Owning of which you are put to suffer the loss of all things is that very Truth for which Christ himself suffer'd as a Martyr viz. That He was a King Yea he is a King and will be a King when You are gone and will prove himself higher than the Kings of the Earth by rescinding of Your Supremacy that Idol of his Indignation and Object of his Revenge Of a Truth Lord against thy Holy Child JESUS whom thou hast annointed are all these gathered together and it is for our owning of Him as Thy Annointed and refusing to be on that Conspiracy that we are thus used The Poor Mans Cup of Cold Water Minister'd to the Saints and Sufferers for Christ in Scotland Pag. 13.1678 E We saw the Blood of these Blessed Saints and Martyrs the Scotch Rebels of Jesus shed We saw the Frame of our Government Dissolv'd and Overturn'd We saw an Act. Recissory the Wickedness whereof reached Heaven We saw Abominable and Abjured Episcopacy re-establish'd by Law and the Faithful Ministers of Christ driven from their Flocks Thus we saw Jericho Rebuilt and so the Nation became a Curse being so deeply and so deliberately involved into the Guilt of Open Owned Avouched and by Law established Perjury Now what did we in the mean time Alas we had not the Spirit of the Day in its Day c. Poor Mans Cup Pag. 20. F Beloved Brethren Albeit God hath put and ordained distinction betwixt King and Subjects yet in hope of the Life to come he hath made all equal And therefore I say that it doth no less appertain to You to be assured that your Faith and Religion be grounded and established upon the True and Undoubted Word of God than to your Princes or Rulers And to You it doth no less appertain than to your King or Princes to provide that Christ Jesus be truly Preach'd amongst you Jus Populi Pag. 215. G They Deifie a Creature and renounce their Homage to the King of Kings and so provoke him to destroy both Them and their King by their Apostacy and wicked Defection and that openly before Men and Angels as David hanged up the Sons of Saul before the Sun And then they need not fear either Dag or Dagger Pistol or Poyson'd Ponyard Ibid. Pag. 414. H Come my Brethren I say and fear not to take this Agag Prelacy I mean not the Prelates and hew it to pieces before the Lord. Case's Covenant Renew'd Pag. 51. I Down with Baal's Altars down with Baal's Priests c. Salwey's Sermon to the Commons Octob. 25. 1643. Pag. 19. K I may truly say as the Martyr did That if I had as many Lives as Hairs on my Head I would be willing to sacrifice all those Lives in this Cause Mr. Calamy's Speech at Guildhal Octob. 6. 1643. L Let no Law hinder you Si jus violandum c. And if Law be to be broken it is for a Crown and therefore for Religion Simpson on Prov. 8.15.16 Pag. 23. You are set over Kingdoms to root out pull down destroy and throw down do it quickly do it throughly Ibid. Pag. 24. M Who were they but the poorer and meaner sort of People that at the first joyn'd with the Ministers to raise the Building of Reformation Marshal's Serm. June 15. 1643. Pag. 15. N Here is an extraordinary appearance of so many Ministers to encourage you in This Cause that you may see how real the Godly Ministry in England is unto This Cause Calamy's Speech at Guild-hall Octob. 6. 1643. O To You of the Honourable House Up for the Matter belongs to You We even all the Godly Ministers of the Country will be with You. Faircloth to the Commons on Josh. 7.25 Pag. 29. Let not the Pretence of Peace and Unity cool your Fervour or make you spare to oppose your selves unto those idle and Idolized Ceremonies against which we dispute Dispute against English-Popish Ceremonies Pag. 11. P A Word to the People Are Magistrates your Servants Then learn to be Wise and know your Priviledges for time to come and be not frighted out of your Right and Reason at once by those Traytors and Rebels who would make you believe that it is Treason and Rebellion to call Them to account for the Treason and Rebellion they are Guilty of Mene Tekel Pag. 41. Parliaments are the Peoples Servants The King Judges Justices Mayors Constables and all other Magistrates or Officers are our Servants to protect us and secure us from Violence and Oppression If they break their Trust and Oppress us the Law of God and Nature allows us to call our Servants to account punish them according to their Deserts and turn them out of our Service Ibid. Alas poor England thy Shepherds are become Robbers thy Princes within thee are Roaring Lions thy Judges are Ravening Wolves c. Pag. 46. What Authority had a Parliament to give away our Birth-Rights to enslave the Corporations and Counties that sent them up to assert their Freedoms and to expose us to the Lusts of Wicked Oppressors to give away the Militia of the Land to the King