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<P>A
REVINDICATION
OF THE
ANOYNTING and PRIVILEDGES
OF FAITHFULL SUBJECTS.</P>
<P>OR,
<HI>A Briefe</HI> Reply <HI>to an idle Pamphlet, intituled,</HI> An
An&s;wer and Confutation of that groundle&s;&s;e Vindication of <HI>P&s;al. 105. 15.</HI>
(Touch not mine Anoynted, and do my Prophets no harme) From &s;ome
trayterous Expo&s;ition of Schi&s;maticks: Declaring to the World, That this
was &s;poken principally and peculiarly of Kings, and not of
inferiour Subjects, &amp;c.</P>
<P>Wherein the In&s;ufficiency and Ridiculou&s;ne&s;&s;e this <HI>An&s;werers No-An&s;wer,</HI>
is briefly demon&s;trated, the <HI>Vindication</HI> ju&s;tified, and the text of <HI>Rom. 13.</HI>
cleared from &s;ome mi&s;con&s;tructions (again&s;t &s;ubjects taking up meere defen|&s;ive
armes in any ca&s;es) which the <HI>An&s;werer</HI> (out of Dr. <HI>Fernes</HI> Re&s;olution of
Con&s;cience, for want of matter of his own) hath thru&s;t upon it, to
delude &s;ome &s;crupulous Con&s;ciences.</P>
<P>With a briefe exhortation to <HI>Peace,</HI> with Truth, Righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and Holine&s;&s;e.</P>
<Q><BIBL>E&s;ay 10. 27.</BIBL>
<P>At that day &s;hall the burthen be taken away from off thy &s;houlder, and his yoke from off thy
necke, and the yoke &s;hal be de&s;troyed becau&s;e of the ANOINTING.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>E&s;ther 8. 6.</BIBL>
<P>For how can I endure to &s;ee the evill that &s;hall come upon my people? Or how can I endure
to &s;ee the de&s;truction of my kindred?</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Zech. 11. 4, 5.</BIBL>
<P>Thus &s;aith the Lord my God, Feed the Flock of the &s;laughter; who&s;e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors &s;lay them, and
hold them&s;elves not guilty: and they that &s;ell them &s;ay, Ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord, for I am
rich; and their own &s;hepheards pitty them not.</P></Q>
<Q><BIBL>Zech. 8. 19. Heb. 12. 14.</BIBL>
<P>Therefore love the Truth and Peace. Follow peace with all men, and holine&s;&s;e, without which
no man &s;hal &s;ee the Lord.</P></Q>
<P>Printed, 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>A briefe Reply to an idle Pamphlet.</HEAD>
<P>_THe wi&s;e&s;t of all Kings, <HI>Solomon,</HI> hath given us two &s;eemingly repugnant pre|cepts,
Prov. 26. 4&punc; 5. the fir&s;t is this; <HI>An&s;wer not a fool according to his folly,
lea&s;t thou al&s;o be like unto him.</HI> In obedience whereunto, I &s;hal forbeare to
give any an&s;wer to this <HI>Pamphletters</HI> extravagant rayling Prologue; to his
two la&s;t &s;orts of anoyntings, <HI>Effu&s;ione vini &amp; Infu&s;ione cervi&s;iae;</HI> with which
two unctions, I feare this <HI>Prie&s;t of Bacchus</HI> was anoynted, when he penned
this <HI>ab&s;olute An&s;wer,</HI> half in the <HI>Tavern,</HI> half in the <HI>Ale-hou&s;e)</HI> with other
his impertinences following them, fitter to exhilarate tho&s;e prophane <HI>Cavalieres,</HI> who have
lately turned &s;ome of our <HI>Churches</HI> into <HI>Stables,</HI> and <HI>Pulpits</HI> into <HI>Clo&s;e-&s;tooles,</HI> then to &s;atisfie
<HI>doubtfull con&s;ciences;</HI> or &s;ober-minded men. The latter this, <HI>An&s;wer is foole according to his folly,
le&s;t he be wi&s;e in his own conceit;</HI> in pur&s;uance whereof. I &s;hall onely give a <HI>&s;hort reply,</HI> to &s;o much
of his an&s;wer as may &s;eem pertinent to the point in controver&s;iy: which is but this:</P>
<P>Whether that of P&s;al. 105. 15. <HI>Touch not mine anoynted, and do my Prophets no <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">:</HI> was &s;po|ken
principally and peculiarly of Kings; or of inferiour &s;ubjects? And whether &s;ubjects may be
called <HI>Gods anoynted?</HI> The <HI>Vindicator</HI> truely a&s;&s;erts, that this was &s;poken principally and pecu|liarly
of inferiour &s;ubjects fearing God, and not of Kings; which he manife&s;ts in his <HI>Vindica|tion,</HI>
by two unan&s;werable arguments:</P>
<P>1. Becau&s;e this was originally and immediately &s;poken and intended of <HI>Abraham, I&s;aac,
and Iacob, and their families;</HI> who were no actuall Kings; (for they lived many hundred yeeres
before the I&s;raelites had any actuall King, of which <HI>Saul</HI> was the fir&s;t:) and that not in the time
of their wealth, and greatne&s;&s;e, ruling like Princes in their own Territories; but as the <HI>P&s;almi&s;t</HI>
expre&s;&s;ely re&s;olves in this P&s;alm, ver&s;. 12, 13. <HI>When they were but a few men in number, yea, VERY
FEW, and strangers in the Land: When they went from one Nation to another; from one Kingdom,
to another people;</HI> being mo&s;t remote from any royall condition.</P>
<P>2. Becau&s;e the&s;e words were directly &s;poken to Kings, not of Kings, which he proves, by v. 14, 15
<HI>Yea, he reproved KINGS for their &s;akes, &s;aying,</HI> (even to Kings them&s;elves) <HI>Touch not mine anoyn|ted,
&amp;c.</HI> and by Gods prohibiting King <HI>Pharaoh,</HI> and King <HI>Abimelech,</HI> &s;o much as to touch or
hurt <HI>Abraham, Sarah, I&s;aac</HI> or <HI>Rebekah,</HI> whiles they &s;ojourned within their Dominions, Gen.
12. 10. to 20. c. 20. &amp;c. 26. to which the P&s;almi&s;ts words relate. And therefore being thus im|mediately
directed to Kings them&s;elves cannot be meant of Kings, but &s;ubjects, unle&s;&s;e you will
make this non&s;ence Expo&s;ition of it, That Kings mu&s;t not touch nor hurt them&s;elves; or that it is
unlawfull for one King to touch, hurt, make war again&s;t, impri&s;on, depo&s;e or kill another.</P>
<P><HI>To the latter of the&s;e two rea&s;ons,<MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;w."> this</HI> ab&s;olute an&s;werer and confuter <HI>replies not &s;o much as
one &s;yllable, becau&s;e in verity it is unan&s;werable; and &s;o yeelds the cau&s;e: To &s;ome part onely
of the fir&s;t rea&s;on, he endeavours to give &s;ome &s;hew of an&s;wer, yet &s;uch, as being examined, doth
ju&s;tifie the</HI> Vindicator, <HI>and confute him&s;elfe; for fir&s;t he concur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> with the</HI> Vindication <HI>in this,</HI> That
the anoynted which the Prophet David &s;peakes of here, were the ble&s;&s;ed Patriarkes, NO DENIAL
OF THAT: he cals them here by their names, <HI>Abraham; I&s;aac, and Jacob,</HI> touching which <HI>(primo
intuitu, &amp; prima intentione)</HI> this &s;trict charge is given, that they be not touched here. <HI>This is his
own</HI> conclu&s;ion, naturally derived from the cour&s;e and &s;er<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">s of the Hi&s;tory. <HI>Lo here</HI> confitentem re|um:
<HI>this notable confuter, refuting not the</HI> Vindicator, <HI>but him&s;elfe. After which confe&s;&s;io<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">he
&s;ubjoynes this frivolous eva&s;ion,</HI> The&s;e Patriarches were principall per&s;ons, and (as I may &s;ay) Prin|ces
in their generations, and for &s;uch reputed by &s;uch among&s;t whom they lived: We may &s;afely averi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">:
for of <HI>Abraham</HI> it is by expre&s;&s;e tearms &s;aid, by the Hethites, that he was a mighty Prince;<NOTE N="a" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">. 23. v. 6.</NOTE> <HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">re
us my Lord, thou art a mighty Prince among&s;t us.</HI> And the Patriark <HI>I&s;aac</HI> in a Princely manner lif|ted
up his head above his follows: <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> what <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> the King &s;aid to <HI>I&s;aac</HI> the Patriarke,<NOTE N="b" PLACE="marg">Gen 26. 16.</NOTE> <HI>Go
from us, f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">r thou art much mightier than we.</HI> And <HI>Jacob</HI> mu&s;t come in for his principality too, be|hold
<PB REF="2">
his Scepter &s;tandeth upon earth, and reacheth up to heaven:<NOTE N="c" PLACE="marg">Gen. 27. 28.</NOTE> <HI>God gave to him the dew of hea|ven,
and the fatne&s;&s;e of the earth:</HI> They were Rulers of the people, Princes, Kings: <HI>Pator</HI> was in
them, <HI>and Arche</HI> too, the Fatherhood of the Church, and government of the State; and what finde we
more in Kings? &amp;c. <HI>So the</HI> An&s;werer: <HI>The &s;um of who&s;e words is; That the Patriarcks were actu|all
Kings, and in that regard onely called</HI> Gods anoynted, <HI>and this text</HI> (Touch not mine anointed)
<HI>was &s;poken of them, as they were Kings and Princes, not Subjects: therefore it belongs peculiar|ly
to Kings, not Subjects.</HI></P>
<P>To which I briefly reply:<MILESTONE N="1" UNIT="Reply"> 1. That the&s;e words, <HI>Touch not mine anointed, and do my Prophets no
harme,</HI> were &s;poken not onely of the&s;e three Patriarkes them&s;elves &s;ucce&s;&s;ively, but likewi&s;e of
<HI>their wives and families;</HI> as is cleare by Gen. 12. 15. to 20. c. 20. 2. to 17. c. 26. 11. c. 34. 30 c. 35. 6.
and by the expre&s;&s;e words of this P&s;alm, ver. 12. 14. <HI>When THEY were but a few men in number,
yea very few, &amp;c. He &s;uffered no man to do THEM wrong, but reproved even Kings for THEIR
&s;akes, &s;aying, Touch not mine anointed, &amp;c.</HI> all in the plurall number. Now admit the&s;e Patria<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">kes
them&s;elves (as this An&s;werer would per&s;wade us) were Kings and Princes, yet their wives chil|dren
and &s;ervants were no King nor Princes; therefore the&s;e words being &s;poken of their wives,
children, and &s;ervants, as well as of them&s;elves, they were uttered of them not as Kings and Prin|ces,
but inferiour &s;ubjects, and <HI>Gods faithfull cho&s;en &s;ervants:</HI> as is re&s;olved P&s;al. 105. 6. E&s;ay 41. 8.
cap. 44. 1, 2.</P>
<P>2. The&s;e words were uttered of them, not in the time of their greatne&s;&s;e and pro&s;perity, when
or where they ruled like Kings and Princes, and had the government of Church and State, as
this <HI>An&s;werer</HI> dreams; but as the P&s;almi&s;t directly re&s;olves, ver. 12, 13. <HI>When they were but a few
men in number,</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See Gen. 12. &amp; 20. &amp; 26.</NOTE> <HI>yea very few, and &s;trangers in the Land, when they went from one Nation and King|doms
to another, and &s;ojourned privately in an ob&s;cure manner, in Egypt and Gerar, under King Pha|raoh
and Abimelech,</HI> not as Kings and Rulers, but as &s;trangers and &s;ubjects: therefore they were
&s;poken of them, not as Kings and Princes, but as &s;trangers and &s;ubjects fearing God.</P>
<P>3. The&s;e Patriarcks were no actuall Kings nor Princes, as this An&s;werer fableth; for 1. they
had no Kingdoms, Principalities, or Teritories of their own, over which to raigne, but only their
own familes; which were <HI>very &s;mall,</HI> as the P&s;almi&s;t determines, ver&s;. 12. <HI>When they were but few
men, yea very few in number;</HI> and <HI>Jacob</HI> him&s;elfe too, Gen. 34. 30. <HI>And I being few in number, (but
70. &s;oules at mo&s;t,</HI> Gen. 46. 26, 27.) <HI>they &s;hall gather them&s;elves again&s;t me, and &s;lay me, &amp;c.</HI> Yea; they
with their families had then no certain habitation, but went <HI>like pilgrims and &s;trangers from one
Kingdom and Nation to another, confe&s;&s;ing that they were but pilgrims and &s;trangers upon earth,</HI> P&s;al.
105. 13. Heb. 11. 13. Gen. 17. 8. c. 36. 7. c. 37. 1. Deut. 23. 7. P&s;. 39. 12. therefore they were no actu|all
Princes, Kings, and Rulers. 2. The Scripture never cals them Kings or Princes; and if they
had carried them&s;elves as &s;uch, they &s;hould have been but u&s;urpers upon tho&s;e Kings and Princes,
Crownes and Royalties, in who&s;e Kingdoms they alwaies &s;ojourned, not at Kings and Princes
but &s;trangers, and &s;ubjects in &s;ome &s;ort. True it is, that the Scripture cals them and others, <HI>Patri|arcks,</HI>
but it was many ages after, and that in the New-te&s;tament, not the Old, not in regard of
any Regall power or authority actually ve&s;ted in them, as Kings; but becau&s;e they were <HI>the</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Heb. 7. 42 Act. 7. 8, 9. e, 2, 29.</NOTE> <HI>fa|thers
and mo&s;t eminent men of their families, both for antiquity, and piety:</HI> Whence <HI>Abraham</HI> is &s;tiled
not onely<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Num. 1. 2. c. 20. 15. P&s;al. 21. 4.</NOTE> <HI>father Abraham,</HI> but the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Acts 7. 2. 12, 15. c. 3. 17. R<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">m. 9. 5. Heb. 1. 1. 1 Ioh. 2. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">3 Iohn 8. 13. Luk. 1. 55.</NOTE> <HI>father of the faithfull.</HI> 3. This an&s;werer confe&s;&s;eth, <HI>that the
Regall government preceded the Patriarchall;</HI> (therefore the Patriarchall was not Regall, nor the
Patriarcks Kings by his own confe&s;&s;ion.) Which words of his, if ab&s;olutely intended, to wit, that
tho&s;e three Patriarcks,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ioh. 8. 39, 53. Rom. 4. 1, 12. Iam. 2. 11. Luk. 1. 73. c. 16. 24.</NOTE> <HI>Abraham,</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Rom. 4. 11, 16, 17, 18.</NOTE> <HI>I&s;aac, and Jacob,</HI> were before there were any Kings, are fal&s;; for
<HI>there were Kings before them,</HI> Gen. 14. 1. to 19. If relatively, in reference only to the I&s;raelites, then
it is true, that the Regall government &s;ucceeded the Patriarchicall, yet nor immediately, for <HI>they
were governed by</HI><NOTE N="h" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h. 1. 5, 16, 17. 18. Judges through|out 1 Sam. 12. 6. to 13.</NOTE> <HI>Mo&s;es, Io&s;uah, and &s;undry Iudges (who were no Kings) many hundred yeeres after
the&s;e Patriarkes,</HI> their government being not Regal till <HI>Saul</HI> was anointed their <HI>king by Samuel,
at their earne&s;t reque&s;t.</HI> Which very de&s;ire of <HI>changing the government into a Monarchy, and &s;etting
up a King in &s;tead of Iudges;</HI> is charged on them <HI>as a great &s;in,</HI> 1 Sam. 8. 6, 7, 8. 19 20. c. 10. 19. c. 12.
17, 19, 20, 25. <HI>Saul</HI> then being their fir&s;t King, the&s;e Patriarks and Judges were certainly no Kings,
as this blind <HI>Doctor</HI> fancieth them, again&s;t Scripture and &s;tory. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 line"></P>
<P><PB REF="3">
a King. I an&s;wer, that the Hebrew phra&s;e, (as the Margin of our Bibles renders it) is not a migh|ty
Prince,<MILESTONE UNIT="An&s;w."> but, <HI>a Prince of God among&s;t us;</HI> that is, <HI>a spirituall Prince,</HI> not temporall; or, <HI>one
whom God doth principally ble&s;&s;e and favour,</HI> &s;o Gen. 26. 28, c. 32. 28. P&s;a. 45. 16. Rev. 1. 5. 6. compa|red
together, expound it. 2. Though the word <HI>Prince</HI> in Scripture, doth <HI>&s;ometimes &s;ignifie a King,</HI>
yet u&s;ually it denotes nothing but a great, Noble man, the head or chief per&s;on of a Tribe or fa|mily;
&s;ome great Officer, Coun&s;ellor of State, or Ruler under Kings, or &s;uperiour Magi&s;trates;
witne&s;&s;e Gen. 34. 2. c. 12. 15. Num. 1. 16. c. 7. 2. 3. 10. 11. c. 17. 2 6. 7. Jo&s;h. 9. 15. 18. c. 22. 14. 32.
1 Sam. 29 3. 2 Sam. 10. 3. 1 Chro. 4. 38. 2 Chro. 12. 5. 6. c. 32. 3. E&s;ter 1. 3. 11. 14. Neh. 9. 32. 34.
prov. 28. 2. Jer. 2. 28.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">1 King. 14 7. c. 16. 2.</NOTE> with infinite other texts. The &s;tiling then of <HI>Abraham,</HI> a <HI>Prince,</HI> is no proof
at all, that he was a King: for then all great Subjects and Officers of State, u&s;ually <HI>called princes,</HI>
&s;hould by this argument become actuall Kings, and Gods anoynted in a politicke &s;en&s;e as wel as
their Soveraignes; which this <HI>An&s;werer,</HI> under pain of high trea&s;on, dares not grant. 3. This in|junction,
<HI>Touch not mine anoynted,</HI> was given to <HI>King Pharaoh and Abimelech,</HI> with reference to
<HI>Abraham, I&s;aac,</HI> and their families, whiles they were but in a low condition, and their hou&s;|hold,
<HI>very few in number,</HI> v. 12. 13. not when they were in their princely greatne&s;&s;e, and rich e&s;tate.
This text therefore wil no waies prove, that it was &s;poken of them as Kings and Princes. As for
<HI>Abimelecks</HI> &s;peech to <HI>I&s;aac, Goe from us, for thou art much mightier then I;</HI> and Gods giving <HI>Jacob
the dew of Heaven, and fatne&s;&s;e of the earth;</HI> it proves them no more to be actuall Kings and Prin|ces,
then the Scriptures &s;tyling <HI>all the men</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Jo&s;h 10. 2. 2 Sam. 23. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">, 16, 17.</NOTE> <HI>of Gedeon, mighty men;</HI> and <HI>Boaz,</HI> with others <HI>mighty
men of wealth,</HI> &s;heweth them to be Kings and Princes too. All which con&s;idered, I thinke all
indifferent men will and mu&s;t conclude for the <HI>Vindicator,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>An&s;werer,</HI> that, <HI>Touch
not mine anointed,</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Ruth. 2. 1, 2. Kin. 15 20.</NOTE> was not &s;poken principally and peculiarly of Kings; or of <HI>Abraham, I&s;aac,
and Iacob,</HI> as they were Patriarks, Kings, and Rulers; but of inferiour &s;ubjects, and of tho&s;e Patri|arks,
as they were &s;trangers, and &s;ubjects fearing God: And that this is no <HI>trayterous expo&s;ition of
Schi&s;maticks,</HI> as this <HI>An&s;werer</HI> mo&s;t bla&s;phemou&s;ly &s;tiles it; but the genuine, proper expo&s;ition,
and true &s;en&s;e of the text, as <HI>Augu&s;tine,</HI> with all orthodox Interpreters re&s;olve.</P>
<P>For his &s;econd part of the que&s;tion, <HI>Whether Subjects fearing God, may not truely and properly
be &s;tiled Gods anoynted, as well as Kings?</HI> This An&s;werer not only denies &s;ubjects this title, aver|ring,
<HI>that, touch not mine anointed, not only concerns them not, that they cannot enter-common in the
title of anoynted;</HI> but likewi&s;e proclaims it, <HI>to be a turning of Monarchy, into a Democracy; a ma|king
of</HI> unctos non unctos, <HI>a trayterous expo&s;ition, a dangerous tenet, a ca&s;ting of the Throne into the
dunghill, &amp;c. and no le&s;&s;e then high trea&s;on,</HI> to call &s;ubjects fearing God, <HI>Gods anoynted ones,</HI> in a &s;pi|ritual
&s;en&s;e.<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">So the vulgar Latine reads it.</NOTE> Yet in the mean time he forgets &s;o much as to mention, much le&s;&s;e to an&s;wer, tho&s;e
pregnant rea&s;ons and Scriptures cited in the <HI>Vindication,</HI> to prove all faithful Chri&s;tians, not only
<HI>unctos,</HI> but <HI>Chri&s;tos meos,</HI> Gods anoynted; yea, honourd with the very name and title of <HI>Chri&s;t,</HI>
1 Cor. 12. 12. Eph. 4. 12. 13. And is this <HI>an ab&s;olute an&s;wer and confutation of that groundle&s;&s;e Vindica|tion;</HI>
not to an&s;wer &s;o much as one text or rea&s;on in it? or rather, a plain confe&s;&s;ion, that the texts
and rea&s;ons in it are unan&s;werable, becau&s;e neither an&s;wered nor confuted? In one word, this An|&s;werer,
in his Margin, acknowledgeth; <HI>That other Saints and &s;ervants of God, may in a &s;econdary
way be &s;aid to be anointed</HI> And in his text, <HI>Others may be</HI> Uncti, <HI>not</HI> Chri&s;ti; <HI>anoynted, but not
anoynted of the Lord.</HI> A pretty Bull, and gro&s;&s;e contradiction; for <HI>Chri&s;ti</HI> and <HI>Vncti,</HI> are one and
the &s;ame in &s;ence, both &s;ignifying <HI>anointed,</HI> the one in Greeke, the other in Latin; whence the
<HI>vulgar,</HI> with other <HI>Latin Bibles</HI> render this text; <HI>Nolite tangere CHRISTOS meos;</HI> and <HI>Arias
Montanus, Iunius,</HI> with many other, tran&s;late it, <HI>VNCTOS meos;</HI> u&s;ing the&s;e two words promi&s;|cuou&s;ly
as the very &s;ame in &s;ence, in &s;ub&s;tance, and differing but in &s;ound: And why all true
<HI>Chri&s;tians</HI> (who derive this very name from <HI>Chri&s;tos,</HI> and are in direct tearms &s;tiled <HI>CHRISTOS,</HI>
by the holy Gho&s;t him&s;elf, 1 Cor 12. 12. Eph. 4. 12, 13.) may not as properly be termed <HI>Chri&s;ti,</HI> as
<HI>Vncti,</HI> or<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">&V;nctic. Chri&s;to &amp; his quireius &s;unt commu|nis e&s;t, quia eju&s;dem unctionis &s;um &amp; ip&s;i participes: quamobrem &amp; nos par|ticipatione Chri&s;ti Chri|&s;tiani dici|mur: <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">ychus in levitic: l. 2. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">. 8.</NOTE> <HI>Chri&s;tiani,</HI> I de&s;ire this An&s;werer to in&s;truct me in his next <HI>ab&s;olute confutation;</HI> which
I would advi&s;e him to anoint and temper <HI>Effu&s;ione Olei,</HI> not <HI>Effu&s;ione vini,</HI> &amp; <HI>Infu&s;ione cervi&s;iae</HI>
(to u&s;e his own di&s;tinctions) with the &s;pirit and language of &s;obriety; not with the vomit, the
&s;currility of the Tavern and Ale-truth, wherewith his whole <HI>An&s;wer</HI> and <HI>Confutation</HI> is <HI>ab&s;o|lutely</HI>
defiled, not anointed. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 line"></P>
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nor <HI>confutation</HI> at all to any one text or rea&s;on in the <HI>Vindication;</HI> and pretermitting in &s;ilence a|bove
12 parts thereof, if divided into 13. without &s;o much as endeavouring any an&s;wer or refu|tation
thereof; lea&s;t he &s;hould &s;eem to <HI>have lo&s;t his Oyle,</HI> and &s;poken nothing at all to purpo&s;e,
varni&s;heth and patcheth up his <HI>deformed Bable</HI> with &s;undry rayling invectives, again&s;t <HI>ignorant
mechanicke Divines. Lay-preachers, Shee-divines</HI> (who had need <HI>in&s;truct</HI> this learned Doctor <HI>in
the way and mind of the Lord more perfectly,</HI> as <HI>Aquila and Pri&s;cilla,</HI> two mechanicks, did that great
<HI>Apollos,</HI> Act. 18. 26.) <HI>Sectaries, Schi&s;maticks, &amp;c.</HI> with many extravagant impertinences, concer|ning
<HI>the traducing of mo&s;t vertuous and religious Princes;</HI> (which I pretermit) and divers malici|ous
&s;launders again&s;t the <HI>Vindication;</HI> which becau&s;e he could not <HI>an&s;wer,</HI> he would at lea&s;t <HI>ca|lumniate</HI>
and <HI>traduce</HI> with gro&s;&s;e lies and mi&s;-reports. I &s;hall in&s;tance but in two particulars of
many, by which you may di&s;cerne his dete&s;table forgeries.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><HI>See</HI> Concil. Toletanum 12. Surius. Tom. 3. p. 3. 4.</NOTE> <HI>he avers,</HI> that the Vindication, buzzeth into the peoples cares, that they onely are Gods anoyn|ted;
none but they, and not Kings: that the King was not Gods anointed; thereby to turn Monarchy
into Democracy, and expo&s;e the &s;acred per&s;ons of Kings to open violence, &amp;c. <HI>Whereupon he takes
much &s;uperfluous pains, to prove Kings, Gods anointed: when as this fal&s;e Accu&s;er, had not he
been wilfully blind, or his eyes</HI> changed into, <HI>or clo&s;ed up with</HI> pots of Ale <HI>(to u&s;e his own dia|lect)
might have &s;een the</HI> Vindicator <HI>there</HI> willingly and cordially profe&s;&s;e, that Kings in &s;acred Writ
are commonly called Gods anointed, &amp;c. <HI>In which regard,</HI> their per&s;ons are &s;acred, and no violence
ought to be offered to them, e&s;pecially by their &s;ubjects; <HI>citing &s;undry texts to prove it. Peru&s;e his
words, and be a&s;hamed of this impudent calumny.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly, he proclaims,</HI> that it bloweth a Trumpet of &s;edition and war, to work confu&s;ion in Church
and State: Os durum! <HI>When in verity it wholy tends,</HI> and earne&s;tly per&s;wades to peace, and unity in
both, and a &s;peedy laying down of all offen&s;ive and defen&s;ive armes, now unhappily rai&s;ed among&s;t us.</P>
<P>After this, for want of matter of his own, to fill up his empty pages, he borrows &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages
from Doctor <HI>Ferne,</HI> propounding this ca&s;e of con&s;cience; <HI>Whether upon &s;uch a &s;uppo&s;ition, as is
now frequently propo&s;ed; (the king will not di&s;charge his tru&s;t, but is &s;educed to &s;ubvert religion, laws,
and liberties,</HI> and hath rai&s;ed an army to that purpo&s;e) <HI>the &s;ubject</HI> (to wit, by the Parliaments di|rection
and command) to pre&s;erve the Kingdome, and Parliament, <HI>may take</HI> (defen&s;ive) <HI>armes to
re&s;i&s;t their Soveraigne,</HI> or his plundering Cavaleers? (I have added &s;ome words to &s;tate the que&s;tion
fuller.) Dr. <HI>Ferne,</HI> and he from Ro. 13 1. to 8. re&s;olve expre&s;&s;ely, <HI>that neither in this, nor in any other
ca&s;e, the &s;ubiects ought to re&s;i&s;t by force of armes, but onely pa&s;&s;ively by way of di&s;obedience, under perill
of damnation.</HI></P>
<P>This que&s;tion having no relation to the <HI>Vindication,</HI> and tending to the very di&s;&s;olution of <HI>So|veraigney</HI>
on the one hand, and <HI>the peoples &s;afety and liberty</HI> on the other, if not dexterou&s;ly han|dled,
with much caution and moderation, I &s;hall here forbeare to di&s;cu&s;&s;e it; referring tho&s;e who
de&s;ire &s;atisfaction, <HI>how far forth, and in what ca&s;es it is lawfull for &s;ubjects to take up offen&s;ive and
defen&s;ive armes again&s;t Princes and Magi&s;trates, and in what ca&s;es it is unlawfull,</HI> to <HI>Sleidan,</HI> Hi&s;t. l. 8.
18. &amp; 22. Bi&s;hop <HI>Bil&s;on</HI> his true difference between Chri&s;tian &s;ubjection, and unchri&s;tian rebel|lion,
par. 3. p. 510. to 520. <HI>David Paraeus</HI> his Comentary on <HI>Romans 13.</HI> Dubium. 8. p. 1347, &amp;c.
and his <HI>&s;ons</HI> ju&s;tification thereof; to Dr. <HI>Willet</HI> his &s;ixfold Commentary on Romans 13. Que|&s;tion
16. &amp; Controver&s;ie, 3. p. 588. 589. &amp;c. 608. to <HI>Richardus Dinothus, De bello Civili Gallico
religionis cau&s;a &s;u&s;cepto,</HI> in &s;undry pages e&s;pecially, p. 231. 232, &amp;c. 225. to the Hi&s;tory of the
<HI>Angronians</HI> in Mr. <HI>Foxes</HI> Acts and Monuments, Edit. 1641. vol. 2. p. 213. 214. King <HI>James</HI> his an|&s;wer
to Cardinall <HI>Perron, Fox</HI> Acts and Monuments, <HI>Ed. 3.</HI> fol. 1. p. 88. to Mr. <HI>Goodwins</HI> Anti-cavalari&s;me,
M. <HI>Burroughs</HI> his <HI>Glorious name of God the Lord of Ho&s;ts</HI> newly publi&s;hed and others,
who have amply handled this controver&s;ie (which I pray, and wi&s;h from my very &s;oule, we may
have no more occa&s;ion to debate.) And to that notable ancient re&s;olution of the mo&s;t excellent
heathen Emperour <HI>Trajan;</HI> who<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Eccle&s;ia|&s;ticae. Hist. l. 3. c. 23. Speed, hist. <HI>p.</HI> 9<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">.</NOTE> (as, <HI>Nicephorus Cali&s;tus</HI> records) <HI>was &s;o &s;tudious of law and ju|&s;tice,
and &s;o far e&s;tranged from di&s;hone&s;ty, that upon a time be gave a &s;word to a governour of the City
in the publique view of all, &s;aying, take this &s;word; and if I &s;hall govern the Empire well, u&s;e it for me;</HI>
&s;in aliter, CONTRA ME: <HI>if otherwi&s;e,</HI> USE IT AGAINST ME. A pregnant evidence, that
this be&s;t of all the heathni&s;h Roman Emperours (who upon his election, <HI>&s;ent an</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Op<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">us opus Chr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> <HI>Edict to the
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his command)</HI> was of this Judgment; that no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> only an inferiour King, but even the Roman Empe|rour
him&s;elf (the greate&s;t and mo&s;t ab&s;olute Monarch) might be lawfully re&s;i&s;ted with force of
armes, by the Governour of <HI>Rome,</HI> much more then by the Roman Senate it &s;elfe, which not <HI>onely
elected <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> con firmed; but oft times exerci&s;ed a judiciary power over their Emperours to coerti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">n, de|privation,
and death it &s;elf,</HI> as the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Suetonius, Eu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ropius, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;cus, Her<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">ian, Sabellicus, Opme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">rus, <HI>and</HI> Grim|&s;ton <HI>in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ives of</HI> Nero, Do|mi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ian, Ner|va, A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">rian, Commodus, Didius, Iu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ianus, Heliogaba|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">is, Maxi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">inus, Gal|lienus Philip Iovinianus, Tacitus, Probus, <HI>and others.</HI></NOTE> <HI>Roman Hi&s;tories</HI> manife&s;t again&s;t Dr. <HI>Fernes</HI> mi&s;take; though the
Chri&s;tians u&s;ed no force again&s;t them; being then but private men, not the Senate; and their re|ligion
quite contrary to the religion, lawes, and government of the Empire; in which ca&s;e, whiles
the&s;e lawes were in force, and they no Senators, they might onely <HI>fly</HI> or <HI>&s;uffer,</HI> and re&s;i&s;t onely
with prayers, teares, and pa&s;&s;ive di&s;obedience, not with force of armes, prohibited in &s;uch ca&s;es
by this text; which no waies re&s;embles the ca&s;e now in que&s;tion. All I &s;hal &s;ay to this text of the
Romans, and to this ca&s;e of con&s;cience; &s;hal be briefly compri&s;ed in the&s;e &s;ub&s;equent propo&s;iti|ons,
which I hope wil rectifie all extremities, and mi&s;takes on both &s;ides.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that this text expre&s;&s;ely commands &s;ubjection and obedience to all civil Magi&s;trates
what&s;oever, who&s;e Soveraignties and powers are either ordained or approved of God, in all their
lawful commands, and penal executions; extending as fully to all Governors, Rulers, and &s;ubor|dinate
Magi&s;trates, as to Kings them&s;elves; as is evident by the expre&s;&s;e words of the text, and by
Tit. 3. 1. 1 Tim. 2. 2. 1 Pet. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> 13, 14. Heb. 13. 17. Ephe&s;. 6. 1. 5. Col. 3. 18, 20, 23. 1 Tim. 6. 1, 2. Jo&s;h.
1. 16, 17, 18. Ezra 7. 25, 26. Therefore to the Parliament (the highe&s;t Court) as wel as to the King.</P>
<P><HI>Secondly, that it enjoynes &s;ubjection, obedience, and prohibits re&s;i&s;tance to higher powers
and rulers, only &s;o far forth as they are Gods Ordinance, and as they are</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Concil. Pari&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">a. An. 829. l. 2. c. 8.</NOTE> lawfully executed <HI>for the
common good of the people, the prai&s;e and incouragement of wel doers, and the ju&s;t puni&s;hment
of malefactors; as is evident by,</HI> v. 3. 4. 6 For Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil: wilt thou
not then be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou &s;halt have prai&s;e of the &s;ame; For he is the
Mini&s;ter of God to thee for good; but if thou do that which is evill, be affraid, for he beareth not the
&s;word in vain; For he is the Mini&s;ter of God, a revenger, to execute wrath upon him that doth evil, &amp;c.
For they are Gods Mini&s;ters, attending continually upon this very thing: <HI>compared with 1 Pet. 2. 13,
14.</HI> Submit your &s;elves to every ordinance of man for the Lords &s;ake; whether it be to the King as to the
&s;upream; or unto the Governours, as unto them that are &s;ent by him: for the puni&s;hment of evill doers, &amp;
the prai&s;e of them that do wel. <HI>And with E&s;a. 32. 1, 2. c. 56. 1, 2. c. 9. 7. c. 16. 5. 2 Sam. 23. 3. 2 Chr. 9. 8.
Ezek. 44. 15, 16, 17. c. 45. 8, 9. Deut. 17. 15. to the end. P&s;. 78. 72, 73. 74. 1 Tim. 2. 2, 3. Prov. 1. 3. c. 21.
3. c. 20. 8. 26. c. 29. 4. 14. P&s;al. 101. 2. to the end. 1 Sam. 8. 20. 2 Sam. 8. 15. Ier. 22. 15. Amo. 5. 15.
1 King. 3. 9. 28. c. 10. 9. P&s;. 97. 2. P&s;. 122. 5. Mich. 3. 1, 2, 3.</HI></P>
<P>Thirdly, that &s;ubjects are no waies obliged by this text to obey, or not re&s;i&s;t the higher powers,
as they are either abu&s;ed or perverted by unju&s;t or wicked Magi&s;trates, to oppre&s;&s;ion, inju&s;tice, ra|pine,
&s;ubver&s;ion of religion, lawes, liberties, &s;tate, people; or when as they command unlawfull
things contrary to the laws of God, or the &s;tates they govern; but in &s;uch ca&s;es as the&s;e (quite out
of this Scriptures verge and intention) they may &amp; mu&s;t be di&s;obeyed; and in &s;ome ca&s;es not only
pa&s;&s;ively, but actually re&s;i&s;ted; as is evident by Exod. 1. 15. to 20. Num. 22. 12. 13. 18. 22. 34. 35. c.
23. 7 8. 11. 12. 13. 20. 21. 22. 23. 25. 26. c. 24. 1. to 15. 1 Sam. 14. 38. to 46. c. 22. 17. 18. c. 12. to 27.
1 King. 11. 20. to 25. 2 King. 1. 9. to 16. c. 6. 31, 32. 2 Chro. 11. 4. c. 26. 17. to 22. E&s;ther 3. 2. 3 4.
1 King. 21. 2. 3. 4. Dan. 3. 8. to 29. c. 7. 4. to 15. Ioh. 7. 33. to 46. Act. 4. 19, 20. c. 5. 28. 29. 40. 52. 2 Kin.
11. 4. to 17. Ezek. 21. 25. 25. 26. 27. 2 Kin. 18. 7. By the<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Rex &agrave; rect&egrave; agend<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> vocatur, &s;i <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;t&egrave; pi&egrave; &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;ericordi|ter regit <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> Rex appellatur, &s;i his caruorit, non Rex, &s;ed <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">yrannus e&s;t Concil. Pa|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">i&s;. An. 829 l. 2. c. 1, 2.</NOTE> <HI>practice and re&s;olution of all the prote&s;tant
Churches in Germany, Bohemia, France, Scotland, Holland, Switzerland,</HI> approved, yea a&s;&s;i&s;ted in their
defen&s;ive wars again&s;t their popi&s;h Soveraignes, both by<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See <HI>Selida~. Hi&s;t. l. 8. 18, 22.</HI> Bi&s;hop <HI>Bil&s;on,</HI> his true diffe|rence, &amp;c. part 3. 509, to 522. K. <HI>Iames,</HI> his an&s;wer to <HI>Perron.</HI></NOTE> Qu. <HI>Elizabeth,</HI> our learned K. <HI>Iames,</HI> and
our pre&s;ent Soveraigne K. <HI>Charles,</HI> with the con&s;ent of their Parliaments and people; and by the
expre&s;&s;e re&s;olution not only of our <HI>King, and pre&s;ent Parliament,</HI> in their late <HI>Act of pacification
and oblivion,</HI> but of 4. ancient Parliaments more in the&s;e 4. &s;everal Kings raignes: namely. 15. E. 2.
in the Act intituled, <HI>Exilium Hugonis de &s;pencer.</HI> &amp;c. 1 E. 3. c. 1. 2. 3. 11. <HI>R.</HI> 2. c. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1 H. 4. c. 2. 3
4. which you may read at large, and find <HI>the very ca&s;e of re&s;i&s;tance</HI> now in que&s;tion, <HI>re&s;olved in
them to be lawful&punc;</HI> and in the great&punc;<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Speed, hi&s;t. p. 1193, 1194. 12<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">6 1237. Beza Epi&s;t. Ded: in Com. in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">.</NOTE> <HI>Councel of Ba&s;il.</HI> to. The rea&s;on is cleare becau&s;e their illegal
actions, commands, and wars upon their &s;ubjects, proceed not from their<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">In Fox Acts and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">onuments <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> ju&s;t &amp; legal power,
which can do no wrong, but from their private illegal wils and lu&s;ts, which are no power and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span">
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cea&s;e to govern according to law, in and as to it they cea&s;e to be <HI>Kings,</HI> and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span">, as King
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Spee<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>Parlia<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Eluther<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Epi&s;t. S<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters">manni. C<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters">|cil. T<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> p. 34. F<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> Acts <HI>an<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"></HI> Monum<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>v. 1. p.</HI> 88.</NOTE> <HI>Iames</HI> with others re&s;olve.</P>
<P>4^l^y. That this Scripture, as it enjoynes obedience to &s;ubjects, &s;o it pre&s;cribes bounds to Magi&s;trates,
&amp; the highe&s;t powers, which they mu&s;t not exceed: which truth, as it is intimated in the word <HI>ordained:
(the powers that are, are ordained of God:</HI> that is they are circum&s;cribed with certain bounds and laws of
ju&s;tice and hone&s;ty, within which, unle&s;&s;e they contain them&s;elves, they exorbitate from Gods ordi|nance.)
So it is expre&s;ly re&s;olved in the following words: <HI>For Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to
evill, &amp;c. For he is the Mini&s;ter of God to thee for good, &amp;c. The Mini&s;ter of God; and avenger, to execute
wrath upon him that doth evil; for they are Gods mini&s;ters, attending CONTINVALYON THIS VERY
THING.</HI> By which it is evident, that God hath given Kings and Rulers no commi&s;&s;ion or power at
all to plunder, murther, oppre&s;&s;e, de&s;troy, or vex their &s;ubjects upon any occa&s;ion, or to &s;ubvert religi|on,
lawes, liberties, and the &s;tates they govern; but only, to <HI>puni&s;h</HI><NOTE N="k" PLACE="marg">P&s;. 10 <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> to the e<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> I&s;a. 32. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 2 Sam. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 2 Ch. 9<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"></NOTE> <HI>malefactors,</HI> in a legal way; (not &s;hel|ter
them from publique ju&s;tice) to protect, reward, and <HI>&s;eek the temporall and &s;pirituall</HI><NOTE N="l" PLACE="marg">Neh 2. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Jere. 38. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 2 Sam. 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 1 Sam. 8. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 20 I&s;a. 4<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 4. c. 49. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"></NOTE> <HI>welfare</HI> of their
good &s;ubjects, to execute equall ju&s;tice to all, without re&s;pect of per&s;ons, and to rule them in &s;uch &s;ort
as God him&s;elf hath commanded, and would have them governed, who&s;e mini&s;ters they are. If they do
otherwi&s;e they do but pervert that power which God and men have intru&s;ted them with, and ri&s;e up
in<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">1 Sam. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 22, 23, 24. I&s;a. 1. 20. Eccl. 3. 1. Amo. 1. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Ma. 3. 1. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"></NOTE> <HI>rebellion again&s;t God him&s;elf</HI> the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords; who by way of ju&s;t retaliation
ought, <HI>cau&s;eth their &s;ubjects to</HI><NOTE N="n" PLACE="marg">2 Chr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 10. 15, 1<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 18, 19 c. 1<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 4. c. 13. 5<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 7. 2 Kin<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 24. Rom<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 1. 1. c. 3. 5<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"></NOTE> <HI>rebel, and ri&s;e up in armes again&s;t them, to their ruine and vexation.</HI></P>
<P>5^l^y. That this text is meant only of the lawful power and authority of Magi&s;trates and rulers, which
is alwaies ju&s;t and good, and the ordinance of God; and &s;o not to be re&s;i&s;ted; not of their exorbitant
<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">il<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">, which are <HI>oft times</HI><NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Dan <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 21. Ezec<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> 21. 23. 2 King. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &amp; 24. P&s;. 94, 20, 21. Mich. 3. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters">, 3.</NOTE> <HI>vile, wicked, yea dete&s;table both to God and man.</HI> Or if you wil; it is intended of
Magi&s;trates con&s;idered meerly and chiefly in their ju&s;t politick, not naturall capacities: whence it is,
that the text u&s;eth the word, <HI>higher powers, the powers that are,</HI> the power, &amp;c. in the general; nor
naming any particular kind, of power, or pen&s;ons inve&s;ted with it: which con&s;ideration, together with
that of <HI>Bracton. l. 3.</HI> f. 107. an&s;wers the main arguments of Dr. <HI>Ferne</HI> and others again&s;t re&s;i&s;ting &s;u|periours
or Kings, even when they prove &s;ubverters of laws, liberties, religion, and turne open bloody
tyrants. Say they, <HI>The powers then (when the Apo&s;tle forbids to re&s;i&s;t) were &s;ubverters of that which was
good, and ju&s;t, and per&s;ecutors of religion, Caligula, Chaudius, and Nero, being Emperours about that time.</HI> If
the&s;e then, by the Apo&s;tles doctrine, though &s;uch publike enemies to the republike, religion, and
tran&s;cendent tyrants, were not to be re&s;i&s;ted, but &s;ubmitted to; then no other Kings nor Magi&s;trates,
though they trace their foot&s;teps. To which I an&s;wer, that the&s;e men confound their lawful power &amp;
unju&s;t plea&s;ures, wils, lu&s;ts and per&s;ons all together, which the Apo&s;tle really di&s;tingui&s;heth. Their
Imperiall power and &s;overaignty was ju&s;t. good, <HI>ordained of God to puni&s;h evil, and countenance good
<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">in;</HI> therefore the Apo&s;tle commandeth every &s;oul to &s;ubmit thereto, and not re&s;i&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters"> it: but their per&s;ons
inve&s;ted with this power, together with their wils and actions were evill, perverting their authority, <HI>(a|gain&s;t
Gods in&s;titution)</HI> to tyranny, blood&s;hed, &s;ubver&s;ion of religion, laws, liberties, and in this regard
their unju&s;t illegall commands, and proceedings of this nature, not warranted by their ju&s;t power, nor
any part therof were not to be obeyed or &s;ubmitted to, but re&s;i&s;ted; as I have formerly proved by other
Scriptures in the third propo&s;ition: This the Doctor him&s;elf confe&s;&s;eth, when he writes, <HI>That per|&s;onall
defence is lawfull again&s;t the &s;udden illegall a&s;&s;aults not onely of the Kings me&s;&s;engers, but of the
King him&s;elf, thus far; to ward his blows, to hold his hands, and the like, not to endanger his per&s;on, &amp;c.</HI> And
indeed, how ever the Chri&s;tian Romans, expounded this text of the Apo&s;tle, certain I am, the pagans
among&s;t them, were &s;o far from believing they might in no ca&s;e re&s;i&s;t tho&s;e tyrannizing Emperors, that
they made no con&s;cience to murther them,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See <HI>Suet<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters">|nius Eurr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters">|pius, Zon<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters">|ras, Opme<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters">|rus, Grim|&s;ton,</HI> and others in their th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> lives.</NOTE> <HI>Charea and his confederates giving Caligula no le&s;&s;e than 30
wounds whereof he died. Claudius was poy&s;oned; Nero, by the</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Sena<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">u&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;ententia con&s;titut<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> e&s;t ut mud<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> perpublic<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> ductus fur<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters">|c<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">llo eius in&s;erta, vi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters">|gis u&s;que <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> mortem <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters"> deretur, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1+ letters">.</NOTE> <HI>Senato a&s;&s;embled, for his tyranny, and oppre&s;&s;i|on,
was adjudged an enemy to his Country, and condemned to die for it; to avoyd which judgment, bring &s;ought
for, he became his own executioner, murthering him&s;elf without <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> his death being known in Rome, the
joy which the Senate and people conceived was incredible, and <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> (Chri&s;tians and Pagans) <HI>came &s;orth
into the &s;treets to congratulate one another, with bonnets on their heads, which was a &s;igne of liberty.</HI> The Dr.
therefore might wel have forborn to in&s;tance in the&s;e examples and to que&s;tion what the Senate then might do.</P>
<P>6. Admit this text prohibits the re&s;i&s;ting of the abu&s;ed power, and per&s;ons of Kings &amp; Magi&s;trates them&s;elves
in any ca&s;e; yet que&s;tionle&s;&s;e it extends not to their wicked unlawfull in&s;truments, and armies rai&s;ed, to plunder,
<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 span"> murder de&s;troy their &s;ubjects per&s;ons, hou&s;es goods, laws, liberties, or to &s;ubvert religion; but that the&s;e, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="page cropped" EXTENT="1 line">
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Realm, to commit &s;uch outrages, and being in truth meere robbers, theeves, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">elons, murtherers, and tre&s;pa&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="3 letters"> (if
not rebels and traytors to their Country) by the lawes of God and man; may lawfully be re&s;i&s;ted and in a meere
ju&s;t, nece&s;&s;ary, de&s;en&s;ive war de&s;troyed without any danger of murther and damnation, threatned by this text&punc; the
very<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="3 letters">, 192, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">, 258, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">, 246, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">, 21 H. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> 9. 24 H. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> 5. &s;tam. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> 2, 14. <HI>Co.</HI> 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">1, 92, Matth. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> is, Hi&s;t. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="3 letters">gl. An. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> 15, 12 16 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">64, 265, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">6.</NOTE> common law of the Realm, and of nature, allowing all men, to beat, repell, and &s;lay others in &s;ome ca&s;es, in
defence of their own per&s;ons, families, hou&s;es, goods, and liberties, if unju&s;tly a&s;&s;aulted or invaded.
I have now quite done with the un-an&s;wering an&s;wer, O that we had al&s;o totally ended and compo&s;ed our unci|vil
di&s;&s;en&s;ions, that &s;o we might now joyn with the ble&s;&s;ed Angels, in their &s;weet Chri&s;tmas Car<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">l,<NOTE N="o" PLACE="marg">Kin. 1. 9 16. c. 6. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> 32, 33. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> 8. 11, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> c. 9. 1. 17.</NOTE> <HI>Glory be
to God in the highe&s;t, on earth peace, good will towards men.</HI> O that the Nativity of the<NOTE N="p" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> 2. 14. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">a. 9. 6. Kin. 20. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> P&s;a. 85. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> Zach. 8. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> 19.</NOTE> <HI>Prince of peace</HI>
which we now celebrate, might be the joyfull &s;ea&s;on both of the conception, birth, growth, and perpetuall re|e&s;tabli&s;hment
of our much de&s;ired peace. It was a mo&s;t memorable &s;peech and re&s;olution of the Emperour <HI>Oth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI>
the fir&s;t,<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">. 29. 19. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;the.</HI> 8. 6. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">rim&s;ton, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">etonius, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> us, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> Sabelli|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="3 letters"> <HI>in his</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">.</NOTE> when <HI>Vitellius</HI> his competitor for the Empire, and he, had fought &s;ome two or three bloody battels,
wherein divers brave Roman &s;ouldiers were &s;lain on either &s;ide, and yet the controver&s;ie undecided, the greate&s;t
part of the Senate and his &s;ouldiers comming to him with &s;hew of great courage, offering to die, in his &s;er|vice,
and afford him meanes to maintain the war: He made this Oration to them. <HI>That &s;eeing his enemy was
neither Hannibal, nor Pyrrhus, or any other common enemy to the people of Rome, but Romans them&s;elves,
and the Lords thereof, &s;o as the Conquerors and conquered did wrong their Country, if they contended any
longer, &s;eeing that the joy of the victory was to the lo&s;&s;e and prejudice thereof; And that he could no way &s;o
advance the Roman Empire, by winning battels in war and contention, as by making a &s;acrifice of him&s;elf for
the peace thereof, &s;eeing by his death only a generall concord would en&s;ue. Wherefore he was content Vitellius
&s;hould be Emperor, without any more blood&s;hed, and he de&s;ired no revenge or rule by the prejudice of his citi|zens,
neither to dimini&s;h the Common-wealth, by the lo&s;&s;e of &s;uch armies: and that as others had purcha&s;ed ho|nour
and fame by wel-governing and &s;upporting the Empire, &s;o he would likewi&s;e procure him&s;elf a good
name by leaving it re&s;olutely, to the end he would not damnifie it;</HI> which &s;poken, he &s;lew him&s;elf pre&s;ently with
his Rapier, &s;aying, <HI>That he was not &s;o con&s;iderable, that a civill war &s;hould be rai&s;ed and continued for his &s;ake.</HI>
O that all the delinquents and malignanta about the King, would now (after &s;o much civil blood&s;hed, occa&s;ioned
by their means, to &s;hield them&s;elves from publique ju&s;tice) u&s;e &s;uch like orations to His Maje&s;ty, and voluntarily,
yeeld them&s;elves up to their legal tryals, &s;aying, <HI>That they in truth are not &s;o much worth, as that any more
Engli&s;h blood &s;hould be unnaturally &s;pilt, a civil war any longer maintained, and the whole kingdom ruined
for their unju&s;t protection or de&s;ignes:</HI> Then certain I am, our pre&s;ent wars would &s;oon be determined, our diffe|rences
compo&s;ed, our armies disbanded, and our peace re&s;tored, yea e&s;tabli&s;hed in truth, and righteou&s;nes. How
ever the&s;e men &s;tand affected, yet this &s;hal be my con&s;tant prayer and endeavour, that truth and peace, righteou&s;|nes
and holines, may ki&s;&s;e each other, all our daies, and that God would&punc; ble&s;&s;e us his people with true peace:
for (alas)<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> how can I (or any other true Chri&s;tians) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> endure to &s;ee the evil (that is come) that &s;hal come unto
my people? or how &s;hal I endure to &s;ee the de&s;truction of my kindred, Nation, Country? O let me never live to
behold that di&s;mal day, wherein Englands condition, &s;hal be like that of I&s;raels, (as now it is in &s;ome &s;ort) Zeph.
11. 4, 5, 6. <HI>Thus &s;aith the Lord my God, feed the flock of the &s;laughter, who&s;e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors &s;lay them, and hold them|&s;elves
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> guilty; and they that &s;ell them &s;ay, Ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord, for I am rich; and their own &s;hepheards pitty
them nor; for I will no more pity the inhabitants of the lands&punc; &s;aith the Lord; but to, I wil deliver the men, every
one into his neighbours hand, and into the hand of his</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Quo&s;dam <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;peximus <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">ges, ex|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ua<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ia vi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">us popul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">m, &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span"> Reges it vocati fen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ionem <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word"> va&s;tatio|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">m conver|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">, qui va|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">tionem <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">en&s;ione <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ere debu|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">unt, Conc|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">etanum <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">rius, Tom. p. 865.</NOTE> <HI>King, and I &s;hal &s;mite the land, and out of their hand, I
wil not deliver them. Through the wrath of the Lord of Ho&s;ts, is the land darkned, and the people &s;hal be as the
fewel of the fire; no <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">an &s;hal &s;pare his brother, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;hal &s;natch on the right hand, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">e hurgry; and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;hal
<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">ate on the left hand, and they &s;hal not be &s;atisfied; they &s;hal eate every man the fle&s;h of his owne arme. Mana&s;|&s;eh,
Ephraim; and Ephraim, Mana&s;&s;eh, and they together &s;hal be again&s;t Iudah: For all this his anger is not
turned away, but his wrath is &s;tretched out &s;till, a They have made the plea&s;ant portion a de&s;olate wildernes;
The &s;poylers are come upon all high places through the wildernes, for the &s;word of the Lord &s;hall devoure from
one end of the Land, even to the other end of the Land, no fle&s;h &s;hal have peace. The whole Land is made de&s;o|late,
becau&s;e no man layeth it to heart,</HI> This is a &s;ad condition indeed: it is <HI>Irelands</HI> already altogether; and
<HI>Englands</HI> in a great mea&s;ure. It is the ob&s;ervation of<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">er. 12. 10, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">, 12.</NOTE> <HI>Paulus Oro&s;ius, that when Chri&s;t the Prince of peace
was born, the temple of Ianus was clo&s;ed, &amp; the whole world in peace without any wars, the better to entertain
this Prince of peace:</HI> O that this time of Chri&s;te nativity might produce &s;uch a univer&s;al peace through|out
<HI>England,</HI> and the Chri&s;tian world! O that we <HI>could know in this our day the things which belong unto
our peace,</HI> and publique &s;afety; &amp; that <HI>they may not he hid from our eyes</HI> any longer: O that now at la&s;t
we would quite abandon tho&s;e cu&s;tomary &s;ins, lu&s;ts, and abu&s;es which accompany this &s;olemnity&punc; <HI>from
whence our wars and fightings come;</HI> and for which<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Hi&s;t. l. 1 &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="2 letters">iropius. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">. p. 38.</NOTE> <HI>God hath now taken away his peace from our Land&punc;</HI> O
that we would now <HI>become an</HI><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">. 19. 42 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 word">. 16. 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 letter">an. 8. 24 <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="tech" EXTENT="1 span">.</NOTE> <HI>holy people;</HI> and <HI>then we &s;hould &s;oon be a peaceable and happy people.</HI> I &s;hal
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