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           OF
           Patience
           and
           submission
           to
           Authority
           .
        
         
           A
           SERMON
           Preach'd
           before
           the
           Lord
           Mayor
           And
           the
           COURT
           of
           ALDERMEN
           ,
           AT
           Guild-hall
           Chapel
           ,
           on
           the
           27
           th
           of
           January
           ,
           1683
           /
           4.
           
        
         
           By
           JOHN
           MOORE
           ,
           D.D.
           
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           
             R.
             Royston
          
           ,
           Bookseller
           to
           his
           Most
           Sacred
           Majesty
           ;
           and
           
             Walter
             Kettilby
          
           at
           the
           
             Bishop's
             Head
          
           in
           St.
           
           Paul's
           Church-yard
           ,
           1684.
           
        
      
       
         
         
           
             Tulse
             ,
             Mayor
             .
          
           
             
               Martis
               
                 xxix
                 .
                 die
              
               Januarii
               ,
               1683
               /
               4.
               
               
                 Annóque
                 Regni
                 Regis
              
               Caroli
               Secundi
               ,
               Angliae
               ,
               
                 &c.
                 xxxv
              
               .
            
          
        
         
           This
           Court
           doth
           desire
           Dr.
           Moore
           to
           print
           his
           Sermon
           preached
           on
           Sunday
           last
           ,
           at
           the
           Guild-hall
           Chapel
           ,
           before
           the
           Lord
           Mayor
           and
           Aldermen
           of
           this
           City
           .
        
         
           Wagstaffe
           .
        
         
         
      
       
         
         
         
           
             To
             the
             Right
             Honourable
             Sir
             Henry
             Tulse
             ,
             LORD
             MAYOR
             ,
             AND
             THE
             COURT
             of
             ALDERMEN
             OF
             The
             CITY
             of
             LONDON
             .
          
        
         
           
             My
             Lord
             ,
          
        
         
           I
           Publish
           this
           Discourse
           in
           compliance
           with
           your
           Lordship's
           Commands
           ,
           and
           not
           without
           some
           hopes
           it
           may
           be
           of
           use
           ,
           not
           onely
           to
           bring
           men
           to
           a
           patient
           submission
           to
           the
           Will
           of
           God
           ,
           under
           the
           manifold
           troubles
           and
           afflictions
           of
           this
           life
           ,
           but
           likewise
           to
           compose
           their
           Minds
           to
           all
           due
           subjection
           and
           obedience
           to
           the
           Civil
           Authority
           :
           In
           which
           ,
           under
           his
           Sacred
           
           Majesty
           ,
           since
           your
           Lordship
           has
           so
           great
           and
           difficult
           a
           part
           ,
           that
           you
           may
           manage
           it
           ,
           as
           hitherto
           you
           have
           done
           ,
           with
           advantage
           to
           the
           Public
           ,
           and
           honour
           to
           your self
           ,
           is
           the
           hearty
           Prayer
           of
           ,
        
         
           
             
               My
               Lord
               ,
               Your
               Lordship
               's
               most
               Faithfull
               and
               Humble
               Servant
               ,
            
             John
             Moore
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           
             
               HEB.
               10.36
               .
            
             
               For
               ye
               have
               need
               of
               Patience
               ,
               that
               after
               ye
               have
               done
               the
               will
               of
               God
               ,
               ye
               might
               receive
               the
               reward
               .
            
          
        
         
           OUR
           Lord
           made
           a
           private
           entry
           into
           the
           World
           ,
           without
           pomp
           ,
           or
           force
           ,
           neither
           attended
           with
           a
           numerous
           and
           splendid
           train
           ,
           nor
           at
           the
           head
           of
           a
           great
           Army
           :
           And
           although
           the
           design
           of
           his
           coming
           was
           to
           erect
           a
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           to
           bring
           men
           of
           all
           ranks
           and
           conditions
           into
           subjection
           to
           it
           ,
           yet
           he
           used
           neither
           worldly
           polity
           ,
           nor
           arms
           to
           accomplish
           it
           .
           For
           as
           his
           Kingdom
           was
           of
           a
           different
           nature
           ,
           from
           all
           those
           which
           had
           been
           before
           it
           ,
           so
           he
           took
           a
           quite
           contrary
           method
           to
           form
           and
           support
           it
           .
           He
           was
           so
           far
           from
           enslaving
           the
           persons
           of
           men
           ,
           and
           spilling
           their
           bloud
           to
           encrease
           his
           own
           glory
           ,
           and
           from
           putting
           the
           Countries
           about
           him
           under
           a
           contribution
           to
           carry
           on
           his
           Wars
           ,
           and
           uphold
           the
           majesty
           of
           his
           Court
           ,
           that
           he
           did
           condescend
           to
           make
           his
           first
           appearance
           in
           a
           Stable
           ,
           and
           to
           take
           upon
           himself
           the
           form
           of
           a
           Servant
           .
        
         
           The
           dominion
           he
           intended
           ,
           was
           to
           be
           over
           the
           mind
           ,
           upon
           which
           outward
           force
           can
           take
           no
           place
           :
           and
           to
           transplant
           the
           desires
           and
           affections
           of
           the
           Soul
           from
           this
           lower
           world
           ,
           to
           the
           glories
           and
           pleasures
           of
           Heaven
           :
           for
           the
           effecting
           whereof
           ,
           grandeur
           ,
           riches
           and
           power
           are
           so
           far
           from
           being
           necessary
           means
           ,
           that
           they
           often
           prove
           most
           fatal
           impediments
           .
           And
           accordingly
           Christ
           ,
           without
           a
           fund
           of
           treasure
           ,
           without
           Soldiers
           ,
           or
           the
           
           help
           of
           any
           earthly
           interest
           ,
           gave
           Laws
           to
           the
           World
           ;
           and
           disposed
           men
           to
           be
           subject
           to
           them
           ,
           by
           the
           authority
           of
           his
           Divine
           Miracles
           ,
           and
           the
           convincing
           efficacy
           of
           his
           Sermons
           and
           holy
           life
           :
           and
           his
           Disciples
           preacht
           his
           Doctrines
           ,
           made
           them
           spread
           ,
           and
           be
           received
           by
           the
           power
           onely
           of
           plain
           persuasion
           ,
           by
           setting
           an
           example
           according
           to
           the
           rules
           they
           had
           taught
           ,
           and
           bearing
           testimony
           to
           the
           truth
           of
           their
           Doctrine
           by
           patiently
           suffering
           persecution
           for
           it
           .
        
         
           To
           tax
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           draw
           the
           Sword
           ,
           were
           things
           so
           foreign
           to
           his
           purpose
           ,
           so
           utterly
           repugnant
           to
           the
           great
           end
           of
           his
           coming
           ,
           the
           redemption
           of
           Mankind
           from
           the
           power
           and
           guilt
           of
           sin
           ,
           that
           on
           the
           contrary
           he
           has
           declared
           it
           is
           a
           matter
           ,
           in
           it self
           ,
           
             easier
             for
             a
             Camel
             to
             pass
             through
             the
             eye
             of
             a
             needle
             ,
             
             than
             for
             a
             rich
             man
             to
             enter
             into
             the
             Kingdom
             of
             God
             ,
          
           
           and
           
             that
             they
             that
             take
             the
             sword
             ,
             shall
             perish
             with
             the
             sword
             .
          
        
         
           Whereupon
           most
           remarkable
           was
           the
           patience
           of
           the
           first
           Christians
           under
           their
           sufferings
           ,
           and
           their
           peace
           of
           mind
           and
           joy
           ,
           and
           ready
           submission
           to
           the
           divine
           Will
           in
           the
           bitterest
           trials
           ,
           was
           so
           beyond
           example
           ,
           that
           as
           nothing
           did
           more
           
             abate
             the
             rage
          
           of
           their
           persecutours
           ,
           (a)
           
             than
             their
             chearfulness
             under
             persecution
          
           ,
           so
           they
           added
           more
           to
           the
           Church
           by
           dying
           for
           the
           Cause
           of
           Christ
           ,
           than
           they
           had
           done
           before
           by
           preaching
           it
           up
           .
        
         
           Indeed
           our
           Saviour
           was
           the
           first
           that
           did
           effectually
           recommend
           this
           passive
           virtue
           to
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           furnisht
           men
           with
           such
           true
           arguments
           to
           bear
           the
           Cross
           ,
           as
           made
           the
           most
           afflicted
           state
           not
           onely
           supportable
           ,
           but
           to
           be
           preferr'd
           before
           all
           the
           happiness
           of
           this
           life
           .
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           the
           Philosophers
           had
           deeply
           consider'd
           the
           causes
           of
           humane
           misery
           ,
           and
           apply'd
           themselves
           with
           all
           study
           
           and
           diligence
           to
           find
           remedies
           for
           it
           .
           But
           they
           wanted
           sound
           principles
           to
           build
           their
           discourses
           upon
           ,
           made
           to
           compose
           the
           disorders
           of
           the
           mind
           ,
           and
           so
           their
           rules
           for
           the
           government
           of
           the
           calamitous
           became
           liable
           to
           infinite
           and
           unanswerable
           exceptions
           ;
           and
           all
           their
           receipts
           ,
           though
           adorned
           with
           eloquence
           and
           the
           countenance
           of
           Philosophy
           prov'd
           dry
           and
           comfortless
           to
           men
           in
           pain
           and
           trouble
           :
           (b)
           none
           sinking
           more
           under
           their
           burthen
           ,
           or
           making
           more
           effeminate
           complaints
           of
           the
           weight
           of
           it
           ,
           than
           some
           of
           these
           Philosophers
           who
           had
           writ
           the
           wisest
           maxims
           about
           patience
           and
           the
           contempt
           of
           adverse
           fortune
           .
        
         
           And
           that
           which
           chiefly
           render'd
           them
           unfit
           for
           so
           great
           an
           undertaking
           was
           their
           false
           notions
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           their
           ignorance
           of
           another
           life
           ,
           which
           sometimes
           they
           seem'd
           to
           believe
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           they
           deny'd
           ,
           and
           when
           they
           were
           on
           the
           affirming
           side
           ,
           if
           we
           observe
           with
           what
           weak
           and
           unsatistactory
           arguments
           they
           endeavour
           to
           prove
           and
           maintain
           the
           point
           ,
           there
           will
           be
           reason
           to
           conclude
           ,
           that
           their
           doubts
           and
           darkness
           as
           to
           these
           things
           would
           have
           continued
           to
           this
           day
           ,
           had
           not
           our
           Lord
           brought
           life
           and
           immortality
           to
           light
           by
           the
           Gospel
           .
        
         
           For
           as
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           conceiv'd
           that
           a
           man
           should
           bring
           himself
           to
           be
           quiet
           and
           easie
           under
           an
           evil
           that
           presses
           hard
           upon
           him
           ,
           unless
           it
           be
           in
           hopes
           by
           his
           patience
           to
           get
           rid
           of
           it
           ,
           or
           to
           mend
           his
           condition
           :
           So
           it
           is
           manifest
           that
           they
           ,
           who
           believe
           little
           or
           nothing
           themselves
           of
           a
           future
           state
           ,
           cannot
           be
           stored
           with
           true
           arguments
           to
           prevail
           upon
           a
           man
           to
           be
           patient
           under
           a
           sequestration
           from
           the
           happiness
           and
           pleasures
           
           of
           this
           life
           .
           For
           where
           will
           they
           find
           just
           motives
           to
           reduce
           him
           to
           a
           composed
           mind
           ,
           who
           by
           a
           fire
           or
           a
           storm
           has
           his
           Estate
           swept
           away
           ,
           or
           by
           a
           malitious
           story
           his
           reputation
           blasted
           ,
           or
           by
           the
           acute
           pains
           of
           a
           Disease
           his
           Body
           weakned
           beyond
           hopes
           of
           recovery
           ,
           if
           neither
           they
           nor
           he
           are
           possest
           with
           a
           persuasion
           ,
           that
           ,
           being
           gone
           off
           this
           stage
           ,
           they
           shall
           live
           again
           ,
           and
           receive
           the
           recompence
           of
           their
           vertue
           ?
           and
           with
           what
           conscience
           could
           the
           Philosophers
           upbraid
           and
           reproach
           men
           in
           distress
           for
           their
           grief
           and
           complaints
           ,
           passions
           most
           natural
           to
           their
           condition
           ,
           when
           all
           they
           could
           offer
           to
           comfort
           them
           ,
           fell
           short
           of
           an
           equivalent
           to
           their
           present
           losses
           and
           misfortunes
           ?
        
         
           He
           then
           onely
           can
           be
           allow'd
           to
           be
           the
           true
           Physician
           for
           the
           mind
           ,
           who
           is
           able
           to
           assure
           his
           Patients
           ,
           that
           even
           the
           malice
           of
           those
           ,
           who
           torment
           their
           Bodies
           ,
           shall
           never
           have
           power
           to
           reach
           and
           harm
           their
           Souls
           ;
           and
           that
           for
           their
           sufferings
           in
           this
           world
           ,
           they
           shall
           receive
           an
           hundred
           fold
           in
           the
           next
           .
           And
           as
           Christ
           alone
           is
           the
           Authour
           of
           those
           means
           which
           will
           uphold
           the
           Spirit
           in
           the
           most
           sorrowfull
           condition
           ,
           so
           he
           did
           likewise
           foresee
           ,
           there
           should
           be
           no
           men
           exposed
           to
           severer
           trials
           than
           the
           Professours
           of
           his
           Religion
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           reason
           he
           exhorts
           his
           Disciples
           to
           
             possess
             their
             souls
             in
             patience
          
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Apostles
           do
           admonish
           their
           new
           Converts
           of
           the
           
             need
             they
             have
             of
             patience
             ,
             that
             after
             they
             have
             done
             the
             will
             of
             God
             ,
             they
             might
             receive
             the
             reward
             .
          
        
         
           In
           managing
           of
           this
           argument
           ,
           I
           shall
           use
           the
           following
           method
           .
           
             
               I.
               Explain
               the
               nature
               of
               Patience
               ,
               and
               set
               down
               the
               chief
               instances
               wherein
               it
               is
               to
               be
               exercised
               .
            
             
               II.
               Propose
               the
               means
               by
               which
               it
               is
               to
               be
               obtained
               .
            
             
               
               III.
               Represent
               the
               necessity
               of
               it
               ,
               and
               shew
               that
               it
               is
               a
               fundamental
               vertue
               to
               the
               Christian
               Life
               .
            
             
               IV.
               Prove
               that
               no
               Religion
               or
               Philosophy
               furnishes
               men
               with
               such
               true
               and
               powerfull
               motives
               to
               patience
               as
               Christianity
               does
               .
            
          
        
         
           I.
           I
           am
           to
           explain
           the
           nature
           of
           Patience
           .
           By
           Patience
           ,
           in
           the
           most
           comprehensive
           sense
           of
           it
           ,
           we
           are
           to
           understand
           that
           Christian
           vertue
           ,
           whereby
           with
           a
           calm
           and
           even
           mind
           ,
           we
           do
           not
           onely
           bear
           pains
           ,
           injuries
           ,
           losses
           and
           reproaches
           ,
           but
           perform
           all
           those
           duties
           ,
           that
           are
           difficult
           ,
           tedious
           and
           irksome
           to
           flesh
           and
           bloud
           ,
           which
           our
           Religion
           does
           require
           ,
           and
           when
           it
           is
           for
           the
           sake
           of
           our
           Lord.
           
        
         
           Or
           Patience
           is
           that
           vertue
           which
           disposeth
           us
           not
           onely
           to
           submit
           to
           the
           wrong
           and
           misery
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           cruelty
           and
           injustice
           of
           others
           may
           happen
           unto
           us
           ,
           but
           obstinately
           to
           deny
           the
           importunity
           of
           our
           sensual
           appetites
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           promote
           the
           interests
           of
           piety
           ,
           and
           the
           glory
           of
           God.
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           Patience
           is
           that
           blest
           temper
           of
           mind
           which
           enables
           us
           with
           all
           cheerfulness
           both
           to
           doe
           and
           suffer
           the
           will
           of
           God.
           
        
         
           Patience
           then
           is
           not
           so
           properly
           any
           particular
           vertue
           ,
           as
           that
           happy
           disposition
           in
           our
           Souls
           ,
           which
           has
           a
           general
           influence
           upon
           all
           vertue
           .
           It
           is
           the
           keeping
           the
           Passions
           within
           their
           due
           bounds
           ,
           free
           from
           commotion
           and
           disorder
           ,
           without
           which
           ,
           a
           man
           is
           not
           capable
           of
           real
           happiness
           ,
           or
           to
           be
           the
           master
           of
           any
           one
           vertue
           .
        
         
           For
           as
           we
           are
           obliged
           by
           our
           Religion
           to
           be
           meek
           ,
           so
           what
           pretence
           can
           he
           make
           to
           that
           vertue
           ,
           who
           is
           uneasie
           to
           himself
           and
           others
           ,
           let
           things
           go
           as
           they
           will
           ,
           and
           clamours
           still
           in
           what
           condition
           soever
           God
           puts
           him
           ?
           it
           is
           our
           duty
           to
           be
           mercifull
           ,
           but
           who
           so
           
           cruel
           as
           he
           ,
           who
           will
           exercise
           no
           patience
           towards
           his
           offending
           brother
           ?
           blessed
           are
           we
           ,
           if
           we
           be
           Peace-makers
           ,
           but
           can
           there
           be
           peace
           ,
           if
           mens
           passions
           will
           not
           suffer
           them
           to
           yield
           to
           one
           another
           ,
           and
           to
           bear
           with
           each
           others
           infirmities
           ?
           we
           are
           bound
           to
           be
           not
           onely
           content
           ,
           but
           to
           rejoice
           ,
           when
           men
           revile
           us
           ,
           and
           we
           suffer
           all
           manner
           of
           evil
           for
           righteousness
           sake
           ;
           which
           we
           can
           never
           hope
           to
           do
           before
           we
           have
           laid
           up
           in
           our
           souls
           a
           great
           stock
           of
           patience
           .
           We
           are
           commanded
           to
           watch
           and
           pray
           without
           ceasing
           ,
           and
           we
           may
           as
           well
           presume
           to
           see
           without
           light
           ,
           as
           to
           continue
           the
           performance
           of
           these
           duties
           without
           Christian
           patience
           .
           The
           many
           benefits
           of
           patience
           are
           elegantly
           heap'd
           together
           by
           Tertullian
           .
           (c)
           
             It
             justifies
             all
             God's
             Decrees
             ,
             has
             place
             in
             every
             command
             ;
             strengthens
             faith
             ,
             governs
             peace
             ,
             promotes
             charity
             ,
             teaches
             humility
             ,
             waits
             for
             the
             repentance
             of
             men
             ,
             and
             the
             confession
             of
             their
             fault
             ,
             governs
             the
             flesh
             ,
             preserves
             the
             spirit
             ,
             bridles
             the
             tongue
             ,
             holds
             the
             hands
             ,
             tramples
             upon
             temptations
             ,
             repells
             scandals
             ,
             perfects
             martyrdom
             ;
             comforts
             the
             poor
             ,
             moderates
             the
             rich
             ,
             does
             not
             burthen
             the
             weak
             ,
             nor
             consume
             the
             strong
             ,
             delights
             the
             Christian
             ,
             invites
             the
             Heathen
             ,
             recommends
             the
             Servant
             to
             his
             Master
             ,
             and
             the
             Master
             to
             God
             ,
             adorns
             the
             Woman
             ,
             approves
             the
             Man
             ;
             is
             lovely
             in
             a
             Child
             ,
             commendable
             in
             the
             young
             ,
             admirable
             in
             the
             old
             ;
             beautifull
             in
             every
             sex
             and
             age
             .
          
        
         
           But
           for
           the
           more
           full
           understanding
           of
           the
           nature
           of
           Patience
           ,
           and
           to
           render
           it
           beneficial
           to
           us
           in
           our
           conversations
           ,
           I
           will
           present
           you
           with
           some
           of
           the
           
           considerable
           instances
           in
           which
           the
           Christian
           Man
           does
           exercise
           his
           patience
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           The
           first
           instance
           shall
           be
           this
           ,
           that
           as
           none
           of
           the
           difficulties
           he
           does
           find
           in
           the
           duties
           of
           Religion
           do
           make
           him
           lay
           those
           duties
           aside
           ,
           so
           neither
           the
           number
           of
           temptations
           ,
           nor
           the
           frequency
           with
           which
           they
           assault
           him
           ,
           do
           cause
           him
           to
           give
           over
           his
           watching
           ,
           and
           making
           resistance
           against
           them
           ;
           or
           to
           fling
           away
           the
           spiritual
           weapons
           with
           which
           God
           has
           armed
           him
           for
           a
           defence
           .
           His
           patience
           has
           given
           him
           leave
           to
           consider
           the
           whole
           matter
           ,
           and
           he
           is
           convinced
           ,
           that
           the
           greatest
           difficulties
           in
           Religion
           ,
           as
           in
           all
           Arts
           and
           Sciences
           ,
           do
           happen
           at
           the
           first
           ,
           and
           that
           when
           the
           hardships
           of
           the
           beginning
           are
           once
           past
           over
           ,
           the
           service
           of
           God
           will
           prove
           not
           onely
           eassie
           ,
           but
           very
           pleasant
           :
           and
           that
           with
           the
           same
           ,
           or
           less
           labour
           ,
           than
           a
           man
           can
           raise
           an
           estate
           ,
           get
           a
           name
           ,
           or
           become
           powerfull
           ,
           he
           may
           fill
           his
           Soul
           with
           the
           solid
           and
           sincere
           pleasures
           of
           Religion
           .
           A
           Possession
           incomparably
           more
           to
           be
           esteem'd
           than
           riches
           ,
           fame
           ,
           or
           power
           .
           For
           though
           a
           man
           can
           never
           so
           clip
           the
           wings
           of
           his
           riches
           ,
           as
           that
           they
           may
           not
           ,
           in
           a
           moment
           ,
           all
           fly
           away
           ;
           never
           so
           secure
           his
           fame
           ,
           as
           that
           all
           on
           a
           sudden
           it
           may
           not
           quite
           perish
           by
           the
           same
           fickle
           breath
           ,
           which
           gave
           it
           being
           ;
           never
           so
           discipline
           and
           govern
           his
           arm'd
           powers
           ,
           as
           that
           they
           may
           not
           all
           turn
           upon
           him
           ,
           and
           destroy
           him
           ,
           yet
           neither
           the
           envy
           ,
           nor
           the
           strength
           of
           the
           whole
           world
           can
           rifle
           his
           mind
           of
           that
           tranquillity
           and
           joy
           ,
           which
           springs
           up
           from
           the
           conscience
           of
           things
           well
           done
           ,
           and
           the
           faithfull
           discharge
           of
           his
           duty
           to
           God.
           
        
         
           Moreover
           why
           should
           we
           grudge
           at
           the
           pains
           to
           be
           taken
           in
           a
           godly
           life
           ,
           when
           the
           reward
           of
           them
           will
           be
           so
           great
           and
           inexpressible
           ?
           it
           is
           also
           fit
           and
           reasonable
           that
           there
           should
           be
           some
           hard
           parts
           in
           the
           business
           of
           
           Religion
           ,
           to
           the
           end
           that
           the
           pleasures
           which
           it
           does
           create
           ,
           might
           make
           the
           more
           deep
           and
           lasting
           impressions
           upon
           us
           ,
           and
           teach
           us
           to
           set
           the
           higher
           rate
           upon
           them
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           very
           solicitous
           and
           fearfull
           ,
           lest
           by
           any
           false
           step
           we
           lose
           those
           blessings
           ,
           which
           cost
           us
           so
           much
           care
           and
           toil
           .
        
         
           Besides
           ,
           there
           will
           be
           still
           less
           cause
           to
           complain
           of
           the
           labour
           that
           goes
           to
           the
           making
           of
           a
           good
           man
           ,
           when
           we
           shall
           consider
           that
           the
           uneasinesses
           in
           God's
           service
           do
           proceed
           from
           our
           own
           fault
           :
           for
           what
           can
           be
           more
           agreeable
           to
           the
           native
           sentiments
           of
           our
           mind
           than
           the
           Laws
           of
           our
           God
           ,
           before
           we
           contract
           sinfull
           habits
           and
           customs
           ,
           and
           thereby
           alter
           the
           complexion
           and
           very
           constitution
           of
           our
           nature
           ,
           and
           suffer
           our selves
           to
           be
           enslaved
           to
           the
           lusts
           of
           the
           world
           and
           the
           flesh
           ?
           And
           it
           is
           but
           just
           we
           should
           taste
           of
           the
           fruit
           of
           our
           own
           planting
           .
           And
           though
           the
           paths
           that
           lead
           to
           Heaven
           prove
           strait
           and
           sometimes
           rugged
           ,
           yet
           Christian
           patience
           will
           so
           cheer
           up
           our
           drooping
           hearts
           ,
           that
           we
           shall
           not
           return
           back
           out
           of
           them
           ,
           nor
           go
           astray
           from
           them
           ,
           nor
           sit
           down
           in
           despair
           of
           ever
           arriving
           at
           the
           end
           of
           our
           race
           .
           We
           shall
           not
           fail
           to
           work
           out
           our
           salvation
           with
           fear
           and
           trembling
           ,
           while
           it
           frequently
           refresheth
           our
           memory
           ,
           and
           animates
           our
           courage
           with
           the
           pleasing
           assurance
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           God
           who
           works
           in
           us
           both
           to
           will
           ,
           and
           to
           doe
           of
           his
           good
           pleasure
           .
           And
           the
           more
           work
           lies
           on
           our
           hands
           ,
           the
           greater
           diligence
           we
           shall
           give
           to
           make
           our
           calling
           and
           election
           sure
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           If
           the
           Petitions
           the
           patient
           man
           puts
           up
           to
           Heaven
           be
           not
           presently
           granted
           ,
           he
           does
           not
           grow
           weary
           of
           his
           devotions
           ,
           and
           give
           them
           over
           ,
           as
           if
           God
           neither
           heard
           him
           ,
           nor
           had
           any
           regard
           to
           what
           he
           desired
           .
           For
           there
           be
           many
           good
           reasons
           which
           convince
           him
           ,
           that
           God's
           time
           to
           answer
           his
           Prayers
           
           is
           the
           best
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           ought
           submissively
           to
           wait
           for
           it
           .
           Perhaps
           the
           thing
           he
           prays
           for
           ,
           is
           not
           proper
           for
           his
           condition
           ,
           and
           might
           doe
           him
           harm
           if
           he
           had
           it
           .
           Or
           perhaps
           he
           does
           not
           address
           himself
           to
           his
           Prayers
           ,
           with
           that
           just
           preparation
           which
           may
           testify
           his
           sense
           of
           the
           Divine
           Presence
           ,
           and
           that
           awfull
           regard
           he
           ought
           to
           have
           of
           the
           great
           God
           ,
           with
           whom
           now
           he
           has
           more
           immediately
           to
           doe
           .
           Or
           it
           may
           be
           he
           does
           not
           pray
           with
           that
           warmth
           and
           intention
           of
           mind
           ,
           which
           the
           vast
           importance
           of
           the
           mercy
           ,
           he
           begs
           for
           ,
           does
           deserve
           .
        
         
           Therefore
           he
           ceaseth
           not
           to
           pray
           ,
           although
           a
           speedy
           return
           be
           not
           made
           to
           his
           Prayers
           ;
           as
           well
           knowing
           God's
           Ears
           are
           always
           open
           ,
           and
           his
           Mercies
           ever
           free
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           fault
           must
           lie
           on
           his
           own
           side
           .
           Which
           obligeth
           him
           narrowly
           to
           look
           into
           the
           defects
           of
           his
           own
           performance
           ,
           and
           to
           mend
           them
           .
        
         
           The
           patience
           with
           which
           his
           Soul
           is
           sustained
           ,
           even
           when
           God
           refuseth
           to
           grant
           the
           things
           he
           has
           pray'd
           for
           ,
           preserves
           him
           from
           running
           into
           any
           sinfull
           extreme
           .
           From
           either
           being
           so
           prophane
           ,
           as
           to
           believe
           his
           condition
           may
           be
           prosperous
           though
           he
           prays
           not
           at
           all
           ,
           or
           so
           vainly
           fancifull
           ,
           as
           to
           hope
           by
           any
           superstitious
           practice
           to
           render
           his
           Prayers
           the
           more
           effectual
           .
           He
           is
           as
           far
           on
           the
           one
           hand
           ,
           from
           being
           puft
           up
           with
           the
           haughty
           confidence
           of
           the
           Stoic
           ,
           who
           bids
           his
           wise
           man
           
             fac
             te
             ipse
             felicem
          
           make
           himself
           happy
           ,
           as
           he
           is
           from
           degenerating
           into
           the
           superstition
           of
           the
           Papists
           ,
           who
           ,
           lest
           their
           Prayers
           should
           miscarry
           ,
           address
           them
           to
           hundreds
           of
           Mediatours
           ,
           more
           than
           God
           has
           either
           appointed
           ,
           or
           allow'd
           ,
           and
           without
           one
           example
           in
           the
           Primitive
           Church
           to
           justify
           it
           .
        
         
           Insomuch
           as
           some
           honest
           and
           learned
           men
           of
           that
           Church
           could
           not
           forbear
           laying
           open
           the
           absurdness
           
           and
           impiety
           of
           this
           modern
           practice
           of
           these
           Semi-christians
           ,
           who
           pray
           hardly
           oftner
           to
           God
           than
           to
           the
           Virgin
           Mary
           ,
           (d)
           
             thinking
             it
             the
             highest
             crime
             to
             say
             the
             Lord's
             Prayer
             ,
             if
             presently
             they
             do
             not
             add
             to
             it
             an
             Ave
             Maria
             ,
             as
             if
             that
             ,
             without
             this
             ,
             would
             not
             be
             of
             the
             least
             value
             .
          
           By
           which
           course
           they
           seem
           to
           imply
           ,
           that
           God's
           hand
           is
           grown
           shorter
           than
           it
           was
           in
           the
           beginning
           ,
           and
           the
           power
           and
           merit
           of
           
           Christ's
           intercession
           ,
           so
           weakned
           by
           length
           of
           time
           ,
           that
           they
           find
           it
           necessary
           to
           join
           a
           multitude
           of
           Saints
           to
           him
           ,
           to
           be
           his
           Coadjutors
           .
           And
           to
           this
           purpose
           Henno
           ,
           interprets
           Gen.
           2.18
           .
           (e)
           
             It
             is
             not
             good
             that
             the
             man
             should
             be
             alone
             ,
             let
             us
             make
             a
             meet
             help
             for
             him
             .
             That
             is
             ,
          
           says
           he
           ,
           
             one
             Advocate
             or
             Mediatour
             in
             Heaven
             is
             not
             sufficient
             for
             Mankind
             ,
             which
             has
             so
             many
             causes
             of
             the
             highest
             and
             most
             dangerous
             consequence
             depending
             before
             God
             :
             Let
             us
             make
             him
             a
             meet
             help
             ,
          
           i.
           e.
           
             The
             Blessed
             Virgin.
          
           
        
         
           Neither
           are
           opinions
           so
           ridiculous
           ,
           and
           usages
           so
           repugnant
           to
           Primitive
           Christianity
           ,
           to
           be
           charged
           onely
           on
           the
           weak
           and
           ignorant
           Members
           of
           that
           Church
           ,
           since
           these
           things
           have
           taken
           up
           a
           place
           in
           their
           Public
           Offices
           ,
           and
           we
           find
           Pope
           Pius
           II.
           directing
           his
           Prayers
           immediately
           to
           the
           Virgin
           Mary
           ,
           to
           cure
           his
           Fever
           ,
           and
           in
           that
           Prayer
           (f)
           
             acknowledging
             her
             power
             to
             be
             infinite
             ,
             and
             the
             whole
             world
             to
             be
             filled
             with
             its
             Miracles
             .
          
           And
           Leo
           X.
           (g)
           gives
           her
           the
           title
           of
           Goddess
           ,
           and
           (h)
           Bonaventura
           a
           Cardinal
           and
           a
           Saint
           has
           burlesqu'd
           
           the
           Book
           of
           Psalms
           ,
           applying
           and
           translating
           the
           incommunicable
           Attributes
           of
           God
           and
           
             Jesus
             Christ
          
           unto
           the
           Virgin
           Mother
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           humble
           patient
           Christian
           we
           are
           describing
           ,
           he
           both
           abhors
           the
           impious
           Doctrine
           of
           Epicurus
           ,
           that
           holds
           God
           is
           too
           high
           and
           too
           busie
           to
           mind
           our
           Prayers
           ,
           and
           the
           false
           Worship
           of
           the
           Romanists
           ,
           who
           go
           about
           to
           reconcile
           the
           offended
           Deity
           (i)
           with
           trifling
           and
           childish
           Penances
           .
        
         
           He
           does
           not
           hope
           to
           move
           God
           to
           hear
           him
           the
           sooner
           by
           scourging
           his
           back
           ,
           or
           by
           a
           Pilgrimage
           perform'd
           barefoot
           .
           He
           does
           not
           cross
           his
           Body
           ,
           but
           he
           crucifies
           his
           Lusts
           ;
           he
           does
           not
           put
           off
           his
           shoes
           ,
           but
           he
           layeth
           aside
           every
           weight
           which
           may
           clog
           and
           incumber
           him
           ,
           so
           that
           he
           cannot
           run
           with
           patience
           the
           race
           set
           before
           him
           .
           But
           he
           has
           a
           great
           care
           that
           the
           fear
           of
           being
           drawn
           into
           the
           senseless
           superstitions
           of
           Rome
           betray
           him
           not
           into
           a
           neglect
           of
           natural
           reverence
           in
           his
           devotions
           ,
           and
           the
           omitting
           of
           decency
           and
           order
           in
           the
           Worship
           of
           God.
           Neither
           does
           he
           believe
           that
           the
           length
           of
           his
           Prayers
           will
           the
           more
           recommend
           them
           to
           Heaven
           ,
           or
           that
           he
           shall
           have
           a
           
           speedier
           grant
           of
           them
           ,
           when
           they
           are
           utter'd
           in
           unpremeditated
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           unseemly
           expressions
           ,
           than
           when
           offer'd
           up
           in
           a
           grave
           form
           of
           proper
           and
           well
           chosen
           words
           .
        
         
           He
           is
           not
           so
           much
           concern'd
           for
           the
           circumstances
           of
           his
           Prayers
           ,
           as
           the
           sincerity
           of
           them
           .
           He
           is
           even
           afraid
           of
           being
           so
           loud
           in
           private
           ,
           as
           to
           make
           the
           Streets
           the
           witnesses
           of
           his
           Devotion
           ,
           lest
           he
           should
           onely
           receive
           the
           
           Pharisee's
           reward
           ;
           but
           he
           retires
           into
           the
           secresies
           of
           his
           Closet
           ,
           and
           there
           poureth
           forth
           his
           soul
           before
           God
           ,
           with
           a
           profound
           reverence
           ,
           an
           unfeigned
           humility
           ,
           and
           deep
           sense
           of
           his
           own
           wants
           ;
           and
           though
           his
           Prayers
           be
           not
           always
           long
           ,
           yet
           he
           suffers
           few
           hours
           of
           any
           day
           to
           pass
           without
           sending
           up
           to
           Heaven
           hearty
           and
           earnest
           supplications
           ,
           with
           thanksgivings
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           He
           does
           not
           unreasonably
           terrify
           himself
           with
           distant
           dangers
           ,
           and
           anticipate
           calamities
           before
           they
           come
           .
           For
           the
           remote
           evils
           we
           so
           much
           dread
           ,
           may
           both
           prove
           very
           tolerable
           when
           they
           come
           ,
           and
           make
           but
           a
           short
           stay
           with
           us
           .
           Nay
           ,
           though
           to
           us
           they
           may
           seem
           insufferable
           ,
           and
           by
           no
           humane
           means
           to
           be
           avoided
           ,
           yet
           the
           alwise
           Providence
           of
           God
           ,
           whose
           ways
           are
           as
           unsearchable
           as
           the
           great
           deeps
           ,
           may
           prevent
           their
           coming
           at
           all
           ,
           and
           scatter
           our
           proud
           enemies
           before
           the
           wind
           ,
           who
           boasted
           of
           their
           powers
           as
           invincible
           ;
           contriving
           for
           us
           a
           wonderfull
           deliverance
           ,
           when
           we
           suppose
           our selves
           on
           the
           brink
           of
           destruction
           .
        
         
           And
           surely
           the
           Israelites
           ,
           when
           they
           beheld
           Pharaoh
           and
           his
           Hosts
           floating
           upon
           the
           Red-sea
           ,
           could
           not
           but
           with
           shame
           reflect
           upon
           their
           own
           distrust
           of
           God's
           wisedom
           and
           goodness
           ,
           and
           those
           unjust
           reproaches
           they
           had
           cast
           upon
           Moses
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           had
           been
           deliver'd
           on
           purpose
           from
           their
           bondage
           in
           Aegypt
           to
           perish
           in
           the
           Wilderness
        
         
         
           But
           such
           fears
           never
           more
           ,
           deserve
           censure
           ,
           than
           when
           we
           are
           so
           confounded
           by
           them
           as
           to
           neglect
           our
           Callings
           ,
           desert
           the
           stations
           wherein
           God
           has
           placed
           us
           ,
           and
           take
           ill
           courses
           to
           preserve
           our selves
           against
           them
           .
           When
           we
           are
           so
           terrify'd
           about
           the
           events
           of
           things
           ,
           as
           to
           seek
           to
           cunning
           men
           for
           a
           resolution
           :
           and
           perhaps
           embarke
           our selves
           in
           some
           down-right
           sinfull
           methods
           for
           our
           own
           security
           .
           We
           ought
           always
           to
           keep
           our
           eye
           upon
           our
           Lord's
           rule
           ;
           
           
             Take
             therefore
             no
             thought
             for
             the
             morrow
             ,
             sufficient
             unto
             the
             day
             ,
             is
             the
             evil
             thereof
             .
          
           It
           being
           a
           reproof
           to
           those
           impatient
           Christians
           ,
           who
           are
           not
           content
           with
           having
           made
           an
           honest
           provision
           for
           their
           present
           necessities
           ,
           but
           are
           also
           so
           anxiously
           and
           unmeasurably
           solicitous
           about
           the
           future
           ,
           as
           to
           evidence
           unto
           the
           World
           their
           independency
           upon
           Divine
           Providence
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           The
           humble
           and
           patient
           Christian
           ,
           when
           crosses
           and
           afflictions
           overtake
           him
           ,
           neither
           grows
           froward
           under
           them
           ,
           nor
           stupid
           .
           He
           neither
           suffers
           himself
           to
           be
           cast
           into
           despair
           by
           immoderate
           grief
           ,
           nor
           his
           vertue
           to
           be
           stained
           by
           getting
           loose
           from
           his
           troubles
           .
           He
           neither
           dishonours
           God
           ,
           nor
           injures
           his
           Neighbour
           ,
           nor
           lays
           violent
           hands
           upon
           himself
           .
           He
           does
           not
           murmur
           and
           fill
           all
           peoples
           ears
           with
           complaints
           for
           such
           calamities
           ,
           as
           are
           as
           natural
           to
           his
           condition
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           for
           the
           sparks
           to
           fly
           upward
           ,
           and
           of
           which
           all
           men
           taste
           more
           or
           less
           .
        
         
           He
           sets
           the
           good
           he
           receives
           ,
           against
           the
           evil
           he
           suffers
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           just
           comparison
           finds
           his
           happiness
           far
           to
           overbalance
           his
           misfortunes
           .
           He
           discovers
           an
           exact
           wisedom
           in
           God's
           Providence
           under
           the
           great
           variety
           of
           its
           dispensations
           :
           and
           ever
           mildly
           composes
           himself
           into
           an
           entire
           submission
           to
           all
           that
           is
           harsh
           and
           grievous
           in
           his
           Christian
           warfare
           :
           so
           far
           is
           he
           in
           bad
           times
           ,
           and
           when
           he
           is
           ill
           used
           from
           falling
           into
           
           violent
           fits
           of
           sorrow
           ,
           and
           languishing
           away
           in
           a
           melancholy
           retirement
           .
        
         
           And
           indeed
           the
           more
           a
           man
           indulges
           his
           grief
           ,
           the
           greater
           head
           it
           will
           make
           against
           him
           ,
           and
           in
           tract
           of
           time
           so
           dispirit
           his
           mind
           ,
           that
           he
           shall
           not
           be
           fit
           either
           to
           graple
           with
           his
           present
           distress
           ,
           or
           to
           guard
           himself
           against
           any
           other
           .
           For
           (k)
           though
           all
           other
           things
           in
           the
           world
           by
           use
           and
           custome
           become
           easie
           to
           us
           ,
           yet
           grief
           is
           ever
           to
           be
           excepted
           ;
           because
           it
           is
           impossible
           to
           make
           grief
           become
           gratefull
           and
           pleasant
           to
           us
           ,
           by
           accustoming
           our selves
           to
           grieve
           :
           but
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           grief
           by
           continuance
           ,
           is
           so
           far
           from
           being
           asswaged
           and
           deposing
           its
           sour
           and
           churlish
           nature
           ,
           that
           it
           grows
           more
           fierce
           and
           outrageous
           ,
           and
           by
           our
           tame
           yielding
           to
           it
           ,
           will
           bring
           both
           body
           and
           mind
           so
           low
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           conclusion
           to
           overwhelm
           and
           stupify
           all
           our
           faculties
           and
           powers
           .
        
         
           Farthermore
           ,
           although
           he
           does
           not
           allow
           his
           pains
           to
           throw
           him
           into
           the
           excesses
           of
           sorrow
           ,
           yet
           he
           is
           not
           so
           stupid
           and
           void
           of
           all
           sense
           ,
           as
           to
           pretend
           ,
           or
           endeavour
           to
           persuade
           others
           ,
           that
           he
           does
           not
           feel
           them
           ;
           nor
           arrived
           to
           that
           pitch
           of
           vanity
           with
           the
           Stoics
           ,
           as
           to
           boast
           of
           the
           indifference
           between
           the
           rest
           on
           a
           Bed
           ,
           and
           the
           tortures
           on
           a
           Rack
           ,
           just
           as
           if
           the
           one
           was
           as
           agreeable
           to
           his
           constitution
           as
           the
           other
           .
           He
           does
           not
           therefore
           think
           it
           his
           privilege
           to
           be
           without
           passions
           ,
           whereof
           he
           knows
           so
           good
           an
           use
           may
           be
           made
           ,
           but
           he
           strives
           to
           govern
           them
           by
           his
           reason
           .
           He
           sees
           no
           cause
           to
           judge
           that
           the
           several
           hardships
           and
           miseries
           which
           fill
           the
           world
           with
           sighs
           ,
           and
           groans
           ,
           and
           lamentations
           ,
           have
           nothing
           of
           reality
           in
           them
           ,
           but
           are
           all
           to
           be
           resolved
           into
           mere
           opinion
           or
           fancy
           ;
           or
           that
           torments
           can
           be
           the
           more
           easily
           endured
           ,
           when
           they
           are
           call'd
           by
           fine
           names
           .
        
         
         
           No
           ,
           he
           is
           sensible
           of
           his
           pain
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           his
           great
           business
           ,
           that
           the
           sense
           of
           it
           may
           not
           breed
           in
           him
           any
           unworthy
           apprehensions
           of
           God
           ,
           or
           transport
           him
           into
           any
           evil
           or
           indecent
           speech
           or
           carriage
           ,
           such
           as
           may
           reflect
           dishonour
           upon
           his
           most
           holy
           Religion
           .
           And
           he
           ever
           upholds
           in
           his
           soul
           a
           just
           abhorrence
           of
           that
           false
           and
           wicked
           tenet
           ,
           asserted
           by
           the
           same
           Sect
           of
           Philosophers
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           a
           piece
           of
           heroical
           gallantry
           for
           a
           man
           in
           sharp
           pain
           or
           great
           troubles
           to
           starve
           himself
           ,
           or
           cut
           his
           own
           throat
           .
           For
           so
           to
           doe
           is
           a
           violation
           of
           the
           Laws
           of
           Nature
           ,
           and
           an
           usurpation
           upon
           God's
           Prerogative
           ,
           who
           has
           a
           right
           to
           that
           service
           ,
           which
           by
           self-murther
           we
           are
           render'd
           uncapable
           to
           perform
           :
           it
           is
           an
           injury
           to
           humane
           Society
           ,
           who
           have
           a
           claim
           to
           some
           share
           of
           our
           labour
           :
           it
           is
           making
           our selves
           the
           judges
           in
           God's
           stead
           ,
           whether
           it
           be
           fit
           for
           us
           to
           live
           any
           longer
           or
           no
           ?
           it
           is
           the
           highest
           affront
           we
           can
           put
           upon
           the
           Divine
           goodness
           ,
           since
           by
           evident
           construction
           ,
           we
           declare
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           better
           for
           us
           to
           die
           ,
           than
           to
           sub-sist
           any
           longer
           in
           that
           uncomfortable
           condition
           Providence
           has
           chosen
           for
           us
           ;
           and
           that
           we
           are
           so
           little
           beholden
           to
           God
           for
           all
           the
           mercies
           of
           this
           life
           ,
           that
           irreverently
           and
           unmannerly
           we
           turn
           them
           all
           back
           upon
           him
           .
        
         
           In
           a
           word
           ,
           the
           Christian
           fortified
           by
           patience
           ,
           as
           he
           doth
           not
           think
           death
           is
           to
           be
           feared
           ,
           when
           it
           comes
           upon
           him
           by
           Divine
           appointment
           ,
           so
           neither
           believes
           he
           that
           life
           is
           to
           be
           despised
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           God
           shall
           please
           to
           continue
           it
           .
           Seeing
           it
           will
           ever
           be
           in
           his
           power
           by
           God's
           grace
           ,
           whether
           in
           sickness
           ,
           or
           in
           troubles
           ,
           to
           enjoy
           a
           contented
           and
           serene
           mind
           .
        
         
           And
           to
           make
           his
           patience
           the
           more
           steddy
           ,
           he
           enquires
           into
           the
           causes
           of
           his
           calamity
           :
           and
           if
           he
           hapneth
           to
           have
           been
           involv'd
           in
           it
           by
           his
           own
           crime
           ,
           
           neglect
           ,
           or
           mismanagement
           ,
           he
           neither
           bursts
           out
           into
           complaints
           ,
           nor
           sits
           down
           slothfully
           under
           it
           ,
           nor
           yet
           does
           any
           other
           violence
           to
           himself
           than
           what
           is
           in
           order
           to
           the
           cure
           ,
           and
           may
           be
           the
           most
           effectual
           means
           to
           remove
           the
           cause
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           the
           evil
           comes
           by
           another
           man's
           fault
           ,
           he
           employs
           his
           clemency
           and
           patience
           in
           forgiving
           it
           ;
           and
           is
           so
           far
           from
           returning
           the
           injury
           ,
           that
           he
           prays
           God
           also
           to
           pardon
           it
           ,
           and
           stands
           prepared
           to
           receive
           another
           .
        
         
           And
           lastly
           ,
           if
           it
           do
           not
           come
           directly
           ,
           either
           by
           his
           own
           folly
           ,
           or
           another
           man's
           malice
           ,
           he
           submits
           ,
           and
           is
           thankfull
           for
           it
           ,
           as
           an
           act
           of
           Providence
           ,
           designed
           either
           to
           reform
           his
           manners
           ,
           or
           to
           try
           his
           vertue
           ,
           and
           the
           sincerity
           of
           his
           love
           of
           God.
           
        
         
           And
           it
           was
           the
           sense
           of
           the
           great
           good
           that
           afflictions
           may
           bring
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           joy
           holy
           men
           perceive
           in
           their
           sufferings
           for
           the
           cause
           of
           Christ
           ,
           that
           did
           transport
           St.
           Chrysostome
           into
           such
           an
           hyperbolical
           rapture
           ,
           as
           to
           profess
           ,
           (l)
           
             That
             if
             any
             one
             would
             give
             him
             the
             whole
             Heaven
             ,
             or
             the
             Chain
             with
             which
             Saint
             Paul's
             hands
             were
             bound
             ,
             he
             would
             prefer
             this
             before
             that
             .
             If
             any
             one
             would
             place
             him
             among
             the
             Angels
             above
             ,
             or
             with
             St.
             Paul
             in
             bonds
             ,
             he
             would
             chuse
             the
             Prison
             .
             If
             any
             one
             would
             make
             him
             to
             be
             among
             the
             Powers
             about
             the
             Throne
             ,
             or
             such
             a
             Prisoner
             ,
             he
             would
             rather
             chuse
             to
             be
             such
             a
             Prisoner
             .
             For
             nothing
             is
             better
             than
             to
             suffer
             evil
             for
             Christ's
             sake
             .
          
        
         
           5.
           
           When
           he
           is
           persecuted
           for
           his
           Religion
           ,
           he
           neither
           deserts
           it
           ,
           nor
           by
           any
           unlawfull
           means
           defends
           it
           .
           He
           will
           not
           renounce
           his
           Faith
           to
           escape
           persecution
           ,
           and
           yet
           he
           dreads
           by
           resisting
           of
           Authority
           to
           promote
           
           the
           cause
           of
           Religion
           ;
           he
           will
           sooner
           part
           with
           his
           life
           ,
           than
           give
           up
           his
           Bible
           ,
           as
           those
           impatient
           Christians
           once
           did
           ,
           who
           ,
           by
           the
           title
           of
           Traditores
           ,
           will
           be
           infamous
           to
           all
           posterity
           .
           And
           rather
           than
           quit
           the
           hopes
           he
           has
           of
           enjoying
           endless
           happiness
           by
           his
           firm
           profession
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           he
           will
           yield
           up
           his
           Body
           a
           Sacrifice
           to
           the
           malice
           of
           his
           Persecutours
           ,
           and
           endure
           the
           utmost
           misery
           that
           can
           come
           by
           their
           torturing
           of
           it
           .
           And
           avow
           to
           them
           with
           the
           Primitive
           Martyr
           ,
           (m)
           
             That
             his
             Body
             does
             owe
             patience
             in
             every
             member
             of
             it
             to
             his
             Creatour
             .
          
        
         
           And
           as
           above
           all
           Earthly
           Treasure
           he
           values
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           so
           has
           he
           such
           a
           just
           esteem
           for
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           it
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           dare
           to
           corrupt
           and
           mangle
           them
           ,
           though
           it
           be
           for
           never
           so
           good
           an
           end
           .
           And
           therefore
           he
           cannot
           but
           detest
           the
           impiety
           of
           the
           course
           taken
           by
           the
           Fathers
           of
           the
           Society
           of
           Jesus
           (n)
           to
           propagate
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           in
           China
           and
           the
           Indies
           ,
           where
           the
           belief
           of
           the
           sufferings
           and
           putting
           to
           death
           of
           our
           ever
           blessed
           Lord
           
             Jesus
             Christ
          
           ,
           being
           accounted
           an
           extravagance
           that
           might
           give
           great
           offence
           ,
           as
           it
           had
           heretofore
           proved
           a
           stumbling
           block
           to
           the
           Jew
           ,
           and
           seem'd
           foolishness
           to
           the
           Gentile
           ,
           they
           smother'd
           the
           doctrine
           and
           scandal
           of
           the
           Cross
           ,
           and
           preached
           up
           a
           glorify'd
           Jesus
           ,
           but
           not
           a
           crucified
           Saviour
           .
           And
           permitted
           the
           Christians
           publickly
           to
           adore
           the
           Idol
           
             Cachim
             choan
          
           ,
           onely
           fetching
           them
           off
           by
           a
           very
           subtile
           invention
           ,
           which
           was
           mentally
           to
           direct
           those
           adorations
           to
           the
           image
           of
           
             Jesus
             Christ
          
           ,
           which
           they
           had
           hid
           under
           their
           Cloathes
           .
        
         
           Whereas
           had
           these
           men
           possest
           their
           Souls
           with
           true
           Christian
           Patience
           ,
           such
           as
           would
           have
           enabled
           them
           to
           suffer
           for
           the
           Cross
           of
           Christ
           ,
           they
           would
           have
           had
           the
           courage
           also
           to
           preach
           it
           up
           ,
           and
           as
           then
           
           their
           practice
           would
           have
           carry'd
           a
           conformity
           to
           that
           of
           the
           first
           planters
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           so
           we
           might
           have
           hoped
           their
           endeavours
           would
           have
           been
           blest
           with
           a
           good
           measure
           of
           the
           same
           success
           .
        
         
           These
           good
           Fathers
           indeed
           have
           gone
           on
           journies
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           the
           rising
           ,
           and
           setting
           Sun
           ,
           to
           make
           Converts
           ,
           but
           had
           their
           love
           for
           mens
           souls
           born
           a
           proportion
           to
           their
           fierce
           desires
           of
           encreasing
           the
           riches
           and
           splendour
           of
           their
           Church
           and
           Society
           ,
           they
           would
           not
           have
           confined
           their
           charity
           to
           the
           places
           which
           abound
           with
           costly
           spices
           ,
           and
           where
           the
           bowels
           of
           the
           Earth
           are
           replenisht
           with
           veins
           of
           Gold
           :
           but
           their
           zeal
           would
           have
           cast
           some
           warmth
           upon
           the
           poor
           frozen
           People
           that
           dwell
           near
           the
           North-pole
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           upon
           the
           rich
           Countries
           of
           the
           East
           and
           the
           West
           .
           And
           the
           starv'd
           Laplander
           ,
           who
           hardly
           ever
           heard
           of
           a
           Popish
           Apostle
           ,
           should
           have
           had
           a
           share
           in
           their
           Christian
           kindness
           ,
           no
           less
           than
           the
           Inhabitants
           of
           wealthy
           Peru.
           
        
         
           Moreover
           ,
           as
           the
           patient
           Christian
           stands
           prepared
           for
           the
           heaviest
           afflictions
           ,
           rather
           than
           he
           will
           be
           induced
           to
           corrupt
           the
           purity
           of
           his
           Faith
           ,
           or
           add
           to
           ,
           or
           diminish
           the
           number
           of
           the
           Articles
           of
           his
           Creed
           ,
           so
           is
           he
           highly
           concern'd
           about
           the
           honour
           of
           his
           Religion
           ,
           that
           the
           reputation
           of
           it
           may
           not
           be
           lessened
           ,
           by
           any
           faulty
           proceeding
           of
           his
           in
           the
           defence
           thereof
           ,
           or
           his
           doing
           any
           thing
           in
           it self
           wicked
           under
           the
           pretence
           and
           colour
           of
           it
           .
           He
           does
           not
           think
           Christianity
           can
           be
           spread
           or
           promoted
           by
           any
           other
           means
           than
           it
           was
           at
           first
           set
           up
           in
           the
           world
           :
           or
           that
           the
           least
           service
           can
           be
           done
           to
           Religion
           by
           acting
           contrary
           to
           the
           express
           Precepts
           thereof
           .
           And
           therefore
           he
           cannot
           but
           condemn
           those
           ,
           (o)
           who
           by
           force
           of
           arms
           go
           about
           to
           enlarge
           the
           borders
           of
           
           Christ's
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           compell
           men
           ,
           upon
           pain
           of
           death
           ,
           to
           become
           his
           
           Subjects
           ,
           and
           in
           order
           to
           rectify
           their
           errours
           in
           the
           Faith
           ,
           sentence
           their
           Bodies
           to
           the
           flames
           .
           A
           method
           so
           contrary
           to
           that
           taken
           by
           our
           Lord
           ,
           his
           Apostles
           ,
           and
           their
           next
           Successours
           ,
           that
           Richerius
           the
           Learned
           Sorbon
           Doctour
           confesses
           ,
           (p)
           
             That
             the
             Christian
             Church
             ,
             for
             above
             a
             thousand
             years
             ,
             never
             inflicted
             capital
             punishment
             in
             the
             mere
             cause
             of
             Religion
             .
          
        
         
           Neither
           can
           he
           pass
           a
           more
           favourable
           judgment
           on
           those
           ,
           who
           take
           upon
           them
           to
           absolve
           whole
           Nations
           from
           their
           sworn
           duty
           to
           their
           Prince
           ,
           on
           the
           score
           of
           Religion
           :
           or
           upon
           those
           ,
           who
           under
           the
           pretence
           of
           defending
           their
           Rights
           or
           Religion
           ,
           (q)
           resist
           lawfull
           Authority
           .
           It
           being
           a
           blasphemy
           against
           the
           Divine
           wisedom
           and
           power
           ,
           to
           suppose
           God
           can
           ever
           stand
           in
           need
           of
           our
           sins
           to
           bring
           to
           pass
           his
           most
           glorious
           designs
           .
        
         
           He
           then
           in
           whom
           this
           vertue
           of
           Patience
           dwells
           keeps
           a
           due
           regard
           to
           the
           commands
           laid
           upon
           him
           to
           submit
           himself
           to
           the
           supreme
           Powers
           ,
           and
           he
           dares
           not
           lift
           up
           his
           hand
           against
           the
           Lord
           's
           Anointed
           ,
           or
           levy
           war
           upon
           the
           most
           plausible
           account
           whatsoever
           :
           nay
           to
           him
           it
           cannot
           but
           seem
           a
           wonder
           that
           the
           doctrine
           of
           Resistence
           should
           have
           gone
           down
           so
           glibly
           with
           any
           ,
           who
           have
           read
           the
           New
           Testament
           ,
           and
           are
           baptized
           into
           the
           Christian
           Faith.
           
        
         
         
           Now
           since
           disobedience
           to
           lawfull
           Governours
           has
           been
           a
           frequent
           sin
           in
           these
           times
           ,
           wherein
           men
           have
           studied
           and
           strain'd
           to
           find
           out
           such
           numbers
           of
           cases
           ,
           in
           which
           they
           believe
           they
           may
           lawfully
           resist
           those
           whom
           God
           has
           set
           over
           them
           ,
           as
           that
           they
           hardly
           have
           left
           a
           place
           for
           Christian
           Patience
           to
           bear
           its
           part
           in
           .
           I
           intreat
           leave
           somewhat
           the
           more
           largely
           to
           insist
           upon
           these
           two
           things
           .
           1.
           
           To
           prove
           that
           all
           resistence
           to
           the
           Supreme
           Authority
           is
           unlawfull
           .
           2.
           
           To
           shew
           with
           what
           care
           ,
           impartiality
           and
           patience
           the
           good
           Christian
           searches
           into
           the
           grounds
           and
           causes
           of
           his
           persuasion
           ,
           that
           the
           commands
           of
           Authority
           are
           sinfull
           ,
           before
           he
           refuses
           to
           pay
           obedience
           to
           them
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           To
           prove
           ,
           that
           all
           resistence
           to
           Supreme
           Authority
           is
           unlawfull
           ;
           in
           order
           to
           which
           we
           may
           observe
           these
           three
           things
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           there
           is
           an
           universal
           command
           in
           holy
           Scripture
           laid
           upon
           all
           Christians
           to
           be
           subject
           to
           the
           Supreme
           Powers
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           That
           this
           command
           is
           enforced
           with
           strong
           and
           clear
           reasons
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           That
           the
           Popes
           of
           Rome
           were
           the
           first
           Pretenders
           from
           Scripture
           to
           a
           right
           to
           resist
           the
           Civil
           Power
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           That
           there
           is
           an
           universal
           and
           absolute
           command
           in
           holy
           Scripture
           laid
           upon
           all
           Christians
           to
           be
           subject
           to
           the
           Supreme
           Powers
           in
           all
           cases
           .
           Now
           nothing
           is
           plainer
           than
           that
           ,
           if
           we
           be
           required
           to
           be
           subject
           in
           all
           cases
           ,
           
           resistence
           in
           any
           will
           be
           sinfull
           .
           
             Let
             every
             soul
             be
             subject
             to
             the
             higher
             power
             ,
          
           to
           which
           Christian
           Precept
           there
           's
           no
           exception
           to
           be
           found
           for
           any
           person
           in
           any
           instance
           ,
           from
           one
           end
           of
           the
           Christian
           Institution
           to
           the
           other
           .
           The
           duty
           of
           Subjection
           is
           grounded
           both
           upon
           the
           Precepts
           of
           Christ
           and
           his
           Apostles
           ,
           and
           confirmed
           by
           their
           constant
           practice
           .
           
           He
           and
           they
           not
           onely
           paid
           tribute
           to
           Caesar
           ,
           but
           gave
           proof
           of
           their
           submission
           even
           to
           the
           bitterness
           of
           death
           it self
           .
           And
           his
           and
           their
           examples
           have
           been
           faithfully
           copied
           out
           by
           the
           Apostolic
           Church
           ,
           in
           the
           lives
           of
           its
           pious
           Confessours
           and
           glorious
           Martyrs
           .
           Subjection
           is
           a
           duty
           than
           which
           ,
           there
           hardly
           is
           any
           oftner
           repeated
           in
           the
           Christian
           Law
           ,
           so
           as
           we
           cannot
           plead
           ignorance
           of
           it
           ;
           it
           is
           pressed
           with
           such
           evidence
           of
           reason
           ,
           that
           cuts
           off
           all
           pretences
           of
           evading
           it
           ;
           it
           is
           set
           down
           in
           such
           plain
           ,
           easie
           ,
           and
           full
           expressions
           ,
           as
           that
           there
           can
           be
           no
           colour
           to
           doubt
           about
           the
           right
           understanding
           of
           it
           .
           The
           holy
           Scripture
           gives
           permission
           no
           more
           to
           the
           People
           collected
           into
           one
           body
           to
           rebell
           ,
           than
           it
           does
           to
           each
           of
           them
           ,
           by
           himself
           singly
           considered
           .
           Every
           Christian
           ,
           in
           all
           circumstances
           ,
           is
           required
           to
           conform
           to
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Supreme
           Authority
           ,
           if
           they
           have
           no
           repugnancy
           to
           God's
           Laws
           ;
           and
           to
           suffer
           patiently
           where
           obedience
           would
           be
           a
           sin
           .
           Now
           there
           being
           in
           our
           Religion
           a
           general
           Precept
           to
           be
           subject
           to
           our
           Governours
           ,
           without
           one
           exception
           to
           it
           ,
           what
           will
           the
           Sons
           of
           disobedience
           urge
           in
           excuse
           of
           themselves
           ?
           will
           they
           say
           that
           the
           Evangelical
           Precepts
           were
           not
           to
           bind
           perpetually
           ,
           and
           that
           our
           obligation
           to
           observe
           them
           is
           already
           ceased
           ?
           If
           it
           be
           ,
           then
           we
           have
           done
           with
           our
           Religion
           and
           our
           Bibles
           ,
           and
           may
           lay
           them
           both
           aside
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           most
           certain
           ,
           that
           by
           the
           same
           argument
           they
           would
           take
           off
           their
           obligation
           to
           this
           plain
           Christian
           Duty
           ,
           they
           may
           excuse
           themselves
           from
           their
           obligation
           to
           all
           the
           rest
           .
           Will
           they
           plead
           ,
           that
           the
           Gospel
           is
           not
           a
           perfect
           rule
           of
           duty
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           inspired
           Writers
           did
           not
           foresee
           and
           provide
           for
           all
           cases
           ;
           and
           that
           therefore
           it
           is
           but
           reasonable
           there
           should
           be
           a
           supplement
           of
           new
           Doctrines
           and
           Rules
           ,
           where
           the
           
           Gospel
           has
           been
           defective
           ?
           But
           is
           not
           this
           rank
           Popery
           do
           we
           not
           justly
           condemn
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           for
           taking
           upon
           her
           to
           make
           new
           Articles
           of
           Faith
           ?
           is
           not
           this
           to
           incur
           the
           guilt
           of
           St.
           
           Paul's
           Anathema
           ,
           which
           shall
           pass
           upon
           whosoever
           preaches
           another
           Doctrine
           ?
        
         
           Or
           will
           they
           say
           that
           the
           general
           Laws
           of
           the
           Gospel
           bind
           but
           sometimes
           ,
           and
           the
           universal
           Rules
           hold
           onely
           in
           particular
           cases
           ?
           That
           is
           ,
           notwithstanding
           St.
           Paul
           does
           lay
           a
           strict
           injunction
           upon
           every
           Soul
           to
           be
           subject
           to
           the
           Higher
           Powers
           ,
           yet
           that
           some
           ought
           to
           be
           excepted
           .
           But
           is
           not
           this
           the
           way
           to
           destroy
           all
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           ?
           since
           upon
           the
           same
           ground
           they
           dispense
           with
           one
           Law
           of
           Christ
           ,
           they
           may
           dispense
           with
           as
           many
           as
           they
           please
           .
           Is
           not
           this
           to
           open
           a
           gap
           to
           all
           impiety
           and
           looseness
           ?
           yet
           to
           these
           miserable
           shifts
           must
           the
           Advocates
           of
           Rebellion
           be
           driven
           .
        
         
           So
           it
           was
           the
           fate
           of
           our
           unhappy
           Nation
           to
           run
           it self
           into
           a
           most
           unnatural
           and
           bloudy
           Rebellion
           ,
           by
           a
           set
           of
           distinctions
           that
           had
           not
           the
           least
           footstep
           in
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           .
           (r)
           
             By
             distinctions
             between
             a
             power
             radically
             limited
             ,
             and
             not
             onely
             in
             the
             use
             and
             exercise
             of
             it
             ;
             between
             a
             moral
             power
             to
             resist
             ,
             and
             an
             authoritative
             and
             civil
             power
             ;
             between
             resistence
             of
             the
             King
             himself
             ,
             and
             of
             his
             Agents
             and
             Officers
             ;
             between
             resistence
             positive
             ,
             and
             active
             ;
             negative
             and
             passive
             ;
             between
          
           jus
           regiminis
           &
           usurpationis
           ,
           
             according
             to
             God's
             Law
             and
             Man's
             Law
             ;
             between
             resistence
             of
             the
             King's
             Power
             ,
             and
             of
             his
             Will
             ;
             between
             fighting
             against
             the
             Magistrate
             ,
             and
             against
             the
             Man.
             
          
        
         
           And
           the
           same
           ill
           cause
           ,
           which
           put
           men
           upon
           inventing
           distinctions
           ,
           that
           would
           in
           no
           wise
           agree
           with
           the
           Faith
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           to
           which
           the
           Primitive
           Christians
           were
           strangers
           ,
           did
           lay
           a
           necessity
           on
           them
           
           to
           doe
           violence
           to
           the
           holy
           Scriptures
           ,
           and
           to
           extort
           senses
           out
           of
           them
           different
           from
           their
           plain
           meaning
           .
        
         
           Thus
           to
           evade
           this
           Text
           of
           St.
           Peter
           ,
           
           
             Submit
             your selves
             to
             every
             ordinance
             of
             man
             for
             the
             Lord's
             sake
             ,
             whether
             it
             be
             to
             the
             King
             as
             supreme
             ,
             or
             to
             Governours
             ,
          
           &c.
           
           
             Jo.
             Goodwin
          
           ,
           in
           his
           defence
           of
           the
           horrible
           Sentence
           against
           the
           late
           King
           of
           glorious
           memory
           ,
           tells
           us
           ,
           (ſ)
           
             That
             the
             supremacy
             here
             asserted
             unto
             the
             King
             ,
             is
             not
             over
             the
             whole
             body
             of
             his
             People
             ,
             but
             onely
             over
             inferiour
             Officers
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           that
           the
           King
           should
           be
           supreme
           as
           St.
           Peter
           declares
           ,
           and
           yet
           subject
           ,
           as
           our
           Authour
           asserts
           ,
           to
           the
           whole
           body
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           is
           a
           matter
           as
           hard
           to
           make
           out
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           to
           reconcile
           contradictions
           .
           And
           it
           is
           manifest
           ,
           that
           St.
           Peter
           requiring
           submission
           expresly
           ,
           first
           to
           the
           King
           as
           supreme
           ,
           then
           to
           Governours
           as
           under
           him
           ,
           does
           extend
           this
           Precept
           to
           others
           ,
           besides
           the
           inferiour
           Officers
           ,
           that
           is
           to
           the
           People
           .
        
         
           It
           must
           be
           granted
           ,
           that
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           absurd
           speech
           to
           say
           ,
           he
           who
           is
           the
           supreme
           Ruler
           ,
           can
           have
           any
           person
           not
           subject
           to
           him
           in
           his
           own
           Dominions
           ,
           so
           also
           that
           in
           this
           Apostolical
           injunction
           to
           submit
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           there
           is
           no
           more
           a
           reservation
           made
           ,
           for
           the
           whole
           body
           of
           the
           People
           to
           resist
           ,
           than
           for
           under
           Officers
           ;
           no
           more
           for
           under
           Officers
           ,
           than
           for
           private
           Men.
           
        
         
           However
           (t)
           
             Junius
             Brutus
          
           to
           escape
           the
           force
           of
           the
           same
           Text
           ,
           puts
           a
           gloss
           upon
           it
           contradictory
           to
           that
           of
           our
           other
           Authour
           ,
           he
           attributing
           the
           right
           to
           resist
           to
           inferiour
           Officers
           ,
           which
           was
           given
           before
           to
           the
           body
           of
           the
           People
           .
           For
           he
           declares
           that
           
             these
             exhortations
          
           of
           St.
           Peter
           and
           St.
           Paul
           to
           submission
           
           (u)
           are
           
             directed
             to
             private
             persons
             ,
             who
             by
             his
             confessions
             have
             no
             other
             remedy
             than
             prayers
             and
             patience
             ,
             but
             that
             the
             inferiour
             Magistrates
             not
             onely
             may
             ,
             but
             are
             in
             duty
             bound
             to
             resist
             a
             Tyrant
             .
          
        
         
           But
           in
           finding
           out
           expedients
           to
           fence
           against
           direct
           Precepts
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           observ'd
           that
           his
           Holiness
           has
           been
           before
           this
           sort
           of
           men
           ,
           and
           set
           them
           a
           pattern
           from
           this
           very
           Text.
           For
           Innocent
           III.
           (
           who
           sainted
           
             Thomas
             à
             Becket
          
           for
           Sedition
           and
           Treason
           )
           in
           a
           Letter
           to
           Henry
           Emperour
           of
           Constantinople
           ,
           puts
           a
           pleasant
           interpretation
           upon
           the
           place
           ,
           viz.
           that
           these
           words
           ,
           
             Submit
             your selves
             to
             every
             ordinance
             of
             man
             ,
             whether
             to
             the
             King
             ,
          
           (x)
           are
           to
           be
           understood
           of
           St.
           Peter
           himself
           ,
           
             for
             that
             he
             did
             write
             to
             his
             own
             Subjects
             ,
          
           and
           that
           to
           those
           words
           ,
           
             to
             the
             King
             as
             supreme
          
           is
           to
           be
           added
           this
           limitation
           ,
           intemporals
           ;
           because
           in
           
             matters
             spiritual
          
           the
           Pope
           is
           above
           him
           .
           Which
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           either
           that
           St.
           Peter
           by
           the
           King
           did
           mean
           the
           Pope
           ;
           or
           that
           St.
           Peter
           when
           he
           taught
           Christians
           the
           duty
           of
           subjection
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           unhappily
           forgot
           to
           put
           in
           a
           clause
           or
           proviso
           ,
           to
           secure
           the
           Supremacy
           of
           his
           Successours
           over
           the
           Civil
           Power
           .
        
         
           Insomuch
           as
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           lawfulness
           of
           resistence
           to
           the
           Supreme
           Powers
           must
           be
           laid
           aside
           for
           an
           unchristian
           opinion
           which
           can
           never
           be
           maintained
           ,
           
           unless
           we
           will
           suppose
           a
           right
           in
           the
           Pope
           ,
           or
           some
           other
           party
           of
           men
           ,
           to
           interpret
           the
           Scriptures
           contrary
           to
           the
           manifest
           sense
           of
           the
           words
           ,
           and
           either
           to
           add
           to
           ,
           or
           take
           from
           them
           such
           passages
           as
           may
           sute
           with
           their
           present
           turn
           .
           And
           it
           always
           holds
           true
           with
           respect
           to
           the
           Sovereign
           Power
           in
           any
           Countrey
           ,
           what
           was
           said
           by
           Judge
           Creshald
           ,
           both
           like
           a
           pious
           Christian
           ,
           and
           an
           able
           Lawyer
           ,
           concerning
           the
           Royal
           y
           Authority
           in
           our
           own
           Nation
           ,
           
             That
             the
          
           Jura
           Regalia
           
             of
             our
             Kings
             are
             holden
             of
             Heaven
             ,
             and
             cannot
             for
             any
             cause
             escheat
             to
             their
             Subjects
             ;
             nor
             they
             for
             any
             cause
             make
             any
             positive
             or
             actual
             forcible
             resistence
             against
             them
             :
             but
             that
             we
             ought
             to
             yield
             to
             them
             passive
             obedience
             ,
             by
             suffering
             the
             punishment
             ,
             albeit
             their
             commands
             should
             be
             against
             the
             Divine
             Law.
             And
             that
             in
             such
             case
             ,
          
           arma
           nostra
           sunt
           preces
           nostrae
           ,
           nec
           possumus
           ,
           nec
           debemus
           aliter
           resistere
           ;
           
             for
             who
             can
             lift
             up
             his
             hand
             against
             the
             Lord
             's
             Anointed
             and
             be
             guiltless
             ?
          
        
         
           2.
           
           That
           this
           command
           to
           be
           subject
           to
           the
           Higher
           Powers
           is
           enforced
           by
           the
           Holy
           Writers
           with
           divers
           strong
           and
           clear
           reasons
           .
           1.
           
           Because
           the
           Powers
           are
           ordained
           of
           God
           ,
           so
           that
           he
           who
           resists
           them
           ,
           resists
           the
           Ordinance
           of
           God.
           Which
           reason
           will
           carry
           a
           perpetual
           obligation
           along
           with
           it
           :
           for
           if
           it
           be
           always
           our
           duty
           submit
           to
           the
           Ordinances
           of
           God
           ,
           then
           it
           will
           ever
           be
           a
           sin
           to
           resist
           the
           Higher
           Powers
           .
           And
           so
           long
           as
           God
           has
           a
           title
           to
           our
           obedience
           ,
           so
           long
           subjection
           to
           his
           chief
           Minister
           will
           be
           our
           duty
           .
        
         
           Now
           if
           this
           Doctrine
           of
           St.
           Paul
           be
           true
           ,
           then
           that
           Doctrine
           must
           be
           false
           ,
           that
           all
           power
           being
           originally
           from
           the
           People
           ,
           where
           (z)
           the
           Powers
           exceed
           the
           just
           bounds
           of
           their
           Authority
           ,
           they
           may
           be
           call'd
           to
           account
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           that
           Kings
           not
           performing
           
           their
           duty
           ,
           the
           Subjects
           are
           released
           from
           theirs
           .
        
         
           For
           we
           may
           observe
           ,
           that
           though
           the
           Roman
           Emperours
           rarely
           came
           to
           their
           Crowns
           by
           right
           of
           succession
           ,
           but
           receiv'd
           them
           from
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Senate
           or
           their
           Souldiers
           ,
           yet
           the
           Apostle
           acknowledges
           them
           to
           rule
           by
           God's
           appointment
           ,
           and
           forbids
           therefore
           all
           resistence
           utterly
           .
           If
           then
           we
           will
           but
           grant
           what
           with
           no
           reason
           we
           can
           deny
           ,
           that
           Christian
           Kings
           have
           as
           good
           titles
           as
           Heathen
           Emperours
           had
           ,
           we
           must
           be
           bound
           to
           make
           the
           Apostle's
           inferences
           also
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           ordained
           by
           God
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           is
           our
           duty
           ever
           to
           submit
           to
           them
           .
           So
           that
           notwithstanding
           the
           power
           had
           first
           been
           conferr'd
           by
           the
           People
           ,
           yet
           they
           cannot
           resume
           it
           when
           they
           please
           ,
           and
           make
           the
           Supreme
           Authority
           accountable
           to
           them
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           We
           are
           required
           to
           submit
           our selves
           to
           every
           ordinance
           of
           Man
           
             for
             the
             Lord's
             sake
          
           ,
           
           
             i.
             e.
          
           for
           the
           sake
           and
           honour
           of
           the
           
             Lord's
             Religion
          
           ,
           upon
           which
           some
           Seducers
           had
           brought
           a
           great
           scandal
           ,
           by
           teaching
           that
           it
           sets
           men
           at
           liberty
           from
           the
           obligation
           of
           being
           subject
           to
           Authority
           .
           Neither
           if
           it
           was
           askt
           ,
           What
           men
           those
           were
           ,
           who
           crept
           among
           the
           Christians
           ,
           and
           would
           have
           infected
           them
           with
           such
           pernicious
           Principles
           ?
           should
           we
           be
           much
           surprized
           and
           at
           a
           loss
           to
           find
           an
           answer
           ,
           and
           to
           shew
           what
           necessity
           the
           Apostle
           had
           to
           issue
           forth
           so
           early
           a
           prohibition
           against
           resistence
           of
           the
           Higher
           Powers
           ;
           since
           a
           little
           before
           that
           time
           (a)
           
             Judas
             Galilaeus
          
           founded
           a
           Sect
           ,
           of
           which
           probably
           were
           those
           Galileans
           ,
           whose
           bloud
           Pilate
           had
           mingled
           with
           their
           Sacrifice
           ,
           who
           did
           chuse
           to
           suffer
           the
           most
           cruel
           torments
           that
           could
           be
           devised
           ,
           
           rather
           than
           they
           would
           acknowledge
           any
           mortal
           man
           to
           be
           their
           Lord
           and
           Prince
           .
           And
           Rebellion
           and
           Sedition
           in
           those
           days
           were
           crimes
           whereof
           the
           Jews
           were
           frequently
           guilty
           .
           So
           that
           by
           our
           submission
           we
           shall
           assert
           and
           maintain
           the
           just
           credit
           of
           the
           Christian
           Religion
           ,
           which
           is
           meek
           and
           peaceable
           ,
           and
           
             put
             to
             silence
             the
             ignorance
             of
             foolish
             men
             .
          
           It
           being
           it
           seems
           in
           the
           judgment
           of
           St.
           Peter
           a
           mark
           both
           of
           ignorance
           and
           folly
           to
           think
           the
           Religion
           of
           Jesus
           did
           allow
           its
           Professours
           in
           any
           rebellious
           practice
           against
           their
           Governours
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           We
           are
           to
           be
           subject
           because
           the
           Magistrate
           is
           the
           
             Minister
             of
             God
             to
             us
             for
             good
             .
          
           
        
         
           The
           benefits
           and
           blessings
           of
           government
           are
           so
           necessary
           to
           our
           well-being
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           that
           as
           Mankind
           could
           not
           subsist
           without
           them
           ,
           so
           neither
           can
           any
           Government
           subsist
           without
           it
           be
           allow'd
           that
           the
           Supreme
           Power
           be
           uncontrollable
           .
           And
           albeit
           it
           must
           be
           confest
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           a
           heavy
           judgment
           upon
           a
           Nation
           for
           the
           Rulers
           thereof
           ,
           by
           lust
           and
           ambition
           pusht
           on
           ,
           to
           exercise
           tyranny
           over
           it
           ,
           yet
           it
           will
           be
           evident
           to
           them
           who
           have
           been
           either
           conversant
           in
           the
           Histories
           of
           times
           past
           ,
           or
           registred
           the
           experiences
           of
           their
           own
           ,
           that
           the
           evils
           which
           proceed
           from
           oppression
           by
           our
           Governours
           bear
           no
           proportion
           to
           the
           miseries
           and
           calamities
           which
           naturally
           spring
           from
           Rebellion
           and
           Civil
           Wars
           .
        
         
           Where
           the
           bounds
           between
           right
           and
           wrong
           are
           all
           levell'd
           ,
           and
           the
           lives
           ,
           liberties
           and
           properties
           of
           Men
           brought
           under
           the
           Arbitrary
           Power
           of
           the
           longer
           Sword
           :
           where
           Beggars
           and
           Servants
           ride
           on
           Horseback
           ,
           and
           Princes
           and
           Masters
           go
           on
           foot
           :
           where
           nothing
           appears
           but
           rapins
           ,
           ruins
           ,
           outrages
           and
           devastations
           ,
           Houses
           plunder'd
           ,
           Towns
           fired
           ,
           whole
           Countreys
           laid
           waste
           and
           desolate
           ,
           and
           the
           Inhabitants
           slain
           ,
           
           or
           sled
           ,
           or
           confined
           to
           dark
           and
           noisome
           Prisons
           :
           where
           the
           Father
           falls
           by
           the
           sword
           of
           his
           own
           Son
           ,
           the
           Son
           by
           the
           hand
           of
           his
           Brother
           ;
           and
           they
           who
           were
           closely
           united
           by
           neighbourhood
           ,
           friendship
           ,
           bloud
           ,
           and
           the
           profession
           of
           the
           same
           Religion
           ,
           forgetting
           all
           these
           sacred
           tyes
           ,
           do
           in
           a
           most
           unnatural
           and
           salvage
           manner
           rip
           up
           ,
           and
           let
           out
           the
           Bowels
           of
           one
           another
           .
           So
           true
           is
           it
           ,
           (c)
           
             that
             the
             King's
             Prerogative
             doth
             in
             his
             own
             hand
             become
             a
             Sceptre
             to
             protect
             his
             Subjects
             from
             ruine
             ;
             but
             in
             the
             hands
             of
             the
             Subjects
             becomes
             many
             times
             Spears
             sticking
             in
             their
             own
             sides
             ,
             and
             as
             Spades
             to
             dig
             their
             own
             graves
             the
             sooner
             for
             death
             .
          
        
         
           3.
           
           
             We
             must
             needs
             be
             subject
             ,
             not
             onely
             for
             wrath
             ;
             but
             also
             for
             conscience
             sake
             .
          
           That
           is
           ,
           not
           onely
           for
           fear
           of
           punishment
           from
           those
           in
           Authority
           ,
           but
           from
           the
           sense
           of
           subjection
           being
           a
           duty
           ,
           which
           God
           has
           laid
           on
           us
           .
           So
           that
           the
           love
           of
           God
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           apprehensions
           of
           the
           Magistrate's
           displeasure
           ,
           do
           keep
           the
           Christian
           Man
           firm
           to
           his
           resolutions
           of
           not
           lifting
           up
           his
           hand
           against
           the
           Sovereign
           Powers
           .
           And
           from
           this
           reason
           of
           our
           obligation
           to
           submit
           to
           Authority
           ,
           we
           may
           wipe
           off
           that
           notorious
           scandal
           ,
           which
           has
           been
           fastn'd
           on
           the
           Primitive
           Christians
           by
           Bellarmine
           and
           others
           ,
           namely
           ,
           that
           therefore
           they
           were
           subject
           to
           the
           Supreme
           Powers
           ,
           because
           they
           were
           not
           strong
           enough
           to
           resist
           them
           :
           as
           if
           they
           had
           wanted
           the
           power
           onely
           ,
           but
           not
           the
           will
           to
           rise
           up
           against
           them
           ,
           and
           lay
           them
           aside
           .
        
         
           Which
           charge
           ,
           as
           it
           always
           was
           not
           true
           in
           matter
           of
           fact
           ,
           since
           there
           be
           instances
           (d)
           when
           the
           Christians
           had
           Forces
           enough
           to
           have
           made
           a
           dangerous
           resistence
           ,
           if
           their
           Consciences
           would
           have
           granted
           them
           a
           licence
           to
           rebell
           ;
           so
           it
           is
           altogether
           beside
           the
           grounds
           of
           their
           dutifull
           and
           humble
           deportment
           ,
           
           which
           did
           proceed
           not
           from
           the
           dread
           of
           the
           Emperours
           ,
           whom
           they
           were
           too
           weak
           to
           oppose
           ,
           but
           from
           the
           certain
           knowledge
           they
           had
           that
           resistence
           would
           be
           a
           violation
           of
           the
           Laws
           of
           their
           holy
           Religion
           .
        
         
           The
           truth
           is
           ,
           Bellarmine
           gives
           out
           ,
           that
           the
           (e)
           reason
           why
           
             Christians
             did
             not
             depose
             Nero
             ,
             Diocletian
             ,
             Julian
             ,
             Valens
             ,
             and
             others
             ,
             was
             not
             because
             they
             were
             destitute
             of
             a
             right
             ,
             but
             of
             the
             power
             to
             doe
             it
          
           ;
           that
           ever
           such
           a
           speech
           should
           come
           out
           of
           the
           mouth
           of
           a
           most
           eminent
           Cardinal
           !
           but
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           both
           St.
           Paul
           and
           Peter
           lay
           strict
           injunctions
           on
           their
           Converts
           to
           be
           subject
           to
           their
           present
           Governours
           ,
           not
           because
           they
           were
           in
           no
           condition
           to
           resist
           them
           effectually
           ,
           but
           for
           Conscience
           sake
           and
           because
           they
           are
           ordained
           by
           God.
           
        
         
           Now
           if
           the
           Magistrate
           be
           ordained
           by
           God
           ,
           then
           it
           is
           no
           more
           lawfull
           for
           an
           
             hundred
             thousand
          
           men
           to
           resist
           him
           ,
           than
           for
           twelve
           ,
           and
           if
           we
           are
           bound
           to
           submit
           for
           Conscience
           sake
           ,
           no
           encrease
           of
           our
           numbers
           or
           strength
           can
           alter
           the
           rule
           of
           our
           duty
           ,
           or
           take
           off
           the
           obligation
           of
           Conscience
           .
           So
           that
           had
           the
           first
           Christians
           had
           more
           potent
           Armies
           than
           Nero
           or
           Julian
           ,
           yet
           no
           right
           ever
           could
           have
           accru'd
           to
           them
           thereby
           to
           oppose
           God's
           Ordinance
           ,
           or
           to
           proceed
           against
           their
           Conscience
           .
           We
           may
           perceive
           therefore
           a
           wide
           difference
           between
           the
           Cardinal
           and
           the
           Apostles
           in
           this
           matter
           .
           He
           resolves
           the
           subjection
           of
           the
           Primitive
           Christians
           into
           a
           mere
           point
           of
           prudence
           
           and
           discretion
           ,
           but
           they
           into
           a
           principle
           of
           duty
           and
           conscience
           .
           He
           ascribes
           their
           quiet
           and
           peaceable
           behaviour
           under
           Tyrants
           to
           their
           defect
           in
           strength
           and
           numbers
           ;
           but
           we
           find
           them
           ,
           in
           what
           circumstances
           soever
           placed
           ,
           always
           avowing
           the
           necessity
           of
           subjection
           ,
           as
           an
           indispensable
           Precept
           of
           their
           Religion
           :
           but
           ,
           with
           more
           modesty
           certainly
           ,
           we
           may
           charge
           the
           Cardinal
           with
           the
           guilt
           of
           grievous
           slander
           ,
           than
           raise
           a
           suspicion
           of
           the
           least
           hypocrisie
           in
           the
           Primitive
           Martyrs
           .
        
         
           Wherefore
           notwithstanding
           the
           Supreme
           Authority
           of
           a
           Nation
           may
           sometimes
           be
           reduced
           to
           such
           extremity
           ,
           as
           that
           Rebels
           may
           be
           out
           of
           both
           the
           fears
           and
           danger
           of
           the
           public
           Sword
           ,
           yet
           they
           can
           never
           get
           out
           of
           the
           reach
           of
           their
           own
           Consciences
           ,
           nor
           free
           themselves
           of
           those
           terrible
           convictions
           ,
           wherewith
           it
           will
           ever
           sting
           the
           Children
           of
           disobedience
           ,
           and
           testify
           that
           they
           shall
           receive
           to
           themselves
           damnation
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           That
           the
           Popes
           of
           Rome
           were
           the
           first
           pretenders
           from
           Scripture
           to
           a
           right
           ,
           not
           onely
           of
           resisting
           Kings
           ,
           but
           of
           deposing
           them
           ,
           and
           absolving
           their
           Subjects
           from
           their
           duty
           and
           allegiance
           .
           Many
           hundred
           years
           after
           our
           Saviour's
           time
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           non-resistence
           to
           the
           Higher
           Powers
           was
           constantly
           taught
           ,
           and
           universally
           practised
           in
           the
           Christian
           Church
           .
           There
           was
           a
           great
           degeneracy
           from
           the
           primitive
           strictness
           in
           the
           lives
           of
           Christians
           ,
           and
           much
           humane
           mixture
           in
           the
           Doctrines
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           before
           men
           did
           claim
           ,
           by
           a
           title
           derived
           from
           Christ
           ,
           a
           right
           to
           controll
           the
           Supreme
           Authority
           .
           And
           as
           the
           lusts
           of
           the
           flesh
           did
           more
           vigorously
           put
           forth
           themselves
           in
           the
           conversation
           of
           those
           who
           profest
           the
           doctrine
           of
           the
           Cross
           ,
           so
           the
           greater
           pains
           was
           taken
           to
           corrupt
           a
           most
           pure
           Religion
           ,
           that
           it
           might
           warp
           
           into
           a
           compliance
           therewith
           ,
           till
           at
           length
           men
           had
           near
           worn
           out
           of
           their
           minds
           the
           sense
           of
           their
           duty
           to
           God
           and
           the
           King.
           
        
         
           It
           was
           toward
           the
           end
           of
           the
           Eleventh
           Century
           when
           Gregory
           VII
           .
           called
           Hildebrand
           before
           he
           was
           Pope
           ,
           did
           take
           upon
           him
           ,
           both
           to
           excommunicate
           the
           Emperour
           Henry
           IV.
           and
           to
           devest
           him
           of
           all
           Royal
           Power
           ,
           (f)
           pretending
           to
           free
           his
           Subjects
           from
           the
           Allegiance
           they
           had
           sworn
           .
           That
           Hildebrand
           was
           the
           first
           Pope
           who
           usurped
           such
           an
           extravagant
           Power
           over
           all
           the
           crown'd
           Heads
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           may
           be
           made
           evident
           from
           the
           ancient
           Acts
           and
           Monuments
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           concurrent
           testimony
           of
           the
           Historians
           of
           those
           and
           later
           times
           .
           The
           Church
           of
           Liege
           ,
           in
           their
           answer
           to
           Paschal
           II.
           declare
           (g)
           
             Hildebrand
             the
             Pope
             is
             the
             Authour
             of
             this
             new
             Schism
             ,
             and
             has
             first
             lift
             up
             the
             Priests
             Spear
             against
             the
             Imperial
             Crown
             ,
             and
             excommunicated
             those
             that
             favour'd
             the
             interest
             of
             Henry
             without
             difference
             or
             distinction
             .
             All
             were
             content
             with
             the
             use
             of
             the
             spiritual
             Sword
             down
             from
             Gregory
             the
             first
             to
             Gregory
             the
             last
             ,
          
           i.e.
           
             Hildebrand
             ,
             who
             first
             did
             arm
             himself
             ,
             then
             other
             Popes
             ,
             against
             the
             Emperour
             ,
             by
             his
             example
             .
          
           (h)
           
             I
             read
             the
             Acts
          
           (
           says
           Otto
           Bishop
           of
           
             Frisingen
             )
             of
             the
             Roman
             Kings
             and
             Emperours
             over
             and
             over
             ,
             and
             no-where
             find
             any
             of
             them
             before
             this
             ,
             by
             the
             Pope
             ,
             to
             be
             excommunicated
             ,
             or
             deprived
             of
             his
             Kingdom
             .
          
           (i)
           
             Of
             the
             Emperours
             he
             's
             the
             first
             that
             was
             deposed
             by
             the
             Pope
             ;
             and
             it
             is
             a
             dispute
             among
             the
             Schoolmen
             yet
             undecided
             ,
             
             whether
             the
             Pope
             can
             depose
             the
             Emperour
             .
             Thus
          
           Trithemius
           .
           (k)
           
             For
             altho
             the
             Bishops
             of
             Rome
             were
             reverenced
             as
             the
             Heads
             of
             the
             Christian
             Religion
             ,
             the
             Vicars
             of
             Christ
             ,
             and
             the
             Successours
             of
             St.
             Peter
             ;
             yet
             their
             Authority
             extended
             no
             farther
             than
             to
             the
             asserting
             and
             defending
             of
             points
             of
             Faith.
             —
             Gregory
             VII
             .
             first
             of
             all
             Popes
             ,
             supported
             with
             the
             Arms
             of
             the
             Normans
             ,
             and
             the
             Treasury
             of
             Mawd
             ,
             a
             Lady
             of
             powerfull
             interest
             thorough
             Italy
             ,
             and
             encouraged
             by
             the
             discord
             of
             the
             German
             Princes
             engaged
             in
             a
             Civil
             War
             ,
             when
             he
             had
             got
             the
             Popedom
             ,
             contrary
             to
             the
             practice
             of
             his
             Predecessours
             ,
             contemning
             the
             power
             and
             authority
             of
             the
             Emperour
             ,
             did
             presume
             ,
             I
             do
             not
             say
             to
             excommunicate
             ,
             but
             to
             deprive
             Caesar
             of
             his
             Empire
             ,
             by
             whom
             he
             had
             himself
             been
             confirm'd
             at
             least
             ,
             if
             not
             elected
             .
             A
             thing
             before
             those
             times
             never
             heard
             of
             .
          
        
         
           (l)
           
             This
             novelty
             onely
             ,
             not
             to
             say
             Heresie
             had
             not
             yet
             put
             forth
             it self
             in
             the
             world
             ,
             that
             the
             Priests
             —
             should
             teach
             the
             People
             ,
             that
             they
             owe
             no
             subjection
             to
             bad
             Kings
             ,
             and
             though
             they
             had
             sworn
             allegiance
             to
             them
             ,
             that
             yet
             they
             ow'd
             them
             none
             .
             Nor
             were
             they
             to
             be
             said
             perjur'd
             who
             should
             conspire
             against
             the
             King.
             Nay
             ,
             he
             who
             will
             obey
             the
             King
             ,
             is
             to
             be
             reputed
             excommunicate
             ;
             he
             who
             will
             resist
             him
             ,
             to
             be
             absolved
             from
             the
             sin
             of
             injustice
             and
             perjury
             .
          
        
         
         
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           a
           few
           of
           his
           Predecessours
           had
           made
           some
           attempts
           to
           incroach
           upon
           the
           Royal
           Power
           :
           but
           what
           they
           did
           can
           bear
           no
           comparison
           with
           the
           Usurpations
           of
           Hildebrand
           .
           And
           he
           to
           avoid
           the
           imputation
           of
           being
           the
           Authour
           of
           such
           unjust
           Innovations
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           his
           ambitious
           designs
           the
           more
           prosperous
           ,
           did
           alledge
           ,
           that
           Pope
           Zachary
           had
           deprived
           King
           Childeric
           of
           the
           Crown
           of
           France
           ,
           and
           set
           it
           upon
           
           Pepin's
           Head.
           But
           by
           the
           stream
           of
           Writers
           it
           does
           appear
           ,
           that
           by
           a
           conspiracy
           of
           the
           Nobility
           and
           People
           (m)
           King
           Childeric
           was
           laid
           aside
           ;
           and
           application
           onely
           made
           to
           the
           Pope
           to
           allow
           and
           confirm
           an
           ill
           deed
           .
           But
           the
           deposing
           of
           Princes
           by
           their
           own
           Subjects
           was
           a
           thing
           in
           it self
           so
           wicked
           ,
           and
           wherein
           there
           was
           no
           precedent
           for
           Popes
           to
           intermeddle
           ,
           that
           Zachary
           was
           to
           that
           degree
           confounded
           with
           this
           Address
           from
           Burchardus
           in
           the
           name
           of
           the
           People
           of
           France
           ,
           that
           (n)
           
             at
             first
             he
             durst
             not
             so
             much
             as
             take
             into
             his
             thoughts
             a
             work
             of
             such
             great
             moment
             .
             Bellarmine
             ,
          
           a
           constant
           Advocate
           for
           the
           Popes
           in
           all
           Causes
           ,
           says
           indeed
           ,
           (o)
           
             That
             no
             man
             in
             his
             wits
             will
             deny
             this
             act
             of
             the
             Pope
             to
             be
             righteous
             ,
             especially
             since
             the
             event
             has
             taught
             that
             the
             change
             was
             most
             happy
             .
          
           But
           if
           we
           are
           to
           measure
           the
           goodness
           of
           the
           deed
           by
           the
           success
           of
           the
           event
           ,
           then
           all
           the
           outrages
           and
           villanies
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           they
           prosper
           ,
           will
           by
           this
           argument
           be
           justify'd
           ,
           and
           victorious
           Rebels
           may
           believe
           they
           are
           carrying
           on
           the
           work
           of
           the
           Lord.
           
        
         
           (p)
           It
           may
           be
           here
           worth
           noting
           ,
           how
           Honorius
           I.
           who
           was
           Pope
           above
           an
           hundred
           years
           before
           Zachary
           ,
           did
           reprove
           the
           Bishops
           beyond
           the
           Po
           ,
           who
           were
           earnest
           with
           the
           Nobility
           to
           set
           up
           Arioaldus
           in
           the
           place
           of
           Adoevaldus
           King
           of
           Italy
           ,
           against
           their
           oath
           of
           allegiance
           ,
           and
           summon
           them
           to
           appear
           with
           their
           Cause
           before
           him
           .
        
         
           The
           Popes
           ,
           it
           seems
           yet
           ,
           had
           not
           discover'd
           ,
           that
           they
           had
           power
           to
           dispense
           with
           oaths
           ,
           and
           cancell
           the
           obligation
           of
           that
           duty
           of
           submission
           to
           Kings
           ,
           which
           St.
           Peter
           had
           laid
           upon
           all
           Christians
           .
           It
           was
           not
           in
           those
           days
           revealed
           that
           that
           Text
           (q)
           
             Thou
             hast
             put
             all
             things
             under
             his
             feet
             ,
          
           was
           meant
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           and
           the
           better
           to
           accommodate
           it
           to
           his
           Holiness
           ,
           that
           we
           are
           to
           understand
           ,
           by
           the
           beasts
           of
           the
           
             field
             ,
             Men
          
           ,
           by
           the
           fowl
           of
           the
           
             air
             ,
             Angels
          
           ,
           by
           the
           fish
           of
           the
           
             sea
             ,
             Souls
          
           in
           
             Purgatory
             .
             All
             put
             under
             the
             Pope's
             feet
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           as
           to
           Hildebrand
           ,
           though
           he
           was
           a
           publisher
           of
           new
           Doctrines
           ,
           yet
           there
           will
           be
           no
           reason
           to
           believe
           he
           brought
           them
           down
           from
           Heaven
           ,
           if
           we
           may
           credit
           the
           account
           of
           his
           morals
           ,
           which
           is
           given
           by
           his
           Contemporaries
           .
           Cardinal
           Benno
           (r)
           taxes
           him
           with
           all
           the
           deadly
           sins
           ,
           each
           of
           which
           ,
           upon
           the
           commission
           of
           it
           ,
           does
           immediately
           put
           a
           man
           out
           of
           a
           state
           of
           salvation
           .
           With
           murthers
           ,
           rapine
           ,
           adultery
           ,
           and
           constant
           practice
           of
           the
           Black-art
           .
        
         
           Hildebrand
           however
           passes
           always
           with
           Bellarmine
           for
           a
           Saint
           ,
           and
           Baronius
           recommends
           his
           example
           to
           the
           imitation
           of
           Paul
           V.
           as
           the
           most
           excellent
           person
           that
           ever
           sate
           in
           the
           Papal
           Chair
           .
           And
           they
           have
           no
           names
           bad
           enough
           to
           bestow
           upon
           Benno
           .
           Both
           of
           them
           also
           insinuate
           the
           probability
           of
           the
           Book
           being
           written
           by
           a
           Lutheran
           ,
           which
           goes
           under
           
           Benno's
           name
           :
           but
           Baronius
           was
           very
           unlucky
           in
           his
           conjecture
           that
           (ſ)
           
             Reinerus
             Reineccius
          
           was
           
           the
           Father
           of
           this
           supposed
           spurious
           Piece
           ,
           when
           near
           50
           years
           before
           the
           Edition
           of
           Reineccius
           ,
           the
           Life
           of
           Hildebrand
           by
           Benno
           ,
           was
           publisht
           among
           the
           Tracts
           in
           the
           Book
           entitled
           
             Fasciculus
             rerum
             expetendarum
             ac
             fugiendarum
          
           .
           (t)
           It
           is
           the
           main
           business
           of
           these
           two
           Learned
           Men
           in
           their
           voluminous
           Works
           to
           ascribe
           uncontrollable
           ,
           I
           may
           say
           ,
           boundless
           power
           to
           the
           Bishops
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           to
           maintain
           their
           right
           in
           the
           most
           unconscionable
           claims
           to
           a
           sovereignty
           over
           Emperours
           and
           Kings
           ,
           otherwise
           Bellarmine
           would
           never
           have
           vented
           it
           for
           truth
           ,
           that
           the
           Pope
           can
           change
           the
           nature
           of
           things
           ,
           and
           that
           (u)
           
             if
             falling
             into
             errour
             ,
             he
             should
             command
             vice
             and
             forbid
             vertue
             ,
             the
             Church
             would
             be
             bound
             to
             believe
             vertue
             to
             be
             vice
             ,
             and
             vice
             to
             be
             vertue
             .
          
           It
           being
           strange
           ,
           that
           in
           the
           same
           period
           he
           supposes
           the
           Pope
           can
           err
           ,
           he
           should
           assign
           such
           a
           power
           to
           him
           as
           by
           reason
           of
           its
           inconsistency
           with
           the
           perfections
           of
           the
           Divine
           Nature
           ,
           we
           may
           not
           ascribe
           to
           the
           Almighty
           God
           himself
           .
           Otherwise
           Baronius
           would
           not
           have
           pick'd
           out
           of
           the
           whole
           Catalogue
           of
           the
           Popes
           Gregory
           VII
           .
           and
           Alexander
           the
           III.
           as
           Patterns
           for
           Paul
           V.
           to
           govern
           himself
           by
           .
           At
           the
           later
           of
           whose
           Feet
           
             Friderick
             Barbarossa
          
           (x)
           
             lying
             prostrate
             ,
             he
             trampled
             upon
             his
             Neck
             ,
             and
             began
             to
             sing
             that
             of
             David
             ,
             thou
             shalt
             goe
             upon
             the
             Asp
             and
             Basilisc
             :
             And
             to
             the
             Emperour
             ,
             who
             ,
             his
             Spirits
             boiling
             within
             him
             ,
             said
             ,
             [
             this
             submission
             is
             made
             ]
             not
             to
             thee
             ,
             but
             to
             Peter
             ;
             the
             angry
             Pope
             ,
             pressing
             harder
             with
             
             his
             Foot
             ,
             did
             reply
             ,
             both
             to
             me
             and
             to
             Peter
             .
          
        
         
           And
           Hildebrand
           ,
           the
           other
           Pope
           recommended
           to
           Paul
           V.
           
             Henry
             IV.
          
           (y)
           
             upbraids
             with
             having
             by
             money
             got
             favour
             ,
             by
             favour
             got
             the
             sword
             ,
             by
             the
             sword
             placed
             himself
             in
             the
             seat
             of
             Peace
             ,
             and
             ,
             when
             in
             the
             seat
             of
             Peace
             ,
             banisht
             Peace
             from
             it
             .
             Gregory
          
           (z)
           
             could
             not
             but
             confess
             himself
             advanced
             by
             violent
             hands
             into
             St.
             Peter's
             Chair
             .
          
           In
           which
           Chair
           he
           did
           dictate
           or
           decree
           ,
           (a)
           
             That
             his
             name
             alone
             should
             be
             rehearsed
             in
             the
             Churches
             .
             That
             he
             has
             power
             to
             depose
             Emperours
             .
             That
             he
             ought
             to
             be
             judged
             by
             no
             man.
             That
             he
             can
             absolve
             Subjects
             from
             their
             allegiance
             to
             unjust
             Princes
             .
          
           That
           he
           should
           give
           himself
           the
           title
           of
           
           Christ's
           Vicar
           ,
           and
           yet
           make
           his
           Kingdom
           to
           be
           of
           this
           World
           ,
           and
           by
           his
           Decrees
           set
           aside
           the
           plain
           Precepts
           of
           Christ
           !
           that
           he
           should
           pretend
           to
           be
           the
           Successour
           of
           St.
           Peter
           ,
           and
           teach
           Doctrines
           directly
           contrary
           to
           those
           of
           St.
           Peter
           !
        
         
           In
           which
           Chair
           he
           thunder'd
           out
           Curses
           against
           the
           Emperours
           ,
           Kings
           ,
           Princes
           ,
           Bishops
           ,
           and
           demanded
           Tribute
           almost
           of
           every
           Kingdom
           in
           Europe
           .
           Engaging
           them
           in
           bloudy
           Wars
           ,
           and
           setting
           their
           Subjects
           loose
           from
           their
           duty
           and
           obedience
           .
           He
           contrived
           an
           Oath
           in
           such
           a
           form
           ,
           to
           be
           imposed
           upon
           Kings
           ,
           as
           no
           honest
           man
           could
           take
           it
           .
        
         
           Kings
           are
           to
           swear
           ,
           (b)
           
             faithfully
             to
             observe
             whatsoever
             the
             Pope
             shall
             command
             them
             .
          
           Bellarmine's
           Doctrine
           truly
           agrees
           with
           this
           Oath
           .
           For
           if
           the
           
           Pope
           should
           command
           a
           Prince
           to
           murther
           an
           hundred
           of
           his
           innocent
           Subjects
           ,
           he
           was
           bound
           to
           believe
           it
           would
           be
           a
           vertue
           so
           to
           doe
           .
           But
           the
           very
           rage
           of
           this
           fierce
           and
           haughty
           man
           discharged
           its
           self
           chiefly
           upon
           Henry
           IV.
           whom
           he
           excommunicated
           four
           times
           ,
           (c)
           deposed
           him
           unheard
           and
           unconvicted
           ,
           and
           gave
           his
           Kingdom
           to
           Rodulphus
           .
           And
           ,
           
             after
             a
             terrible
             journey
             in
             the
             depth
             of
             a
             severe
             Winter
             ,
             made
             him
             ,
             without
             all
             his
             Attendants
             ,
             and
             stript
             of
             his
             Royal
             Robes
             ,
          
           (d)
           
             to
             wait
             barefoot
             and
             fasting
             three
             whole
             days
             before
             he
             would
             admit
             him
             but
             into
             his
             presence
             ,
          
           he
           all
           the
           time
           caressing
           his
           Mistris
           in
           the
           Castle
           at
           Canusium
           .
        
         
           Insomuch
           as
           in
           his
           own
           Letter
           to
           the
           Germans
           upon
           this
           occasion
           ,
           he
           acquaints
           them
           ,
           (e)
           
             that
             all
             wonder'd
             at
             the
             strange
             hardness
             of
             his
             heart
             ,
             and
             some
             cryed
             out
             of
             him
             as
             not
             proceeding
             with
             the
             gravity
             of
             Apostolic
             severity
             ,
             but
             with
             the
             cruelty
             of
             brutish
             Tyranny
             .
          
        
         
           The
           Church
           of
           Liege
           farther
           inform
           us
           they
           had
           read
           that
           Hildebrand
           ,
           (f)
           
             the
             onely
             Pope
             who
             hath
             added
             to
             the
             holy
             Canons
             ,
             had
             commanded
             the
             Marchioness
             Mawd
             ,
             as
             the
             condition
             of
             the
             forgiveness
             of
             her
             sins
             ,
             to
             subdue
             Henry
             the
             Emperour
             .
             —
             but
             whence
             ,
          
           say
           they
           ,
           
             is
             this
             new
             Authority
             ,
             by
             which
             impunity
             of
             the
             sins
             past
             ,
             and
             licence
             for
             those
             which
             shall
             
             be
             hereafter
             ,
             is
             offer'd
             to
             the
             guilty
             without
             confession
             and
             repentance
             ?
          
        
         
           These
           Proceedings
           do
           indeed
           suppose
           God
           (g)
           
             to
             have
             committed
             to
             the
             Pope
             a
             power
             ,
             not
             onely
             of
             determining
             disputable
             points
             ,
             but
          
           as
           Benedict
           tells
           Paul
           V.
           
             of
             making
             new
             Creeds
          
           .
        
         
           So
           that
           is
           was
           judiciously
           observ'd
           by
           Aventinus
           ,
           (h)
           
             that
             Hildebrand
             did
             absolve
             men
             not
             from
             their
             sins
             ,
             but
             from
             the
             Law
             and
             Sacraments
             of
             Christ
             ,
             undermine
             the
             Peace
             and
             Piety
             of
             our
             Religion
             ,
             raise
             War
             and
             Seditions
             ,
             indulge
             Whoredom
             ,
             Murther
             ,
             Perjuries
             ,
             Perfidiousness
             ,
             Rapines
             ,
             Fire
             ;
             and
             to
             hide
             his
             Ambition
             did
             not
             onely
             devise
             Fables
             ,
             corrupt
             Annals
             ,
             pervert
             Records
             ,
             but
             also
             adulterate
             the
             heavenly
             Oracles
             .
             Forcing
             the
             Divine
             Writings
             to
             serve
             his
             Lust
             by
             false
             glosses
             put
             upon
             them
             .
          
        
         
           And
           the
           Councils
           of
           
             Mentz
             ,
             Brixia
          
           and
           Wormes
           did
           great
           service
           to
           Christianity
           ,
           and
           pursued
           truly
           the
           interest
           of
           the
           Church
           when
           they
           deposed
           Gregory
           VII
           .
           (i)
           
             as
             not
             elected
             by
             God
             ,
             but
             one
             who
             impudently
             obtained
             the
             Popedom
             by
             fraud
             and
             money
             ,
             subverted
             Ecclesiastical
             Order
             ,
             disturbed
             the
             Kingdom
             of
             the
             Christian
             Empire
             ,
             menaced
             death
             to
             the
             Body
             and
             Soul
             of
             a
             Catholick
             and
             Pacific
             King
             ,
             defended
             a
             perjured
             King
             ,
             sow'd
             discord
             among
             Friends
             ,
             strifes
             among
             the
             Peaceable
             ,
             scandals
             among
             Brethren
             ,
             divorces
             between
             Man
             and
             Wife
             ,
          
           &c.
           
        
         
           To
           come
           to
           the
           last
           scene
           of
           this
           high-spirited
           Pope
           ,
           who
           put
           the
           Christian
           World
           all
           into
           commotion
           ,
           
           if
           we
           may
           believe
           
             Paul
             Bernriedensis
          
           a
           Writer
           on
           his
           side
           ,
           and
           publisht
           by
           Gretser
           the
           Jesuit
           ,
           (k)
           
             these
             were
             his
             last
             words
             ,
             I
             have
             loved
             righteousness
             ,
             and
             hated
             iniquity
             ,
             therefore
             I
             die
             in
             banishment
             :
          
           but
           if
           we
           will
           give
           credit
           not
           onely
           to
           
             Matthew
             Paris
          
           ,
           but
           
             Sigebert
             Gemblacensis
          
           ,
           and
           others
           :
           and
           to
           what
           Cuspinian
           found
           in
           most
           ancient
           Records
           .
           (l)
           
             He
             dying
             ,
             to
             the
             Cardinals
             assembled
             about
             him
             ,
             did
             confess
             ,
             he
             had
             greatly
             sinned
             in
             his
             Pastoral
             Charge
             ,
             and
             stirr'd
             up
             the
             wrath
             and
             hatred
             of
             God
             against
             Mankind
             by
             the
             instigation
             of
             the
             Devil
             ,
          
           (m)
           and
           
             that
             on
             his
             death-bed
             he
             did
             extremely
             grieve
             for
             the
             trouble
             he
             had
             given
             Henry
             the
             Emperour
             ,
             and
             so
             did
             absolve
             him
             .
          
        
         
           And
           after
           all
           ,
           why
           should
           it
           seem
           strange
           to
           any
           man
           that
           Gregory
           VII
           .
           should
           use
           crown'd
           Heads
           so
           coursly
           ,
           when
           he
           had
           such
           a
           mean
           opinion
           of
           
             Royal
             Power
          
           as
           in
           an
           Epistle
           to
           Heriman
           Bishop
           of
           Mets
           ,
           to
           declare
           (n)
           
             that
             Kings
             owe
             their
             beginning
             to
             those
             men
             ,
             who
             knew
             not
             God
             ,
             and
             who
             ,
             by
             the
             agency
             of
             the
             Devil
             ,
             and
             by
             Pride
             ,
             Rapins
             ,
             Perfidiousness
             ,
             Murthers
             ,
             and
             all
             kind
             of
             wickedness
             got
             the
             dominion
             over
             them
             ,
             who
             by
             nature
             did
             stand
             on
             the
             same
             level
             with
             them
             .
          
           And
           in
           the
           same
           Epist
           .
           (o)
           
             Who
             doubts
             but
             that
             the
             Priests
             of
             Christ
             ought
             to
             be
             accounted
             the
             Fathers
             and
             Masters
             of
             all
             Kings
             and
             Princes
             ?
          
           And
           (p)
           
             that
             Gold
             does
             not
             more
             excell
             Lead
             ,
             than
             the
             
             Sacerdotal
             Dignity
             the
             Royal
             Power
             .
          
           And
           likewise
           (q)
           
             That
             there
             is
             more
             power
             granted
             to
             an
             Exorcist
             ,
             since
             he
             is
             made
             a
             Spiritual
             Emperour
          
           [
           i.
           e.
           Conjurour
           ]
           
             to
             cast
             out
             Devils
             ,
             than
             can
             be
             to
             any
             Lay-man
             on
             the
             score
             of
             Secular
             Dominion
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           was
           there
           ever
           a
           greater
           Patron
           of
           Republican
           Principles
           than
           this
           Pope
           ,
           who
           most
           malitiously
           and
           falsly
           lays
           the
           foundations
           and
           original
           of
           
             Kingly
             Power
          
           in
           the
           Lusts
           and
           Sins
           of
           Men
           ,
           assisted
           by
           the
           Devil
           ?
           Could
           
             Knox
             ,
             Milton
             ,
             Rutherford
             ,
             Goodwin
             ,
          
           or
           any
           
             Commonwealth's
             Man
          
           of
           them
           all
           ,
           have
           spit
           ranker
           Venom
           at
           Kings
           ,
           or
           spoke
           with
           greater
           contempt
           of
           their
           Authority
           than
           Hildebrand
           ,
           who
           makes
           them
           Servants
           to
           the
           Priest
           ,
           and
           their
           Power
           less
           than
           that
           of
           one
           of
           the
           most
           
             inferiour
             Officers
          
           in
           the
           Church
           ?
        
         
           And
           having
           made
           this
           report
           of
           the
           life
           and
           behaviour
           of
           Hildebrand
           ,
           and
           cited
           the
           Authours
           upon
           whose
           Authority
           it
           does
           rely
           ,
           I
           conceive
           I
           need
           not
           tell
           the
           Reader
           ,
           that
           the
           Writers
           I
           have
           dealt
           with
           were
           all
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           and
           generally
           confest
           to
           be
           the
           most
           eminent
           and
           judicious
           Historians
           in
           these
           Matters
           ,
           and
           that
           most
           of
           the
           notorious
           Crimes
           charged
           upon
           Hildebrand
           do
           not
           appear
           more
           from
           others
           ,
           than
           from
           his
           own
           words
           to
           be
           found
           in
           his
           Books
           of
           Epistles
           .
           Neither
           will
           it
           be
           easie
           to
           free
           Bellarmine
           from
           much
           disingenuity
           in
           going
           about
           to
           take
           away
           the
           credit
           of
           Jo.
           Aventinus's
           History
           ,
           for
           that
           he
           does
           not
           name
           the
           Authours
           from
           whence
           he
           has
           it
           ,
           when
           in
           the
           period
           immediately
           above
           that
           Bellarmine
           quotes
           (r)
           out
           of
           Aventinus
           concerning
           the
           faults
           of
           Henry
           IV.
           Aventinus
           (ſ)
           declares
           ,
           that
           he
           follow'd
           the
           Public
           Authority
           of
           the
           
           Letters
           ,
           
           Diploma's
           ,
           Edicts
           ,
           Rescripts
           ,
           that
           passed
           between
           Henry
           and
           Hildebrand
           ,
           still
           preserved
           in
           their
           Libraries
           .
           And
           that
           he
           did
           not
           charge
           either
           of
           them
           with
           any
           vice
           ,
           which
           was
           not
           owned
           by
           their
           Friends
           ,
           nor
           praise
           any
           vertue
           in
           either
           ,
           which
           was
           not
           before
           ascribed
           to
           them
           even
           by
           their
           Enemies
           .
           But
           how
           far
           Bellarmine
           was
           from
           relating
           things
           thus
           honestly
           ,
           we
           may
           rest
           satisfied
           from
           the
           Citation
           now
           mentioned
           .
           Where
           he
           has
           from
           Aventinus
           transcribed
           the
           Vices
           of
           the
           Emperour
           ,
           but
           concealed
           his
           Vertues
           which
           next
           follow
           .
        
         
           Now
           had
           we
           time
           ,
           it
           would
           not
           be
           hard
           to
           shew
           ,
           how
           the
           Bishops
           of
           Rome
           ,
           who
           did
           tread
           in
           the
           steps
           of
           Hildebrand
           ,
           have
           been
           for
           the
           most
           treated
           with
           the
           same
           sharpness
           ,
           and
           disrespect
           .
           How
           the
           Princes
           have
           asserted
           their
           Rights
           conferred
           by
           God
           against
           the
           unjust
           Intrusions
           of
           Popes
           .
           And
           with
           what
           contempt
           and
           neglect
           they
           have
           receiv'd
           their
           insolent
           Messages
           in
           all
           Countries
           .
           I
           produce
           an
           instance
           or
           two
           ,
           ancient
           and
           modern
           .
           When
           Boniface
           VIII
           .
           writ
           to
           Philip
           the
           fair
           of
           France
           ,
           (t)
           
             to
             give
             him
             to
             know
             he
             was
             subject
             to
             him
             in
             matters
             Spiritual
             and
             Temporal
             ;
             and
             that
             they
             were
             Fools
             who
             thought
             otherwise
             .
          
           His
           answer
           was
           ,
           
             Let
             your
             Holiness's
             wonderfull
             Wisedom
             know
             that
             in
             Temporals
             we
             are
             subject
             to
             no
             body
             .
          
           They
           that
           complain
           of
           the
           indecency
           of
           the
           King's
           Language
           must
           observe
           it
           is
           the
           same
           the
           Pope
           used
           first
           ,
           and
           that
           his
           Holiness
           should
           not
           have
           provoked
           his
           Son
           to
           wrath
           .
        
         
         
           When
           Sixtus
           V.
           sent
           out
           his
           Bull
           against
           the
           King
           of
           Navar
           ,
           pronouncing
           him
           a
           Heretic
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           had
           cut
           off
           his
           right
           of
           Succession
           to
           the
           Crown
           of
           France
           .
           The
           King
           ,
           in
           his
           Remonstrance
           ,
           does
           affirm
           ,
           (u)
           
             That
             as
             to
             the
             feigned
             crime
             of
             Heresie
             ,
             whereof
             he
             is
             falsly
             and
             unjustly
             accused
             ,
             he
             affirms
             that
             the
             Pope
             (
             saving
             due
             respect
             to
             his
             Holiness
             )
             does
             falsly
             ,
             wickedly
             and
             malitiously
             lye
             .
             And
             that
             he
             is
             of
             all
             Heretics
             the
             greatest
             ,
             as
             he
             undertakes
             to
             prove
             in
             a
             free
             Council
             assembled
             ,
             according
             to
             the
             Laws
             .
          
        
         
           I
           farther
           observe
           under
           this
           head
           ,
           that
           the
           Popes
           did
           take
           upon
           them
           first
           onely
           to
           confirm
           the
           Emperours
           by
           putting
           the
           Crown
           on
           their
           Heads
           ,
           and
           from
           thence
           afterwards
           they
           pretended
           to
           a
           right
           to
           depose
           them
           .
           And
           yet
           among
           all
           (x)
           the
           Eastern
           Emperours
           none
           but
           Justinus
           I.
           and
           
             Petrus
             Altissiodorus
          
           were
           crowned
           by
           Popes
           .
           He
           by
           John
           I.
           and
           this
           by
           Honorius
           III.
           And
           in
           the
           Western
           Empire
           this
           custome
           commenced
           but
           in
           Charles
           the
           Great
           ,
           upon
           whose
           Head
           Leo
           III.
           placed
           the
           Crown
           in
           gratefull
           consideration
           of
           the
           excellent
           services
           he
           had
           done
           the
           Church
           against
           the
           Lumbards
           .
        
         
           Now
           should
           it
           be
           said
           ,
           that
           the
           relation
           we
           make
           is
           of
           matters
           done
           at
           a
           remote
           distance
           from
           our
           times
           ,
           and
           that
           we
           may
           presume
           the
           Doctrines
           of
           deposing
           and
           killing
           of
           Kings
           (
           though
           not
           yet
           condemned
           by
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           )
           to
           be
           disown'd
           by
           all
           the
           Members
           of
           it
           ,
           since
           some
           of
           them
           have
           writ
           expresly
           against
           them
           ,
           and
           none
           of
           them
           have
           lately
           given
           us
           any
           occasion
           to
           charge
           them
           with
           holding
           these
           wicked
           and
           unchristian
           Doctrines
           .
           To
           this
           it
           may
           be
           answer'd
           ,
           that
           although
           the
           present
           Pope
           Innocent
           XI
           .
           has
           censured
           sixty
           five
           lewd
           and
           pernicious
           Propositions
           ,
           
           taught
           by
           Jesuits
           ,
           and
           other
           Popish
           Casuists
           ,
           if
           that
           may
           be
           call'd
           a
           censure
           which
           is
           so
           very
           soft
           and
           gentle
           ,
           yet
           he
           has
           slipt
           over
           this
           Doctrine
           so
           frequently
           taught
           by
           the
           same
           men
           ,
           
             That
             a
             Prince
             excommunicated
             or
             depriv'd
             by
             the
             Pope
             ,
             may
             and
             ought
             to
             be
             deposed
             or
             killed
             by
             his
             own
             Subjects
             ,
             or
             any
             whatsoever
             ,
             as
             heretical
             ,
          
           without
           taking
           the
           least
           notice
           thereof
           .
           What
           reason
           can
           we
           assign
           for
           this
           ?
           could
           his
           Holiness
           be
           ignorant
           of
           a
           Proposition
           maintained
           by
           
             Parsons
             ,
             Mariana
             ,
             Rossaeus
             ,
             Bellarmine
             ,
             Suarez
             ,
             Becanus
             ,
             Hessius
             ,
             Valentia
             ,
             Hereau
             ,
             Gretser
             ,
             Sanctarellus
             ,
          
           and
           many
           others
           ?
           Or
           could
           he
           think
           there
           was
           not
           so
           much
           need
           to
           condemn
           this
           King-killing
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           consequences
           of
           it
           were
           less
           dangerous
           than
           those
           by
           him
           condemned
           ,
           when
           yet
           the
           teaching
           thereof
           has
           been
           the
           occasion
           of
           spilling
           of
           so
           much
           Christian
           bloud
           ,
           and
           was
           the
           foundation
           upon
           which
           the
           
             Powder
             Plotters
          
           laid
           their
           horrible
           Design
           ,
           and
           when
           but
           a
           few
           months
           before
           this
           Decree
           of
           the
           Pope
           came
           forth
           ,
           so
           many
           of
           the
           Sons
           of
           his
           Church
           in
           our
           Nation
           fell
           by
           the
           stroke
           of
           Justice
           for
           conspiring
           the
           death
           of
           the
           King.
           
        
         
           What
           can
           we
           then
           say
           ,
           but
           that
           this
           small
           and
           harmless
           errour
           of
           the
           Casuists
           teaching
           the
           lawfulness
           and
           duty
           of
           killing
           Heretical
           Princes
           was
           spar'd
           by
           his
           Holiness
           ,
           when
           he
           condemned
           so
           many
           others
           ,
           out
           of
           prudent
           foresight
           of
           the
           good
           service
           it
           yet
           one
           time
           or
           other
           may
           doe
           the
           Roman
           Church
           ?
           And
           there
           will
           be
           more
           ground
           for
           this
           conjecture
           ,
           when
           we
           remember
           that
           
             Cardinal
             Perron
          
           did
           solemnly
           profess
           ,
           that
           before
           he
           and
           his
           brethren
           the
           Bishops
           of
           France
           would
           by
           subscription
           declare
           the
           deposing
           Doctrine
           to
           be
           unlawfull
           ,
           they
           would
           die
           Martyrs
           at
           the
           Stake
           .
        
         
         
           And
           as
           for
           those
           of
           that
           Church
           who
           have
           writ
           against
           this
           Power
           in
           the
           Pope
           of
           deposing
           Kings
           ,
           we
           know
           some
           of
           them
           labour
           under
           an
           Excommunication
           at
           Rome
           for
           their
           pains
           to
           this
           day
           .
           And
           whether
           there
           be
           fresh
           occasion
           to
           charge
           any
           Papist
           with
           these
           Doctrines
           ,
           let
           what
           follows
           determine
           .
        
         
           One
           
             J.
             D.
          
           a
           Jesuit
           ,
           after
           the
           late
           Plot
           ,
           puts
           forth
           a
           Catechism
           ,
           entitling
           it
           ,
           
             A
             brief
             Instruction
             touching
             the
             Oath
             of
             Allegiance
             .
          
           And
           with
           his
           Design
           he
           acquaints
           us
           in
           his
           Preface
           ,
           that
           
             it
             is
             to
             defend
             the
             Resusers
             of
             the
             Oath
             of
             Allegiance
             ,
             and
             to
             confirm
             them
             in
             their
             Christian
             Resolution
             ,
             and
             to
             reclaim
             such
             as
             have
             been
             misled
             .
          
           As
           ,
           in
           his
           opinion
           ,
           all
           those
           are
           ,
           who
           have
           sworn
           Allegiance
           to
           the
           King.
           And
           upon
           them
           he
           makes
           this
           odious
           and
           prophane
           Reflexion
           .
           
             Some
             who
             took
             the
             Oath
             ,
             have
             since
             ,
             to
             ease
             their
             fault
             ,
             slept
             at
             a
             Minister's
             Sermon
             ,
             and
             taken
             the
          
           cheering
           Cup
           
             and
             Lord's
             Supper
             to
             help
             its
             digestion
             .
          
           Then
           as
           to
           the
           Oath
           it self
           he
           tells
           us
           ,
           (y)
           
             That
             to
             hold
             this
             Oath
             cannot
             be
             taken
             without
             grievous
             sin
             ,
             and
             without
             perjury
             ,
             is
             but
             what
             two
             Popes
             have
             declared
             with
             several
          
           Breves
           .
           And
           accordingly
           ,
           after
           several
           frivolous
           matters
           debated
           ,
           he
           brings
           his
           Scholar
           to
           acknowledge
           (z)
           
             I
             am
             ready
             to
             subscribe
             that
             you
             have
             made
             good
             the
             unlawfulness
             of
             the
             Oath
             .
             First
             by
             reason
             of
             the
          
           Title
           of
           Parliament
           
             exacting
             it
          
           .
           2.
           
           
             For
             want
             of
             truth
             in
             all
             the
             Clauses
             of
             the
             Assertory
             Part.
          
           3.
           
           
             For
             want
             of
             justice
             in
             the
             Clause
             of
             the
             Promissory
             Part.
          
           Lastly
           ,
           
             For
             want
             of
             necessity
             ;
             there
             being
             a
             necessity
             under
             a
             grievous
             sin
             ,
             as
             the
          
           Pope
           
             declares
             ,
             for
             the
             not
             taking
             it
             .
          
        
         
           And
           yet
           every
           one
           knows
           that
           the
           very
           design
           of
           the
           Oath
           so
           much
           condemn'd
           ,
           is
           onely
           to
           bring
           men
           to
           acknowledge
           their
           allegiance
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           to
           abjure
           that
           damnable
           Doctrine
           ,
           that
           Princes
           which
           are
           excommunicated
           ,
           or
           deprived
           by
           the
           Pope
           ,
           may
           
           be
           deposed
           or
           murther'd
           by
           their
           Subjects
           or
           any
           whatsoever
           .
        
         
           Now
           since
           in
           the
           Triennial
           Assembly
           of
           the
           Jesuits
           in
           
             London
             ,
             April
          
           1678.
           so
           great
           a
           part
           of
           the
           late
           Popish
           Plot
           was
           sworn
           to
           have
           been
           hatch'd
           ,
           since
           the
           discovery
           thereof
           proved
           fatal
           to
           so
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           since
           at
           their
           death
           they
           did
           renounce
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           lawfulness
           ,
           upon
           any
           occasion
           or
           pretence
           whatsoever
           ,
           to
           design
           and
           cotrive
           the
           death
           of
           the
           King
           ;
           and
           since
           the
           very
           scope
           of
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           was
           to
           preserve
           the
           King's
           Leige
           People
           from
           being
           tainted
           with
           those
           opinions
           which
           the
           Jesuits
           in
           their
           dying
           Speeches
           did
           condemn
           ,
           it
           might
           reasonably
           have
           been
           thought
           ,
           not
           onely
           that
           no
           Member
           of
           that
           Society
           for
           the
           time
           to
           come
           would
           have
           writ
           against
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           but
           also
           that
           the
           whole
           English
           Order
           ,
           in
           their
           next
           
             Triennial
             Assembly
          
           ,
           would
           by
           some
           publick
           Acts
           ,
           have
           condemned
           the
           Doctrines
           of
           deposing
           and
           killing
           of
           Kings
           ,
           and
           thereby
           have
           given
           both
           credit
           and
           authority
           to
           the
           Declarations
           ,
           upon
           this
           occasion
           ,
           made
           by
           their
           dying
           Friends
           ,
           and
           likewise
           evidence
           to
           the
           World
           of
           their
           own
           loyalty
           .
        
         
           But
           so
           far
           were
           they
           from
           giving
           the
           King
           any
           farther
           assurance
           of
           their
           loyalty
           and
           allegiance
           ,
           that
           by
           a
           Decree
           they
           condemn
           afresh
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           and
           refuse
           to
           admit
           to
           absolution
           ,
           those
           of
           their
           Church
           both
           that
           have
           taught
           the
           Oath
           to
           be
           lawfull
           and
           that
           have
           taken
           it
           ,
           without
           they
           will
           publickly
           recant
           ,
           and
           give
           manifest
           signs
           of
           their
           repentance
           ,
           and
           promise
           amendment
           for
           the
           future
           .
        
         
           The
           Decree
           
             of
             the
          
           Fathers
           
             of
             the
          
           Society
           
             of
             Jesus
             of
             the
          
           English
           
             Province
             ,
             at
             their
             Provincial
             Congregation
             made
             ,
             against
             the
          
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           at
           Ghent
           ,
           
             the
             fifth
             day
             of
          
           July
           
             this
             present
             year
          
           1681.
           
        
         
         
           
             That
             we
             may
             procéed
             with
             Uniformity
             amongst
             our selves
             in
             the
             manner
             of
             acting
             touching
             the
             Oath
             of
             Allegiance
             .
          
        
         
           1.
           
           
             Let
             us
             all
             profess
             ,
             that
             as
             much
             obedience
             and
             fidelity
             ought
             to
             be
             sincerely
             sworn
             and
             exhibited
             to
             our
             King
             from
             every
             one
             of
             us
             ,
             as
             is
             wont
             to
             be
             sworn
             and
             exhibited
             to
             any
             Prince
             whatsoever
             from
             other
             Catholick
             Subjects
             .
          
        
         
           2.
           
           
             That
             the
             Oath
             ,
             as
             now
             it
             is
             ,
             sprinkled
             with
             many
             heterodox
             clauses
             ,
             cannot
             be
             taken
             ,
             as
             being
             condemned
             by
             many
             Breves
             of
             Popes
             .
          
        
         
           3.
           
           
             If
             any
             (
             against
             the
             Decrées
             of
             Popes
             )
             have
             taught
             the
             foresaid
             Oath
             to
             be
             lawfull
             ,
             let
             him
             not
             be
             admitted
             to
             absolution
             ,
             without
             public
             Recantation
             ,
             either
             made
             or
             sacredly
             promised
             .
          
        
         
           4.
           
           
             Those
             who
             against
             their
             Conscience
             have
             taken
             the
             Oath
             ,
             let
             them
             be
             deprived
             of
             absolution
             ,
             without
             manifest
             signs
             of
             repentance
             ,
             and
             promise
             of
             amendment
             for
             the
             future
             .
             But
             those
             who
             with
             a
             good
          
           Conscience
           
             have
             taken
             it
             ,
             are
             to
             be
             instructed
             :
             and
             if
             they
             renounce
             it
             ,
             are
             to
             be
             absolved
             .
          
        
         
           5.
           
           
             Let
             care
             be
             taken
             ,
             lest
             either
             too
             much
          
           facility
           ,
           or
           morosity
           
             in
             absolving
             ,
             bréed
             scandal
          
           .
        
         
           Thus
           we
           see
           what
           opinion
           ,
           not
           onely
           single
           Members
           ,
           but
           a
           whole
           Assembly
           of
           
             English
             Jesuits
          
           have
           of
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           and
           how
           they
           think
           themselves
           bound
           in
           Conscience
           to
           treat
           those
           of
           their
           Church
           ,
           who
           either
           take
           the
           Oath
           ,
           or
           write
           in
           defence
           of
           it
           :
           and
           what
           little
           ground
           any
           Prince
           can
           have
           to
           hope
           they
           ever
           should
           become
           truly
           loyal
           Subjects
           .
           For
           all
           their
           specious
           professions
           of
           swearing
           as
           much
           obedience
           and
           fidelity
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           as
           other
           Catholic
           Subjects
           do
           to
           their
           Prince
           ,
           will
           come
           to
           just
           nothing
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           they
           refuse
           to
           abjure
           all
           
           power
           in
           the
           Pope
           or
           the
           People
           to
           depose
           them
           .
           Since
           ,
           should
           the
           Pope
           proceed
           to
           a
           sentence
           of
           deposition
           ,
           they
           that
           acknowledge
           such
           a
           power
           in
           the
           Pope
           ,
           must
           take
           themselves
           to
           be
           absolved
           from
           all
           that
           allegiance
           they
           had
           sworn
           ,
           and
           from
           owning
           him
           any
           longer
           for
           their
           King.
           So
           that
           both
           the
           King's
           safety
           ,
           and
           their
           allegiance
           will
           entirely
           depend
           upon
           the
           Pope's
           pleasure
           .
        
         
           Neither
           can
           the
           King
           have
           better
           hold
           of
           them
           ,
           by
           any
           Oath
           they
           shall
           please
           themselves
           to
           take
           ,
           since
           that
           Oath
           also
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           doctrine
           of
           the
           Decree
           ,
           would
           become
           unlawfull
           ,
           and
           so
           cease
           to
           bind
           them
           ,
           if
           it
           should
           happen
           once
           to
           be
           condemn'd
           by
           one
           of
           the
           Breves
           or
           Bulls
           of
           the
           Pope
           .
           Moreover
           ,
           though
           these
           Jesuits
           do
           profess
           ,
           yet
           indeed
           they
           do
           not
           exhibit
           as
           much
           obedience
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           as
           other
           Popish
           Subjects
           do
           to
           their
           Prince
           :
           for
           it
           is
           well
           known
           that
           they
           of
           the
           Gallican
           Church
           do
           pay
           obedience
           to
           the
           Laws
           and
           Edicts
           of
           their
           King
           even
           against
           his
           
           Holiness's
           Bulls
           :
           and
           sixty
           Doctours
           also
           of
           the
           Sorbon
           have
           declared
           ,
           that
           the
           English
           Subjects
           of
           the
           Roman
           Persuasion
           may
           lawfully
           and
           safely
           take
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           which
           this
           Consult
           of
           Jesuits
           has
           condemned
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           doe
           the
           Reverend
           Fathers
           of
           that
           Order
           right
           ,
           it
           must
           be
           confess'd
           ,
           that
           notwithstanding
           all
           the
           affronts
           they
           have
           put
           upon
           Kings
           ,
           they
           can
           grosly
           flatter
           them
           ,
           when
           it
           will
           serve
           the
           interest
           of
           their
           Society
           .
           Of
           which
           egregious
           flattery
           the
           
             French
             Jesuits
          
           in
           their
           College
           at
           Paris
           ,
           founded
           by
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Clermont
           ,
           have
           given
           a
           very
           late
           instance
           .
           Where
           in
           the
           place
           of
           their
           old
           Inscription
           ,
           
             Collegium
             Claromontanum
             Jesu
          
           ,
           they
           have
           put
           up
           this
           ,
           
             Collegium
             Ludovici
             Magni
          
           ,
           wiping
           out
           at
           once
           the
           names
           both
           of
           their
           Founder
           and
           Saviour
           .
        
         
         
           What
           a
           change
           will
           Interest
           make
           in
           the
           Opinions
           and
           Practices
           of
           Men
           !
           Pope
           Hildebrand
           (
           to
           whose
           dictates
           the
           Jesuits
           pay
           most
           religious
           respect
           )
           declares
           Kings
           to
           be
           the
           Priests
           Servants
           ,
           and
           even
           inferiour
           to
           the
           Exorcist
           :
           but
           these
           pious
           Fathers
           did
           not
           think
           they
           had
           given
           testimony
           sufficient
           of
           their
           loyalty
           ,
           till
           they
           had
           preferr'd
           their
           King
           before
           
             Jesus
             Christ
          
           .
        
         
           And
           having
           thus
           proved
           that
           all
           resistence
           to
           the
           Supreme
           Authority
           is
           unlawfull
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           Popes
           were
           the
           first
           abettours
           of
           it
           in
           the
           Christian
           Church
           by
           pretended
           Arguments
           from
           Scripture
           ;
           I
           come
           ,
        
         
           2.
           
           To
           shew
           with
           what
           care
           ,
           impartiality
           and
           patience
           the
           good
           Christian
           searches
           into
           the
           grounds
           and
           causes
           of
           his
           Persuasion
           ,
           that
           the
           commands
           of
           Authority
           are
           sinfull
           ,
           before
           he
           refuses
           to
           pay
           obedience
           to
           them
           .
           No
           power
           on
           Earth
           can
           make
           him
           withdraw
           his
           obedience
           to
           God
           ,
           nor
           any
           danger
           awe
           him
           into
           the
           doing
           of
           that
           which
           he
           believes
           to
           be
           a
           sin
           .
           Where
           Man's
           Laws
           stand
           in
           opposition
           to
           God's
           Law
           ,
           if
           it
           may
           be
           done
           without
           detriment
           to
           his
           Religion
           ,
           he
           accepts
           the
           benefit
           of
           
           Christ's
           Licence
           given
           to
           his
           Disciples
           ,
           and
           makes
           his
           escape
           by
           flying
           from
           one
           City
           to
           another
           ,
           or
           else
           he
           patiently
           submits
           to
           the
           penalty
           decreed
           to
           be
           inflicted
           upon
           him
           for
           his
           conscientious
           refusal
           .
        
         
           But
           because
           men
           have
           refused
           to
           conform
           to
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Government
           when
           there
           has
           been
           nothing
           in
           them
           repugnant
           to
           the
           Will
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           have
           been
           justly
           punished
           for
           their
           disobedience
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           they
           have
           thought
           themselves
           Martyrs
           for
           the
           Cause
           of
           Christ
           ;
           and
           since
           on
           the
           one
           hand
           it
           is
           most
           unhappy
           for
           them
           to
           suffer
           for
           their
           mistakes
           ,
           and
           on
           the
           other
           of
           ill
           consequence
           to
           Governours
           ,
           that
           their
           Laws
           ,
           when
           just
           and
           expedient
           ,
           should
           not
           be
           
           duly
           observed
           ;
           therefore
           the
           man
           ,
           who
           has
           possest
           his
           Soul
           with
           patience
           ,
           does
           not
           run
           away
           with
           the
           first
           appearances
           of
           things
           ,
           as
           being
           prone
           to
           suspect
           the
           errour
           may
           lie
           rather
           in
           his
           understanding
           ,
           than
           in
           the
           Laws
           of
           his
           Superiours
           ;
           nor
           does
           he
           forbear
           to
           comply
           with
           the
           will
           of
           the
           Higher
           Powers
           ,
           till
           upon
           much
           consideration
           he
           becomes
           persuaded
           there
           can
           be
           no
           compliance
           without
           involving
           himself
           in
           sin
           .
           And
           if
           a
           Law
           chance
           to
           be
           enacted
           ,
           the
           matter
           whereof
           may
           seem
           evil
           to
           him
           ,
           he
           does
           not
           hasten
           rashly
           into
           any
           conclusion
           ,
           but
           he
           imploys
           his
           patience
           ,
           his
           sincerity
           ,
           his
           prudence
           in
           all
           the
           proper
           methods
           to
           inform
           his
           judgment
           truly
           ,
           before
           he
           comes
           to
           a
           resolution
           how
           he
           must
           behave
           himself
           .
        
         
           And
           in
           order
           to
           prosper
           in
           a
           work
           of
           such
           importance
           ,
           he
           begins
           it
           with
           hearty
           prayer
           to
           God
           to
           bless
           his
           undertaking
           ,
           and
           guide
           him
           into
           all
           truth
           .
           Before
           he
           enters
           into
           the
           merits
           of
           the
           Cause
           it self
           ,
           he
           impartially
           enquires
           ,
           whether
           he
           be
           not
           carried
           into
           it
           by
           prejudice
           ,
           passion
           ,
           profit
           ,
           fame
           or
           some
           other
           secular
           end
           .
           Whether
           he
           has
           not
           taken
           up
           this
           opinion
           of
           the
           unlawfulness
           of
           conformity
           to
           the
           Laws
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           many
           false
           ones
           ,
           by
           the
           prejudices
           of
           a
           disadvantagious
           education
           ;
           by
           having
           heard
           the
           Arguments
           ,
           read
           the
           Books
           ,
           and
           conversed
           with
           the
           Men
           onely
           ,
           who
           are
           of
           one
           side
           ?
           There
           being
           reason
           to
           believe
           that
           many
           of
           the
           Dissenters
           from
           our
           Church
           are
           mere
           strangers
           to
           all
           the
           constitutions
           of
           it
           .
           They
           have
           rarely
           ,
           if
           ever
           ,
           been
           present
           all
           the
           time
           of
           Divine
           Service
           ,
           they
           have
           never
           seriously
           perused
           any
           one
           office
           of
           our
           Liturgy
           ,
           and
           fairly
           weighed
           what
           may
           be
           said
           for
           it
           .
        
         
           They
           scarce
           can
           pretend
           to
           have
           read
           more
           leaves
           of
           the
           Book
           of
           Publick
           Prayers
           than
           of
           the
           Alcoran
           .
           However
           these
           men
           separate
           from
           us
           ,
           because
           they
           
           have
           been
           taught
           to
           doe
           so
           ,
           and
           because
           their
           Friends
           do
           ,
           upon
           whom
           they
           have
           such
           a
           dependence
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           dare
           to
           displease
           them
           .
           And
           in
           which
           course
           while
           they
           continue
           ,
           their
           most
           dangerous
           errours
           will
           be
           incurable
           .
        
         
           He
           farther
           considers
           whether
           his
           present
           dissent
           does
           not
           proceed
           from
           his
           having
           had
           a
           known
           reputation
           in
           such
           a
           Party
           a
           long
           time
           ,
           and
           although
           he
           could
           now
           without
           any
           violence
           to
           his
           Conscience
           ,
           yet
           he
           is
           ashamed
           to
           retreat
           ?
           or
           whether
           it
           be
           not
           because
           he
           finds
           his
           opposition
           to
           the
           Government
           to
           be
           popular
           ,
           and
           he
           draws
           crowds
           after
           him
           of
           admirers
           ;
           or
           to
           be
           very
           profitable
           ,
           he
           gains
           a
           fair
           livelihood
           by
           it
           ,
           and
           should
           be
           at
           a
           loss
           for
           his
           subsistence
           ,
           did
           he
           not
           engage
           himself
           in
           the
           interests
           of
           the
           Dissenters
           ?
        
         
           Lastly
           ,
           He
           considers
           whether
           he
           doth
           pass
           judgment
           in
           the
           other
           cases
           which
           occur
           in
           his
           life
           ,
           with
           the
           same
           scrupulosity
           and
           tenderness
           ,
           he
           does
           in
           this
           ?
           for
           if
           he
           have
           with
           such
           art
           managed
           his
           Conscience
           ,
           that
           notwithstanding
           it's
           tenderness
           in
           the
           matter
           of
           Conformity
           ,
           it
           can
           allow
           him
           to
           live
           quietly
           in
           the
           known
           breach
           of
           any
           of
           the
           moral
           duties
           of
           Religion
           ,
           he
           has
           just
           reason
           to
           suspect
           his
           want
           of
           sincerity
           as
           to
           the
           causes
           for
           which
           he
           divides
           from
           the
           Church
           .
           If
           notwithstanding
           his
           long
           refusal
           to
           join
           with
           us
           in
           our
           Common
           Prayers
           ,
           as
           stinting
           the
           Spirit
           ,
           and
           not
           tending
           to
           edification
           ,
           he
           yet
           can
           submit
           to
           the
           forms
           of
           solemnization
           of
           Marriage
           to
           gain
           a
           person
           with
           a
           great
           fortune
           ,
           and
           to
           legitimate
           his
           issue
           to
           inherit
           it
           ;
           and
           if
           after
           many
           years
           absence
           from
           our
           Churches
           and
           separation
           from
           our
           Communion
           as
           antichristian
           and
           unlawfull
           ,
           he
           yet
           can
           receive
           the
           holy
           Sacrament
           with
           us
           to
           qualify
           himself
           for
           an
           office
           or
           employment
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           obvious
           either
           that
           his
           Conscience
           is
           perversely
           instructed
           ,
           or
           that
           he
           is
           an
           hypocrite
           .
        
         
         
           Now
           as
           none
           of
           the
           reasons
           before-mentioned
           can
           justify
           any
           Man's
           disobedience
           to
           Authority
           ,
           seeing
           they
           owe
           their
           rise
           to
           pride
           ,
           interest
           ,
           or
           passion
           ,
           so
           were
           such
           heads
           of
           enquiry
           duly
           poised
           in
           the
           balance
           ,
           and
           allow'd
           their
           just
           weight
           ,
           they
           would
           discharge
           out
           of
           mens
           minds
           abundance
           of
           those
           scruples
           ,
           wherewith
           they
           have
           brought
           much
           charge
           and
           trouble
           upon
           themselves
           ,
           and
           given
           great
           disturbance
           to
           their
           Governours
           ;
           and
           they
           would
           be
           able
           by
           these
           methods
           to
           distinguish
           between
           what
           was
           done
           out
           of
           pure
           conscience
           ,
           and
           what
           under
           the
           colour
           of
           it
           onely
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           having
           proceeded
           thus
           far
           ,
           by
           a
           removal
           of
           those
           things
           ,
           which
           ,
           in
           this
           case
           ,
           ought
           to
           have
           no
           influence
           upon
           Conscience
           ,
           some
           dissatisfaction
           sticks
           still
           in
           the
           mind
           ,
           the
           proper
           work
           remaining
           is
           ,
           to
           try
           the
           objections
           of
           Conscience
           by
           the
           rule
           of
           Conscience
           .
           The
           rule
           of
           Conscience
           is
           the
           will
           of
           God
           ;
           the
           will
           of
           God
           is
           discover'd
           by
           the
           light
           of
           Nature
           ,
           and
           revealed
           in
           the
           holy
           Scripture
           .
           And
           by
           an
           application
           of
           the
           objection
           to
           the
           rule
           ,
           the
           Conscience
           may
           discern
           whether
           there
           be
           any
           strength
           in
           it
           .
           For
           whatsoever
           we
           find
           God
           to
           have
           commanded
           ,
           we
           are
           bound
           in
           conscience
           to
           doe
           it
           ;
           whatever
           to
           have
           forbidden
           ,
           we
           are
           bound
           in
           conscience
           to
           avoid
           it
           :
           and
           in
           matters
           ,
           by
           God
           neither
           commanded
           nor
           forbidden
           ,
           the
           thing
           is
           indifferent
           ,
           and
           the
           Conscience
           free
           .
           A
           man
           may
           let
           it
           alone
           ,
           without
           omitting
           his
           duty
           ;
           he
           may
           doe
           it
           ,
           without
           committing
           a
           sin
           .
           For
           how
           is
           it
           possible
           ,
           that
           should
           be
           a
           duty
           ,
           which
           God
           never
           has
           commanded
           ,
           or
           that
           a
           sin
           ,
           which
           God
           never
           has
           forbidden
           ?
           thus
           the
           Apostle
           argues
           most
           truly
           ,
           
           
             where
             no
             law
             is
             ,
             there
             is
             no
             transgression
             .
          
           Wherefore
           if
           upon
           a
           just
           comparison
           between
           these
           commands
           of
           Authority
           ,
           against
           which
           the
           meek
           Christian's
           scruples
           have
           
           lain
           ,
           and
           the
           word
           of
           God
           ,
           there
           does
           not
           appear
           any
           thing
           in
           them
           injoined
           ,
           which
           by
           the
           Divine
           Laws
           is
           forbidden
           ;
           nor
           any
           thing
           forbidden
           which
           God
           has
           required
           ,
           it
           will
           evidently
           follow
           ,
           that
           he
           must
           acquit
           the
           commands
           of
           his
           Governours
           from
           all
           imputation
           of
           evil
           ,
           and
           dismiss
           those
           scruples
           from
           his
           Conscience
           ,
           which
           hitherto
           have
           been
           the
           occasion
           of
           his
           disobedience
           ,
           and
           exposed
           him
           to
           the
           lash
           of
           the
           Law.
           And
           this
           is
           the
           case
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ,
           for
           few
           of
           the
           sober
           Nonconformists
           have
           been
           so
           far
           carry'd
           away
           with
           the
           power
           of
           prejudice
           ,
           as
           to
           affirm
           that
           there
           is
           any
           thing
           in
           her
           Constitutions
           expresly
           forbidden
           by
           any
           Law
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           those
           few
           who
           have
           been
           so
           hardy
           as
           to
           pass
           this
           unjust
           censure
           upon
           her
           ,
           neither
           yet
           have
           ,
           nor
           ever
           will
           be
           able
           to
           prove
           their
           assertion
           .
           And
           those
           places
           of
           holy
           Writ
           which
           some
           men
           would
           have
           prest
           into
           the
           service
           of
           this
           Cause
           ,
           when
           the
           reason
           and
           occasion
           of
           them
           has
           been
           thoroughly
           examined
           ,
           to
           all
           unprejudiced
           men
           have
           appear'd
           ,
           to
           look
           another
           way
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           the
           scruple
           against
           Conformity
           is
           not
           taken
           from
           the
           words
           of
           Scripture
           immediately
           ,
           but
           inferred
           upon
           some
           consequence
           which
           is
           thought
           to
           flow
           from
           them
           ,
           or
           bottoms
           upon
           some
           difficult
           Text
           ,
           which
           may
           require
           learning
           and
           depth
           of
           judgment
           to
           the
           finding
           out
           of
           its
           meaning
           ,
           or
           upon
           a
           metaphor
           or
           allegory
           ,
           as
           many
           mistakes
           in
           Religion
           have
           done
           ,
           or
           upon
           his
           ignorance
           of
           the
           state
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           Controversies
           and
           Errours
           on
           foot
           ,
           when
           those
           portions
           of
           the
           Divine
           Writings
           were
           penned
           wherefrom
           he
           deduceth
           his
           argument
           ,
           and
           so
           he
           finds
           it
           an
           hard
           matter
           to
           deliver
           himself
           from
           his
           doubt
           ;
           then
           he
           repairs
           to
           some
           sober
           ,
           grave
           ,
           wise
           man
           ,
           eminent
           for
           his
           piety
           ,
           learning
           ,
           and
           skill
           in
           controversies
           ;
           and
           having
           stript
           his
           Soul
           from
           prejudices
           ,
           and
           that
           biass
           ,
           
           which
           either
           passion
           or
           profit
           may
           have
           clapp'd
           upon
           it
           ,
           with
           all
           candour
           and
           ingenuity
           he
           opens
           and
           lays
           his
           case
           before
           him
           ,
           resolving
           firmly
           to
           submit
           himself
           to
           his
           reasons
           ,
           so
           far
           as
           they
           shall
           convince
           him
           ;
           and
           to
           order
           his
           conversation
           accordingly
           .
        
         
           And
           by
           taking
           this
           course
           ,
           there
           will
           be
           great
           reason
           to
           hope
           he
           shall
           have
           his
           doubts
           cleared
           ,
           his
           scruples
           removed
           ,
           and
           those
           objections
           dissolved
           ,
           which
           had
           he
           relied
           alone
           upon
           his
           own
           abilities
           ,
           might
           have
           ensnared
           him
           in
           unwarrantable
           disobedience
           to
           those
           God
           has
           set
           over
           him
           ,
           and
           pull'd
           down
           heavy
           calamities
           upon
           himself
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           after
           all
           these
           honest
           and
           commendable
           endeavours
           ,
           again
           and
           again
           repeated
           according
           as
           the
           difficulty
           of
           his
           Cause
           required
           ,
           and
           he
           had
           opportunity
           to
           do
           it
           ,
           he
           cannot
           attain
           to
           an
           entire
           mastery
           of
           his
           Scruples
           ,
           and
           give
           his
           Conscience
           full
           satisfaction
           ,
           however
           he
           will
           evidence
           to
           the
           World
           the
           uprightness
           of
           his
           heart
           in
           the
           pains
           he
           has
           taken
           by
           his
           quiet
           and
           humble
           deportment
           .
           For
           what
           Scruples
           soever
           he
           may
           have
           as
           to
           other
           things
           ,
           he
           is
           well
           assured
           that
           meekness
           ,
           peace
           and
           charity
           ,
           are
           essential
           ingredients
           in
           the
           character
           of
           a
           true
           Christian
           .
           (a)
           And
           although
           the
           Learned
           may
           discover
           the
           errours
           of
           his
           understanding
           ,
           yet
           it
           is
           his
           daily
           care
           ,
           the
           good
           and
           the
           wise
           shall
           have
           no
           true
           reason
           to
           blame
           him
           for
           stubbornness
           in
           his
           will
           ,
           for
           haughty
           ,
           perverse
           and
           unruly
           passions
           ,
           such
           as
           make
           him
           to
           contemn
           the
           judgment
           of
           others
           ,
           and
           will
           suffer
           him
           to
           comply
           with
           no
           body
           but
           upon
           his
           own
           terms
           .
        
         
         
           He
           does
           not
           therefore
           grow
           peevish
           or
           censorious
           ,
           and
           forthwith
           condemn
           all
           that
           differ
           from
           him
           in
           opinion
           or
           practice
           :
           he
           does
           not
           set
           up
           for
           a
           Patron
           of
           a
           new
           Sect
           ,
           and
           lay
           aside
           all
           due
           respects
           to
           Antiquity
           ,
           draw
           as
           many
           as
           ever
           he
           can
           into
           his
           own
           Party
           ,
           and
           confine
           salvation
           to
           the
           small
           number
           of
           his
           own
           persuasion
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           Divine
           Providence
           had
           engaged
           it self
           in
           securing
           them
           alone
           from
           all
           damnable
           sins
           in
           practice
           and
           mistakes
           in
           Faith.
           He
           does
           not
           whisper
           stories
           and
           jealousies
           into
           Mens
           ears
           to
           dispose
           them
           to
           turbulency
           and
           sedition
           ,
           nor
           speak
           evil
           of
           Dignities
           ,
           and
           libel
           the
           Rulers
           of
           his
           People
           ;
           he
           does
           not
           clamour
           against
           ,
           nor
           arreign
           the
           whole
           management
           of
           Publick
           Affairs
           ,
           much
           less
           enter
           into
           wicked
           Plots
           ,
           and
           with
           the
           same
           illegal
           violences
           go
           about
           to
           maintain
           his
           own
           Religion
           ,
           by
           which
           those
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           have
           so
           often
           attempted
           to
           introduce
           theirs
           .
           But
           he
           is
           meek
           and
           patient
           ,
           and
           easie
           to
           the
           Government
           under
           which
           he
           lives
           ;
           he
           conforms
           to
           all
           its
           Constitutions
           as
           far
           as
           in
           conscience
           he
           can
           ;
           he
           is
           affable
           and
           courteous
           to
           his
           Neighbours
           ,
           and
           upon
           all
           occasions
           shews
           a
           great
           charity
           for
           those
           who
           have
           not
           the
           same
           sentiments
           with
           him
           in
           matters
           of
           Religion
           :
           he
           minds
           his
           own
           business
           ,
           keeps
           his
           peculiar
           opinions
           to
           himself
           whenever
           they
           stand
           opposite
           to
           the
           establishments
           of
           Authority
           ,
           and
           is
           contented
           privately
           to
           enjoy
           them
           .
        
         
           And
           having
           thus
           presented
           you
           with
           several
           instances
           which
           go
           to
           the
           description
           of
           the
           good
           Christian
           ,
           who
           in
           patience
           has
           possest
           his
           Soul
           ,
           I
           will
           now
           briefly
           propose
           the
           means
           by
           which
           he
           doth
           attain
           it
           .
        
         
           1.
           
           He
           is
           daily
           lessening
           his
           desires
           of
           those
           things
           ,
           whereof
           there
           is
           but
           small
           use
           ,
           and
           he
           may
           subsist
           well
           without
           them
           .
           And
           having
           once
           contracted
           
           and
           confined
           his
           Appetite
           to
           what
           onely
           is
           necessary
           to
           the
           comfortable
           supports
           of
           life
           ,
           or
           in
           the
           first
           rank
           of
           things
           convenient
           for
           it
           ,
           as
           he
           is
           but
           a
           little
           concern'd
           for
           the
           purchase
           of
           whatever
           else
           the
           World
           can
           afford
           ,
           so
           the
           loss
           of
           it
           never
           torments
           him
           .
        
         
           Now
           the
           necessaries
           to
           life
           ,
           are
           so
           few
           ,
           and
           almost
           in
           all
           places
           ,
           through
           the
           goodness
           of
           God
           ,
           so
           easie
           to
           be
           procured
           ,
           that
           he
           who
           has
           stript
           himself
           of
           all
           covetous
           desires
           of
           the
           vanities
           and
           superfluities
           ,
           that
           most
           men
           spend
           their
           time
           in
           eagerly
           pursuing
           ,
           may
           have
           his
           will
           at
           a
           cheap
           rate
           ;
           and
           there
           are
           so
           few
           things
           which
           will
           come
           cross
           upon
           him
           ,
           that
           he
           hath
           hardly
           left
           a
           blot
           open
           for
           even
           the
           spitefull
           to
           hit
           ,
           which
           can
           ruffle
           and
           disorder
           his
           Patience
           .
        
         
           2.
           
           He
           takes
           more
           care
           to
           govern
           his
           Passions
           ,
           than
           to
           secure
           himself
           against
           adversity
           .
           For
           it
           may
           always
           be
           in
           our
           power
           ,
           by
           the
           grace
           of
           God
           and
           good
           management
           to
           keep
           our
           Appetites
           and
           Passions
           under
           the
           conduct
           of
           our
           Reason
           :
           but
           the
           nicest
           care
           cannot
           secure
           us
           from
           Diseases
           ,
           cannot
           preserve
           the
           lives
           of
           our
           nearest
           Relations
           ,
           Children
           and
           Friends
           ,
           or
           be
           a
           sufficient
           guard
           against
           the
           effects
           of
           other
           Mens
           malice
           ;
           or
           exempt
           us
           from
           our
           proportion
           in
           the
           miseries
           ,
           which
           a
           Floud
           ,
           or
           a
           Fire
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           public
           Calamity
           brings
           along
           with
           it
           .
           Moreover
           tempests
           in
           our
           Passions
           utterly
           unfit
           us
           for
           the
           service
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           rob
           our
           Souls
           of
           all
           sincere
           pleasure
           .
           Whereas
           there
           is
           no
           instance
           of
           adverse
           fortune
           ,
           but
           by
           a
           generous
           patience
           will
           be
           conquer'd
           ,
           and
           we
           may
           turn
           it
           into
           an
           instrument
           of
           vertue
           ,
           that
           shall
           either
           hasten
           our
           repentance
           ,
           or
           increase
           our
           trust
           in
           God
           ,
           or
           make
           us
           fair
           examples
           for
           less
           exercised
           Christians
           to
           imitate
           .
        
         
           3.
           
           It
           is
           good
           often
           to
           suppose
           ,
           that
           the
           severe
           hardships
           ,
           which
           we
           see
           others
           to
           labour
           under
           ,
           may
           in
           a
           
           short
           time
           come
           to
           our
           own
           turn
           ,
           by
           which
           course
           ,
           as
           we
           shall
           learn
           to
           be
           mercifull
           to
           those
           in
           distress
           ,
           and
           charitable
           in
           the
           censures
           we
           pass
           upon
           the
           unfortunate
           ,
           so
           we
           shall
           be
           admirably
           prepared
           to
           receive
           all
           sorts
           of
           afflictions
           ,
           which
           can
           never
           surprise
           and
           confound
           them
           ,
           who
           live
           in
           constant
           expectation
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           4.
           
           When
           our
           minds
           are
           most
           free
           from
           the
           disturbances
           and
           rage
           of
           passion
           ,
           let
           us
           form
           judgments
           of
           all
           the
           good
           and
           evil
           things
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           course
           of
           this
           life
           may
           happen
           unto
           us
           .
           And
           then
           peremptorily
           resolve
           in
           our
           practice
           to
           adhere
           to
           ,
           and
           follow
           these
           deliberate
           and
           well-advised
           judgments
           ,
           notwithstanding
           afterwards
           ,
           our
           fears
           ,
           or
           our
           fury
           ,
           may
           tumultuously
           present
           us
           with
           new
           measures
           to
           order
           our selves
           by
           .
        
         
           5.
           
           That
           we
           may
           not
           be
           mistaken
           in
           the
           judgments
           we
           frame
           of
           things
           ,
           let
           us
           be
           carefull
           to
           love
           every
           thing
           in
           proportion
           to
           it's
           goodness
           .
           And
           the
           true
           way
           to
           rate
           this
           proportion
           ,
           will
           be
           to
           find
           out
           how
           much
           every
           thing
           can
           contribute
           to
           the
           peace
           of
           our
           mind
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           greatest
           good
           we
           possibly
           can
           receive
           from
           things
           .
           From
           which
           rule
           we
           may
           certainly
           conclude
           that
           we
           are
           absolutely
           to
           love
           God
           onely
           ,
           and
           vertue
           :
           but
           to
           esteem
           and
           covet
           all
           things
           else
           with
           limitations
           ,
           with
           conditions
           ,
           and
           ever
           with
           submission
           to
           the
           Divine
           Pleasure
           .
        
         
           For
           as
           God
           is
           the
           sole
           Authour
           of
           all
           true
           Peace
           and
           joy
           of
           mind
           ,
           so
           Vertue
           is
           the
           means
           alone
           ,
           whereby
           we
           can
           qualify
           our
           Souls
           for
           so
           great
           a
           blessing
           ,
           and
           prevail
           with
           God
           to
           bestow
           it
           upon
           us
           .
           How
           vain
           then
           is
           it
           to
           set
           our
           affections
           upon
           any
           of
           the
           goods
           of
           this
           World
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           them
           so
           necessary
           to
           our
           happiness
           ,
           as
           to
           think
           our selves
           miserable
           ,
           if
           we
           suffer
           a
           disappointment
           in
           our
           expectation
           ?
        
         
         
           6.
           
           The
           most
           powerfull
           means
           to
           the
           attaining
           of
           Patience
           ,
           is
           to
           carry
           our
           eyes
           beyond
           the
           next
           and
           immediate
           causes
           of
           adversity
           unto
           the
           great
           disposer
           of
           things
           ,
           by
           whose
           sufferance
           ,
           if
           not
           decree
           ,
           every
           public
           calamity
           ,
           every
           private
           affliction
           comes
           to
           pass
           .
           So
           we
           shall
           discover
           a
           righteous
           Judge
           ,
           never
           punishing
           the
           wicked
           above
           their
           demerit
           ,
           a
           mercifull
           Father
           ever
           designing
           to
           reclaim
           the
           perverseness
           of
           his
           Children
           by
           his
           gentle
           chastisements
           ;
           a
           wise
           Governour
           ,
           still
           bringing
           great
           good
           out
           of
           all
           the
           disorders
           ,
           combustions
           ,
           and
           disasters
           in
           the
           World.
           
        
         
           Did
           we
           but
           take
           this
           prospect
           of
           affairs
           ,
           we
           should
           discern
           the
           beauty
           of
           Providence
           in
           the
           most
           crooked
           and
           harsh
           passages
           of
           this
           present
           state
           .
           We
           should
           behold
           the
           events
           of
           the
           wildest
           jars
           and
           confusions
           orderly
           and
           methodically
           conspiring
           to
           the
           glory
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Creation
           .
           Were
           we
           but
           constantly
           affected
           with
           a
           lively
           sense
           of
           the
           wisedom
           of
           the
           Divine
           management
           in
           all
           the
           issues
           of
           things
           ,
           we
           should
           be
           so
           far
           from
           losing
           our
           patience
           by
           being
           defeated
           in
           a
           little
           design
           ,
           by
           a
           trifling
           loss
           ,
           by
           a
           tedious
           attendance
           for
           a
           small
           debt
           or
           an
           act
           of
           common
           justice
           ,
           by
           a
           denial
           of
           a
           reasonable
           request
           ,
           by
           an
           unkindness
           in
           a
           friend
           ,
           by
           a
           light
           disgrace
           from
           a
           superiour
           ,
           by
           a
           slight
           from
           an
           equal
           ,
           or
           by
           a
           neglect
           in
           an
           inferiour
           and
           dependant
           ,
           that
           we
           should
           fashion
           our selves
           into
           an
           exact
           compliance
           with
           the
           alwise
           disposals
           of
           Providence
           ,
           even
           when
           we
           were
           ready
           to
           be
           deprived
           of
           the
           dearest
           of
           our
           relations
           ,
           the
           best
           part
           of
           our
           estate
           ,
           and
           our
           own
           lives
           were
           in
           evident
           danger
           .
        
         
           Did
           we
           but
           reflect
           how
           uncertain
           an
           hold
           we
           have
           in
           the
           goods
           under
           the
           Sun
           ,
           should
           we
           to
           that
           degree
           place
           our
           security
           in
           them
           ,
           as
           to
           bid
           our
           Souls
           take
           their
           rest
           ?
           should
           we
           so
           set
           our
           affections
           upon
           them
           ,
           
           as
           to
           grieve
           and
           murmur
           ,
           upon
           their
           loss
           ,
           like
           men
           utterly
           undone
           ?
           did
           we
           but
           consider
           our
           dependance
           upon
           God
           ,
           not
           onely
           for
           food
           and
           raiment
           ,
           but
           the
           very
           breath
           of
           our
           nostrils
           ;
           should
           we
           thus
           insolently
           trample
           upon
           our
           poor
           and
           harmless
           neighbours
           ,
           and
           be
           so
           lavish
           of
           their
           reputation
           ,
           and
           yet
           forget
           all
           moderation
           and
           patience
           upon
           the
           least
           affront
           or
           injury
           from
           others
           ?
        
         
           Did
           we
           but
           remember
           how
           much
           God
           has
           born
           with
           the
           best
           of
           us
           ,
           how
           many
           open
           abuses
           of
           his
           grace
           he
           has
           past
           by
           ,
           and
           how
           long
           he
           is
           pleased
           to
           wait
           ,
           expecting
           the
           return
           of
           his
           prodigal
           Sons
           ,
           we
           could
           not
           ,
           at
           this
           unchristian
           rate
           ,
           lock
           up
           the
           bowels
           of
           our
           charity
           and
           compassion
           from
           the
           needy
           and
           distressed
           ,
           and
           account
           so
           severely
           with
           each
           other
           for
           every
           little
           trespass
           .
        
         
           Let
           then
           the
           consideration
           that
           God
           never
           punisheth
           us
           more
           than
           we
           need
           ,
           that
           God
           never
           afflicts
           us
           but
           in
           measure
           ,
           and
           with
           regard
           to
           our
           strength
           ,
           that
           God
           never
           correcteth
           us
           ,
           but
           with
           design
           to
           reform
           us
           ,
           engage
           us
           every
           one
           ,
           through
           all
           the
           parts
           of
           our
           lives
           ,
           readily
           and
           chearfully
           to
           submit
           to
           his
           most
           holy
           will
           ,
           and
           to
           demean
           our selves
           with
           all
           patience
           ,
           charity
           ,
           and
           long-sufferance
           one
           towards
           another
           .
        
         
           THE
           END
           .
        
         
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A51221-e420
           
             Mat.
             19.24
             .
          
           
             Mat.
             26.52
             .
          
           
             (a)
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             Greg.
             Naz.
             T.
             1.
             
             Orat.
             23.
             p.
             410.
             
          
           
             (b)
             Marcus
             Tullius
             
               multa
               quidem
               praeclarè
               ,
               &
               egregiè
               de
               patientia
               ,
               &
               contemtu
               adversae
               fortunae
               disputare
               noverat
               ;
               exilium
               tamen
               suum
               ubique
               diutissimè
               deplorat
               ,
               &
               sui
               temporis
               calamitate
               lamentanda
               mollis
               ,
               &
               propemodum
               effaeminatus
               apparet
               .
            
             J.
             Pieri
             .
             
               de
               infelic
               .
               Literat
               .
               lib.
            
             2.
             p.
             99.
             
          
           
             (c)
             
               Omnia
               enim
               ejus
               placita
               tuetur
               ;
               omnibus
               mandatis
               ejus
               intervenit
               :
               fidem
               munit
               ,
               pacem
               gubernat
               ,
               dilectionem
               adjuvat
               ,
               humilitatem
               instruit
               ,
               poenitentiam
               expectat
               ,
               exomologesin
               adsigrat
               ,
               carnem
               regit
               ,
               spiritum
               servat
               ,
               linguam
               frenat
               ,
               manum
               continet
               ,
               tentationes
               inculcat
               ,
               scandala
               pellit
               ,
               martyria
               consummat
               :
               pauperem
               consolatur
               ,
               divitem
               temperat
               ,
               infirmum
               non
               extendit
               ,
               valentem
               non
               consumit
               ,
               fidelem
               delectat
               ,
               gentilem
               invitat
               ,
               servum
               domino
               ,
               dominum
               Deo
               commendat
               ,
               feminam
               exornat
               ,
               virum
               approbat
               :
               amatur
               in
               puero
               ,
               laudatur
               in
               juvene
               ,
               suspicitur
               in
               sene
               :
               in
               omni
               sexu
               ,
               in
               omni
               aetate
               formosa
               .
            
             Tertul
             .
             
               de
               Patient
               .
               p.
            
             148.
             
          
           
             (d)
             
               Quo
               magis
               demiror
               frigus
               istud
               inusitatum
               Semichristianorum
               ,
               in
               quibus
               non
               solúm
               refrixit
               dilectio
               Dei
               sed
               propemodum
               extincta
               est
               cognitio
               Dei
               :
               aversi
               videlicet
               existentes
               à
               Christo
               ad
               Mariam
               ,
               atque
               filii
               cultu
               degenerantes
               ad
               cultum
               Matris
               ,
               adeo
               ut
               Putent
               summum
               esse
               scelus
               ,
               dicere
               orationem
               Dominicam
               ,
               nisi
               statim
               addant
               salutationem
               Angelicam
               ,
               perinde
               ac
               si
               citra
               hanc
               non
               valeat
               cassam
               nucem
               .
            
             G.
             Wicel
             .
             
               Elenc
               .
               abus
            
             .
             p.
             124.
             
          
           
             (e)
             
               Scriptum
               est
            
             ,
             inquit
             ,
             
               non
               est
               bonum
               hominem
               esse
               solum
               ,
               faciamiss
               ei
               Adjutorium
               ,
               id
               est
               ,
               non
               sufficit
               unus
               Advocatus
               vel
               Mediator
               humano
               generi
               in
               coelo
               ,
               c
               ;
               ùm
               tot
               ac
               tam
               periculosas
               causas
               habeat
               coram
               Deo
               :
               faciamus
               ei
               Adjutorium
               ,
               hoc
               est
               ,
               Beatam
               Virginem
               .
               Vid.
            
             Wicel
             .
             
               Elenc
               .
               abus
            
             .
             p.
             125.
             
          
           
             (f)
             
               
                 Pia
                 Dei
                 Genetrix
                 ,
                 quamvis
                 tua
                 potestas
                 nullis
                 coarctetur
                 finibus
                 ,
                 ac
                 totum
                 impleat
                 orbem
                 Miraculis
                 ,
                 &c.
              
               H.
               Tursellin
               .
               
                 Lauret
                 .
                 hist
                 .
                 l.
              
               1.
               c.
               26.
               p.
               81.
               
            
             
               
                 Matrem
                 quippe
                 suam
                 Praepotens
                 ille
                 Deus
                 Divinae
                 Majestatis
                 ,
                 potestatisque
                 sociam
                 ,
                 quatenus
                 licuit
                 ,
                 ascivit
                 .
                 Huic
                 olim
                 coelestium
                 ,
                 mortaliúmque
                 principatum
                 detulit
                 :
                 ad
                 bujus
                 arbitrium
                 ,
                 quoad
                 hominum
                 tutela
                 postulat
                 ,
                 terros
                 ,
                 maria
                 ,
                 coelum
                 ,
                 naturámque
                 moderatur
                 :
                 —
                 ut
                 omnes
                 intelligant
                 ,
                 quicquid
                 aó
                 aeterno
                 illo
                 ,
                 augustóque
                 bonorum
                 fonte
                 in
                 terras
                 profluat
                 ,
                 fluere
                 per
              
               Mariam
               .
               H.
               Tursel
               .
               
                 Ep.
                 P.
              
               Aldobrand
               .
               Cardin.
               
            
          
           
             (g)
             
               Sed
               procedant
               :
               ne
               tum
               nos
               ,
               tum
               etiam
            
             Deam
             
               ipsam
               inani
               lignorum
               inutilium
               donatione
               lusisse
               videamini
               .
               P.
            
             Bembi
             
               Ep.
               lib.
            
             8.
             ep
             .
             17.
             p.
             181.
             
          
           
             (h)
             
               Diligam
               te
               Domina
               coeli
               &
               terrae
               ,
               &
               in
               gentibus
               nomen
               tuum
               invocabo
               .
            
             Psal
             .
             17.1
             .
             
               Adorent
               te
               familiae
               gentium
               ,
               &
               glorificent
               te
               omnes
               ordines
               angelorum
               ,
            
             Psal
             .
             21.5
             .
             
               In
               te
               Dominae
               Speravi
               non
               consundar
               in
               aeternum
               ,
            
             Psal
             .
             70.1
             .
             Bonavent
             .
             
               Op.
               Tom.
            
             6.
             p.
             478.
             
          
           
             (i)
             
               Quamobrem
               exigua
               haec
               data
               est
               mihi
               Poenitentia
               .
            
             1.
             
             
               Vt
               omnibus
               patribus
               &
               fratribus
               pedes
               exosculer
               .
            
             2.
             
             
               Humilitatis
               officium
               ,
               quod
               est
               cloacaes
               expurgare
               ,
               per
               octiduum
               subeam
               .
            
             3.
             
             
               Ollas
               &
               vasa
               culinae
               eluam
            
             .
             4.
             
             
               Per
               spatium
               unius
               horae
               coram
               venerabili
               sacramento
               culpam
               deprecer
               .
            
             5.
             
             
               Per
               mensis
               cursum
               quotidie
               ter
               conscientiae
               examen
               faciam
               .
            
             6.
             
             
               Jam
               meipsum
               flagellem
               ,
               donec
               tertium
               fuerit
               appositum
               ferculum
               ,
               vel
               Dominus
               Rector
               sufficientiae
               signum
               dederit
               .
            
             E.
             Hasenmull
             .
             
               hist
               .
               Jesuit
               .
               p.
            
             73.
             
          
           
             Matth.
             6.30
             .
          
           
             (k)
             Jo.
             Stearne
             
               de
               obstinatione
               ,
               p.
            
             121.
             
          
           
             (l)
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             S.
             Chrys
             .
             
               de
               Patien
               .
               Tom.
            
             6.
             p.
             868.
             
          
           
             (m)
             
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
               〈◊〉
            
             .
             S.
             Greg.
             Nyss
             .
             de
             Theod.
             Mart.
             ●
             .
             1014.
             
          
           
             (n)
             Myst
             .
             Jesuit
             .
             Let.
             5.
             p.
             51.
             
          
           
             (o)
             
               Sacrum
               Evangelium
               ante
               omnia
               annunciandum
               ,
               curarent
               ,
               mox
               etiam
               admonerent
               ut
               foedissimis
               moribus
               relictis
               ,
               cum
               honestis
               viris
               compositè
               &
               pacatè
               vivere
               vellent
               ,
               &
               Hispanorum
               amicitiam
               sincerè
               colere
               .
               Quas
               si
               conditiones
               acciperent
               ,
               &c.
               sin
               minus
               ,
               jubere
               eos
               capi
               &
               trahi
               in
               servitutem
               :
               denique
               in
               eorum
               corpora
               ,
               fortunas
               ,
               &
               vitam
               ferre
               ,
               flamma
               ,
               &
               omni
               Belli
               clade
               saeviri
               .
            
             Hier.
             Benzo
             .
             
               Hist
               .
               Nov.
               Orbis
               ,
               p.
            
             74
             ,
             75.
             
          
           
             (p)
             
               Hoc
               obiter
               notandum
               Christianam
               rempublicam
               mille
               atque
               amplius
               annorum
               decursu
               nunquam
               poenas
               capitales
               Religionis
               ergo
               inflixisse
               .
            
             E.
             Richer
             .
             
               Hist
               .
               Gen.
               Conc.
               Tom.
            
             1.
             p.
             588.
             
          
           
             (q)
             
               Omnibus
               Christianis
               diligentissimè
               advertendum
               ,
               quòd
               Deus
               usque
               adeò
               hanc
               impietatem
               in
               Regibus
               detestatur
               ,
               &
               usque
               adeò
               fidelibus
               populis
               imponit
            
             officium
             hoc
             Reges
             sic
             deliquentes
             castigandi
             ,
             
               &
               ab
               omni
               regali
               altitudine
               funditùs
               dejiciendi
               ,
               ut
               si
               hoc
               loco
               populus
               Regi
               suo
               vel
               exile
               quid
               indulgeat
               ;
               Deus
               eo
               facto
               populum
               peccare
               ,
               &
               divinam
               suam
               majestatem
               non
               leviter
               offendere
               .
            
             G.
             Rossaeus
             aliàs
             Giffordus
             
               de
               just
               .
               Reip.
               Christ
               .
               Author
               .
               in
               Reg.
               imp
               .
               p.
            
             611.
             
          
           
             Rom.
             13.1
             .
          
           
             (r)
             England's
             
               distract
               .
               p.
            
             11.
             
          
           
             1
             Pet.
             2.13
             .
          
           
             (ſ)
             Goodwin's
             
               Defence
               ,
               p.
            
             15.
             
          
           
             (t)
             The
             true
             name
             of
             which
             Authour
             Learned
             Men
             do
             conjecture
             ,
             with
             great
             probability
             ,
             to
             be
             
               Hubert
               Languet
               .
               Voetius
               in
               disquisitione
               de
               auctore
               vindiciarum
               contra
               Tyrannos
               ,
               quae
               sub
               nomine
            
             Junii
             Bruti
             Celtae
             
               typis
               editae
               sunt
            
             ,
             Huberti
             Langueti
             
               opusculum
               hoc
               esse
               ,
               verosimilius
               facit
               ,
               quàm
               ut
               amplius
               ea
               de
               re
               dubitare
               sustineam
               .
            
             Vinc.
             Placc
             .
             Pseudon
             .
             
               Catal.
               p.
            
             369.
             
             
               Mihi
               videtur
               auctorem
               fuisse
            
             Hub.
             Languetum
             :
             Losannae
             
               fuit
               vir
               doctus
               ,
               qui
               Pagellas
               habuit
               Scriptas
               manu
               ipsius
            
             Langueti
             ,
             
               &
               quidem
               ita
               scriptas
               ,
               quasi
               composuerit
               ,
               deinde
               stylus
               cum
               ipsius
               stylo
               congruit
               .
            
             Boeclerus
             ad
             Grotium
             
               de
               Jur.
               Bel.
               &
               Pa.
               lib.
            
             1.
             vid.
             Placcium
             ,
             p.
             370.
             
             And
             no
             Authour
             in
             print
             before
             Milton
             has
             affirm'd
             that
             Beza
             was
             the
             Writer
             of
             this
             ill
             Book
             .
          
           
             (u)
             
               Sed
               praterquam
               quòd
               ad
               privatas
               personas
               adhortationes
               illa
               diriguntur
               ,
               quibus
               nullum
               aliud
               remedium
               ,
               quàm
               preces
               &
               patientiam
               reliquum
               esse
               semper
               diximus
               ,
               meminisse
               hic
               quoque
               oportet
               ,
               cùm
               dicimus
               ,
               Magistratus
               inferiores
               ,
               aut
               Regni
               alicujus
               ordines
               posse
               ,
               imo
               &
               debere
               Tyrannidi
               obsistere
               .
            
             Junii
             Bruti
             
               de
               jur
               .
               Magist
               .
               p.
            
             317.
             
          
           
             (x)
             
               Locum
               hunc
               de
               ipso
               Petro
               intellegendum
               esse
               respondet
               :
            
             Scribebat
             enim
             
               (
               ait
            
             )
             Apostolus
             subditis
             suis
             ,
             
               &c.
               deinde
               ad
               illa
               verba
            
             Regi
             tanquam
             praecellenti
             
               addendam
               esse
               hanc
               coarctationem
            
             ,
             in
             temporalibus
             :
             
               Pontisicem
               enim
               in
               spiritualibus
               antecellere
            
             .
             Innoc.
             Gentillet
             .
             
               Apol.
               pro
            
             Gal.
             Christ
             ,
             p.
             163
             ,
             164.
             
          
           
             y
             Judge
             Cresh
             .
             
               Legacy
               ,
               p.
            
             5.
             
          
           
             (z)
             
               Est
               quoque
               alia
               ratio
               quare
               Reges
               justissimè
               reprehendere
               possumus
               ,
               atque
               iis
               etium
               si
               vim
               faciant
               resistere
               .
               Quum
               enim
               finita
               sit
               &
               terminata
               eorum
               potestas
               ,
               —
               siquando
               extra
               terminos
               sibi
               circundato●
               evagari
               vult
               ,
               &
               in
               alienam
               messem
               suam
               falcem
               immittere
               ,
               quia
               jam
               non
               ut
               Rex
               agit
               sed
               ut
               Tyrannus
               ,
               hîc
            
             gloriosum
             
               es
               ;
               t
            
             regem
             coarguere
             ,
             
               eique
               non
            
             verbo
             
               solùm
               ,
               sed
            
             re
             
               quoque
               obsistere
            
             .
             G.
             Ross
             .
             p.
             564.
             
          
           
             1
             Pet.
             2.13
             .
          
           
             (a)
             Joseph
             .
             
               Ant.
               Jud.
               l.
            
             18.
             c.
             2.
             
          
           
             Rom.
             13.4
             .
          
           
             (c)
             Judge
             Creshald's
             
               Legacy
               ,
               p.
            
             6.
             
          
           
             (d)
             
               Si
               enim
               &
               hostes
               exertos
               ,
               non
               tantum
               vindices
               occultos
               agere
               vellemus
               ,
               deesset
               nobis
               vis
               numerorum
               &
               copiarum
               ?
               —
               hesterni
               sumus
               &
               vestra
               omnia
               implevimus
               ,
               urbes
               ,
               insulas
               ,
               castella
               ,
               municipia
               ,
               conciliabula
               ,
               castra
               ipsa
               ,
               tribus
               ,
               decurias
               ,
               palatium
               ,
               senatum
               ,
               forum
               .
               —
               Cui
               bello
               non
               idonei
               ,
               non
               prompti
               fuissemus
               ,
               etiam
               impares
               coptis
               ,
               qui
               tam
               libenter
               trucidamur
               ,
               si
               non
               apud
               istam
               disciplinam
               magìs
            
             occidi
             
               liceret
               ,
               quàm
            
             occidere
             ?
             Tertul.
             
               Apol.
               p.
            
             30.
             
          
           
             (e)
             
               Quòd
               si
               Christiani
               olim
               non
               deposuerunt
               Neronem
               ,
               &
               Diocletianum
               ,
               &
               Julianum
               Apostatam
               ,
               ac
               Valentem
               Arianum
               &
               similes
               ,
               id
               fuit
               quia
               deerant
               vires
               temporales
               Christianis
               .
               Nam
               quod
               alioqui
               jure
               potuissent
               id
               facere
               ,
               patet
               ,
               &c.
               
            
             Bellarm.
             
               de
               Rom.
               Pont.
               l.
            
             5.
             c.
             7.
             p.
             891.
             
          
           
             (f)
             
               Hildebrandus
               Papa
               omnes
               adversantes
               Imperatori
               absolvit
               ab
               infidelitate
               &
               perjurio
               ,
            
             Sigeber
             .
             Gemblac
             .
             
               Chron.
               p.
            
             603.
             
          
           
             (g)
             
               
                 Hildebrandus
                 Papa
                 Author
                 est
                 hujus
                 novelli
                 Schismatis
                 ,
                 &
                 primus
                 levavit
                 Sacerdotalem
                 lanceam
                 contra
                 diadema
                 Regni
                 ,
                 primo
                 indiscretè
                 Henrico
                 saventes
                 excommunicavit
                 .
              
               Leodens
               .
               
                 ep
                 .
                 advers
              
               .
               Paschal
               .
               2.
               p.
               137.
               
               
                 Ed.
                 a
              
               S.
               Schardio
               .
            
             
               
                 Hoc
                 exemplo
                 omnes
                 à
                 primo
                 Gregorio
                 contenti
                 ,
                 utebantur
                 gladio
                 spirituali
                 usque
                 ad
                 ultimum
                 Gregorium
                 ,
                 i.e.
                 Hildebrandum
                 ,
                 qui
                 primus
                 se
                 ,
                 &
                 suo
                 exemplo
                 ,
                 alios
                 Pontifices
                 contra
                 Imperatorem
                 accinxit
                 gladio
                 .
              
               Leodens
               .
               p.
               138.
               
            
          
           
             (h)
             
               Lego
               &
               relego
               Romanorum
               Regum
               &
               Imperatorum
               gesta
               ,
               &
               nusquam
               inverrio
               aliquem
               ,
               ante
               hunc
               à
               Romano
               Pontifice
               excommunicatum
               ,
               vèl
               Regno
               Privatum
               .
            
             Otto
             Frising
             .
             
               Chron.
               lib.
            
             6.
             c.
             35.
             
          
           
             (i)
             
               Ipse
               primus
               est
               ;
               inter
               omnes
               Imperatores
               per
               Papam
               depositus
               .
               Scholastici
               certant
               &
               adhuc
               sub
               judice
               lis
               est
               ,
               utrum
               Papa
               possit
               Imperatorem
               deponere
               .
            
             J.
             Trithem
             .
             
               Chron.
               An.
            
             1106.
             
          
           
             (k)
             
               Nam
               etsi
               ante
               Romani
               Pontifices
               ,
               tanquam
               Christianae
               Religionis
               capita
               ,
               Christique
               vicarii
               &
               Petri
               successores
               colerentur
               ,
               non
               tamen
               eorum
               authoritas
               ultra
               protendebatur
               quàm
               in
               fidei
               dogmatibus
               vel
               asserendis
               vel
               tuendis
               —
               Primus
               omnium
               Romanorum
               Pontificum
               Gregorius
               VII
               .
               Armis
               Normannorum
               fretus
               ,
               o●ibus
               Comitissae
               Mathildis
               ,
               mulieris
               per
               Italiam
               Potentissimae
               confisus
               ,
               discordiáque
               Germanorum
               Principum
               bello
               civili
               laborantium
               inflammatus
               ,
               praeter
               majorum
               morem
               ,
               contemptâ
               Imperatoris
               auctoritate
               &
               potestate
               ,
               cùm
               summum
               Pontificatum
               obtinuisset
               ,
               Caesarem
               ipsum
               ,
               à
               quo
               si
               non
               electus
               ,
               saltem
               confirmatus
               suerat
               ,
               non
               dicam
               excommunicare
               ,
               sed
               etiam
               regno
               imperióque
               privare
               ausus
               est
               ;
               res
               ante
               ea
               saecula
               inaudita
               .
            
             Onuph
             .
             Panvin
             .
             
               in
               vita
            
             Greg.
             
               VII
               .
               p.
            
             272.
             
          
           
             (l)
             
               Nimirum
               ,
               ut
               pace
               omnium
               bonorum
               dixerim
               ,
               haec
               sola
               novitas
               ,
               non
               dicam
               Haeresis
               nec
               dum
               in
               mundo
               emerserat
               ,
               ut
               Sacerdotes
               —
               doceant
               populum
               ,
               quòd
               malis
               regibus
               nullam
               debeant
               subjectionem
               ,
               &
               licèt
               eis
               sacramentum
               fidelitatis
               fecerint
               ,
               nullam
               tamen
               debeant
               fidelitatem
               ,
               nec
               perjuri
               dicantur
               qui
               contra
               Regem
               senserint
               ,
               imo
               qui
               Regi
               paruerit
               ,
               pro
               excommunicato
               habeatur
               ,
               qui
               contra
               Regem
               fecerit
               ,
               à
               noxa
               injustitiae
               &
               perjurii
               absolvatur
               .
            
             Sigeber
             .
             Gembl
             .
             
               Chron.
               p.
            
             606.
             
               ex
               .
               Bib.
            
             J.
             Pistorii
             .
          
           
             (m)
             
               
                 Pipinus
                 factus
                 est
                 rex
                 ex
                 communi
                 suffragio
                 Principum
                 .
                 Apolog.
              
               Hen.
               
                 IV.
                 p.
              
               156.
               
                 ed.
                 à
              
               M.
               Freher
               .
            
             
               
                 Romanus
                 Pontifex
                 respondit
                 ,
                 illum
                 debere
                 Regem
                 vocari
                 qui
                 rempublicam
                 gereret
                 ,
                 detonso
                 igitur
                 Hildrico
                 &
                 in
                 Monasterium
                 detruso
                 mox
                 Franci
                 Pipinum
                 sibi
                 Regem
                 constituunt
                 .
                 Annal.
              
               Franc.
               
                 edit
                 .
                 à
                 P.
              
               Pithaeo
               ,
               par
               .
               2.
               p.
               5.
               
            
             
               
                 Pipinus
                 vero
                 per
                 Papam
                 Zach.
                 ex
                 electione
                 Francorum
                 factus
                 est
                 Rex
                 Francorum
                 .
              
               Got.
               Viterb
               .
               
                 Chron.
                 p.
              
               436.
               
            
             
               
                 Pro●eres
                 Regni
                 &
                 Populi
                 amplexi
                 Pipini
                 virtutem
                 pertaesíque
                 regis
                 amentiam
                 Zachariae
                 Romano
                 Pontifice
                 prius
                 consulto
                 —
                 Pipinum
                 Regem
                 creant
                 .
              
               Sabellic
               .
               en
               .
               8.
               
               L.
               8.
               vid.
               Hottomani
               
                 Francogalliam
                 ,
                 c.
              
               13.
               p.
               108.
               
            
          
           
             (n)
             
               Initio
               minime
               audebat
               tam
               magni
               momenti
               cogitationem
               suscipere
               .
               P.
            
             Aemyl
             .
             
               in
               vit
            
             .
             Childer
             .
             p.
             63.
             
          
           
             (o)
             
               Quod
               sanè
               justum
               fuisse
               nemo
               sanae
               mentis
               negabit
               ,
               praesertim
               cùm
               eventus
               docuerit
               mutationem
               illam
               felicissimam
               fuisse
               .
            
             Bellarm.
             
               de
               Pontif.
               lib.
            
             2.
             c.
             17.
             p.
             655.
             
          
           
             (p)
             
             Sigon
             .
             
               de
               Reg.
            
             Ital.
             l.
             2.
             p.
             57.
             
             Anno
             625.
             
          
           
             (q)
             Antonin
             .
             
               Sum.
               vide
               respons
               .
               ad
            
             Tortum
             .
             p.
             177.
             
          
           
             (r)
             Benno
             
               de
               vita
            
             Hildebrandi
             ,
             p.
             43
             ,
             44
             ,
             45
             ,
             
               &c.
               edit
               .
               à
            
             R.
             Reineccio
             .
             1581.
             
          
           
             (ſ)
             
               Hic
               inquam
               consartor
               imposturarum
               de
               quo
               alterum
               de
               doubus
               dicendum
               est
               ,
               vel
               quòd
               eas
               ipse
               commentus
               sit
               stylo
               mendaci
               .
            
             Baron
             .
             
               Ann.
               Tom.
            
             11.
             
             An.
             1076.
             num
             .
             7.
             p.
             469.
             
          
           
             (t)
             
               Sedis
               Apostolicae
               Baronius
               ita
               erat
               acer
               propugnator
               —
               ut
               diuturna
               Regum
               maximorum
               imperia
               non
               dubitaverit
               scriptis
               suis
               labefactare
               atque
               convellere
               .
            
             Jan.
             Nicii
             Pinac
             .
             par
             .
             1.
             p.
             89.
             
          
           
             (u)
             
               Si
               autem
               Papa
               erratet
               praecipiendo
               vitia
               ,
               vel
               prohibendo
               virtutes
               teneretur
               Ecclesia
               credere
               vitia
               esse
               bona
               &
               virtutes
               malas
               .
            
             Bellar.
             
               de
               Rom.
               Pont.
               p.
            
             803.
             
          
           
             (x)
             
               Collo
               ipsius
               prostrati
               pedem
               imposuisse
               ,
               cepisséque
               interim
               Davidicum
               illud
               super
               Aspidem
               &
               Basiliscum
               ambulabis
               :
               Friderico
               autem
               ingentes
               adbuc
               spiritus
               alenti
               ,
               dicentíque
               non
               tibi
               ,
               sed
               Petro
               ,
               irato
               similem
               ,
               impressa
               fortius
               planta
               ;
               respondisse
               ,
               &
               mihi
               ,
               &
               Petro.
            
             Sabellic
             .
             
               Rer.
               Ven.
               dec
            
             .
             1.
             l.
             7.
             p.
             200.
             
          
           
             (y)
             
               Pecunia
               favorem
               ,
               savore
               ferrum
               ,
               ferro
               sedem
               pacis
               adisti
               ,
               &
               de
               sede
               pacis
               pacem
               turbâsti
               .
               Ep.
            
             Hen.
             
               IV.
               p.
            
             196.
             
               ex
               Bib.
            
             Ruberi
             .
          
           
             (z)
             
               Ortus
               est
               magnus
               tumultus
               populi
               &
               fremitus
               —
               violentis
               manibus
               me
               in
               locum
               Apostolici
               regiminis
               ,
               cui
               longè
               impar
               ,
               rapuerunt
               .
            
             Greg.
             
               VII
               .
               Ep.
               l.
            
             1.
             
             Ep.
             3.
             
             Concil
             .
             Labb
             .
             Tom.
             10.
             p.
             7.
             
          
           
             (a)
             
               
                 Quòd
                 illius
                 solius
                 nomen
                 in
                 Ecclesiis
                 recitetur
                 .
                 Quòd
                 illi
                 liceat
                 imperatores
                 deponere
                 .
                 Quòd
                 à
                 nemine
                 ipse
                 judicari
                 debeat
                 .
                 Quòd
                 à
                 fidelitate
                 iniquorum
                 subditos
                 potest
                 absolvere
                 .
                 Concil
                 .
                 Tom.
              
               10.
               p.
               110.
               
            
             
               
                 Vir
                 dignus
                 Pontificatu
                 ad
                 deprimendum
                 Politicorum
                 supercilium
                 ;
                 Monarchas
                 terruit
                 nominis
                 sui
                 &
                 zeli
                 claritate
                 .
                 Captivitatem
                 Ecclesiae
                 ,
                 &
                 servitutem
                 ,
                 quam
                 à
                 principibus
                 patiebatur
                 restituit
                 .
              
               Genebr
               .
               
                 Chron.
                 p.
              
               582.
               
            
          
           
             (b)
             Juramentum
             Regis
             .
             —
             
               &
               quodcunque
               mihi
               ipse
               Papa
               praeceperit
               ,
               per
               veram
               obedientiam
               fideliter
               ,
               sicut
               oportet
               Christianum
               ,
               observabo
               .
               Concil
               .
               Max.
               Tom.
            
             10.
             p.
             279.
             
          
           
             (c)
             
               Fuit
               autem
               hic
               Henricus
               ore
               facundus
               ,
               ingenio
               acutus
               ,
               eleemosynis
               largus
               ,
               in
               re
               militari
               fortunatissimus
               .
               Contra
               hunc
               Imperatorem
               Greg.
               VII
               .
               commovit
               &
               fovit
               Rodulphum
               ducem
               Saxoniae
               ,
               quem
               Electores
               in
               Phorcheim
               congregati
               elegerunt
               in
               locum
               Henrici
               quem
               Papa
               deposuit
               nec
               confessum
               ,
               nec
               convictum
               .
            
             Fel.
             Fabr.
             
               Monach.
               Vlm.
               Suevic
               .
               Rer.
               Script
               .
               ed.
               à
            
             Goldast
             .
             p.
             91.
             
          
           
             (d)
             
               Venit
               ille
               ut
               jussum
               fuerat
               ,
               &
               cum
               castellum
               illud
               triplici
               muro
               septum
               esset
               ,
               intra
               secundum
               murorum
               ambitum
               receptus
               ,
               foris
               derelicto
               omni
               comitatu
               suo
               ,
               deposito
               cultu
               regio
               ,
               nihil
               praeferens
               regium
               ,
               nihil
               ostentans
               Pompaticum
               ,
               nudis
               pedibus
               ,
               jejunus
               ,
               mane
               usque
               and
               vesperam
               perstabat
               Romani
               Pontificis
               sententiam
               praestolando
               .
               Hoc
               secundo
               ,
               hoc
               tertio
               die
               fecit
               .
            
             Lamb.
             Schafnab
             .
             p.
             249.
             ed.
             Pistorii
             .
          
           
             (e)
             
               Omnes
               quidem
               insolitam
               nostrae
               mentis
               duritiem
               mirarentur
               ,
               nonnulli
               in
               nobis
               non
               Apostolicae
               severitatis
               gravitatem
               ,
               sed
               quasi
               Tyrannicae
               feritatis
               crudelitatem
               esse
               clamarent
               .
            
             Greg.
             
               Ep.
               L.
            
             4.
             
             Ep.
             12.
             
             
               Concil
               .
               Tom.
            
             10.
             p.
             159.
             
          
           
             (f)
             
               Solus
               Hildebrandus
               Papa
               ultimam
               manum
               sacris
               Canonibus
               imposuit
               ,
               quem
               legimus
               praecepisse
               Mathildi
               Marchionissae
               ,
               in
               remissionem
               peccatorum
               suorum
               ,
               ut
               debellaret
               Henricum
               Imperatorem
               .
               —
               unde
               haec
               nova
               Authoritas
               ,
               per
               quam
               reis
               sine
               confessione
               &
               poenitentia
               offertur
               praeteritorum
               peccatorum
               impunitas
               ,
               &
               futurorum
               libertas
               ?
            
             Leodens
             .
             
               Ep.
               p.
            
             141.
             
          
           
             (g)
             
               Commissum
               ei
               munus
               à
               Deo
               excelso
               ,
               non
               modòo
               articulos
               indeterminatos
               determinandi
               ,
               sed
               etiam
               Fidei
               symbolum
               condendi
               .
            
             Bened.
             
               in
               Praesat
               .
               respons
               .
               ad
            
             Tortum
             .
             p.
             179.
             
          
           
             (h)
             
               Homines
               non
               peccatis
               sed
               lege
               Christi
               ,
               atque
               Sacramentis
               solvit
               ,
               Pacem
               atque
               Pietatem
               Religionis
               nostrae
               labefactat
               ,
               Bella
               ,
               Seditiones
               concitat
               .
               Stupro
               ,
               Caedi
               ,
               Perjuriis
               ,
               Perfidiis
               ,
               Rapinis
               ,
               Incendio
               indulget
               .
               Non
               solùm
               ad
               Ambitionem
               suam
               occulendam
               fabulas
               comminiscitur
               ,
               Annales
               corrumpit
               ,
               res
               gestas
               invertit
               ,
               sed
               etiam
               caelestia
               Oracula
               adulterat
               :
               Divinas
               Literas
               falso
               interpretando
               suae
               libidini
               serviri
               cogit
               .
            
             Aventin
             .
             
               Ann.
               L.
            
             5.
             p.
             573.
             
          
           
             (i)
             
               Quia
               illum
               constat
               non
               à
               Deo
               electum
               ,
               sed
               à
               seipso
               ,
               fraude
               ac
               pecunia
               impudentissimè
               objectum
               ,
               qui
               Ecclesiasticum
               subvertit
               ordinem
               :
               qui
               Christiani
               imperii
               perturbat
               Regnum
               :
               qui
               regi
               Catholico
               ac
               pacifico
               corporis
               ac
               animae
               intentat
               mortem
               :
               qui
               perjurum
               defendit
               regem
               :
               qui
               inter
               concordes
               ,
               seminavit
               discordiam
               ,
               inter
               pacificos
               lites
               ,
               inter
               fratres
               scandala
               ,
               inter
               conjuges
               divortia
               .
               Concil
               .
               Tom.
            
             10.
             p.
             389.
             
             
               Edit
               .
               à
            
             Labbeo
             .
          
           
             (k)
             
               Vbi
               verò
               in
               extremo
               positus
               erat
               ,
               ultima
               verba
               ejus
               haec
               fuerunt
               .
               Dilexi
               justitiam
               &
               odivi
               iniquitatem
               ,
               propterea
               morior
               in
               exilio
               .
            
             P.
             Bernr
             .
             p.
             240.
             
          
           
             (l)
             
               Moriens
               Cardinalibus
               convocatis
               confessus
               est
               se
               valde
               peccâsse
               in
               cura
               Pastorali
               ,
               ac
               suadente
               Diabolo
               contra
               humanum
               genus
               iram
               Dei
               &
               odium
               concitâsse
               .
            
             Matth.
             Paris
             ,
             Anno
             1087.
             pag.
             13.
             
             Sigeb
             .
             Gembl
             .
             pag.
             605.
             
          
           
             (m)
             
               Invenio
               in
               vetustissimis
               annalibus
               Hildebrandum
               Monachum
               ,
               qui
               Greg.
               VII
               .
               dictus
               est
               ,
               dum
               moreretur
               plurimum
               ,
               qoud
               Henricum
               Imperatorem
               molestâsset
               ,
               doluisse
               ,
               &
               ob
               id
               ,
               ante
               obitum
               suum
               absolvisse
               .
            
             J.
             Cuspinian
             .
             
               in
               vita
            
             Henr.
             
               IV.
               p.
            
             357.
             
          
           
             (n)
             
               Quis
               nesciat
               Reges
               &
               duces
               ab
               iis
               habuisse
               principium
               ,
               qui
               Deum
               ignorantes
               ,
               Superbia
               ,
               Rapinis
               ,
               Perfidia
               ,
               Homicidiis
               ,
               postremo
               universis
               penè
               sceleribus
               ,
               mundi
               Principe
               Diabolo
               videlicet
               agitante
               ,
               super
               pares
               ,
               scilicet
               homines
               ,
               dominari
               caeca
               cupiditate
               ,
               &
               intolerabili
               praesumptione
               affectaverunt
               .
            
             Greg.
             
               VII
               .
               Ep.
               L.
            
             8.
             
             Ep.
             21.
             
             Concil
             .
             Max.
             Labb
             .
             Tom.
             10.
             
             Col.
             269.
             
          
           
             (o)
             
               Quis
               dubitet
               Sacerdotes
               Christi
               Regum
               &
               Principum
               omniùmque
               fidelium
               Patres
               &
               Magistros
               censeri
               ?
               ibid.
               
            
          
           
             (p)
             
               Quod
               Aurum
               non
               pretiosius
               sit
               Plumbo
               ,
               quaàm
               Regia
               Potestate
               sit-altior
               Dignitas
               Sacerdotalis
               .
               Col.
            
             270.
             
          
           
             (q)
             
               Major
               Potestas
               exorcistae
               conceditur
               ,
               cùm
               Spiritualis
               Imperator
               ad
               abjiciendos
               Daemones
               constituitur
               ,
               quàm
               alicui
               Laicorum
               causa
               Saecularis
               Dominationis
               tribui
               possit
               .
               Ibid.
               
            
          
           
             (r)
             Bellar.
             
               de
               Rom.
               Pont.
               lib.
            
             4.
             c.
             13.
             
             Col.
             837.
             
          
           
             (ſ)
             
               Extant
               praeterea
               in
               Bibliothecis
               nostris
               Epistolae
               ,
               Diplomata
               ,
               Edicta
               ,
               Rescripta
               Hainrici
               ,
               &
               Hildebrandi
               ultro
               ,
               citroque
               missa
               ,
               Ego
               horum
               instrumentorum
               Publicam
               sequar
               Authoritatem
               ,
               utriusque
               causam
               sedulo
               ,
               &
               ex
               fide
               perorabo
               :
               vitiis
               utriusque
               (
               ut
               homines
               fuerunt
               )
               notandis
               ,
               amicis
               ,
               in
               virtutibus
               praedicandis
               hostibus
               credam
               .
            
             Jo.
             Avent
             .
             Annal.
             Boi
             .
             lib.
             5.
             p.
             563.
             
          
           
             (t)
             
               
                 Bonifacius
                 servus
                 servorum
                 Dei
                 Philippo
                 Francorum
                 Regi
                 —
                 scire
                 te
                 volumus
                 ,
                 quòd
                 Spiritualibus
                 &
                 Temporalibus
                 nobis
                 subes
                 .
                 —
                 aliud
                 credentes
                 fatuos
                 reputamus
                 .
                 Philippus
                 D.
                 G.
                 Francorum
                 Rex
                 ,
                 Bonifacio
                 se
                 gerente
                 pro
                 Pontifice
                 maximo
                 ,
                 salutem
                 modicam
                 sive
                 nullam
                 .
                 Sciat
                 tua
                 maxima
                 fatuitas
                 in
                 Temporalibus
                 alicui
                 nos
                 non
                 subesse
                 .
                 Les
                 Croniq
                 .
                 &
                 Annal.
                 des
                 France
                 par
              
               Nicolle
               Gilles
               ,
               p.
               132.
               
               
                 A
                 Paris
              
               1562.
               
            
             
               
                 Mira
                 hominis
                 impudentia
                 fuit
                 qui
                 Regnum
                 Galliae
                 Pontificiae
                 majestatis
                 beneficium
                 asserere
                 ausus
                 est
                 .
                 Verùm
                 multò
                 stolidiores
                 esse
                 puto
                 ,
                 qui
                 disceptant
                 an
                 tantum
                 liceat
                 Pontifici
                 .
              
               J.
               Tillii
               
                 Chron.
                 de
                 Reg.
              
               Franc.
               
                 ad
                 Ann.
              
               1302.
               
            
          
           
             (u)
             
               Quod
               ad
               confictum
               crimen
               Haereseos
               attinet
               ,
               de
               quo
               falso
               &
               injustè
               ab
               illo
               Sixto
               ,
               qui
               nomen
               Papae
               sibi
               arrogat
               ,
               accusatur
               ;
               ait
               &
               affirmat
               hunc
               (
               salvâ
               ejus
               Sanctitate
               )
               falsè
               ,
               nequiter
               ,
               &
               malitiosè
               ,
               mentitum
               esse
               ,
               húncque
               ipsum
               fore
               Haereticum
               omniun
               maximum
               .
               Quemadmodum
               recipit
               probare
               in
               Concilio
               libero
               &
               secundum
               Leges
               congregato
               .
               De
               postr
               .
               Mot.
               Gall.
               p.
            
             305.
             
          
           
             (x)
             M.
             Roussel
             
               Hist
               .
               Jur.
               Pont.
               l.
            
             7.
             p.
             699.
             
          
           
             (y)
             Catech.
             p.
             15.
             
          
           
             (z)
             Catech.
             p.
             47.
             
          
           
             Rom.
             4.15
             .
          
           
             (a)
             
               Neque
               multum
               spei
               apparere
               de
               Puritanis
               ,
               ut
               in
               Anglia
               vocantur
               ,
               hominum
               genere
               turbulento
               &
               seditioso
               ad
               moderationem
               &
               mutuam
               tolerantiam
               flectendis
               ,
               animi
               eorum
               elatiores
               sunt
               ,
               quàm
               ut
               aliis
               praeterquam
               sibi
               solis
               quidquam
               tribuant
               :
               n●vitatis
               cupidiores
               ,
               quám
               ut
               Antiquitatem
               ,
               &
               efferatiores
               ,
               quàm
               ut
               tranquillitatem
               respiciant
               .
            
             G.
             Calixti
             
               Judic
               .
               de
               Controv.
               Theolog.
               p.
            
             138.