A DOZEN OF PRINCIPAL POINTS. fit for every honest Englishman's wearing.  
I. GOD is the Original fountain of all power, Therefore, every just power derives from God, Therefore no power is just that cannot derive from God.  
II. Every just power is derived from God by just means.  
No means is just, (or can justify an ordinary continuing power) but the Commission given by Gods will revealed in his Word.  
Therefore every (ordinary continued) power that hath not such Commission is unjust.  
III. We are not bound by God's Law to obey the power of Man, save only when it is the power of God committed to his dispensation by the direct Ordinance of God (and then it is said, to be for God's sake, and for Conscience sake.)  
Whosoever demands, or exacts obedience from man, not having such a Commission, is an Usurper, an  person, the Child of Rebellion.  
Therefore neither aught any man without such commission to assume such a power (upon the pains by St. Judas rehearsed) neither is any man bound to obey such an usurped power (but on the contrary we are bound to detest, at least not to converse with such, For, he that saith but Good speed to such ungodly proceed becomes partaker of their Sinne. Which well agrees with that of Solomon, My Son fear God and the King, and meddle not with them that are given to change, for their destruction draweth nigh. etc.)  
IIII We can no way honour God, so much as by obedience [First to himself) 2. To that power and person he hath set over us.  
We can no way dishonour God, more than by disobedience (in both these Cases)  
Therefore whosoever obeys not the Lawful Magistrate (as being set ever us by God's Ordinances) dishonours God, and denies him one principal part of his honour, and our duty.  
V As to deny God his due is sacraledge, so to give God's due to man [without his appointment] is idolatry.  
Whosoever gives obedience to man that God hath not authorized gives God's due to another (and surely God is a jealous God and will not give his honour to any other nor will he hold him guiltless that dares do so without his Warrant.  
Therefore he that usurps or assumes such an unwar ranted power, is sacralegious, and he that obeys is his accessary, and an Idolater.  
VI The persons directly trusted by God with his power (and therefore to whom only we do directly owe obedience] are these five, the Husband, the Father, the Master, the Priest, and the King. [And though this last the King,] be sometimes called Judge, Captain, Prince, Patriarch, or the like, yet they all signify the same image of God's power given by God to those persons by his direct Commission [Some being effectual only, as Moses, Giddeon, Samuel, etc. others both formal and effectual, as Saul and David, Ahaz and Hezekiah, Manasseh, and Josiah, Nebuchadnezer, Cyrus and Nero etc.  
There is no other continued power of what name, or nature soever can be by direct commission derived from God's grant (nor any such grant or commission showed, save what is subordinate and inferior to these.  
Therefore these and only these are the powers authorized by God's direct commission, to which we owe and must pay an active (or at least a passive) obedience. And the greatest obedience to the greatest power ever] & we are not bound to any or either sort of obedience to any other persons or power whatsoever, but to abhor and resist the same as the power of Satan and Antichrist.  
VII By virtue of the power given by God to the King, the King ordains other inferior powers who have their Commission from the King.  
But as the King than forfeits his power to God that gave it, and to none other, when he renounces God, and makes himself his enemy by flat Rebellion, So also those powers made by the King, then cease to have power, and forfeit it to the King that gave it, and to none other when they rebel against him, and make use of the power given by the King in a flat opposition of the King.  
Therefore no longer than they acknowledge the King's power to be just and superior, and their own to be derived from him, and so inferior, and therefore their obedience to be necessary and humble, have they any more power, or own we any more obedience.  
VIII. (Next under God, and the King) all Ecclesiastical power is by Christ and his Apostles established by a perpetual succession on the (Lawfully called) Priests or Ministers of the Gospel.  
No humane power ought, neither can oppose the divine institution, or demolish what Christ and his Apostles have erected. Therefore the Office itself (of A Bishop, A Doctor, A Deacon, etc.) is by direct Commission derived from Christ and his Apostles, and so of divine right clearly, and the form, and choice of the person is in the King as God's Deputy, and therefore (at least) of the best humane right that may be.  
IX. The heart of Man cannot be converted by any outward means, but only by the preaching of the Gospel (for the Priests lips do (or should do) both keep and speak knowledge.  
But how shall they preach if they be not sent?  
Therefore all that are the true Priests or Ministers of God's Word, are sent duly and visibly, and he that is not visibly and duly sent is not the true Priest or Minister of God, (But as Nadab and Abihu presumptuous, or as Korah and his complices ambitious, and A Rebel to the truth. If he preach another Doctrine, though he seem to be as an Angel of light, let him be accursed; If he seem to be in the right, yet because he came not in by the Door, (viz. Christ and his commission) ●●e is A Thief and shall surely come to nought, and all that follow him, since though he may seem to allow some truths at the present, it is but to allure to greater errors afterwards, as practising by the subtlety of Sathau that sets all such a ●ork to disturb the true Church.  
X. In no age since the Creation, hath it been allowed to any people under the Sun that did rightly know and were known of God; to choose their own Governor, or way of Government without first obtaining God's visible consent.  
For a people without any visible commission to do so, is not only to rebel against the present established Government and lawful Authority of their Sovereign, but to oppose God and usurp his power.  
Therefore let no people or Nation that pretends to fear or obey God once think of such a course, (lest happily) they be sound to fight against God, & that God set himself to fight against that Nation, and so they perish inevitably, eternally.  
XI. If a Nation might choose their governor or way of government, yet could they not be innocent in rejecting God's way, and taking that of his Enemies.  
But Monarchy is indeed the form by God invented and ordained. And Aristocracy, Democracie, Anarchy, etc. was devised (at best by Philosophers) by heathens, Gods Enemies.  
Therefore to refuse Monarchy (or the Government by one man as supreme, which now is, and so many ages hath been in this Kingdom established (this being God's way) and to set up Anarchy, or the like so newly thought of in this Nation by the Sons of belial, so repugnant to the very fundamental Laws of this Nation (it being the Devils own way) were profane and damnable.  
XII By all Laws of God, Nature, or Nations, and by the principles of all governments under Heaven [especially of this Nation] That which requires the whole power to set it up, or establish it, requires also the whole power to take it down or revoake it, and both to be done in love, order, and peace.  
But the Regal, the Episcopal, the Peerall, the ministerial powers, and functions, and the Book of Common-Prayer were set up and established by the whole power of this Nation in love, order, and peace, and [so far as his main power hath to do with them] could not have been otherwise established.  
But this (for its pride and covetousness only, unparalleled pretended parliament, (the Kingdom's Masters as they think) and this impudent, Independent, presumptuous army, (I mean the greatest part, & persons thereof, for as for many of the Common Soldiers, I rather pity their unhappy ignorance, and incline to pray that their eyes may be opened to see the Kingdoms present, & their own succeeding misery (the Parliaments Masters, as all men may plainly see) had no just beginning, wants, nay despises their Head the K. their Neck the Bishops, their Shoulders the Nobility, the greater and better part of their bowels the Gentry even of those that are more truly members of that now so much Idolised House of Commons, and of the people (their legs and feet) that make up the rest of the Body Politic. And were never yet, (and now refuses to be established by the whole power of the Nation, in love Order, or peace, Nor will acknowledge any greater power but themselves, nor any Creator of their power, but that they have created one the other. And are therefore doubtless such monsters as this Nation never knew, nor heard of, till this present age.  
Therefore the King's power (as being supreme lest of all) nor the Bishops, nor the Nobilities (as subordinate to the Kings) nor that of those just Parliaments, that have or shall know the way to preserve, inviolate their duty to their God, their allegiance to their King, and their Love to their Country, cannot by any known Law of God or Man, be taken away, by such an unjust, imperfect, pretended part of power in malice, disorder, and War.  
But on the contrary, let the King, and all that fear God and the King, trust in God, and in the Assurance of his never failing promise [expect deliverance] that these (as jannes' and jambres that with stood Moses) shall proceed no further than God hath appointed, & that then their folly shall be made manifest to all men: And let all faithful English men say Amen.   
FINIS.