CONTENTS. 1. Paragraph HF Nature. So, st, $2. The Election of TH HE 51, to of ment in General both from God and Man. 1.6. An Account of the British Government, and of the Rights and Priviledges of the People, in the Time of the Saxons,and fince the Conqueft. 1.7. Italy, Germany, Switzerland, England, and the Jews, have been under divers Forms of Government. 1. 8, to 17. included. T. 19,21. to 38. included. True Maxims of Government. 1. 18. The Power of the Crown only a Truft. 1.25. Britain a mixed limited Monarchy. 1.39 to 46. included. Defcribing the Government which God ordained over the Children of Ifrael. T46, 47. The Fundamental Right of all Nations afferted in the Choice of their Governors, or Forms of Go Magiftrates and Kings, prov'd to be in the People: But more particular in Great Britain, before and fince the Conqueft. 1.53. The Family of Stuarts from an Illegitimate Line, fettled by an A&t of Parliament in Scotland. 1.54. The Right of the People and Parliament of Britain to refift and depofe, their Kings for Evil Government; prov'd from King Henry's Charter, and from an Act of the 12th of Richard the Second, and by many Examples. : T. 55, 56, 57. The Power of our Parliaments, by the 25th and 28th of Henry the VIIIth, and by the 13th of Elizabeth. 58. By a Law, An. 787. Kings were to be elected by the Parliament, or States. 59. William the Firft was admitted, upon Conditions, by the People. 60, 61. The Law fuperior to the King, from Braddon, a famous Lawyer in Henry the Third's Reign. 9. 62. The Power of the King, by the Laws of Edward the Confeffor. 1. 63. William Rufus, Henry the Firft, and Stephen, were chofen by the People; and Henry the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth, were Kings (only) by Act of Parliament. 1.64, 65. The Compact with William, call'd the Conqueror, A 2. Henry Henry the First, and Stephen. ing a Papift, from the Throne, 1. 66. The Original Compact T. 84, 85. All Government, with our Kings. Authority, and Magiftracy proceeds from the People, and they have Authority to difpoffefs them, or alter the Succeffion upon very urgent Caufes, of which fome Scripture Inftances. 1. 67. Succeffion gives no 1.73. King James's Speech 4. 1. 74, 75. The common Right f 1.83. The Rights and Liber-· . 86. to ro1. included. Above Fifty Kings, and Nine Emperors, deprived for their Evil Government, in France, Spain, Holland, Portugal, Denmark, Poland, Rome, Germany, Scot land, and England. 102. to 108. included. All Magiftrates and Governors proceed from the People, by many Examples of Scripture. T. 109, 110, III. Reasons for Refiftance. 1.112. The Duty of all Magi- . 113. St. Chryfoftom's Expofi- . 115. The Laws were made 1.116. to 123. included. Reafons againft abfolute Paffive Obedience. 1. 124. The Bishops refufe to difown to King James, their inviting over the Prince of Orange. 1. 125. The Arch-Bishop of Canterbury, and eight Bishops, prefent King James ten Articles, very near the fame with that of the Prince of Orange's Declaration. . 126. The Bifhops refufe to The CONTENTS. fign an Abhorrence of the P. of Orange's intended Invasion. T. 127. The Prince of Orange's Speech to the Gentry of Somerfetfoire and Dorfetfhire. T. 128. The Bishop of Canterbury went to the Tower, and demanded the Keys of the Lieutenant, and delivered them to the Lord Lucas. T. 129. Prince George of Denmark, Duke of Grafton, Duke of Ormond, Lord Churchil, &c. went over to the Prince at Sherborn Caftle. 1. 130. The Princefs Ann, (our q. 131. The Addrefs of the .134,135. The Duke of Grafton, of the City, to the Prince, Dec. 20. 1688. q. 136 to 140. included. About fixty Peers fign an Affociation to the Prince. Fifty four Lords Spiritual and Temporal, made an Order, Dec. the 22th, for 'Squire Gwin to fign fuch Orders as they should, from time to time, make. On the 23d of Dec. K. James went from Rochefter. The Address of the aforefaid Peers to the P. of Orange, on the 25th of Dec. On the 9th of Jan. following, about thirty Lords, and 80 Gentlemen of Scotland figned. a Paper to the fame Purpose. . 141, 142, 143.The Convention der'd the Thanks of both Houfes fhould be returned to his Highness, in the behalf of the whole Nation, &c. and order'd a Day of Thanksgiving for the great Deliverance, &c. On the 28th of Fan, the Commons voted the Throne vacant; and on the 6th the Lords confented to the faid Vote. q. 144. The Word Abdicated explain'd. . 145, 146. The Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, order'd the Prince and Princefs of Orange to be proclaim'd King and Queen. q. 147. The Declaration of the Nobility, and Gentry, and Commonalty at Nottingham. 4. 148. Our Bifhops, Clergy, Nobility, &c. are damn'd, who had a Hand in the Revolution, according to the Doctrine of Paffive Obedience. . 149. The Doctrine of Fure Divino, never heard of 'till Janes the Firft's Reign. . 150. No Abfolute Paffive Obedience in the Time of the Children of Ifrael, prov'd by many many Examples of their Refifting their Kings. 4. 151. The Primitive Christians, and others, refift their Emperors for their Tyranny. 4. 152, including 155. Several . Declarations in Queen Elizabeth's Time, of the Convocations of the Clergy, and the Parliament of England who juftify the Proteftants in their refifting of their Evil Princes, who gave her Money to affift the Scotch, French and Dutch Proteftants. And the Bishops and Clergy of England affifted the Proteftants of France inK. Charles the Firft's Reign. . 156. The Proteftant Princes of Germany refift their Emperors. 9. 157, 158, 159. Bishop Jewel, Luther, Melandton, St. Chryfoftome, &c. allow of Refiftance. T. 160, 163. Bishop Bilfon and Bishop Abbot allow of Refiftance. 9. 161, 162. Seven Princes and Twenty Four Proteftant Cities refift their Emperour. q. 164, 165, 166. Zuinglius, one of the first Reformers, Lucifer de Cagliari, St. Athanafius, and St. Auftin for Refiftance. T. 167. The Succefs and good Confequence of Refiftance in feveral Countries. 4. 168. The Difference between our Cafe and that of the first primitive Chriftians. 4.169. The Prophets and anci ent Jews, as well as the primitive Chriftians, Strangers to the Doctrine of abfolute Paffive Obedience. 4. 170. If all Refiftance be unlawful, then both Jews and the primitive Christians are guilty of Rebellion. 171. Abfolute Obedience due only to our Laws. To allow Paffive Obedience to be reviv'd in any other Senfe, is to fuffer the Queen and both the Convention-Houfes of Parliament to be call'd Rebels andTraitors. 172. Juft Refiftance founded in Self-Defence, abfolute Submiffion a kind of Self-Murder. ¶ 173, To Paragraph 179. included feveral Reafons against the Paffive Doctrine. . 180. The Legislature, the Ordinance of God in Britain, and the executive Power in our Kings, &c. . 181. The Doctrine of absolute Pafive Obedience difprov'd by contradicting the glorious Attributes of God, &c. . 182, to 185, included. The Patriarchal Scheme confider'd and refuted. . 186. An Objection (That if .Government be difturb'd for unlawful Proceedings, &c. how can it be fafe?) anfwer'd. 1. 187. Rulers or Subjects. overturning the Constitution by Force, refift the Ordinance of God, &c. . 188, 189, 190. An Account of the Government of King Charles the First, taken out of Lord Clarendon's History. Ift Vol. Folio. Rushworth's Collections, ift Vol. Folio, and Whitlock's Memorials, Folio, &c. without any Obfervation or Reflection. 1. 191. Dr. Sacheverell's Afferti on, that the Prince of Orange difclaim'd all Refiftance, confuted from the 25th Paragraph of His Declaration, and his other falfe Affertion that the Parliameut declared that they fet the Crown on his Head, upon no other Title, but that of the Vacancy of the Throne, difproved by the Vote of both Houses of Parlia ment, in the 54th Page of this Book. THE THE JUDGMENT Of Whole KINGDOMS and NATIONS, &C. J. I. "G Overnment in general, as ordain'd and inftituted by God, is circumfcribed and limited by him to be exercised according to the Laws of Nature, in Subferviency to his own Glory, and the Benefit of Mankind. All Rulers are confin'd by the Almighty and fupreme Sovereign, to exert their governing Power for the promoting his Service and Honour, and to exercife their Authority for the Safety, Welfare, and Prosperity of thofe over whom they are established. Tho' there were no previous Compacts and Agreements between Princes and People as to thefe, yet Princes wou'd be oblig'd to obferve 'em, forafmuch as they are fettled and determined by the Law and Appointment of the divine Legiflator, and of the univerfal Sovereign. Whofoever therefore refufeth to govern, in Subordination unto, and for God, and in order to the Protection and Benefit of the Community, ceafeth to answer the Fnds unto which Magiftracy was inftituted,and for which rectoral Authority is established over, and among Men. Nor is it in the Choice or Power of any Society, at their erecting the Forms of Government under which they are contented to live, and at their nominating the Perfons to whom they commit the Right of adminiftring Juftice towards, and over themselves, and of withstanding and avenging Injuries offered them by others, to enlarge and extend the Power of thofe whom they conftitute their Rulers, beyond the Limits and Boundaries by which God hath stated and confined Magiftrates in the Charter of Nature and Revelation. Tho' Peo ple may both then, and afterwards abridge themselves, as they think meet, in things under their own Difpofal, and either contract or enlarge the Ruler's Power, in reference to what they have a Right to retain or depart from, for the real or imagined Benefit of the Community; yet they can no ways interpofe in the difpo fal of the Rights which belong unto God, and which he hath in communicably referved to himself; nor can they confer thofe meafures and degrees of Authority upon those whom they elect and advance to Magistracy, which God hath antecedently preclu ded |
