Puritano-Iesuitismus,: the Puritan turn'd Jesuite; or rather, out-vying him in those diabolicall and dangerous positions, of the deposition of kings; from the yeare 1536. untill this present time; extracted out of the most ancient and authentick authours. By that reverend divine, Doctour Ovven, Batchelour of Divinity. Shewing their concord in the matter, their discord in the manner of their sedition.

THE FIRST CHAPTER Proveth by the testimony of Scrip∣ture, that Kings are not punishable by man, but reserved to the judgement of God.

KIngs have their authority from Goda and are his Vicegerents in earth,b to exe∣cute justice and judgement for him a∣mongst the Sonnes of menc. All subjects (as well Prelates and Nobles, as the infe∣riour people) are forbidden with the tongue, to revile Kings,d, with the heart, to thinke ill of theme, or with the hand, to resist themf. The great King of Heaven doth impart his owne name unto his Lievetenants the Kings of the Earth: and calleth them Gods, with an ego dixig, whose word is Yea and Amen: with this onely difference, that these Gods shall dye like menh, and fall like other Princes. Wherefore Nathan the man of God, must reprove Davidi, that hee may repent, and bee saved. And the Sages, Iudges, and Nobles, (without

feare or flattery) must advise and direct Roboamk. Other attempts against Kings, the King of Kings hath neither com∣manded in his law, nor permitted in his Gospell. David (saith Ambrose) nullis legibus tenebatur, &c. David though hee were an adulterer, and an homicide, was tied to no law: for Kings are free from bonds, and can by no compulsion of law, bee drawne to punishment, being freed by the power of Government. Thus farre Ambr.

Saul the first King of Israel was rather a monster, then a man: after the Spirit of God had forsaken him, and the evill Spirit was come upon himm. There were not many sinnes against God, Man, or Nature, wherein hee trangressed not; yet his excesse was punished, neither by the Sacerdotall Sy∣nod, nor the secular Senate: Who can lay his hand on the Lords annointed, and bee guiltlessen? The very Annointment was the cause of Sauls immunity from all humane coercion: as Augustine affirmeth, Quaero si non habebat, Saul sacramenti sanctitatem; quid in eo David venerabatur? If Saul had not the holinesse of the Sacrament, I aske what it was that Da∣vid reverenced in him? hee honoured Saul for the sacred and holy unction, while hee lived: and revenged his death. Yea, hee was troubled and trembled at the heart, because hee had cut off a lap of Sauls garment. Loe, Saul had no inno∣cency, and yet hee had holinesse: not of life, but of unction. So farre Augustine.

Who questioned David for his murther and adultery? who censured Solomon for his idolatry? though their crimes were capitall by the law of God. After that Kingdome was divided, all the Kings of Israel, and most of the Kings of Iu∣dah, were notorious Idolaters: yet during those Kingdomes, which endured above 200. yeares, no Priest did chalenge, no States-men did claime power from the highest, to pu∣nish or depose their Princes. And the Prophets perswaded all men to obey, and endure those idolatrous Princes, whose impiety they reproved with the losse of their lives.

Christ fled when the people would have made him a

Kinga. Hee payed tribute for himselfe and Peterb. When the question was propounded concerning the Emperours subsidy, hee concluded for Caesarc. And standing to receive the judgement of death before Pilate, hee acknowledged his power to be of Godd. This Saviour of Mankind, whose actions should bee our instruction, did never attempt to change that Government, or to displace those Governours, which were directly repugnant to the scope of Information that hee aimed at.

Iohn Baptist did indeed reprove King Herod with a Non licete, but he taught not the souldiers to leave his service, or by strife and impatience, to wind themselves out of the band of allegiance, wherein the law had left them, and the Gospell found themf.

The Apostle delivered unto the Church the doctrine of obedience and patience, which they had learned by the pre∣cept, and observed by the practise of our Lord CHRIST. Peter commandeth obedience to all manner of men in au∣thorityg. Paul forbiddeth resistance against any powerh. And Saint Jude maketh it blasphemy, to revile government, or to speake evill of Governours i. If therefore an Angell from heaven preach otherwise, then they have delivered, let him bee accursedk.

Notes

• a

  Rom. 13.1.
• b

  Prov. 8.15.
• c

  2 Chron. 19.6.
• d

  Exod. 22.28.
• e

  Eccl. 10.20.
• f

  Rom. 13.2.
• g

  Psal. 82.6.
• h

  Psal. 82.7.
• i

  2 Sam. 12.7.
• k

  1 Reg. 12.7.
• Apolog. David cap. 10.
• m

  1 Sam. 16.14.
• n

  1 Sam. 16.9.
• Aug. contr. lit. Petil. l. 2. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 48.
• a

  Joh. 6.15.
• b

  Matth. 17.27.
• c

  Matth. 22.21.
• d

  Ioh. 19.15.
• e

  Mark. 6.18.
• f

  Luk. 3.14.
• g

  1 Pet. 2.15.
• h

  Rom. 13.1.2.3.4. Iudc 8.
• k

  Gal. 1.8.