Mary of the Puritans, exanain'd. 397 When Kings command unrighteous things, and People fuit them with willing Compliance, none doubts but the Deftru&tion of them both is juft and righteous.' Dr. JohnOwen's Fait-Sermon before the Com- mons, January 31, 1648. p. 5. If the Kingdom be divided, that is nothing but Rehoboam's Folly, and ill Counfel of ill-ad- vifed Courtiers. If Ifrael make war upon Judah, and Judah upon Ifrael, that is only Policy to keep down one another. If there be a Civil War, that is through the Faction of potent Statefmen. If a Foreigner invades them, it is nothing but the Pride ofambitious Tyrants, that Peek after Greatnefs in the Ruin of other King- doms.' Nich. Proffet's Sermon before the Commons, September 25, 1644. p. 9. [Member of the Affembly.] The Man who felleth his Religion for his pri- vate Ends, will fell his Country, his Parliament, his Laws, and Liberties of his Kingdom. Will . he put the Law of God, and the Crown and Sceptre of that Princely Lord Jefus to the Mar- ket ; and will he flick for his Court to fell the Laws of England, and will he not forfit you all, and your Parliament and Liberties ?' * Rutherford's Fait-Sermon before the Com- mons, January 31, 1643. p. 6. [Commit fioner for Scotland.] * This was the Scotch Clergyman who wrote that fcandalous Republican Trae, intitled, Lex, Rex, 4to, publifhed 1644. To !bow this Gentleman's Principles, the following Paffages may fuffice. ' The People, becauft they create the Man King, they 4 are fo above the King, and have a virtual Power to compel him to do his Duty.' Lex, Rex, p. cot . 6 Tho' God can immediately, without any Aaiun of the People, make Kings, this is a weak Reafon to prove they cannot unmake them: Id. p. 10. The
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