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The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated…
The English nonconformity as under King Charles II and King James II truly stated and argued by Richard Baxter ; who earnestly beseecheth rulers and clergy not to divide and destroy the land and cast their own souls on the dreadful guilt and punishment of national perjury ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1689
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M 1. We must suppose that a Parliament may do wrong. 2. Izaakson and other Historians say, That King John made over his Kingdom to the Pope, and offered it to the Mahometan King of Morocco, to help him against his Lords. 3. Is it not possible that a Queen Mary, or a Charles the Ninth of France might do what they did. 4. Have not many Kings been ruined by trusting Traitors.1 Did the King of Portugal's Brother and Lords answer the trust reposed in them, when they Deposed and imprisoned him? Is not History full of such Examples? Who deposed the Emperor Ludovicus Pius, but his trusted Clergy and Servants? Who deposed the Emperor Henry 4. but his own Son? and his Clergy and Lords? Abundance of the Greek Emperors were so used, and some English and Scottish Kings.
M 1. We must suppose that a Parliament may do wrong. 2. Izaakson and other Historians say, That King Iohn made over his Kingdom to the Pope, and offered it to the Mahometan King of Morocco, to help him against his Lords. 3. Is it not possible that a Queen Mary, or a Charles the Ninth of France might do what they did. 4. Have not many Kings been ruined by trusting Traitors.1 Did the King of Portugal's Brother and Lords answer the trust reposed in them, when they Deposed and imprisoned him? Is not History full of such Examples? Who deposed the Emperor Ludovicus Pius, but his trusted Clergy and Servants? Who deposed the Empeperour Henry 4. but his own Son? and his Clergy and Lords? Abundance of the Greek Emperours were so used, and some English and Scottish Kings.
- 1The Story of the King of Cappadocia and his Brot••, that conspired with some Nobles to depose him, and take his Kingdom, and how the Senate of Rome detected the Plot, and defeated it by the help of Cicero, then Proconsul there, is worth the reading in Cicero's Epistles.