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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. But 1. If one come with a Commission to take possession of the King's Treasure, Magazines, Garrisons; Navy, &c. and attempt it by force, may he be resisted by force till the King's Mind be enquired of? If not, he may depose the King and seize his Strengths before we can come to enquire of the King. All have not access to the King. If it were the Garrison of New-Castile, Berwick, Carlisle, &c. it will be too late to send to the King. But if such Commissioners may so long be resisted, then how can we Swear that upon no pretence whatsoever his Commissioners may be resisted by his own Authority? ⟨p. 139⟩2. And if a Highway-man show a Commission to take my Purse, he will not stay till I know whether the King consent to his Commission.
M. But 1. If one come with a Commission to take possession of the King's Treasure, Magazines, Garisons; Navy, &c. and attempt it by force, may he be resisted by force till the King's Mind be enquired of? If not, he may depose the King and seize his Strengths before we can come to enquire of the King. All have not access to the King. If it were the Garison of New-Castile, Berwick, Carlisle, &c. it will be too late to send to the King. But if such Commissioners may so long be resisted, then how can we Swear that upon no pretence whatsoever his Commissioners may be resisted by his own Authority? ⟨p. 139⟩2. And if a Highway-man shew a Commission to take my Purse, he will not stay till I know whether the King consent to his Commission.
L. You stretch the sense of the Subscription and Oath further than the Parliament intended it. Do you think that if half a Dozen or more Irishmen had come into the Parliament House, and showed a Commission Real or Counterfeit to kill them all, Lords and Commons, that they would not have defended their Lives with their Swords? And do you think then that ever they meant to bind all the Subjects against that which they would do themselves.