Give first to God the things that are Gods, and then give Caesar the things that are Caesars. Let your wisdom be first pure, and then peaceable. Not but that we are resolved to be loyal to Sovereignty, though you deny us all these: whatever malicious men pretend, that is not nor shall not be our difference. I have proved more publicly when it was more dangerous ⟨p. 44⟩to publish it, that the generality of the Orthodox sober Ministers, and godly people of this Nation, did never consent to King-killing, and resisting Sovereign Power, nor to the change of the ancient Government of this Land; but abhorred the pride and ambition that attempted it. I again repeat it: The blood of some, the imprisonment and displacing of others, the banishment or flight of others, and the detestations and public protestations of more; the oft declared sense of England, and the wars and sad estate of Scotland, have all declared before the world, to the shame of calumniators, that the generality of the orthodox sober Protestants of these Nations, have been true to their allegiance, and detesters of unfaithfulness and ambition in subjects, and resisters of heresy and schism in the Church, and of Anarchy and Democratical confusions in the Commonwealth. And though the Land hath ringed with complaints and threatenings against my self, for publishing a little of the mixture of Jesuitical and Familisticall contrivances, for taking down together our Government and Religion, and setting up new ones for the introduction of Popery, infidelity and heresy; yet I am assured that there is much more of this confederacy, for the all-seeing God to discover in time, to the shame of Papists, that cannot be content to write themselves for the killing of Kings when the Pope hath once excommunicated them, and by the Decrees of a General Council at the Lateran, to depose Princes that will extirpate such as the Pope calls Heretics, and absolve all their subjects from their fidelity and allegiance, but they must also creep into the ⟨p. 45⟩Councils and Armies of Protestants, and taking the advantage of successes and ambition, withdraw men at once from their Religion and allegiance, that they may cheat the world into a belief, that Treasons are the fruits of the Protestant profession, when these masked Jugglers have come by night and sown and cherished these Romish tares.
Give first to God the things that are Gods, and then give Caesar the things that are Caesars. Let your wisdome be first pure, and then peaceable. Not but that we are resolved to be loyall to Soveraignty, though you deny us all these: whatever malicious men pretend, that is not nor shall not be our difference. I have proved more publikely when it was more dangerous ⟨p. 44⟩to publish it, that the generality of the Orthodox sober Ministers, and godly people of this Nation, did never consent to King-killing, and resisting Soveraign Power, nor to the change of the ancient Government of this Land; but abhorred the pride and ambition that attempted it. I again repeat it: The blood of some, the imprisonment and displacing of others, the banishment or flight of others, and the detestations and publike protestations of more; the oft declared sense of England, and the warres and sad estate of Scotland, have all declared before the world, to the shame of calumniators, that the generallity of the orthodox sober Protestants of these Nations, have been true to their allegiance, and detesters of unfaithfullness and ambition in subjects, and resisters of heresie and schisme in the Church, and of Anarchie and Democraticall confusions in the Commonwealth. And though the Land hath ringed with complaints and threatnings against my self, for publishing a little of the mixture of Jesuiticall and Familisticall contrivances, for taking down together our Government and Religion, and setting up new ones for the introduction of Popery, infidelity and heresie; yet I am assured that there is much more of this confederacie, for the all-seeing God to discover in time, to the shame of Papists, that cannot be content to write themselves for the killing of Kings when the Pope hath once excommunicated them, and by the Decrees of a Generall Councill at the Laterane, to depose Princes that will extirpate such as the Pope calls Hereticks, and absolve all their subjects from their fidelity and allegiance, but they must also creep into the ⟨p. 45⟩Councils and Armies of Protestants, and taking the advantage of successes and ambition, withdraw men at once from their Religion and allegiance, that they may cheat the world into a belief, that Treasons are the fruits of the Protestant profession, when these masked Juglers have come by night and sown and cherished these Romish tares.
