A88587:145
A modest and clear vindication of the serious representation, and late vindication of the…
A modest and clear vindication of the serious representation, and late vindication of the ministers of London, from the scandalous aspersions of John Price, in a pamphlet of his, entitled, Clerico-classicum or, The clergies alarm to a third war. Wherein his king-killing doctrine is confuted. The authors by him alleged, as defending it, cleared. The ministers of London vindicated. The follies, and falsities of John Price discovered. The protestation, vow, and the Covenant explained. / By a friend to a regulated monarchy, a free Parliament, an obedient army, and a godly ministry; but an enemy to tyranny, malignity, anarchy and heresy.A modest and clear vindication of the serious representation, and late vindication of the ministers of London, from the scandalous aspersions of John Price, in a pamphlet of his, entituled, Clerico-classicum or, The clergies alarum to a third war. Wherein his king-killing doctrine is confuted. The authors by him alledged, as defending it, cleared. The ministers of London vindicated. The follies, and falsities of Iohn Price discovered. The protestation, vow, and the Covenant explained. / By a friend to a regulated monarchy, a free Parliament, an obedient army, and a godly ministry; but an enemy to tyranny, malignity, anarchy and heresie.
London: printed for Stephen Bowtell, 1649
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But you plead,1 that the Covenant binds us to preserve His Person ⟨p. 38⟩in the preservation and defence of the true Religion; true Religion doth not say, if the Subject do kill and murder, &c. he shall be •o and •o punished, but if the King do these things• he must not be meddled withal by any but God alone; true Religion saith, he that shed mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed, the murderer shall surely be put to death; if then the King be a murderer, true Religion commands that h•e be put to death.
But you plead,1 that the Covenant binds us to preserve His Person ⟨p. 38⟩in the preservation and defence of the true Religion; true Religion doth not say, if the Subject do kill and murder, &c. he shall be •o and •o punisht, but if the King do these things• he must not be medled withall by any but God alone; true Religion saith, he that shed mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed, the murderer shall surely be put to death; if then the King be a murderer, true Religion commands that h•e bee put to death.
- 1I. P. p. 28. l. 37.
Answ. 1. Was the Kings person, and Religions preservation so inconsistent, that there was no way to preserve the one, but by destroying the other? I am sue the death of the King was a stain to Religion, I am not so sure that his life would have been such a wound to it; whether purposes were in his heart to alter it, I know not, yet if power were not in his hands, how could Religion be endangered?