A treatise of civil policy

2. He calleth it not Protestant Religion, either here, or elsewhere; but cautiously giveth a name that will agree to the Roman Catholic Religion: For the Dominicans, Franciscans, and the Parisian Doctors and Schoolmen, following Occham, Gerson, Almain, and other Papists, call themselves Reformed Catholics. 2. He layeth this for a ground, in 3 or 4 pages, where these same Arguments are again and again repeated in terminis, as his second Reason, p. 149. was handled ad nauseam, p. 148. his 3. Reason is repeated in his 6. Reason, p. 151. He layeth (I say) down this ground, which is the begged Conclusion, and maketh the Conclusion the Assumption, in 8 raw and often repeated Arguments: to wit, That the Parliaments coercing and restraining of Arbitrary power, is rebellion, and resisting the Ordinance of God. But he dare not look the place Rom. 13. on the face: other Royalists have done it with bad success. This I desire to be weighed, ••d I retort the Prelates argument▪ ⟨p. 245⟩But it is indeed the trivial Argument of all Royalists, especially of Barclay, obvious in his 3. Book. If Arbitrary and Tyrannical power above any Law that the lawful Magistrate commandeth under the pain of death, (Thou shalt not murder one man) (Thou shalt not take away the vineyard of one Naboth violently) be lawful and warrantable by Gods word; then an Arbitrary power above all Divine laws, is given to the keeping of the Civill Magistrate. And it is no less lawful Arbitrary, or rather Tyrannical power, for David to kill all his Subjects, and to plunder all Jerusalem, (as I believe, Prelates, and Malignants, and Papists would serve the three Kingdoms, if the King should command them) then to kill one Uriah, or for Ahab to spoil one Naboth. The essence of sin must agree alike to all, though the degrees vary.

2. He calleth it not Protestant Religion, either here, or elsewhere; but cautelously giveth a name that will agree to the Roman Catholique Religion: For the Dominicans, Franciscans, and the Parisian Doctors and Schoolemen, following Occham, Gerson, Almain, and other Papists, call themselves Reformed Catholiques. 2. He layeth this for a ground, in 3 or 4 pages, where these same Arguments are againe and againe repeated in terminis, as his second Reason, p. 149. was handled ad nauseam, p. 148. his 3. Reason is repeated in his 6. Reason, p. 151. He layeth (I say) down this ground, which is the begged Conclusion, and maketh the Conclusion the Assumption, in 8 raw and often repeated Arguments: to wit, That the Parliaments coercing and restraining of Arbitrarie power, is rebellion, and resisting the Ordinance of God. But he dare not looke the place