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A28559	Bohun, Edmund, 1645-1699.	The doctrine of non-resistance or passive obedience, no way concerned in the controversies now depending between the Williamites and the Jacobites by a lay gentleman of the communion of the Church of England, by law establish'd.	1689.0		.xml	application/xml	18346	455	55	For my part I was none of them that did , or durst have resisted or Rebelled against King James : but when he chose rather to leave his Kingdom , than to do his Subjects Right ; it was just with God and Men to confirm the Election he had made ; and seeing he would not continue in the Station , God had placed him in ( that of a Regular and Limited Monarchy ) but aspired to an Absolute and unlimited Arbitrary Empire , and persecuted those who had set him up and preserved him in his Throne ; It was just , I say , that God should say unto him as he did to Saul , Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord ; he hath rejected thee from being King. The great Thuanus makes this Reflection on the Deposition of Christian the Second , King of Denmark if Princes will Reign well and happily , they must govern their Affections , and not out of a violent lust of insulting over their Subjects give up themselves to the Conduct of their Passions , or otherwise they ought to assure themselves , God is a severe revenger , alway ready and delighting to pluck off their Thrones the most Proud and Insolent who shall abuse that Power he has intrusted them with . Nor is this less true of lawful Princes , than of unlawful Usurpers , no Title can exempt a Prince from being responsible to the Justice of God , and he will use his Power as he thinks fit , and punish one Man after one manner , and another in another ; some in this World , and others in the next ; and the Church in the best of times accordingly left it to him to dispose of the Government of the World : and as she did not anticipate his Judgments by disturbing the Peace of the World , whatsoever she suffered ; so neither did she think her self more wise or just than he , but submitted to those he was pleased in his Providence to set over her ; and would certainly have been very thankful for such a Deliverance as we of the Church of England have had , by the Ministery of our King , who like another Constantine has delivered us out of the hands of our Enemies , who designed to enslave and ruine us and our Posterity for ever .	cache/A28559.xml	txt/A28559.txt
