The Resolving Of Conscience, upon this Question, Whether upon such a Supposition or Case, as is now usually made, (The King will not discharge his trust but is bent or seduced to subvert Religion, Laws, and Li- berties) Subjects may take Arms and resist? and Whe- ther that Case be now? Resolved, I. That no Conscience upon such a Supposition or Case can finde a safe and clear ground for such resistance. II. That no man in Conscience can be truly perswaded, that the resistance now made is such, as they them- selves pretend to, that plead for it in such a case. III. That no man in Conscience can be truly perswaded that such a case is now, that is, that the King will not discharge his trust but is bent to subvert, &c. Whence it followeth, That the resistance now made against the higher Power is unwar- rantable, and according to the Apostle Damnable, Rom. 13. Also that the shedding of bloud in the pursuit of this resistance is Murder
By: By H. Fern, D.D. &c. ... (3 lines)
Contributors: Charles I, King of England, 1600-1649; McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)
Publisher: Printed by Roger Daniel printer to the Universitie
Published: 1642
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51