Note 290 — Chapter X
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The Royalists sometimes appealed to Scripture.—There is amongst the State Papers, one containing texts of Scripture relating to royal authority:—1. Pray for the King; 2. Speak not evil of the King; 3. Exalt not thyself against the King; 4. The King's confidence in God; 5. The King loveth judgment; 6. The King ought to be feared; 7. God's care of his anointed; 8. Punishment of his adversaries; 9. Exhortation to obedience; 10. His triumph and thanksgiving.
There is also a paper of arguments in defence of taking up arms in maintenance of the true reformed religion:—From the law of nature. From Divine authority out of God's word. From human authority; Citations from fathers, &c. From reason. From practice of Reformed kirks, France, Holland, Germany, Bohemia, Switzerland, Hungary, and Sweden, which had all taken up arms for defence of religion against authority. From the custom of Kings in Reformed kirks—Elizabeth against Spain—James, in his Basilicon, approves reforming of Scotland—Charles sent a naval force to help French Protestants.