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           SEASONABLE
           ADVICE
           TO
           THE
           
             Citizens
             ,
             Burgesses
          
           ,
           and
           Free-holders
           OF
           ENGLAND
           ,
           Concerning
           PARLIAMENTS
           ,
           AND
           THE
           
             Present
             Elections
          
           .
        
         
           By
           a
           Divine
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           ENGLAND
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           
             Walter
             Kettilby
          
           at
           the
           Bishop's
           Head
           in
           St.
           
           Paul's
           Church-yard
           ,
           1685.
           
        
         
      
    
     
       
         
         
           SEASONABLE
           ADVICE
           TO
           THE
           
             Citizens
             ,
             Burgesses
          
           and
           Free-holders
           OF
           ENGLAND
           .
        
         
           
             Dear
             Countrey-men
             ,
          
        
         
           WHEN
           it
           seem'd
           good
           to
           the
           Divine
           Providence
           to
           remove
           our
           Late
           King
           (
           of
           happy
           Memory
           )
           from
           the
           Cares
           of
           an
           Earthly
           Crown
           ,
           to
           the
           Joyes
           and
           Rest
           of
           his
           Heavenly
           Kingdom
           ,
           he
           left
           the
           World
           entirely
           beloved
           ,
           and
           generally
           lamented
           by
           all
           his
           Loyal
           Subjects
           ;
           and
           the
           deep
           Sense
           of
           having
           so
           wise
           ,
           so
           just
           ,
           so
           good
           a
           Prince
           almost
           unexpectedly
           snatch'd
           away
           from
           us
           ,
           was
           enough
           to
           drown
           the
           whole
           Nation
           in
           perpetual
           Sadness
           and
           Tears
           .
           But
           to
           support
           us
           under
           that
           inestimable
           Loss
           ,
           our
           Most
           Gracious
           Sovereign
           ,
           that
           now
           is
           ,
           has
           (
           by
           the
           Assistance
           of
           the
           same
           Almighty
           Goodness
           )
           been
           peaceably
           established
           on
           the
           Throne
           of
           his
           Ancestors
           ,
           
           in
           spight
           of
           all
           the
           desperate
           Attempts
           ,
           and
           restless
           Endeavours
           of
           a
           few
           turbulent
           Spirits
           ,
           to
           deprive
           him
           of
           his
           most
           undoubted
           Right
           of
           Inheritance
           .
           A
           Prince
           of
           mature
           Age
           ,
           and
           great
           Experience
           ;
           and
           so
           admirably
           qualified
           for
           Government
           ,
           that
           ,
           if
           it
           had
           not
           been
           his
           by
           unquestionable
           Succession
           ,
           his
           own
           personal
           Worth
           might
           have
           been
           thought
           enough
           to
           have
           preferred
           him
           to
           a
           Crown
           :
           And
           to
           quiet
           the
           Minds
           of
           his
           People
           ,
           and
           silence
           all
           the
           imaginable
           jealousies
           any
           of
           them
           might
           have
           been
           possibly
           seduced
           into
           ,
           by
           the
           false
           and
           malicious
           Suggestions
           of
           Factious
           Men
           ;
           the
           First
           thing
           he
           did
           after
           his
           coming
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           was
           to
           confirm
           the
           
             hearty
             Professions
          
           he
           had
           often
           made
           before
           ,
           To
           
             preserve
             this
             Government
             both
             in
             Church
             and
             State
             ,
             as
             it
             is
             now
             by
             Law
             established
             .
          
           For
           this
           he
           has
           already
           received
           publick
           Thanks
           in
           several
           of
           the
           Addresses
           that
           have
           been
           presented
           unto
           him
           ;
           and
           though
           it
           be
           not
           expresly
           set
           down
           in
           some
           ,
           yet
           we
           may
           reasonably
           suppose
           it
           is
           implyed
           in
           all
           ;
           otherwise
           ,
           whatever
           Protestations
           they
           may
           make
           ,
           it
           will
           not
           be
           believed
           that
           they
           can
           have
           any
           true
           Zeal
           for
           God
           ,
           or
           Respect
           for
           their
           King
           ,
           that
           think
           so
           gracious
           a
           Promise
           ,
           so
           frequently
           repeated
           ,
           does
           not
           really
           deserve
           their
           most
           grateful
           and
           solemn
           Acknowledgments
           .
           But
           this
           ,
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Expressions
           of
           a
           very
           great
           Care
           and
           Tenderness
           for
           His
           People
           ,
           had
           that
           good
           Influence
           ,
           that
           the
           Suspicions
           of
           the
           most
           timorous
           did
           immediately
           vanish
           :
           His
           Advancement
           to
           the
           Throne
           gave
           present
           Ease
           and
           Satisfaction
           ,
           and
           was
           attended
           with
           the
           most
           universal
           Acclamations
           of
           Joy
           from
           every
           part
           of
           the
           Nation
           .
           And
           certainly
           now
           it
           must
           be
           confessed
           to
           be
           the
           Duty
           and
           Interest
           too
           ,
           of
           every
           
           English-man
           indeed
           ,
           to
           do
           whatever
           lies
           in
           his
           power
           ,
           for
           the
           Continuance
           of
           our
           present
           Happiness
           .
           And
           because
           the
           Welfare
           of
           the
           publick
           may
           very
           much
           depend
           on
           the
           Issue
           of
           this
           first
           Parliament
           :
           It
           will
           highly
           concern
           all
           those
           whom
           the
           Law
           has
           intrusted
           with
           the
           priviledge
           of
           Electing
           ,
           to
           make
           Choice
           of
           persons
           of
           approved
           Prudence
           and
           Integrity
           ,
           that
           may
           be
           able
           to
           assert
           the
           known
           Liberties
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           without
           intrenching
           upon
           the
           Dignity
           of
           the
           Crown
           .
           For
           we
           must
           needs
           be
           involved
           in
           endless
           Miseries
           and
           Confusion
           ,
           unless
           the
           Prerogative
           of
           the
           King
           be
           as
           carefully
           preserved
           as
           the
           Property
           of
           the
           Subject
           .
           These
           two
           must
           mutually
           support
           the
           one
           the
           other
           ,
           or
           else
           they
           will
           be
           both
           in
           danger
           of
           a
           Fall.
           But
           we
           may
           chance
           to
           meet
           this
           Argument
           again
           before
           we
           have
           done
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           mean
           time
           it
           is
           like
           enough
           to
           be
           objected
           ,
           That
           to
           undertake
           to
           give
           Advice
           in
           these
           Cases
           ,
           is
           a
           very
           improper
           Work
           for
           a
           professed
           Divine
           .
           I
           know
           indeed
           ,
           that
           of
           late
           Years
           ,
           if
           we
           did
           but
           preach
           Obedience
           to
           Magistrates
           ,
           or
           reflect
           ,
           though
           but
           gently
           ,
           upon
           the
           most
           horrid
           and
           unnatural
           Sin
           of
           Rebellion
           ,
           we
           were
           presently
           condemned
           for
           going
           beyond
           the
           Bounds
           of
           our
           Calling
           ,
           and
           being
           too
           forward
           to
           intermeddle
           with
           Matters
           of
           State.
           And
           at
           Elections
           of
           Members
           to
           serve
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           we
           could
           not
           appear
           in
           some
           places
           ,
           without
           undergoing
           some
           publick
           Affront
           .
           Attempts
           were
           made
           to
           raise
           a
           general
           prejudice
           against
           us
           ,
           and
           all
           those
           that
           had
           any
           Respect
           and
           Kindness
           for
           us
           .
           It
           was
           sometimes
           esteemed
           Exception
           enough
           against
           Gentlemen
           of
           very
           great
           Worth
           ,
           if
           they
           stood
           
           but
           fair
           in
           the
           Opinion
           of
           the
           Clergy
           .
           But
           it
           was
           then
           easily
           perceived
           ,
           and
           since
           plainly
           discovered
           ,
           which
           way
           the
           Stream
           was
           running
           ,
           and
           by
           what
           sort
           of
           Men
           ,
           and
           upon
           what
           Occasion
           all
           that
           Noise
           and
           Clamour
           was
           raised
           .
           The
           Clergy
           were
           generally
           firm
           to
           the
           established
           Government
           ,
           and
           professed
           Enemies
           to
           the
           designs
           that
           were
           then
           setting
           on
           Foot.
           And
           it
           was
           but
           necessary
           for
           those
           that
           were
           indeavouring
           to
           subvert
           the
           Government
           ,
           both
           in
           Church
           ,
           and
           State
           ,
           under
           pretence
           of
           reforming
           abuses
           ,
           to
           make
           the
           multitude
           jealous
           of
           them
           ,
           and
           blacken
           them
           as
           much
           as
           possibly
           they
           could
           in
           the
           eyes
           of
           the
           People
           :
           And
           they
           wanted
           neither
           cunning
           ,
           nor
           malice
           to
           do
           it
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           return
           some
           answer
           to
           what
           has
           been
           objected
           :
           If
           the
           things
           I
           have
           mentioned
           may
           be
           called
           Intermeddling
           with
           matters
           of
           State
           ,
           they
           are
           no
           more
           than
           what
           may
           be
           very
           well
           justified
           .
           When
           we
           were
           made
           Ministers
           ,
           we
           did
           not
           cease
           to
           be
           men
           ;
           and
           the
           Church
           being
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           incorporated
           with
           the
           State
           ,
           He
           that
           has
           an
           Interest
           in
           the
           one
           ,
           must
           not
           be
           wholly
           unconcerned
           for
           the
           other
           .
           The
           Laws
           allow
           us
           a
           Vote
           in
           Elections
           ;
           and
           without
           immodesty
           we
           think
           our selves
           as
           capable
           of
           Judging
           ,
           who
           may
           be
           fitly
           qualified
           to
           be
           made
           our
           Representatives
           ,
           as
           other
           Ordinary
           Free-holders
           are
           :
           And
           it
           would
           be
           very
           unjust
           in
           those
           ,
           that
           talk
           so
           loud
           of
           Liberty
           and
           Property
           ,
           to
           blame
           us
           for
           desireing
           the
           concurrence
           of
           our
           Friends
           ,
           much
           more
           to
           Abridge
           us
           of
           the
           Freedom
           of
           our
           Voices
           in
           the
           choice
           of
           a
           Knight
           of
           the
           Shire
           :
           Besides
           it
           is
           the
           indispensable
           Duty
           of
           every
           Minister
           of
           the
           Gospel
           
           to
           exhort
           the
           People
           to
           
             Fear
             God
             ,
             and
             Honour
             the
          
           
           King
           ;
           to
           Preach
           
             Subjection
             to
             the
             Higher
             Powers
             ,
             not
             only
             for
             wrath
             ,
             but
             Conscience
             sake
             .
          
           And
           this
           they
           are
           
           obliged
           to
           ,
           by
           an
           express
           Divine
           Command
           ,
           by
           the
           Canons
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           by
           the
           common
           Laws
           of
           Humanity
           ,
           and
           the
           respect
           they
           ought
           to
           bear
           to
           true
           Piety
           and
           Holiness
           of
           Life
           :
           That
           they
           may
           contribute
           what
           they
           can
           to
           the
           preventing
           the
           Miseries
           of
           Civil
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Foreign
           Wars
           ;
           and
           the
           great
           increase
           of
           profaneness
           and
           irreligion
           ,
           which
           unavoidably
           follows
           all
           popular
           Tumults
           ,
           and
           Insurrections
           ;
           when
           the
           Commands
           of
           Almighty
           God
           ,
           concerning
           Obedience
           especially
           ,
           are
           quite
           forgotten
           ,
           or
           distinguished
           into
           nothing
           ;
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           Land
           insolently
           trampled
           under
           Foot
           ;
           and
           all
           reverence
           to
           Authority
           wholly
           laid
           aside
           :
           And
           because
           it
           is
           well
           known
           what
           a
           Powerful
           influence
           a
           Parliament
           may
           have
           upon
           the
           Settlement
           ,
           or
           ruin
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           no
           less
           in
           our
           Religious
           ,
           than
           Civil
           concerns
           ;
           this
           consideration
           alone
           may
           be
           sufficient
           to
           excuse
           a
           Clergy-man
           ,
           if
           he
           shall
           undertake
           to
           Advise
           the
           Choice
           of
           such
           Worthy
           Gentlemen
           ,
           as
           to
           him
           seem
           the
           most
           likely
           to
           promote
           the
           real
           Interest
           of
           Church
           and
           State
           ,
           in
           this
           very
           Critical
           juncture
           of
           Affairs
           .
        
         
           But
           this
           had
           never
           prevailed
           with
           me
           to
           adventure
           these
           Papers
           into
           publick
           view
           ,
           if
           there
           had
           not
           been
           a
           strange
           Rumor
           spread
           over
           the
           Nation
           ,
           that
           we
           of
           the
           Clergy
           were
           Enemies
           ,
           and
           despisers
           of
           all
           Parliaments
           .
           This
           Groundless
           calumny
           was
           so
           industriously
           propagated
           through
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           ,
           not
           without
           a
           mixture
           of
           many
           other
           False
           and
           uncharitable
           reflections
           ,
           that
           many
           of
           the
           People
           firmly
           believed
           it
           ;
           and
           
           it
           was
           so
           deeply
           rooted
           in
           the
           minds
           of
           some
           ,
           that
           wherever
           we
           appeared
           ,
           they
           were
           easily
           perswaded
           to
           take
           the
           contrary
           side
           at
           all
           Elections
           in
           divers
           places
           .
           It
           is
           not
           now
           hard
           to
           conceive
           for
           what
           purposes
           this
           malicious
           report
           was
           invented
           ;
           what
           effect
           it
           had
           we
           all
           know
           .
           But
           to
           undeceive
           some
           well
           meaning
           men
           ,
           that
           may
           still
           be
           mislead
           ,
           by
           such
           unjust
           and
           Scandalous
           Aspersions
           ;
           I
           shall
           acquaint
           you
           with
           the
           true
           occasion
           of
           this
           report
           ;
           and
           then
           shew
           the
           Honourable
           opinion
           we
           have
           of
           Parliaments
           .
        
         
           The
           true
           Occasion
           then
           of
           this
           report
           ,
           That
           we
           were
           Enemies
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           was
           really
           and
           plainly
           no
           other
           than
           this
           :
           We
           could
           not
           express
           any
           great
           good
           likeing
           for
           some
           things
           ,
           which
           sometimes
           happened
           to
           be
           carryed
           by
           a
           Majority
           of
           Votes
           ;
           and
           because
           we
           could
           not
           always
           admire
           all
           their
           Proceedings
           ,
           those
           who
           served
           a
           Design
           by
           rendring
           us
           Odious
           ,
           indeavoured
           to
           make
           the
           World
           believe
           ,
           that
           we
           hated
           the
           very
           Constitution
           ;
           which
           is
           a
           most
           false
           and
           malicious
           Scandal
           .
           I
           must
           confess
           ,
           I
           never
           thought
           that
           any
           Man
           was
           obliged
           to
           yield
           a
           blind
           and
           implicite
           Assent
           to
           all
           the
           Determinations
           of
           any
           Assembly
           upon
           Earth
           :
           This
           were
           a
           kind
           of
           Civil
           Popery
           ,
           and
           more
           I
           believe
           than
           they
           themselves
           will
           require
           of
           us
           .
           And
           then
           what
           fault
           have
           we
           committed
           ,
           if
           we
           honestly
           profess
           our
           Dissent
           ;
           and
           have
           not
           learned
           the
           Art
           of
           Flattery
           ,
           to
           magnify
           ,
           and
           applaud
           ,
           what
           we
           do
           not
           approve
           ?
           Where
           every
           Man
           is
           concerned
           ,
           every
           Man
           may
           be
           allowed
           to
           speak
           his
           own
           Judgment
           ,
           and
           to
           differ
           from
           whom
           he
           pleases
           ;
           provided
           he
           do
           it
           with
           Modesty
           ,
           and
           due
           respect
           :
           And
           to
           be
           
           menaced
           ,
           and
           frighted
           out
           of
           this
           Innocent
           Freedom
           ,
           is
           of
           all
           Slaveries
           the
           most
           Intolerable
           .
           We
           find
           even
           some
           Parliaments
           censured
           in
           our
           Chronicles
           ,
           and
           very
           odd
           Epithets
           sixed
           upon
           them
           ;
           there
           is
           one
           that
           is
           called
           the
           Wood
           Parliament
           ;
           it
           was
           the
           Language
           of
           those
           times
           ,
           and
           the
           Veneration
           I
           have
           for
           these
           great
           Assemblies
           ,
           will
           not
           permit
           me
           to
           put
           it
           into
           more
           Modern
           English
           .
           But
           you
           may
           see
           by
           this
           ,
           that
           the
           truth
           will
           out
           at
           last
           ;
           and
           I
           cannot
           Prophesie
           what
           Character
           some
           of
           later
           date
           may
           expect
           in
           the
           Histories
           of
           after
           Ages
           ,
           when
           the
           Writer
           shall
           be
           secured
           from
           a
           Serjeant
           at
           Arms
           ,
           and
           out
           of
           danger
           of
           being
           brought
           upon
           his
           Knees
           at
           the
           Bar
           of
           the
           House
           .
           The
           time
           will
           certainly
           come
           ,
           when
           all
           Men
           will
           Speak
           ,
           and
           Write
           their
           Minds
           freely
           of
           all
           Debates
           ,
           and
           resolves
           whatever
           .
           And
           we
           cannot
           be
           therefore
           justly
           condemned
           ,
           if
           we
           have
           been
           so
           open
           hearted
           ,
           as
           to
           express
           some
           kind
           of
           dislike
           of
           some
           Proceedings
           ,
           which
           as
           far
           as
           we
           were
           able
           to
           judge
           ,
           might
           be
           made
           the
           Occasions
           of
           very
           great
           and
           publick
           Inconveniences
           .
           Nor
           ought
           we
           for
           this
           to
           be
           esteemed
           Despisers
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           any
           more
           than
           we
           can
           be
           said
           to
           be
           Enemies
           of
           Monarchy
           ,
           because
           we
           will
           not
           undertake
           to
           justify
           every
           thing
           that
           has
           been
           done
           by
           every
           Crowned
           Head
           in
           the
           World.
           But
           to
           deal
           frankly
           and
           plainly
           with
           you
           ,
           I
           will
           give
           you
           some
           Passages
           ,
           which
           we
           could
           not
           be
           so
           well
           pleased
           with
           ,
           in
           some
           of
           our
           late
           Parliaments
           :
           Some
           of
           them
           relate
           more
           immediately
           to
           the
           Commoners
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           them
           to
           the
           King
           himself
           .
        
         
           That
           which
           especially
           regards
           the
           Commoners
           ,
           is
           the
           
           punishing
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           severely
           enough
           ,
           without
           any
           Offence
           against
           any
           known
           Law
           of
           the
           Realm
           There
           was
           a
           great
           Noise
           made
           about
           Abhorrers
           ,
           and
           Betrayers
           of
           the
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Subject
           :
           Very
           strange
           and
           frightful
           words
           !
           but
           what
           unpardonable
           Crimes
           may
           lurk
           under
           them
           ,
           will
           be
           very
           difficult
           for
           an
           ordinary
           man
           to
           Conjecture
           .
           I
           have
           searched
           the
           Statute
           Book
           ,
           and
           there
           I
           cannot
           yet
           discover
           the
           very
           names
           ,
           much
           less
           any
           Punishment
           appointed
           for
           the
           Fault
           .
           Now
           if
           a
           Man
           should
           be
           punished
           ,
           when
           he
           has
           not
           been
           Guilty
           of
           the
           Violation
           of
           any
           Law
           ;
           his
           Punishment
           cannot
           be
           esteemed
           Legal
           and
           Just
           ,
           but
           meerly
           Arbitrary
           ,
           and
           must
           be
           resolved
           into
           nothing
           else
           ,
           but
           the
           Will
           ,
           and
           Pleasure
           of
           him
           that
           inflicts
           it
           .
           And
           yet
           ,
           very
           many
           (
           and
           it
           might
           have
           been
           any
           Man's
           Case
           )
           were
           forced
           to
           leave
           all
           their
           private
           concerns
           ,
           and
           brought
           up
           to
           London
           ,
           from
           the
           remotest
           Parts
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           at
           any
           Season
           of
           the
           Year
           ;
           sometimes
           under
           great
           Infirmities
           of
           Body
           ,
           to
           the
           certain
           Detriment
           of
           their
           Estates
           ,
           and
           hazzard
           of
           their
           Lives
           ;
           and
           then
           put
           under
           a
           very
           Chargeable
           Confinement
           ,
           during
           Pleasure
           ,
           and
           not
           dismissed
           at
           length
           without
           a
           Censure
           ,
           and
           the
           Payment
           of
           very
           Liberal
           Fees.
           And
           all
           this
           not
           for
           any
           Offence
           against
           any
           Law
           ,
           that
           any
           one
           could
           tell
           of
           ;
           but
           only
           for
           Words
           ,
           casually
           let
           fall
           ,
           that
           would
           not
           bear
           an
           Action
           in
           any
           Court
           in
           England
           .
           What
           a
           Miserable
           Condition
           is
           this
           ?
           Who
           could
           tell
           when
           he
           was
           safe
           ,
           unless
           he
           hung
           a
           Padlock
           on
           his
           Lips
           ?
           What
           Patrons
           of
           Liberty
           are
           these
           ?
           And
           what
           English-man
           is
           there
           ,
           that
           had
           not
           much
           rather
           be
           governed
           by
           an
           Act
           ,
           deliberately
           passed
           by
           the
           Lords
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Commons
           ,
           authentically
           confirmed
           
           by
           the
           Royal
           Assent
           ,
           and
           sufficiently
           promulged
           to
           the
           notice
           of
           all
           Men
           ,
           than
           to
           lic
           at
           the
           Mercy
           of
           every
           hasty
           Vote
           of
           the
           lower
           House
           ?
           This
           is
           what
           was
           most
           of
           all
           complained
           of
           in
           some
           late
           transactions
           ,
           wherein
           all
           Free-born
           Subjects
           are
           more
           directly
           concerned
           .
        
         
           That
           which
           more
           particularly
           respected
           the
           King
           ,
           was
           a
           certain
           kind
           of
           resolved
           stiffness
           ,
           in
           turning
           of
           many
           of
           his
           Gracious
           Messages
           ;
           not
           always
           expressing
           so
           much
           Loyal
           reverence
           ,
           as
           was
           due
           to
           Majesty
           ,
           under
           whose
           Protection
           they
           injoyed
           their
           Lives
           and
           Fortunes
           ,
           and
           that
           Freedom
           of
           Speech
           ,
           which
           they
           sometimes
           made
           use
           of
           to
           the
           very
           utmost
           .
           But
           to
           say
           no
           more
           of
           that
           ;
           among
           other
           things
           of
           a
           high
           Nature
           ,
           His
           Majesty
           was
           precluded
           ,
           as
           far
           as
           a
           Vote
           could
           go
           ,
           from
           advanceing
           Money
           upon
           any
           part
           of
           his
           Revenue
           ;
           and
           all
           Men
           were
           frighted
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           was
           possible
           ,
           from
           considering
           the
           emergent
           Necessities
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           lending
           any
           thing
           in
           the
           greatest
           Exigencies
           of
           State.
           This
           seems
           extreamly
           harsh
           ,
           and
           puts
           the
           King
           in
           harder
           Circumstances
           ,
           than
           the
           meanest
           of
           his
           Subjects
           .
           It
           contradicts
           the
           most
           Fundamental
           and
           Divine
           Principle
           of
           all
           Justice
           ,
           and
           Equity
           :
           
             Do
             unto
             all
             Men
             ,
             as
             ye
             would
             they
             should
             do
             unto
             you
             .
          
           For
           some
           of
           them
           might
           have
           remembred
           ,
           that
           without
           a
           Power
           to
           take
           up
           Money
           on
           what
           Estates
           they
           had
           ,
           they
           could
           not
           have
           treated
           the
           several
           Corporations
           so
           liberally
           as
           they
           did
           ;
           and
           then
           they
           had
           not
           been
           put
           in
           a
           Capacity
           of
           giving
           their
           concurrence
           to
           that
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           Vote
           .
           Without
           borrowing
           ,
           the
           Reckoning
           could
           not
           always
           have
           
           been
           discharged
           ;
           and
           I
           'm
           sure
           ,
           if
           all
           the
           Claret
           ,
           and
           other
           good
           Liquor
           ,
           that
           was
           spent
           at
           Elections
           ,
           had
           never
           been
           paid
           for
           ,
           it
           had
           been
           one
           of
           the
           greatest
           Grievances
           the
           Nation
           ever
           groaned
           under
           since
           the
           Conquest
           .
           But
           this
           is
           not
           the
           worst
           Mischief
           that
           might
           have
           followed
           :
           Suppose
           the
           People
           had
           been
           generally
           overawed
           by
           this
           Vote
           ,
           and
           an
           Invincible
           Armado
           had
           appeared
           on
           our
           Coasts
           ,
           with
           a
           potent
           Army
           ready
           to
           be
           put
           a
           Shoar
           :
           What
           a
           Case
           had
           this
           poor
           Nation
           been
           in
           ?
           No
           Money
           ,
           no
           Men
           ,
           no
           Ammunition
           sufficient
           to
           oppose
           the
           Invader
           .
           We
           had
           been
           made
           an
           easie
           Prey
           to
           a
           Foreign
           Enemy
           :
           We
           must
           have
           tamely
           yielded
           our
           Throats
           to
           the
           Sword
           of
           the
           Conqueror
           :
           Every
           Penny
           of
           Money
           we
           had
           ,
           every
           Foot
           of
           Land
           we
           possessed
           ,
           had
           been
           at
           his
           Disposal
           ;
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           might
           have
           been
           suddenly
           surpriz'd
           and
           inslav'd
           :
           And
           who
           had
           been
           the
           Betrayers
           of
           the
           Liberties
           of
           the
           Subject
           then
           ?
           I
           believe
           the
           greatest
           and
           soberest
           part
           of
           the
           Nation
           was
           something
           startled
           at
           such
           Proceedings
           as
           these
           ,
           that
           by
           Degrees
           might
           have
           made
           us
           perfect
           Vassals
           to
           our
           Fellow
           Subjects
           ,
           that
           would
           have
           quite
           disarmed
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           exposed
           our
           Lives
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           we
           had
           ,
           to
           any
           growing
           Power
           ,
           that
           had
           but
           the
           Confidence
           and
           Ambition
           to
           invade
           us
           .
           But
           to
           imagine
           that
           we
           are
           therefore
           Enemies
           to
           Parliaments
           ,
           is
           a
           very
           great
           mistake
           .
           And
           to
           convince
           you
           of
           this
           ,
           I
           shall
           shew
           you
           the
           Excellent
           use
           ,
           and
           publick
           Advantages
           of
           Parliaments
           ;
           What
           it
           is
           that
           too
           frequently
           hinders
           the
           good
           Effects
           they
           might
           otherwise
           have
           ;
           and
           What
           are
           the
           pernicious
           Consequences
           of
           that
           ;
           And
           then
           desire
           you
           to
           accept
           the
           
           most
           Hearty
           ,
           and
           Seasonable
           Advice
           ,
           I
           am
           able
           to
           give
           ,
           concerning
           your
           present
           Elections
           .
        
         
           As
           to
           the
           Excellent
           Use
           ,
           and
           many
           publick
           Advantages
           of
           Parliaments
           :
           I
           must
           here
           profess
           ,
           (
           and
           I
           think
           I
           speak
           the
           Sense
           of
           a
           great
           many
           more
           )
           that
           I
           really
           esteem
           it
           my
           greatest
           Temporal
           Happiness
           ,
           that
           I
           was
           born
           in
           a
           Land
           ,
           where
           the
           Government
           is
           so
           admirably
           Tempered
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           has
           all
           the
           Power
           that
           is
           requisite
           to
           inable
           him
           to
           execute
           Justice
           ,
           and
           protect
           his
           People
           ,
           and
           which
           may
           be
           enough
           ,
           by
           the
           Blessing
           of
           God
           ,
           to
           make
           him
           Great
           ,
           and
           Victorious
           :
           And
           his
           Subjects
           injoy
           so
           much
           Liberty
           under
           him
           ,
           as
           is
           abundantly
           sufficient
           to
           make
           their
           lives
           pleasant
           ,
           and
           easie
           :
           And
           as
           the
           power
           of
           our
           Kings
           has
           not
           been
           known
           to
           degenerate
           into
           Tyranny
           ;
           so
           I
           wish
           and
           hope
           ,
           that
           the
           Liberty
           of
           the
           People
           will
           never
           be
           turned
           into
           a
           froward
           petulancy
           ,
           and
           contempt
           of
           the
           Royal
           Authority
           .
           The
           Parliamentary
           way
           of
           consulting
           for
           the
           publick
           good
           ,
           has
           been
           a
           very
           Antient
           usage
           in
           all
           these
           parts
           of
           Europe
           ,
           and
           some
           Foot-steps
           of
           it
           are
           still
           remaining
           in
           most
           of
           our
           Neighbouring
           Nations
           :
           But
           the
           Freedom
           and
           Dignity
           of
           those
           Noble
           Assemblies
           has
           been
           no
           where
           so
           entirely
           preserved
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           in
           this
           .
           And
           the
           Benefits
           we
           might
           all
           receive
           from
           it
           ,
           if
           not
           prevented
           by
           our
           own
           Folly
           ,
           are
           exceeding
           Great
           ;
           I
           shall
           name
           a
           few
           that
           seem
           very
           apparent
           .
        
         
           And
           one
           is
           ,
           That
           it
           tends
           directly
           to
           the
           increase
           of
           that
           Love
           ,
           and
           care
           which
           ought
           to
           be
           betwixt
           a
           King
           and
           his
           People
           ;
           for
           it
           gives
           them
           both
           the
           fairest
           opportunity
           
           of
           knowing
           ,
           and
           understanding
           one
           another
           ;
           which
           is
           always
           the
           Original
           Ground
           ,
           and
           first
           occasion
           of
           all
           good
           will
           ,
           and
           kind
           inclination
           .
           And
           this
           being
           once
           produced
           ,
           by
           the
           intercourse
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           between
           the
           Sovereign
           ,
           and
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           will
           be
           easily
           preserved
           in
           the
           Breast
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           may
           quickly
           be
           propagated
           ,
           by
           the
           respective
           Members
           ,
           through
           every
           Town
           ,
           and
           County
           in
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           .
           The
           ordinary
           Method
           of
           proceeding
           ,
           in
           those
           Honourable
           Assemblies
           ,
           seems
           purposely
           contrived
           for
           the
           most
           happy
           procurement
           of
           this
           good
           effect
           :
           For
           when
           all
           the
           Nobility
           ,
           and
           many
           of
           the
           principal
           Gentry
           meet
           together
           ,
           from
           every
           quarter
           ,
           they
           must
           needs
           be
           intimately
           acquainted
           with
           the
           State
           and
           concerns
           of
           all
           and
           every
           part
           of
           the
           Nation
           .
           And
           after
           they
           have
           considered
           ,
           and
           agreed
           upon
           Bills
           for
           the
           Publick
           good
           and
           Interest
           ;
           these
           cannot
           pass
           into
           Acts
           ,
           till
           they
           be
           strengthened
           by
           the
           Royal
           aslent
           ;
           which
           being
           granted
           ,
           is
           the
           most
           generous
           expression
           of
           the
           King's
           Grace
           and
           Favour
           to
           his
           People
           ,
           when
           he
           gives
           them
           Laws
           to
           be
           Governed
           by
           ,
           which
           were
           proposed
           ,
           and
           advised
           for
           their
           particular
           advantage
           ,
           by
           their
           own
           Representatives
           .
           On
           the
           other
           side
           when
           the
           necessities
           of
           the
           Government
           have
           been
           intimated
           to
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           they
           freely
           consent
           to
           the
           raising
           such
           Summs
           ,
           as
           the
           occasion
           requires
           ;
           what
           might
           indeed
           be
           esteemed
           but
           a
           Duty
           ,
           may
           be
           received
           as
           a
           kindness
           .
           And
           here
           is
           the
           best
           Foundation
           imaginable
           for
           a
           mutual
           indearment
           :
           When
           the
           King
           lays
           the
           highest
           Obligations
           upon
           his
           People
           ,
           by
           consenting
           to
           such
           Laws
           ,
           as
           make
           for
           their
           ease
           and
           prosperity
           ;
           and
           the
           People
           return
           their
           thanks
           for
           these
           Royal
           Favours
           ,
           
           by
           begging
           his
           acceptance
           of
           such
           supplyes
           ,
           as
           may
           be
           sufficient
           to
           maintain
           the
           Dignity
           ,
           and
           Power
           of
           the
           King.
           The
           advantages
           of
           such
           a
           reciprocal
           Love
           and
           affection
           are
           so
           very
           great
           ,
           and
           manifest
           ,
           that
           it
           will
           not
           be
           necessary
           to
           mention
           more
           ;
           but
           there
           are
           some
           which
           Spring
           from
           the
           same
           root
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           a
           further
           evidence
           of
           the
           excellency
           and
           wisdom
           of
           our
           established
           Constitution
           .
        
         
           It
           gives
           the
           greatest
           security
           that
           can
           be
           had
           that
           the
           Publick
           Treasure
           shall
           not
           be
           mispent
           :
           Not
           only
           because
           the
           misapplication
           of
           what
           had
           been
           raised
           ,
           is
           the
           only
           pretence
           that
           can
           be
           made
           use
           of
           for
           any
           backwardness
           to
           a
           further
           supply
           ;
           but
           because
           it
           is
           inconsistent
           with
           the
           generosity
           of
           a
           great
           Prince
           ,
           to
           lavish
           away
           the
           best
           expressions
           of
           his
           Peoples
           Gratitude
           ,
           for
           the
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Protection
           they
           injoy
           under
           him
           .
        
         
           It
           affords
           the
           best
           incouragement
           to
           every
           man's
           private
           Industry
           ,
           to
           make
           what
           improvement
           he
           can
           of
           his
           Estate
           ;
           when
           he
           is
           assured
           that
           whatever
           he
           gains
           is
           his
           own
           Property
           ,
           and
           that
           not
           one
           Farthing
           shall
           be
           demanded
           of
           him
           ,
           without
           the
           Consent
           of
           prudent
           and
           worthy
           Persons
           ,
           freely
           chosen
           and
           intrusted
           by
           the
           Body
           of
           the
           Nation
           .
           And
           Industry
           increases
           Wealth
           ,
           and
           Wealth
           brings
           content
           ,
           and
           satisfaction
           to
           them
           that
           injoy
           it
           ,
           and
           preserves
           the
           People
           in
           a
           prosperous
           ,
           and
           flourishing
           condition
           .
        
         
           Besides
           ,
           our
           most
           excellent
           Constitution
           ,
           might
           ,
           if
           any
           thing
           can
           ,
           ingage
           the
           minds
           of
           all
           men
           ,
           to
           an
           unconstrained
           and
           chearful
           Obedience
           to
           the
           Laws
           :
           
           Since
           our
           submission
           is
           required
           to
           nothing
           else
           ,
           but
           what
           has
           been
           seriously
           weighed
           ,
           and
           deliberately
           resolved
           ,
           by
           Legal
           Representatives
           ,
           impowered
           to
           do
           it
           ,
           by
           our
           own
           choice
           .
           And
           there
           can
           be
           no
           possible
           excuse
           for
           the
           man
           ,
           that
           will
           not
           be
           bound
           by
           his
           own
           Act
           ;
           that
           refuses
           Subjection
           to
           what
           has
           been
           ,
           at
           least
           implicitly
           ,
           consented
           to
           by
           every
           Free-holder
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           And
           now
           let
           any
           Man
           judge
           what
           an
           admirable
           Constitution
           it
           is
           ,
           where
           the
           Prince
           and
           the
           Subject
           are
           strongly
           ingaged
           to
           Love
           one
           another
           ;
           where
           the
           Publick
           Treasure
           is
           guarded
           by
           Loyalty
           ,
           and
           Honour
           ;
           where
           Industry
           is
           incouraged
           ,
           as
           much
           as
           is
           possible
           ;
           and
           where
           a
           chearful
           ,
           and
           voluntary
           Obedience
           cannot
           be
           denyed
           !
           Let
           other
           Nations
           call
           themselves
           Free
           ,
           Let
           potent
           Princes
           assume
           what
           Titles
           they
           please
           ,
           there
           is
           none
           can
           boast
           of
           more
           Liberty
           ,
           than
           the
           English-man
           injoys
           ;
           there
           is
           no
           Monarch
           more
           absolute
           ,
           and
           really
           Great
           ,
           than
           a
           King
           of
           
             Great
             Britain
          
           ,
           inthroned
           in
           the
           Hearts
           and
           affections
           of
           his
           People
           .
        
         
           Having
           thus
           briefly
           mention'd
           some
           of
           the
           more
           manifest
           and
           plain
           advantages
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           I
           shall
           in
           the
           next
           place
           shew
           you
           ,
           What
           it
           is
           that
           too
           frequently
           hinders
           the
           good
           effects
           they
           might
           otherwise
           have
           .
           And
           the
           general
           occasion
           of
           this
           ,
           Is
           a
           strange
           notion
           ,
           that
           has
           been
           almost
           universally
           spread
           ,
           and
           will
           very
           hardly
           be
           rooted
           out
           of
           many
           mens
           minds
           ,
           That
           the
           Court
           and
           the
           Country
           ,
           the
           King
           and
           his
           Subjects
           are
           two
           quite
           different
           Interests
           .
           This
           has
           been
           slyly
           infinuated
           by
           some
           ,
           and
           easily
           believed
           by
           others
           ,
           and
           
           eagerly
           fomented
           by
           those
           ,
           whose
           profit
           ,
           or
           Ambitition
           made
           them
           desirous
           of
           a
           Change.
           Such
           are
           always
           very
           forward
           to
           Discharge
           their
           private
           Discontents
           upon
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           hope
           to
           advance
           themselves
           ,
           and
           repair
           their
           shattered
           Estates
           ,
           by
           dissetling
           the
           Foundations
           of
           our
           Peace
           .
           But
           the
           pretences
           ,
           on
           which
           these
           men
           are
           wont
           to
           bear
           up
           themselves
           ,
           are
           manifestly
           vain
           ,
           and
           supported
           by
           nothing
           ,
           but
           a
           most
           palpable
           mistake
           .
           The
           true
           Interest
           of
           a
           King
           ,
           and
           his
           People
           is
           still
           the
           same
           .
           For
           it
           is
           certainly
           the
           Interest
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           should
           be
           in
           a
           condition
           to
           administer
           Justice
           ,
           and
           preserve
           the
           Peace
           at
           home
           ,
           and
           likewise
           to
           defend
           them
           from
           their
           Enemies
           abroad
           :
           And
           it
           is
           no
           less
           the
           Interest
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           that
           the
           People
           should
           thrive
           under
           his
           Government
           ,
           be
           free
           from
           discontents
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           capacity
           to
           contribute
           Liberally
           to
           the
           Publick
           necessities
           .
           What
           King
           could
           Reign
           happily
           ,
           where
           the
           People
           were
           extremly
           poor
           and
           indigent
           ,
           in
           danger
           of
           being
           ruined
           by
           a
           six
           months
           tax
           ,
           and
           unable
           to
           give
           what
           the
           exigencies
           of
           State
           may
           require
           ?
           And
           what
           People
           could
           esteem
           themselves
           safe
           ,
           where
           the
           Exchequer
           were
           so
           low
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           so
           straitned
           ,
           that
           he
           could
           not
           curb
           the
           insolence
           of
           unquiet
           ,
           and
           Seditious
           Spirits
           among
           his
           own
           Subjects
           ;
           nor
           repulse
           the
           force
           ,
           and
           assaults
           of
           a
           Foreign
           Power
           ?
           The
           thing
           is
           so
           exceeding
           plain
           and
           abvious
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           no
           man
           ,
           but
           he
           may
           presently
           perceive
           ,
           how
           these
           Lines
           ,
           which
           seem
           to
           be
           drawn
           from
           the
           most
           opposite
           parts
           of
           the
           Circumference
           ,
           do
           meet
           at
           last
           ,
           and
           must
           always
           center
           in
           the
           same
           Point
           .
        
         
         
           But
           this
           notwithstanding
           ,
           there
           are
           some
           that
           would
           fain
           persuade
           us
           ,
           that
           the
           Distance
           betwixt
           them
           is
           so
           very
           great
           ,
           that
           it
           is
           impossible
           they
           should
           ever
           be
           united
           .
           And
           when
           they
           have
           practised
           upon
           the
           credulous
           Multitude
           ,
           and
           made
           them
           believe
           it
           ,
           their
           Heads
           are
           easily
           filled
           with
           a
           thousand
           Jealousies
           ,
           and
           wonderful
           Chimera's
           .
           They
           are
           like
           Melancholly
           musing
           Men
           ,
           that
           draw
           Pictures
           in
           the
           Clouds
           ,
           that
           can
           discover
           fiery
           Dragons
           ,
           and
           most
           dreadful
           Apparitions
           in
           the
           clearest
           Sky
           .
           They
           are
           mightily
           troubled
           ,
           not
           with
           any
           thing
           they
           see
           ,
           or
           feel
           ;
           but
           with
           very
           strange
           imaginary
           Fears
           ,
           created
           only
           by
           their
           own
           Fancies
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           shall
           indeavour
           to
           disabuse
           those
           ,
           if
           there
           be
           any
           such
           ,
           that
           do
           not
           yet
           see
           through
           the
           Design
           ;
           And
           to
           this
           end
           I
           shall
           lay
           before
           you
           the
           most
           common
           Pretences
           ,
           upon
           which
           these
           Jealousies
           have
           been
           advanced
           .
           They
           are
           no
           other
           than
           what
           you
           have
           often
           heard
           ;
           and
           it
           may
           be
           ,
           you
           have
           been
           very
           much
           concerned
           about
           them
           ;
           and
           there
           was
           Reason
           enough
           for
           it
           ,
           if
           they
           had
           been
           true
           .
           We
           have
           been
           told
           therefore
           ,
           of
           Grievances
           of
           the
           Subject
           ;
           that
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Properties
           ,
           were
           like
           to
           be
           invaded
           ;
           and
           that
           we
           were
           in
           imminent
           Danger
           of
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ,
           and
           Popery
           .
           These
           were
           the
           things
           with
           which
           the
           whole
           Nation
           was
           allarm'd
           ;
           and
           the
           cry
           was
           sometimes
           so
           strong
           ,
           and
           almost
           universal
           ,
           that
           it
           might
           have
           something
           discomposed
           a
           very
           sober
           ,
           and
           steddy-minded
           Man
           :
           But
           when
           the
           fright
           was
           a
           little
           over
           ,
           and
           he
           had
           time
           to
           recollect
           himself
           ,
           he
           would
           quickly
           find
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           no
           just
           ground
           to
           be
           
           much
           disturbed
           with
           these
           terrible
           Apprehensions
           :
           And
           that
           they
           were
           but
           like
           a
           fit
           of
           the
           Night-Mare
           ,
           in
           which
           the
           Party
           affected
           Dreams
           he
           is
           so
           horribly
           oppressed
           ,
           with
           some
           mighty
           Weight
           lying
           on
           him
           ,
           that
           he
           can
           scarce
           fetch
           his
           Breath
           ;
           when
           all
           the
           pressure
           is
           occasioned
           ,
           only
           by
           feculent
           Humors
           in
           his
           own
           Body
           ,
           and
           gross
           Blood
           too
           much
           thickened
           with
           Melancholy
           .
           But
           whatever
           they
           be
           ,
           or
           from
           what
           cause
           soever
           they
           may
           arise
           ,
           I
           shall
           briefly
           examine
           the
           several
           Pretences
           that
           have
           been
           wont
           to
           be
           made
           .
        
         
           The
           most
           common
           and
           general
           is
           that
           of
           Grievances
           ;
           a
           Word
           of
           a
           loose
           and
           uncertain
           Signification
           ,
           and
           in
           Vulgar
           Acception
           implyes
           any
           thing
           ,
           that
           any
           Man
           is
           displeased
           at
           ,
           and
           can
           declaim
           against
           with
           some
           shew
           of
           a
           popular
           Zeal
           for
           the
           good
           of
           the
           Subject
           .
           And
           the
           Invective
           is
           always
           the
           easiest
           part
           of
           Eloquence
           ,
           at
           least
           it
           makes
           the
           deepest
           Impressions
           on
           the
           Minds
           of
           those
           ,
           that
           are
           readily
           disposed
           to
           entertain
           an
           ill
           Opinion
           of
           their
           Governours
           .
           But
           you
           know
           what
           sort
           of
           Men
           they
           are
           ,
           who
           if
           a
           waggish
           Boy
           do
           but
           tie
           a
           Straw
           about
           their
           Finger
           ,
           imagine
           presently
           they
           are
           in
           Chains
           ,
           and
           most
           heavily
           loaded
           with
           Bolts
           ,
           and
           Irons
           .
           Complaints
           have
           run
           high
           ,
           and
           the
           talk
           has
           been
           loud
           ,
           but
           it
           is
           hard
           to
           conceive
           what
           Grievances
           we
           have
           suffered
           ,
           since
           the
           happy
           Restitution
           of
           the
           Royal
           Line
           ;
           unless
           it
           be
           ,
           that
           our
           Trade
           has
           been
           incouraged
           ,
           our
           Shipping
           and
           Navigation
           exceedingly
           increased
           ,
           and
           that
           we
           have
           lived
           in
           plenty
           ,
           and
           ease
           ,
           and
           injoyed
           our
           own
           quietly
           ,
           and
           been
           almost
           miraculously
           preserved
           in
           Peace
           ,
           by
           the
           great
           Wisdom
           ,
           and
           continual
           Care
           of
           a
           most
           
           Excellent
           Prince
           ;
           when
           most
           of
           our
           Neighbours
           were
           harassed
           ,
           and
           miserably
           wasted
           with
           Fire
           and
           Sword
           ,
           and
           felt
           the
           Extremities
           of
           a
           most
           Bloody
           and
           Cruel
           War.
           I
           cannot
           tell
           of
           any
           other
           Grievances
           but
           these
           ;
           yet
           I
           will
           not
           deny
           but
           that
           there
           may
           possibly
           be
           some
           Inconveniences
           not
           formerly
           foreseen
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           provided
           against
           by
           future
           Acts.
           But
           if
           any
           such
           shall
           be
           really
           found
           ,
           and
           Bills
           prepared
           for
           the
           Redress
           of
           them
           ;
           no
           Man
           can
           have
           any
           Reason
           to
           doubt
           ,
           but
           that
           His
           Majesty
           will
           be
           so
           far
           from
           rejecting
           them
           ,
           that
           he
           will
           be
           glad
           of
           that
           ,
           and
           all
           other
           Opportunities
           ,
           of
           Expressing
           the
           Passion
           he
           has
           for
           the
           Ease
           ,
           and
           Satisfaction
           of
           his
           People
           .
           In
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           if
           we
           shall
           murmur
           and
           be
           discontented
           still
           ,
           and
           complain
           of
           Grievances
           ,
           when
           we
           feel
           none
           ,
           but
           what
           every
           Man
           's
           private
           Misfortune
           ,
           or
           Negligence
           ,
           or
           Prodigality
           has
           brought
           upon
           him
           ;
           instead
           of
           the
           most
           happy
           ,
           as
           we
           are
           ,
           if
           we
           could
           but
           be
           made
           sensible
           of
           it
           ,
           we
           may
           be
           justly
           esteemed
           the
           most
           foolish
           ,
           repining
           ,
           querulous
           ,
           ungrateful
           People
           in
           the
           World.
           
        
         
           Another
           Pretence
           has
           been
           ,
           that
           our
           Liberties
           and
           Properties
           were
           like
           to
           be
           invaded
           .
           Liberty
           ,
           and
           Property
           are
           Words
           that
           chime
           well
           enough
           ,
           and
           have
           been
           a
           great
           while
           yoaked
           together
           ,
           and
           men
           have
           been
           taught
           to
           tune
           them
           over
           ,
           in
           a
           most
           Lamentable
           note
           ,
           as
           if
           all
           they
           had
           were
           ready
           to
           be
           seized
           on
           ,
           and
           they
           hurried
           to
           Goal
           ,
           and
           made
           absolute
           Slaves
           and
           Beggers
           immediately
           .
           For
           this
           ,
           if
           the
           consternation
           he
           may
           have
           been
           in
           will
           give
           him
           leave
           to
           consider
           ,
           let
           every
           man
           consult
           but
           his
           own
           Experience
           .
           Has
           he
           ever
           been
           illegally
           imprisoned
           ?
           Has
           any
           part
           
           of
           his
           Goods
           been
           violently
           wrested
           from
           him
           ?
           Has
           his
           House
           been
           rifled
           ?
           Have
           his
           Barns
           been
           Robbed
           ?
           Have
           his
           Cattle
           been
           driven
           off
           his
           Ground
           ?
           Has
           he
           Suffered
           any
           thing
           ,
           under
           colour
           of
           Authority
           ,
           that
           could
           not
           be
           justified
           by
           the
           known
           Laws
           ?
           If
           he
           do
           not
           find
           himself
           to
           have
           been
           thus
           injured
           ;
           or
           if
           he
           do
           ,
           if
           the
           Courts
           be
           open
           ,
           and
           ready
           to
           vindicate
           him
           ,
           in
           a
           fair
           ,
           and
           equal
           Tryal
           ;
           he
           may
           then
           reasonably
           conclude
           that
           neither
           his
           Person
           ,
           nor
           Estate
           were
           in
           that
           hazard
           ,
           which
           the
           Noise
           that
           was
           made
           ,
           might
           incline
           him
           to
           imagine
           .
           For
           certainly
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Properties
           are
           as
           well
           secured
           ,
           as
           any
           thing
           on
           Earth
           can
           be
           ;
           they
           have
           all
           the
           defence
           that
           Human
           Prudence
           could
           possibly
           give
           them
           :
           they
           are
           established
           by
           Law
           ,
           and
           have
           been
           confirmed
           ,
           and
           ratified
           ,
           by
           the
           constant
           Practice
           ,
           and
           many
           Gracious
           Declarations
           of
           a
           long
           Succession
           of
           excellent
           Princes
           .
           And
           we
           can
           have
           no
           greater
           Assurances
           than
           these
           ,
           on
           this
           side
           Heaven
           .
           But
           if
           we
           have
           not
           too
           highly
           provoked
           Almighty
           God
           ,
           by
           our
           great
           unthankfulness
           ,
           for
           the
           many
           Blessings
           bestowed
           upon
           us
           ;
           but
           can
           be
           perswaded
           to
           trust
           him
           with
           the
           Event
           ,
           and
           depend
           upon
           his
           Wisdom
           for
           the
           Issues
           of
           the
           future
           ;
           the
           Divine
           Providence
           might
           then
           be
           ingaged
           for
           our
           temporal
           Good
           ,
           and
           the
           preservation
           of
           those
           many
           Earthly
           Felicities
           we
           now
           injoy
           .
           But
           our
           Fears
           ,
           and
           Jealousies
           are
           the
           most
           effectual
           way
           to
           defeat
           our
           Hopes
           ,
           and
           put
           all
           in
           Disorder
           ;
           they
           provoke
           God
           ,
           
             Who
             knows
             we
             have
          
           
           
             need
             of
             these
             things
          
           ,
           and
           has
           forbidden
           us
           to
           disturb
           our
           minds
           ,
           with
           distracting
           Cares
           for
           what
           is
           to
           come
           ;
           they
           highly
           disoblige
           our
           Sovereign
           ,
           by
           manifesting
           an
           open
           ,
           and
           professed
           Distrust
           of
           his
           Royal
           Goodness
           ,
           and
           
           Favour
           ;
           and
           they
           certainly
           bereave
           us
           of
           the
           fruit
           of
           that
           happiness
           we
           had
           in
           possession
           ,
           by
           racking
           our
           thoughts
           with
           vain
           surmizes
           of
           unknown
           evils
           ,
           we
           conceit
           may
           possibly
           befall
           us
           hereafter
           .
           This
           weakness
           ,
           and
           folly
           of
           our
           Nation
           ,
           has
           not
           escaped
           the
           notice
           of
           Strangers
           .
           There
           is
           a
           little
           Book
           written
           some
           years
           since
           ,
           and
           got
           into
           publick
           ,
           I
           know
           not
           how
           ,
           wherein
           the
           Author
           chalks
           out
           the
           way
           to
           the
           Universal
           Empire
           .
           And
           among
           other
           remarks
           ,
           he
           tells
           us
           ,
           that
           ,
           
             If
             the
             King
             be
             obliged
             to
             maintain
             strong
             Garrisons
             ,
          
           though
           for
           their
           necessary
           defence
           ,
           
             this
             will
             make
             the
          
           
           
             People
             of
          
           England
           
             believe
             ,
             that
             he
             is
             forming
             great
             designs
             against
             their
             pretended
             Liberty
             :
          
           So
           he
           is
           pleased
           to
           call
           it
           .
           And
           this
           he
           observes
           ,
           not
           without
           Reason
           ,
           is
           one
           thing
           ,
           that
           will
           contribute
           very
           much
           to
           the
           hastening
           of
           our
           ruine
           .
           And
           if
           so
           ,
           then
           those
           that
           seemed
           so
           very
           full
           of
           Apprehensions
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           have
           had
           his
           late
           Majesty's
           ordinary
           Guards
           disbanded
           ,
           did
           but
           pursue
           the
           Methods
           laid
           down
           in
           the
           
             French
             Politicks
          
           ;
           and
           if
           there
           were
           any
           Pensioners
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           easily
           guessed
           ,
           who
           they
           were
           ;
           unless
           the
           Gentlemen
           had
           so
           great
           a
           Zeal
           for
           the
           Service
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           do
           the
           work
           freely
           ,
           without
           expecting
           any
           Wages
           for
           their
           pains
           .
           But
           they
           might
           pretend
           what
           they
           pleased
           for
           the
           ripening
           the
           Projects
           ,
           they
           were
           then
           framing
           :
           Our
           Liberties
           we
           saw
           were
           not
           attempted
           ,
           and
           God
           be
           praised
           ,
           they
           remain
           unviolated
           still
           ;
           and
           are
           not
           in
           any
           Visible
           Danger
           ,
           unless
           we
           betray
           them
           our selves
           ,
           by
           our
           own
           Groundless
           and
           Extravagant
           Fears
           .
        
         
         
           The
           next
           Pretence
           is
           not
           much
           unlike
           unto
           this
           ;
           And
           it
           is
           ,
           as
           we
           have
           been
           told
           ,
           that
           we
           were
           in
           imminent
           danger
           of
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ;
           that
           all
           things
           should
           be
           managed
           by
           the
           present
           Will
           ,
           and
           uncertain
           Humour
           of
           those
           that
           Governed
           ,
           and
           that
           our
           Lives
           and
           Fortunes
           stood
           continually
           exposed
           to
           their
           Pleasure
           ;
           just
           as
           we
           remember
           it
           was
           in
           the
           time
           of
           the
           late
           unhappy
           Confusions
           .
           For
           answer
           to
           this
           we
           need
           but
           to
           examine
           again
           ,
           and
           consider
           ,
           whether
           every
           thing
           has
           not
           been
           administred
           in
           the
           due
           Form
           and
           Course
           of
           Law
           ;
           and
           then
           why
           should
           we
           entertain
           these
           frightful
           and
           uncharitable
           suspitions
           ?
           Princes
           do
           well
           understand
           ,
           that
           
             the
             Throne
             is
             established
             by
             Rightiousness
          
           ;
           
           and
           that
           it
           is
           their
           most
           unalterable
           Interest
           ,
           to
           take
           care
           that
           Justice
           be
           duely
           ,
           and
           impartially
           executed
           .
           They
           whom
           the
           Laws
           have
           settled
           in
           the
           highest
           place
           of
           Eminency
           ,
           and
           Power
           ,
           will
           always
           have
           a
           tender
           regard
           to
           those
           Laws
           by
           which
           they
           Reign
           ,
           and
           do
           support
           their
           Royal
           Dignity
           ,
           and
           Prerogatives
           .
           But
           all
           that
           invade
           the
           supream
           Authority
           by
           Usurpation
           ,
           must
           needs
           be
           Arbitrary
           .
           They
           seat
           themselves
           by
           force
           at
           the
           Helm
           ,
           they
           come
           in
           with
           a
           storm
           ;
           and
           the
           Violence
           of
           the
           tempest
           unavoidably
           dashes
           the
           Vessel
           upon
           this
           Rock
           .
           What
           they
           have
           gotten
           illegally
           cannot
           be
           managed
           according
           to
           Law.
           What
           was
           the
           purchase
           of
           the
           Sword
           ,
           must
           of
           necessity
           be
           maintained
           by
           the
           Sword.
           Intruding
           Powers
           will
           always
           be
           the
           most
           Arbitrary
           ,
           and
           Tyrannical
           .
           Lawful
           Princes
           have
           a
           kind
           Sympathy
           for
           their
           Subjects
           ;
           and
           are
           sensibly
           affected
           with
           any
           Miseries
           ,
           and
           Inconveniences
           they
           suffer
           ;
           as
           the
           pain
           of
           every
           Member
           ,
           is
           immediately
           felt
           by
           the
           Head.
           But
           an
           Usurper
           is
           not
           
           such
           a
           Sympathizing
           ,
           but
           a
           Rider
           ,
           as
           it
           were
           ,
           of
           the
           Body
           Politick
           ;
           he
           leaps
           into
           the
           Saddle
           ,
           and
           puts
           on
           Furiously
           ,
           and
           Whips
           ,
           and
           Spurrs
           without
           any
           Mercy
           to
           the
           poor
           Creature
           he
           has
           got
           under
           him
           .
           He
           comes
           at
           first
           with
           his
           fair
           Promises
           ,
           and
           smooth
           Pretences
           ,
           and
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           ,
           inveighs
           most
           vehemently
           against
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ,
           and
           Invasion
           of
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           People
           .
           But
           it
           is
           time
           to
           look
           to
           your
           Money
           ,
           when
           the
           Pick-pockets
           bid
           you
           ,
           have
           a
           care
           of
           your
           Purses
           .
           There
           was
           never
           any
           great
           Cry
           made
           about
           this
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           ,
           but
           that
           they
           who
           opened
           the
           loudest
           against
           it
           ,
           had
           a
           design
           to
           introduce
           it
           themselves
           .
           It
           is
           beyond
           all
           question
           ;
           we
           have
           seen
           the
           thing
           effectually
           experimented
           ,
           more
           than
           once
           .
           We
           have
           reason
           therefore
           to
           be
           always
           Jealous
           of
           these
           seeming
           Zealots
           for
           the
           Publick
           good
           ;
           but
           there
           can
           never
           be
           any
           just
           occasion
           of
           suspecting
           our
           Prince
           ;
           especially
           since
           his
           Majesty
           has
           been
           pleased
           to
           assure
           us
           :
           
             That
             he
             cannot
             wish
             to
             be
             a
             Greater
             Monarch
             ,
             then
             the
             Laws
             of
          
           England
           
             are
             sufficient
             to
             make
             Him.
          
           Which
           most
           Gracious
           expression
           ,
           if
           we
           had
           no
           other
           Arguments
           for
           our
           Confidence
           ,
           were
           alone
           abundantly
           enough
           to
           quiet
           all
           Men's
           fears
           ,
           as
           to
           this
           Particular
           .
        
         
           But
           yet
           we
           have
           been
           farther
           told
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           great
           danger
           of
           our
           being
           suddenly
           over-run
           with
           Popery
           .
           This
           indeed
           is
           a
           thing
           ,
           if
           it
           were
           true
           ,
           that
           might
           justly
           fill
           the
           minds
           of
           all
           sober
           men
           with
           very
           sad
           apprehensions
           .
           But
           you
           know
           that
           it
           was
           this
           very
           pretence
           ,
           that
           was
           made
           use
           of
           to
           bring
           on
           and
           strengthen
           the
           late
           Rebellion
           .
           The
           People
           were
           then
           generally
           perswaded
           
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           the
           whole
           Church
           of
           England
           was
           ,
           at
           least
           ,
           Popishly
           affected
           ;
           but
           when
           they
           had
           destroyed
           ,
           or
           Eclipsed
           it
           ,
           by
           these
           malicious
           suggestions
           ,
           seconded
           by
           the
           force
           of
           Arms
           ;
           how
           very
           few
           were
           there
           of
           that
           Communion
           who
           did
           then
           revolt
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           when
           they
           lay
           under
           the
           strongest
           temptations
           !
           Nay
           did
           they
           not
           even
           then
           ,
           among
           all
           the
           pressures
           ,
           and
           difficulties
           they
           were
           in
           ,
           most
           stoutly
           oppose
           all
           Popish
           Innovations
           ,
           and
           write
           most
           learnedly
           ,
           and
           convincingly
           against
           them
           ?
           And
           if
           the
           Priests
           ,
           or
           others
           of
           that
           Church
           should
           nourish
           a
           vain
           hope
           ,
           and
           imagin
           they
           had
           gotten
           some
           present
           advantage
           ;
           and
           should
           be
           thereby
           incouraged
           to
           try
           their
           Arts
           of
           Insinuation
           ,
           and
           begin
           to
           practise
           upon
           the
           weakness
           ,
           and
           credulity
           of
           the
           Vulgar
           ;
           I
           do
           not
           doubt
           ,
           but
           they
           would
           quickly
           find
           very
           great
           Numbers
           ,
           who
           ,
           by
           the
           Grace
           of
           God
           ,
           would
           be
           ready
           ,
           and
           able
           to
           incounter
           them
           with
           Success
           ,
           and
           expose
           their
           Fallacies
           ,
           and
           evidence
           to
           the
           World
           ,
           that
           the
           Additions
           that
           have
           been
           made
           to
           the
           Creed
           ,
           are
           inconsistent
           to
           Scripture
           ,
           Reason
           and
           Antiquity
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           is
           our
           Church
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           now
           by
           Law
           Established
           ,
           that
           does
           constantly
           maintain
           the
           true
           ,
           and
           Antient
           Catholick
           Faith.
           So
           that
           there
           cannot
           be
           that
           appearance
           of
           Danger
           here
           ,
           which
           some
           have
           very
           uncharitably
           suspected
           .
           Besides
           we
           have
           the
           Countenance
           and
           Security
           of
           the
           Laws
           ,
           all
           on
           the
           side
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           England
           ;
           and
           at
           once
           to
           banish
           the
           wildest
           Fears
           ,
           and
           most
           unreasonable
           Jealoufies
           ,
           His
           Majesty
           has
           been
           pleased
           to
           give
           us
           his
           most
           Gracious
           Promise
           ,
           that
           he
           will
           
             always
             take
             care
             to
             defend
             and
             support
             it
             .
          
           And
           who
           can
           entertain
           the
           least
           doubt
           of
           the
           sincerity
           
           of
           his
           Royal
           Word
           ?
           Flattery
           ,
           and
           Dissimulation
           are
           base
           ,
           and
           plebeian
           Vices
           ,
           that
           can
           never
           gain
           Admittance
           in
           a
           Noble
           and
           Generous
           Mind
           .
           The
           Honour
           of
           him
           that
           speaks
           ,
           gives
           a
           proportionable
           Value
           ,
           and
           Credit
           to
           what
           he
           says
           ;
           and
           the
           word
           of
           a
           King
           ought
           to
           be
           esteemed
           as
           sacred
           ,
           and
           inviolable
           as
           his
           Person
           .
           And
           when
           we
           have
           the
           Word
           of
           a
           King
           ,
           and
           such
           a
           King
           as
           was
           never
           known
           to
           fail
           of
           his
           Word
           ,
           it
           is
           the
           vilest
           Ingratitude
           ,
           and
           the
           highest
           Affront
           ,
           and
           Dishonour
           we
           can
           do
           him
           ,
           not
           to
           rest
           perfectly
           satisfied
           ,
           but
           to
           express
           a
           distrust
           ,
           where
           he
           has
           given
           us
           the
           greatest
           Assurances
           Imaginable
           .
           For
           to
           conceive
           that
           a
           Prince
           of
           the
           most
           unspotted
           Honour
           ,
           and
           unquestionable
           Generosity
           ,
           should
           so
           often
           ,
           and
           so
           solemnly
           declare
           ,
           what
           he
           did
           not
           really
           intend
           ,
           and
           firmly
           resolve
           to
           perform
           ,
           is
           little
           less
           then
           a
           Contradiction
           :
           I
           am
           sure
           it
           is
           far
           beyond
           the
           ordinary
           rate
           of
           a
           Moral
           impossibility
           .
           And
           they
           that
           will
           not
           be
           convinced
           by
           this
           ,
           stand
           in
           need
           of
           dayly
           Miracles
           to
           create
           a
           Belief
           .
           But
           God
           be
           praised
           we
           have
           great
           Reason
           to
           be
           full
           of
           Hopes
           ;
           for
           the
           danger
           of
           the
           prevailing
           of
           Popery
           ,
           for
           ought
           we
           can
           see
           ,
           is
           chiefly
           seated
           in
           our
           own
           cowardly
           ,
           and
           mistrustful
           Fancies
           :
           unless
           it
           should
           please
           God
           to
           punish
           us
           ,
           for
           pretending
           too
           great
           a
           sollicitude
           for
           the
           future
           ;
           which
           is
           a
           degree
           of
           Infidelity
           towards
           him
           ,
           and
           in
           this
           Case
           ,
           the
           most
           unpardonable
           indignity
           ,
           and
           disrespect
           to
           our
           Soveraign
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           touched
           upon
           all
           the
           most
           common
           Pretences
           that
           have
           been
           made
           use
           of
           to
           ingender
           Differences
           between
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           his
           People
           ;
           and
           they
           all
           
           appear
           to
           be
           great
           mistakes
           ,
           or
           vain
           surmizes
           .
           The
           truth
           is
           ,
           they
           have
           been
           usually
           promoted
           ,
           for
           the
           carrying
           on
           of
           some
           Design
           .
           Some
           that
           have
           raised
           the
           loudest
           Clamours
           ,
           had
           been
           discontented
           on
           some
           Occasion
           ,
           or
           other
           ,
           and
           did
           it
           only
           to
           be
           revenged
           on
           the
           Government
           :
           Some
           intended
           to
           Signalize
           themselves
           by
           bold
           Speeches
           ,
           and
           hoped
           to
           be
           silenced
           by
           Places
           at
           Court
           :
           And
           some
           ,
           it
           is
           to
           be
           feared
           ,
           indeavoured
           by
           this
           means
           to
           put
           all
           things
           in
           Confusion
           ,
           and
           then
           expected
           to
           enrich
           themselves
           ,
           with
           Comfortable
           Shares
           of
           plundered
           Goods
           ,
           and
           Malignant
           Lands
           .
           But
           however
           it
           were
           ,
           if
           a
           prevailing
           Party
           could
           but
           be
           possessed
           with
           these
           Jealousies
           ,
           they
           might
           be
           able
           ,
           to
           be
           sure
           ,
           to
           intangle
           Matters
           of
           the
           greatest
           Importance
           ,
           and
           obstruct
           the
           most
           weighty
           Proceedings
           in
           Parliament
           .
        
         
           And
           I
           now
           come
           to
           mind
           you
           of
           the
           Pernicious
           Consequences
           of
           this
           .
           For
           as
           the
           Constitution
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           is
           the
           most
           happy
           ,
           that
           Human
           Prudence
           can
           Invent
           ,
           when
           there
           is
           a
           blessed
           Harmony
           ,
           and
           Agreement
           ,
           between
           the
           Head
           ,
           and
           the
           Members
           :
           so
           it
           is
           the
           most
           unfortunate
           ,
           and
           deplorable
           of
           all
           ,
           when
           such
           mis-understandings
           arise
           ,
           as
           cannot
           be
           speedily
           reconciled
           .
           These
           will
           beget
           a
           perpetual
           struggling
           ,
           and
           very
           dangerous
           Convulsions
           in
           the
           State.
           Jealousies
           will
           be
           increased
           ,
           and
           these
           will
           give
           a
           check
           to
           the
           most
           material
           Debates
           ,
           that
           they
           will
           hardly
           be
           brought
           to
           any
           good
           Issue
           .
           When
           a
           chearful
           concurrence
           to
           the
           King
           's
           most
           Reasonable
           Demands
           ,
           shall
           be
           obstinately
           refused
           ,
           out
           of
           I
           know
           not
           what
           Fear
           ;
           he
           cannot
           be
           well
           pleased
           with
           the
           Disappointment
           .
           
           And
           when
           Parliaments
           return
           Home
           full
           of
           Dissatisfactions
           ,
           whether
           they
           be
           Just
           ,
           or
           no
           ,
           the
           several
           Members
           ,
           instead
           of
           making
           a
           kind
           Construction
           of
           their
           Princes
           Actings
           ,
           as
           they
           should
           in
           Duty
           do
           ,
           will
           be
           too
           apt
           many
           times
           to
           sow
           their
           own
           private
           Discontents
           all
           the
           Country
           over
           ;
           and
           the
           Multitude
           will
           be
           easily
           impressed
           with
           suspitious
           Thoughts
           ,
           and
           imagine
           that
           there
           are
           some
           very
           strange
           Designs
           upon
           them
           .
           This
           will
           breed
           secret
           Animosities
           ,
           which
           will
           soon
           discover
           themselves
           in
           Words
           ,
           or
           Actions
           ;
           and
           then
           the
           King
           cannot
           be
           secure
           of
           their
           Obedience
           ,
           but
           will
           be
           forc'd
           to
           have
           a
           watchful
           Eye
           upon
           all
           their
           Motions
           .
           And
           there
           needs
           no
           more
           ,
           but
           this
           mutual
           Distrust
           ,
           to
           make
           this
           Nation
           Miserable
           enough
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           will
           further
           evince
           this
           in
           the
           Grand
           Instance
           of
           Pecuniary
           Supplies
           .
           These
           every
           Man
           knows
           are
           frequently
           Necessary
           for
           the
           support
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           Defence
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           and
           if
           they
           be
           with-held
           in
           some
           Junctures
           ,
           must
           undoubtedly
           prove
           of
           very
           Fatal
           and
           Ruinous
           Consequence
           to
           both
           .
           For
           the
           Laws
           have
           given
           the
           King
           the
           Sole
           Power
           of
           Peace
           ,
           and
           War
           ;
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           no
           extraordinary
           Levies
           are
           to
           be
           made
           ,
           without
           the
           Advice
           and
           Consent
           of
           Parliament
           :
           So
           that
           the
           one
           hath
           the
           whole
           Power
           of
           the
           Sword
           ,
           and
           the
           Purse
           is
           born
           by
           the
           other
           ;
           and
           it
           may
           be
           very
           well
           ,
           so
           long
           as
           a
           good
           accord
           can
           be
           maintained
           betwixt
           them
           .
           But
           if
           a
           Difference
           should
           be
           started
           ,
           which
           cannot
           be
           adjusted
           in
           time
           ;
           this
           would
           lead
           directly
           to
           the
           Subversion
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           might
           be
           made
           the
           sad
           Occasion
           of
           
           bringing
           the
           whole
           Nation
           into
           Slavery
           .
           The
           thing
           is
           Plain
           and
           Visible
           to
           every
           Eye
           :
           For
           when
           the
           Sword
           is
           put
           into
           the
           Prince's
           Hand
           ,
           if
           the
           People
           should
           wantonly
           bind
           the
           Arm
           ,
           or
           cut
           the
           Sinews
           ,
           by
           which
           it
           should
           be
           managed
           ;
           he
           must
           either
           let
           it
           drop
           to
           the
           Ground
           ,
           or
           it
           might
           be
           wrested
           from
           him
           without
           Resistance
           .
           Suppose
           the
           King
           ingaged
           in
           a
           War
           ,
           and
           the
           necessary
           Supplies
           for
           the
           carrying
           it
           on
           ,
           should
           be
           stiffly
           denyed
           ;
           what
           must
           be
           the
           Event
           of
           such
           an
           obstinate
           Refusal
           ?
           The
           Enemy
           would
           be
           hereby
           mightily
           heartned
           ,
           and
           the
           English
           Courage
           extreamly
           damped
           ;
           many
           favourable
           Opportunities
           of
           Action
           must
           be
           lost
           ;
           many
           Dammages
           suffered
           that
           might
           have
           been
           prevented
           ;
           none
           but
           a
           very
           faint
           Opposition
           could
           be
           made
           ;
           we
           might
           possibly
           linger
           out
           a
           while
           ,
           like
           a
           man
           in
           a
           deep
           Consumption
           ,
           and
           be
           forced
           at
           length
           to
           yield
           to
           the
           pleasure
           of
           an
           Insolent
           Conqueror
           ,
           or
           to
           strike
           up
           a
           Peace
           on
           such
           dishonorable
           Terms
           ,
           as
           could
           be
           procured
           ;
           which
           if
           the
           same
           Retentive
           Humor
           should
           still
           continue
           ,
           he
           would
           be
           tempted
           to
           break
           upon
           any
           trifling
           pretence
           ;
           and
           then
           the
           same
           Inconveniences
           ,
           and
           Dangers
           ,
           would
           return
           again
           .
           Or
           if
           we
           could
           be
           secured
           from
           these
           ,
           yet
           the
           Poverty
           of
           a
           Prince
           might
           Incourage
           daring
           and
           Seditious
           Spirits
           ,
           among
           his
           own
           Subjects
           ,
           to
           attempt
           a
           Rebellion
           ,
           and
           to
           destroy
           all
           by
           Civil
           and
           Intestine
           Broyls
           .
           I
           speak
           not
           this
           out
           of
           any
           present
           Apprehensions
           I
           have
           ,
           that
           such
           Miseries
           are
           like
           to
           befall
           us
           now
           :
           For
           ,
           God
           be
           praised
           ,
           we
           have
           a
           Soveraign
           fo
           excellently
           adorn'd
           ,
           with
           all
           Accomplishments
           befitting
           that
           high
           Station
           ,
           that
           are
           sufficient
           to
           make
           all
           both
           at
           Home
           ,
           and
           Abroad
           ,
           very
           careful
           how
           they
           
           become
           his
           Enemies
           ;
           and
           I
           hope
           we
           shall
           have
           a
           Parliament
           of
           that
           Wisdom
           and
           Sobriety
           ,
           that
           will
           contribute
           what
           shall
           be
           needful
           to
           make
           His
           Power
           to
           be
           feared
           ,
           and
           His
           Allyance
           valued
           ,
           and
           to
           contain
           His
           Subjects
           within
           the
           Bounds
           of
           their
           Allegiance
           :
           But
           what
           I
           was
           saying
           was
           only
           to
           intimate
           what
           a
           lamentable
           Condition
           we
           might
           be
           brought
           into
           ,
           in
           Case
           the
           Money
           necessary
           for
           our
           Defence
           ,
           should
           be
           obstinately
           denyed
           .
           It
           might
           be
           the
           Occasion
           of
           our
           inevitable
           Ruin
           ;
           by
           infeebling
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           exposing
           it
           weak
           and
           naked
           to
           Foreign
           Invasion
           ,
           or
           Domestick
           Insurrections
           .
           And
           either
           way
           ,
           it
           tends
           apparently
           to
           the
           total
           Dissolution
           of
           the
           Government
           :
           which
           must
           involve
           all
           in
           endless
           and
           inextricable
           Calamities
           .
           This
           seems
           very
           evident
           of
           it self
           ,
           but
           I
           shall
           illustrate
           it
           a
           little
           by
           two
           very
           pregnant
           Examples
           .
        
         
           The
           one
           shall
           be
           fetched
           out
           of
           the
           History
           of
           another
           Age
           ,
           and
           Countrey
           :
           And
           it
           is
           what
           is
           observable
           to
           this
           purpose
           ,
           from
           the
           sacking
           of
           Constantinople
           by
           the
           Great
           ,
           and
           Cruel
           Mahomet
           .
           When
           the
           Tyrant
           had
           advanced
           his
           Forces
           to
           the
           Walls
           of
           that
           Mighty
           City
           ,
           and
           began
           to
           press
           it
           very
           hard
           ;
           the
           distressed
           Emperor
           within
           was
           forced
           to
           go
           about
           himself
           ,
           from
           House
           to
           House
           ,
           begging
           and
           intreating
           the
           Wealthy
           Citizens
           ,
           with
           Tears
           in
           his
           Eyes
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           consider
           the
           Danger
           ,
           that
           was
           then
           at
           their
           very
           Doors
           ,
           and
           lend
           their
           Assistance
           for
           the
           necessary
           Defence
           of
           the
           Place
           ,
           in
           that
           great
           Extremity
           .
           But
           all
           in
           vain
           ,
           nothing
           could
           move
           them
           ;
           they
           make
           Excuses
           ,
           plead
           Poverty
           ,
           and
           murmur
           at
           that
           little
           they
           had
           already
           
           expended
           for
           the
           publick
           safety
           .
           Upon
           this
           the
           City
           is
           taken
           by
           general
           Assault
           ;
           the
           unfortunate
           Emperor
           trodden
           to
           Death
           in
           the
           Crowd
           ;
           their
           Houses
           are
           ransacked
           ,
           and
           an
           incredible
           Mass
           of
           Treasure
           discovered
           in
           them
           ,
           which
           fell
           all
           into
           the
           Enemies
           Hands
           ,
           who
           scorn'd
           and
           derided
           their
           preverse
           Frugality
           ,
           in
           hoarding
           up
           the
           Whole
           for
           them
           ,
           when
           thry
           could
           not
           afford
           their
           Natural
           Prince
           a
           small
           Part
           ,
           in
           his
           and
           their
           own
           most
           deplorable
           Necessity
           :
           They
           are
           slaughtered
           by
           heaps
           in
           the
           fury
           of
           the
           Storm
           ;
           the
           Persons
           of
           the
           best
           Quality
           that
           escaped
           then
           ,
           are
           reserved
           to
           be
           Butchered
           in
           cold
           Blood
           ,
           after
           they
           had
           seen
           their
           dearest
           Relations
           suffer
           the
           greatest
           Indignities
           before
           their
           Eyes
           ;
           and
           the
           poor
           remainder
           of
           those
           that
           were
           left
           alive
           ,
           are
           made
           pitiful
           Slaves
           to
           the
           Savage
           ,
           and
           Inhuman
           Barbarians
           .
           Thus
           that
           proud
           and
           stately
           City
           ,
           which
           had
           been
           the
           Seat
           of
           the
           Eastern
           Empire
           above
           a
           thousand
           Years
           ,
           became
           a
           Torphie
           of
           the
           Ottoman
           Greatness
           ,
           and
           remains
           a
           standing
           Monument
           to
           the
           eternal
           Shame
           and
           Infamy
           of
           the
           besotted
           Greeks
           ,
           who
           rather
           than
           part
           with
           a
           very
           small
           Proportion
           of
           their
           Estates
           ,
           lost
           all
           ,
           saw
           their
           Country
           laid
           Defolate
           ,
           their
           Friends
           Slain
           ,
           and
           themselves
           ,
           and
           their
           Innocent
           Posterity
           wilfully
           betrayed
           into
           the
           most
           Miserable
           Thraldom
           .
           This
           is
           the
           Effect
           of
           so
           much
           good
           Husbandry
           ,
           when
           the
           welfare
           of
           the
           Publick
           lies
           at
           Stake
           .
        
         
           I
           will
           take
           the
           other
           Example
           from
           home
           ,
           and
           from
           what
           has
           happened
           within
           the
           Memory
           of
           many
           now
           living
           .
           That
           blessed
           Martyr
           King
           Charles
           the
           First
           ,
           at
           his
           coming
           to
           the
           Crown
           found
           himself
           ingaged
           in
           
           a
           War
           ,
           which
           for
           want
           of
           such
           supplies
           as
           were
           largely
           promised
           ,
           met
           with
           a
           very
           unhappy
           Conclusion
           .
           Other
           mis-adventures
           there
           were
           ,
           proceeding
           chiefly
           from
           the
           same
           Cause
           ,
           which
           did
           very
           much
           impair
           the
           reputation
           of
           the
           English
           Valour
           ,
           and
           Conduct
           .
           This
           made
           us
           but
           meanly
           esteemed
           by
           our
           Neighbours
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           them
           hereupon
           began
           to
           dispute
           the
           Dominion
           of
           the
           Seas
           ;
           nay
           the
           Algerines
           ,
           nothing
           so
           strong
           then
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           now
           ,
           had
           yet
           the
           boldness
           to
           ride
           in
           the
           very
           Channel
           ,
           and
           sometimes
           to
           come
           on
           Shoar
           ,
           and
           take
           whole
           Families
           out
           of
           their
           Beds
           ,
           and
           carry
           them
           away
           into
           the
           most
           wretched
           Captivity
           ;
           and
           if
           an
           inconsiderable
           Nest
           of
           Pyrates
           were
           so
           far
           incouraged
           by
           them
           ,
           what
           might
           have
           been
           expected
           ,
           if
           a
           more
           potent
           Enemy
           had
           taken
           the
           Advantage
           of
           the
           Necessities
           we
           were
           then
           in
           ?
           But
           these
           Mischiefs
           being
           pretty
           well
           provided
           against
           ,
           by
           the
           Care
           and
           Vigilancy
           of
           the
           King
           ;
           at
           length
           came
           the
           Parliament
           of
           Forty
           One
           ;
           who
           being
           animated
           unto
           it
           by
           the
           King's
           wants
           ,
           and
           most
           ingratefully
           abusing
           the
           greatest
           Concessions
           that
           were
           ever
           made
           to
           any
           Subjects
           ,
           brought
           on
           the
           late
           Unnatural
           War
           ;
           which
           ended
           in
           the
           most
           Execrable
           Murder
           of
           that
           Incomparable
           Prince
           ;
           and
           after
           all
           the
           glorious
           Cryes
           about
           Liberty
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           ,
           we
           found
           our selves
           wheadled
           into
           an
           absolute
           Bondage
           ,
           to
           a
           standing
           Veteran
           Army
           ,
           and
           a
           pack
           of
           the
           most
           Notorious
           Villains
           ,
           that
           could
           be
           picked
           out
           of
           the
           whole
           Nation
           .
           The
           thing
           is
           true
           ,
           and
           the
           Words
           cannot
           seem
           harsh
           unto
           any
           ,
           but
           such
           as
           approve
           the
           Fact
           ,
           and
           would
           be
           glad
           to
           see
           the
           same
           Tragedy
           acted
           over
           again
           .
           But
           he
           that
           shall
           well
           consider
           this
           ,
           will
           not
           stand
           in
           need
           of
           any
           
           other
           Arguments
           to
           convince
           him
           ,
           of
           what
           lamentable
           Consequence
           it
           may
           be
           ,
           when
           Parliaments
           will
           not
           be
           induced
           to
           comply
           with
           the
           Just
           and
           necessary
           Demands
           of
           their
           Soveraign
           ;
           it
           lays
           us
           open
           to
           the
           Power
           of
           Strangers
           ,
           and
           the
           Designs
           of
           wicked
           Men
           among
           our selves
           ;
           it
           leads
           to
           the
           ruin
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           exposes
           us
           to
           the
           inexpressible
           miseries
           of
           Slavery
           ,
           and
           Confusion
           .
        
         
           Now
           that
           I
           have
           shewn
           you
           what
           it
           is
           that
           sometimes
           hinders
           the
           good
           effects
           that
           Parliaments
           might
           have
           ;
           and
           what
           the
           destructive
           and
           pernicious
           Consequences
           of
           that
           are
           ;
           you
           may
           easily
           guess
           what
           kind
           of
           Members
           I
           should
           advise
           you
           to
           choose
           .
           And
           every
           County
           being
           so
           well
           stored
           with
           great
           variety
           of
           Loyal
           and
           Worthy
           Gentlemen
           ,
           you
           would
           be
           now
           wholly
           inexcusable
           if
           you
           should
           fail
           in
           your
           Elections
           ;
           and
           instead
           of
           discreet
           and
           judicious
           Persons
           who
           would
           be
           able
           to
           create
           a
           good
           understanding
           between
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           his
           People
           ,
           you
           should
           send
           up
           Men
           openly
           disaffected
           ,
           who
           would
           make
           it
           their
           business
           to
           foment
           Jealousies
           ,
           and
           turn
           your
           Brains
           ,
           and
           make
           them
           Swim
           with
           idle
           suspitions
           .
           This
           would
           be
           the
           way
           to
           defeat
           our
           hopes
           ,
           and
           obstruct
           that
           happy
           composure
           of
           all
           our
           Fears
           ,
           which
           we
           expect
           from
           the
           meeting
           of
           this
           Parliament
           ,
           which
           is
           now
           at
           Hand
           .
        
         
           For
           prevention
           of
           this
           you
           should
           be
           perswaded
           to
           make
           choice
           of
           men
           of
           Good
           ,
           at
           least
           competent
           ,
           and
           sound
           Estates
           .
           For
           the
           necessitous
           are
           the
           most
           lyable
           to
           the
           temptation
           of
           being
           corrupted
           ,
           and
           byassed
           any
           
           way
           with
           the
           hopes
           of
           a
           little
           gain
           .
           If
           you
           are
           indeed
           affraid
           of
           Pistoles
           ,
           there
           are
           none
           so
           like
           to
           be
           overcome
           by
           that
           kind
           of
           Arms
           ,
           as
           men
           of
           mean
           and
           indigent
           Fortunes
           .
           But
           setting
           that
           consideration
           aside
           ;
           it
           is
           in
           it self
           an
           unbecoming
           thing
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           have
           any
           power
           of
           laying
           Taxes
           upon
           other
           men
           ,
           who
           cannot
           ,
           or
           will
           not
           pay
           their
           own
           Debts
           ;
           that
           any
           should
           be
           suffered
           to
           get
           into
           the
           House
           ,
           only
           to
           be
           protected
           from
           their
           Creditors
           ;
           and
           take
           Sanctuary
           at
           Westminster
           ,
           to
           escape
           the
           Fleet
           ,
           or
           the
           King's-Bench
           .
           But
           I
           suppose
           such
           as
           these
           will
           not
           be
           forward
           to
           appear
           ,
           or
           if
           they
           should
           ,
           you
           that
           know
           them
           will
           easily
           put
           them
           by
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           next
           place
           therefore
           you
           should
           be
           very
           cautious
           that
           you
           do
           not
           favour
           any
           ,
           whom
           you
           can
           suspect
           to
           have
           the
           least
           taint
           of
           the
           Bill
           of
           Exclusion
           :
           A
           Bill
           of
           a
           most
           daring
           ,
           and
           dangerous
           Nature
           ;
           and
           such
           a
           one
           in
           many
           respects
           ,
           as
           was
           never
           brought
           into
           Parliament
           before
           ;
           you
           can
           scarce
           imagin
           what
           a
           heap
           of
           miseries
           you
           escaped
           ,
           when
           it
           was
           bravely
           and
           resolutely
           rejected
           in
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           .
           You
           are
           now
           God
           be
           praised
           ,
           in
           perfect
           Peace
           ;
           you
           possess
           your
           own
           quietly
           ,
           and
           converse
           together
           with
           a
           Neighborly
           Kindness
           ,
           and
           Familiarity
           .
           But
           if
           that
           desperate
           Bill
           had
           taken
           place
           ,
           you
           had
           at
           this
           moment
           been
           sheathing
           your
           Swords
           in
           one
           anothers
           Bowels
           ;
           you
           had
           seen
           your
           Houses
           in
           a
           Flame
           ,
           the
           Country
           smoaking
           round
           about
           you
           ,
           your
           Cities
           and
           Towns
           laid
           in
           Ashes
           ;
           and
           been
           subject
           to
           all
           the
           Calamities
           that
           the
           most
           Bloody
           Civil
           War
           could
           bring
           upon
           you
           .
           For
           Princes
           are
           not
           to
           be
           Voted
           out
           of
           their
           unquestionable
           
           Rights
           ,
           nor
           debarred
           of
           their
           inheritance
           by
           a
           Scrowl
           of
           Parchment
           .
           A
           Title
           to
           the
           Crown
           was
           never
           decided
           in
           Westminster-Hall
           .
           Those
           Disputes
           cannot
           be
           ended
           ,
           but
           in
           the
           Field
           ;
           and
           of
           all
           the
           Nations
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           England
           has
           the
           greatest
           reason
           to
           dread
           the
           starting
           of
           such
           a
           Controversie
           .
           The
           Competition
           betwixt
           the
           Houses
           of
           York
           ,
           and
           Lancaster
           cost
           us
           dear
           .
           Look
           into
           your
           Chronicles
           ,
           and
           see
           what
           Lamentable
           devastations
           were
           every
           where
           made
           !
           How
           many
           cruel
           Battles
           were
           fought
           !
           How
           many
           thousands
           of
           English
           lives
           were
           spent
           in
           the
           Quarrel
           !
           How
           many
           Ages
           almost
           the
           wound
           was
           kept
           bleeding
           ,
           and
           never
           fully
           closed
           ,
           till
           the
           happy
           Success
           ,
           and
           happier
           Marriage
           of
           Henry
           the
           Seventh
           !
           What
           can
           you
           expect
           from
           those
           that
           had
           the
           confidence
           to
           attempt
           the
           Interruption
           of
           the
           Royal
           Line
           ,
           and
           to
           dig
           up
           the
           surest
           Foundation
           of
           our
           Legal
           Settlement
           ?
           They
           that
           were
           for
           Excluding
           our
           Gracious
           Sovereign
           ,
           might
           quickly
           stretch
           their
           destractive
           Principles
           a
           little
           farther
           ,
           and
           be
           easily
           induced
           to
           assault
           him
           now
           ,
           that
           ,
           by
           the
           Blessing
           of
           God
           ,
           he
           is
           peaceably
           Seated
           on
           the
           Throne
           of
           his
           Ancestors
           .
           But
           I
           trust
           that
           the
           same
           Providence
           which
           placed
           him
           there
           ,
           will
           continue
           to
           defend
           him
           ,
           from
           the
           Subtilty
           and
           violence
           of
           all
           His
           ,
           and
           our
           Enemies
           .
           And
           I
           cannot
           but
           believe
           that
           you
           will
           be
           very
           careful
           ,
           how
           you
           give
           those
           a
           fresh
           opportunity
           of
           doing
           mischief
           ,
           that
           would
           have
           suddenly
           plunged
           you
           into
           the
           most
           miserable
           Confusions
           .
        
         
           But
           after
           you
           have
           delivered
           your selves
           from
           the
           Fear
           of
           these
           ;
           be
           sure
           you
           put
           none
           in
           their
           room
           ,
           but
           men
           of
           approved
           Wisdom
           ,
           and
           Integrity
           .
           None
           
           else
           can
           be
           safely
           intrusted
           with
           any
           concern
           ;
           but
           these
           ,
           you
           may
           securely
           venture
           your
           Lives
           and
           Fortunes
           in
           their
           hands
           .
           These
           will
           be
           able
           to
           foresee
           a
           Danger
           ,
           and
           willing
           ,
           and
           ready
           to
           prevent
           it
           ;
           they
           will
           consider
           all
           circumstances
           ,
           and
           weigh
           every
           thing
           impartially
           ,
           and
           carry
           themselves
           evenly
           between
           the
           King
           and
           the
           Subject
           .
           They
           will
           presently
           discern
           any
           inconveniencies
           the
           People
           may
           lye
           under
           ,
           and
           prepare
           suitable
           Bills
           for
           the
           remedying
           of
           them
           .
           When
           the
           King's
           occasions
           require
           their
           aid
           ,
           they
           will
           grant
           it
           freely
           ,
           without
           pinching
           any
           thing
           from
           him
           .
           They
           are
           not
           imposed
           on
           by
           that
           great
           mistake
           ,
           which
           seems
           too
           common
           ,
           as
           if
           they
           were
           always
           to
           drive
           a
           kind
           of
           Bargain
           with
           their
           Prince
           :
           So
           much
           ready
           money
           ,
           for
           so
           much
           Prerogative
           .
           This
           is
           unkind
           ,
           and
           disobliging
           ,
           and
           a
           very
           unequal
           way
           of
           Dealing
           .
           For
           money
           that
           is
           given
           ,
           may
           be
           gotten
           again
           ;
           Bulloin
           may
           be
           imported
           ,
           and
           the
           Circulation
           of
           Trade
           will
           bring
           it
           in
           :
           But
           the
           Prerogative
           once
           diminished
           can
           hardly
           be
           repaired
           ;
           there
           is
           no
           trucking
           for
           such
           Goods
           ;
           our
           Merchants
           cannot
           furnish
           us
           with
           this
           sort
           of
           Commodity
           from
           the
           Coasts
           of
           Gninea
           ,
           or
           Spain
           .
           At
           this
           rate
           the
           greatest
           Prerogative
           might
           be
           soon
           exhausted
           ;
           and
           a
           King
           some
           years
           ,
           if
           he
           could
           be
           supposed
           to
           be
           so
           easie
           ,
           might
           sell
           away
           the
           whole
           Regal
           Power
           .
           But
           Sovereigns
           have
           as
           much
           reason
           to
           be
           careful
           of
           the
           Prerogative
           ,
           as
           the
           People
           can
           have
           to
           be
           Jealous
           of
           any
           Right
           or
           Property
           whatsoever
           .
           Nay
           the
           People
           themselves
           ,
           if
           they
           would
           but
           understend
           it
           ,
           are
           equally
           concerned
           in
           the
           preservation
           of
           it
           .
           For
           it
           is
           the
           main
           foundation
           of
           their
           Security
           ;
           and
           they
           that
           should
           Foolishly
           go
           about
           to
           undermine
           it
           ,
           would
           find
           
           it
           fall
           heavy
           upon
           their
           own
           Heads
           .
           Without
           a
           full
           Power
           of
           Calling
           and
           Dissolving
           Parliaments
           ,
           of
           Signing
           ,
           and
           Rejecting
           Bills
           ;
           of
           Raising
           ,
           and
           Disbanding
           Forces
           ;
           of
           Pardoning
           Offenders
           ,
           and
           Executing
           Justice
           ,
           nothing
           could
           be
           rightly
           managed
           .
           A
           Prince
           that
           should
           be
           devested
           of
           such
           an
           Authority
           ,
           would
           be
           no
           more
           but
           a
           Royal
           Statue
           ;
           he
           must
           be
           render'd
           weak
           ,
           and
           contemptible
           to
           all
           ,
           and
           utterly
           unable
           to
           defend
           his
           People
           .
           Of
           this
           Wise
           and
           Honest
           men
           will
           be
           very
           sensible
           ;
           and
           no
           other
           will
           be
           chosen
           by
           those
           ,
           that
           have
           any
           value
           for
           their
           own
           private
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Publick
           safety
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           last
           place
           you
           should
           be
           very
           careful
           to
           choose
           men
           of
           known
           affection
           to
           the
           established
           Church
           of
           England
           .
           A
           Church
           against
           which
           there
           cannot
           lye
           the
           least
           just
           exception
           ;
           that
           has
           purged
           it self
           from
           the
           errors
           ,
           and
           abuses
           which
           a
           long
           tract
           of
           time
           had
           by
           degrees
           brought
           in
           ,
           and
           mixed
           with
           the
           Primitive
           Practice
           ,
           and
           Belief
           ;
           that
           has
           been
           always
           highly
           esteemed
           by
           all
           the
           Reformed
           beyond
           the
           Sea's
           ;
           and
           those
           at
           home
           that
           have
           professed
           a
           Dissent
           from
           it
           ,
           have
           generally
           approved
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           it
           ;
           and
           the
           controversie
           ,
           how
           high
           soever
           it
           may
           have
           been
           carried
           ,
           has
           been
           only
           about
           matters
           of
           external
           Discipline
           ,
           and
           the
           refusing
           Obedience
           to
           a
           few
           Indifferent
           Rites
           .
           And
           that
           which
           ,
           it
           may
           be
           ,
           is
           a
           Glory
           Peculiar
           to
           this
           Church
           ,
           no
           Member
           of
           it
           has
           been
           ever
           known
           to
           be
           ingaged
           in
           any
           Rebellion
           against
           their
           Prince
           .
           His
           Majesty
           is
           very
           sensible
           of
           this
           ,
           and
           has
           publickly
           signified
           ,
           how
           satisfyed
           and
           assured
           he
           is
           of
           our
           Loyalty
           ,
           and
           has
           promised
           to
           support
           us
           ;
           and
           you
           cannot
           then
           better
           express
           
           your
           hearty
           thanks
           ,
           for
           the
           Gracious
           Declarations
           he
           has
           made
           you
           ,
           then
           by
           the
           shewing
           your
           Zeal
           for
           that
           Church
           ,
           which
           he
           has
           taken
           into
           his
           Royal
           Protection
           .
           There
           are
           none
           of
           any
           other
           Denomination
           amongst
           us
           ,
           who
           have
           not
           either
           openly
           abetted
           some
           Factious
           Design
           ;
           or
           given
           too
           great
           occasion
           of
           suspecting
           their
           Fidelity
           to
           the
           Crown
           .
           And
           if
           any
           of
           you
           should
           be
           prevailed
           with
           ,
           upon
           any
           pretence
           ,
           to
           make
           choice
           of
           any
           such
           Persons
           ;
           you
           must
           not
           think
           it
           strange
           ,
           if
           it
           should
           be
           looked
           upon
           as
           a
           manifest
           Testimony
           of
           your
           Disaffection
           to
           the
           King.
           For
           if
           such
           as
           these
           should
           creep
           into
           the
           House
           through
           your
           carelesness
           ,
           or
           credulity
           ,
           it
           is
           like
           enough
           that
           they
           would
           soon
           fall
           to
           their
           old
           Practice
           ,
           of
           amusing
           men's
           minds
           with
           the
           most
           horrible
           Fears
           ,
           and
           Jealousies
           ,
           they
           could
           possibly
           invent
           ;
           and
           these
           are
           a
           kind
           of
           Wild-fire
           ,
           very
           easily
           kindled
           ,
           but
           exceeding
           hard
           to
           be
           put
           out
           :
           And
           how
           then
           would
           you
           be
           able
           to
           excuse
           your selves
           from
           the
           Guilt
           of
           the
           infinite
           mischiefs
           that
           might
           follow
           ,
           if
           by
           these
           means
           any
           mis-understanding
           should
           arise
           ,
           which
           might
           blast
           the
           hopes
           we
           have
           conceived
           ,
           and
           prevent
           that
           universal
           satisfaction
           which
           is
           expected
           from
           the
           Prudence
           ,
           and
           Loyalty
           of
           the
           Insuing
           Parliament
           ?
           But
           I
           need
           not
           use
           any
           further
           Arguments
           here
           ,
           your
           own
           safety
           will
           best
           Admonish
           you
           what
           to
           do
           .
           Many
           of
           you
           in
           your
           Addresses
           ,
           both
           formerly
           ,
           and
           of
           late
           ,
           have
           Solemnly
           promised
           to
           Elect
           none
           but
           Loyal
           men
           ;
           and
           if
           you
           should
           do
           otherwise
           ,
           those
           very
           Addressess
           would
           remain
           as
           the
           most
           dishonourable
           Records
           of
           your
           fickelness
           ,
           and
           inconstancy
           .
           The
           King
           will
           never
           violate
           his
           Word
           he
           has
           given
           to
           you
           ;
           and
           you
           are
           bound
           to
           be
           as
           good
           
           as
           yours
           ,
           you
           have
           passed
           to
           Him
           ,
           if
           you
           have
           any
           regard
           to
           you
           Credit
           ,
           Interest
           ,
           or
           Conscience
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           now
           taken
           the
           Freedom
           to
           Communicate
           some
           of
           my
           most
           serious
           Thoughts
           unto
           you
           ,
           with
           Reference
           especially
           to
           the
           present
           Conjuncture
           .
           It
           is
           not
           any
           forwardness
           to
           busie
           my self
           with
           Matters
           of
           this
           Nature
           ,
           that
           has
           occasioned
           the
           Publication
           of
           these
           hasty
           Conceptions
           ,
           but
           that
           I
           might
           remove
           a
           false
           Imputation
           .
           I
           have
           therefore
           shewn
           you
           what
           an
           Honorable
           ,
           Esteem
           we
           have
           for
           Parliaments
           ;
           what
           great
           Advantages
           we
           might
           reap
           from
           them
           ;
           what
           are
           the
           most
           common
           hinderances
           of
           the
           good
           Effect
           they
           might
           have
           ;
           and
           what
           are
           the
           Mischievous
           Consequences
           that
           follow
           from
           thence
           :
           And
           upon
           this
           Occasion
           I
           could
           not
           forbear
           to
           offer
           some
           Friendly
           Advice
           for
           the
           preventing
           those
           Evils
           which
           such
           Miscarriages
           might
           bring
           upon
           us
           .
           I
           have
           not
           troubled
           you
           with
           things
           of
           a
           nice
           Consideration
           ,
           but
           such
           as
           are
           easie
           and
           obvious
           to
           every
           Man's
           Notice
           ;
           and
           no
           more
           ,
           I
           believe
           ,
           than
           what
           you
           your selves
           have
           thought
           ,
           and
           often
           discoursed
           with
           one
           another
           ;
           and
           if
           these
           Papers
           should
           chance
           to
           come
           to
           your
           Hands
           ,
           after
           some
           of
           your
           Elections
           may
           be
           past
           ,
           I
           hope
           you
           will
           have
           followed
           the
           same
           Counsel
           ,
           before
           you
           had
           it
           from
           me
           ;
           and
           that
           instead
           of
           Advice
           what
           to
           do
           ,
           this
           may
           be
           but
           a
           just
           Commendation
           for
           what
           you
           have
           done
           .
           You
           may
           perceive
           all
           along
           ,
           that
           my
           chief
           Aim
           has
           been
           to
           root
           out
           those
           Causeless
           Jealousies
           ,
           which
           may
           often
           endanger
           the
           publick
           Peace
           .
           These
           are
           always
           to
           be
           carefully
           avoided
           :
           They
           are
           the
           very
           Bane
           ,
           and
           Pest
           of
           all
           Societies
           :
           They
           are
           like
           the
           Fits
           of
           the
           Cholick
           ;
           
           they
           afflict
           us
           with
           the
           most
           sharp
           ,
           and
           intollerable
           pains
           ,
           and
           tear
           our
           very
           Bowels
           ,
           and
           yet
           they
           proceed
           from
           nothing
           but
           a
           light
           ,
           and
           flatulent
           Humor
           .
           They
           are
           the
           most
           dangerous
           Rock
           ,
           against
           which
           our
           fairest
           Hopes
           have
           been
           many
           times
           most
           unfortunately
           split
           .
           And
           if
           any
           of
           these
           should
           be
           cast
           in
           ,
           and
           cherished
           in
           this
           Parliament
           ,
           they
           might
           breed
           that
           Allienation
           of
           Affections
           ,
           which
           the
           wisest
           Conduct
           of
           many
           Years
           might
           hardly
           retrieve
           .
           The
           first
           tincture
           that
           is
           given
           ,
           is
           scarce
           ever
           wholly
           to
           be
           washed
           out
           .
           But
           God
           forbid
           that
           any
           such
           thing
           as
           this
           should
           happen
           unto
           us
           .
           The
           Eyes
           of
           all
           Europe
           are
           upon
           you
           ,
           expecting
           the
           Event
           of
           this
           next
           Session
           .
           If
           it
           should
           have
           that
           agreeable
           Conclusion
           we
           promise
           our selves
           ,
           it
           might
           by
           the
           Blessing
           of
           God
           ,
           not
           only
           secure
           our
           own
           selves
           ,
           but
           tend
           to
           the
           Preservation
           of
           the
           Neighbouring
           Countreys
           round
           about
           us
           :
           But
           if
           it
           should
           be
           ended
           in
           any
           Discontent
           ,
           who
           can
           foresee
           the
           many
           sad
           Consequences
           of
           that
           ?
           This
           is
           certain
           ,
           our
           Friends
           would
           be
           exceedingly
           discouraged
           ,
           and
           our
           Enemies
           grow
           unsufferably
           insolent
           ,
           and
           scorn
           and
           deride
           us
           for
           it
           ,
           while
           they
           made
           their
           greatest
           Advantages
           of
           our
           Folly.
           It
           is
           in
           your
           Power
           to
           contribute
           something
           to
           the
           prevention
           of
           this
           ,
           by
           the
           Elections
           you
           are
           making
           .
           You
           have
           a
           Prince
           of
           the
           most
           approved
           Gallantry
           ,
           and
           Resolution
           ;
           that
           is
           the
           Blessing
           of
           this
           and
           the
           Envy
           of
           other
           Nations
           ;
           that
           is
           able
           to
           strike
           a
           terrour
           into
           his
           Enemies
           ;
           that
           has
           often
           hazarded
           his
           Life
           for
           your
           sakes
           ;
           and
           still
           to
           express
           what
           a
           tenderness
           he
           has
           for
           you
           ,
           he
           has
           lately
           ,
           and
           the
           very
           first
           Opportunity
           ,
           endeavoured
           to
           give
           all
           possible
           Ease
           and
           Satisfaction
           to
           your
           Minds
           by
           his
           most
           Gracious
           Declaration
           .
           
           Shew
           how
           sensible
           you
           are
           of
           the
           highest
           Obligations
           that
           can
           be
           laid
           upon
           Subjects
           .
           Send
           him
           up
           Men
           that
           will
           assist
           him
           in
           the
           Brave
           and
           Generous
           Designs
           he
           has
           entertained
           for
           the
           publick
           Good
           ;
           and
           not
           Cavil
           away
           their
           time
           in
           impertinent
           Scruples
           ,
           and
           never
           bring
           any
           thing
           to
           an
           Issue
           .
           His
           Majesty
           has
           hitherto
           had
           the
           Felicity
           of
           David
           ,
           that
           in
           all
           Acts
           of
           Government
           ,
           
             Whatsoever
             the
             King
             has
             done
             ,
             has
             pleased
             all
             the
             People
             :
          
           I
           wish
           that
           by
           your
           prudent
           and
           discreet
           
           Behaviour
           the
           Proposition
           may
           be
           happily
           converted
           ,
           
             That
             all
             that
             the
             People
             shall
             do
             ,
             may
             please
             the
             King
             :
          
           That
           so
           both
           King
           and
           People
           may
           live
           together
           in
           mutual
           Love
           ,
           and
           Confidence
           one
           of
           another
           ;
           that
           the
           Government
           may
           be
           preserved
           ,
           our
           Established
           Religion
           maintained
           ,
           the
           Glory
           ,
           Strength
           ,
           and
           Riches
           of
           the
           Nation
           dayly
           increased
           ;
           and
           that
           these
           Blessings
           may
           be
           always
           continued
           to
           the
           present
           ,
           and
           all
           succeeding
           Generations
           :
           And
           to
           this
           there
           is
           no
           true
           English-man
           ,
           nor
           Christian
           ,
           but
           will
           heartily
           say
           ,
           AMEN
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
         
           Notes for div A42267-e130
           
             1
             Pet.
             2.
             17.
             
          
           
             Rom.
             13.
             1.
             5.
             
             Tit.
             3.
             1.
             
          
           
             See
             Mat.
             6.
             v.
             25.
             26
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           
             Traitté
             dela
             Politique
             de
             France
             .
             c.
             14.
             
          
           
             Prov.
             16.
             12.
             
          
           
             2
             Sam.
             3.
             36.