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             Notes upon the Phœnix edition of the Pastoral letter Part I / by Samvel Johnson.
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             1694.
          
           
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           Mr.
           
           IOHNSON's
           NOTES
           ON
           THE
           Pastoral
           Letter
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           Upon
           the
           Vote
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           ,
           
             Die
             Martis
          
           24
           Ianuarii
           1692.
           
           It
           was
           resolved
           by
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           ,
           
             Nemine
             Contradicente
          
           ,
        
         
           THAT
           the
           Assertion
           of
           King
           WILLIAM
           and
           Queen
           
           MARY'S
           being
           King
           and
           Queen
           by
           Conquest
           ,
           is
           highly
           Injurious
           to
           their
           Majesties
           Rightful
           Title
           to
           the
           Crown
           of
           this
           Realm
           ,
           Inconsistent
           with
           the
           Principles
           on
           which
           this
           Government
           is
           Founded
           ,
           and
           tending
           to
           the
           Subversion
           of
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           People
           .
        
      
       
         
         
           NOTES
           UPON
           THE
           Phoenix
           Edition
           OF
           THE
           Pastoral
           Letter
           .
        
         
           PART
           I.
           
        
         
           By
           
             SAMVEL
             IOHNSON
          
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           the
           Author
           .
           MDCXCIV
           .
        
      
       
         
         
         
           To
           the
           BARONS
           and
           COMMONS
           of
           ENGLAND
           in
           Parliament
           assembled
           .
        
         
           
             May
             it
             please
             your
             Honours
          
           ,
        
         
           I
           Do
           not
           seek
           your
           Protection
           for
           these
           Papers
           ,
           for
           I
           have
           it
           already
           in
           your
           Unanimous
           Vote
           against
           Conquerors
           ;
           But
           I
           Present
           you
           with
           a
           few
           Thoughts
           of
           an
           English
           Freeman
           ,
           to
           be
           vastly
           Improved
           in
           your
           Large
           and
           Noble
           Breasts
           for
           the
           Publick
           Good.
           
        
         
           
             God
             Preserve
             your
             Honours
          
           .
        
      
       
         
         
         
           THE
           PREFACE
           .
        
         
           WHEN
           I
           understood
           that
           by
           the
           Author's
           Direction
           the
           Pastoral
           Letter
           was
           to
           be
           Reprinted
           ,
           in
           the
           self-same
           Session
           of
           Parliament
           which
           Censured
           it
           ;
           partly
           out
           of
           a
           Iust
           Disdain
           that
           an
           English
           Parliament
           should
           be
           treated
           with
           such
           Contempt
           by
           an
           Inmate
           ,
           and
           partly
           out
           of
           Indignation
           ,
           That
           that
           Vial
           of
           Mischief
           should
           be
           again
           poured
           forth
           upon
           the
           Nation
           ,
           I
           promised
           that
           if
           it
           were
           reprinted
           ,
           I
           would
           bestow
           Notes
           upon
           it
           ;
           hopeing
           thereby
           to
           put
           a
           stop
           to
           that
           intended
           Insolence
           .
           But
           a
           week
           after
           ,
           out
           comes
           the
           sly
           Counterfeit
           ,
           as
           like
           the
           other
           as
           they
           could
           make
           it
           ,
           with
           a
           False
           Date
           ,
           and
           a
           Dead
           Man's
           Name
           to
           it
           :
           And
           I
           have
           in
           part
           been
           as
           good
           as
           my
           word
           .
        
         
           If
           there
           be
           a
           Complaint
           that
           we
           have
           
             Disputed
             Titles
          
           ,
           they
           are
           owing
           to
           this
           Author
           ,
           who
           has
           
           trump't
           up
           a
           great
           many
           ,
           but
           never
           a
           good
           one
           .
           I
           never
           saw
           any
           thing
           like
           the
           Pastoral
           Letter
           ●ince
           I
           was
           a
           Boy
           ,
           and
           then
           it
           was
           a
           Mountebank
           who
           spouted
           Wine
           ,
           and
           would
           give
           you
           a
           Glass
           of
           any
           Wine
           you
           called
           for
           ,
           White
           ,
           Claret
           ,
           Canary
           ,
           young
           Hock
           ,
           old
           Hock
           ,
           any
           thing
           ;
           when
           every
           body
           knew
           there
           was
           not
           one
           drop
           of
           Wine
           in
           it
           ,
           it
           was
           all
           
             Water
             Bewitch't
          
           .
           Perhaps
           it
           may
           be
           thought
           ,
           that
           in
           these
           Papers
           ,
           I
           have
           mingled
           very
           much
           of
           my
           own
           Private
           Resentments
           together
           with
           Publick
           Matters
           ;
           To
           which
           I
           have
           only
           this
           to
           say
           ,
           
             Is
             there
             not
             a
             Cause
          
           ?
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           NOTES
           ON
           THE
           Phoenix
           Edition
           OF
           THE
           Pastoral
           Letter
           .
        
         
           I
           Should
           not
           have
           touch'd
           upon
           the
           Pastoral
           Letter
           any
           more
           ,
           but
           that
           the
           Author
           affects
           a
           sort
           of
           Immortality
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           will
           have
           it
           live
           after
           its
           last
           Funerals
           .
           It
           is
           not
           in
           my
           Nature
           to
           insult
           over
           a
           Burnt
           Book
           ,
           for
           I
           attacqued
           it
           when
           it
           flourish'd
           .
           The
           Doctrine
           that
           is
           in
           it
           shall
           not
           live
           while
           it
           pleases
           God
           to
           let
           me
           live
           ;
           and
           the
           proper
           way
           for
           me
           to
           Destroy
           it
           ,
           is
           to
           Answer
           it
           .
           And
           I
           will
           try
           that
           way
           ;
           for
           if
           the
           Highest
           Censures
           will
           
           not
           do
           it
           ,
           we
           must
           do
           as
           is
           done
           in
           like
           Cases
           ,
           we
           must
           Take
           a
           Wyth
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           the
           Book
           ,
           the
           Book
           alone
           with
           which
           I
           have
           a
           Controversy
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           Author
           at
           this
           time
           .
           The
           Book
           has
           no
           Station
           ,
           which
           is
           so
           often
           of
           late
           insisted
           upon
           ,
           let
           the
           Au●hor's
           be
           in
           the
           third
           Heavens
           if
           he
           think
           so
           ;
           the
           Book
           is
           not
           capable
           of
           Fiocchio's
           or
           Cardinals
           Horse-top
           knots
           on
           or
           off
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           need
           not
           stand
           upon
           Ceremony
           with
           it
           ;
           and
           the
           Book
           is
           a
           senseless
           Book
           ,
           I
           will
           be
           judged
           by
           the
           Reader
           by
           that
           time
           I
           have
           done
           with
           it
           .
        
         
           The
           Design
           of
           it
           was
           to
           make
           Men
           Swear
           to
           the
           Government
           at
           any
           〈◊〉
           ,
           and
           because
           only
           the
           Iacobites
           stood
           out
           against
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           and
           were
           dissatisfied
           with
           it
           ,
           the
           Government
           is
           made
           Iacobite
           ,
           or
           what
           they
           will
           ,
           that
           these
           Men
           may
           Swear
           upon
           their
           own
           Terms
           :
           And
           if
           they
           will
           not
           come
           to
           the
           Oath
           ,
           the
           Oath
           shall
           come
           to
           Them.
           The
           Posthumous
           Apology
           which
           was
           made
           on
           purpose
           for
           it
           ,
           in
           the
           short
           Preface
           to
           the
           
             Measures
             of
             Submission
          
           ,
           does
           in
           effect
           own
           it
           to
           be
           a
           Drag
           net
           of
           Comprehension
           ,
           to
           take
           in
           the
           Fishes
           both
           Good
           and
           Bad.
           But
           if
           it
           had
           drawn
           in
           Dr.
           Sancroft
           and
           his
           Brethren
           ,
           besides
           the
           deplorable
           Damage
           
           their
           living
           too
           long
           would
           have
           done
           their
           H●irs
           ,
           it
           would
           only
           have
           brought
           a
           Family
           of
           Plotters
           into
           the
           Government
           .
           This
           plainly
           appears
           by
           the
           Bishop
           of
           
           Ely's
           Letters
           to
           the
           late
           Queen
           Mary
           ,
           shewing
           that
           the
           Elder
           Brother
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           them
           ,
           were
           intirely
           in
           her
           Interests
           and
           Young
           Master's
           .
           To
           bring
           Men
           into
           this
           Government
           with
           their
           Iacobite
           Principles
           along
           with
           them
           ,
           is
           to
           let
           in
           so
           many
           Vipers
           into
           its
           Bosom
           .
           The
           Government
           needs
           no
           such
           Aids
           nor
           Supporters
           ,
           and
           Non-swearing
           Enemies
           are
           less
           Dangerous
           than
           Swearers
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           first
           Paragraph
           he
           endeavours
           to
           fright
           People
           into
           the
           Oath
           ,
           by
           the
           old
           wheeling
           Motive
           
             Venient
             Romani
          
           ;
           The
           French
           ,
           the
           Irish
           ,
           and
           Popish
           Tyranny
           will
           be
           upon
           you
           ,
           if
           you
           do
           not
           take
           the
           Oath
           .
           Now
           whether
           the
           Romans
           come
           or
           stay
           ,
           what
           is
           this
           to
           the
           Merits
           of
           the
           Cause
           ?
           It
           is
           an
           Argument
           which
           may
           drive
           Men
           to
           their
           Duty
           ;
           it
           may
           drive
           Men
           to
           Crucify
           our
           Saviour
           ,
           f●r
           so
           it
           did
           when
           it
           was
           first
           urged
           .
        
         
           I
           am
           the
           fairest
           Adversary
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           though
           I
           say
           it
           may
           self
           ,
           and
           will
           not
           dwell
           upon
           this
           first
           Paragraph
           ,
           because
           he
           himself
           does
           
           as
           good
           as
           throw
           it
           away
           in
           his
           Second
           ;
           but
           I
           must
           shake
           one
           Note
           in
           it
           before
           I
           part
           with
           it
           .
           One
           of
           the
           things
           ,
           which
           he
           says
           we
           ought
           to
           fear
           and
           tremble
           at
           ,
           is
           
             Popish
             Tyranny
          
           .
           I
           would
           fain
           know
           whether
           the
           word
           Popish
           added
           to
           Tyranny
           makes
           it
           better
           or
           worse
           ?
           One
           would
           think
           by
           this
           Phrase
           of
           
             Popish
             Tyranny
          
           ,
           th●●
           several
           of
           our
           Prayers
           in
           this
           Reign
           had
           been
           Pastoral
           .
           Why
           ,
           Tyranny
           is
           such
           a
           word
           ,
           that
           nothing
           added
           to
           it
           can
           Blacken
           it
           .
           To
           put
           a
           bad
           Name
           upon
           Tyranny
           is
           false
           Heraldy
           .
           Popish
           and
           Protestant
           Tyranny
           are
           alike
           ,
           their
           Effects
           are
           the
           same
           ;
           and
           there
           is
           no
           difference
           betwixt
           them
           but
           only
           in
           this
           ,
           that
           Protestant
           Tyranny
           stole
           in
           upon
           this
           Nation
           ,
           and
           Popish
           Tyranny
           cried
           '
           
             ware
             Horns
          
           .
        
         
           Sir
           
             Ellis
             Leighton
          
           used
           to
           go
           over
           into
           France
           in
           the
           time
           of
           King
           Charles
           the
           Second's
           Government
           ,
           only
           to
           Curse
           it
           out
           of
           hearing
           ,
           and
           to
           give
           himself
           that
           Vent
           abroad
           ,
           which
           was
           not
           so
           safe
           at
           Home
           .
           The
           Burden
           of
           his
           Complaint
           was
           ,
           that
           whereas
           the
           King
           had
           Promised
           to
           set
           up
           the
           Catholick
           Religion
           ,
           which
           he
           might
           do
           by
           the
           strength
           of
           his
           Guards
           every
           day
           ,
           he
           would
           rather
           play
           a
           damn'd
           long
           Church-game
           ,
           which
           would
           last
           longer
           than
           
           his
           Life
           .
           It
           proved
           so
           ;
           but
           for
           all
           that
           it
           was
           a
           wiser
           Game
           than
           his
           Successor's
           ,
           who
           Opened
           Shop
           too
           soon
           ,
           and
           seemed
           to
           be
           in
           haste
           in
           every
           thing
           he
           did
           .
           He
           put
           out
           a
           Proclamation
           one
           day
           to
           Assure
           the
           Nation
           of
           their
           Liberties
           and
           Properties
           ,
           and
           the
           next
           day
           (
           it
           was
           God's
           Mercy
           it
           was
           not
           the
           same
           )
           he
           put
           out
           another
           Proclamation
           to
           rob
           the
           Merchants
           in
           their
           Customs
           without
           the
           Grant
           of
           an
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           without
           which
           he
           had
           no
           more
           Right
           to
           them
           than
           the
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           now
           has
           .
           In
           the
           mean
           time
           the
           Pulpits
           were
           the
           Ensurers
           of
           the
           King's
           Word
           ,
           and
           said
           it
           was
           like
           the
           Laws
           of
           the
           M●des
           and
           Persians
           which
           Altered
           not
           .
           And
           as
           for
           the
           Customs
           ,
           they
           Preached
           that
           he
           had
           a
           Natural
           Right
           to
           them
           :
           for
           they
           had
           gotten
           the
           true
           Art
           of
           spelling
           all
           the
           Oppressions
           and
           Devildoms
           in
           the
           World
           out
           of
           the
           pregnant
           word
           King
           ;
           though
           it
           is
           impossible
           to
           fetch
           any
           more
           Power
           out
           of
           that
           word
           ,
           than
           just
           what
           the
           People
           of
           England
           have
           put
           into
           it
           .
           What
           I
           write
           is
           in
           the
           Memory
           of
           Man.
           
        
         
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           in
           Sweden
           the
           word
           King
           now
           of
           late
           signifies
           infinite
           Power
           ;
           in
           Denmark
           since
           the
           Force
           put
           upon
           the
           Senate
           ,
           it
           is
           Proclamation-Law
           ;
           
           in
           King
           
           Ioseph's
           Kingdom
           of
           Hungary
           ,
           it
           is
           doing
           of
           Justice
           in
           general
           ,
           or
           according
           to
           his
           young
           Discretion
           ;
           in
           France
           it
           is
           Will
           and
           Pleasure
           because
           it
           is
           ;
           and
           it
           is
           the
           Mouth-watering
           General
           Excise
           ,
           Standing
           Armies
           ,
           Levying
           Money
           ,
           All
           things
           .
           This
           makes
           him
           a
           Powerful
           and
           a
           Formidable
           Enemy
           ;
           but
           it
           would
           be
           more
           formidable
           to
           have
           those
           Outlandish
           things
           come
           hither
           ,
           though
           it
           were
           to
           make
           another
           as
           Powerful
           Monarch
           here
           ;
           as
           the
           late
           Licensed
           Book
           of
           the
           
             State
             of
             England
          
           would
           fain
           have
           it
           .
           I
           take
           it
           to
           be
           a
           Licensed
           Book
           ,
           because
           it
           was
           Published
           in
           the
           Gazet●e
           .
           But
           I
           tell
           that
           Author
           ,
           it
           is
           impossible
           to
           have
           here
           in
           England
           such
           a
           brave
           thing
           as
           the
           French
           King
           is
           ,
           till
           we
           be
           first
           made
           such
           sorry
           things
           as
           the
           French
           Subjects
           are
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           not
           forgot
           where
           I
           digressed
           ,
           and
           I
           say
           that
           by
           Experience
           Popish
           Tyranny
           is
           so
           far
           better
           than
           Protestant
           ,
           that
           P●ople
           are
           more
           aware
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           sooner
           rid
           their
           hands
           of
           it
           .
           We
           saw
           this
           so
           plainly
           in
           
           Powis-house
           ,
           that
           nothing
           more
           can
           be
           writ
           upon
           the
           Subject
           .
           A
           Mass●house
           devoted
           to
           Destruction
           ,
           was
           saved
           by
           the
           Inscription
           of
           my
           Lord
           
           Delamere's
           Name
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           provided
           for
           his
           Lodging
           .
           But
           
           a
           Protestant
           Inscription
           will
           never
           save
           a
           Mass-house
           a
           second
           time
           .
        
         
           I
           might
           descant
           upon
           his
           Calling
           in
           Providence
           to
           decide
           a
           Title
           ,
           which
           is
           to
           employ
           the
           Majesty
           of
           Heaven
           in
           Undersheriffry
           ;
           and
           the
           Woes
           he
           lays
           upon
           Non-swearers
           ,
           and
           
             their
             Fighting
             against
             God
             ,
             if
             they
             happen
             to
             be
             in
             the
             Wrong
             ,
          
           as
           I
           will
           swear
           they
           are
           :
           But
           I
           will
           keep
           my
           Word
           ,
           because
           as
           I
           said
           he
           seems
           to
           recal
           his
           first
           Paragraph
           in
           his
           Second
           ,
           which
           begins
           in
           these
           following
           words
           .
        
         
           
             But
             all
             this
             may
             look
             like
             a
             Pathetical
             aggravating
             the
             Matter
             ,
             unless
             it
             should
             appear
             to
             be
             well
             supported
             .
             I
             go
             therefore
             in
             the
             next
             place
             to
             set
             before
             you
             those
             Reasons
             that
             seem
             convincing
             to
             me
             ,
             even
             though
             there
             were
             no
             more
             to
             be
             said
             for
             the
             present
             Settlement
             ,
             but
             that
             we
             have
             a
             Throne
             filled
             ,
             and
             a
             King
             and
             Queen
             in
             Possession
             .
          
        
         
           From
           hence●orth
           therefore
           ,
           Rhetorick
           apart
           ,
           we
           must
           expect
           nothing
           but
           Reasons
           and
           convincing
           Reasons
           .
           I
           shall
           take
           the
           pains
           of
           examining
           them
           one
           by
           one
           ,
           and
           find
           out
           if
           I
           can
           their
           Power
           of
           Conviction
           ;
           which
           I
           am
           afraid
           is
           like
           an
           Estate
           left
           in
           
           Diego's
           Will.
           
        
         
         
           The
           First
           Reason
           which
           seems
           Convincing
           to
           him
           and
           sufficient
           for
           the
           Purpose
           ,
           is
           
             that
             we
             have
             a
             Throne
             filled
             ,
             and
             a
             King
             and
             Queen
             in
             Possession
             .
          
           A
           Throne
           filled
           ,
           I
           think
           it
           is
           ;
           for
           it
           never
           yet
           held
           more
           than
           one
           Person
           at
           a
           time
           ,
           unless
           it
           were
           widened
           once
           in
           a
           Thousand
           Years
           by
           the
           Consent
           of
           the
           People
           .
           I
           believe
           that
           a
           King
           and
           Queen
           in
           Possession
           at
           once
           ,
           or
           a
           King
           and
           Queen
           
             de
             Facto
          
           Together
           ,
           in
           Opposition
           to
           
             de
             Iure
          
           ,
           which
           the
           Scotch
           Parliament
           justly
           called
           a
           Villanous
           Distinction
           ,
           would
           have
           frighted
           even
           Coke
           himself
           the
           first
           Author
           ,
           that
           I
           know
           of
           that
           affected
           Distinction
           ;
           and
           much
           more
           would
           have
           frighted
           old
           Littleton
           ,
           out
           of
           whose
           Mouth
           there
           never
           came
           any
           thing
           else
           ,
           but
           
             Ung
             Dieu
             &
             Ung
             Roy.
          
           
        
         
           We
           know
           a
           King
           alone
           comes
           from
           Heaven
           ,
           or
           a
           Queen
           alone
           comes
           from
           Heaven
           ,
           and
           either
           of
           them
           Fills
           a
           Iure-Divino
           Throne
           :
           But
           to
           talk
           of
           Two
           in
           Possession
           together
           ,
           without
           first
           naming
           the
           true
           Cause
           of
           it
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           Good-will
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           who
           were
           perfectly
           free
           to
           have
           had
           either
           ,
           or
           neither
           ,
           or
           both
           ,
           is
           to
           talk
           of
           an
           utter
           Impossibility
           .
           For
           here
           all
           their
           Schemes
           fail
           them
           ,
           all
           their
           Texts
           fail
           them
           ,
           and
           they
           cannot
           shew
           
           any
           such
           Pattern
           in
           the
           Mount.
           
        
         
           Besides
           ,
           Possession
           even
           of
           a
           single
           Person
           is
           the
           worst
           Title
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           it
           is
           the
           Claim
           of
           a
           Disseysor
           ,
           an
           Intruder
           ,
           an
           Usurper
           ,
           and
           of
           Oliver
           ,
           who
           told
           the
           Fifth-Monarchy
           Man
           ,
           that
           he
           only
           kept
           Possession
           of
           the
           Throne
           till
           King
           Iesus
           came
           ,
           and
           then
           he
           was
           ready
           to
           Resign
           it
           to
           him
           .
        
         
           The
           Pastoral
           seems
           to
           be
           aware
           of
           this
           ,
           and
           therefore
           immediately
           these
           words
           follow
           in
           the
           same
           Paragraph
           .
           
             The
             bringing
             the
             State
             of
             the
             Question
             so
             low
             ,
             may
             seem
             at
             first
             view
             not
             to
             be
             of
             so
             much
             Advantage
             to
             Their
             Majesties
             Title
             ;
             but
             since
             I
             intend
             to
             carry
             the
             Matter
             further
             before
             I
             leave
             it
             ,
             I
             hope
             it
             may
             be
             no
             incongruous
             Method
             to
             begin
             at
             that
             which
             will
             take
             in
             the
             greatest
             Numbers
             ,
             since
             there
             is
             no
             Dispute
             in
             this
             ,
             that
             they
             are
             actually
             in
             Possession
             of
             the
             Throne
             ,
             that
             they
             protect
             us
             ,
             and
             that
             we
             by
             living
             under
             their
             Protection
             ,
             and
             enjoying
             the
             Benefit
             of
             it
             ,
             are
             therefore
             bound
             to
             make
             some
             Returns
             to
             them
             for
             it
             .
          
        
         
           In
           my
           Life
           I
           never
           met
           with
           such
           a
           short-winded
           Author
           ,
           for
           he
           is
           perpetually
           sucking
           in
           his
           Breath
           ,
           and
           what
           he
           advances
           in
           the
           
           beginning
           of
           a
           Paragraph
           ,
           is
           presently
           recalled
           .
           
             A
             Throne
             filled
             ,
             and
             a
             King
             and
             Queen
             in
             Possession
             ,
          
           was
           in
           his
           very
           last
           Period
           a
           Convincing
           Argument
           for
           this
           Settlement
           ,
           yea
           though
           nothing
           more
           were
           to
           be
           said
           for
           it
           ;
           whereby
           it
           was
           made
           such
           a
           self-sufficient
           Convincing
           Argument
           as
           rendred
           all
           others
           superfluous
           and
           needless
           :
           And
           yet
           now
           in
           this
           Period
           he
           Blemishes
           his
           own
           convincing
           and
           self-sufficient
           Argument
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           might
           lower
           and
           disparage
           their
           Majesties
           Title
           ,
           and
           plainly
           confesses
           it
           to
           be
           purely
           Drag-net
           ,
           as
           that
           
             which
             will
             take
             in
             the
             greatest
             Numbers
             .
          
        
         
           One
           Convincing
           Argument
           is
           as
           much
           as
           one
           Thousand
           ,
           and
           as
           the
           King
           has
           but
           one
           Plain
           Title
           which
           is
           the
           Gift
           of
           the
           People
           ,
           so
           there
           is
           but
           one
           plain
           Proof
           of
           it
           which
           is
           the
           Instrument
           of
           Conveyance
           of
           the
           Crown
           by
           both
           Houses
           ,
           which
           the
           King
           accepting
           of
           Confirmed
           the
           Thing
           .
           For
           that
           is
           very
           true
           ,
           the
           King
           might
           have
           chose
           whether
           he
           would
           be
           King
           or
           no
           ,
           he
           could
           not
           be
           made
           so
           against
           his
           Will
           ,
           nor
           can
           any
           Man
           be
           forced
           to
           take
           a
           Trust.
           But
           after
           all
           this
           had
           passed
           in
           the
           Face
           of
           the
           Sun
           ,
           and
           been
           transacted
           by
           
           the
           Greatest
           Authority
           upon
           Earth
           ,
           I
           mean
           the
           English
           Community
           ,
           which
           as
           King
           Charles
           the
           First
           says
           ,
           Moulded
           this
           Government
           and
           made
           it
           what
           it
           is
           ,
           and
           consequently
           both
           at
           first
           erected
           the
           Office
           of
           a
           King
           ,
           and
           always
           disposed
           of
           the
           Crown
           as
           they
           found
           Cause
           ,
           and
           never
           did
           it
           upon
           more
           valuable
           Considerations
           than
           in
           their
           last
           just
           Choice
           :
           I
           say
           after
           all
           this
           was
           done
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           had
           a
           Throne
           given
           him
           by
           the
           only
           Competent
           Authority
           that
           could
           do
           it
           ,
           and
           therefore
           had
           a
           Throne
           established
           in
           Righteousness
           ;
           for
           little
           Mercenary
           People
           to
           come
           in
           and
           start
           him
           new
           Titles
           ,
           is
           instead
           of
           suffering
           him
           to
           enjoy
           that
           one
           Stable
           Throne
           ,
           to
           offer
           him
           two
           Stools
           .
        
         
           But
           being
           engaged
           in
           very
           great
           Choice
           of
           Titles
           and
           Arguments
           ,
           I
           must
           go
           on
           .
           The
           last
           we
           look'd
           upon
           was
           bare
           actual
           Possession
           ,
           from
           which
           he
           will
           infer
           the
           Duty
           of
           Obedience
           ,
           but
           it
           must
           be
           drawn
           by
           the
           same
           Chymistry
           ,
           whereby
           Sovereign
           Drops
           are
           Extracted
           for
           the
           Use
           of
           the
           English
           Ladies
           from
           very
           bad
           outlandish
           Blood.
           However
           let
           us
           mind
           the
           Process
           .
           
             Possession
             of
             the
             Throne
             infers
             Protection
             ,
             and
             the
             Benefit
             of
             Protection
             infers
             a
             Reciprocal
             Duty
             .
          
        
         
         
           I
           will
           wait
           for
           Better
           Arguments
           ,
           for
           as
           for
           this
           ,
           it
           will
           never
           Convince
           .
           It
           is
           no
           Dispute
           indeed
           amongst
           the
           Non-swearers
           ,
           but
           it
           is
           their
           great
           Grievance
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           an
           actual
           Possession
           of
           Kingship
           ,
           where
           there
           is
           not
           a
           Legal
           Right
           first
           Proved
           and
           made
           out
           .
           And
           to
           call
           for
           Obedience
           in
           Return
           for
           such
           an
           unask'd
           and
           imposed
           and
           forced
           Protection
           ,
           is
           as
           if
           a
           Man
           for
           his
           False
           Imprisonment
           of
           me
           ,
           should
           demand
           me
           to
           be
           his
           Subject
           ;
           and
           under
           pretence
           of
           guarding
           me
           from
           all
           my
           Enemies
           all
           that
           while
           ,
           should
           require
           Taxes
           ,
           and
           bring
           me
           in
           a
           Bill
           of
           Charges
           .
           I
           rather
           fancy
           that
           I
           have
           good
           Damages
           against
           Him.
           
        
         
           Well
           but
           the
           Convincing
           Argument
           of
           
             Actual
             Possession
          
           is
           supposed
           to
           have
           led
           all
           People
           by
           this
           time
           to
           
             Actual
             Obedience
          
           ,
           and
           then
           he
           has
           got
           their
           Noses
           in
           a
           cleft
           Stick
           ,
           for
           then
           he
           will
           force
           them
           to
           swear
           ,
           and
           having
           learn'd
           great
           A
           ,
           they
           must
           go
           through
           with
           the
           whole
           Alphabet
           .
           These
           Powerful
           Consequences
           and
           Convictions
           we
           have
           in
           the
           following
           Paragraph
           .
        
         
           
             A
             Man
             may
             Lawfully
             promise
             to
             do
             every
             thing
             which
             he
             may
             Lawfully
             do
             ;
             
             so
             that
             if
             it
             is
             Lawful
             to
             obey
             the
             King
             ,
             it
             is
             also
             Lawful
             to
             promise
             to
             do
             it
             .
             And
             therefore
             since
             it
             does
             not
             appear
             that
             any
             Persons
             do
             doubt
             of
             the
             Lawfulness
             of
             obeying
             ,
             it
             cannot
             with
             any
             colour
             of
             Reason
             be
             said
             to
             be
             Unlawful
             to
             promise
             it
             ;
             and
             if
             it
             is
             Lawful
             to
             promise
             it
             ,
             it
             is
             also
             Lawful
             to
             swear
             it
             ;
             for
             an
             Oath
             being
             only
             the
             Sacred
             Confirmation
             of
             a
             Promise
             ,
             we
             may
             Lawfully
             swear
             every
             thing
             that
             we
             may
             Lawfully
             promise
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           this
           is
           an
           Argument
           which
           cries
           snap
           like
           a
           Mousetrap
           ,
           but
           will
           catch
           nothing
           .
           The
           Author
           loves
           a
           Mathematical
           way
           of
           Proving
           ,
           and
           here
           it
           is
           .
           His
           Axiom
           or
           Postulatum
           is
           in
           the
           first
           Sentence
           ,
           which
           I
           will
           allow
           and
           give
           Way
           to
           at
           present
           ,
           and
           talk
           with
           it
           anon
           .
           But
           what
           he
           subsumes
           in
           the
           next
           Sentence
           is
           begging
           the
           Question
           and
           absolutely
           false
           ,
           in
           these
           words
           .
           
             And
             therefore
             since
             it
             does
             not
             appear
             that
             any
             Persons
             do
             doubt
             of
             the
             Lawfulness
             of
             Obeying
             ,
             it
             cannot
             with
             any
             colour
             of
             Reason
             be
             said
             to
             be
             Unlawful
             to
             Promise
             it
             .
          
           For
           I
           will
           Demonstrate
           on
           the
           Contrary
           ,
           that
           it
           does
           appear
           that
           all
           that
           refuse
           the
           Oath
           and
           Ten
           thousand
           Men
           more
           do
           doubt
           of
           the
           Lawfulness
           
           of
           Obeying
           .
           As
           for
           the
           next
           Clause
           ,
           it
           is
           an
           Irrefragable
           Truth
           and
           beyond
           all
           Controversy
           ,
           
             If
             it
             is
             Lawful
             to
             Promise
             Obedience
             ,
             it
             is
             also
             Lawful
             to
             Swear
             it
          
           :
           Because
           they
           are
           both
           the
           same
           thing
           .
           For
           according
           to
           the
           Oracle
           of
           our
           English
           Proverb
           ,
           an
           Honest
           Man's
           Word
           is
           as
           Good
           as
           his
           Bond.
           And
           therefore
           with
           respect
           had
           to
           the
           honest
           and
           downright
           Genius
           of
           the
           English
           Nation
           ,
           (
           let
           their
           Posterity
           take
           care
           not
           to
           degenerate
           )
           Our
           Constitution
           has
           assigned
           no
           more
           Penalty
           to
           a
           Perjury
           upon
           a
           Promissory
           Oath
           ,
           than
           there
           is
           to
           a
           bare
           breach
           of
           Promise
           .
           Perhaps
           to
           other
           People
           ,
           that
           can
           Blaw
           with
           Meal
           in
           their
           Mouth
           ,
           this
           may
           be
           Unknown
           ;
           but
           yet
           they
           will
           be
           always
           meddling
           in
           
             Alienâ
             Republicâ
          
           .
        
         
           If
           the
           Non-swearers
           could
           give
           their
           sent
           and
           Consent
           to
           Obey
           ,
           they
           would
           certainly
           give
           their
           Oath
           likewise
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           is
           within
           them
           .
           But
           by
           their
           doubting
           the
           Lawfulness
           of
           an
           
             Oath
             of
             Obedience
          
           ,
           they
           plainly
           doubt
           the
           Lawfulness
           of
           simple
           Obedience
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           Lawfulness
           of
           an
           Oath
           ;
           for
           unless
           they
           be
           Quakers
           they
           cannot
           do
           that
           .
        
         
           Which
           Way
           would
           he
           have
           their
           doubting
           of
           the
           Lawfulness
           of
           Obeying
           appear
           ?
           Would
           
           he
           have
           them
           Mutiny
           ,
           and
           doubt
           themselves
           into
           a
           Jayl
           ?
           Or
           how
           do
           they
           Obey
           King
           William
           ,
           that
           would
           not
           obey
           him
           at
           all
           if
           they
           could
           Chuse
           ?
           All
           the
           World
           knows
           that
           an
           Involuntary
           Act
           is
           not
           an
           Humane
           Act
           :
           And
           therefore
           what
           is
           here
           called
           Obedience
           ,
           is
           Forced
           Obedience
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           Obedience
           of
           Men
           ;
           it
           is
           Passive
           and
           Dog-kennel
           Obedience
           .
           For
           if
           their
           Heart
           be
           with
           King
           Iames
           and
           his
           Title
           ,
           they
           cannot
           possibly
           Obey
           King
           William
           ;
           believing
           that
           he
           has
           nothing
           in
           him
           to
           be
           Obeyed
           .
        
         
           And
           now
           I
           am
           at
           leisure
           to
           talk
           with
           his
           Axiom
           ,
           
             A
             Man
             may
             Lawfully
             promise
             to
             do
             every
             thing
             which
             he
             may
             Lawfully
             do
             .
          
           I
           will
           give
           him
           an
           Instance
           to
           the
           Contrary
           .
           It
           is
           certainly
           Lawful
           for
           me
           because
           our
           Saviour
           commands
           it
           ,
           
             If
             any
             Man
             compels
             me
             to
             go
             a
             Mile
             with
             him
             to
             carry
             his
             Burden
             ,
             to
             go
             with
             him
             Twain
             :
          
           though
           all
           such
           Precepts
           are
           to
           be
           taken
           with
           a
           Grain
           of
           Salt.
           But
           is
           it
           therefore
           Lawful
           for
           me
           to
           Promise
           this
           Man
           to
           be
           his
           Pack-horse
           all
           my
           Life
           ,
           and
           to
           starve
           my
           Wife
           and
           Children
           in
           not
           Providing
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           in
           so
           doing
           to
           be
           worse
           than
           an
           Infidel
           ?
           I
           trow
           not
           .
        
         
         
           I
           will
           give
           him
           another
           Instance
           .
           In
           the
           Year
           86.
           within
           three
           or
           four
           days
           after
           
             Whit
             sunday
          
           ,
           there
           came
           down
           an
           Order
           from
           above
           ,
           which
           I
           read
           and
           saw
           was
           Signed
           ,
           to
           make
           me
           a
           Close
           Prisoner
           ;
           though
           I
           was
           in
           
             arctâ
             Custodiâ
          
           before
           wrongfully
           ,
           having
           purchased
           the
           Rules
           ,
           and
           given
           two
           Thousand
           pound
           Security
           .
           The
           Marshal
           pursued
           this
           Order
           in
           removing
           me
           from
           one
           close
           Hole
           to
           another
           ,
           till
           he
           had
           almost
           stifled
           me
           ;
           and
           perhaps
           they
           intended
           to
           murder
           me
           by
           a
           side-Wind
           .
           I
           sent
           him
           Word
           by
           his
           Steward
           ,
           who
           is
           still
           living
           ,
           that
           I
           had
           rather
           be
           Shot
           than
           be
           so
           used
           .
           However
           I
           submitted
           to
           this
           Usage
           ,
           waiting
           for
           
           Trinity-Term
           .
           It
           cost
           me
           two
           or
           three
           Fees
           in
           Motions
           at
           the
           
           Kings-Bench-Bar
           to
           have
           the
           Liberty
           of
           the
           Prison
           ,
           and
           that
           Counsel
           might
           come
           to
           me
           ,
           because
           I
           had
           likewise
           Notice
           of
           a
           Trial.
           It
           was
           for
           my
           Address
           to
           the
           standing
           Army
           ;
           in
           which
           the
           Parliament
           that
           put
           the
           Crown
           upon
           the
           King's
           Head
           did
           me
           also
           very
           great
           Right
           ,
           and
           owned
           it
           for
           a
           Publick
           Service
           ,
           
             which
             the
             Nation
             enjoyed
             the
             Benefit
             of
             to
             this
             Day
             .
          
           I
           recite
           the
           words
           with
           all
           Thankfulness
           ,
           being
           part
           of
           their
           Early
           Address
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           
           which
           they
           voted
           
             Nemine
             Contradicente
          
           for
           my
           Promotion
           .
           But
           as
           I
           was
           saying
           ,
           my
           Friends
           above
           and
           the
           Court
           of
           Kings-Bench
           were
           at
           that
           Time
           both
           of
           a
           Mind
           :
           for
           the
           Oppression
           they
           laid
           on
           ,
           the
           other
           would
           not
           take
           off
           .
           At
           my
           Trial
           ,
           and
           I
           take
           it
           for
           an
           Honour
           that
           it
           was
           then
           ,
           for
           they
           had
           fully
           Conquered
           the
           Laws
           of
           England
           ,
           they
           published
           the
           five
           Positions
           of
           the
           Dispensing
           Power
           :
           And
           when
           that
           was
           done
           ,
           I
           publickly
           Challenged
           them
           for
           giving
           me
           no
           Relief
           from
           my
           duress
           and
           barbarous
           Usage
           .
           They
           had
           the
           Grace
           to
           tell
           me
           ,
           that
           my
           Motion
           was
           to
           go
           abroad
           to
           Counsel
           ,
           which
           I
           knew
           to
           be
           Impossible
           as
           well
           as
           they
           ,
           being
           in
           Execution
           .
           I
           said
           that
           my
           Motion
           I
           was
           su●e
           was
           Right
           ,
           being
           drawn
           up
           by
           my
           own
           Hand
           ,
           and
           several
           Gentlemen
           at
           the
           Bar
           generously
           attested
           that
           my
           Counsel
           ,
           who
           was
           then
           not
           in
           Court
           ,
           had
           Moved
           right
           .
           But
           I
           will
           say
           no
           more
           of
           those
           Judges
           ;
           for
           considering
           the
           great
           number
           of
           Brave
           and
           Honest
           Men
           which
           they
           have
           Hanged
           in
           their
           Time
           ,
           when
           it
           comes
           to
           their
           own
           Turn
           ,
           they
           will
           but
           Prophane
           a
           Gallows
           .
        
         
         
           Out
           of
           this
           long
           and
           impertinent
           Story
           ,
           I
           put
           this
           short
           Case
           .
           It
           was
           certainly
           Lawful
           for
           me
           to
           submit
           to
           this
           Usage
           ,
           when
           I
           could
           not
           help
           it
           ;
           but
           I
           had
           deserved
           to
           die
           the
           Death
           of
           a
           Dog
           ,
           and
           had
           betrayed
           the
           Rights
           of
           an
           English-Man
           ,
           if
           I
           had
           entred
           into
           Engagements
           to
           abide
           by
           it
           .
        
         
           I
           will
           give
           him
           a
           third
           Instance
           .
           At
           the
           Parliament
           at
           Oxford
           in
           65
           ,
           when
           they
           made
           the
           Five
           Mile
           Act
           ,
           there
           was
           the
           same
           Enslaving
           Project
           on
           foot
           ,
           as
           there
           was
           afterwards
           in
           Seventy
           odd
           ,
           to
           Swear
           to
           the
           Government
           in
           Church
           and
           State
           without
           Alteration
           .
           The
           Wise
           Lord
           Treasurer
           Southampton
           was
           against
           it
           ,
           and
           said
           ,
           that
           though
           he
           liked
           Episcopacy
           ,
           yet
           he
           would
           not
           be
           Sworn
           to
           it
           ;
           because
           he
           might
           hereafter
           be
           of
           another
           Opinion
           .
           And
           perhaps
           he
           had
           been
           further
           off
           from
           that
           Oath
           ,
           if
           he
           had
           lived
           till
           now
           .
        
         
           The
           Remainder
           of
           this
           third
           Paragraph
           follows
           in
           these
           words
           .
           
             And
             as
             it
             appears
             that
             there
             lies
             no
             just
             Objection
             to
             the
             swearing
             Obedience
             ,
             so
             there
             arises
             none
             from
          
           
           
           ●
           
           of
           his
           Subjects
           .
           I
           am
           sure
           he
           cannot
           tell
           what
           Fee
           :
           As
           if
           the
           King
           were
           Landlord
           of
           all
           England
           .
           4
           thly
           ,
           He
           makes
           a
           King
           
             in
             Fact
          
           to
           be
           Lord
           of
           the
           Fee
           ;
           as
           if
           English-men
           did
           not
           know
           their
           True
           Landlord
           from
           
             Iohn
             a
             Green.
          
           5
           thly
           ,
           He
           would
           have
           People
           swear
           
             an
             Obedience
             according
             to
             Law
          
           ,
           in
           opposition
           to
           a
           Blind
           and
           Absolute
           Obedience
           ;
           though
           they
           are
           still
           to
           retain
           their
           Passive
           Obedience
           ,
           which
           is
           certainly
           Blind
           and
           Absolute
           Obedience
           ,
           or
           else
           there
           is
           no
           such
           thing
           in
           the
           World.
           I
           shall
           slightly
           touch
           upon
           each
           of
           these
           in
           their
           Order
           .
        
         
           First
           of
           all
           he
           out-runs
           the
           Constable
           ,
           in
           taking
           for
           granted
           an
           Oath
           of
           Obedience
           ,
           where
           he
           has
           neither
           proved
           bare
           Obedience
           ,
           much
           less
           a
           Promise
           of
           Obedience
           onwards
           ,
           to
           be
           due
           ;
           for
           which
           I
           refer
           my self
           to
           what
           passed
           on
           the
           former
           part
           of
           the
           Paragraph
           .
           It
           is
           true
           indeed
           what
           a
           Right
           Reverend
           Preacher
           said
           ,
           
             That
             Possession
             is
             Eleven
             Points
             of
             the
             Law
          
           ;
           But
           where
           is
           the
           Twelfth
           ?
           We
           want
           the
           Point
           of
           Right
           ;
           without
           which
           the
           Eleven
           Points
           of
           Law
           ,
           are
           like
           the
           Verdict
           of
           Eleven
           Jury-men
           ,
           for
           receiving
           of
           which
           King
           
           Alfred
           heretofore
           hanged
           one
           of
           his
           Judges
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           He
           here
           gives
           us
           a
           Notion
           of
           Allegiance
           by
           the
           halves
           ,
           for
           he
           says
           ,
           
             It
             is
             in
             its
             Original
             Signification
             nothing
             but
             the
             Service
             due
             to
             the
             Chief
             Lord
             of
             the
             Fee.
          
           What
           nothing
           more
           ?
           Yes
           ,
           it
           was
           always
           likewise
           the
           Duty
           which
           the
           Liege-Lord
           owed
           to
           his
           Liege-man
           .
           Allegiance
           and
           Fealty
           were
           always
           Reciprocal
           .
           And
           therefore
           he
           need
           not
           say
           so
           sparingly
           ,
           p.
           24.
           that
           
             an
             Original
             Contract
             was
             implied
             in
             it
             ,
          
           for
           it
           was
           an
           Express
           Contract
           .
           Allegiance
           was
           always
           a
           Mutual
           Bond
           ,
           and
           a
           Duty
           that
           was
           promised
           interchangeably
           .
           It
           was
           so
           when
           Canutus
           and
           the
           English
           swore
           Fealty
           to
           one
           another
           at
           
             Southampton
             ,
             Brompton
          
           p.
           903.
           l.
           57.
           
           It
           was
           a
           true
           Bargain
           upon
           Articles
           treated
           of
           and
           agreed
           upon
           before
           hand
           .
           
             Ut
             me
             teneat
             (
             says
             the
             Liege-man
             in
             his
             Oath
             )
             sicut
             deservire
             volo
             ,
             &
             totum
             mihi
             compleat
             ,
             quod
             in
             
               nostrâ
               praelocutione
            
             fuit
             ,
             quando
             suus
             deveni
             ,
             &
             ejus
             elegi
             voluntatem
             .
          
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           He
           makes
           the
           King
           
             Lord
             of
             the
             Fee
          
           ,
           to
           intitle
           him
           to
           our
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           .
           It
           is
           nothing
           so
           ,
           for
           the
           People
           of
           England
           do
           not
           
           hold
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           what
           Holy
           Church
           does
           I
           know
           not
           ;
           they
           may
           be
           his
           Vassals
           for
           ought
           I
           know
           ,
           I
           am
           sure
           I
           am
           none
           .
           Our
           Allegiance
           stands
           upon
           truer
           and
           surer
           Grounds
           .
           The
           King
           of
           England
           is
           Invested
           with
           the
           Regal
           Office
           of
           Governing
           a
           Free-born
           People
           .
           This
           High
           Office
           and
           Dominion
           was
           given
           him
           by
           Law
           ,
           and
           all
           his
           Powers
           which
           are
           very
           Great
           ,
           and
           give
           him
           an
           Opportunity
           of
           doing
           a
           world
           of
           Good
           ,
           are
           all
           stated
           by
           Law
           ;
           for
           else
           how
           should
           we
           know
           they
           are
           his
           ?
           and
           they
           are
           butted
           and
           bounded
           by
           Law
           ,
           or
           else
           they
           might
           be
           pretended
           to
           be
           Infinite
           .
           We
           find
           it
           thus
           in
           the
           first
           Constitution
           of
           this
           Monarchy
           in
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           Mirror
           ;
           and
           thus
           the
           Office
           of
           the
           King
           stands
           delineated
           in
           the
           17
           th
           Chapter
           of
           Edward
           the
           Confessor's
           Laws
           :
           where
           ,
           by
           the
           by
           ,
           we
           find
           that
           King
           Iames
           Forfeited
           ,
           and
           ceased
           to
           be
           a
           King.
           
        
         
           Our
           King
           has
           the
           most
           Glorious
           Crown
           this
           Day
           in
           Christendom
           ,
           for
           it
           has
           not
           that
           dark
           Side
           of
           Impotency
           ,
           which
           by
           some
           is
           falsly
           called
           the
           Power
           of
           doing
           Wrong
           .
           This
           Crown
           at
           the
           time
           of
           his
           Coronation
           he
           used
           to
           be
           Adjured
           not
           to
           meddle
           with
           ,
           unless
           he
           
           would
           observe
           his
           Coronation
           Oath
           
             bonâ
             Fide
             &
             sine
             malo
             Ingenio
             .
          
           It
           is
           a
           Righteous
           Oath
           ,
           and
           wonderfully
           for
           the
           Benefit
           of
           this
           Great
           People
           ;
           and
           when
           he
           has
           done
           this
           ,
           he
           has
           a
           Legal
           Right
           as
           well
           as
           a
           Conscionable
           to
           the
           Oaths
           of
           all
           his
           People
           .
           For
           if
           his
           Subjects
           will
           not
           swear
           to
           Him
           ,
           let
           us
           give
           the
           King
           his
           Oath
           again
           .
           It
           is
           true
           ,
           Sworn
           or
           Unsworn
           both
           Prince
           and
           People
           are
           upon
           the
           Terms
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           which
           is
           a
           Stable
           thing
           ,
           and
           not
           like
           Cannon
           to
           be
           new
           Cast
           ,
           only
           to
           put
           the
           present
           Prince's
           Arms
           upon
           it
           :
           But
           still
           I
           say
           ,
           for
           the
           Prince
           to
           be
           Sworn
           and
           the
           People
           not
           ,
           is
           like
           a
           Marriage
           on
           One
           side
           ;
           as
           if
           the
           other
           Party
           were
           to
           be
           at
           a
           loose
           end
           ,
           and
           left
           to
           discretion
           .
        
         
           I
           am
           clearly
           for
           the
           old
           Law
           of
           Swearing
           every
           one
           above
           Sixteen
           at
           the
           Court-Leet
           ,
           and
           not
           suffering
           any
           one
           that
           sets
           foot
           upon
           English
           Ground
           to
           be
           Unsworn
           above
           
             Nuarante
             jours
          
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           Ancient
           Common
           Law.
           And
           he
           that
           will
           not
           take
           the
           Oath
           ought
           to
           be
           treated
           as
           an
           Outlaw
           ;
           for
           he
           ought
           not
           to
           live
           under
           a
           Government
           ,
           who
           refuses
           to
           give
           it
           the
           Customary
           and
           Legal
           Caution
           .
           If
           they
           dote
           upon
           King
           
           Iames's
           unextinguishable
           
           Right
           ,
           they
           would
           do
           better
           to
           be
           at
           St.
           Germains
           than
           here
           :
           for
           if
           I
           had
           a
           Rightful
           injured
           Prince
           abroad
           ,
           my
           Sense
           of
           Allegiance
           would
           prompt
           me
           to
           follow
           him
           to
           the
           World's
           End.
           
        
         
           Fourthly
           ,
           He
           makes
           a
           King
           in
           Fact
           to
           be
           Lord
           of
           the
           Fee.
           We
           have
           been
           too
           long
           haunted
           with
           this
           word
           Fact
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           will
           try
           to
           lay
           the
           Goblin
           .
           Either
           a
           King
           is
           a
           Rightful
           King
           or
           he
           is
           not
           ;
           if
           he
           be
           ,
           write
           him
           down
           so
           ,
           but
           never
           call
           him
           Fact
           ,
           that
           is
           Wrongful
           King
           ,
           Usurper
           ,
           Pretender
           ,
           Tyrant
           in
           Title
           ,
           Idol
           ,
           Counterfeit
           King
           ,
           No
           King.
           For
           he
           that
           pretends
           to
           a
           Power
           and
           Office
           which
           is
           by
           Law
           ,
           and
           which
           the
           Law
           does
           not
           give
           him
           ,
           has
           it
           not
           .
           Every
           Inch
           of
           a
           King's
           Power
           is
           Legal
           ,
           and
           he
           must
           come
           Legally
           by
           it
           :
           
             Lex
             enim
             facit
             Regem
          
           ;
           and
           again
           ,
           
             Per
             quam
             factus
             est
             Rex
          
           ,
           as
           our
           Common
           Law
           speaks
           by
           the
           Mouth
           o●
           old
           Bracton
           .
        
         
           He
           that
           is
           not
           let
           into
           the
           Government
           by
           Law
           has
           nothing
           to
           do
           with
           it
           ,
           he
           is
           a
           private
           Person
           as
           you
           or
           I
           may
           be
           .
           St.
           Iohn
           10.
           1.
           
           
             He
             that
             entreth
             not
             by
             the
             Door
             into
             the
             Sheepfold
             ,
             but
             climbeth
             up
             some
             other
             way
             ,
          
           Why
           what
           of
           him
           ?
           
           He
           is
           in
           Possession
           ,
           he
           is
           a
           Shepherd
           
             de
             Facto
          
           ,
           he
           takes
           upon
           him
           as
           if
           he
           were
           the
           true
           Shepherd
           ;
           But
           what
           says
           our
           Saviour
           ?
           
             the
             same
             is
             a
             Thief
             and
             a
             Robber
             .
          
        
         
           If
           I
           were
           a
           Bishop
           of
           King
           
           William's
           making
           ,
           I
           would
           never
           for
           my
           own
           sake
           call
           my
           Founder
           a
           King
           
             de
             Facto
          
           .
           For
           Leo
           the
           Eighth
           ,
           who
           was
           a
           Pope
           
             de
             Facto
          
           ,
           and
           gave
           Orders
           ,
           and
           did
           all
           other
           Apostolical
           things
           ,
           made
           Bishops
           and
           Clerks
           only
           
             de
             Facto
          
           :
           for
           they
           were
           afterwards
           forced
           to
           sign
           their
           own
           Nullity
           in
           these
           words
           .
           
             Pater
             meus
             nichil
             sibi
             habuit
             ,
             nichil
             michi
             dedit
             .
          
           For
           indeed
           of
           Nichil
           comes
           
             Nichil
             .
             Radulphus
             de
             Diceto
             ad
             Annum
          
           968.
           p.
           457.
           
        
         
           Suppose
           any
           Man
           by
           forcible
           entry
           gets
           Possession
           of
           the
           Mannor-house
           ,
           Is
           he
           thereupon
           Lord
           of
           the
           Mannor
           ,
           or
           has
           he
           a
           Right
           to
           the
           Rents
           of
           the
           Tenants
           ?
           It
           intitles
           him
           to
           nothing
           that
           I
           know
           of
           ,
           but
           to
           be
           followed
           by
           a
           Writ
           of
           Ejectment
           .
           For
           the
           Right
           and
           the
           Estate
           are
           for
           ever
           Inseparable
           .
           For
           though
           the
           Right
           Owner
           be
           not
           in
           the
           Estate
           ,
           yet
           the
           Estate
           is
           always
           in
           Him.
           
        
         
           Fifthly
           ,
           He
           would
           have
           People
           swear
           
             an
             Obedience
             according
             to
             Law
          
           ,
           in
           opposition
           to
           a
           
           Blind
           and
           Absolute
           Obedience
           ,
           though
           they
           are
           still
           to
           retain
           their
           Passive
           Obedience
           ,
           which
           is
           certainly
           Blind
           and
           Absolute
           Obedience
           ,
           or
           else
           there
           is
           no
           such
           thing
           in
           the
           World.
           He
           has
           ,
           p.
           20.
           l.
           15.
           entred
           a
           Salvo
           for
           
             the
             Highest
             Principles
             of
             Passive
             Obedience
             ,
          
           for
           he
           argues
           from
           those
           Principles
           ,
           and
           shews
           how
           the
           Oath
           shall
           not
           hurt
           them
           .
           I
           will
           discourse
           further
           of
           that
           Matter
           when
           I
           come
           to
           it
           ,
           and
           I
           will
           prove
           that
           those
           Highest
           Principles
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           are
           his
           own
           :
           And
           that
           there
           is
           not
           ranker
           Passive
           Obedience
           ,
           nor
           more
           grown
           up
           to
           Seed
           ,
           than
           that
           which
           stands
           Unretracted
           in
           his
           own
           Books
           .
           In
           the
           mean
           time
           how
           can
           he
           take
           into
           his
           Mouth
           such
           honest
           words
           ,
           as
           
             Obedience
             according
             to
             Law
          
           ?
           For
           his
           Passive
           Obedience
           is
           all
           the
           sorts
           of
           Blind
           and
           Absolute
           Obedience
           ,
           that
           can
           enter
           into
           the
           Heart
           of
           Man
           to
           conceive
           .
           It
           is
           Blind
           and
           must
           neither
           see
           nor
           examine
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           Dumb
           that
           must
           not
           dispute
           ,
           and
           that
           openeth
           not
           its
           Mouth
           .
           And
           it
           has
           r●signed
           it self
           till
           the
           Day
           of
           Judgment
           ,
           at
           which
           the
           Welchman
           who
           feared
           Hanging
           desired
           to
           be
           tried
           ,
           but
           all
           Plaintiffs
           desire
           a
           shorter
           Day
           .
           In
           a
           word
           it
           is
           Obedience
           without
           Reserve
           ,
           it
           is
           bottomless
           and
           endless
           .
        
         
         
           For
           it
           is
           all
           the
           Absolute
           Obedience
           in
           the
           World
           in
           the
           second
           Instance
           ,
           I
           mean
           ,
           not
           in
           the
           performance
           of
           the
           first
           bare
           Command
           ,
           but
           as
           that
           Command
           is
           inforced
           with
           a
           Penalty
           .
           For
           Example
           .
           Suppose
           I
           lived
           under
           the
           Great
           Turk
           ,
           and
           he
           for
           Will
           and
           Pleasure
           commanded
           me
           to
           break
           my
           Neck
           down
           a
           Precipice
           ,
           and
           I
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           out
           of
           a
           natural
           tenderness
           for
           Life
           ,
           desired
           to
           be
           excused
           ;
           why
           there
           is
           the
           biggest
           Command
           in
           
             Europe
             ,
             Asia
          
           or
           Africa
           lost
           .
           But
           if
           Passive
           Obedience
           come
           in
           the
           Black
           Box
           ,
           I
           must
           give
           up
           my
           willing
           Neck
           to
           the
           Bowstring
           ,
           and
           there
           it
           is
           broke
           without
           resistance
           ,
           and
           the
           thing
           is
           done
           .
           And
           suppose
           this
           be
           practised
           upon
           6666
           Men
           ,
           then
           you
           have
           a
           Thebaean
           Legion
           compleat
           .
           And
           Oh!
           
             What
             a
             Fervour
             would
             such
             a
             Story
             leave
             upon
             some
             Mens
             Minds
             ?
          
           What
           a
           Heavenly
           thing
           Slavery
           and
           Suffering
           is
           to
           some
           Men
           !
           But
           then
           it
           is
           always
           other
           People's
           suffering
           and
           not
           their
           own
           ,
           which
           so
           wonderfully
           Edifies
           them
           .
        
         
           For
           my
           part
           I
           always
           hated
           Passive
           Obedience
           both
           for
           my self
           and
           every
           body
           else
           ,
           and
           yet
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           it
           has
           fallen
           to
           my
           share
           ;
           so
           that
           I
           am
           the
           better
           able
           to
           write
           
           against
           it
           ,
           having
           had
           occasion
           to
           study
           the
           Point
           ,
           and
           having
           known
           the
           thing
           by
           Experience
           :
           As
           my
           Lord
           Montaign
           will
           allow
           no
           Man
           to
           be
           a
           competent
           Physician
           ,
           nor
           able
           to
           Cure
           any
           one
           Disease
           ,
           which
           he
           has
           not
           laboured
           under
           himself
           .
           I
           say
           then
           ,
           that
           Passive
           Obedience
           is
           the
           Upshot
           of
           the
           most
           Blind
           and
           Absolute
           Obedience
           in
           the
           World.
           For
           an
           Infinite
           Obedience
           resolves
           it self
           only
           into
           this
           ,
           either
           to
           do
           the
           thing
           or
           to
           do
           worse
           ;
           either
           to
           Fulfil
           the
           Tyrant's
           Will
           and
           Pleasure
           ,
           or
           to
           Suffer
           it
           .
           Now
           when
           we
           are
           come
           to
           Suffering
           and
           Passiveness
           ,
           this
           is
           the
           last
           Office
           that
           can
           be
           done
           to
           a
           Tyrant
           :
           And
           if
           this
           be
           the
           Duty
           of
           the
           People
           of
           England
           ,
           they
           live
           under
           the
           last
           Degree
           of
           Tyranny
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           vain
           to
           talk
           of
           Laws
           which
           secure
           to
           us
           our
           Lives
           ,
           Liberties
           and
           Estates
           ,
           when
           Passive
           Obedience
           comes
           into
           play
           :
           for
           the
           Property
           we
           have
           in
           these
           things
           ,
           which
           makes
           them
           all
           our
           Own
           ,
           is
           swallowed
           up
           by
           Irresistibility
           ;
           and
           all
           the
           ridiculous
           Ownership
           we
           have
           ,
           is
           the
           ridiculous
           English
           word
           ,
           Mine-take-it
           :
           which
           all
           the
           Children
           in
           
           England
           know
           ,
           is
           equivalent
           to
           Your's-take-it
           .
        
         
           For
           if
           a
           Thing
           be
           not
           mine
           to
           keep
           ,
           it
           is
           none
           of
           Mine
           ;
           but
           it
           is
           Uncontroulably
           His
           ,
           who
           can
           take
           it
           away
           without
           Controul
           .
        
         
           A
           Prince
           needs
           not
           an
           Antecedent
           Title
           to
           that
           which
           is
           His
           for
           sending
           for
           :
           His
           Title
           commences
           in
           sending
           for
           it
           .
           And
           Caesar
           has
           an
           undoubted
           Right
           to
           All
           things
           ,
           if
           no
           Body
           has
           a
           Right
           to
           say
           him
           nay
           .
        
         
           The
           Ghostly
           Doctrine
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           superinduced
           upon
           our
           Civil
           Rights
           ,
           is
           like
           the
           Saving
           or
           Reserve
           of
           the
           King
           's
           Sovereign
           Power
           ,
           wherewith
           the
           Court
           and
           Bishops
           would
           have
           clogg'd
           the
           Petition
           of
           Right
           ,
           4
           o
           Caroli
           :
           which
           would
           have
           frustrated
           the
           whole
           Act
           ,
           and
           supplanted
           every
           Branch
           of
           those
           Fundamental
           and
           Inherent
           Liberties
           ,
           which
           are
           there
           Claimed
           and
           Confirmed
           .
           The
           Wise
           Conferences
           full
           of
           Law
           and
           Learning
           which
           passed
           upon
           that
           Occasion
           ,
           are
           worth
           every
           body
           's
           Reading
           ,
           either
           in
           the
           
             Ephemeris
             Parliamentaria
          
           ,
           or
           even
           as
           they
           lie
           in
           Mr.
           
           Rushworth's
           Collections
           .
           For
           whenever
           Sovereign
           Power
           and
           Irresistibility
           exert
           themselves
           ,
           
           we
           are
           gone
           :
           And
           if
           we
           are
           bound
           in
           Conscience
           to
           submit
           to
           Commands
           Illegal
           ,
           there
           is
           an
           end
           of
           all
           Law.
           
        
         
           These
           Men
           do
           very
           Wickedly
           and
           Prophanely
           ,
           not
           to
           say
           Blasphemously
           ,
           to
           Christen
           their
           Bowstring
           Obedience
           ,
           and
           to
           call
           it
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           the
           Cross
           ;
           thereby
           Abusing
           the
           Adorable
           Mystery
           of
           our
           Salvation
           ,
           and
           turning
           it
           into
           a
           State-Engine
           of
           Tyranny
           and
           Slavery
           .
           For
           it
           is
           not
           
             the
             Doctrine
             of
             the
             Cross
          
           in
           any
           wise
           ,
           unless
           it
           be
           in
           some
           such
           wretched
           meaning
           as
           this
           ,
           That
           no
           Free
           Nation
           can
           live
           under
           it
           .
        
         
           What
           is
           done
           according
           to
           Law
           every
           Body
           must
           abide
           by
           ,
           because
           every
           Body's
           Consent
           is
           involved
           in
           the
           making
           of
           every
           English
           Law
           ,
           and
           then
           it
           is
           no
           more
           than
           Common
           Honesty
           ,
           to
           stand
           to
           one's
           own
           Act
           and
           Deed
           ;
           But
           in
           the
           way
           of
           the
           Passive
           Doctrine
           to
           prostitute
           the
           Lives
           ,
           Liberties
           and
           Estates
           of
           the
           People
           of
           England
           to
           the
           Will
           of
           the
           Prince
           ,
           is
           Treason
           against
           the
           Realm
           ,
           and
           Higher
           Treason
           than
           the
           High●Treason
           against
           the
           Prince
           :
           For
           as
           Fortes●ue
           and
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Lawyers
           ●ay
           ,
           the
           King
           was
           made
           for
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           not
           
           the
           Kingdom
           for
           the
           King.
           And
           as
           Treason
           against
           the
           Realm
           is
           such
           as
           the
           King
           cannot
           pardon
           ,
           so
           it
           is
           such
           as
           an
           Actual
           King
           by
           Succession
           is
           capable
           of
           being
           guilty
           of
           ;
           as
           appears
           by
           several
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           which
           I
           can
           shew
           to
           any
           Dabbler
           in
           our
           Government
           that
           understands
           it
           not
           .
        
         
           He
           clenches
           his
           third
           Paragraph
           with
           a
           Fourth
           which
           follows
           in
           these
           words
           .
           
             This
             is
             either
             true
             ,
             or
             all
             these
             who
             live
             upon
             a
             Continent
             ,
             and
             that
             are
             subject
             to
             the
             Conquests
             and
             Invasions
             of
             their
             Neighbours
             ,
             must
             be
             mis●rable
             :
             For
             though
             our
             Happy
             Scituation
             has
             exempted
             us
             for
             a
             whole
             Age
             from
             falling
             under
             any
             such
             Difficulties
             ,
             yet
             this
             is
             a
             Case
             that
             falls
             often
             out
             in
             all
             different
             States
             ,
             which
             are
             on
             the
             same
             Continent
             ;
             for
             if
             Subjects
             owe
             their
             natural
             Prince
             such
             an
             Obstinate
             Allegiance
             ,
             that
             neither
             Desertion
             nor
             Conque●t
             can
             dissolve
             it
             ,
             then
             in
             what
             a
             miserable
             Condition
             must
             they
             be
             ,
             when
             they
             fall
             under
             the
             Power
             of
             their
             Enemy
             ,
             that
             never
             thinks
             himself
             secure
             of
             them
             ,
             but
             treats
             them
             still
             as
             Enemies
             ,
             till
             they
             swear
             Allegiance
             to
             him
             ?
             Now
             all
             the
             
             true
             Maxims
             of
             Government
             being
             such
             ,
             that
             they
             must
             tend
             to
             the
             Preservation
             and
             not
             to
             the
             Ruin
             of
             Mankind
             ,
             it
             is
             certain
             that
             all
             those
             are
             false
             which
             tend
             to
             the
             inevitable
             Destruction
             of
             Cities
             ,
             and
             Societies
             ;
             and
             therefore
             this
             of
             an
             indiffeasable
             Allegiance
             ,
             must
             be
             reckoned
             among
             these
             ,
             since
             the
             fatal
             Consequences
             that
             must
             attend
             upon
             it
             are
             evident
             ;
             and
             this
             is
             the
             Opinion
             in
             which
             all
             who
             have
             considered
             this
             matter
             ,
             either
             as
             Lawyers
             or
             Casuists
             do
             agree
             .
          
        
         
           This
           is
           shifting
           the
           Scene
           ,
           for
           he
           knows
           that
           we
           are
           a
           World
           by
           our selves
           ,
           and
           have
           nothing
           to
           do
           with
           the
           Continent
           .
           It
           is
           a
           Londlopeing
           Argument
           ;
           and
           till
           we
           are
           in
           the
           Condition
           of
           the
           Flanderkin
           Towns
           ,
           he
           need
           not
           urge
           us
           with
           their
           Practice
           and
           Example
           .
           And
           he
           is
           wholly
           out
           of
           the
           way
           in
           every
           word
           he
           utters
           .
           For
           we
           are
           not
           Deserted
           or
           Forsaken
           ,
           nor
           Conquered
           or
           Subdued
           ,
           nor
           under
           the
           Power
           of
           an
           Enemy
           ,
           nor
           treated
           as
           Enemies
           ,
           and
           cudgelled
           into
           an
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           nor
           ever
           will
           be
           .
           If
           I
           were
           hired
           to
           write
           against
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           I
           would
           use
           such
           Arguments
           as
           this
           
           is
           .
           Are
           we
           in
           the
           Case
           of
           those
           ,
           that
           are
           Slaves
           under
           the
           Spaniard
           and
           Slaves
           under
           the
           French
           ,
           that
           often
           change
           their
           Master
           ,
           but
           never
           their
           Condition
           ;
           that
           are
           Prize
           and
           Retaken
           and
           Prize
           still
           ?
           Let
           him
           answer
           me
           to
           that
           .
           If
           not
           ,
           why
           must
           our
           Vertue
           be
           taught
           us
           by
           their
           Necessity
           ?
           God
           help
           th●m
           ,
           my
           Soul
           pities
           their
           Case
           ,
           and
           I
           should
           not
           readily
           know
           what
           to
           do
           in
           it
           ,
           because
           I
           never
           considered
           it
           .
           And
           perhaps
           it
           is
           like
           one
           of
           those
           wherein
           our
           Saviour
           forbids
           Forecast
           ,
           and
           would
           have
           no
           Man
           Premeditate
           ,
           but
           promises
           help
           at
           a
           dead
           Lift
           ,
           
             Dabitur
             in
             illâ
             Horâ
          
           .
        
         
           But
           in
           all
           his
           Travels
           could
           he
           find
           no
           Copy
           for
           us
           to
           write
           after
           ,
           nor
           no
           Body
           to
           match
           us
           with
           ,
           but
           a
           Conquered
           People
           ?
           What
           then
           is
           become
           of
           our
           Thanksgiving
           Deliverance
           ,
           which
           God
           and
           Man
           have
           been
           told
           of
           ?
           If
           after
           all
           we
           are
           to
           be
           in
           the
           Condition
           of
           a
           Conquered
           People
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           Deliverance
           downstairs
           ,
           and
           our
           last
           State
           is
           worse
           than
           the
           First
           .
           For
           we
           were
           not
           Conquered
           in
           King
           
           Iames's
           Time
           ,
           though
           we
           were
           in
           election
           to
           be
           so
           ,
           and
           though
           his
           Westminster-hall
           Red-coats
           had
           made
           a
           fair
           Progress
           in
           it
           .
           And
           
           therefore
           I
           am
           sure
           neither
           King
           nor
           Parliament
           have
           reason
           to
           thank
           him
           for
           the
           Choice
           of
           this
           Argument
           .
        
         
           When
           all
           is
           done
           ,
           as
           I
           said
           be●ore
           ,
           all
           Arguments
           that
           come
           from
           abroad
           are
           Foreign
           to
           Us.
           We
           live
           under
           Municipal
           Laws
           ,
           and
           Local
           Statutes
           ,
           and
           By-Laws
           that
           are
           Peculiar
           to
           this
           Empire
           .
           And
           therefore
           if
           he
           had
           offered
           us
           the
           tenth
           part
           of
           an
           Argument
           ,
           fetch'd
           out
           of
           the
           Bowels
           of
           our
           own
           Laws
           ,
           we
           would
           have
           hearkn'd
           to
           him
           ;
           but
           as
           for
           his
           Stories
           from
           abroad
           ,
           he
           may
           even
           if
           he
           pleases
           carry
           them
           home
           again
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           love
           to
           talk
           with
           his
           Maxims
           ,
           as
           I
           do
           the
           sight
           of
           an
           Ass
           ,
           who
           looks
           like
           Wisdom
           and
           Gravity
           ,
           and
           is
           not
           .
           For
           Allegiance
           Defined
           by
           Convenience
           ,
           is
           much
           like
           Religion
           Defined
           by
           maintaining
           a
           Coach
           and
           Six
           .
           However
           let
           us
           have
           his
           own
           words
           over
           again
           .
           
             For
             if
             Subjects
             owe
             their
             Natural
             Prince
             such
             an
             Obstinate
             Allegiance
             ,
             that
             neither
             Desertion
             nor
             Conquest
             can
             dissolve
             it
             ;
             then
             in
             what
             a
             miserable
             Condition
             must
             they
             be
             ,
             when
             they
             fall
             under
             the
             Power
             of
             their
             Enemy
             ,
             that
             never
             thinks
             himself
             secure
             of
             them
             ,
             but
             treats
             them
             still
             
             as
             Enemies
             ,
             till
             they
             swear
             Allegiance
             to
             him
             .
          
        
         
           Now
           I
           can
           tell
           him
           that
           Allegiance
           is
           so
           Obstinate
           a
           thing
           ,
           that
           neither
           Desertion
           nor
           Conquest
           ,
           nor
           any
           thing
           in
           the
           World
           but
           what
           is
           intrinsecal
           to
           it
           ,
           (
           that
           is
           Breach
           of
           Covenant
           or
           Consent
           of
           both
           Parties
           )
           can
           Dissolve
           it
           :
           It
           is
           a
           Moral
           Duty
           ,
           and
           Heaven
           and
           Earth
           may
           pass
           away
           before
           Allegiance
           can
           pass
           away
           .
           As
           for
           Desertion
           we
           must
           first
           know
           what
           it
           is
           ,
           before
           we
           can
           know
           whether
           it
           will
           affect
           our
           Allegiance
           .
           A
           Souldier's
           Deserting
           and
           running
           away
           from
           his
           Colours
           we
           know
           ,
           but
           what
           is
           this
           Deserting
           a
           Crown
           or
           a
           Kingdom
           ?
           A
           Resignation
           ,
           Renunciation
           ,
           Cession
           ,
           accepted
           by
           the
           People
           is
           valid
           ,
           and
           they
           are
           words
           currant
           in
           our
           Law
           ,
           and
           the
           Prince
           being
           thereby
           Deposed
           ,
           Allegiance
           ceases
           .
           But
           as
           for
           Desertion
           we
           must
           enquire
           further
           about
           it
           .
           Did
           the
           King
           Desert
           Willingly
           or
           Unwillingly
           ?
           Did
           not
           his
           People
           Desert
           him
           first
           ?
           If
           so
           ,
           then
           for
           shame
           never
           say
           that
           King
           Iames
           Deserted
           ,
           but
           say
           that
           he
           was
           Deserted
           .
           Well
           ,
           now
           we
           are
           coming
           to
           the
           Merits
           of
           the
           Cause
           .
           Had
           the
           People
           Reason
           to
           forsake
           
           King
           Iames
           or
           no
           ;
           had
           he
           Forfeited
           ,
           had
           he
           broke
           his
           Allegiance
           first
           ,
           was
           He
           the
           Aggressor
           ?
           Yes
           .
           He
           had
           made
           our
           Allegiance
           to
           him
           Impossible
           .
           For
           we
           were
           by
           the
           Constitution
           Sworn
           Brethren
           ,
           
             Conjurati
             Fratres
             ad
             Defensionem
             Regis
             &
             Regni
             ,
          
           and
           he
           had
           brought
           things
           to
           that
           pass
           ,
           that
           we
           must
           either
           part
           with
           our
           King
           or
           our
           Realm
           .
           The
           keeping
           our
           Allegiance
           to
           King
           
           Iames's
           Person
           would
           have
           Perjured
           us
           ;
           for
           we
           owed
           a
           Higher
           Duty
           to
           our
           Country
           and
           Laws
           ,
           to
           which
           he
           was
           sworn
           as
           well
           as
           we
           .
           But
           instead
           of
           the
           double
           Duty
           which
           lay
           upon
           him
           of
           
             observare
             &
             observari
             facere
          
           ,
           of
           Keeping
           the
           Laws
           and
           Causing
           them
           to
           be
           kept
           ,
           he
           abridged
           our
           Common
           Law
           and
           Statutes
           into
           five
           Positions
           of
           a
           Dispensing
           Power
           :
           After
           which
           I
           would
           never
           look
           upon
           a
           Statute-Book
           more
           ,
           but
           kept
           the
           Copy
           of
           that
           Compendious
           Law
           always
           in
           my
           Pocket
           ,
           to
           see
           whether
           it
           would
           outlast
           the
           Paper
           ,
           which
           fell
           in
           pieces
           at
           the
           Prince's
           coming
           .
           Now
           an
           Allegiance
           to
           the
           Destruction
           of
           our
           Laws
           is
           no
           Allegiance
           ,
           it
           makes
           our
           Circumcision
           to
           become
           Uncircumcision
           .
        
         
         
           What
           is
           Impracticable
           is
           Void
           ;
           as
           those
           great
           Souls
           saw
           ,
           of
           whom
           the
           World
           was
           not
           Worthy
           ,
           who
           would
           have
           set
           aside
           the
           Duke
           of
           York
           in
           time
           ,
           and
           not
           have
           suffered
           him
           to
           play
           his
           Rex
           ,
           which
           they
           knew
           was
           a
           Contradiction
           to
           this
           Government
           .
           A
           Traytor
           King
           ,
           a
           Protecting
           Destroyer
           ,
           and
           a
           Wolf
           Shepherd
           ,
           they
           knew
           were
           things
           not
           of
           a
           Piece
           ,
           and
           Irreconcileable
           .
           And
           therefore
           all
           Honest
           Men
           were
           for
           being
           rid
           of
           King
           Iames
           long
           before
           ,
           and
           they
           were
           in
           the
           Right
           .
           It
           was
           not
           such
           a
           puiny
           thing
           as
           the
           after-clap
           of
           a
           Prince
           of
           Wales
           ,
           which
           made
           them
           part
           with
           him
           .
           For
           though
           the
           laboured
           Discovery
           of
           that
           Fraud
           would
           have
           done
           great
           Service
           to
           this
           Government
           ,
           and
           ought
           not
           to
           have
           been
           spoiled
           ,
           by
           being
           put
           into
           a
           strong
           Box
           ,
           and
           let
           out
           again
           to
           disadvantage
           ;
           yet
           we
           must
           have
           more
           than
           a
           Supposititious
           Child
           ,
           to
           Justify
           this
           Revolution
           .
           For
           you
           must
           stop
           there
           ;
           you
           may
           indeed
           set
           aside
           the
           Changeling
           ,
           but
           that
           does
           not
           extend
           to
           Out
           the
           Father
           who
           was
           Tenant
           for
           Life
           ,
           because
           perhaps
           his
           Wife
           went
           fourty
           Weeks
           with
           a
           Cushion
           .
        
         
         
           In
           short
           ,
           knowing
           that
           King
           Iames
           was
           a
           Contradiction
           to
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           had
           rendred
           our
           Allegiance
           Impossible
           ,
           we
           parted
           with
           him
           upon
           Reasons
           that
           were
           Primitive
           and
           Coaeval
           with
           the
           Government
           ;
           but
           as
           for
           those
           that
           do
           not
           allow
           that
           he
           Forfeited
           ,
           and
           yet
           would
           not
           Assist
           him
           against
           an
           Invasion
           ,
           as
           he
           Proclaimed
           it
           ;
           and
           as
           for
           his
           Mercenaries
           that
           Revolted
           from
           him
           ,
           and
           pick'd
           his
           Pocket
           ,
           what
           Reasons
           they
           had
           I
           know
           not
           .
           If
           he
           Deserted
           he
           was
           forced
           to
           Desert
           ,
           for
           the
           very
           Ground
           he
           stood
           upon
           fell
           from
           under
           him
           ,
           as
           I
           told
           more
           than
           Fourty
           People
           it
           would
           be
           so
           ,
           before
           ever
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           embarqued
           ;
           and
           because
           I
           loved
           my
           Country
           ,
           was
           mightily
           pleased
           ,
           that
           it
           would
           be
           a
           brave
           Dry
           Dutch
           War
           without
           any
           Bloodshed
           .
           And
           therefore
           as
           for
           those
           that
           forced
           away
           Iames
           the
           Just
           ,
           (
           when
           according
           to
           them
           he
           had
           made
           no
           Forfeiture
           ,
           )
           either
           by
           their
           Resistance
           of
           him
           ,
           or
           by
           their
           Non-assistance
           ,
           They
           must
           never
           plead
           his
           Desertion
           in
           discharge
           of
           their
           Allegiance
           ;
           for
           that
           is
           to
           make
           their
           Crime
           their
           Plea
           ,
           and
           to
           take
           Advantage
           of
           their
           own
           Fault
           ,
           which
           neither
           Law
           nor
           Reason
           will
           ever
           admit
           .
        
         
         
           So
           much
           for
           Desertion
           ;
           now
           for
           Conquest
           ,
           which
           is
           become
           a
           very
           Great
           modern
           Point
           .
           And
           here
           we
           meet
           with
           new
           and
           unheard-of
           Conquests
           ,
           of
           a
           King
           Conquered
           ,
           and
           not
           one
           of
           his
           Subjects
           ;
           For
           so
           all
           the
           Conquering
           Bishops
           now
           pull
           in
           their
           Horns
           and
           say
           ,
           that
           they
           meant
           ,
           that
           King
           Iames
           alone
           was
           Conquered
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           Nation
           .
           That
           is
           a
           cleaverer
           Tip
           in
           my
           Opinion
           ,
           than
           taking
           out
           the
           Middle
           Pin
           ,
           and
           throwing
           down
           none
           of
           the
           rest
           .
           But
           let
           us
           see
           now
           what
           Earnings
           they
           will
           make
           of
           their
           Ten-pin
           tip
           ,
           their
           Solitary
           Captive
           King
           Iames.
           If
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           did
           Conquer
           King
           Iames
           in
           a
           Just
           War
           ,
           why
           then
           he
           was
           his
           Prisoner
           of
           War
           ,
           and
           he
           might
           sell
           Him
           and
           his
           wearing
           Clothes
           :
           Or
           because
           as
           another
           Bishop
           says
           ,
           
             The
             Rights
             of
             War
             are
             the
             same
             here
             as
             they
             are
             abroad
             ,
          
           he
           might
           have
           put
           him
           to
           Fine
           and
           Ransom
           ,
           as
           the
           French
           King
           did
           the
           Duke
           of
           Wirtemberg
           ,
           or
           as
           Teckely
           did
           General
           Heus●er
           .
           But
           what
           does
           this
           Intitle
           him
           to
           further
           ?
           Not
           a
           Farthing
           of
           the
           Revenue
           ,
           for
           that
           is
           Publick
           Money
           ;
           not
           a
           Jewel
           of
           the
           Crown
           ,
           for
           that
           is
           the
           Goods
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           much
           less
           to
           a
           Dram
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           for
           that
           is
           wholly
           a
           new
           Score
           .
           
           And
           yet
           this
           Conquest
           is
           continually
           alledged
           ,
           both
           in
           and
           out
           of
           the
           Pulpit
           as
           a
           Motive
           for
           Swearing
           ,
           as
           if
           it
           were
           the
           chief
           Ingredient
           in
           our
           Allegiance
           to
           this
           Government
           .
        
         
           There
           is
           nothing
           at
           all
           gained
           by
           Conquering
           King
           
           Iames's
           Person
           ,
           for
           he
           did
           not
           carry
           the
           Government
           of
           England
           about
           him
           .
           If
           he
           had
           been
           willing
           and
           so
           disposed
           ,
           he
           could
           not
           have
           Resigned
           the
           Government
           to
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           :
           for
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           in
           Edward
           the
           First
           's
           time
           ,
           declared
           King
           
           Iohn's
           Resignation
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           to
           the
           Pope
           to
           be
           Absolutely
           Void
           ,
           because
           it
           was
           done
           
             sans
             leur
             Assent
          
           ,
           the
           Parliament's
           Consent
           was
           not
           had
           to
           it
           .
           And
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           the
           ruining
           and
           spoiling
           an
           Old
           King
           ,
           does
           not
           make
           a
           New
           one
           .
           For
           that
           is
           but
           a
           Tartar's
           Conceit
           ,
           that
           if
           he
           destroy
           a
           Wise
           or
           Handsom
           Man
           ,
           he
           shall
           forthwith
           inherit
           his
           Wisdom
           or
           Beauty
           .
        
         
           But
           how
           came
           King
           Iames
           to
           be
           so
           abandoned
           ,
           as
           to
           be
           singled
           out
           and
           Conquered
           by
           himself
           ?
           We
           that
           knew
           he
           ceased
           to
           be
           a
           King
           ,
           or
           perhaps
           of
           Right
           never
           was
           one
           ,
           can
           give
           a
           fair
           Account
           of
           this
           Matter
           .
           But
           where
           were
           his
           Lieges
           all
           this
           while
           ,
           that
           held
           
           him
           for
           their
           Natural
           Lord
           ,
           and
           by
           Divine
           Right
           ,
           and
           yet
           failed
           him
           ?
           They
           that
           thought
           their
           Allegiance
           intire
           and
           not
           Dissolved
           by
           King
           Iames
           himself
           ,
           ought
           by
           Law
           to
           have
           Defended
           him
           
             Con●ra
             omnes
             homines
             Vivos
             &
             Mortuos
             ,
          
           against
           all
           Men
           both
           Alive
           and
           Dead
           :
           So
           that
           if
           old
           Schomberg
           should
           chance
           to
           walk
           ,
           for
           ought
           I
           know
           ,
           by
           Virtue
           of
           their
           Allegiance
           ,
           they
           are
           bound
           to
           fight
           his
           Ghost
           .
           This
           is
           a
           Consideration
           which
           belongs
           to
           the
           Conquering
           Bishops
           and
           their
           Inferiour
           Clergy
           ,
           and
           I
           leave
           it
           amongst
           them
           .
        
         
           So
           much
           for
           this
           new-fashioned
           Partial
           Conquest
           ,
           of
           a
           King
           Conquered
           and
           his
           People
           Untouch'd
           .
           But
           I
           have
           known
           by
           long
           Experience
           ,
           that
           to
           serve
           a
           present
           Turn
           ,
           these
           Men
           have
           an
           excellent
           Faculty
           at
           newly
           devised
           Fables
           .
           I
           believe
           it
           was
           never
           heard
           of
           from
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           that
           any
           one
           who
           was
           owned
           to
           be
           their
           Rightful
           King
           ,
           was
           ever
           Conquered
           and
           his
           People
           not
           ;
           but
           instead
           of
           that
           ,
           They
           look'd
           on
           .
           Such
           a
           Kingdom
           belongs
           to
           some
           other
           World
           and
           not
           to
           this
           ;
           for
           in
           this
           World
           ,
           as
           our
           Saviour
           said
           ,
           their
           Subjects
           and
           Servants
           would
           
           Fight
           for
           them
           .
           This
           is
           the
           new
           Separate
           Interest
           ;
           as
           if
           a
           King
           were
           not
           so
           much
           as
           Knight
           of
           the
           Shire
           ,
           or
           as
           if
           the
           County
           were
           no
           way
           Concerned
           in
           their
           Representative
           .
        
         
           As
           I
           said
           before
           ,
           I
           set
           aside
           this
           Partial
           Conquest
           ,
           and
           come
           to
           that
           which
           is
           a
           True
           Conquest
           ,
           and
           will
           examine
           whether
           that
           Dissolves
           Allegiance
           .
           Suppose
           a
           King
           and
           his
           People
           ,
           (
           who
           are
           all
           of
           a
           Piece
           till
           either
           of
           them
           break
           Faith
           with
           the
           other
           )
           are
           both
           run
           down
           and
           fall
           under
           the
           Chance
           of
           War.
           It
           is
           no
           matter
           which
           of
           them
           is
           in
           the
           Conqueror's
           hands
           ,
           because
           they
           are
           all
           as
           one
           .
           If
           their
           King
           have
           that
           hard
           Fate
           ,
           they
           must
           either
           Rescue
           or
           Ransome
           him
           ,
           though
           their
           private
           Money
           and
           their
           Church-Plate
           go
           for
           it
           :
           And
           if
           any
           of
           his
           People
           fall
           into
           the
           Enemies
           hands
           ,
           He
           must
           do
           the
           same
           by
           them
           .
           If
           neither
           of
           them
           can
           do
           this
           ,
           but
           they
           are
           overpowred
           and
           unable
           ;
           the
           next
           thing
           is
           to
           Advise
           the
           Party
           that
           is
           in
           the
           Briars
           to
           make
           the
           best
           Terms
           they
           can
           ,
           
             Redime
             te
             Captum
             quam
             queas
             minimo
             .
          
           This
           is
           a
           Duty
           on
           both
           sides
           ,
           and
           where
           this
           Advice
           cannot
           be
           express'd
           ,
           it
           is
           always
           implied
           ,
           
           and
           justly
           presumed
           .
           But
           how
           then
           does
           Conquest
           Dissolve
           Allegiance
           ,
           when
           it
           is
           plainly
           the
           Agreement
           of
           the
           Parties
           themselves
           ,
           which
           sets
           them
           Free
           from
           one
           another
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           last
           part
           of
           this
           Paragraph
           is
           Oracle
           ,
           and
           therefore
           we
           ought
           to
           hear
           it
           with
           great
           Attention
           .
           
             Now
             all
             the
             true
             Maxims
             of
             Government
             being
             such
             ,
             that
             they
             must
             tend
             to
             the
             Preservation
             and
             not
             to
             the
             Ruin
             of
             Mankind
             ,
             it
             is
             certain
             that
             all
             those
             are
             false
             which
             tend
             to
             the
             inevitable
             Destruction
             of
             Cities
             and
             Societies
             ;
             and
             therefore
             this
             of
             an
             indiffeasable
             Allegiance
             ,
             must
             be
             reckoned
             among
             these
             ,
             since
             the
             fatal
             Consequences
             that
             must
             attend
             upon
             it
             are
             evident
             ;
             and
             this
             is
             the
             Opinion
             in
             which
             all
             who
             have
             considered
             this
             Matter
             ,
             either
             as
             Lawyers
             or
             Casuists
             do
             agree
             .
          
        
         
           I
           have
           ever
           had
           a
           great
           aversion
           to
           all
           Maxims
           of
           Government
           true
           or
           false
           ;
           for
           there
           always
           lies
           lurking
           this
           Deceit
           in
           Generals
           and
           Universals
           ,
           that
           though
           they
           be
           True
           for
           the
           most
           part
           ,
           yet
           they
           are
           conceived
           in
           Terms
           large
           enough
           to
           be
           falsly
           applied
           ,
           and
           then
           they
           become
           False
           ,
           and
           are
           
           Usually
           the
           Tools
           that
           Dishonest
           Men
           go
           to
           work
           with
           :
           And
           I
           never
           saw
           a
           Man
           deal
           in
           Transcendental
           Politicks
           which
           are
           over
           our
           Heads
           ,
           and
           avoid
           coming
           down
           to
           Particulars
           and
           to
           the
           Point
           ,
           but
           with
           a
           Purpose
           to
           Deceive
           .
           This
           of
           mine
           is
           likewise
           General
           Talk
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           must
           come
           to
           Instances
           .
           
             Salus
             Populi
             Suprema
             Lex
             esto
          
           ,
           Let
           the
           Safety
           of
           the
           People
           take
           place
           of
           all
           Laws
           ,
           was
           the
           old
           Roman
           Law
           ,
           and
           a
           celebrated
           Maxim
           of
           State
           ever
           since
           .
           But
           because
           in
           Monarchies
           the
           Interest
           of
           a
           Prince
           drowns
           that
           of
           inferiour
           People
           ,
           and
           the
           Life
           of
           my
           Lord
           the
           King
           is
           worth
           ten
           Thousand
           of
           Theirs
           ,
           I
           have
           seen
           this
           Maxim
           ,
           by
           no
           less
           a
           Casuist
           than
           Bishop
           Sanderson
           made
           free
           of
           the
           Court
           ,
           in
           such
           a
           manner
           as
           has
           made
           a
           Ricketty
           Head
           ,
           and
           the
           Destruction
           of
           a
           great
           part
           of
           the
           People
           would
           still
           have
           been
           
             Salus
             Populi
          
           .
           Though
           I
           expected
           no
           better
           f●om
           such
           a
           Casuist
           ,
           who
           makes
           Six
           in
           the
           Hundred
           Sabbath-breaking
           ;
           and
           every
           one
           that
           takes
           lawful
           Interest
           for
           his
           Money
           to
           be
           guilty
           of
           the
           Breach
           of
           all
           the
           Ten
           Commandments
           ,
           and
           particularly
           of
           the
           Fourth
           ,
           because
           his
           Plough
           goes
           on
           Sundays
           .
        
         
         
           
             Necessity
             has
             no
             Law
          
           is
           another
           Maxim
           ,
           but
           it
           is
           pity
           there
           is
           not
           Law
           for
           it
           ,
           for
           it
           has
           always
           been
           on
           the
           Court
           Side
           ,
           and
           never
           on
           the
           Countrey
           's
           ,
           though
           one
           would
           think
           the
           Maxim
           lay
           equally
           betwixt
           them
           both
           ;
           but
           the
           truth
           of
           it
           is
           ,
           they
           either
           are
           or
           should
           be
           all
           one
           .
           In
           the
           beginning
           of
           King
           Charles
           the
           First
           's
           Reign
           it
           was
           loudly
           complained
           of
           in
           Parliament
           ,
           that
           Necessity
           was
           an
           Armed
           Man
           and
           an
           Evil
           Counsellor
           ,
           and
           indeed
           it
           had
           done
           much
           Mischief
           then
           ;
           but
           not
           so
           much
           as
           the
           L.
           C.
           J.
           
           Bank's
           Maxim
           did
           afterwards
           ,
           
             That
             there
             was
             a
             Rule
             of
             Law
             and
             a
             Rule
             of
             Government
             ,
          
           and
           the
           Rule
           of
           Law
           must
           knock
           under
           and
           give
           way
           to
           the
           Rule
           of
           Government
           .
           Yes
           ,
           it
           was
           that
           Rule
           of
           Mis-Rule
           that
           Confounded
           these
           Nations
           ,
           and
           was
           the
           Death
           of
           many
           Hundred
           Thousands
           of
           brave
           M●n
           ,
           who
           were
           not
           so
           easily
           rear'd
           .
           And
           in
           the
           late
           King
           
           Iames's
           time
           Necessity
           return'd
           again
           and
           cancelled
           all
           our
           Laws
           ,
           and
           was
           the
           chief
           Ingredient
           in
           the
           Dispensing
           Power
           .
           Yet
           after
           all
           I
           must
           acknowledg
           that
           a
           real
           and
           not
           pretended
           Necessity
           is
           Superiour
           to
           all
           Law.
           For
           Unforeseen
           Cases
           may
           
           happen
           ,
           and
           such
           as
           admit
           of
           no
           delay
           ,
           wherein
           the
           Lawgivers
           themselves
           would
           have
           made
           their
           Laws
           quite
           otherwise
           ;
           though
           this
           can
           seldom
           be
           ,
           where
           there
           are
           to
           be
           Anniversary
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           Parliaments
           always
           within
           call
           .
           But
           then
           all
           Men
           must
           act
           very
           honestly
           in
           such
           Cases
           ,
           and
           so
           as
           to
           acquit
           themselves
           to
           their
           Countrey
           ,
           for
           to
           them
           they
           must
           Answer
           it
           ,
           who
           are
           competent
           Judges
           of
           so
           plain
           a
           thing
           as
           Necessity
           is
           For
           I
           believe
           the
           refined
           Statesmen
           themselves
           cannot
           but
           say
           ,
           that
           Common
           People
           have
           Common
           Sense
           .
           Whereas
           to
           say
           that
           the
           King
           is
           sole
           Judge
           of
           Necessity
           ,
           as
           our
           false
           Judges
           did
           in
           the
           last
           Reign
           ,
           is
           to
           bring
           us
           back
           to
           Richard
           the
           Second's
           Maxim
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Law
             of
          
           England
           
             was
             in
             his
             Breast
             and
             in
             his
             Mouth
             .
          
        
         
           Another
           Maxim
           which
           was
           to
           have
           Converted
           my
           Lord
           Russell
           and
           to
           have
           saved
           his
           Soul
           ,
           (
           in
           the
           Letter
           which
           in
           a
           new
           way
           was
           brought
           by
           the
           Sender
           ,
           )
           was
           this
           ;
           That
           in
           Case
           our
           Religion
           and
           Rights
           were
           Invaded
           ,
           it
           was
           unlawful
           to
           defend
           them
           ,
           
             Because
             the
             Government
             and
             Peace
             of
             Humane
             Society
             could
             not
             well
             subsist
             upon
             these
             Terms
             .
          
           I
           have
           been
           assailed
           
           with
           this
           Maxim
           ,
           and
           it
           has
           been
           quoted
           upon
           me
           several
           times
           even
           in
           this
           Reign
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           shall
           answer
           it
           .
        
         
           I
           ever
           took
           it
           for
           granted
           that
           Government
           ceases
           and
           is
           lost
           ,
           when
           all
           the
           Ends
           of
           Government
           are
           Destroyed
           ,
           as
           they
           plainly
           are
           where
           the
           Religion
           and
           Rights
           of
           a
           Kingdom
           are
           Invaded
           ,
           for
           the
           more
           surety
           and
           security
           of
           which
           Rights
           ,
           Men
           at
           the
           first
           entred
           into
           Society
           ;
           I
           speak
           the
           Language
           of
           Fortes●ue
           .
           Who
           then
           in
           this
           Case
           is
           the
           Friend
           to
           Government
           and
           would
           have
           it
           live
           ,
           He
           that
           Invades
           ,
           or
           He
           that
           stops
           such
           Destructive
           Invasion
           ?
           Again
           ,
           who
           is
           it
           that
           breaks
           the
           Peace
           of
           Humane
           Society
           ,
           He
           that
           Invades
           all
           that
           Mankind
           have
           ,
           or
           they
           that
           are
           only
           willing
           to
           Defend
           their
           own
           ?
           I
           in
           my
           Simplicity
           thought
           that
           the
           breach
           of
           the
           Peace
           had
           been
           with
           the
           Trespasser
           .
           And
           I
           thought
           likewise
           that
           by
           the
           Law
           of
           England
           I
           might
           justify
           the
           beating
           of
           any
           Man
           that
           would
           take
           away
           my
           Goods
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           so
           doing
           I
           should
           not
           break
           the
           Peace
           ,
           neither
           would
           the
           Law
           impute
           it
           to
           me
           ,
           but
           to
           the
           Invader
           .
           These
           were
           my
           former
           Thoughts
           ,
           but
           we
           must
           now
           learn
           a
           new
           Lesson
           .
           For
           it
           seems
           
           the
           way
           to
           preserve
           Government
           ,
           is
           to
           see
           it
           Destroyed
           ,
           and
           to
           let
           Tyranny
           alone
           ,
           and
           to
           suffer
           Invasion
           to
           go
           on
           ;
           for
           otherwise
           though
           the
           Peace
           be
           already
           broken
           to
           pieces
           ,
           you
           disturb
           the
           Peace
           .
           But
           if
           it
           were
           not
           lawful
           to
           advance
           Paradoxes
           ,
           and
           Contradictions
           to
           Common
           Sense
           ,
           how
           could
           Men
           shew
           their
           Learning
           ,
           or
           wherein
           would
           they
           differ
           from
           other
           Men
           ?
           As
           for
           this
           Maxim
           ,
           it
           is
           exactly
           calculated
           for
           the
           use
           of
           a
           Perverted
           Government
           ,
           or
           of
           an
           Insolent
           Hedg-Constable
           ,
           that
           beats
           a
           quiet
           and
           orderly
           Person
           for
           the
           Conservation
           of
           the
           Peace
           ,
           and
           knocks
           him
           down
           to
           bid
           him
           stand
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           come
           closer
           to
           the
           Point
           ,
           Is
           not
           the
           Invasion
           of
           the
           Religion
           and
           Rights
           of
           a
           People
           ,
           the
           highest
           Tyranny
           that
           can
           be
           conceived
           ?
           And
           how
           then
           came
           the
           English
           Divinity
           to
           be
           such
           a
           Pimp
           to
           Tyranny
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           so
           deeply
           concerned
           for
           the
           Subsistence
           and
           Continuance
           of
           it
           without
           molestation
           ,
           as
           to
           Damn
           all
           Men
           who
           would
           not
           undergo
           a
           severe
           Repentance
           for
           being
           of
           another
           Opinion
           ;
           and
           to
           urge
           them
           to
           Recant
           their
           English
           Principles
           upon
           the
           very
           Sca●fold
           ?
           Though
           I
           
           think
           that
           to
           be
           a
           much
           more
           Proper
           place
           for
           retracting●
           Destructive
           Errors
           ,
           than
           Deliverance-Truths
           .
           But
           I
           can
           tell
           all
           the
           World
           how
           this
           came
           to
           pass
           ,
           for
           one
           Day
           teaches
           and
           certifies
           another
           ,
           and
           things
           are
           cleared
           up
           in
           time
           ,
           which
           were
           Mysteries
           before
           .
           The
           Reason
           why
           the
           Clergy
           were
           so
           zealous
           for
           Tyranny
           ,
           was
           because
           it
           was
           a
           Tyranny
           on
           their
           Side
           ,
           their
           own
           Interest
           and
           Strength
           to
           crush
           all
           other
           Protestants
           lay
           therein
           ,
           and
           then
           according
           to
           the
           Greek
           and
           Latin
           wish
           to
           Enemies
           ,
           Invasion
           so
           applied
           was
           a
           good
           thing
           ,
           and
           the
           worse
           the
           better
           .
           That
           made
           them
           so
           very
           liberal
           of
           the
           English
           Rights
           ,
           and
           to
           sacrifice
           them
           all
           at
           once
           in
           a
           Peace-O●fering
           to
           Moloch
           ;
           and
           it
           was
           a
           true
           Act
           of
           Worship
           ,
           for
           it
           signalized
           their
           Loyalty
           .
           
             But
             when
             Iudgment
             began
             at
             the
             House
             of
             God
             ,
          
           as
           Dr.
           Sherlock
           preached
           upon
           the
           Bishops
           being
           sent
           to
           the
           Tower
           ,
           then
           their
           Note
           was
           quite
           altered
           ;
           King
           James
           
             had
             Forfeited
             ,
             and
             ought
             to
             be
             Deposed
             ,
          
           with
           a
           great
           deal
           more
           to
           that
           purpose
           .
           This
           which
           I
           say
           should
           be
           deposed
           as
           well
           as
           King
           Iames
           ,
           if
           need
           were
           .
           But
           afterwards
           when
           they
           grew
           jealous
           of
           this
           Revolution
           ,
           and
           could
           not
           tell
           what
           to
           make
           of
           
           it
           ,
           having
           missed
           two
           Hits
           ,
           both
           of
           having
           King
           Iames
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           of
           having
           his
           intended
           Deputy
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           in
           Their
           hands
           ,
           and
           wanted
           a
           third
           Hit
           ,
           then
           the
           words
           were
           these
           :
           
             Well
             ,
             will
             not
             the
             Convention
             send
             for
             the
             King
             back
             again
             ?
             If
             they
             will
             not
             ,
             we
             have
             Fourty
             Thousand
             Men
             to
             fetch
             him
             back
             .
          
           Dr.
           Shorlock
           best
           knows
           where
           those
           Fourty
           Thousand
           Men
           now
           are
           ,
           but
           I
           believe
           King
           Iames
           would
           be
           very
           glad
           of
           half
           the
           Number
           .
        
         
           To
           proceed
           in
           my
           Story
           ,
           the
           very
           Man
           that
           had
           asserted
           that
           King
           Iames
           had
           Forfeited
           and
           ought
           to
           be
           Deposed
           long
           before
           he
           was
           ,
           or
           even
           before
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           was
           expected
           ,
           began
           with
           change
           of
           Interest
           to
           have
           change
           of
           Thoughts
           ,
           and
           then
           he
           could
           not
           allow
           King
           Iames
           to
           be
           lawfully
           set
           aside
           ,
           nor
           would
           Swear
           to
           this
           present
           Government
           ,
           and
           His
           forfeited
           Place
           at
           the
           Temple
           was
           supplied
           by
           I
           know
           who
           .
           At
           last
           after
           he
           had
           stuck
           as
           himself
           says
           a
           great
           while
           ,
           
             for
             Stick
             he
             did
          
           ,
           he
           was
           happily
           relieved
           by
           a
           lucky
           Coincidence
           of
           Bishop
           
           Overall's
           Canons
           ,
           and
           the
           Victory
           at
           the
           Boyne
           .
           And
           then
           he
           settled
           the
           Government
           upon
           it's
           own
           Settlement
           ,
           which
           we
           
           that
           pretend
           to
           dull
           Reason
           do
           say
           is
           a
           Circle
           ,
           and
           proving
           a
           thing
           by
           it self
           .
           It
           is
           true
           he
           called
           Providence
           in
           Aid
           of
           this
           Settlement
           ,
           but
           they
           have
           talk'd
           of
           late
           as
           meanly
           of
           Providence
           ,
           as
           ever
           Mankind
           did
           of
           a
           Swiss
           ,
           who
           are
           of
           all
           Sides
           ,
           and
           in
           French
           and
           Dutch
           Service
           both
           at
           once
           .
           Or
           as
           a
           great
           Bishop
           wisely
           decided
           the
           Business
           ;
           it
           was
           a
           great
           Providence
           of
           God
           that
           so
           many
           of
           the
           Clergy
           swore
           to
           this
           Government
           ,
           lest
           the
           Church
           should
           be
           destroyed
           :
           And
           it
           was
           the
           same
           Providence
           of
           God
           that
           so
           many
           of
           the
           Clergy
           refused
           the
           Oath
           ,
           lest
           People
           should
           think
           that
           there
           was
           no
           such
           thing
           as
           Religion
           ,
           and
           incline
           to
           Atheism
           .
           But
           I
           am
           afraid
           the
           Prospect
           of
           double
           Bishopricks
           ,
           makes
           Men
           see
           double
           .
        
         
           Whenever
           I
           am
           like
           to
           have
           any
           undue
           Thoughts
           of
           the
           Divine
           Providence
           ,
           I
           desire
           to
           die
           the
           Year
           before
           and
           not
           the
           Year
           after
           ,
           for
           that
           would
           be
           a
           Year
           too
           late
           ;
           but
           as
           for
           these
           Men
           they
           are
           not
           sit
           to
           take
           the
           Name
           of
           God's
           Providence
           in
           their
           Mouth
           ,
           for
           as
           they
           order
           the
           matter
           Providence
           is
           of
           contrary
           Parties
           ;
           it
           is
           with
           the
           Swearers
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           with
           the
           Non-swearers
           ;
           but
           I
           am
           confirmed
           
           by
           an
           Infallible
           Authority
           ,
           
             that
             Providence
             thus
             divided
             against
             it self
             cannot
             stand
             .
          
           For
           to
           say
           that
           Providence
           ordains
           that
           Men
           shall
           Swear
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           shall
           not
           Swear
           in
           the
           same
           Instance
           ,
           and
           forecasts
           both
           Ways
           ,
           is
           to
           say
           that
           it
           has
           two
           Wills
           ,
           or
           which
           is
           the
           same
           thing
           ,
           has
           one
           Contradictious
           Will.
           Now
           this
           is
           an
           Imperfection
           which
           may
           befall
           mistaken
           and
           ill
           advised
           Mortal
           Men
           ;
           they
           may
           (
           or
           they
           may
           not
           )
           deliver
           Folks
           out
           of
           Bad
           Hands
           into
           the
           self-same
           Hands
           again
           ;
           they
           may
           be
           of
           two
           Contrary
           Parties
           ,
           that
           is
           of
           none
           ,
           and
           so
           have
           none
           for
           Them
           ;
           they
           may
           Conquer
           known
           Enemies
           with
           unavailing
           bosome
           kindness
           ,
           and
           they
           may
           Conquer
           known
           Friends
           with
           Unkindness
           at
           arms
           length
           ;
           they
           may
           eat
           and
           drink
           and
           sleep
           and
           live
           Contradictions
           ,
           so
           that
           all
           they
           do
           shall
           be
           as
           broad
           as
           't
           is
           long
           ,
           and
           come
           to
           nothing
           ;
           they
           may
           at
           every
           turn
           of
           two
           contrary
           Men
           conjunct
           make
           one
           known
           Compound
           ;
           they
           may
           go
           to
           Plough
           with
           an
           Ox
           and
           an
           Ass
           ,
           and
           make
           baulks
           of
           very
           good
           Land
           :
           But
           far
           be
           it
           from
           all
           Mankind
           to
           impute
           such
           All
           to
           mall
           and
           Linsey-wolsey
           to
           the
           Providence
           of
           God
           ,
           
             for
             he
             
             is
             not
             a
             Man
             that
             he
             should
             Repent
             ,
          
           or
           be
           better
           advised
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           not
           forgot
           my
           Preacher
           who
           said
           ,
           that
           
             Iudgment
             began
             at
             the
             House
             of
             God
             ,
          
           when
           the
           Bishops
           were
           in
           the
           Tower
           ;
           whereas
           I
           know
           that
           it
           began
           at
           the
           House
           of
           God
           when
           
             Stephen
             Colledge
          
           was
           Murdered
           ,
           who
           Suffered
           more
           for
           the
           Protestant
           Religion
           and
           his
           Countrey
           ,
           than
           all
           the
           Bishops
           either
           in
           or
           out
           of
           the
           Tower
           ,
           and
           than
           the
           whole
           Clergy
           of
           England
           put
           together
           ,
           and
           left
           a
           dying
           Speech
           which
           out-weighs
           their
           Sermons
           .
           And
           he
           was
           a
           true
           First-Martyr
           Stephen
           ,
           for
           as
           his
           barefaced
           Murder
           threatned
           every
           Honest
           Man
           in
           England
           ,
           so
           he
           was
           followed
           in
           his
           Martyrdom
           by
           better
           Men
           than
           are
           now
           living
           ,
           whom
           this
           Nation
           does
           dearly
           miss
           .
           And
           yet
           when
           he
           was
           sent
           down
           to
           the
           Oxford
           Slaughterhouse
           to
           be
           destroyed
           ,
           because
           it
           could
           not
           be
           done
           here
           at
           London
           ,
           I
           remember
           several
           of
           the
           Clergy
           played
           with
           his
           Death
           ,
           and
           were
           very
           much
           pleased
           that
           they
           had
           one
           Colledge
           more
           in
           their
           University
           .
        
         
           But
           for
           quietness-sake
           it
           shall
           be
           his
           own
           
             House
             of
             God
          
           the
           Bishops
           ,
           for
           I
           grant
           that
           that
           
           word
           ,
           and
           the
           
             true
             Religion
          
           ,
           and
           the
           like
           ,
           are
           doubtful
           words
           ,
           and
           signify
           nothing
           till
           we
           know
           of
           what
           Religion
           the
           Man
           himself
           is
           .
           These
           are
           by-matters
           ;
           but
           the
           Question
           is
           ,
           how
           a
           Man
           that
           had
           a
           Right●
           Notion
           before
           ,
           came
           to
           lose
           it
           the
           next
           Year
           ,
           and
           has
           not
           been
           able
           to
           recover
           it
           to
           this
           Day
           ?
           For
           if
           he
           had
           stuck
           to
           his
           own
           Occasional
           English
           Principle
           ,
           (
           but
           then
           was
           then
           ,
           and
           now
           is
           now
           )
           
             That
             King
          
           James
           
             being
             a
             Tyrant
             had
             Forfeited
             ,
             and
             having
             broke
             with
             the
             Nation
             ought
             not
             to
             Reign
             ,
          
           he
           had
           not
           stuck
           at
           all
           among
           Jacobite
           Principles
           ,
           which
           however
           are
           forty
           times
           better
           than
           his
           own
           Hypothesis
           of
           Usurpation
           :
           for
           the
           Jacobites
           ,
           though
           mistaken
           ,
           pretend
           to
           Right
           ;
           but
           he
           proce●ds
           upon
           avowed
           ,
           bare-faced
           ,
           open
           ,
           impudent
           ,
           outragious
           Wrong
           ;
           as
           Usurpation
           either
           is
           ,
           or
           there
           is
           no
           such
           thing
           in
           the
           World.
           It
           is
           all
           that
           either
           the
           Giants
           or
           the
           Devils
           ever
           attempted
           against
           Heaven
           .
           But
           he
           had
           no
           other
           way
           to
           make
           a
           
             Case
             of
             Allegiance
          
           to
           King
           William
           ,
           to
           chime
           in
           with
           his
           Unretracted
           
             Case
             of
             Resistance
          
           ,
           written
           heretofore
           in
           Favour
           of
           Tyranny
           ;
           for
           though
           Passive
           Obedience
           had
           no
           hand
           in
           the
           Revolution
           ,
           yet
           perhaps
           he
           was
           informed
           ,
           
           it
           might
           be
           a
           grateful
           Present
           to
           a
           Settlement
           :
           however
           I
           must
           tell
           him
           ,
           that
           Passive
           Obedience
           must
           be
           crook'd
           and
           bent
           like
           a
           Nine-pence
           ,
           and
           look
           contrary
           ways
           ,
           before
           he
           can
           make
           a
           Token
           of
           it
           to
           this
           Government
           ;
           for
           actual
           Resistance
           of
           Tyranny
           gave
           this
           Government
           its
           Birth
           and
           Being
           ,
           and
           it
           stands
           and
           can
           stand
           upon
           no
           other
           Bottom
           .
           I
           am
           assured
           of
           what
           I
           say
           ,
           in
           a
           wiser
           way
           than
           trying
           Experiments
           .
        
         
           This
           English
           Priestcraft
           is
           the
           coarsest
           that
           ever
           I
           saw
           ;
           the
           Romish
           is
           fine
           ,
           and
           has
           made
           a
           delicate
           Book
           of
           Father
           
           Paul's
           
           Trent-History
           ,
           but
           Ours
           will
           never
           make
           a
           Book
           worth
           the
           Reading
           .
           Their's
           is
           the
           Depths
           of
           Satan
           ,
           and
           Ours
           is
           his
           Shallows
           .
           For
           would
           any
           Man
           to
           bring
           two
           very
           pitiful
           Cases
           upon
           the
           Stage
           both
           at
           once
           ,
           his
           
             Case
             of
             Resistance
          
           and
           his
           
             Case
             of
             Allegiance
          
           ,
           the
           first
           being
           to
           Authorize
           Tyranny
           in
           Exercise
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           to
           Authorize
           Tyranny
           in
           Title
           ,
           which
           we
           commonly
           call
           Usurpation
           ;
           and
           having
           Declared
           against
           Tyranny
           in
           Exercise
           in
           the
           mean
           time
           ,
           and
           having
           likewise
           stood
           out
           against
           Tyranny
           in
           Title
           for
           some
           Years
           ,
           take
           this
           silly
           Method
           at
           last
           to
           reconcile
           all
           together
           ?
           
           First
           ,
           to
           castrate
           his
           first
           Book
           ,
           and
           clear
           it
           of
           a
           very
           material
           Passage
           against
           Usurpation
           ,
           that
           he
           might
           make
           way
           for
           his
           second
           Book
           of
           Usurpation-Allegiance
           ,
           which
           for
           a
           long
           time
           he
           himself
           had
           withstood
           :
           and
           Secondly
           ,
           to
           make
           such
           a
           pitiful
           excuse
           for
           this
           variance
           both
           betwixt
           his
           two
           Books
           and
           himself
           ,
           as
           to
           say
           that
           it
           was
           the
           Effect
           of
           his
           Study
           ,
           and
           that
           he
           grew
           wiser
           .
           For
           at
           this
           rate
           we
           shall
           never
           know
           when
           Dr.
           Sherlock
           is
           of
           Age
           ;
           and
           all
           his
           Hearers
           ,
           Readers
           and
           Admirers
           must
           suspend
           their
           belief
           of
           what
           he
           says
           ,
           till
           they
           are
           sure
           ,
           that
           several
           Years
           of
           his
           after-Studies
           will
           not
           contradict
           the
           former
           .
           But
           for
           my
           part
           I
           will
           never
           mind
           what
           he
           says
           ,
           for
           he
           plainly
           goes
           back
           in
           his
           Studies
           ;
           because
           though
           he
           knew
           that
           a
           Tyrant
           was
           to
           be
           deposed
           five
           Years
           ago
           ,
           yet
           he
           knows
           nothing
           of
           it
           at
           the
           five
           Years
           end
           ;
           and
           though
           he
           knew
           long
           before
           that
           time
           ,
           that
           an
           Usurper
           might
           be
           Resisted
           ,
           yet
           now
           he
           knows
           better
           things
           :
           So
           that
           his
           studying
           has
           the
           same
           Effect
           as
           a
           Pharisee's
           Proselyting
           ,
           which
           makes
           Men
           twofold
           more
           the
           Children
           of
           Darkness
           than
           they
           were
           before
           .
        
         
         
           For
           all
           Englishmen
           in
           their
           pure
           Naturals
           know
           without
           studying
           ,
           That
           a
           Tyrant
           or
           Usurper
           is
           no
           King
           ,
           and
           that
           a
           King
           is
           some
           Highly
           lawful
           Person
           placed
           at
           the
           Head
           of
           the
           Common-wealth
           for
           the
           Good
           of
           it
           ,
           these
           Notions
           they
           suck
           in
           with
           their
           first
           English
           Air
           and
           Mother's
           Milk
           ;
           and
           even
           the
           People
           that
           follow
           the
           Plough
           know
           that
           a
           Tyrant
           or
           Usurper
           is
           some
           base
           Outlandish
           thing
           ,
           that
           cannot
           stand
           in
           an
           English
           Proclamation
           ;
           for
           if
           instead
           of
           saying
           God
           save
           the
           King
           ,
           the
           Cryer
           should
           say
           God
           save
           the
           Usurper
           ,
           or
           God
           save
           the
           Tyrant
           ,
           there
           is
           never
           a
           one
           of
           them
           all
           that
           would
           say
           Amen
           .
        
         
           And
           again
           all
           Englishmen
           that
           have
           any
           tolerable
           knowledg
           of
           the
           Constitution
           are
           sensible
           ,
           that
           the
           Office
           of
           the
           King
           depends
           wholly
           upon
           the
           Law
           both
           in
           its
           making
           and
           in
           its
           being
           ,
           and
           that
           a
           King
           as
           he
           is
           Impowered
           by
           Law
           must
           act
           by
           Law
           ;
           and
           therefore
           they
           must
           needs
           know
           at
           first
           sight
           ,
           that
           a
           King
           whose
           Authority
           is
           Antecedent
           to
           the
           Law
           ,
           Independent
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           and
           Superiour
           to
           the
           Law
           ,
           as
           Dr.
           Sherlock
           says
           ours
           is
           ,
           is
           an
           invented
           and
           studied
           King
           ,
           whom
           the
           English
           Law
           
           knows
           not
           ;
           but
           is
           of
           Dr.
           
           Sherlock's
           own
           making
           ,
           and
           is
           a
           King
           of
           Clouts
           .
           I
           cannot
           but
           scorn
           the
           Improvements
           of
           such
           Studies
           .
        
         
           Perhaps
           some
           of
           our
           Fools
           think
           that
           Great
           Men
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           so
           treated
           ;
           but
           let
           them
           and
           their
           Great
           Men
           know
           ,
           that
           I
           am
           in
           the
           way
           of
           writing
           ,
           and
           there
           he
           is
           the
           greatest
           Man
           that
           has
           the
           best
           Arguments
           ;
           and
           besides
           that
           Greatness
           does
           not
           lie
           in
           Actual
           Preferments
           ,
           (
           for
           that
           is
           still
           but
           like
           Usurpation
           )
           but
           in
           having
           most
           right
           to
           them
           ;
           and
           in
           doing
           (
           for
           I
           will
           not
           m●ntion
           my
           Sufferings
           by
           their
           Barbarous
           Hands
           )
           more
           for
           my
           Country
           ,
           than
           they
           were
           able
           to
           do
           against
           it
           .
           But
           I
           will
           recount
           no
           more
           of
           their
           Merits
           ,
           le●t
           I
           should
           make
           them
           still
           Greater
           Men
           ,
           which
           is
           no
           part
           of
           my
           Intention
           .
           In
           short
           ,
           the
           Magicians
           of
           Egypt
           were
           in
           
           Pharaoh's
           Project
           for
           the
           perpetual
           Slavery
           of
           the
           Israelites
           ,
           and
           used
           all
           their
           Skill
           for
           that
           purpose
           ;
           but
           
           Moses's
           Serpent
           was
           the
           Mastering
           Serpent
           and
           destroyed
           theirs
           ,
           and
           therein
           ,
           though
           not
           in
           Places
           ,
           he
           was
           greater
           than
           all
           the
           Magicians
           of
           Egypt
           :
           And
           again
           he
           was
           
           the
           Greater
           in
           this
           ,
           that
           what
           he
           did
           ,
           tended
           to
           the
           Deliverance
           of
           an
           Injured
           and
           Oppressed
           People
           ,
           which
           likewise
           ensued
           ;
           whereas
           their
           Business
           was
           ,
           to
           lock
           them
           up
           fast
           in
           the
           House
           of
           Bondage
           .
        
         
           For
           the
           aforementioned
           Reasons
           it
           is
           impossible
           that
           any
           false
           Maxim
           should
           be
           a
           Maxim
           of
           Quality
           ,
           and
           therefore
           I
           shall
           return
           to
           the
           last
           Maxim
           ,
           and
           engage
           it
           more
           closely
           .
           It
           was
           this
           ,
           
             That
             the
             Defence
             of
             our
             Invaded
             Right
             would
             spoil
             the
             Government
             and
             Peace
             of
             Humane
             Society
             .
          
           Now
           as
           I
           shewed
           before
           ,
           the
           Government
           determines
           and
           the
           Peace
           is
           broken
           to
           pieces
           when
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           are
           Invaded
           ,
           and
           therefore
           Defence
           comes
           too
           late
           to
           be
           guilty
           of
           that
           Mischief
           .
           For
           to
           do
           a
           thing
           done
           ,
           or
           to
           undo
           a
           thing
           done
           ,
           are
           equally
           Impossible
           .
        
         
           But
           what
           I
           have
           now
           to
           say
           upon
           this
           Point
           shall
           fall
           under
           these
           two
           Heads
           ;
        
         
           First
           to
           say
           somewhat
           concerning
           Defence
           ,
           and
           secondly
           to
           consider
           it
           in
           reference
           to
           this
           Revolution
           .
        
         
         
           First
           I
           say
           ,
           that
           no
           wise
           Man
           in
           the
           World
           ever
           desired
           the
           use
           of
           Resistance
           or
           Defence
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           a
           great
           Calamity
           for
           any
           Man
           to
           be
           put
           upon
           it
           ,
           for
           it
           implies
           Peril
           .
           Is
           the
           Benefit
           of
           
             se
             Defendendo
          
           such
           an
           envied
           Blessing
           ,
           when
           a
           Man
           shall
           be
           forced
           to
           fight
           for
           his
           own
           ,
           and
           tilt
           for
           his
           Life
           ,
           in
           which
           he
           has
           an
           Original
           Property
           ,
           greater
           than
           Humane
           Laws
           can
           bestow
           upon
           him
           ,
           for
           though
           they
           can
           take
           it
           away
           they
           cannot
           give
           it
           him
           ?
           There
           may
           be
           Loss
           ,
           but
           there
           can
           be
           nothing
           got
           ,
           by
           putting
           a
           Man
           's
           own
           Coat
           to
           Arbitration
           .
           Resistance
           is
           like
           the
           After-game
           at
           the
           Boyne
           ,
           where
           a
           Great
           King
           was
           fain
           to
           go
           through
           Fire
           and
           Water
           to
           come
           by
           his
           own
           ,
           which
           was
           as
           much
           his
           before
           as
           it
           has
           been
           his
           since
           .
           And
           therefore
           all
           Wise
           Men
           provide
           against
           Defence
           ,
           and
           endeavour
           to
           prevent
           it
           ,
           and
           would
           no
           more
           come
           to
           it
           than
           to
           a
           Last
           Remedy
           .
           As
           that
           Great
           Lord
           said
           in
           his
           last
           Speech
           ,
           who
           was
           concern'd
           in
           this
           Dispute
           ,
           
             that
             he
             was
             Always
             for
             Parliamentary
             Ways
             .
          
           But
           when
           Parliamentary
           Ways
           are
           Eluded
           ,
           and
           Mens
           Rights
           cannot
           be
           Defended
           in
           that
           way
           ,
           they
           are
           to
           be
           
           Defended
           as
           they
           may
           :
           For
           in
           a
           Case
           of
           Right
           ,
           he
           is
           no
           Englishman
           that
           will
           die
           for
           fear
           of
           being
           kill'd
           .
           Our
           Rights
           are
           our
           own
           to
           keep
           but
           not
           to
           relinquish
           ,
           we
           are
           but
           Tenants
           for
           Life
           ;
           and
           as
           they
           were
           Transmitted
           to
           us
           by
           our
           Forefathers
           oftentimes
           sealed
           with
           their
           Blood
           ,
           so
           we
           ought
           to
           leave
           them
           ,
           Dry
           at
           least
           ,
           to
           our
           Posterity
           .
        
         
           But
           you
           will
           say
           ,
           if
           Men
           are
           so
           loth
           to
           Defend
           themselves
           ,
           and
           to
           practise
           their
           Doctrine
           of
           Resistance
           ,
           why
           have
           there
           been
           Martyrs
           and
           Confessors
           for
           it
           ,
           and
           to
           what
           purpose
           does
           it
           serve
           ?
           Why
           truly
           it
           is
           much
           of
           the
           same
           Use
           ,
           as
           those
           Peaceable
           and
           sometimes
           Rusty
           Swords
           ,
           which
           Men
           wear
           by
           their
           Sides
           to
           prevent
           Injuries
           ,
           and
           to
           keep
           them
           off
           at
           a
           distance
           ,
           instead
           of
           going
           with
           their
           Hands
           tied
           behind
           them
           to
           invite
           them
           .
           And
           the
           only
           way
           to
           preserve
           a
           Nation
           from
           Tyranny
           is
           to
           leave
           them
           their
           Hands
           as
           free
           as
           the
           Law
           has
           left
           them
           ,
           though
           they
           make
           no
           other
           use
           of
           them
           than
           a
           Dutchman
           does
           of
           his
           ,
           to
           put
           in
           his
           Pockets
           .
           For
           when
           all
           is
           done
           ,
           Reputation
           is
           the
           Best
           sort
           of
           Power
           ,
           and
           Defends
           Men
           from
           Injuries
           without
           War
           
           and
           Bloodshed
           .
           While
           Mens
           Hands
           are
           their
           own
           their
           Rights
           are
           their
           own
           ,
           and
           therefore
           all
           Tyrants
           use
           this
           Method
           in
           Destroying
           a
           Nation
           ,
           bind
           the
           Strong
           Man
           and
           then
           spoil
           his
           Goods
           ;
           first
           they
           employ
           their
           Passive
           Priests
           ,
           and
           then
           their
           Active
           Executioners
           .
           So
           it
           was
           in
           France
           ,
           the
           Protestants
           were
           Dragoon'd
           by
           Passive
           and
           Slavish
           Principles
           ,
           long
           before
           St.
           Ruth
           came
           amongst
           them
           .
           And
           so
           it
           was
           here
           ,
           this
           Nation
           was
           bound
           hand
           and
           foot
           by
           Passive
           Principles
           ,
           and
           laid
           upon
           the
           Wood
           ,
           and
           we
           all
           know
           that
           the
           Sacrificing
           Knife
           was
           always
           ready
           .
        
         
           
             Armorum
             qu●edam
             sunt
             tuitionis
             Pacis
          
           ,
           &c.
           says
           Bracton
           ,
           the
           People
           of
           England
           have
           Weapons
           for
           keeping
           the
           Peace
           ;
           but
           our
           peaceful
           Clergy
           knew
           a
           better
           way
           ,
           and
           beat
           all
           our
           Weapons
           into
           Plowshares
           and
           Pruning-hooks
           ;
           and
           when
           Mr.
           Hunt
           and
           I
           endeavoured
           to
           restore
           them
           to
           their
           former
           lawful
           Shape
           and
           Use
           ,
           they
           said
           we
           had
           been
           down
           at
           the
           Forges
           of
           the
           Philistins
           ,
           and
           dealt
           with
           Jesuites
           ;
           and
           Dr.
           Pelling
           could
           shew
           some
           Pages
           ,
           which
           Mr.
           Hunt
           had
           plundered
           out
           of
           Doleman
           ,
           though
           I
           do
           verily
           believe
           what
           he
           told
           me
           ,
           that
           he
           had
           never
           seen
           the
           Book
           .
           But
           thus
           they
           
           went
           on
           both
           in
           and
           out
           of
           the
           Pulpit
           to
           cheat
           us
           of
           our
           Sheriffs
           and
           Charters
           ,
           and
           of
           the
           whole
           Strength
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           to
           enslave
           the
           very
           Minds
           and
           Consciences
           of
           Men
           ,
           by
           bringing
           down
           every
           free
           English
           Thought
           to
           the
           Obedience
           of
           a
           Tyrant
           ,
           and
           by
           flashing
           Hell
           Fire
           and
           Damnation
           in
           the
           Faces
           of
           all
           those
           ,
           that
           knew
           they
           might
           Defend
           themselves
           against
           Tyranny
           :
           And
           so
           this
           Mighty
           Nation
           which
           was
           never
           Conquered
           before
           ,
           was
           at
           last
           upon
           the
           point
           of
           being
           Conquered
           ,
           I
           am
           ashamed
           to
           say
           it
           ,
           by
           a
           very
           small
           Force
           ,
           not
           the
           ten
           Thousandth
           part
           of
           the
           Dutch
           Force
           ,
           even
           by
           Phantomes
           and
           Thebaean
           Legions
           .
        
         
           But
           would
           not
           any
           Man
           who
           was
           a
           Lover
           of
           his
           Countrey
           venture
           his
           Life
           upon
           a
           Rescue
           in
           such
           a
           Case
           ,
           and
           indeavour
           to
           Unpinion
           Old
           England
           ,
           and
           assert
           his
           Countrey-men
           that
           Liberty
           to
           which
           they
           were
           Born
           ?
           No
           Man
           that
           understood
           the
           Pious
           Fraud
           ,
           though
           at
           the
           same
           time
           he
           understood
           his
           own
           Danger
           in
           discovering
           it
           ,
           could
           endure
           to
           see
           Chains
           and
           Fetters
           thus
           treacherously
           put
           upon
           his
           Countrey
           ,
           under
           pretence
           of
           Religion
           ;
           as
           they
           put
           them
           upon
           Men
           in
           
           the
           Inquisition
           ,
           for
           their
           Souls
           Health
           .
           For
           if
           we
           are
           to
           love
           our
           Neighbour
           as
           our Self
           ,
           our
           Countrey
           is
           so
           great
           a
           Neighbour
           ,
           and
           has
           so
           many
           Millions
           of
           Neighbours
           in
           it
           ,
           that
           it
           ought
           be
           loved
           so
           many
           times
           better
           than
           one's
           self
           .
           And
           if
           a
           Man
           should
           fall
           in
           such
           a
           Cause
           ,
           and
           lay
           down
           his
           Life
           for
           so
           great
           a
           Good
           ,
           seeing
           he
           must
           die
           sometime
           or
           another
           for
           nothing
           ,
           he
           makes
           Earnings
           of
           Mortality
           .
           And
           though
           his
           Endeavours
           should
           want
           the
           desired
           Success
           ,
           provided
           he
           did
           his
           true
           Endeavour
           ,
           (
           for
           I
           grant
           that
           wishing
           well
           in
           all
           Cases
           is
           no
           more
           than
           dreaming
           well
           )
           it
           affords
           him
           greater
           Satisfaction
           than
           any
           thing
           in
           this
           World
           can
           :
           For
           a
           Humane
           Soul
           is
           made
           so
           very
           large
           ,
           that
           nothing
           but
           the
           Love
           of
           God
           and
           of
           a
           Man's
           Country
           can
           fill
           it
           .
        
         
           Thus
           far
           the
           very
           Reputation
           of
           Defending
           our
           Rights
           does
           Service
           to
           the
           Publick
           ,
           it
           checks
           and
           discourages
           Tyranny
           ,
           and
           is
           the
           Shore
           and
           Sea-dyke
           against
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ,
           and
           says
           to
           its
           proud
           Waves
           ,
           Hitherto
           shall
           ye
           come
           and
           no
           further
           .
           There
           is
           no
           such
           Rule
           of
           Justice
           can
           be
           given
           to
           Mankind
           ,
           as
           to
           know
           their
           own
           ;
           for
           it
           
           makes
           other
           Men
           know
           it
           too
           .
           But
           a
           Nation
           is
           lost
           when
           it
           is
           so
           Priestridden
           as
           to
           be
           preached
           out
           of
           all
           its
           Rights
           ,
           by
           the
           falsest
           Interpretations
           of
           Scripture
           that
           were
           ever
           yet
           put
           upon
           it
           since
           it
           was
           Penn'd
           ;
           and
           when
           they
           become
           so
           very
           Passive
           as
           the
           Addressing
           part
           of
           the
           Town
           of
           Northampton
           was
           ,
           who
           perjured
           themselves
           in
           surrendering
           their
           old
           Charter
           ,
           and
           prayed
           that
           in
           their
           new
           Charter
           they
           might
           not
           have
           the
           Choice
           of
           their
           own
           Magistrates
           ,
           because
           the
           King
           could
           chuse
           better
           for
           them
           ,
           than
           they
           could
           for
           themselves
           .
           If
           I
           had
           been
           a
           Knave
           Minister
           of
           State
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           I
           would
           certainly
           have
           taken
           these
           Minors
           at
           their
           Word
           ;
           and
           part
           of
           their
           New
           Charter
           should
           have
           been
           ,
           to
           have
           Nurses
           sent
           them
           from
           above
           to
           have
           fed
           them
           with
           Spoons
           ,
           and
           held
           them
           out
           ,
           and
           turn'd
           them
           dry
           ,
           and
           treated
           them
           according
           to
           the
           State
           of
           Infancy
           which
           they
           professed
           ;
           and
           their
           Estates
           should
           have
           paid
           for
           it
           at
           the
           Year's
           end
           .
           For
           the
           willing
           can
           have
           no
           Injury
           done
           them
           ,
           it
           's
           all
           their
           own
           .
           If
           Men
           bar
           their
           own
           Rights
           ,
           they
           are
           barr'd
           .
        
         
         
           Well
           ,
           but
           must
           the
           Wise
           and
           Free
           and
           Great
           Men
           of
           a
           Nation
           be
           Slaves
           for
           Company
           with
           such
           Perfectionists
           in
           Church-Doctrine
           ,
           and
           lose
           all
           their
           Rights
           because
           the
           others
           give
           away
           theirs
           ?
           I
           think
           not
           .
           Then
           is
           the
           time
           for
           all
           Honest
           Men
           to
           meditate
           the
           Actual
           Defence
           of
           their
           Rights
           ,
           when
           they
           see
           a
           Court
           and
           Church
           agreed
           to
           swallow
           them
           up
           :
           For
           when
           they
           see
           Men
           murdered
           before
           their
           Faces
           ,
           there
           is
           nothing
           got
           by
           staying
           to
           be
           Eat
           last
           ,
           it
           is
           better
           to
           be
           eat
           First
           ;
           I
           know
           even
           by
           what
           I
           have
           found
           ,
           that
           that
           is
           the
           easier
           Death
           of
           the
           two
           .
        
         
           And
           it
           was
           no
           Remote
           Case
           ,
           when
           my
           Lord
           Russell
           spoke
           of
           Defending
           Invaded
           Rights
           ,
           for
           he
           had
           survived
           all
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           Nation
           long
           before
           he
           fell
           .
           He
           saw
           that
           Parliaments
           were
           Libelled
           in
           all
           the
           Parish-Churches
           in
           England
           by
           the
           Declaration
           for
           the
           Dissolving
           the
           Oxford
           Parliament
           ;
           whereby
           we
           were
           plainly
           bid
           to
           take
           our
           Leave
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           and
           so
           we
           did
           for
           that
           Reign
           .
           He
           saw
           that
           the
           Choice
           of
           Sheriffs
           was
           ravished
           from
           the
           City
           of
           London
           ,
           
           and
           the
           True
           Sheriffs
           durst
           not
           Try
           their
           Cause
           ,
           but
           let
           it
           fall
           ;
           One
           of
           them
           is
           alive
           to
           witness
           what
           I
           say
           .
           He
           saw
           plainly
           that
           this
           was
           intended
           for
           the
           Destruction
           of
           such
           Great
           Men
           as
           himself
           by
           pack'd
           Juries
           .
           For
           the
           Papists
           and
           their
           wretched
           Adherents
           neither
           feared
           nor
           cared
           for
           Juries
           as
           to
           themselves
           ,
           being
           under
           the
           Protection
           of
           
             Noli
             Prosequi's
          
           and
           Affidavit-men
           ,
           but
           they
           thirsted
           for
           Blood.
           This
           the
           State-Interpreter
           of
           those
           Times
           Sir
           
             Roger
             Lestrange
          
           told
           us
           openly
           in
           his
           Observators
           was
           the
           meaning
           of
           that
           Point
           of
           gaining
           the
           Sheriffs
           .
           I
           know
           he
           will
           thank
           me
           for
           not
           quoting
           his
           words
           ,
           for
           they
           are
           Bloody
           ones
           .
           That
           Great
           Man
           saw
           likewise
           a
           parcel
           of
           Traitorous
           Lords
           ,
           who
           under
           pretence
           of
           being
           Prisoners
           had
           taken
           the
           Tower
           ,
           and
           had
           raised
           so
           many
           Batteries
           against
           the
           City
           ,
           that
           the
           Lord
           Arundel
           of
           Warder
           wanted
           but
           one
           Battery
           more
           .
           I
           remember
           my
           Lord
           Russel
           was
           mightily
           pleased
           with
           the
           Courage
           of
           the
           Citizens
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           and
           particularly
           of
           Alderman
           Cornish
           ,
           who
           slighted
           these
           Preparations
           against
           them
           by
           saying
           ,
           they
           might
           indeed
           do
           some
           Dammage
           to
           some
           of
           their
           Chimneys
           .
           I
           need
           
           not
           mention
           the
           Intended
           Cittadel
           of
           Chelsey-College
           to
           straiten
           the
           City
           on
           that
           Side
           ,
           nor
           their
           greatest
           Cittadel
           of
           Westminster-Hall
           ,
           where
           they
           had
           perverted
           all
           Law
           ,
           and
           plainly
           put
           a
           stop
           to
           it
           by
           dismissing
           a
           Grand
           Jury
           before
           their
           time
           .
           At
           the
           Notorious
           Case
           of
           
             Fitz
             Harris
          
           my
           Lord
           was
           present
           ,
           for
           which
           Serjeant
           Pemberton
           can
           give
           the
           best
           Reasons
           ,
           because
           he
           reserved
           them
           at
           that
           time
           ,
           and
           no
           doubt
           they
           are
           improved
           by
           this
           ;
           and
           brought
           up
           a
           Fashion
           ,
           which
           we
           do
           not
           find
           in
           the
           Year-Books
           ,
           for
           Judges
           to
           give
           no
           Reasons
           for
           their
           Judgments
           .
        
         
           As
           to
           the
           Case
           of
           the
           City
           Charter
           it
           was
           so
           very
           plain
           ,
           that
           I
           desired
           Sir
           
             George
             Treby
          
           now
           Lord
           Chief
           Justice
           who
           was
           to
           argue
           for
           it
           ,
           to
           use
           only
           this
           short
           Argument
           ,
           to
           carry
           
             Magna
             Charta
          
           in
           one
           Hand
           and
           a
           Penknife
           in
           the
           other
           ,
           and
           to
           desire
           the
           Court
           to
           cut
           out
           the
           Chapter
           of
           
             Magna
             Charta
          
           ,
           where
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           City
           of
           London
           and
           the
           other
           Vills
           and
           Burghs
           and
           Cinque-Ports
           are
           confirmed
           ;
           and
           when
           their
           hand
           was
           in
           to
           make
           but
           one
           Business
           of
           it
           ,
           and
           to
           cut
           out
           all
           the
           rest
           .
           I
           am
           sure
           the
           City
           of
           London
           will
           give
           me
           leave
           to
           say
           ,
           that
           they
           and
           their
           Chamber
           which
           
           was
           the
           best
           Fund
           in
           England
           was
           at
           that
           time
           broke
           ,
           and
           when
           it
           will
           be
           repaired
           I
           know
           not
           ,
           but
           they
           may
           easily
           know
           whom
           to
           sue
           for
           Dilapidations
           ,
           and
           in
           what
           High
           Court
           that
           ought
           to
           be
           done
           .
           And
           the
           ready
           way
           is
           to
           Extend
           the
           Estates
           of
           all
           those
           that
           treacherously
           destroyed
           that
           City
           ,
           and
           made
           it
           the
           finest
           Village
           in
           Europe
           ,
           and
           saluted
           the
           King
           ,
           
             King
             of
             London
          
           ;
           as
           if
           he
           had
           not
           been
           compleat
           King
           of
           it
           till
           it
           was
           Ruin'd
           .
        
         
           I
           need
           not
           mention
           their
           Standing
           Guards
           in
           time
           of
           Peace
           ,
           of
           which
           the
           Parliament-men
           used
           to
           say
           ,
           
             There
             go
             our
             Masters
          
           ,
           (
           and
           so
           they
           had
           reason
           after
           Sir
           Iohn
           Coventry's
           usage
           )
           ;
           and
           which
           all
           the
           great
           Lawyers
           of
           England
           declared
           to
           be
           Illegal
           from
           the
           first
           ,
           and
           such
           a
           Force
           upon
           the
           Nation
           as
           the
           Law
           abhors
           .
           The
           Lord
           Chief
           Justice
           Vaughan
           had
           the
           Honesty
           and
           Courage
           to
           tell
           my
           late
           Lord
           Macclesfield
           so
           ,
           though
           he
           then
           Commanded
           and
           was
           at
           the
           Head
           of
           them
           .
           My
           Lord
           very
           honourably
           remembered
           this
           as
           an
           Instance
           of
           that
           Great
           Man's
           Integrity
           .
           And
           who
           that
           ever
           had
           the
           Honour
           of
           knowing
           
           the
           last
           Great
           Man
           ,
           can
           ever
           forget
           His
           ?
           But
           the
           Guards
           became
           more
           Formidable
           afterwards
           ,
           when
           an
           Undertaker
           offered
           with
           a
           Thousand
           of
           their
           Horse
           ,
           of
           which
           they
           had
           always
           more
           ,
           to
           go
           and
           conquer
           the
           City
           of
           London
           in
           a
           contemptuous
           manner
           ;
           and
           when
           with
           their
           Detachements
           ,
           and
           filling
           up
           again
           with
           new
           Men
           ,
           they
           could
           at
           any
           time
           Form
           an
           Army
           .
           They
           had
           likewise
           their
           Nursery
           of
           Tangier
           within
           call
           ,
           and
           when
           they
           saw
           their
           time
           it
           came
           over
           .
        
         
           Ever
           since
           the
           last
           Sentence
           that
           passed
           upon
           me
           ,
           I
           am
           somewhat
           out
           of
           conceit
           with
           the
           Name
           of
           Guards
           .
           For
           having
           made
           as
           Honest
           an
           Address
           to
           the
           Army
           as
           the
           World
           can
           shew
           any
           thing
           ,
           and
           being
           run
           down
           for
           it
           as
           a
           High
           Misdemeanour
           ,
           I
           took
           my
           Exceptions
           to
           the
           Information
           ,
           amongst
           other
           things
           that
           there
           was
           no
           averrment
           of
           any
           Army
           in
           it
           ;
           and
           I
           said
           there
           could
           be
           no
           such
           thing
           ,
           because
           it
           was
           Contrary
           to
           the
           Law
           of
           England
           .
           Whereupon
           both
           the
           Attorney
           General
           Sawyer
           and
           the
           Court
           of
           King's-Bench
           said
           ,
           that
           the
           Camp
           at
           Hownslow-Heath
           was
           not
           an
           Army
           ,
           but
           only
           the
           King's
           Guards
           .
           I
           
           replied
           ,
           that
           I
           thought
           they
           were
           
             too
             far
             off
             for
             Guards
             ,
             and
             too
             great
             a
             Number
             .
          
           To
           which
           the
           Lord
           Chief
           Justice
           Herbert
           answered
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           wanted
           a
           
             Greater
             Number
          
           to
           Defend
           him
           from
           my
           Papers
           .
           At
           which
           I
           could
           only
           smile
           ,
           to
           see
           a
           Rag
           or
           two
           of
           the
           Press
           made
           a
           Pretence
           to
           keep
           up
           a
           Great
           Army
           .
           But
           as
           I
           intimated
           before
           ,
           Guards
           shall
           be
           an
           Army
           and
           an
           Army
           shall
           be
           Guards
           ,
           when
           such
           Men
           think
           fit
           .
        
         
           Aristotle
           in
           his
           Politicks
           is
           very
           severe
           upon
           Guards
           ,
           and
           says
           ,
           That
           it
           is
           the
           Mark
           of
           a
           King
           's
           turning
           Tyrant
           ,
           if
           he
           require
           a
           Guard
           ;
           and
           says
           further
           ,
           that
           if
           a
           King
           demand
           a
           Guard
           to
           defend
           him
           against
           his
           People
           ,
           his
           People
           ought
           to
           demand
           a
           Guard
           to
           defend
           them
           against
           him
           .
           And
           it
           is
           very
           plain
           that
           the
           Additional
           Guards
           of
           Horse
           and
           Foot
           in
           the
           two
           last
           Reigns
           ,
           (
           for
           there
           were
           never
           any
           before
           ,
           but
           the
           Band
           of
           Pensioners
           and
           the
           Band
           of
           Archers
           now
           Yeomen
           ,
           who
           were
           the
           Antient
           Establishment
           for
           the
           Preservation
           of
           the
           King's
           Person
           ,
           )
           were
           not
           intended
           for
           the
           
             King's
             Preservation
          
           ,
           for
           that
           was
           done
           to
           their
           hand
           ;
           but
           to
           awe
           the
           Nation
           ,
           to
           animate
           Judges
           in
           false
           Judgments
           ,
           and
           
           to
           back
           Officers
           in
           illegal
           Proceedings
           :
           for
           where
           the
           Law
           would
           not
           hold
           out
           in
           the
           way
           of
           a
           Legal
           Writ
           ,
           it
           was
           as
           well
           supplied
           by
           an
           Arbitrary
           Command
           ,
           and
           two
           or
           three
           Files
           of
           Musketteers
           .
        
         
           I
           will
           name
           but
           one
           thing
           more
           ,
           which
           was
           Occasioned
           by
           the
           Bill
           of
           Exclusion
           .
           That
           Bill
           was
           carried
           
             Nemine
             Contradicente
          
           several
           times
           in
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           ;
           but
           when
           it
           came
           in
           the
           Westminster
           Parliament
           to
           be
           carried
           up
           by
           my
           Lord
           Russell
           to
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           ,
           it
           was
           so
           ill
           received
           there
           ,
           ●hat
           the
           Bishops
           were
           for
           throwing
           it
           out
           to
           rights
           ;
           However
           after
           a
           Reading
           and
           after
           a
           Debate
           which
           lasted
           till
           about
           Midnight
           it
           was
           thrown
           out
           .
           That
           Learned
           Nobleman
           the
           Great
           Earl
           of
           Essex
           was
           pleased
           to
           tell
           me
           what
           Arguments
           he
           insisted
           upon
           in
           that
           Debate
           .
           The
           first
           was
           that
           the
           Regality
           of
           England
           was
           an
           Office
           ,
           concerning
           which
           the
           17
           th
           Chapter
           of
           King
           Edward
           the
           Confessor's
           Laws
           is
           wholly
           spent
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           so
           Declared
           to
           be
           in
           Many
           Acts
           of
           Parliament
           as
           low
           as
           Queen
           
           Mary's
           Time
           ,
           and
           that
           a
           Woman
           as
           well
           as
           a
           Man
           might
           be
           invested
           with
           the
           Regal
           Office.
           
           Hereupon
           he
           said
           ,
           that
           a
           Person
           Unqualified
           ,
           as
           all
           the
           World
           knew
           the
           Duke
           of
           York
           was
           ,
           could
           not
           be
           admitted
           to
           that
           Office.
           Upon
           discourse
           about
           this
           I
           remember
           his
           Lordship
           was
           pleased
           to
           take
           down
           
           Lambert's
           Saxon
           Laws
           ,
           and
           shew
           me
           several
           Particulars
           in
           that
           17
           th
           Chapter
           which
           I
           had
           forgot
           .
           His
           second
           Argument
           was
           to
           prove
           ,
           that
           if
           the
           Duke
           of
           York
           had
           Unqualified
           himself
           for
           that
           High
           Office
           ,
           as
           he
           plainly
           had
           for
           the
           meanest
           Office
           in
           England
           ,
           then
           the
           Parliament
           had
           undoubtedly
           Power
           to
           foreclose
           him
           and
           set
           aside
           his
           Remainder
           in
           the
           Crown
           ,
           because
           they
           had
           Power
           to
           do
           more
           .
           This
           he
           said
           was
           the
           known
           Law
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           agreed
           upon
           by
           the
           Lord
           Chancellor
           More
           and
           
             Richard
             Rich
          
           then
           Sollicitor
           General
           and
           afterwards●
           Lord
           Rich
           ,
           as
           a
           First
           established
           Principle
           ;
           upon
           which
           they
           argued
           about
           the
           Supremacy
           .
           It
           stands
           thus
           in
           the
           Record
           ,
           as
           we
           have
           it
           p.
           421.
           of
           the
           Lord
           
           Herbert's
           History
           .
           
             The
             Sollicitor
             Demanded
             ,
             if
             it
             were
             enacted
             by
             Parliament
             that
             
               Richard
               Rich
            
             should
             be
             King
             ,
             and
             that
             it
             should
             be
             Treason
             for
             any
             Man
             to
             deny
             it
             ,
             What
             Offence
             it
             were
             to
             contravene
             this
             Act
             ?
             
             Sir
             
               Thomas
               More
            
             answered
             ,
             that
             he
             should
             offend
             if
             he
             said
             No
             ,
             because
             he
             was
             Bound
             by
             the
             Act
             ;
             but
             that
             this
             was
             
               Casus
               levis
            
             :
             Whereupon
             ,
             Sir
             
               Thomas
               More
            
             said
             he
             would
             propose
             a
             higher
             Case
             ,
             suppose
             by
             Parliament
             it
             were
             enacted
             
               quod
               Deus
               non
               sit
               Deus
            
             ,
             and
             that
             it
             were
             Treason
             to
             contravene
             ,
             whether
             it
             were
             an
             Offence
             to
             say
             according
             to
             the
             said
             Act
             ,
             
               Richard
               Rich
            
             replied
             yea
             ;
             but
             said
             withal
             ,
             I
             will
             propose
             a
             middle
             Case
             ,
             because
             yours
             is
             too
             high
             .
             The
             King
             you
             know
             is
             constitute
             Supream
             Head
             of
             the
             Church
             on
             Earth
             ,
             why
             should
             not
             you
             Master
             More
             accept
             him
             so
             ,
             as
             you
             would
             me
             if
             I
             were
             made
             King
             by
             the
             Supposition
             aforesaid
             .
             Sir
             
               Thomas
               More
            
             Answer'd
             ,
             the
             Case
             was
             not
             the
             same
             ,
             because
             said
             he
             ,
             a
             Parliament
             can
             make
             a
             King
             and
             Depose
             him
             ,
             and
             that
             every
             Parliament-man
             may
             give
             his
             Consent
             thereunto
             ,
             but
             that
             a
             Subject
             cannot
             be
             bound
             so
             in
             the
             Case
             of
             Supremacy
             ,
             
               Quia
               Consensum
               ab
               eo
               ad
               Parlamentum
               praebere
               non
               potest
               ,
               Et
               quanquam
               Rex
               sic
               acceptus
               sit
               in
               Anglia
               ,
               plurimae
               tamen
               partes
               exterae
               idem
               non
               affirmant
               .
            
          
           Because
           the
           
           Parliament-man
           cannot
           carry
           the
           Subject's
           Consent
           to
           Parliament
           in
           this
           Case
           ,
           (
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           no
           body
           but
           Christ
           could
           make
           his
           own
           Vicar
           ,
           and
           the
           Head
           in
           Heaven
           make
           the
           Head
           on
           Earth
           ;
           )
           and
           although
           the
           King
           be
           held
           to
           be
           Head
           of
           the
           Church
           here
           in
           England
           ,
           yet
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           World
           abroad
           are
           of
           another
           mind
           .
        
         
           Here
           Sir
           
             Thomas
             More
          
           stuck
           ,
           for
           I
           believe
           
             stick
             He
             did
          
           ,
           because
           he
           laid
           down
           his
           Life
           for
           it
           ;
           but
           you
           see
           that
           the
           undoubted
           unquestioned
           Law
           of
           the
           Land
           was
           this
           ,
           
             That
             a
             Parliament
             can
             make
             and
             Depose
             a
             King
             ,
          
           for
           it
           is
           the
           Foundation
           of
           their
           Arguing
           :
           And
           it
           cannot
           be
           thought
           that
           a
           Learned
           Lord
           Chancellor
           and
           Sollicitor
           General
           should
           be
           both
           Ignorant
           in
           the
           First
           Principles
           of
           the
           Law.
           Neither
           would
           
             Richard
             Rich
          
           have
           been
           made
           a
           Lord
           and
           the
           Head
           of
           a
           Noble
           Family
           of
           Earls
           ,
           if
           it
           had
           not
           been
           Current
           Law
           in
           those
           Days
           :
           for
           such
           a
           Principle
           upon
           Record
           would
           have
           been
           as
           bad
           ,
           and
           hurt
           his
           Preferment
           as
           much
           as
           if
           he
           had
           been
           Stigmatized
           .
           And
           therefore
           my
           Lord
           of
           
           Essex's
           Argument
           was
           more
           than
           Measure
           ;
           That
           if
           a
           Parliament
           could
           make
           and
           Depose
           a
           King
           ,
           and
           
           make
           
             Richard
             Rich
          
           King
           ,
           much
           more
           they
           might
           foreclose
           the
           Duke
           of
           York
           who
           was
           
             no
             King
          
           ,
           and
           more
           unqualified
           than
           
             Richard
             Rich
          
           ;
           and
           might
           make
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           King
           ,
           an
           otherghess
           Man
           than
           
             Richard
             Rich.
          
           Thus
           that
           Great
           Man
           Argued
           ,
           but
           Care
           was
           taken
           that
           he
           should
           Argue
           for
           the
           Good
           of
           his
           Countrey
           no
           more
           ;
           and
           therefore
           we
           that
           are
           left
           behind
           ,
           partly
           to
           bewail
           the
           loss
           of
           such
           Great
           Men
           ,
           and
           partly
           to
           imitate
           them
           ,
           ought
           to
           uphold
           their
           Cause
           ;
           and
           as
           mean
           a
           Man
           as
           I
           ,
           am
           able
           to
           maintain
           these
           plain
           Truths
           against
           all
           the
           World.
           
        
         
           Though
           indeed
           my
           Lord
           of
           Essex
           told
           me
           that
           his
           Adversaries
           in
           that
           Debate
           waved
           the
           Jargon
           of
           Divine
           Right
           and
           the
           Line
           of
           Succes●ion
           ,
           (
           which
           had
           been
           inculcated
           in
           the
           Second
           Volume
           of
           the
           
             History
             of
             the
             Reformation
          
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           Heroe
           himself
           to
           whom
           it
           was
           Dedicated
           ,
           )
           and
           at
           that
           time
           they
           betook
           themselves
           chiefly
           to
           Reasons
           of
           State.
           They
           were
           got
           at
           the
           old
           Scarecrow
           
             Venient
             Romani
          
           ,
           the
           Foreign
           Catholick
           Princes
           would
           espouse
           the
           Duke
           of
           
           York's
           Quarrel
           ;
           the
           Ancient
           Kingdom
           of
           Scotland
           would
           admit
           him
           for
           Their
           King
           in
           opposition
           to
           our
           Act
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           
           this
           would
           entail
           a
           Dangerous
           War
           upon
           the
           Nation
           :
           (
           That
           is
           I
           suppose
           the
           Navy
           Royal
           of
           Scotland
           would
           have
           given
           Law
           to
           the
           English
           Fleet
           )
           .
           They
           were
           likewise
           doubtful
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           and
           if
           these
           two
           Kingdoms
           were
           dismembred
           from
           us
           ,
           the
           solitary
           Kingdom
           of
           England
           would
           not
           make
           that
           Figure
           in
           the
           World
           as
           it
           used
           to
           do
           .
           And
           therefore
           according
           to
           the
           Method
           of
           all
           hired
           Politicks
           ,
           they
           must
           make
           sure
           of
           sinking
           Three
           Kingdoms
           for
           fear
           of
           losing
           Two
           ,
           and
           Deliver
           up
           the
           Castle
           for
           fear
           the
           Suburbs
           should
           Revolt
           .
           With
           such
           fitting
           Arguments
           was
           that
           Cause
           supported
           ;
           and
           if
           I
           have
           broke
           any
           Rules
           in
           repeating
           that
           Great
           Man's
           private
           Discourse
           ,
           now
           it
           is
           done
           I
           cannot
           help
           it
           ;
           But
           I
           say
           let
           his
           Integrity
           be
           known
           ,
           and
           speak
           as
           Loud
           as
           his
           Blood
           cries
           :
           And
           I
           am
           sure
           they
           that
           would
           stifle
           that
           Man's
           Honour
           ,
           would
           stifle
           his
           Death
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           Bill
           of
           Exclusion
           is
           of
           no
           Concernment
           at
           this
           Time
           ,
           though
           if
           we
           had
           then
           ventured
           our
           Lives
           for
           it
           we
           had
           done
           well
           ,
           and
           it
           had
           been
           good
           Husbandry
           ;
           for
           it
           had
           saved
           more
           than
           an
           Hundred
           Thousand
           Lives
           
           since
           which
           are
           all
           of
           a
           price
           ,
           and
           as
           dear
           to
           them
           as
           owned
           them
           ,
           as
           ours
           are
           to
           us
           .
           I
           grant
           a
           True
           Statesman
           is
           of
           another
           Opinion
           ,
           and
           values
           being
           called
           his
           Grace
           or
           Noble
           Marquess
           more
           than
           a
           Million
           of
           Lives
           ,
           provided
           that
           in
           such
           a
           general
           Destruction
           he
           can
           but
           save
           one
           .
           And
           to
           confirm
           themselves
           in
           their
           ill-gotten
           Honours
           they
           generally
           hatch
           Plots
           ,
           suborn
           Rebellions
           ,
           or
           any
           thing
           that
           they
           think
           may
           create
           Business
           ,
           keep
           themselves
           from
           being
           Questioned
           ,
           and
           thin
           Mankind
           ,
           whereby
           they
           lose
           so
           many
           of
           their
           Enemies
           ,
           which
           by
           their
           Oppression
           they
           have
           heaped
           up
           to
           themselves
           .
           So
           I
           have
           been
           told
           a
           certain
           Person
           being
           asked
           why
           he
           Destroyed
           my
           Lord
           Russell
           ,
           said
           it
           was
           Self-preservation
           ,
           he
           did
           it
           in
           his
           own
           Defence
           ,
           because
           my
           Lord
           Russell
           would
           have
           Destroyed
           him
           .
           A
           fit
           Answer
           for
           the
           Answerer
           ,
           because
           it
           is
           just
           the
           Excuse
           of
           a
           Highway-man
           who
           adds
           Murder
           to
           his
           Robbery
           and
           Wrong
           ,
           because
           otherwise
           the
           True-man
           might
           have
           pursued
           him
           and
           Hanged
           him
           for
           it
           .
           But
           the
           Masterpiece
           of
           their
           Policy
           they
           have
           stoln
           from
           the
           Old
           Popes
           of
           Rome
           ,
           to
           send
           their
           Princes
           into
           the
           Holy
           
           Wars
           ,
           while
           they
           domineer'd
           and
           plaid
           their
           own
           Game
           at
           home
           .
           I
           express'd
           my
           Fears
           as
           soon
           as
           he
           was
           Crown'd
           that
           our
           King
           would
           be
           so
           serv'd
           ,
           and
           that
           taking
           advantage
           of
           his
           Matchless
           Courage
           they
           would
           put
           him
           upon
           hazardous
           Expeditions
           :
           for
           such
           Counsels
           are
           on
           Nature's
           Side
           ,
           and
           are
           soon
           hearkned
           to
           by
           a
           Cordelyon
           ,
           or
           an
           Edward
           the
           First
           ,
           who
           were
           all
           on
           fire
           for
           Crusadoes
           .
           And
           it
           was
           easy
           to
           tell
           what
           Advices
           the
           Statesmen
           would
           give
           ,
           such
           to
           be
           sure
           as
           agreed
           with
           His
           Inclinations
           ,
           but
           were
           much
           more
           for
           their
           own
           Interest
           :
           for
           if
           a
           Man
           but
           look
           into
           the
           Tyring-room
           and
           see
           the
           old
           Actors
           ,
           he
           knows
           what
           the
           Play
           will
           be
           ,
           without
           a
           Bill
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           the
           Observation
           of
           the
           Learned
           Antiquary
           Selden
           ,
           that
           our
           Nation
           got
           nothing
           by
           those
           fruitless
           Voyages
           into
           the
           
             Holy
             Land
          
           ,
           after
           a
           vast
           Expence
           of
           Blood
           and
           Treasure
           ,
           but
           only
           the
           Sign
           of
           the
           
             Saracen's
             Head.
          
           For
           after
           our
           People
           came
           home
           again
           worsted
           ,
           and
           with
           great
           loss
           ,
           they
           had
           no
           other
           way
           to
           save
           their
           Credit
           ,
           but
           to
           represent
           the
           Saracens
           as
           Giants
           ,
           and
           to
           picture
           them
           with
           
           Eyes
           like
           Saucers
           ,
           and
           a
           Mouth
           big
           enough
           to
           eat
           a
           Man.
           And
           it
           is
           well
           if
           the
           English
           bring
           home
           any
           more
           out
           of
           Flanders
           ,
           than
           some
           such
           ill-favoured
           Story
           ,
           of
           what
           a
           strong
           way
           of
           Encamping
           the
           French
           have
           .
           But●
           what
           Business
           had
           we
           there
           ?
           The
           Sea
           is
           our
           Element
           ;
           where
           our
           Shipping
           was
           lately
           more
           Numerous
           than
           any
           Nations
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           and
           better
           built
           being
           of
           English
           Oak
           ,
           and
           our
           Seamen
           Heart
           of
           Oak
           .
           Such
           a
           Strength
           well
           managed
           and
           well
           applied
           is
           fit
           to
           give
           Laws
           to
           all
           the
           World.
           And
           till
           now
           from
           King
           
           Edgar's
           Time
           ,
           who
           had
           a
           Fleet
           of
           three
           Thousand
           Ships
           to
           justify
           his
           Claim
           ,
           we
           have
           always
           pretended
           to
           be
           Masters
           of
           the
           Sea
           ;
           and
           should
           have
           scorn'd
           Dutch
           Help
           to
           fight
           the
           French
           Fleet
           ,
           and
           to
           go
           to
           War
           upon
           Crutches
           :
           for
           how
           can
           Impotent
           Men
           stir
           ,
           if
           their
           Crutches
           at
           any
           time
           be
           out
           of
           the
           way
           ,
           and
           be
           not
           ready
           ?
           Or
           how
           if
           the
           Dutch
           and
           we
           should
           ever
           fall
           out
           ,
           or
           the
           French
           and
           they
           be
           Friends
           ,
           where
           are
           we
           then
           ?
           And
           therefore
           we
           are
           
             No
             Nation
          
           till
           we
           can
           stand
           upon
           our
           own
           Legs
           ,
           but
           we
           live
           precariously
           ,
           and
           had
           need
           to
           have
           very
           kind-hearted
           Neighbours
           about
           us
           .
        
         
         
           To
           know
           where
           our
           Strength
           lies
           is
           a
           first
           Principle
           of
           Nature
           ;
           and
           the
           dullest
           Creatures
           are
           not
           without
           it
           .
           I
           never
           saw
           an
           Ass
           offer
           to
           butt
           with
           his
           Ears
           ,
           though
           they
           are
           as
           long
           as
           Horns
           ;
           but
           I
           have
           seen
           him
           strike
           with
           his
           sullen
           Hoof
           ,
           because
           the
           Instinct
           of
           Nature
           led
           him
           to
           use
           that
           part
           which
           would
           do
           most
           Execution
           .
           And
           therefore
           it
           could
           not
           be
           out
           of
           Ignorance
           ,
           but
           for
           sinister
           Ends
           ,
           that
           our
           Naval
           Force
           has
           been
           so
           Neglected
           ,
           which
           is
           our
           known
           Strength
           ;
           and
           that
           the
           Treasure
           of
           the
           Nation
           has
           been
           diverted
           into
           Foreign
           Channels
           .
           For
           many
           Millions
           spent
           upon
           the
           Fleet
           would
           not
           be
           two
           Pence
           loss
           to
           the
           Nation
           ,
           but
           is
           as
           cheap
           as
           a
           Man's
           playing
           at
           Cards
           with
           his
           Wife
           and
           Children
           ,
           where
           none
           of
           the
           Winnings
           go
           out
           of
           the
           House
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           true
           that
           heretofore
           this
           Nation
           alone
           has
           been
           an
           Overmatch
           for
           all
           France
           by
           Land
           as
           well
           as
           by
           Sea
           ,
           and
           our
           Kings
           have
           cleared
           up
           their
           Title
           to
           that
           Kingdom
           in
           the
           Heart
           of
           it
           ;
           but
           those
           Days
           are
           done
           :
           for
           we
           were
           then
           a
           Land
           of
           Souldiers
           ,
           and
           there
           was
           not
           a
           Man
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           who
           was
           not
           expert
           
           and
           knew
           how
           to
           handle
           his
           Arms
           from
           Sixteen
           .
           But
           the
           Artillery
           of
           the
           World
           being
           changed
           since
           that
           Time
           ,
           we
           shall
           never
           be
           a
           warlike
           Nation
           more
           ,
           till
           all
           our
           excellent
           Laws
           about
           Bows
           and
           Arrows
           which
           are
           wholly
           disused
           ,
           shall
           be
           applied
           to
           the
           use
           of
           Fire-Arms
           .
           For
           though
           such
           a
           raw
           thing
           as
           our
           present
           Militia
           (
           which
           will
           then
           be
           another
           thing
           )
           does
           well
           enough
           to
           keep
           House
           ;
           yet
           it
           must
           be
           a
           well-trained
           ,
           if
           not
           a
           Veteran
           Army
           ,
           that
           shall
           do
           any
           great
           Matters
           abroad
           .
        
         
           What
           then
           ?
           shall
           we
           have
           a
           Mercenary
           Army
           to
           supply
           this
           Defect
           ,
           and
           lose
           Old
           England
           to
           win
           France
           ?
           I
           hope
           not
           ,
           but
           so
           it
           would
           be
           ;
           for
           a
           standing
           Army
           plainly
           destroys
           this
           Government
           .
           There
           are
           no
           Quarters
           ,
           nor
           is
           there
           room
           in
           England
           for
           an
           Army
           .
           If
           they
           be
           Quartered
           in
           Houses
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           forcible
           Entry
           ,
           and
           Disseysin
           of
           a
           Man's
           Freehold
           :
           if
           they
           Encamp
           at
           Hounslow-heath
           ,
           it
           is
           a
           Rout
           Riot
           and
           Unlawful
           Assembly
           .
           A
           fourth
           part
           of
           the
           Petition
           of
           Right
           ,
           which
           only
           asserts
           our
           Fundamental
           Rights
           ,
           is
           spent
           against
           Billetting
           of
           Souldiers
           .
           There
           was
           indeed
           a
           Confederacy
           in
           the
           late
           Tyranny
           betwixt
           the
           Court
           and
           
           the
           Justices
           of
           Peace
           to
           put
           this
           Difficulty
           upon
           Publick
           Houses
           ,
           either
           to
           receive
           Souldiers
           or
           to
           lose
           their
           Licences
           ;
           though
           Licences
           ought
           not
           to
           be
           taken
           away
           except
           for
           a
           Forfeiture
           ,
           which
           refusing
           of
           Souldiers
           is
           not
           ,
           but
           a
           Right
           :
           But
           such
           Frauds
           and
           Abusions
           of
           the
           Law
           never
           wrought
           any
           thing
           else
           but
           Abdication
           .
        
         
           Knute
           ,
           than
           whom
           there
           never
           lookt
           any
           thing
           liker
           a
           Conqueror
           ,
           and
           put
           an
           end
           to
           Disputed
           Titles
           in
           the
           
             Severn
             ,
             at
             the
             desire
             of
             the
             English
             Barons
          
           sent
           his
           Army
           back
           to
           Denmark
           ;
           for
           which
           see
           
           Bracton's
           Englescheria
           ,
           the
           finest
           Point
           of
           Law
           in
           our
           English
           Constitution
           ,
           almost
           in
           the
           same
           words
           and
           exactly
           to
           the
           same
           sense
           as
           King
           William
           the
           First
           's
           Laws
           .
        
         
           
             Bracton
             ,
             Lib.
          
           3.
           
           
             De
             Corona
             ,
             Cap.
          
           15.
           
           Fol.
           134.
           
             b.
             Sect.
          
           3.
           
           Causa
           vero
           Inventionis
           murdrorum
           talis
           fuit
           ,
           quod
           in
           diebus
           Canuti
           regis
           Danorum
           ,
           qui
           post
           Angliam
           acquisitam
           &
           pacificatam
           ,
           
             rogatu
             baronum
          
           Anglorum
           ,
           remisit
           ad
           Daciam
           exercitum
           suum
           ,
           &
           ipsi
           barones
           Angliae
           erga
           ipsum
           regem
           Canutum
           fidejussores
           extiterunt
           ,
           q.
           quotquot
           rex
           in
           Anglia
           secum
           retineret
           ,
           firmam
           pacem
           per
           omnia
           haberent
           ,
           ita
           q.
           si
           
           quis
           Anglorum
           aliquem
           hominum
           quos
           rex
           secum
           adduxit
           interficeret
           ,
           si
           se
           super
           hoc
           defendere
           non
           posset
           Juditio
           Dei.
           s.
           aqua
           vel
           ferro
           ,
           fieret
           de
           eo
           Justitia
           ,
           si
           autem
           aufugeret
           &
           capi
           non
           posset
           ,
           soluerentur
           pro
           eo
           .
           66.
           marcae
           ,
           &
           colligebantur
           in
           villa
           ,
           ubi
           quis
           esset
           interfectus
           ,
           &
           ideo
           ,
           quia
           interfectorem
           non
           habuerunt
           ;
           &
           si
           in
           tali
           villa
           pro
           paupertate
           colligi
           non
           possent
           ,
           colligerentur
           in
           hundredo
           ,
           in
           thesauro
           regis
           deponendae
           .
           Sect.
           4.
           
           Et
           dicitur
           murdrum
           extraneorum
           occisio
           &
           notorum
           :
           quia
           sive
           notus
           sit
           vel
           extraneus
           ,
           ille
           qui
           interfectus
           est
           ,
           semper
           reputabitur
           Francigena
           ,
           nisi
           Englescheria
           rite
           fuerit
           coram
           justitiariis
           praesentata
           ,
           per
           hoc
           quod
           sciri
           possit
           quod
           Anglicus
           extiterit
           .
           Et
           qualiter
           Englescheria
           praesentari
           debeat
           ,
           infra
           plenius
           dicetur
           suo
           loco
           .
        
         
           Knyghton
           ,
           pag.
           2358.
           
           Lin.
           40.
           
           Williel
           .
           1.
           
           Leges
           .
        
         
           Item
           ,
           Murdra
           quidem
           inventa
           fuerunt
           in
           Diebus
           Cnuti
           regis
           Dani
           ,
           qui
           post
           Adquisitam
           Angliam
           pacificam
           
             rogatu
             baronum
          
           Anglorum
           remisit
           ad
           Daciam
           exercitum
           suum
           .
           Ipsi
           vero
           barones
           erga
           regem
           suum
           existerent
           fidejussores
           ,
           quatinus
           quotquot
           in
           terra
           secum
           retinerent
           firmam
           pacem
           haberent
           per
           
           omnia
           ;
           verumptamen
           si
           quis
           Anglorum
           aliquem
           illorum
           interfecerit
           ,
           si
           se
           super
           hoc
           defendere
           non
           posset
           ,
           in
           Deo
           scilicet
           ,
           aqua
           vel
           ferro
           ,
           fieret
           de
           eo
           Justitia
           :
           sin
           autem
           fugeret
           ,
           solveretur
           ut
           supradictum
           est
           .
        
         
           I
           do
           not
           love
           Digressions
           because
           they
           interrupt
           all
           discourse
           ,
           but
           I
           could
           not
           well
           avoid
           this
           ,
           because
           the
           mentioning
           the
           Bill
           of
           Exclusion
           led
           me
           into
           it
           ;
           though
           my
           Business
           was
           not
           so
           much
           the
           Bill
           of
           Exclusion
           ,
           as
           what
           befel
           upon
           the
           Rejection
           of
           that
           Bill
           ,
           being
           another
           Instance
           of
           the
           Oppressions
           and
           Invasions
           of
           those
           Times
           .
           I
           appeal
           to
           every
           Noble
           Lord
           now
           living
           who
           has
           sworn
           to
           this
           Government
           ,
           whether
           an
           Exclusion
           then
           had
           not
           been
           better
           than
           an
           Exclusion
           now
           ?
           and
           whether
           they
           had
           not
           better
           have
           done
           that
           to
           an
           Heir
           Presumptive
           ,
           which
           they
           have
           been
           since
           forced
           to
           do
           to
           an
           Actual
           King
           ?
           For
           they
           were
           even
           then
           known
           to
           be
           both
           the
           self-same
           Man.
           After
           the
           Bill
           was
           Rejected
           with
           as
           large
           a
           Scrowl
           of
           Protestors
           as
           perhaps
           was
           ever
           seen
           in
           the
           Lords
           Journal
           ,
           it
           came
           to
           Equivalents
           and
           Expedients
           for
           the
           Security
           of
           the
           Nation
           .
           And
           amongst
           many
           other
           things
           
           which
           were
           Ordered
           by
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           to
           annul
           the
           Power
           of
           a
           Popish
           Successor
           ,
           and
           to
           make
           him
           the
           Sign
           of
           a
           King
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           leave
           him
           the
           real
           Authority
           of
           a
           Thirdborough
           ,
           (
           though
           those
           things
           were
           no
           more
           like
           to
           have
           been
           enacted
           than
           the
           Bill
           )
           there
           was
           this
           ,
           That
           an
           Association
           should
           be
           drawn
           up
           ,
           as
           was
           done
           in
           the
           Reigns
           of
           Edward
           the
           Third
           and
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           .
           A
           Noble
           Peer
           who
           was
           very
           much
           out
           at
           Court
           ,
           not
           for
           the
           Court
           Drudgery
           he
           had
           done
           ,
           but
           because
           he
           would
           do
           no
           more
           ,
           though
           of
           course
           he
           was
           very
           ungratefully
           loaded
           by
           themselves
           for
           what
           he
           had
           done
           ,
           was
           some
           time
           afterwards
           accused
           by
           the
           suborned
           Perjured
           Irish
           Court-Witnesses
           of
           an
           Oxford
           Plot.
           The
           Evidence
           to
           the
           Grand
           Jury
           ,
           of
           which
           that
           true
           Lover
           of
           his
           Countrey
           Sir
           
             Samuel
             Barnardiston
          
           was
           Foreman
           ,
           was
           in
           a
           new
           way
           given
           in
           Court
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           was
           printed
           .
           I
           refer
           the
           Reader
           to
           the
           perusal
           of
           their
           own
           Printed
           Paper
           alone
           ,
           to
           see
           the
           open
           Perjury
           in
           that
           Case
           ,
           and
           some
           bold
           Stroaks
           of
           
           Pemberton-Law
           ,
           and
           what
           a
           Train
           was
           laid
           for
           the
           Lives
           of
           the
           Honest
           Lords
           and
           Commons
           of
           England
           .
           Every
           body
           in
           England
           knows
           that
           there
           was
           no
           more
           of
           
           an
           Oxford
           Plot
           ,
           than
           there
           is
           on
           the
           back
           of
           my
           Hand
           ;
           but
           that
           on
           the
           other
           side
           a
           great
           number
           of
           Lords
           in
           an
           Address
           Signed
           by
           them
           and
           Presented
           by
           the
           Earl
           of
           Essex
           ,
           besought
           the
           King
           they
           might
           not
           meet
           at
           Oxford
           ,
           as
           doubting
           of
           their
           sitting
           in
           Safety
           ,
           having
           been
           threatned
           by
           several
           blabbing
           Life-Guard-Men
           what
           they
           would
           do
           when
           they
           had
           them
           there
           .
        
         
           In
           short
           ,
           there
           never
           was
           more
           foul
           Play
           from
           the
           beginning
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           than
           was
           in
           the
           Prosecution
           of
           my
           Lord
           Shaftsbury
           for
           an
           Oxford
           Plot
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           practice
           of
           Subornation
           upon
           Captain
           Wilkinson
           ,
           to
           put
           a
           Force
           upon
           him
           to
           Swear
           against
           that
           Lord
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Consequence
           of
           it
           against
           a
           vast
           number
           of
           the
           Best
           Men
           in
           England
           .
           For
           the
           Captain
           was
           brought
           to
           a
           Dilemma
           ,
           and
           was
           placed
           just
           in
           the
           midst
           betwixt
           Ch.
           
           Finche's
           Two
           sorts
           of
           Advancement
           ,
           which
           with
           as
           much
           Wit
           as
           Honesty
           he
           put
           the
           Captain
           in
           mind
           of
           at
           that
           time
           .
           For
           he
           was
           either
           to
           ●ccept
           of
           a
           Great
           Sum
           of
           Money
           ,
           or
           the
           Duke
           of
           
           York's
           500
           l.
           a
           Year
           Land
           to
           Swear
           against
           my
           Lord
           Shaftsbury
           ,
           or
           else
           to
           be
           hanged
           himself
           before
           my
           Lord
           Shaftsbury
           ;
           with
           whi●h
           Ch.
           
           Finch
           threatned
           him
           .
           But
           the
           brave
           old
           Souldier
           was
           proof
           against
           both
           ,
           for
           he
           abhorred
           the
           Wages
           of
           Unrighteousness
           and
           the
           Price
           of
           Blood
           ;
           neither
           did
           he
           fear
           a
           Halter
           ,
           which
           I
           believe
           loses
           its
           roughness
           and
           feels
           soft
           to
           the
           last
           to
           an
           Honest
           Man.
           
        
         
           Perhaps
           the
           Captain
           did
           not
           expect
           to
           be
           so
           slighted
           for
           his
           Honesty
           under
           a
           Revolution
           ,
           nor
           to
           see
           his
           Dear
           sworn
           Friend
           and
           the
           Lieutenant
           of
           his
           Ox●ord
           Troop
           Advanced
           over
           his
           Head
           ;
           But
           he
           may
           thank
           himself
           for
           it
           ,
           for
           not
           Reprinting
           his
           Narrative
           ,
           which
           consisted
           of
           so
           clear
           Matter
           of
           Fact
           ,
           that
           though
           the
           Suborners
           gnashed
           their
           Teeth
           at
           it
           ,
           yet
           they
           durst
           not
           even
           then
           touch
           it
           .
           For
           our
           People
           in
           England
           are
           very
           forgetful
           ;
           a
           new
           Coronation
           ,
           two
           or
           three
           Lord
           Mayors
           Shews
           ,
           and
           the
           new
           Project
           of
           a
           Million
           Fund
           to
           make
           provision
           for
           younger
           Children
           ,
           will
           put
           all
           old
           things
           out
           of
           their
           Heads
           .
           And
           besides
           we
           have
           Scotch
           Doctors
           to
           teach
           us
           the
           Art
           of
           Forgetfulness
           .
           
             Pray
             you
             have
             Gude
             Memories
             ,
             Gude
             Memories
             ;
             do
             not
             Remember
             Bad
             things
             ,
          
           meaning
           the
           Murders
           and
           Oppressions
           of
           the
           last
           Reigns
           ,
           
             ●ut
             keep
             your
             Memories
             for
             Gude
             Things
             ,
             have
             Gude
             Memories
             .
          
           So
           that
           we
           forfeit
           the
           
           Goodness
           of
           our
           Memories
           and
           have
           Evil
           ones
           ,
           if
           we
           remember
           our
           Headless
           Great
           Men
           ;
           the
           Best
           Blood
           in
           England
           spilt
           like
           Water
           upon
           the
           Ground
           ;
           Men
           Murdered
           in
           cold
           Blood
           ,
           and
           hung
           up
           in
           sport
           by
           eleven
           or
           twelve
           at
           a
           time
           ,
           according
           as
           the
           Clock
           struck
           ;
           Men
           Hanged
           and
           then
           brought
           to
           Life
           again
           ,
           to
           extort
           from
           them
           a
           Confession
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           ,
           but
           it
           was
           then
           too
           late
           for
           Falshood
           and
           Flattery
           ;
           And
           lastly
           ,
           (
           for
           I
           do
           not
           mention
           the
           Widows
           ,
           Fatherless
           ,
           or
           starved
           Families
           of
           any
           of
           these
           Men
           )
           several
           Hundreds
           now
           lying
           unregarded
           in
           Exile
           ,
           and
           sold
           into
           Slavery
           ,
           only
           for
           endeavouring
           to
           Redeem
           their
           lost
           Countrey
           from
           Slavery
           ;
           who
           did
           an
           Hundred
           times
           more
           towards
           this
           Revolution
           than
           some
           that
           have
           been
           made
           Dukes
           and
           Earls
           ,
           for
           nothing
           that
           I
           know
           of
           but
           coming
           to
           see
           England
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           marvel
           where
           these
           Men
           learn'd
           their
           good
           Memory
           ,
           not
           out
           of
           Scripture
           I
           am
           sure
           ,
           for
           there
           it
           is
           made
           the
           Mark
           of
           a
           Wicked
           Memory
           ,
           
             not
             to
             remember
          
           Joseph
           
             but
             forget
             him
          
           ;
           that
           is
           ,
           a
           Sufferer
           who
           was
           the
           Means
           of
           their
           own
           Deliverance
           ;
           and
           when
           they
           lie
           at
           Ease
           themselves
           ,
           
             not
             to
             be
             grieved
             for
             the
             Af●liction
             of
          
           
           Joseph
           ,
           which
           I
           think
           is
           not
           possible
           ,
           when
           Men
           have
           studiously
           forgot
           it
           ,
           and
           discharged
           their
           Memory
           of
           it
           .
           Nor
           have
           they
           learn'd
           this
           sort
           of
           Memory
           out
           of
           any
           good
           Book
           of
           Politicks
           ,
           because
           such
           a
           Good
           Memory
           extinguishes
           our
           Happy
           Deliverance
           .
           For
           what
           were
           we
           Delivered
           from
           but
           the
           Tyranny
           and
           Oppressions
           of
           the
           former
           Reigns
           ,
           which
           if
           they
           are
           to
           be
           forgotten
           as
           if
           they
           had
           not
           been
           ,
           then
           we
           are
           Delivered
           from
           nothing
           ,
           that
           is
           to
           say
           we
           have
           no
           Deliverance
           .
           Look
           see
           ,
           read
           the
           Prince
           of
           
           Orange's
           two
           Declarations
           ,
           Did
           not
           he
           come
           to
           help
           the
           Nation
           to
           see
           Justice
           done
           for
           these
           things
           ,
           so
           that
           if
           we
           must
           forget
           these
           things
           ,
           then
           we
           must
           forget
           how
           he
           came
           to
           Town
           ,
           and
           what
           Business
           he
           had
           here
           .
           And
           this
           very
           thing
           of
           stifling
           and
           palliating
           the
           Violences
           and
           Injustice
           of
           the
           late
           Times
           has
           given
           encouragement
           to
           King
           Iames
           to
           look
           Homewards
           ,
           and
           to
           meditate
           a
           Return
           ;
           and
           has
           given
           occasion
           to
           the
           Princes
           Abroad
           to
           look
           upon
           him
           as
           an
           Injured
           Prince
           :
           for
           if
           he
           had
           not
           done
           great
           Wrong
           to
           this
           Nation
           first
           ,
           we
           have
           done
           a
           great
           deal
           to
           him
           since
           ;
           and
           yet
           there
           is
           not
           one
           Instrument
           of
           his
           Tyranny
           that
           has
           Answered
           for
           
           it
           ,
           but
           have
           been
           all
           Protected
           if
           not
           very
           highly
           Promoted
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           very
           means
           of
           a
           Gude
           Memory
           .
           But
           after
           all
           it
           is
           impossible
           for
           a
           vast
           Number
           of
           People
           in
           England
           ever
           to
           attain●
           to
           this
           Gude
           Memory
           ,
           because
           they
           have
           continually
           evil
           Remembrancers
           to
           the
           Contrary
           ;
           some
           their
           broken
           Fortunes
           and
           Estates
           and
           want
           of
           Bread
           ,
           some
           the
           loss
           of
           their
           near
           Relations
           whom
           they
           dearly
           miss
           ,
           some
           the
           thoughts
           of
           their
           Great
           Father's
           Heads
           sticking
           upon
           Poles
           ;
           and
           as
           for
           me
           ,
           while
           a
           certain
           Traveller
           was
           making
           his
           Court
           to
           the
           Cardinals
           at
           Rome
           ,
           I
           got
           such
           an
           Almanack
           in
           my
           Bones
           ,
           that
           I
           am
           sure
           I
           shall
           never
           learn
           this
           Scotch
           Trick
           of
           a
           Gude
           Memory
           ;
           I
           will
           sooner
           be
           hang'd
           and
           forget
           all
           .
        
         
           I
           wonder
           therefore
           that
           Dr.
           Burnet
           should
           send
           to
           me
           in
           the
           time
           of
           the
           First
           Parliament
           in
           this
           Reign
           ,
           when
           my
           Illegal
           and
           Barbarous
           Usage
           lay
           before
           them
           ,
           
             Not
             to
             name
             Persons
          
           .
           I
           know
           the
           Language
           of
           that
           Day
           was
           ,
           Do
           not
           smut
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           let
           the
           Oppressors
           of
           your
           Country
           and
           of
           you
           go
           off
           Clear
           ,
           and
           scape
           Scotfree
           .
           I
           gave
           an
           English
           Reply
           to
           that
           Message
           ,
           Let
           him
           mind
           His
           Business
           ,
           I
           will
           mind
           mine
           .
           His
           Bookseller
           Mr.
           Chiswell
           by
           
           whom
           I
           had
           the
           Message
           ,
           seemed
           loath
           to
           carry
           him
           that
           blunt
           Answer
           ;
           Oh
           says
           I
           ,
           he
           has
           got
           the
           Title
           of
           a
           Lord
           lately
           ,
           I
           must
           Qualify
           my
           Answer
           ;
           
             Let
             him
             please
             to
             mind
             his
             own
             Business
             ,
             I
             will
             mind
             mine
             .
          
           But
           the
           Bishop
           was
           mistaken
           in
           his
           Man
           all
           over
           ,
           for
           it
           was
           always
           in
           my
           Nature
           even
           to
           a
           Fault
           to
           spare
           every
           body
           .
           Sr.
           
             Roger
             Lestrange
          
           knows
           it
           ,
           and
           many
           a
           Man
           besides
           ,
           notwithstanding
           very
           great
           Provocations
           .
           And
           I
           have
           been
           so
           far
           from
           rigour
           all
           my
           Life
           ,
           that
           I
           never
           sued
           any
           Man
           ,
           though
           I
           have
           lost
           several
           Scores
           of
           Pounds
           by
           it
           ,
           which
           I
           have
           since
           known
           the
           want
           of
           .
           And
           therefore
           the
           Bishop
           was
           out
           in
           thinking
           that
           I
           wanted
           such
           a
           Message
           ,
           and
           as
           much
           out
           in
           thinking
           that
           I
           would
           mind
           it
           .
           What
           did
           he
           take
           me
           to
           be
           ,
           one
           of
           his
           Cubs
           ,
           whom
           he
           could
           lick
           into
           his
           own
           Shape
           and
           Fashion
           by
           a
           Message
           ?
           I
           am
           a
           Slave
           to
           Truth
           and
           Right
           ,
           and
           therefore
           any
           bodies
           Message
           supported
           with
           Wise
           and
           Honest
           Reasons
           would
           have
           moved
           me
           ;
           but
           I
           knew
           at
           the
           first
           sight
           that
           neither
           one
           nor
           t'other
           belonged
           to
           that
           Message
           .
        
         
           Now
           the
           Bishop
           may
           see
           how
           little
           I
           regard
           his
           Message
           ,
           for
           I
           will
           name
           Persons
           when
           I
           
           have
           just
           Occasion
           ,
           though
           it
           chance
           to
           be
           his
           Lordship
           .
           But
           at
           that
           time
           I
           confess
           I
           was
           so
           wrap'd
           up
           with
           the
           hopes
           of
           a
           Happy
           Reign
           to
           come
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           evil
           Instruments
           about
           the
           King
           would
           at
           least
           at
           the
           Instance
           of
           the
           Parliament
           be
           dismissed
           ,
           that
           I
           was
           got
           into
           
           Mephibosheth's
           Elevation
           ,
           let
           Ziba
           
             take
             all
             the
             Land
          
           to
           himself
           ,
           I
           care
           neither
           for
           the
           purloyned
           half
           ,
           nor
           the
           remaining
           half
           ;
           Let
           Shimei
           live
           and
           mend
           ;
           they
           are
           not
           worth
           their
           Halters
           ,
           why
           then
           should
           the
           Nation
           be
           at
           that
           Expence
           ?
           Let
           them
           go
           to
           the
           end
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           why
           should
           we
           stop
           them
           ?
           And
           so
           they
           had
           gone
           ,
           if
           Great
           Men
           from
           Court
           had
           not
           sent
           to
           them
           to
           pray
           them
           stay
           .
           In
           short
           ,
           I
           was
           so
           inten●
           upon
           the
           Publick
           Welfare
           ,
           and
           ever
           inclined
           to
           give
           that
           the
           precedence
           ,
           that
           I
           could
           not
           snatch
           and
           catch
           at
           the
           Advantages
           of
           a
           Revolution
           ,
           as
           others
           did
           to
           whom
           they
           were
           not
           due
           ;
           but
           when
           my
           Friends
           urged
           me
           to
           mind
           my
           own
           Business
           ,
           my
           constant
           Answer
           was
           ,
           that
           it
           would
           keep
           cold
           ;
           I
           have
           ●eason
           to
           remember
           it
           ,
           because
           an
           honest
           Yonker
           in
           my
           own
           House
           has
           since
           upbraided
           me
           ,
           that
           my
           Business
           has
           catch'd
           cold
           .
        
         
         
           I
           have
           taken
           this
           freedom
           with
           the
           Bishop
           of
           Salisb●ry
           ,
           because
           he
           has
           taken
           a
           greater
           latitude
           with
           Me
           ,
           and
           has
           given
           me
           out
           for
           a
           Mad-man
           above
           these
           four
           Years
           .
           But
           I
           speak
           the
           words
           of
           Truth
           and
           Soberness
           which
           are
           always
           well-weighed
           ,
           That
           I
           will
           sooner
           prove
           him
           a
           Betrayer
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           a
           Publick
           Enemy
           ,
           than
           he
           shall
           prove
           me
           a
           Mad-man
           .
           It
           is
           an
           ugly
           Imputation
           if
           it
           be
           but
           laid
           upon
           a
           Dog
           ,
           because
           of
           the
           ill
           Consequence
           of
           it
           ,
           for
           it
           amounts
           to
           the
           knocking
           out
           his
           Brains
           ;
           but
           it
           is
           still
           worse
           to
           place
           it
           upon
           a
           Man
           ,
           because
           it
           makes
           a
           Fool
           of
           all
           his
           wisest
           Discourse
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           end
           of
           a
           Man's
           living
           here
           :
           for
           if
           they
           dislike
           any
           thing
           he
           says
           ,
           they
           have
           Authority
           to
           call
           it
           Raving
           ;
           and
           if
           they
           chance
           to
           like
           it
           ,
           it
           shall
           only
           have
           the
           allowance
           of
           lucid
           Intervals
           .
           Besides
           it
           effectually
           ruins
           all
           a
           Man's
           Preferment
           ,
           because
           it
           Unqualifies
           him
           ,
           whereby
           his
           Posterity
           suffers
           for
           it
           to
           the
           end
           of
           the
           World
           ;
           so
           that
           the
           Madman
           fares
           worse
           in
           that
           Case
           than
           the
           Mad
           Dog
           ,
           because
           that
           Imputation
           never
           affects
           his
           Breed
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           am
           not
           the
           only
           Person
           who
           has
           been
           so
           serv'd
           ,
           the
           Courtiers
           of
           this
           Reign
           serve
           
           every
           body
           so
           ,
           if
           they
           do
           not
           like
           them
           .
           I
           appeal
           to
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           ,
           whether
           Sir
           
             Peter
             Coryton
          
           a
           worthy
           Member
           of
           that
           Honourable
           House
           ,
           and
           since
           intrusted
           by
           them
           as
           one
           of
           their
           Commissioners
           to
           supervise
           all
           the
           Publick
           Accounts
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           which
           is
           a
           Charge
           that
           requires
           some
           Brains
           as
           well
           as
           all
           Honesty
           ,
           ought
           to
           suffer
           under
           such
           an
           Imputation
           ,
           and
           whether
           it
           be
           not
           at
           least
           Breach
           of
           Privilege
           ?
           And
           yet
           he
           lost
           a
           Considerable
           Government
           in
           the
           West-Indies
           by
           being
           so
           represented
           to
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           after
           the
           King
           had
           promised
           it
           him
           ;
           with
           which
           Suggestion
           the
           King
           was
           so
           far
           imposed
           upon
           ,
           and
           so
           fully
           possessed
           with
           it
           ,
           that
           he
           pitied
           the
           poor
           Gentleman
           :
           And
           so
           Kendal
           had
           the
           Government
           ,
           a
           Man
           no
           doubt
           more
           for
           these
           Courtiers
           turn
           ,
           and
           not
           blemished
           with
           that
           sort
           of
           Insufficiency
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           not
           Evidence
           for
           what
           I
           am
           now
           going
           to
           say
           ,
           but
           I
           am
           morally
           assured
           of
           it
           ,
           that
           the
           Great
           Wallop
           was
           thus
           hindred
           from
           being
           made
           a
           Judg
           ;
           of
           whom
           I
           will
           say
           the
           less
           ,
           because
           his
           own
           Integrity
           in
           the
           worst
           of
           Times
           has
           Eterniz'd
           him
           :
           And
           if
           he
           be
           not
           Honoured
           for
           it
           in
           these
           Times
           ,
           then
           they
           are
           the
           worst
           .
           
           To
           pass
           by
           a
           Hundred
           more
           of
           his
           Sayings
           ,
           his
           comparing
           King
           
           Iames's
           Declaration
           upon
           the
           very
           Spot
           to
           the
           Scaffolding
           of
           
           Paul's
           Church
           ,
           was
           so
           wise
           ,
           so
           weighty
           ,
           so
           seasonable
           and
           so
           useful
           a
           Saying
           ,
           that
           that
           New
           
           Paul's
           when
           it
           is
           built
           shall
           want
           new
           Scaffolding
           again
           ,
           before
           that
           Saying
           is
           forgot
           by
           the
           wise
           and
           honest
           part
           of
           this
           Nation
           .
           One
           Mr.
           Stephens
           another
           brave
           Man
           has
           been
           put
           into
           the
           List
           ,
           though
           I
           am
           certain
           Sir
           
             Matthew
             Hales
          
           was
           of
           another
           Opinion
           when
           he
           made
           him
           his
           Executor
           ;
           but
           one
           would
           sooner
           take
           him
           to
           be
           a
           Witch
           than
           a
           Madman
           ,
           when
           he
           talkt
           of
           the
           Cart
           being
           Bewitch'd
           .
           I
           will
           not
           mention
           all
           the
           People
           of
           Quality
           that
           have
           been
           so
           used
           ;
           They
           themselves
           may
           look
           after
           their
           own
           dry
           Godfathers
           ,
           who
           have
           given
           them
           that
           Name
           out
           of
           Baptism
           ;
           I
           know
           mine
           and
           I
           will
           stick
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           though
           I
           have
           burnt
           all
           my
           Reading
           ,
           yet
           he
           shall
           know
           when
           ever
           he
           pleases
           to
           put
           me
           to
           it
           ,
           that
           I
           have
           an
           odd
           Remnant
           of
           honest
           Intellectuals
           still
           left
           at
           his
           Service
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           the
           cunningest
           Accusation
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           because
           it
           oftentimes
           proves
           it self
           ,
           for
           to
           treat
           a
           Man
           like
           a
           Madman
           is
           enough
           to
           make
           him
           so
           ;
           But
           I
           would
           advise
           them
           not
           to
           multiply
           
           their
           Madmen
           too
           fast
           ,
           for
           the
           sake
           of
           a
           Story
           that
           I
           know
           .
           There
           was
           a
           Fellow
           of
           
           Magdalen-College
           in
           Oxford
           ,
           who
           had
           the
           misfortune
           to
           be
           really
           crazed
           ,
           and
           either
           was
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           thought
           himself
           to
           be
           ill
           used
           by
           the
           other
           Fellows
           ;
           and
           when
           another
           of
           the
           Fellows
           fell
           Mad
           ,
           he
           was
           wonderfully
           pleased
           with
           it
           ;
           and
           being
           ask'd
           the
           reason
           of
           his
           Joy
           ,
           Oh
           says
           he
           ,
           we
           shall
           be
           a
           Majority
           in
           time
           ,
           and
           then
           we
           will
           use
           the
           other
           Fellows
           as
           they
           used
           me
           .
        
         
           I
           think
           I
           shall
           never
           finish
           my
           intended
           Story
           for
           these
           Impertinencies
           which
           continually
           cross
           my
           way
           ;
           but
           in
           short
           ,
           after
           the
           Grand
           Jury
           had
           dismissed
           the
           Bill
           of
           Indictment
           against
           my
           Lord
           Shaftsbury
           for
           the
           Oxford
           Plot
           ,
           the
           Court
           had
           not
           done
           with
           him
           so
           ,
           but
           invented
           a
           New
           thing
           ,
           and
           made
           the
           Earth
           open
           its
           Mouth
           upon
           him
           ,
           I
           mean
           their
           dirty
           Abhorrers
           .
           I
           know
           that
           Great
           Men
           have
           fall'n
           under
           Ostracisms
           in
           Greece
           ,
           and
           even
           Cartes
           himself
           was
           used
           like
           a
           Skellum
           in
           Holland
           ;
           but
           those
           were
           Legal
           Banishments
           and
           according
           to
           the
           Custom
           of
           the
           Country
           ,
           whereas
           that
           Earl's
           Usage
           was
           never
           known
           to
           any
           
           Civilized
           part
           of
           the
           World.
           For
           having
           his
           Papers
           plundered
           to
           find
           Matter
           against
           him
           ,
           (
           which
           my
           Lord
           Anglesey
           ,
           though
           he
           was
           one
           of
           the
           Committee
           of
           Council
           appointed
           to
           overlook
           those
           Papers
           ,
           acknowledged
           to
           Mr.
           Charleton
           and
           me
           ,
           was
           a
           very
           illegal
           Practice
           and
           abominable
           foul
           Play
           ,
           even
           while
           he
           himself
           was
           employed
           about
           it
           )
           ;
           amongst
           his
           Papers
           they
           found
           a
           naked
           Draught
           of
           an
           Association
           ,
           which
           as
           I
           said
           before
           was
           a
           thing
           so
           much
           above-board
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           Ordered
           by
           the
           House
           of
           Lords
           themselves
           .
           This
           Paper
           ,
           which
           signified
           nothing
           when
           it
           was
           accumulated
           with
           their
           Irish
           Evidence
           at
           the
           
             Old
             Baily
          
           ,
           was
           not
           to
           be
           lost
           ;
           but
           was
           afterwards
           set
           up
           by
           it self
           for
           a
           Countrey
           Quintin
           ,
           to
           be
           thrown
           at
           by
           all
           the
           Loyal
           Sparks
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           where
           they
           were
           to
           get
           Garlands
           for
           knocking
           it
           down
           .
           For
           those
           were
           the
           Men
           whom
           the
           King
           delighted
           to
           Honour
           ,
           and
           it
           was
           an
           assured
           Knighthood
           to
           the
           Foreman
           of
           an
           Abhorrence
           ,
           if
           not
           to
           several
           of
           his
           Fellows
           .
           And
           if
           the
           Knights
           of
           England
           were
           to
           be
           surveyed
           ,
           I
           believe
           the
           Knights
           of
           the
           Address
           and
           of
           the
           Abho●rence
           of
           Associations
           would
           be
           found
           to
           be
           the
           largest
           Order
           ;
           but
           I
           dare
           
           say
           would
           have
           been
           the
           thinnest
           ,
           if
           they
           were
           to
           have
           been
           Created
           Bannerets
           .
           But
           the
           rotten
           part
           of
           the
           Law
           belonging
           to
           the
           Middle-Temple
           who
           were
           in
           haste
           for
           Preferment
           ,
           the
           Saunderses
           and
           the
           Shoreses
           ,
           and
           I
           care
           not
           who
           ,
           were
           forward
           to
           pleasure
           the
           Court
           in
           this
           Matter
           ,
           and
           began
           the
           Yelp
           from
           an
           Inns
           of
           Court
           ,
           which
           was
           thought
           Authentick
           in
           the
           Countrey
           ,
           and
           so
           all
           the
           Curs
           in
           England
           from
           the
           Foreland
           of
           Kent
           to
           St.
           
           Michael's
           Mount
           ,
           set
           up
           a
           full-mouth'd
           Cry
           against
           that
           Earl.
           I
           refer
           my self
           to
           the
           Infamous
           Gazetts
           of
           the
           Year
           82.
           
           Which
           were
           remarkable
           upon
           this
           account
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           often
           a
           whole
           Shee●
           ,
           being
           swoln
           with
           Abhorrences
           .
           Now
           I
           desire
           any
           Noble
           Earl
           in
           England
           to
           lay
           his
           Hand
           upon
           his
           Heart
           ,
           and
           consider
           whether
           he
           would
           be
           content
           to
           be
           so
           serv'd
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           baited
           twice
           a
           Week
           with
           Abhorrers
           ,
           in
           Sir
           Lionel
           Ienkins's
           Bear-Garden
           ,
           for
           the
           best
           part
           of
           a
           Twelvemonth
           together
           ,
           and
           at
           last
           be
           forced
           with
           downright
           worrying
           to
           steal
           out
           of
           England
           and
           go
           and
           die
           in
           a
           Ditch
           ?
        
         
           After
           this
           no
           Man
           could
           call
           his
           Countrey
           his
           own
           ,
           for
           the
           Character
           of
           my
           Lord
           Shaftsbury
           which
           they
           had
           endeavoured
           to
           render
           
           hateful
           ,
           with
           the
           same
           ease
           might
           have
           been
           stuck
           upon
           another
           :
           for
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           Poland
           being
           Elective
           ,
           it
           lay
           in
           the
           Breast
           of
           the
           Court
           to
           choose
           whom
           they
           pleased
           King
           of
           Poland
           .
           If
           when
           my
           Lord
           Shaftsbury
           was
           forced
           to
           leave
           his
           own
           House
           ,
           and
           had
           secreted
           himself
           at
           Mr.
           
           Watson's
           ,
           he
           talk'd
           with
           Howard
           of
           Escreck
           about
           relieving
           himself
           and
           his
           Countrey
           :
           he
           did
           amiss
           and
           it
           was
           a
           defect
           ;
           for
           talk
           is
           but
           talk
           when
           all
           's
           done
           .
        
         
           Now
           my
           Lord
           Russel
           was
           an
           Eye-witness
           to
           this
           long
           Scene
           of
           Invasion
           of
           Rights
           ,
           and
           his
           Foresight
           was
           much
           earlier
           ,
           witness
           a
           Letter
           of
           his
           of
           an
           old
           Date
           ,
           which
           I
           shed
           Tears
           upon
           at
           Woburn
           at
           some
           distance
           of
           time
           after
           his
           Death
           ;
           but
           I
           find
           that
           no
           length
           of
           time
           will
           dry
           them
           up
           .
           I
           have
           spoiled
           the
           entireness
           of
           that
           Scene
           of
           Tyranny
           which
           my
           Lord
           lived
           to
           see
           ,
           by
           frequent
           Digressions
           ;
           but
           it
           signifies
           nothing
           ,
           because
           the
           Bishops
           that
           mooted
           the
           Case
           with
           his
           Lordship
           ,
           supposed
           the
           Religion
           and
           Rights
           of
           the
           Nation
           to
           be
           Actually
           Invaded
           ;
           which
           Case
           his
           Lordship
           wisely
           shortened
           ,
           by
           saying
           that
           
           our
           Religion
           being
           established
           by
           Law
           was
           a
           Civil
           Right
           ,
           and
           so
           the
           Question
           reduced
           is
           in
           short
           ,
           Whether
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           Nation
           being
           Actually
           Invaded
           ,
           may
           be
           Defended
           ?
        
         
           And
           here
           I
           join
           Issue
           with
           those
           two
           Bishops
           ,
           and
           so
           I
           would
           with
           a
           Bench
           of
           them
           upon
           these
           two
           Points
           which
           I
           will
           maintain
           .
        
         
           
             First
             ,
             That
             the
             Rights
             of
             the
             Nation
             being
             Invaded
             ,
             may
             be
             Defended
             .
          
           
             Secondly
             ,
             That
             no
             body
             has
             a
             Right
             to
             Defend
             them
             ,
             but
             they
             whose
             Rights
             they
             are
             .
          
        
         
           First
           ,
           That
           the
           Rights
           of
           the
           Nation
           being
           Invaded
           ,
           may
           be
           Defended
           ;
           for
           otherwise
           they
           are
           No
           Rights
           ;
           They
           may
           be
           the
           Effects
           of
           special
           Grace
           and
           Favour
           ,
           Bounties
           ,
           Courtesies
           ,
           Court-Smiles
           ,
           Places
           at
           Whithall
           during
           Pleasure
           ,
           the
           Breath
           of
           the
           Court
           which
           may
           be
           suckt
           in
           again
           ,
           ill-advised
           Gifts
           which
           may
           be
           recalled
           by
           Acts
           of
           Resumption
           ,
           or
           any
           thing
           but
           Rights
           .
           If
           I
           cannot
           defend
           that
           
           which
           is
           mine
           from
           him
           that
           would
           take
           it
           away
           ,
           then
           it
           was
           not
           mine
           from
           the
           first
           .
           As
           Mr.
           Selden
           used
           to
           say
           ,
           he
           that
           had
           but
           Two
           pence
           was
           King
           of
           Two
           pence
           ,
           and
           might
           defend
           his
           own
           against
           a
           King
           of
           Ten-pence
           .
           What
           signifies
           the
           King's
           having
           more
           Rights
           than
           I
           ,
           if
           they
           be
           all
           upon
           the
           same
           Bottom
           ?
           for
           if
           he
           Invades
           my
           Two-pence
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           he
           destroys
           his
           own
           Ten-pence
           ,
           because
           he
           breaks
           down
           that
           Hedge
           of
           the
           Law
           which
           secures
           all
           Mens
           Rights
           ,
           and
           then
           I
           am
           sure
           all
           lies
           in
           Common
           .
           Words
           do
           but
           darken
           so
           clear
           a
           Point
           ;
           for
           if
           any
           thing
           be
           mine
           ,
           it
           is
           mine
           to
           Have
           and
           to
           Hold.
           
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           That
           no
           body
           has
           a
           Right
           to
           defend
           these
           Rights
           but
           they
           whose
           Rights
           they
           are
           .
           This
           necessarily
           follows
           from
           the
           Former
           ,
           for
           Rights
           must
           be
           a
           Man
           's
           to
           Have
           before
           they
           can
           be
           his
           to
           Hold.
           Besides
           ,
           what
           has
           any
           body
           else
           to
           do
           with
           other
           Mens
           Rights
           ?
           It
           must
           needs
           be
           that
           the
           Rights
           of
           a
           Nation
           are
           to
           be
           Defended
           ,
           for
           Kings
           and
           Queens
           and
           all
           the
           Retinue
           of
           Government
           were
           ordained
           by
           the
           Nation
           for
           that
           very
           
           End
           ;
           and
           if
           they
           turn
           upon
           us
           and
           Invade
           our
           Rights
           ,
           as
           Chancellor
           Fortescue
           says●
           
             We
             are
             Defrauded
             and
             over-reached
             in
             our
             first
             Intention
             ;
             for
             then
             our
             King
             shall
             Injure
             us
             ,
             which
             before
             we
             had
             Kings
             it
             was
             Lawful
             for
             No
             Man
             to
             do
             .
          
           That
           's
           a
           hard
           Case
           ;
           for
           a
           King
           of
           England
           had
           always
           Revenue
           enough
           to
           keep
           him
           Honest
           ,
           and
           had
           no
           need
           to
           take
           indirect
           ways
           to
           Enslave
           his
           People
           ;
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           to
           put
           an
           end
           to
           a
           Government
           ,
           which
           it
           was
           so
           much
           worth
           his
           while
           to
           keep
           .
           And
           there
           can
           no
           Tolerable
           Account
           be
           given
           of
           the
           Attempts
           made
           in
           the
           three
           last
           Reigns
           upon
           our
           Liberties
           ,
           but
           only
           Bigottry
           ;
           They
           had
           a
           mind
           to
           Convert
           their
           Kingdoms
           ,
           and
           knowing
           that
           most
           Mens
           Souls
           follow
           their
           Bodies
           ,
           they
           took
           it
           for
           Granted
           that
           if
           they
           established
           an
           absolute
           Empire
           over
           the
           one
           ,
           they
           should
           have
           a
           full
           Command
           of
           the
           other
           .
           And
           so
           after
           a
           world
           of
           Arbitrary
           Proceedings
           ,
           the
           Common-Prayer-Book
           was
           sent
           down
           into
           Scotland
           ,
           where
           the
           King
           had
           no
           more
           Right
           to
           send
           it
           than
           into
           the
           Mogull's
           Countrey
           ;
           but
           it
           was
           under
           a
           Pretence
           of
           Uniformity
           ,
           when
           there
           was
           nothing
           less
           meant
           ,
           for
           it
           varied
           from
           ours
           ,
           and
           
           was
           nearer
           the
           Original
           Mass-book
           out
           of
           which
           it
           was
           taken
           .
           No
           ,
           the
           Design
           was
           to
           enter
           them
           of
           
             the
             King's
             Religion
          
           ,
           and
           then
           they
           might
           have
           had
           a
           New
           Edition
           of
           their
           Common-Prayer-Book
           the
           next
           Year
           ;
           and
           then
           the
           Reason
           of
           Uniformity
           holding
           alike
           in
           both
           Kingdoms
           ,
           ours
           ought
           to
           be
           like
           theirs
           .
           But
           the
           old
           Herb-woman
           at
           Edinburgh
           put
           an
           end
           to
           that
           Game
           ,
           for
           hearing
           the
           Arch-Bishop
           who
           watch'd
           the
           Rubrick
           ,
           directing
           him
           that
           read
           the
           Book
           to
           read
           the
           Collect
           for
           the
           Day
           ,
           she
           made
           a
           Gross
           mistake
           and
           cried
           ,
           
             The
             Diewl
             Collick
             in
             the
             Wemb
             of
             thee
             ,
          
           and
           withal
           threw
           her
           Cricket-stool
           at
           his
           Head
           ,
           which
           gave
           a
           Beginning
           to
           the
           War
           of
           Scotland
           :
           for
           when
           the
           Statesmen
           have
           reduced
           a
           Kingdom
           to
           Tinder
           ,
           the
           least
           Spark
           will
           kindle
           it
           .
           The
           Best
           Friends
           that
           King
           had
           ,
           and
           who
           spilt
           their
           Blood
           for
           him
           ,
           cannot
           deny
           but
           he
           had
           set
           his
           Heart
           upon
           a
           Laudean
           Religion
           and
           an
           English
           Patriarchate
           ,
           which
           we
           all
           know
           would
           have
           ended
           in
           Latin
           ,
           and
           have
           been
           still
           
             Ecclesia
             Anglicana
          
           as
           it
           was
           in
           all
           Ages
           .
           I
           must
           needs
           be
           very
           Impartial
           in
           relating
           these
           things
           ,
           for
           I
           was
           a
           great
           Neutral
           in
           those
           Days
           .
           I
           cannot
           say
           I
           was
           so
           in
           
           the
           following
           Times
           ,
           for
           I
           saw
           the
           Church-game
           played
           here
           ,
           and
           heard
           of
           the
           Counterpart
           which
           was
           at
           the
           Pyr●naean
           Treaty
           and
           in
           the
           Polish
           Memorial
           ;
           and
           I
           have
           viewed
           the
           very
           Mass-house
           where
           the
           Last
           opened
           Shop
           ,
           and
           wanted
           Customers
           .
        
         
           Now
           we
           ought
           to
           be
           somewhat
           the
           wiser
           for
           our
           Dear
           bought
           Experience
           ,
           and
           never
           to
           suffer
           a
           Prince
           Popishly
           inclined
           to
           be
           admitted
           to
           the
           Government
           more
           ;
           for
           they
           have
           a
           standing
           Pretence
           of
           Religion
           and
           Conscience
           to
           Enslave
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           to
           do
           it
           for
           our
           own
           Good
           ,
           to
           save
           our
           Souls
           ;
           and
           so
           all
           our
           Temporals
           shall
           go
           to
           wreck
           
             in
             ordine
             ad
             Spiritualia
          
           :
           whereas
           whenever
           a
           Prince
           is
           known
           to
           be
           of
           our
           own
           Religion
           ,
           or
           of
           a
           Travelling
           Religion
           which
           will
           comply
           with
           our's
           ,
           then
           he
           has
           no
           Church-Pretence
           of
           spoiling
           the
           Government
           ,
           he
           cannot
           be
           Arbitrary
           if
           he
           would
           ,
           because
           he
           has
           no
           Excuse
           left
           ;
           he
           must
           Tyrannize
           for
           Tyranny's
           sake
           ,
           and
           that
           being
           open
           will
           never
           go
           far
           nor
           last
           long
           .
           Nor
           will
           any
           wise
           Protestant
           Prince
           venture
           upon
           such
           a
           Hazardous
           thing
           ,
           for
           if
           he
           should
           miscarry
           in
           it
           ,
           he
           will
           not
           have
           so
           much
           as
           a
           Bull
           from
           Rome
           to
           Bless
           himself
           withall
           .
           And
           if
           any
           
           future
           Prince
           should
           arise
           ,
           who
           should
           think
           that
           to
           be
           Prerogative
           which
           those
           former
           Kings
           practised
           ,
           and
           thereupon
           form
           a
           Resolution
           that
           the
           Crown
           of
           England
           shall
           not
           be
           the
           worse
           for
           his
           wearing
           ,
           I
           shall
           humbly
           offer
           him
           my
           Advice
           before
           hand
           ,
           not
           to
           think
           of
           Their
           Crown
           ;
           for
           it
           was
           no
           wearing
           Crown
           ,
           it
           was
           so
           stufft
           with
           Prerogative
           that
           it
           was
           top-heavy
           ,
           and
           it
           visibly
           hurt
           two
           of
           the
           Heads
           that
           wore
           it
           ;
           I
           know
           not
           nor
           I
           care
           not
           who
           eased
           the
           Middlemost
           of
           that
           Burden
           .
           But
           our
           Present
           King
           came
           on
           purpose
           ,
           as
           appears
           by
           his
           Two
           Declarations
           ,
           to
           discharge
           the
           Crown
           of
           all
           Arbitrariness
           ,
           and
           to
           reduce
           it
           to
           the
           Standard
           :
           So
           that
           if
           our
           Parliaments
           do
           not
           pursue
           the
           Ends
           of
           those
           Declarations
           which
           are
           Annexed
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           and
           are
           the
           Foundation
           of
           this
           Government
           ,
           they
           betray
           the
           Nation
           ,
           and
           are
           Worse
           to
           us
           than
           the
           Pensioner
           Parliament
           was
           .
        
         
           2
           dly
           ,
           The
           second
           Thing
           which
           I
           propounded
           ,
           was
           to
           Consider
           the
           Point
           of
           Defending
           our
           Rights
           wi●h
           Reference
           to
           this
           Revo●ution
           .
           In
           which
           I
           shall
           carefully
           Distinguish
           betwixt
           the
           English
           Right
           of
           
           Self-Defence
           ,
           and
           the
           welcome
           Assistance
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           which
           came
           like
           a
           Hand
           out
           of
           the
           Clouds
           to
           Help
           us
           .
        
         
           First
           I
           say
           ,
           That
           if
           the
           People
           of
           England
           have
           not
           a
           Right
           to
           Defend
           their
           Liberties
           and
           Properties
           against
           Tyranny
           ,
           they
           have
           neither
           Liberties
           nor
           Properties
           .
        
         
           2
           dly
           ,
           When
           this
           Nation
           falls
           under
           Tyranny
           ,
           they
           must
           be
           Delivered
           either
           by
           Miracle
           or
           Means
           ;
           Not
           by
           Miracle
           (
           as
           a
           Great
           Man
           very
           Truly
           said
           ,
           )
           and
           therefore
           we
           must
           use
           the
           Means
           .
        
         
           3
           dly
           ,
           If
           we
           have
           not
           a
           Power
           within
           our selves
           to
           Preserve
           our selves
           ,
           then
           (
           as
           Mr.
           Manwood
           said
           in
           Queen
           
           Elizabeth's
           Time
           in
           Parliament
           )
           
             The
             Realm
             is
             no
             Realm
          
           ,
           but
           we
           depend
           upon
           some
           body
           from
           Abroad
           .
        
         
           4
           thly
           ,
           I
           say
           ,
           That
           neither
           the
           Duke
           of
           Hanover
           ,
           nor
           any
           other
           Foreign
           Prince
           who
           is
           Related
           to
           the
           Royal
           Family
           ,
           is
           Guarantee
           to
           the
           Coronation
           Oath
           and
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           
           which
           are
           the
           Terms
           of
           this
           Government
           .
        
         
           5
           thly
           ,
           That
           if
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           had
           not
           come
           in
           by
           the
           Sollicitation
           and
           Consent
           of
           the
           English
           People
           ,
           it
           had
           been
           a
           Proper
           Invasion
           .
        
         
           6
           thly
           ,
           The
           Original
           Right
           ,
           which
           the
           People
           of
           England
           have
           to
           Defend
           themselves
           ,
           enables
           them
           to
           Call
           for
           Assistance
           whenever
           they
           are
           be●set
           and
           cannot
           help
           themselves
           ,
           and
           to
           Pray
           in
           Aid
           :
           And
           here
           this
           Happy
           Revolution
           Centers
           .
           For
           it
           would
           be
           a
           strange
           Thing
           to
           me
           ,
           That
           any
           Person
           who
           only
           looks
           over
           the
           Hedge
           ,
           should
           have
           more
           Right
           to
           Defend
           a
           Man's
           Freehold
           ,
           than
           the
           Owner
           himself
           ,
           who
           is
           upon
           the
           Premises
           .
        
         
           And
           thus
           I
           have
           done
           with
           the
           Maxim
           about
           Defence
           ,
           and
           come
           at
           last
           to
           our
           Author's
           Touchstone
           of
           Maxims
           ,
           which
           is
           ,
           
             That
             all
             which
             tend
             to
             the
             inevitable
             Destruction
             of
             Cities
             and
             Societies
             ,
             as
             indiffeasable
             Allegiance
             
             does
             ,
             are
             False
             Maxims
             .
          
           But
           what
           then
           is
           become
           of
           their
           Darling
           Maxim
           with
           which
           their
           Churches
           used
           to
           Ecchoe
           in
           the
           Exclusion-Time
           ,
           
             Fiat
             Iustitia
             ,
             pereat
             Mundus
          
           ;
           Let
           the
           Duke
           of
           York
           have
           his
           No
           Right
           ,
           though
           the
           World
           go
           to
           wreck
           :
           For
           that
           was
           the
           true
           English
           of
           it
           .
           True
           or
           False
           they
           have
           no
           Maxims
           nor
           Principles
           at
           all
           ,
           for
           they
           are
           steddy
           in
           none
           .
           For
           is
           not
           
             Fiat
             Iustitia
             pereat
             Mundus
          
           ,
           as
           True
           a
           Maxim
           in
           an
           Abdication
           as
           in
           an
           Exclusion
           ?
           It
           is
           with
           some
           Assurance
           that
           I
           speak
           it
           ,
           because
           I
           have
           already
           proved
           it
           ,
           That
           Allegiance
           is
           a
           rigid
           ,
           obstinate
           ,
           unalterable
           and
           Indefeasible
           Thing
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           must
           be
           Dissolved
           by
           one
           of
           the
           two
           Parties
           themselves
           ;
           but
           is
           Impossible
           to
           be
           Dissolved
           by
           any
           Third
           Person
           .
        
         
           I
           had
           but
           Two
           Maxims
           in
           the
           World
           in
           reference
           to
           State-matters
           ,
           the
           one
           was
           that
           
             Honesty
             is
             the
             Best
             Policy
          
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           was
           that
           
             Allegiance
             is
             Indefeasible
          
           ;
           and
           he
           is
           a
           going
           to
           take
           away
           my
           last
           Maxim
           from
           me
           ,
           which
           I
           will
           not
           part
           with
           ,
           because
           I
           have
           Sworn
           it
           to
           King
           William
           and
           Queen
           Mary
           .
        
         
         
           I
           said
           I
           would
           not
           part
           with
           my
           
             Indiffesable
             Allegiance
          
           ,
           but
           he
           brings
           a
           whole
           Posse
           upon
           me
           to
           prove
           it
           false
           ,
           in
           these
           words
           .
           
             And
             this
             is
             the
             Opinion
             in
             which
             all
             who
             have
             considered
             this
             Matter
             ,
             either
             as
             Lawyers
             as
             Casuists
             do
             agree
             .
          
           Now
           I
           say
           ,
           That
           All
           his
           Lawyers
           and
           Casuists
           never
           said
           a
           word
           of
           Truth
           in
           their
           whole
           Lives
           :
           For
           All
           Lawyers
           and
           Casuists
           are
           None
           ;
           and
           He
           having
           named
           No
           body
           ,
           I
           have
           Affronted
           No
           body
           .
           But
           whenever
           he
           pleases
           to
           name
           his
           Lawyers
           and
           Casuists
           ,
           and
           produce
           their
           strong
           Reasons
           against
           my
           
             Indiffeasible
             Allegiance
          
           ,
           I
           will
           talk
           with
           them
           round
           :
           In
           the
           mean
           time
           I
           am
           weary
           ,
           and
           break
           off
           here
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           Books
           written
           by
           the
           Reverend
           Mr.
           
             Samuel
             Johnson
          
           .
        
         
           
             JVlian
             the
             Apostate
          
           :
           Being
           a
           short
           ●●ount
           of
           his
           Life
           ;
           the
           Sense
           of
           the
           Primitive
           Ch●istians
           about
           his
           Succession
           ,
           and
           their
           Behaviour
           towards
           him
           :
           Together
           with
           a
           Comparison
           of
           Popery
           and
           Paganism
           .
        
         
           
           Iulian's
           Arts
           to
           undermine
           and
           extirpate
           Christianity
           :
           Together
           with
           Answers
           to
           Constantius
           the
           Apostate
           and
           Iovian
           .
        
         
           Remarks
           upon
           Dr.
           
           Sh●rlock's
           Book
           ,
           intituled
           ,
           
             The
             Case
             of
             Resistance
             of
             the
             Supream
             Power
             stated
             and
             re●olved
             ,
             according
             to
             the
             Doctrine
             of
             the
             Holy
             Scriptures
             .
          
        
         
           Reflections
           on
           the
           History
           of
           Passive
           Obedience
           .
        
         
           A
           second
           five
           Year's
           Struggle
           against
           Popery
           and
           Tyranny
           ;
           being
           a
           Collection
           of
           Papers
           published
           by
           the
           Reverend
           Mr.
           
             Samuel
             Iohnson
          
           ,
           during
           his
           last
           Imprisonment
           of
           five
           Years
           and
           ten
           Days
           .
           Wherein
           are
           contained
           these
           following
           Tracts
           .
           (
           1.
           )
           A
           Sermon
           preached
           at
           Guildhall-Chappel
           .
           (
           2.
           )
           The
           Church
           of
           England
           as
           by
           Law
           established
           ,
           &c.
           
           (
           3.
           )
           Godly
           and
           wholsom
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           necessary
           for
           these
           Times
           .
           (
           4.
           )
           A
           short
           Disswasive
           ●rom
           Popery
           ,
           and
           from
           Countenancing
           and
           Encouraging
           Papists
           .
           (
           5.
           )
           A
           Parcel
           of
           wry
           Reasons
           ,
           wrong
           Inferences
           ,
           but
           right
           Observator
           .
           (
           6.
           )
           An
           Oration
           of
           Mr.
           
             Iohn
             Hales
          
           .
           (
           7.
           )
           Several
           Reasons
           ●or
           the
           establishing
           a
           standing
           Army
           ,
           and
           the
           dissolving
           the
           Militia
           .
           (
           8.
           )
           Four
           Chapters
           .
           1.
           
           O●
           Magistracy
           .
           2.
           
           Of
           Prerogative
           by
           Divine
           Right
           .
           3.
           
           Of
           Obedience
           .
           4.
           
           Of
           Laws
           .
           (
           9.
           )
           The
           Grounds
           and
           Reasons
           of
           the
           Laws
           against
           Popery
           .
           (
           10.
           )
           An
           Humble
           and
           Hearty
           Address
           to
           all
           the
           English
           Protestants
           in
           King
           
           Iames's
           Army
           .
           (
           11.
           )
           The
           Opinion
           ,
           that
           Resistance
           may
           be
           used
           in
           case
           our
           Religion
           and
           Rights
           should
           be
           invaded
           .
           (
           12.
           )
           The
           Trial
           and
           Examination
           of
           the
           New
           Test
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           
           England's
           Loyalty
           .
           (
           13.
           )
           Reflections
           upon
           the
           Instance
           of
           the
           Church
           of
           
           England's
           Loyalty
           .
           (
           14.
           )
           The
           absolute
           Impossibility
           of
           Transubstantiation
           demonstrated
           .
           (
           15.
           )
           Bishop
           
           Ridley's
           Letter
           to
           Bishop
           Hooper
           ,
           with
           some
           Observations
           on
           it
           .
           (
           16.
           )
           A
           Letter
           from
           a
           Freeholder
           ,
           to
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Freeholders
           of
           England
           .
           (
           17.
           )
           Religion
           founded
           upon
           a
           Rock
           .
           (
           18.
           )
           The
           True
           Mother
           Church
           .
        
         
           An
           Argument
           proving
           ,
           That
           the
           Abrogation
           of
           King
           Iames
           by
           the
           People
           of
           England
           from
           the
           Regal
           Throne
           ,
           and
           the
           Promotion
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           o●e
           of
           the
           Royal
           Family
           ,
           to
           the
           Throne
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           in
           his
           stead
           ,
           was
           according
           to
           the
           Constitution
           of
           the
           English
           Government
           ,
           and
           Prescribed
           by
           it
           .
           In
           Opposition
           to
           all
           the
           false
           and
           treacherous
           Hypotheses
           ,
           of
           Usu●pation
           ,
           Con●quest
           ,
           Desertion
           ,
           and
           of
           taking
           the
           Powers
           that
           Are
           upon
           Content
           .
        
         
           An
           Essay
           concerning
           Parliaments
           at
           a
           Certainty
           ;
           or
           ,
           the
           Kalends
           of
           May.