which I commiserate from my heart but am much more concerned that you do not leave the World in a Delusion and false Peace to the hindrance of your Eternal Happiness I heartily Pray for you and beseech your Lordship to believe that I am with the greatest Sincerity and Compassion in the World My Lord Your Lordships most Faithful and Afflicted Servant J. Tillotson Printed for R. Baldwin 1683. No. IV. To the KING' 's most Excellent Majesty James the Second c. The Humble Address of the Bishops and Clergy of the City of London WE your Majesties most humble and Dutiful Subjects do heartily condole your Majestie 's loss of so dear a Brother of Blessed Memory And do thankfully adore that Divine Providence which hath so Peaceably setled your Majesty our Rightful Sovereign Lord upon the Throne of your Ancestors to the joy of all your Majesties good Subjects And as the Principles of our Church have taught us our Duty to our Prince so we most humbly thank your Majesty for making our Duty so Easie and pleasant by your gracious assurance to defend our Religion established by Law which is dearer to us than our Lives In a deep sence whereof we acknowledg our selves for ever bound not only in Duty but gratitude to contribute all we can by our Prayers our Doctrine and Example to your Majesties happy and prosperous Reign And with our most sincere promises of all Faith and Allegiance do humbly implore the Divine goodness to preserve your Majesties Person and to establish your Throne in this World and when he shall be pleased to Translate you hence to bestow on you an Eternal Crown of Life and Glory No. V. IN the Name of God Amen Before the Lord Jesus Christ Judge of the Quick and Dead We long since became bound by Oath upon the sacred Evangelical Book unto our Sovereign Lord Richard late King of England That we as long as we lived shall bear true Allegiance and fidelity towards him and his Heirs succeeding him in the Kingdom by just Title Right and Line according to the Statutes and Custom of this Realm have here taken unto us certain Articles subscribed in form following to be proponed heard and tryed before the just Judge Christ Jesus and the whole World But if which God forbid by force Fear or violence of wicked Persons we shall be cast in Prison or by violent Death be prevented so as in this world we shall not be able to prove the said Articles as we wish Then we do appeal to the high Celestial Judge that he may judge and discern the same in the day of his supream Judgment First we depose say and except and intend to prove against Henry Darby commonly called King of England himself pretending the same but without all Right and Title thereunto and against his adherents fautors Complices that they have ever been are and will be Traytors Invaders and Destroyers of God's Church and of our Sovereign Lord Richard late King of England his heirs his Kingdom and Common-wealth as shall hereafter manifestly appear In the Second Article they declare him Forsworn Prejured and Excommunicate for that he conspired against his Sovereign Lord King Richard In the Fourth they recite by what wrong illegall and false means he exalted himselfe into the Throne of of the Kingdom and then describing the miserable State of the Nation which followed after his Usurpation they again pronounce him Perjured and Excommunicate In the Fifth Article they set forth in what a Barbarous and inhuman manner Henry and his Accomplices Imprisoned and Murthered K. Richard and then cry out wherefore O England arise stand up and avenge the Cause the Death and injury of thy King and Prince If thou do not take this for certain that the Righteous God will Destroy thee by strange Invasions and foreign Power and avenge himself on thee for this so horrible an Act. In The Seventh they depose against him for putting to Death not only Lords Spiritual and other Religious Men but also divers of the Lords Temporal there Named for which they pronounce him Excommunicate In the Ninth they say and depose that the Realm of England never Flourished nor Prospered after he Tyrannically took upon him the Government of it And in the Last they Depose and protest for themselves and K. Richard and his Heirs the Clergy and Commonwealth of the whole Realm that they intended neither in word nor deed to offend any State of men in the Realm but to prevent the approaching Destruction of it and beseeching all men to favour them and their designs whereof the First was to Exalt to the Kingdom the true and lawful Heir and him to Crown in Kingly Throne with the Diadem of England No. VI. THat all Parliaments and Ambitious selfe seekers in them who under pretence of publick Reformation Liberty the Peoples ease or welfare have by indirect Surmise Policies Practices Force and new Devices most Usurped upon the Prerogatives of their Kings or the Persons Lives Offices or Estates of such Nobles great Officers and other Persons of a contrary Party whom they most dreaded maligned and which have imposed new Oaths upon the Members to secure perpetuate and make irrevocable their own Acts Judgments and unrighteous Proceedings have always proved most abortive successless pernicious to themselves and the activest Instruments in them The Parliaments themselves being commonly totally repealed null'd and the Grandees in them suppressed impeached condemned destroyed as Traytors and Enemies to the Publick in the very next succeeding Parliaments or not very long after That Kings Created and set up meerly by Parliaments and their own Power in them without any true Hereditary Title have seldom answer'd the Lords and Commons Expectations in the Preservation of their just Laws Liberties and Answers to their Petitions yea themselves at last branded for Tyrants Traytors Murderers Usurpers Their Posterities impeached of High-Treason and disinherited of the Crown by succeeding Kings and Parliaments of c. From these Three last Observations we may learn that as Parliaments are the best of all Courts and Councils when duly Summoned Convened Constituted Ordered and kept within their Legal Bounds So they become the greatest Mischiefs and Grievances to the Kingdom when like the Ocean they overflow their banks or degenerate and become through Sedition Malice Fear or Infatuation by Divine Justice promoters of corrupt sinister Ends or Accomplishers of the private Designs and ambitious Interests of particular Persons under the disguise of Publick Reformation Liberty Safety and Settlement No. VII ALtho' it can no way be doubted but that His Majesty's Right and Title to these Crowns and Kingdoms is and was every way Compleat by the Death of His most Royal Father of Glorious Memory without the Ceremony and Solemnity of a Proclamation Yet since Proclamations in such Cases have been always used to the end that all good Subjects might upon this Occasion testify their Duty and Respect And since the Armed Violence and
Erubescet But if he will not be ashamed I know no reason why any Man that would not be deceived should take Things upon Trust from such a shameless Writer whom an impenitent Conscience hath hardened against the Confusion of Remorse and Blushing and made one of the greatest Examples of Impudence that ever dishonoured the Lawn Sleeves I hope it is a just Indignation that forces this Reflexion from me but if it seems too severe I beg the Reader 's Patience till I lay before him another of this unhappy Man's Books intituled A Vindication of the Authority c. of the Church and State of Scotland Printed 1673. This Book is full of very many Doctrins Rules and Precepts to which the Author's Life and all his Books since the beginning of the Revolution have been an open Contradiction In the Entrance of his Preface to the Reader saith he How sad but how full a Commentary doth the Age we live in give of those Words of our Lord I am come to send Fire on Earth Suppose you that I am come to give Peace upon Earth I tell you nay but rather Division Do we not see the Father divided against the Son and the Son against the Father and engaging into such angry Heats and mortal Feuds upon Colours of Religion as if the Seed of the Word of God like Cadmus Teeth had spawned a Generation of Cruel and Blood thirsty Men But how surprizing is the Wonder when Religion becomes the Pretence And after this Among all the Heresies this Age hath spawned there is not one more contrary to the whole Design of Religion and more destructive of Mankind than is that bloody Opinion of defending Religion by Arms and of forceable Resistance upon the Colour of preserving Religion The Wisdom of this Policy is Earthly Sensual and Devillish savouring of a carnal unmortified and unpatient Mind that cannot bear the Cross nor trust to the Providence of God Religion then as well as since was the Civil Property of these Kingdoms but at the time of the Revolution (a) In his Enquiry into the Measures of Submission to the Supreme Authority he distinguished the Christian Religion from it self as Religion and as it was one of the principal Rights and Properties of the Subject and though as Religion it ought not to be defended by Arms yet he affirmed That as a Civil Right and Property it might Would any Man but such a Bishop have had the Confidence to say That it was Lawful to sight for Religion as a Civil Right and Property who had published the Book above-mentioned and I know not how many after it to prove it Unlawful for Subjects to take up Arms in defence or under pretence of defending any Right or Property whatsoever Let such a Man say of Things or Persons or of Persons Dead or Living what he pleases he shall never be believed by me farther than he brings Proof The Passages of his forecited Book which now stare him in the Face are very many and very Emphatical and there is scarce a Page in it which is not a Record against him I must take notice of some and recommend (b) P. 8. to p. 18. p 35. 39. 40. 41. 42. 46. 47. those in the Margent to the curious Reader 's perusal at his leasure that he may make the same use of them that I am going to do of those that follow In the 68th Page of that Book he makes it of more dangerous Consequence to place the Deposing Power in the People than in the Pope Less Disorder saith he may be apprehended from the Pretensions of the Roman Bishops than from those Maxims that put the Power of Judging and Controuling the Magistrate in the Peoples hands which opens a Door to endless Confusion and sets every private Person in the Throne These Consequences of placing the Deposing Power in the People we have seen verified by Experience and still shall be more convinced of the Truth of them but yet his Enquiry into the Measures of Submission and Obedience which he owns among his 18 Papers and the Enquiry into the present State of Affairs which is his though he does not own it were both written upon the Principles of the Resisting and Deposing Power For in the one he Exhorts the People to resist the King as having fallen from his Authority and in the other to take upon them the Power and Authority of Deposing of him And to encourage them the more to it he doth affirm That the Power of the People of Judging the King in Parliament is a part of the Law of England and goes about to prove it from the Sentence of Deposition against King Edward the Second and Richard the Second which contrary to the Truth of History and I am confident of his own Knowledge he saith were never annulled by any subsequent Parliaments and therefore remain part of our Law Such an impudent Assertion contrary to so many Acts of Parliament printed in the Statute Books and (a) In Pryn's Jurisdiction of the Lords elsewhere would as Monsieur le Grand saith of him upon another Occasion (b) J'avoue qu'en faisant ces remarquâ—s je suis dans une veritable Contrainte de ne pas appeller M. Burnet de tous les Noms quile merite Lettre de M. Burnet a M. Thavenot avec les remarques de MLG. p. 33. Provoke a Man to call him by all the Names that he deserves But I pass on to the second Thing I intended to note in that Book and it is his own Answer to the Arguments for Resistance which in the first Conference he puts in the Mouth of Isotimus the Presbyterian to justify taking up Arms against our Lawful Governors from the Example of the Maccabees rising up in Arms against Antiochus and of the Christians who under Constantine the Great made no difficulty of fighting against the other Emperour his Colleague Licinius These Arguments he there pursues as far as they will go in the Mouth of Isotimus and then Answers them fully in the Person of Basilius the Royalist by whom he represents himself yet he lately made use of the very same Arguments to perswade his Clergy of the Lawfulness of taking up Arms against the King to bring about the Revolution and of the Obligations they were under to submit to it and support it without either retracting the Answer which he had made to those Arguments and which he might suppose some of them had read or replying to them or so much as mentioning of them but tells them in his Preface to his four Discourses That they had heard him urge them with seeming Satisfaction which I suppose was one sort of Satisfaction and Admiration too in many of them which I had rather hint than Name The third great Instance of that Book in which he hath contradicted himself is his Arguing for the Duty of Nonresistance from the Example of the Thebean Legion p. 58. which I cannot forbear to
other the Calamities of many Years last past have hitherto deprived us of any opportunity wherein we might express our Loyalty and Allegiance to His Majesty We therefore the Lords and Commons now Assembled in Parliament together with the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council-Men of the City of London and other Free-Men of this Kingdom now present do according to our Duty and Allegiance heartily joyfully and unanimously acknowledge and proclaim that immediately upon the Decease of our late Sovereign King Charles I. the Imperial Crown of the Realm of England and of all the Kingdoms Dominions and Rights belonging to the same did by inherent Birth-Right and lawful undoubted Succession descend and come to His most Excellent Majesty King Charles II as being lineally justly and lawfully next of the Blood-Royal of this Realm and that by the Goodness and Providence of Almighty God He is of England Scotland and Ireland the most Potent Mighty and Undoubted King And thereunto We most humbly and faithfully do submit and oblige our selves our Heirs and Posterities for ever No. VIII An Account of several Considerable Services that have been done to the Government by vertue of the Powers given by the Act for Printing since the last Continuation thereof Feb. 13. 1692 shewing That there have been Five Private Presses and many Treasonable Pamphlets and Libels discover'd and seiz'd within less than Two Years viz. OCtober 29. 1692. Discover'd and Seiz'd a Private Press with a Libel near the Greek Church by So-Ho The Persons employ'd made their Escape May 2. 1693. Discover'd and Seiz'd another Private Press in S. James's street with 34 several Treasonable Pamphlets and Libels the Titles of which are as follow An Historical Romance of the War The Jacobites Principles vindicated A Vindication of the deprived Bishops Two Letters to the Author of Solomon and Abiathar A Vindication of some among our selves Eucharisticon or a Comment upon the Fast. The Humble petition of the Common People of England to the Parliament The Auction or Catalogue of Books A Letter to Mr. Samuel Johnson His Majesty's Speech with Reflections The Resolution of a Case of Conscience The People of England's Grievances A Specimen of the State of the Nation New Court-Contrivances or more Sham-plots A Bob for the Seamen An Answer to Dr. King 's Book A Dialogue between Sophronius and Philo-Belgius A Letter to Dr. Tillotson A French Conquest neither desirable nor practicable Lex Ignea or the Justice of the House of Commons for advancing a Title to the Crown by Conquest A second Letter to the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry occasion'd by a Letter to him from the Bishop of Sarum A New Song with Musical Notes The Sea-Martyrs A New Scotch Whim. A List of Ships lost or damag'd since 1688. His Majesty's Speech November the 4th with Explications The Bell-man of Piccadilly to the Princess of Denmark The Earl of Pembroke 's Speech about the Lords in the Tower Some Paradoxes presented for a New-Years-Gift from the Old Orthodox to the New serving for an Index to the Revolution Remarks upon the present Confederacy King William 's Speech to the Cabinet-Council Considerations upon the second Canon June 1693. Another Private Press seiz'd in Westminster with the late King James's Declaration and several other Libels About the same time another Private Press seiz'd in Long-Acre Jan. 17 1695. Discover'd and Seiz'd another Private Press in Peticoat-Lane in Spittle-Fields with the several Seditious and Treasonable Pamphlets following viz. A Ballad entitled The Belgic Boor. A Parallel between O. P. and P. O. Reflections on a Letter from S. Germains The humble Address to both Houses of Parliament Remarks on a Paper to restore the late King James Happy be Lucky or a Catalogue of Books c. Delenda Carthago or the true Interest of England c. A Dialogue between A. and B. two plain Country Gentlemen concerning the Times A Petition of the Prisoners in the Savoy shewing them to be neither Traytors nor Pyrates A Persuasive to Consideration and one Form of a Letter to Sir John Trenchard All which were found in the Custody of one James Dover a Printer committed to Newgate for the same Besides the above-recited Libels against the State many Heretical and Socinian Books have been seized and stopt particularly one Entitled A brief and clear Confutation of the Trinity which was publickly burnt by Order of both Houses of Parliament and the Author prosecuted And one other is lately taken with its Author call'd A designed End to the Socinian Controversie or a Rational and plain Discourse to prove That no other Person but the Father of Christ is God most High There have been Three Persons found guilty of High-Treason that were the Printers at some of the Private Presses above-mention'd one of which named William Anderton was Condemned and Executed There are Three Presses at least known to be lately remov'd from Public Printing-Houses in London into Private One from the House of one Bonny another from from one Astwood and another from one Andrew Sowle all Printers If the Design of these Persons who mannage these Presses were to do Lawful Work they may do that openly at home without Hazard or Disturbance It must therefore be concluded that they are gone into Private to Libel the Government Now Considering how absolutely necessary this Act for Printing hath been and is for the Security of the Common Peace and Good of the Nation It is hoped That this Honourable House will continue the same till they shall have leisure to take into their Consideration the Reasonableness of the Objections that may be made against the present Act or any Clause therein contain'd For should this be discontinu'd and the Press be but for a while without Restraint His Majestie 's Government would be left Defenceless against His Secret Adversaries at Home whilst he is hazarding His Royal Person Abroad against the Common Enemy the Consequences of which may prove so Fatal as not to admit of a Future Remedy No. IX A Catalogue of Books not yet Answer'd VIndiciae Juris Regii Being an Answer to the Enquiry into the Measures of Submission and Obedience c. A Discourse of the Sense of the Word Allegiance A Defence of the Vindication of the Lord Bishop of Chichester's Declaration An Answer to the Bishop of Sarum's Pastoral Letter which was burnt by the hands of the common Hangman An Answer to the Letter to a Bishop An Answer to the Historical Part of the Unreasonableness of a New-Separation Christianity a Doctrin of the Cross An Answer to Dr. Sharp's Funeral Sermon at S. Giles's A Vindication of some among our selves c. The Loyal Martyr Vindicated An Answer to Dr. King's Book An Answer to a late Pamphlet Entitled Obedience and Submission to the present Go-Government demonstrated from Bishop Overal 's Convocation-Book with a Postscript An Answer to Dr. Sherlock's Vindication of Allegiance due to Sovereign Princes An Answer to a Letter to Dr. Sherlock written in Vindication of that part of Josephus his History which gives the Account of Jaddus's Submission to Alexander against An Answer to the Vindication of the Divines of the Church of England who have taken the Oaths from the charge of Rebellion and Pruerjy An Answer to a Piece Entituled Obedience and Submission to the present Government The Title of an Vsurper after a thorough Settlement examined In Answer to Dr. Sherlock's Case of Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers The Duty of Allegiance setled upon its true Grounds according to Scripture Reason and the Opinion of the Church In Answer to a late Book of Dr. William Sherlock Entitled The Case of Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers c. 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