Keys in Mr. Mayor and the Town-Clerk and issued out Excommunications under the Town Seal and every Fisherman upon the Lake Lemane if he were a Livery man of the City immediately became an Apostle and the Spirit of Infallibility forsook the whole Order of Church-men and setled upon every illiterate Mechanick that had a bold Face and a loose Tongue And with what Apostolical Wisdome and Gravity they made Religion it self ridiculous Mr. Calvin himself has inform'd us particularly in the cases of Bertileir and Perin who were absolved from the Sentence of Excommunication by the Common-Council and under the Town-Seal And 't is observable that those States that have made bold to despise or disregard the Power of the Clergy have always first prostituted the Revenues of the Church to the worst of men and in a little time the Government of it to the Scorn and Contempt of the Common Rabble And therefore all wise and pious Princes have ever chosen to govern Religion by the Counsel and Assistance of their Clergy and to be determined in Enquiries of Faith by their Decrees and Declarations for though all Power of External Coercion be vested in the Civil Magistrate yet that of teaching and declaring the Law of God is the Right and Office of Ecclesiasticks so that though they cannot force Princes to confirm and ratifie their Decrees yet may Princes be obliged by Vertue of an Higher Authority by regard to Piety and Religion by the Order and Decency of things to have reference to their Judgments though if they will not it is not in the Power of the Church to call them to an account for their Proceedings as the men of Rome and Geneva talk That shall be demanded at an higher Judicature they can only declare and discharge their Duty and leave the pursuance of their Cause to the Judgment of God For in all Affairs whatsoever capable of External Cognizance the Supreme Civil Power must and will over-rule this is absolutely necessary to the Order and Preservation of Government and the World must be govern'd as they will or not be govern'd at all And thus have I briefly proved that the Clergy must be vested with some Power peculiar to themselves both from the Institution of Christ and the nature of Society for as much as the Constitution of the Church as such is distinct from that of the Civil State so that all Christians are obliged to the Visible Profession of the Name of Christ not only without the leave but against the Edicts of the Supreme Authority of Kingdomes and Common-wealths The next thing to be consider'd against Erastus is that their Office is not merely declarative or ministerial but carries proper jurisdiction in all the Acts and Exercises of its Power and enforces all its Decrees by Penalties and Inflictions and wherever we find Coercion there is all that can be required to the Nature and Exercise of Jurisdiction that is nothing else but a Power of Imposing Laws and Inflicting Punishments and whoever has a Right to both these Acts of Government has all that Authority that is proper to Empire and Dominion and whatsoever Privileges and Prerogatives of absolute Sovereignty we can imagine they are all reducible to one of these swo Heads either a Power of requiring Obedience to its Commands or of punishing Disobedience by its Penalties and both these are apparently included in the Priestly Office that consists of two parts first the Authoritative Power of Preaching whereby they are enabled to declare Divine Laws under Penalty of the Divine Displeasure and this is proper Legislation and is declared to be so in his Original Commission granted by our Saviour to his Apostles and their Successours to the End of the World in that he sent them as his Father sent him to teach or disciple all Nations whereby he derived upon them the same Power that himself was furnisht with from above to pursue the same ends so that if he himself were entrusted with any proper Jurisdiction he has conveyed and imparted the same to the Apostolical Office and Order and that he was so is an unquestionable and granted Case on all sides and therefore he himself founds the Validity of their Commission upon the Right of his Power All Power in Heaven and Earth says he is given me of my Father therefore go c. I am now enthroned Sovereign Lord of the whole Creation and the Exercise of all my Fathers Power is entrusted to my Management and therefore in the first place I appoint and Authorize you and your Successors in my Name and by Vertue of my Supremacy to take care of the Guidance and Instruction of my Church this is the Office and Power to which you are deputed next and immediately under my self in the Discharge and Execution whereof I engage all my Power to be immediately assistant to you to the end of the World So that it is plain that their Power of Preaching and Declaring the Laws of the Gospel is properly Authoritative and of the same Nature though of a Subordinate force with our Saviours own Dominion over Mankind and all Men by Vertue of his Command and his Commission are bound to give Obedience to their Doctrines in the right and Faithful Discharge of their Trusts as to the Authorized Stewards of his Mysteries And then as for the other part of the Power of the Keys or Church Censures it is as full of Jurisdiction as any Secular Power whatsoever it judges gives Sentence and inflicts Punishment in Criminal Causes and though they do not execute their own Judgment but leave it to the Divine Justice yet where God has promised to abett their Censures by his immediate Power 't is the same thing as to all the purposes of Government as if it were done by the stroke of their own Arm and though they did but only minister to the Divine Judgement as to these immediate Inflictions of Heaven yet the sentence it self is a severe instance and exercise of Coercive Jurisdiction it cuts a man off from all the Advantages of the Communion of Saints and of our Saviours Incarnation and that is a Capital Execution and more affrightful to any man that makes Profession of the Christian Faith than all the Rods and Axes and Pillories and Whipping-posts of the Secular Power And as their Authority carries in it true and proper Jurisdiction so is it in its Kind Supreme Universal and Uncontroulable and extends to all Nations Ages and Conditions Kings and Princes are subject to the Spiritual Authority of their Doctrines they have Souls to be conducted to Heaven as well as their Subjects and therefore stand as much in need of Spiritual Guides and Instructors for if Christ have intrusted the Spiritual Government of his Church in the hands of his Apostles and their Successors then all its Members of what Rank and Quality soever are regularly to make enquiries and receive determinations of Conscience from their Mouths and when the
not a syllable of advice or exhortation to Subjects to perswade them to a modest and peaceable behaviour towards their Superiours No though Kings and men of Courtly breeding and great Quality have or ought to have so much manners and civility as to condescend to their Inferiours and if one have got a cold to force them to be cover'd or if a man have an antipathy against any thing to be so civil as to refrain the use of it however not to press it upon the Person with many more pretty resemblances though as you inform us there is no end of similitudes and as you employ them no use neither But alas such mannerliness as this is not to be expected from men of private condition and breeding and if His Majesty be pleased to stand cap in hand to a high-shoon Clown though he have a cold who can blame the Boor if he have not so much Courtship and Ceremony as graciously to desire his worship to put on The Common People are to be pardoned their rudeness for their want of education and if at any time they behave themselves stubbornly and sawcily to their Superiours they will out of discretion connive at their infirmities and out of common humanity yield to their follies But no wise Prince will ever by unnecessary impositions disoblige his good Subjects and force them to rebellious practices for a trifle or an uncivil word And what a lump of History have you here presented to Kings to terrifie them from making too bold and being too sawcy with their people Pag. 244 5 6 And if we take away some simpering phrases and timorous introductions your Collection will afford as good Precedents for Rebellion and King-killing as any we meet with in the writings of J. M. in defence of the Rebellion and the Murther of the King But that which most of all betrayes the wretchedness of your design is that you throughout either misreport or equivocate so elaborately that you cannot but be fully convinced within your self that you have forged Relations to no other purpose than to represent the weakness of Government and the feasibleness of Rebellion as we shall have occasion to examine hereafter in the mean while be your idle stories never so false they are much more impertinent For what if wise Kings be taught by these examples to condescend to their Inferiours and to connive at the infirmities i. e. seditious spirits of their people for fear of daggers and revolts What if it be as dangerous for a Prince to take a man by the tongue as a Bear by the tooth What if bloody wars have been occasion'd by the difference of an accent or a syllable And a letter in the name of Beans and Goats have set a whole Province together by the ears And what if Empires have been shipwrackt upon a new word as Mariners split upon a rock This only proves that it is an unwise and impolitick attempt to hazard a Crown out of fondness to an affected word And though it may be an usurpation upon the Peoples Liberties yet certainly it is none upon their Consciences if the Sovereign Authority will take upon it self to define the signification of an uncertain and ambiguous phrase And that is the parallel of our Case viz. That whereas these men have from time to time and at all times raised such prodigious yells and clamours of Conscience against the determination of significant Ceremonies 't is enough to shew that their signification is of the very same use and nature with that of words so that people have no more ground of offence upon the score of Conscience against that than this And yet no mans Conscience howsoever tender or peevish can ever pretend to be aggrieved with defining the signification of a doubtful word and if it cannot then has he as little ground upon that pretence to complain of the determination of any significant Ceremony Though if the change of words may be of dangerous consequence to the Government of the State that is a consideration of another nature and that concerns not my Analogy between words and symbols that are in this debate to be consider'd only as matters of Conscience and not of Policy So that if a new and unpresidented word do not endanger the shipwracking of a mans Conscience that is enough to evince that neither is a new Ceremony a more splitting rock than a new word and is this may prove mischievous upon other scores viz. that it would render all Laws uncertain that it would defeat the Act of Oblivion that it would spoil the Declaration of Indulgence to tender Consciences and throw all back again into Anarchy and Rebellion Yet what is all this to the signification of Ceremonies that may be alter'd ten thousand different ways without making any alteration of the Laws So that howsoever impracticable and of whatsoever ill consequence the imposition of words may sometimes prove there is not the least shadow of ground from thence to conclude as you do that of Ceremonies to be no less pernicious And this I hope is enough to prove that you have been sufficiently impertinent though how learnedly you have been solsuppose needs no proof And yet after all this astonishment if it were to any purpose this very power of defining and circumscribing the signification of words that you fancy so splitting a rock has ever been used and chalenged by all Law-givers as an essential ingredient of the Soveraign Power in that without it it is very difficult if not altogether impossible to avoid ambiguity of Laws A man of your humour that had a mind to be learnedly impertinent might heap up innumerable instances to this purpose But if you have either will or leasure to consult the Civil Law Lib. 50 Digest Tit. 16. de verborum significatione you will there meet with three or four hundred particular examples I shall only trouble you that are or may be an English Senator with two or three out of our own Laws The first occurrs in an Act of Parliament Primo Eliz. for the Uniformity of Common-Prayer and Service in the Church and administration of Sacraments where it being enacted that the Book of Common-Prayer and no other form shall be used at all open Prayer the Act it self fixes and defines the meaning of open Prayer viz. that by it is meant that Prayer which is for others to come unto or hear either in common Churches or private Chappels or Oratories commonly call'd the service of the Church And in another Act as I take it of the same year it is positively defined that no matter or cause shall from that time forward be adjudged Heresie but only such as heretofore have been adjudged to be Heresie by the Authority of the Canonical Scriptures or by the first four general Councils or by any other general Council where the same has been declared Heresie by the express and plain words of the said Canonical scriptures or such as hereafter
Misdemeanours notwithstanding the Act of Indemnity and therefore if Ceremonies and Sibthorpianism were the Cause of the War the guilt of all that blood that was spilt in it must lie upon their heads and the King may bring them to Trial for all the Miseries they brought upon his Kingdoms for the Murther of his Father and the loss of an hundred thousand Subjects and all for Sibthorpianism and Laud. Is this your Gentleman's memory to remind his Majesty of things too old for an Act of Oblivion so old that if you would let them alone they would be forgotten of themselves without it And though you would oblige him as he is a Gentleman to forget that ever the Presbyterians rebelled against his Father and took away his Crown and Sovereignty to forget that ever the Independents beside that took away his Life to forget that they and all the other Sectaries join'd forces to expel himself out of his own Kingdoms and keep him in banishment for ever and that he was restored in spite of all their zeal and malice and lastly to forget that since the time of his Restauration none of them ever had the Grace to ask Forgiveness for their former Leasings or to give him any Assurance of their future Allegiance A man had need learn the Art of Gentlemans Memory to forget all these things that are so fresh in the minds of men but yet notwithstanding all this you your self do and would have him remember some old Gentlemen of those times that are still alive that were the cause of all our miseries that deserve to be brought to condign punishment and that his Majesty may at any time do it any thing in the Act of Oblivion and Indempnity notwithstanding And now upon review of all these stories that I have told you of former times you would as I take it have done much more wisely if you had altogether let them alone and minded your own business And thus far have I vindicated the wisdom and the honesty of the Clergy of all Ages from Noah's flood through all the four Empires quite down to the late Rebellion the fatal consequences whereof a wise man would have thought might have served as sea-marks to direct them to avoid the Rocks but the former Civil War it seems cannot make them wise nor his Majesties happy Return good-natured but they are still for running things up unto the same extremes So that by their behaviour ever since his Restauration they have given him no encouragement to steer by their Compass with a great many more sad stories that represent them as such fierce and cruel Beasts of prey such inhumane and hungry Canibals that one would expect to hear how they every where eat up their Parishoners Children as fast as the Presbyterians do the Race of Capons But these are no more than general words that any man may throw out against any man I against you or you against me or a third against us both and a fourth against him and so on eternally eternally in infinitum and therefore they signifie no more than all the rest and as little need as they deserve any Answer But beside these you have given us in some of their particular misdemeanours and them I shall a little consider and because it is time to have done run them off with all possible speed and brevity First then it has been observed that whensoever his Majesty hath had the most urgent occasions for Supply they have made it their business to trinkle with the Members of Parliament for obstructing it unless the King would buy it with a new Law against the Fanatiques And hence it is that the wisdom of his Majesty and the Parliament must be exposed to after Ages for such a superfetation of Acts c. But this concerns not me let the King and Parliament answer it as they will clear themselves from the imputation of folly and if they have no more wit than to be over-reached by being trinkled yet certainly they have more than to suffer you to call them fools for it for they tell me that none but fools expose their wisdom But pray how do they trinkle the King and the Members Do the Bishops play with him at Picquet in the Parliament House and give the sign to each other If they do they do it among themselves and then neither you nor I are privy to their under-hand dealings and their false play and so can give no competent account of the course of the Game At least I think it better becomes us both to leave these things to the Gamesters themselves and I am sure it is not done like a Gentleman that has had his breeding in the Ordinaries when he is no more than a By-stander and has not so much as a Bett at stake to raise quarrels among the Gamesters by throwing in his own impertinent jealousies and suspicions of foul play Had you gon but half a Crown with King and Parliament and then have given the sign when you spied the Bishops trinkling you might have done very honestly but yet very ungentily But when you were quite blown up long since by the Dignitary and have now nothing left to be cheated of and cannot have the least concern how the Game goes unless it be now and then to pick up a Barato or so for such an one as you I say to meddle is an insufferable piece of impudence and ill-breeding and had you done the same ill office between Gentlemen at an Ordinary as you have between the King Parliament and Bishops you would have been kick'd out of doors But as for my part I dare not touch any thing that is done within those walls though as for their behaviour out of the house I could never perceive but that they are very honest and wel-bred Gentlemen and you have nothing to object to the contrary but that they are a little uncivil to the Non-conformists in that they will not allow them the liberty of having their own Wills though they know how much their nature and constitution requires it Especially when they demand nothing that you know of but what is so far from doing us any harm that it would only make us better You know what they demand If you do you know more than themselves or at least more than they would ever yet declare This is but an idle thing still to give us your peremptory opinion of things in general without abetting it with some particular proof or instance If you had undertaken to tell us what alterations they do demand and then shewn that they would be so far from doing us any harm that they would only make us better you had done something to some purpose but otherwise you have only declared your own opinion as any confident man might have done as well as you and if he had he might as well have held his tongue too But now by the leave of your Insolence though
Ages let the Tire-men and Tire-women look to it and see you answered I am not concerned But he that runs may all along read your design of Modern Orthodoxy and instructing wise Princes to look to it have a care what they do and force not their Subjects to conform to any habit civil or sacred in that Alexander the Great had almost lost all he had conquer'd by forcing his Subjects to conform But this is one of your leasings for Alexander the Great never lost a foot of what he had conquer'd and therefore not almost all but died unconquer'd and to his dying day lost not one foot either by seeming Friend or Foe Grecian or Persian by forcing his Subjects to conform or not conform Will you never be ashamed of your Leasings But as for the great danger that Alexander was in as I remember it followed a fair time after and arose from another Cause viz. that he disowned Philip for his Father and would by all means be complemented as the Son of Jupiter it was this which gave occasion to the sedition for which Philotas died But if this goodly story were true and you would prove any thing out of it it signifies nothing but against King and Parliament for making a Law to force all Subjects to conform to their habit and fashion and is only a sly insinuation against the foolish Act of Uniformity by which they have not only exposed their Wisdom to after Ages but endanger'd all at Present for Alexander the Great c. The next Story is of the King of Spain who when upon a Progress he enters Biscay is pleased to ride with one Leg naked and above all to take care that there be not any Bishop in his Retinue From hence be advised O Kings whenever you take a Pilgrimage for Scotland to travel bare-footed and to take no Bishop in your Retinue as you would avoid a solemn League and a Kirk-rebellion Though if you will yield to stand upon the Stool of Repentance and there suffer Mass John to rate both your self and your royal Ancestors for a Succession of Lowns and Tyrants and acknowledge the sins of your house and your own former ways and give satisfaction to the People of God in both Kingdoms and take all this with Kingly wisdom and meekness they may perhaps present him as the Biscains do the King of Spain with a leather-bag full of Maravides 60. whereof make a Crown but yet withal forbid him to touch it with the end of his Lance. Or if his English Subjects should grow so capricious that nothing will please them but the King must appear ridiculously before them to make them sport and humour them like Children he must be wise and gratifie their Childishness as the King of Spain does the Biscainers lest they grow touchy angry and rebel And as for what you suggest of their Scotch Antipathy to Bishops from thence it is come to pass that they are become the most Barbarous People of all Europe always excepting the afore-excepted the Canibals of the Race of Capons so as that they will not have any Traffick with any other Countreys nor mix with any other People for fear of corrupting their Language and Gentility though that is little better than wild Irish and they little better than Jack-gentlemen And though they have some dark and general Notions of Christianity still remaining among them yet are they since their Picque against Bishops fallen into such rudeness and ignorance that they have scarce any knowledge at all of the particular Articles of their Faith and Precepts of their Religion and so it must be wherever there is no superiour Clergy the poor Parish-priests will in process of time become as ignorant and barbarous as the Common People The next Story is of a Certain Tyrant that demanded subsidies of so many Bushels of Fleas But because you will not or cannot tell us when or where this same Tyrant does or did live nor what his Name is or was I have good reason to suspect either that it is but an idle Story or he some Jack Gentleman Though what you would make of it I cannot devise unless it be that if the King should impose some trivial things and ceremonies as are in your Judgment not worth a Flea and fine or punish the People for Non-payment of such Niceties he had as good be quiet and would get but little by distraining and should be called Tyrant for his pains So that if the King exact Obedience and Uniformity to the establish'd Laws he is worse than the Flea-tyrant seeing the Non-conformists cannot pay it in Conscience and seeing withal they desire no Alteration but what is so far from doing us any harm that it would only make us better The next is a Story of a certain Queen that being desired to give a Town-scal sat down naked on the Snow and left them that Impression and other Town-seal could they get none for their hearts if they would be content with that well and good she would part with no other and though it caused no disturbance yet Kings do not approve the Example But if it caused no disturbance the Story might have been spared But how come you to know that Kings do not approve of the Example that you dare thus confidently publish their Opinion when I dare say you cannot name two Kings that ever heard the story Will you never learn Modesty But why do you not tell us the Name of this Queen and City and Countrey It could not be the Queen of the Amazons because her whole Territorie as Travellers that have been there tell me lies within the Tropicks and just under the Equinoctial and there they tell me too it never snows So that I doubt it must be the Queen that reigns in Terra incognita Dowager to the Tyrant that has his subsidys paid him in Fleas by the Bushel measured to him in good Tale by Jack Gentleman But whoever she was or where-ever she lived the Politick Emprovement of her story runs thus There was a certain German Princess bold Bettrice by name that being either mad or maudlin played a sluttish Trick somewhere before the worshipful Mr. Mayor and his Brethren and though their Worships were not so implacably offended at her Majesties rudeness as presently to pass a Vote of common Council for taking up Arms to revenge the Affront so that there followed no disturbance in the State from the extravagance of the frolick yet Kings that never heard of it do not as they have told you their minds approve of the Example But rather take it for a warning to behave themselves mannerly and modestly before their Subjects Though I cannot see why they should be so much deterr'd from it by this Example when no harm that we read of ensued upon this freakish use of her Prerogative But had the Consequences proved never so fatal I am apt to think that Kings though you had not
length approved and publish'd special care being taken I still relye upon the Kings word that the small alterations of it in which it differs from the English Liturgy should be such as might best comply with the minds and dispositions of the Scots and prevent all grounds of fear or jealousie and chiefly to avoid all misconstruction that some Factious Spirits would have put upon it as a badge of that Churches dependance upon the Church of England if it had been the same with the English Service-Book totidem verbis And this was the Liturgy that no doubt might be an occasion of exasperating the Bramble-Faction that were already ripe for Rebellion and resolved to improve all disgusts whether just or unjust real or pretended to authorize their disloyal resolutions But to let you into the main Mystery the circumstance that gave life and vigour to their designs was the Act of Revocation that it seems hapned to be set on foot not long before by which the King intended the Revocation of those Lands of the Church that in the minority of King James the Great Men had to the prejudice of the Crown seized on and shared among themselves to which the Occupants having no other Title beside impudent Sacriledge and Usurpation the King thought he might justly challenge them for his own Use at least from the present Possessours A course warranted as himself still tells me both by the Laws of that Kingdom and the frequent examples of his Royal Progenitors And this you may believe was provocation enough to put them into an uproar and the People were perswaded as I am informed by a good Authour from the mouth of a Noble Lord that the intendment of the Act was to revoke all former Laws for suppressing of Popery and setling the Reformed Religion in the Kirk of Scotland and this raised such Tumults that the King was forced to desist from the prosecution of the Act under that Title and to carry it on though with much opposition under another Name of a Commission of Surrendries a thing so offensive to the stomachs of the Lords of the Erection as the Lay Impropriators were there call'd that they could never digest it but first according to the usual method vented their choler in Libels and then in Rebellion For though they were satisfied for their Tythes to the utmost farthing according to the Rates of purchasing in that Kingdom yet this fretted them that they saw themselves rob'd of the dependence of the Clergy and Laity upon their Power and of that Sovereign Command and Superiority which they had by the tye of Tythes exercised over them several wayes as the King will inform you And this was the reason of State beside the ease of his Subjects that moved his Majesty to issue out this Commission For before the greatest part of the Laity were Vassals by Tenure and all the Clergy slaves by custom to the Nobility And therefore they immediately set themselves to work the People to a disaffection to his Majesties Government and to perswade them that these were the contrivances of the Bishops and that under them there were dangerous innovations design'd upon their Religion So that 't is plain as the King observes that before either the Service-Book or Book of Canons so tragically now exclaimed against were thought on the seeds of Sedition and discontent were sowen by the Contrivers of the Covenant first upon the occasion of the Revocation next upon occasion of the Commission of Surrenders and lastly upon occasion of his denying honours to some of them at his last being in that Kingdom of which he has there given a large and particular account and this brought forth first private traducing his Government and then publique Libels And now by this time Sedition was grown so ripe and ready to seed that it wanted nothing to thrust it out and make it shoot forth into an open Rebellion but some fair and specious pretence They could not yet compass the Cloak of Religion whereby to siel the eyes and muffle the face of the Multitude for by none of the three former Occasions could they so much as pretend that Religion was endanger'd or impeach'd But so soon as they got but the least hint of any thing which they thought might admit a misconstruction that way they lost no time but took Occasion by the fore-lock knowing that either that or nothing would first facilitate and then perfect their designs Now the occasion they took of fetching Religion within the reach of their Pretences was the new Liturgy And this produced I still relye upon the Kings Authority the late wicked Covenant or pretended Holy League Though following the pattern of all other Seditions they did pretend Religion yet nothing was less intended by them For when they had sayes the Royal Understanding received from us full satisfaction to all their desires expressed in any of their Petitions Remonstrances or Declarations their persisting for all that in their tumultuous and rebellious Courses doth demonstrate to the world their weariness of being govern'd by us and our Laws by our Council and other Officers put in Authority by and under us and an itching humour of having that our Kingdom governed by a Table of their own devising consisting of Persons of their own choosing A Plot of which they are very fond being an abortion of their own brain but which indeed is such a monstrous birth as the like has not yet been born or bred in any Kingdom Jewish Christian or Pagan Of which he afterwards describes a particular Plat-form as it was put in practice at Edinburgh And thus observe it you shall still find a Common-wealth and Sacriledge at the bottom of all Rebellion that appears under the mask and pretence of Religion And it was these men that raised the Tumults and trinkled the Rabble into all those disorderly courses that by degrees brought forth the Covenant and the War And it is pretty observable that the first Remonstrance at Edinburgh was made in the name of the Men Women Children and Servants who being urged with the Book of Service and having consider'd the same the Children as well as the rest humbly shew c. These were followed by the Burghours and the Burghours by the Gentry and Nobility And so at length did the Scotch-war break out in which the Liturgy was no more concern'd than the Children of Edinburgh whose tender Consciences it seems were offended at it though in truth they deserved to be soundly whipt for beginning a War for the Cause when the Cause was too good to be fought for And now consider whether you had not been better advised to let this business of the War alone when you can no other way bring your Clients off with reputation unless the King will be content to suffer Himself his Royal Father and his Loyal Subjects to be impeach'd of their Rebellion For the blame of it must light somewhere and therefore if the