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A70384
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The auction, or, A catalogue of some useful books lately published together with a summary of what is treated of in them.
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Johnston, Nathaniel, 1627-1705.
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Wing J873; ESTC R1193
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THE AUCTION OR A Catalogue of some useful Books lately Published together with a Summary of what is Treated of in them Printed for Robert Hardy at his Shop in Westminster-Hall Divinity Books The infallible Director of the present Beneficed Clergy's Practices AN useful and necessary Book for this Age demonstrating that Church-Preferments more powerfully govern their Actions and Byass their Consciences than the Precepts of our Saviour or the Doctrine of the Apostles or the Antient Fathers Canons or Constitutions of this Church subscribed and assented to by all the Dignitaries Parsons Vicars and Curates who have been Beneficed these two years last past Sold by Richard Baldwin at the Sign of the Pilgrim The present English Catholick Church A choice Treatise proving that the present Beneficed Church-men of England concur not only with the Doctrine of Calvin Knox and all the late Fanaticks but even with the Posit one ascribed to the most biggotted Papists and Jesuits in the Doctrine of Resisting Deposing and Murdering of Kings when they conceive them to be Enemies to the Religion they profess or not like to be so indulgent to them as some Ambitious Usurpers pretend to be Writ by Dr. Burnt to be sold in the Palace-Yard Westminster The Non-Obligation of Oaths An Elaborate Treatise shewing that we being obliged by the Law of Nature to study Self-preservation and taught by the Gospel that he who provides not for his Family is worse than an Infidel Therefore what-ever Oaths may prejudice us in either of these are ipso facto void And what-ever Oath shall be imposed to capaciate us to live in a State of freedom from suffering and enable us to live at ease and augment our Estates are lawful so long as they produce these effects and no longer for this Obedience is more â—â—â—â—ptable to God than to Sacrifice all our comfortable Importances out of an obstinate Opinion that preceding Oaths contradictory to any new Ones enjoyned are obligatory Together with an Appendix to prove that by the same Rule by which we may dis-oblige our selves from Oaths of State we may dissolve all private Contracts when any present inconveniencies seem to attend them A Discourse worthy the perusal of all who have digested their former Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and swallowed the New Ones of Allegiance and Fidelity and the better to prepare them to take the Oath of Abjuraton or any other which may be devised for the security of the Government Sold by Algernon Braye at the Sign of the White Dog with the Blue Collar Books of Policy and Government The right use of Parliaments after the Modern way in some Countries Or a Demonstration that a King who hath a well Officer'd and Pension'd Parliament can never want what-ever Supplies he shall demand and that none ever had the true Art of King-craft who attained not to that persection shewing that the Laws owning the King to have the Authority of making Peace or War should be desicilin if he had not full and sole Power to settle the same which can never be done without a Ductile and Complying Parliament and that there is no such effectual way to render them such as by establishing their absolute dependance upon him whereby they may find their own account in Honour and Profit by serving him Belides that it is absurd a King should be owned to be Head of the Church and State in the Politick Capacity and want the like insluence the Head in the Natural Body hath over the Members Such an Head being but an empty Scull fill'd with a pulp of Sladge instead of Brains With a Corrolary proving that it is but a Feather in such a King's Cap and an empty Title to stile him Sovereign who is not in reality so over the Collective Representative of the People in Parliament as well as over the Diffusive Body of them in Citles and Villages Printed by Charles Bill and Tho. Newcomb their Majesties Printers for the use of the Lord Almoner and the Clerks of Parliamont The present Bishops the surest Courtiers A Treatise writ by the Prolecutor of that Order to prove the necessity of a King 's preserving that Hierarchy rather than Presbytery according to the old Maxime no Bishop no King With an Appendix deducing by particular instances in all their Votes how steadily the undepriv'd Bishops scarce two excepted persue the Directions transmitted from the Court however directly opposite to their formerly avowed Principles Preachings and Practites To which is added by way of Advice that the Honourable Members of the House of Commens who chanced to be over-voted in the Bill for preventing Pensioners and Officers for the future have a cane to shew their utmost Gratitude to the Right Reverends who by their Dead Weight cast the Scales and restated the Commons in a future Capacity to serve their Betters and themselves together with a serious Bersursive to all the people who own them to be their Guides and Heads of their Commonion to sollow their Examples and not their Printed Books which have declared their contrary Judgments either before or since their being chosen into the Order Writchy a Rever and Count Palatine to be sold by Nathanael Dolittle at the Sign of the Orange tawny Mitre Five to One are odds at 〈…〉 Or a seasonable Treatise wherein is attempted to be prov'd that Lords ought to yield to Knights Knights to Esquires Esquires to Gentlemen Gentlemen to Yeomon because they are more Numerous and are sure to have the advantage at Club Law Together with some useful Admonitions that smaller Numbers never contest with the greater for Privileges but rather tamely submit to such as by their special Grace and Favour they will allow them With a Memento not to forget when the Supreme Authority Voted the Lord's House Useless and Dangerous To which is subjoin'd an Encomium of those Self dying Lords who will rather choose to forego their Ancient Privileges than obstruct Supplies especially when they may go sharers in them As also a Premonition to several Honourable Commons to be preparing themselves against the next Session to repeal the Act for Annual Sessions and Trienaial Dissolutions of Parliaments and particularly of this present one lest they should loose the plentiful Perquisites which Members of late super-anuuated Parliaments have been accustomed to enjoy if the King shall be prevailed with to pass it Composed for Sir Humphrey Lackland for the use of his Fraternity Printed by Thomas Braddyl in the New Palace-Yard Good Witts Jump Or a Dialogue betwixt a Member of the Rump Parliament and the late Convention proving that the same Principles Laws and Counsels govern'd the late which did the former and that the late Revolution was established upon the very same Foundation and that there neither are nor can be any Reasons or Arguments produced to maintain the one which do not equally prove the legality of the Proceedings of that black Parliament With a Transition to prove the absurdity of observing the
Anniversary on the Thirtieth of January unless we will own the Character given our Saviour of those who kill'd the Prophets and built or beautified their Sepulchres And that instead of celebrating the Fifth of November for the preservation of King James the First his Royal Family and the Two Houses of Parliament from the Gun powder Treason we should now observe it more religiously than ever upon a new Account viz. for the arrival of the High and Mighty Prince who forced from his Throne the Grandson of that King for whose deliverance the Anniversary hath been kept about 70 years And that we ought to make a double Festival by joining to it the Fourth of November in memory of a Prince's Birth day who hath so wonder fully changed the Hereditary Monarchy of England to an Elective and may in time either make the Government of these Realins exquifitely conformable to that of the Seven Vnited Provinces or reduce them to a conformity with his Rulenere Together with many solid Arguments to prove that the Solemnity of the Restauration of King Charles the Second celebrated on the 29th of May ought by Act of Parliament for ever to be abolished and the 13th of February be substituted in its place being the day of the Proclamation of a greater Deliverer of this Nation than that King ever was by restoring us to the Happy Estate our selves or Ancestors enjoyed under the Long-Parliament and Oliver Lord Protector Writ by Will. Prynn the Younger to be sold at Aaron Smith 's at the Sign of the New Exchange The Sovereign Power of Mobbism supported by Hobbism and Sherlocism A Learned Work proving that the Common People are the Original Dispensers of all Power for that those who are enabled to advance a Captain Tom may appoint a King Thomas Oliver Richard or Anthony With a Critical Demonstration by the Rule of Consequences that whoever hath the dexterity to manage this great Bucephalus so that he can mount him shall never want Divines to prove them Supreme Providential Rulers nor Hobbists to prove they ought to be submitted to and obeyed With a digression shewing how easily the Magistrates of Holland Zealand and the other Provinces were changed or de Wisted while the Mobb espoused the Interest of the Stadtholder But now at Tergow though the Stadtholder had power to banish the Magistrates yet he had not the concurrence of the People who gave all the marks possible of their affection to the old Magistrates Writ by James Godliman dedicated to the late Duke of Schomberg and printed by Watt Tyler at the Sign of John of Leyden Books of War and Military Affairs An infallible Device never to want Souldiers A serious Discourse demonstrating that the laying insupportable Taxes and Impositions upon the Subjects and not providing for the security of Trade is a sure way to bring a Country to such Poverty that the House keepers will not be able to maintain their Sons and Servants nor Trade smart their Apprentices and Journey men whereby the young Men can have no means of subsistence but by listing themselves to be Souldiers So that the want of Bread at home encreaseth the Nurseries of War An Essay begun four years since and the Author finding it yearly experienced to be true hath been prevailed with to make it publick and dedicates it to the honorable Committee 〈…〉 referred for the more effectual raising of Seamen and Soldiers for their Majesties Navy and Army Sold 〈…〉 Village in England The new Project of Kidnapping Lâ—nd-Soldiers A brief Discourse illustrating the latest method to spirit Men to serve by impressing them for Sea-service which the Law allows and lodging them more safely than honourably in the Tower of London of Goals in the Country and then telling them that they look not like Men acquainted with Sea-service therefore if they like it they may be imployed for Land under worthy Officers who will take great care that they be well cloathed and paid either for Service here or in Flanders and so allowing such 〈…〉 Plabson's Choice and having saltned a Shiâ—â—ing in their Fists their Service is transferred from Sea to Land Dedicated to all Pretenders to the Liberty of the Subject by proving that an even Exchange is no Robbery Expectancy better than Fruition An ingenious Tract proving that allowing Souldiers bare Subsistence and never clearing Arrears though Money is plentifully granted to discharge both is 〈…〉 way to keep them in the Service of the Government least if they should be 〈◊〉 off they should desert A no where practised 〈…〉 With 〈…〉 how the Officers have this defect in some measure supply 〈…〉 the subsistance Money to their own Pockâ—â— for five or six Months together for all such as have died by Diseases 〈◊〉 staid 〈…〉 provided they can compleat their Number against the beginning of the next Translated out of the Dutch 〈…〉 and Printed for the Consolation of indigent Officers and Soldiers recommended to the Committee to which is referred the Bill to prevent False Musters and to pay the Soldiers according to true 〈◊〉 of Effectives Men. In hope they will find out some expeatem to encourage Faithful Officers I cast if that rigorous-Bill should pass they should be forced to throw up their Commissions 〈…〉 A Paradox proving by that of Argument that it is a Master-piece of Policy strequently to borrow great Summs from the Citizens of London and to raise the Million of Money by borrowing upon the Fund of 70000 l. out of the Excise for that thereby 10000 Families are ingaged and fastned by their Purso strings to the Government Writ by a Primser Minister of State for his Master's instruction and by an add accident procured to be coppied and now published for the Information of all whom 〈…〉 sold at Guild hall the Royal Exchange and Lumbard-street Look before you Leap Or a necessary Caveat to all who are inclinable to lend Money on the Publick Faith and especially on the Million-project that before they part with their 〈◊〉 they obtain an Act not only to perâ—… this Parliament but that no 〈◊〉 Powers may repeal this Act or that since so many Ensurers are marched oh that a Committee of Members be appointed to be Ensuters at something under Cent. per Cem lest such â—calons Servants of the Government may want encouragement or a succeeding Crowned Head or a Supreme Power may stand in as much need of the Fund as this doth of the Advance Money Writ by an Eminent Scholar at shutting up the Exchequer to be sold at all the Policy Offices in London A new Project of Seating Arrears That the Officers and Souldiers discount for the Free Quanter they have had in Ireland and England and for the Arms or Horses they have lost and the Charges of Transport Ships To which is added a Quore Whether the Country shall be repaid for Free Quarter or there shall be and Ballance in the Publick Accounts for the Arms Stores or Transport Ships if deductions be