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book_n	administration_n	prayer_n	sacrament_n	2,563	5	7.2488	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65439	To the most illustrious, High and Mighty Majesty of Charles the II, by the grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, defender of the faith, etc. the humble declaration of being first a supplicatory preface and discourse of His Majesty, and then humbly shewing the great and dangerous troubles and intollerable oppressions of himself and his family, and the true occasion thereof, in the wofull times of these late most unhappy distractions : wherein the perfect loyalty of a true subject, and persideous malice and cruelty of a rebell, are evidently deciphered, and severally set forth to the publick view in their proper colours, as a caution for England : hereunto are annexed certain poems, and other treatises composed and written by the author upon several occasions, concerning the late most horrid and distracted times, and nver before published.	Wenlock, John.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1350; ESTC R8066	124,478	168

their black Imperial Prince is descended from a Childe that Solomon begot upon the Queen of Sheba and this they stand upon as a great and honourable Antiquitie for that Nation but withall I did still inform these people that your Majesties Title to England was full as antient far more authentical And the chief scope and end of all these my Speeches and Relations was to inlighten their blind Eye● to inform their Judgements to make them know and understand the Truth of your Majesties indubitable just and religious Rights and Authorities over this Nation that therby they might be induced to have a more reverend regard and opinion of the same and so in time become inclinable to yield their due obedience thereunto On a time being at a Court Baron in a great and populous Town divers of the Tenants there in open discourse did ask me many Questions in Law which I gave them my Opinion in to their satisfaction at the length a jolly fellow there who was a Presbyters lay elder did say that the tenants were much beholding to me for I had told them a great deal of Law but quoth he I have heard but little Gospel come from you Friend said I thanks be given to God for it I can speak Gospel too as well as Law but Gospel now is not fit for your hearing because you have cast off the practise of it No sure said he I do make more account of the Gospel than of your Law You ought indeed to do so said I but you have forgot your Dutie then for the Gospel enjoynes you to give Caesar his due and that you have quite forgotten and where are you now Then I desired him to tell me Whether he thought that St. Peters Epistles were Canonical Scripture or not Yes quoth he they are Then said I there you fail again for there is in them a good Document that you and others have slighted most shamefully What is that said he It is this said I Fear God and honour the King and that I am sure you have quite forgotten or little regarded these two seven years Hereat the whole Auditorie fell into a loud laughter and the Elder knew not what to say for himself There was a rich Town not far from me which at the first beginning of the late Rebellion were liberal and very free to part with their Monies and Armes to that purpose but their Purses being prettily well exhausted and some of them not well willing or able to spare any more Monie out of their Stocks for the present yet for a further ostentation and to make their Zeal and Devotion though blinde in it self yet perspicuous and clear enough unto others They consulted therefore and agreed together to borrow 1000 pound upon interest of a rich Usurer and presently they lent the same to the Parliament upon the Publick Faith though alass they knew not where that Utopian or imaginarie Creature did then dwell neither from that day to this could they ever find out the residence thereof nor yet so happily meet with it as to get their Monies again It was my chance a few years after to enter discourse with one of the most solid Heads in that Parish and I said unto him that I had seldom or never read or heard of such a stupified and blockish kind of people as most of them were Why quoth he are we worse then all others Truly said I there be none that I know of that have manifested more ignorance and perverseness than you have done for when you had parted with all and lent to the Rebels so much Monie of your own as you listed to spare then must you forsooth take up Monie at interest to send the same way and so purchase to your selves a stronger Title to the Triple-tree for that will be your portion in the end if you meet not with the more mercy and was there ever known any people so sottish as to borrow Monie upon use to drive such a dangerous Trade certainly a man that is not worse then mad would have had so much Monie as he knew not what to do withall before that ever he durst have ventured to lay it out upon so poor an advantage as to buy himself a Bargain of such dead and desperate Ware Indeed I believe that amongst all the Wrongs and Indignities that were put upon me and too tedious here to be related there was nothing so much perplexive and vexatious unto me as to see my native Country-men so readily run on to their own ruine and to be so secure and confident in the wayes of Error and Destruction but still I told them that Security was the Mother of Danger that they walked upon deceitfull grounds for so soon as the Winde turned their false Teachers would all forsake them clap their tailes between their legs and run away like a chidden Curre and that those they most trusted in would soonest forsake them to serve their own turns And yet allwayes when I took an occasion to declare my strong hopes of your Majesties Restauration many would seem to laugh at it and wish me to set my heart at rest for I should never live to see that day to which I ever replied with a constant courage that I trusted in God to live and see that happy day which I had so much prayed for and so long expected and continually hoped for so many years together and that their security was a sign and strong Argument to me of the more sudden approach thereof for it would certainly come to passe when the most of men did least dream of it and a time of the weakest probability in the eye of the world is the fittest season for the Divine succour and the most glorious opportunity for God Almighty to bring his own purposes and blessed decrees to the best effect for it was impossible for a real and true Christian to beleeve that the divine justice could any longer suffer such usurping wretchednesse to have continuance which had so basely and injuriously subverted the whole frame of Government both in Church and Commonwealth setting up such pandarising Magistrates as were content to submit themselves to be agents in the most heathenish and Mahometan absurdities and such idolatrizing Ministers as for Balaams wages were content to idolize every usurping rebell and perfidiously and perjuriously to defame and cast off the Hierarchie of the Church which they had formerly sworn to maintain and yeeld their obedience unto and stubbor●ly also to deprave and disclaim the holy Liturgie thereof the Book of common-Common-prayer and administration of the Sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England being in truth so holy and sacred in it self and so consonant to Gods word and the primitive institution of the true Catholick Church founded upon the faith of the holy Apostles and Prophets as the most critical Phanatick can never be able to find the least just occasion of offence therein unlesse