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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46391	A Just vindication of the honour of King James of blessed memory against the vile aspersions cast upon it and him by a late pamphlet printed by B. Took : and pretended to be presented by the grand jury for the town and borough of Southwark, &c.		1683 (1683)	Wing J1243; ESTC R35424	6,064	4

A JUST VINDICATION OF THE Honour of King James Of Blessed Memory Against the vile Aspersions cast upon it and Him by a late Pamphlet Printed by B. Took And pretended to be Presented by the Grand Jury for the Town and Borough of Southwark c. THERE is nothing so Sacred but Detraction will Blaspheme it nothing so High but Envy will Attack it nothing so Excellent but Ignorance will Persecute it If the Dignity of the Regal Office The Majesty of the Person The Acuteness of Parts and Understanding could have given Priviledge and Protection to Princes the Honour of King James had been Impregnable But the blind Beetle durst once Assault the Royal Eagle when it had taken Sanctuary in Jupiters Bosome This Wise and Learned Prince out of a pious and politick Design to season the tender Years of his Son Prince Henry then Heir Apparent of his Ancient Kingdom of Scotland And that he might not onely leave him a Kingdom to Govern but qualifie him for the Art of Government Composed that Excellent Piece Stiled Basilicon Doron or His Majesties Instructions to his Dearest Son Henry the Prince This Incomparable Book his Majesty thought no ways convenient nor comely to be Proclaimed to all which to one onely appertained And therefore for the more secret and close keeping of it He onely permitted Seven to be Printed the Printer being first sworn to Secresie But notwithstanding all his circumspection and caution whether through the treachery of the Printer or the mistaken Zeal of some Courtiers who would not have the World depriv'd of so rich a Treasure as from its own innate worth which like the Diamond shone most in the Dark the Book was made Publick and thereby became subject to every Man's Censure So Great a King could not want Enemies The Sun it self is obscured by those ungrateful Vapours which are raised out of the Earth by his Influence but amongst all his Enemies none were more concern'd out of Interest to Asperse his Pious Intentions than the Jesuits and particularly Becanus who have greedily laid hold on some few passages in the Book to Reproach the Puritans by which Title they branded in those days all Reformed Protestants It is very true that the Papists had a deeper reach in their Calumniating that Great King than every one could discover for they knew him to have been well grounded in the Protestant Religion by Education Confirmed therein by his own judgment and engaged to espouse it by his true Interest and that he had a Pen that was able to Defend it and knowing in their Consciences with regret That upon the Death of Queen Elizabeth he must by undoubted Right and Title Succeed her in the Crown of England and that such Succession would prove a fatal blow to their conceiv'd hopes and pretensions of Establishing their long since exploded Religion Hereupon they employ all their Engines Summon all their Artifices and rowze up all their fury and policy to Bespatter him as a Person of a Vindictive Spirit that would Avenge upon the English his Mothers Quarrel and as a Person not well fixed in the Principles of Religion And herein they were wickedly subtil for by the former Slander they hoped to engage against him all those Grandees and Statesmen in England that might any ways be supposed to have had a finger in the Death of his Mother and by the latter they fancied they should prejudice him in the thoughts of those Persons who were commonly though falsly called Puritans in England who were no inconsiderable Party for Number Interest or Piety Nor did Jesuitical Malice rest here but they set on foot many false Titles to the Crown Imperial of this Realm some to amuse the Vulgar others to engage the Spaniard and all of them to hinder his Just Succession here if either Heaven would have favoured them of Hell could have kept them That passage which their Malice fixed upon in his Instructions to his Son the Prince to exasperate the Minds of many Sober Protestants in England against his coming to the Crown did serve their Turns pretty well for indeed it sounded harshly in common Ears and carried some Intimation of his Displeasure against that sort of People with those who onely lookt upon the surface of the Words and were not privy to the Design of his Majesty But the King being timely Informed of the Scandal taken and that he might obviate the Design of it caused his Book which before had been Printed privately and under an Oath of Secresie to appear Publickly and that praemunited with a Preface written by his own Hand wherein with marvellous Clearness he Vindicates his Royal Intentions from those Sinister Constructions put upon them and therein has said so much as might have silenc'd Detraction knockt out the teeth of Envy and set his Name right in the thoughts of all good Men for ever And this Preface was added to his Reprinted Book in the Year 1603. at London by Felix Kingston for John Norton And now it might have been expected That after Fourscore Years lying in the Grave the Calumny had been Rotten and the Memory of that Learned King might have Survived in his Writings since Envy which commonly preys upon the Living uses yet to spare the Ashes of the Dead When contrary to all our hopes A late Pamphlet Printed by one B. Took revives the Reproach as if it would challenge the King 's Sacred Dust to awake and rise up in their own just Vindication For we meet every where in the Streets A Paper which pretends to the Title of Presentments of the Grand-Jury of the Town and Borough of Southwark Which begins thus We the Grand-Jury Summoned and Sworn for this present Sessions of the Peace holden for the Town and Borough of Southwark do with all humble deference to our Superiours Present as followeth viz. THat the Wise and Learned King James His Majesties Royal Grand-Father of blessed Memory has from his own observation and sad Experience among other things so Solemnly Asserted in his Excellent Book of Instructions to his Eldest Son Prince Henry concerning the Puritans of that Age may as truly be affirmed of the generality of the Sectaries of our time to wit That they are the very Pests in the Church and Common-wealth whom no deserts can oblige neither Oaths nor Promises bind breathing nothing but Sedition and Calumnies Aspiring without measure Railing without reason and making their own Imaginations without any Warrant of the Word the square of their Consciences and that ye shall never find with any High-land or Border-Thieves greater Ingratitude and more Lies and Perjuries than with these Phanatick Spirits I shall not need to observe how the Pamphlet suppresses those Words in the entrance of the Paragraph which had given some light to his Majesties meaning Take heed therefore my Son to such Puritans Implying that there were another sort of Men who though they were invidiously branded with that Name yet were nothing akin to