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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30328	A collection of eighteen papers relating to the affairs of church & state during the reign of King James the Second (seventeen whereof written in Holland and first printed there) by Gilbert Burnet ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5768; ESTC R3957	183,152	256

put the Nation on an Enquiry that nothing but necessity will drive them to For a Nation may be laid asleep and be a little cheated but when it is awakened and sees its danger it will not look on and see a Rape made on its Religion and Liberties without examining From whence have these Men this Authority They will hardly find that it is of Men and they will not believe that it is of God. But it is to be hoped that there will be no occasion given for this angry Question which is much easier made than answered VII If all that were now asked in favour of Popery were only some Gentleness towards the Papists there were some reason to entertain the Debate when the Demand were a little more modest If Men were to be attainted of Treason for being reconciled to the Church of Rome or for reconciling others to it If Priests were demanded to be hanged for taking Orders in the Church of Rome and if the two thirds of the Papists Estates were offered to be levied it were a very natural thing to see them uneasie and restless but now the matter is more barefaced they are not contented to live at ease and enjoy their Estates but they must carry all before them and F. Petre cannot be at quiet unless he makes as great a Figure in our Court as Pere de la Chaise does at Versailles A Cessation of all Severities against them is that to which the Nation would more easily submit but it is their Behaviour that must create them the continuance of the like Compassion in another Reign If a restless and a persecuting Spirit were not inherent in that Order that has now the Ascendant they would have behaved themselves so decently under their present Advantages as to have made our Divines that have charged them so heavily look a little out of countenance and this would have wrought more on the good Nature of the Nation and the Princely Nobleness of the Successors whom we have in view than those Arts of Craft and Violence to which we see their Tempers carry them even so early before it is yet time to shew themselves The Temper of the English Nation the Heroical Vertues of those whom we have in our Eyes but above all our most holy Religion which instead of Revenge and Cruelty inspires us with Charity and Mercy even for Enemies are all such things as may take from the Gentlemen of that Religion all sad Apprehensions unless they raise a Storm against themselves and provoke the Justice of the Nation to such a degree that the Successors may find it necessary to be just even when their own Inclinations would rather carry them to shew Mercy In short they need fear nothing but what they create to themselves so that all this stir that they keep for their own Safety looks too like the securing to themselves Pardons for the Crimes that they intend to commit VIII I know it is objected as no small Prejudice against these Laws That the very making of them discovered a particular Malignity against His Majesty and therefore it is ill Manners to speak for them The first had perhaps an Eye at his being then Admiral and the last was possibly levelled at him tho' when that was discovered he was excepted out of it by a special Proviso And as for that which past in 73 I hope it is not forgot that it was enacted by that Loyal Parliament that had setled both the Prerogative of the Crown and the Rites of the Church and that had given the King more Money than all the Parliaments of England had ever done in all former Times A Parliament that had indeed some Disputes with the King but upon the first Step that he made with relation to Religion or Safety they shewed how ready they were to forget all that was past as appeared by their Behaviour after the Triple Alliance And in 73 tho' they had great cause given them to dislike the Dutch War especially the strange beginning of it upon the Smyrna Fleet and the stopping the Exchequer the Declaration for Toleration and the Writs for the Members of the House were Matters of hard Digestion yet no sooner did the King give them this new Assurance for their Religion then tho' they had very great Reasons given them to be jealous of the War yet since the King was engaged they gave him 1200000 Pounds for carrying it on and they thought they had no ill Peniworths for their Money when they carried home with them to their Countries this new Security for their Religion which we are desired now to throw up and which the Reverend Judges have already thrown out as a Law out of date If this had carried in it any new piece of Severity their Complaints might be just but they are extream tender if they are so uneasie under a Law that only gives them Leisure and Opportunities to live at home And the last Test which was intended only for shutting them out from a share in the Legislative Body appears to be so just that one is rather amased to find that it was so long a doing than that it was done at last and since it is done it is a great presumption on our Understandings to think that we should be willing to part with it If it was not sooner done it was because there was not such cause given for Jealousie to work upon but what has appeared since that time and what has been printed in his late Majesty's Name shews the World now that the Jealousies which occasioned those Laws were not so ill grounded as some well-meaning Men perhaps then believed them to be But there are some Times in which all Mens Eyes come to be opened IX I am told some think it is very indecent to have a Test for our Parliaments in which the King's Religion is accused of Idolatry but if this Reason is good in this Particular it will be full as good against several of the Articles of our Church and many of the Homilies If the Church and Religion of this Nation is so formed by Law that the King's Religion is declared over and over again to be Idolatrous what help is there for it It is no other than it was when His Majesty was Crowned and Swore to maintain our Laws I hope none will be wanting in all possible Respect to His Sacred Person and as we ought to be infinitely sorry to find him engaged in a Religion which we must believe Idolatrous so we are far from the ill Manners of reflecting on his Person or calling him an Idolater for as every Man that reports a Lie is not for that to be called a Liar so tho' the ordering the Intention and the prejudice of a Mispersuasion are such Abatements that we will not rashly take on us to call every Man of the Church of Rome an Idolater yet on the other hand we can never lay down our Charge against the Church

have still as melancholy an answer to this as I have had to all the former Applications I have made I must maintain my Innocence the best way I can in which I will never forget that vast Duty that I owe His Majesty whatsoever I may meet with in my own particular If there is any thing either in the Inclosed Paper or in this Letter that seems a little too vehement I hope the provocation that I have met with will be likewise considered for while my Life and Reputation are struck at and while some here are threatning so high a man must be forgiven to shew that he is not quite unsensible tho my Duty to the King is Proof against all that can ever be done to provoke me yet I must be suffered to treat the Instruments and Procurers of my disgrace who are contriving my destruction with the plainness that such Practices draw from me I will delay Printing any thing for a fortnight till I see whether your Lordship is like to receive any Order from His Majesty relating to him who is May it please your Lordship Your Lordships c. At the Hague the 17. of May Old St. 1687. My Third Letter to the Earl of Middletoune May it please your Lordship I Venture once more to renew my Addresses to your Lordship before I Print the Paper that I sent you by my last of the 17. of May together with the Two Letters that I writ you for I find it necessary to add this and that it go with the rest to the Press I am told that great Advantages have been taken upon an Expression in my First Letter in which I writ that by my Naturalization during my stay here My Allegiance was translated from His Majesty to the Soveraignty of this Province as if this alone was crime enough and I hear that some who have been of the Profession of the Law are of this Mind I indeed thought that none who had ever pretended to study Law or the general Notions of the Entercourse among Nations could mistake in so clear a Point I cautioned my words so as to shew that I considered this Translation of my Allegiance only as a temporary thing during my stay here And can any man be so ignorant as to doubt of this Allegiance and Protection are things by their natures reciprocal since then Naturalization gives a Legal Protection there must be a return of Allegiance due upon it I do not deny but the root of Natural Allegiance remains but it is certainly under a suspension while the Naturalized Person enjoys the Protection of the Prince or State that has so received him I know what a Crime it had been if I had become Naturalized to any State in War with the King but when it was to a State that is in Alliance with him and when it was upon so just a ground as my being to be married and setled in this State as it could be no Crime in me to desire it so I having obtained it am not a little amazed to hear that any are so little conversant in the Law of Nations as to take Exceptions at my words Our Saviour has said that a man cannot serve two Masters and the nature of things say that a man cannot be at the same time under two Allegiances His Majesty by Naturalizing the Earl of Feversham and many others of the French Nation knows well what a right this gives him to their Allegiance which no doubt he as well as many others have sworn and this is a translating their Allegiance with a Witness That Lord was to have commanded the Troops that were to be sent into Flanders in 1678. against his Natural Prince and yet tho' the Laws of France are high enough upon the points of Soveraignty it was never so much as pretended that this was a Crime And it is so much the Interest of all Princes to assure themselves of those whom they receive into their Protection by Naturalizing them since without that they should give Protection to so many Spies and Agents for another Prince that if I had not very good ground to assure me that some have pretended to make a Crime out of my Words I could not easily believe it My Lord this is the last trouble that I will give your Lordship upon this Subject for it being now a month since I made my first Address to you I must conclude that it is resolved to carry this matter to all Extremities and Mr. d' Albevilles Instances against me and the Threatnings of some of his Countreymen make me conclude that all my most humble Addresses to His Majesty are like to have no other effect but this that I have done my duty in them so that it seems I am to be judged in Scotland I am sorry for it because this must engage me in a defence of my self I mean a Justification of my own Innocence which I go to much against my heart but God and man see that I am forced to it and no Threatnings of any here will frighten me for I will do that which I think fit for me to do to day though I were sure to be assassinated for it to morrow but to the last moment of my Life I will pay all Duty and Fidelity to His Majesty My Lord I am with a profound respect Your Lordships c. At the Hague the 6. of June Old St. 1687. ADVERTISEMENT WHen I had resolved on the Printing these Papers and was waiting till the day should come to which I was cited I received a new Advertisement that the first Citation was let fall and that I was cited of new to the 15 of August to Answer to the Crimes of High Treason upon the account of two Heads in my first Letter to the Earl of Middletoune The one is that I say that by my Naturalization I am loosed from any Allegiance to His Majesty and the other is that I threaten His Majesty with the Printing and Discovering of Secrets that have been long hid If after what I have hitherto met with there were room left for new Surprises this would have been a very great one Those who have advised the King to this way of Proceeding against me shew that they consider very little the Reputation of His Majesty's Justice and so I be but Sacrificed they do not care how much the Kings Honour suffers in it for First after a Citation of High Treason which has made so much noise that is let fall Which is plainly to confess that there is no truth in all those Matters that were laid to my Charge and then where is the Justice of this way of Proceeding to Summon a Man to appear upon the pretence of Crimes of which they know him to be Innocent But this new matter is of such a Nature that it is not easy for me to find words soft enough to speak of it with the decency that becomes me This is now more the Cause of