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A25429
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A letter of remarks upon Jovian by a person of quality.
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Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.
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1683
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Wing A3174; ESTC R16260
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A LETTER OF Remarkes UPON JOVIAN By a Person of QUALITY LONDON Printed for H. Jones M.DC.LXXXIII A LETTER OF Remarkes ON JOVIAN SIR I Must quarrel you for the Promise you extorted from me of giving a short account in writing of my free and Impartial Thoughts of the long expected Jovian You know we are now under such unhappy Circumstances that whatsoever is said or done against any false Pretender to the Service of the Crown is look't upon as an Act of Disloyalty And I may by some be thought an Enemy to the Imperial Crown if I go to shew wherein one who talks high for it has really disserv'd it But since I am satisfied that whatsoever mischief is in this lyes only in the Opinion of those Men whom I need not value I shall not for their sakes deny my Promise or my Friend I shall not concern my self in the Merits of the Cause between him and his Adversary I shall only shew wherein it has suffer'd for want of a better Advocate But thus much is obvious that if the Prince makes no claim to his Power in such manner as he ascribes it to him this Author is guilty of a foul mis-representation of him in putting out such a labor'd Piece as it were on purpose to promote Fears and Jealousies But then if he both is so Invested with his Power and will have it known that he will use it accordingly as he sees Occasion a weak and partial proof of it ought to be punish't as treacherous For this Minister of London as he stiles himself who will not allow the Church of England to be a true Church Jov. Pref. unless we own the Church of Rome to be so too I shall in short make it appear that he has in this Book of his shewn himself neither 1. Logitian Nor 2. Good Historian Nor 3. Fair and Equal Writer 4. Besides that he Vndermines the force of all that he would seem to say by his Concessions and Contradictions And then judge what Reward he deserves for his very great pains 1st Not Logitian because he doth not as he should state the Question The Paralelism in Julian is not between the State and Condition of Christians under Pagan Emperours who Governed dispotically while the Christians lived precariously and were always under the Bow-string Law as now in Turkey and those Communities of Christians who upon mutual Stipulation upon Oath agree to keep such Laws as were then made or after should be generally agreed unto according to the Established Legislative Neither Secondly Was it the Question what was to be done to Crowned Heads but what might have lawfully been done to prevent the Succession of one of dangerous or suspected Principles So that what followed was only Circumstantial And if it did not shew what might be done by Christians in the like Case with those under Julian at the least it shewed what was the nature of those Prayers and Tears the acceptableness of which some would think God Evidenced by his miraculous Destruction of that Tyrant 2dly He shews himself no good HISTORIAN For which I shall take notice of but four Particulars 1. In which he has likewise betrayed great Indiscretion his producing the Scotch Act of Parliament for the Sacredness and Unalterableness of the Succession without knowing any thing of that scurvy Story of Elizabeth Mure or offering at any Disproof of it 2. His Vouching the Solemn Recognition of King James his Title in Parliament Pref. as an Argument that King Henry the Eigths Limitation of the like Authority was void Crown by the Burnets Hist 1st Part. When if he had read the History of the Reformation he might have known that the Limitation he mentions was by an Inauthoritative Will the direction of the Parliament not having been duly pursued 3. His carping at the Relation of Sir Simon Dewes in the business of the Queen of Scots King James being more concerned for the fame of his Mother than of our glorious Queen caused Mr. Camdens Papers to be seized and delivered into the hands of the then Earl of Northampton who struck out what he pleased in that Matter which made the Poor man lament with Tears as can even at this Day be sufficiently proved This and the Index Expurgatorius Sir Simon might well know who being a Man of consummated Knowledge in all kind of Literature and Antiquity ought not to be controul'd by one whose utmost effort after the Corrections and Helps of all his Friends ends in this dispicable Trifle 4. But then without the least Judgment or Knowledge of the various Acceptation of the Word Estate both in Records and Histories he falls foul upon the Lord Hollis and would have it Treason because he calls the King a Third Estate This may be false but surely no Treason except he had said The King had but a Co-ordinate Power and might be over-rul'd by the other He would suggest as if the ascribing that Letter about the Bishops Voting in Capital Causes to that Lord were a wrong and scandal to his Memory Jov. p. 236. That it was his is past all doubt he having own'd it in his Life time and after continued the same Subject which was Printed after his death with other Contracts to the same purpose by others if the Dr. had been a man conversant in that Learning he could not but have found by them Jov. p. 185. that the most Learned and Worthy Author of the Graud Question is so far from having made good any Imputation upon the Candor and Veracity of that noble Lord that how much soever he may have Obliged the Age by his many Learned Works yet he may beconcern'd to vindicate himself against the Considerations upon his Book long since Published 3. I shall very briefly make good my Charge of his being no Fair nor Equal Writer For this I might instance in his partial Quotations of Bracton Fleta and Fortescue concerning our English Government which it lyes upon Mr. J. to shew more at large but I believe this Author would be loth to receive all their Sayings for Law though back't with the Authority of the old Mirror to boot I shall only evince him to be guilty of a little Impiety in his Quotation of Acts of Parliament p. 234. according to his own acceptation of the word when he would apply it to others You must understand that he splits the Hair very curiously between the Imperial and Political Laws of the Realm by one of which it seems a man may be hanged or loose what he has when he is Justifiable by the other In all Soveraign Governments Subjects he says p. 245. must be Slaves as to this Particular they must trust their Lives and Liberties with their Soveraign But the Engglish Realm is a Perfect Soveraignty or Empire and the King of England by the Imperial Laws of it p. 208. is a compleat Imperial and Independent Soveraign to whom the foresaid