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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61435	Old English loyalty & policy agreeable to primitive Christianity. The first part by the author of The beginning and progress of a needfull and hopefull reformation.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1695 (1695)	Wing S5433; ESTC R32555	31,683	49

the Divine Majesty They hold the Place of Prophets and the Duty of Prophets is incumbent upon them and if they have not the Light and Discerning of Prophets it is their own Fault who encumber themselves so much with the Pomps and Vanities and the unnecessary Superfluities of the World If they know not in this their Day the things which belong to their Duty and their Peace but suffer this Prince also to miscarry through Evil Counsels which have been the Bain of so many of his Predecessors in this Nation what can they expect but to be spewed out as unprofitable Servents to be thrown out with Scorn that Gospel Angels may our Church Adorn But I hope better things from such as are now in Place This unhappy Error in the Service of God hath I doubt exposed him to the Mischief of Unfaithfulness in such as he hath imployed and intrusted in his Service the Divine Providence permitting him to feel the Inconveniences of such Polices for Conviction of this Error The Effects of our Management are visible to the World the Persons imployed are likewise known and the Management it self is much complained of too much perhaps when and as it should not and as much too little if there be just Cause when and as it should If the Management be ill and the Persons imployed unskilful and unable the Fault is in the Choice principally and the Remedy is to put them out and choose better but if the Persons be able and the Management ill the Fault then is in the Persons imployed and intrusted and they are not only to be turned out but farther punished as their Misdemeanors deserve and the Damage requires And if this be not done as it ought the Fault rests upon them who ought to do it and yet neglect their Duty And because for Misdemeanors of all great Officers the House of Commons are the general Inquisitors for the whole Kingdom if there be any such ill Management as is believed and talked on it must be a great Fault of Unfaithfulness to God to the King and to the Kingdom if they should not impartially inquire into it and faithfully use the most proper Parliamentary Means to have it effectually and speedily redressed And this is the Duty not only of the whole House but of every particular Member of it They are Inquisitors for the whole Kingdom as the Grand-Jury of each County are for their respective Counties And as every Grand Jury-man who knows any thing Presentable and doth not Present it doth violate his Oath and Duty to his Country so doth every Member of Parliament who knoweth any thing necessary to be considered there and doth not honestly acquaint the House with it and earnestly move to have it considered no less violate his Trust and Duty of Fidelity both to his King and Country Was it certain that the whole House would oppose him an Honest and a Wise Man would notwithstanding be careful to discharge his Duty faithfully nay so much the more careful to do it to clear himself that he might not be guilty so much as by Silence of any defect in Duty to his Prince or to his Country And was this weighty Duty well considered as it deserves we should have less Scuffling to get into the House and more honest and honorable Behaviour there than we too often have had But that which for many Ages hath been the Root of Remedy for all our Maladies hath in this been so corrupted that it hath most of all needed Remedy and yet hath most obstinately resisted it But of all I have most admired at those whom I took to be the best Men of Sobriety Religion Conscience Fidelity to their Prince and Affection to their Country to see such frighted nay even laughed and shamed out of all these I wish such may receive this Admonion and better consider their Duty in time and do works meet for Repentance that is give Glory to God by so much greater Acts of Fidelity by how much they have at any time failed therein For otherwise they will be called to a strict Account wherein their little Prudentials will little avail them And for this purpose to such as desire to discharge their Conscience well I shall recommend the Account of the Good Steward in Sir Mat. Hale as a good Pattern how to treat it But in the mean time there is another Account that such Publick Trustees are to be imminded of and that is an Account of their Actions if ill or not faithful according to the Trust reposed in them which the Commons of England who intrust them or any one of them may call any of them to The meanest Commoner in England may maintain a Suit against the King himself if he have just Cause and the ordinary Judges ought to give Judgment for him and do him Right He may likewise complain in Parliament if he have Cause proper for that of any Grievance by the King or his Ministers or of any Misdemeanor by any Member or Members of Parliament or if it be the Speaker himself And what one may do more may do the Marriners may do it the Merchants may do it the Judges Serjeants and other Lawyers may do it the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of London and the other Cities may do it the Counties may do it and all may do it there is no Limitation of the Numbers but only of those who present the Petition and that only by a late Act of Parliament It is an Ancient and a Fundamental Right of the Commons of England and whoever should dare to speak against it as some base Abhorrors did some Years since though it were in Parliament ought to be questioned for it as a Betrayer of the Rights of his Country For though Freedom of Debate be a necessary Privilege of Parliament yet are there certain Bounds to it that may not be transgressed Nor is the Power of the House of Commons or of the whole Parliament so boundless or unlimited as some may imagine This as it is an Ancient and a Fudamental Right so is it a Right as needful to be understood and put in Practice now as ever This if any thing that I can see under God must save both King and Kingdom For the Lords I can say nothing to them But for the Representatives of the Commons I find many of them so affraid of Great Men if not otherwise corrupted that they avoid the Motion of a Petition against their Speaker or a Lord-Commissioner of the Great Seal though for the Honor of the Royal Authority and the Execution of the Laws the Care of which is their special Duty nay for the Honor of their own House and seek Evasions as from some dangerous Matter So that I see not whence we can expect Effectual Remedy for the Mischiefs and Dangers so much complained of but next under God from the Virtue of their Majesties and the Great Body of the People comprehending I hope

of Unfaithfulness before God to whom he must account for his Actions toward Men. And of this Unfaithfulness I doubt there are but few who can acquit themselves before God or Men either while so many things are so much complain'd of elsewhere and even by Members themselves and yet so little thereof is examined or complain'd of in the House I will mention but two Instances of it in particular in which whoever can clear himself to have honestly discharged his Duty may with the more Confidence and better Conscience question me for what I write if he see Cause and I shall as confidently submit to his Sentence The first I have mentioned before a great Misdemeanon of two Magistrates Great Officers and Members of the House contrary to the Duty of Magistrates to a special Duty of the House to a known express Command of her Majesty and that in discharge of her Duty by the Laws both of God and of the Land and this done not in the Absence of his Majesty beyond Sea but as it were in his Presence and the Parliament sitting and so notorious that it was done in the presence of many other considerable Persons and no less than Seven Reverend Prelates who came on purpose to hear the Cause being of great Consequence and concerning the most necessary Reformation of the abominable Corruption of the Manners of the People And t●h being so who could acquit himself of Unfaithfulness by his Silence and Neglect of such a Cause as this if no Man out of the House had taken notice of it But that a Petition for such a Cause as this after Copies thereof delivered to many of the Members and the Contents thereof known to most being offered to the House and put to the Vote to be received or not it should be carried in the Negative how can this be answered to God to their Majesties and to the Commons of England and what can such Members as believe a Divine Providence and have deserted their Duty in such a Case expect but some severe Judgment upon themselves and the Nation if some effectual Course proportionable to the Offence be not taken in time to prevent it The other is this That Management alone though incertain whether through Corruption Inability or Negligence and reasonable Suspition being proper and sufficient Causes of Complaint against Persons employed in great Offices of Trust wherein the Publick Service is principally to be regarded not the Honour or private Advantage of any particular Person our Affairs have been so unhappily managed for three Years together and yet there have been no more Complaints in the House or care taken to have Matters of so great Concern for the Honour of the Government and Benefit or even Safety of the Nation enquired into Is nothing to be regarded but Mony Is it not of much greater Concernment and even for the saving of our Mony at last to have Persons employed in other Places besides the Treasury who are unquestionably Faithful Able and Active And what can this Neglect be imputed to but a strange degenerate Fear of Men whatever Prudentials are pretended notwithstanding the advantage of the Laws and a good Cause to support and encourage the faithful discharge of Duty Indeed so epidemical is this Disease now become among our Gentry that the Honest Performance of Duty of Fidelity to God to one's King and Country seems to many no other than Heat Indiscretion and Madness as to me that Motto Pestis Patriae Pigrities seems never to have been more plainly verified then now in this Nation And when I consider the Causes of it reflecting upon the gross and impudent Impiety Prophaneness and Debauchery of the one part and the want of Christian Courage and true Magnanimity in the rest to check it either in Common Conversation or by Authority in Parliament I cannot but think it a Special Judgment of God upon the whole Nation That they should be deprived of Courage in things necessary for themselves who have shewed so little for the Honor and Service of God notwithstanding the Advantage of the Laws to back them in the one Case as well as in the other Nor do I believe that either Prince or People can prosper until their Radical Fault be amended but rather that vile Abuse even in and to the Parliament it self will certainly produce some severe Judgment upon both if connived at and suffered to pass without due Correction If Persons Unfaithful and of Skill be imployed with Persons of undoubted Fidelity but Unskilful this gives a notable Advantage to the one sort to betray all with the more Security under the cover of the others And whether this be not so in some Places of great Trust and Moment I leave to them to enquire to whom it most properly belongs having mentioned something to this purpose elsewhere I shall therefore only take notice of some Persons of undoubted Fidelity and Ability who seem to be purposely kept out Some Noblemen thus qualified we see are out while others not equally qualified in both respects are imployed But that I also leave to the Consideration of others Captain Dorrel is a Person well known to be thus qualified 〈◊〉 he gave very eminent Demonstrations of it in that Engagement with the French wherein few did the like yet found he no better Reward or Encouragement than to be offered a Third Rate Ship the last Summer instead of a First Rate which he commanded before and being thus put off hath engag'd in a Voyage to the East-Indies to the no lest Dishonor of our Management than Disservice to Their Majesties and the Nation Captain Breholt had so sign●●'d his Courage and Conduct in two Engagements the one with an Algerine and the other with a Dutch Man of War which I have seen certify 〈◊〉 the hands of three Members of Parliament and are though imperfectly mention'd in the Gazets that K. Charles II. gave him a Gold Chain and Medal for it and tho he offer'd his Service by Petition to this King which was referr'd to the Admiralty yet could he obtain no Answer for above a Twelve Month after and then was told there was no Vacancy and at last was ask'd if he would accept of a Fireship But it would be too long to name all the Worthy Persons that 〈◊〉 even offered their Service in the Fleet besides more 〈…〉 ready to accept it 〈…〉 generous withstanding the Arbitrary Practices of the late Reigns it is believed saved the Lives of some of the Lords to the great hazard of his own and almost ruine of his Family and Estate yet can be not obtain any suitable Employment so much as in the other 〈◊〉 the West Indies Laurance Braddon for his generous undertaking to detest a most barbarous Murder as it is believ'd suffered Imprisonment during the ●ate Reigns and is suffer'd to want Necessaries in this and can get no Imployment And to conclude such is the Condition of Mr. Richad Bevat who had taken great pains to detect the Unfaithfulness ●●ne who is now in Custody for other Acts of Unfaithfulness 〈◊〉 and to detect 〈◊〉 dangerous Practices here and the like now at Jersey These 〈…〉 Pity moved me to mention now to whom many others might he ●●led no mean Instances of what sort of Persons are most kept or cast out of Employment FINIS