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cause_n	court_n	great_a	king_n	2,817	5	3.7634	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51081	A modest account of the present posture of affairs in England vvith particular reference to the Earl of Shaftsbury's case, and a vindication of him from two pretended letters of a noble peer / by a person of quality.	Person of quality.	1682 (1682)	Wing M2349; ESTC R10406	8,134	18

away the Gueses in FRANCE Cut Our throats and condemn us after since we will not quietly be condemned first and hanged after I am sure this is the next step can reasonably be expected from Men of your Conscience and from the Principles and Interest you are carrying on Neither let any one blame me for minding you of it for I believe it hath been long in your mind and often in your thoughts and therefore I thought it more necessary to warn others of what you are most likely to do And since you talk so much of Loyalty and Love to Your Prince I pray God preserve the KING and keep him out of your and all Papists bloody Hands I beg to know to what purpose your Lordship recites That my Lord Shaftsbury was Lord Chancellor do you quarrel at any of His Decrees or Actions then or wherein did he not execute that Office as a Great and Good Man should and what doth your Lordship mean by the certain strict Test for the Discovery of Popery opposed by that Lord in Parliament the Test that was passed against Popery which every Officer is obliged to take is notoriously known was principally promoted by Him If your Lordship mean the other Bill of the Test which He opposed 't is the same with what Somebody hath passed lately Somewhere and is a Great Step to the Destruction of the Protestant Religion The Truth is there are so many of these downright Popish Touches in your Paper That I sometimes doubt whether it be Your Lordships or no since You are but a young Convert and yet they say young Proselytes are the fiercest But this Paper must come from a PAPIST or Voted Enemy to the King and Kingdom since you tell us that you would have the Days of DISSOLVING the Two last Parliaments kept Festival Anniversarily in Commemoration of your Deliverance from those Great and Apparent Dangers wherewith you were encompassed whilst they were in SESSION None but such Fellows and their Faction being then in Danger But I find your Lordship extream angry at the Word FACTION since you will please to have it that your Worthy ABHORRERS and ADDRESSORS are not a FACTION but the Total of the Kings Subjects who Conscientiously respect their own Duty and the General Welfare pray my Lord let us examine this Excellent Position of your Lordships setting aside your Heat and Railing Does your Lordship think that the choice of SHERIFFS the great care in returning select Men for Grand Juries The Arts that were us'd to draw many of them into these Abhorrences are not well known to All the Nation We never doubt but you have choice of Gentlemen to make SHERIFFS fit for your TURN and they if they prove ill MEN may find Rogues to make Under-Sheriffs in every County Neither is it doubted that Seventeen or Eighteen Men may be found in most Counties for your Turn although in some and those great Counties too you could not find above Thirteen and in several other Counties you have failed absolutely and yet all this will not speak your PARTY The Hundred Part of the Nation Hath your Lordship found out another way to make a Distinction between the SENSE of the Nation and that of a Dangerous PARTY than that of the House of Commons Will you tell Me That a PARLIAMENT chosen against all the Opposition Industry Power and Money of the COURT is not the SENSE of Greatest Part of the NATION Will your Lordship affirm That this is a FACTION and your Lordship the PAPISTS the D. of Y. and his Creatures are the only Loyal Subjects to the King and Government And what fort of People these make up may be guess'd by what you prosess your self for A Government infinitely worse than that in Turkey wherein the Law shall be of no other Use if it may be as your Lordship would have it but as a Mask to the Princes worst Actions and Tyranny Our Religion Estates Lives and Liberties your Lordship would have to be Subjected to the Will of the Prince who being a Man is as capable and lyable to be extreamly Ill as any other tho blessed be God for our Good King besides what Law you allow to this King who is an Excellent and the Best of PRINCES as your King must be allowed to the next though He be the worst in Nature And yet You will find out a Way Your self to Name to the KING Judges Sheriffs and JURIES and so then all things shall certainly go as the Court and Great Men order 't is already so compleat in S where the Proverb is Show me the Man and I will tell you the Cause This is a Way that no Sober or honest Men were ever for in any Country The Zeal of your Lordship to preserve the Greatness of your Duke his Zeal to get a Crown and of the PAPISTS to introduce their Religion hath out-gone by many Degrees all that ever went before you I Acknowledg it the Kings Prerogative to CALL Parliaments but Edward the III. tells us He was sworn by his Coronation-Oath to provide Remedy in Parliament upon Great Emergencies And our Laws have been very careful to Fix the Frequency of them And 't is that only COURT that can keep all the rest useful to the King and People They are brave Spirits indeed and blest with a Torish Humility or rather stupid Folly if not wicked Villanous Designs that are unconcerned when a PARLIAMENT should be called and leave it to the PRINCE whether He please to have any or no without affording Him their Advice The LAW hath given us a Right nay 't is our chiefest Birth-right and without which we have nothing left us but are meer slaves to PARLIAMENTS within such a distance of Time The Prince hath the Prerogative of appointing the Day and Dissolving when the Business is done But the Prince some think is obliged that we have Parliaments within our Time and continued so as may be of effect to provide Remedies for the Emergent Evils His Prerogative of Appointing the Day we hope will not deprive us of our Right of having them in such a Time Neither will His Power to DISSOLVE them we hope Render them USELESS to Us. I am heartily sorry your Lordship is so ill instructed in the Protestant Religion That you ask what it is but you profess That Your self and your Fellow-Addressors and Abhorrers are zealous for the Religion by LAW Established in the Church of ENGLAND so then you do not know the Protestant Religion but Religion by LAW Established you are very well acquainted with What security will your Lordship give That when your Army is compleated and your Militia Abhorrers and Addressors Mustered That you will not tell Us The Religion Established by LAW in the Church of England is the Old Popish Religion setled by Magna Charta which is not Repealable by any future Act. For this Good Old Cause your Lordship and Friends hath nurst up the King of France to