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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46175	An impartial survey of such as are not, and such as are, fitly qualified for candidates for the approaching Parliament humbly offered to all that truly love their King and country / by a hearty well-wisher to the prosperity of both.	Hearty well-wisher to the prosperity of both.	1680 (1680)	Wing I89; ESTC R326	4,649	4

in them and so far are some of them from keeping it as a day of Humiliation that they make it a day of Feasting these are bad signs my Masters Some of the mis-led Flock of Presbyterians make loud boasts of the Loyalty of their Omnipotent Doctors Love and Baxter and how the first dyed a Martyr for the sake and cause of the King but to rectifie that mistake see his Narrative where he prays that God would redeem the King from the Iniquity of his Fathers House Again It is earnestly wished that our Kings heart may be tender and be truly humble before the Lord for the sins of his Fathers House And see his speech upon the Scaffold where he says I did it is true oppose in my Place and Calling the Forces of the late King and were he alive again and should I live longer the Cause being as then it was I should oppose him longer And in his Petition he doth protest in the presence of God the searcher of all hearts that he knoweth no Plot or Design against the present Government the Rump nor is he privy in the least to any preparations for or intendments towards any Intestine Insurrections or Foreign Invasions or to any Correspondence now held with any in or of the Scottish Nation or any other whatsoever And again He promiseth never to Plot Contrive or design any thing to the hurt of this present Government Rump and that he is sorrowful for his high Crimes and Offences against the Parliament in his late and great miscarriages and desires them to pass by these sundry and great Offences And concludes thus That I shall devote the remainder of my days to the Glory of God and good of his people the peace and safety of this Common-Wealth against all the Malignant Enemies and Opposers thereof By this we may see his Loyal Conceptions and Indeavours for the Kings Restauration and that St. Baxter comes not a jot short of him see his Preface to his Holy Common-Wealth where he says That if the War was to begin again he would take the Parliaments part If I should do otherwise I should be guilty of Treason or Disloyalty against the Soveraign Power of the Land for I knew not how to resist or disobey them without violation of the Command of God Rom. xiii Let every soul be subject to the Higher Power and without incurring the danger of the Condemnation there threatned to Resisters Now if these grave prudent modest sober sincere and unexampled Patterns of Loyalty go thus far we may cease to wonder when we hear others of that Fraternity with greater boldness and in plain terms justifie the late Rebellion and we all know the event of that was of a Glorious King as they canted it to gull the people to make a Royal Martyr Nor is it any wonder that their Allegiance should have so feeble a tie upon them the word of God being obligatory with them no further than it conduceth to their design For tell them God Almighty by the mouth of his Holy Prophet Samuel says Rebellion is like the sin of Witchcraft and the reiterated admonition of the Apostles Fear God honour the King Where the word of a King is there is power and who shall say what doest thou And happy is the man that feareth the Lord and the King Prov. xxiv 21. A divine sentence is in the lips of the King his mouth transgresseth not in Judgment Prov. xiv 10. This their Sophisters tell us is not to be understood in the extensive Latitude of the Word but must admit of Construction though we are Commanded by the Word of God in direct terms not to add to or diminish ought from the Scripture And not unlike this was their Exposition on that Clause in the Covenant which they so solemnly swore to adhere to to defend the Kings Person which they expounded to be the Kingdom This is true Jesuit all over yet that the wicked Rump Parliament nor their Complices were Papists nor favourers of Papists is most certain for besides their incessant Exclamation against them there were no sort of people throughout the Usurpation that lay under those heavy pressures that they did as frequent Imprisonments Sequestrations Fines and Decimations and this will be sayed to their Eternal Honour and to the unparalel'd reproach of those that call'd themselves Protestants and pass for such now had wickedly Conspired to shed their Sovereigns blood after that fatal defeat at Worcester the Giffords and Pendrels Papists and Huddleson a Popish Priest were the chief Instruments under God of his Miraculous Deliverance It is not meant by this to extenuate the mischievous practices of the Papists for their Putney-Consult and the product of that a Petition to Cromwel to abjure the Royal Family for a Toleration will proclaim their monstrous ingratitude to all Posterity but to shew that some of that King-Killing and detestable Race of mankind were better principl'd than such reputed Protestants But I will cease to enumerate the Slights Cheats and Forgeries which are well enough known if but half so well considered of an implacable Faction who would if possible once more turn all into Confusion as their wishing nay almost Praying in Publick for the success of the Rebels in Scotland do Witness But this is lost Labour I well know for their Faces are as impenetrable as the Walls of Ostend and they will no more recoil at the sight of ten thousand Apparitions of their horrid Impieties than the Mountain would remove at Mahomets call but to the last like the Jesuits at Tiburn aver themselves as innocent as the Child unborn These things should not now have been remembred it being a main Principle in the Church of England to forgive our Enemies and forget Injuries and Consonant to the Great and Pious Example of our most Gratious King who has Converted the Act of Indempnity into one of Oblivion did not they themselves with their Scurrilous and Seditious Libels hourly awake us out of our resolv'd silence I will conclude with these Divine Admonitions These filthy dreamers defile the flesh despise dominion and speak evil of dignities Jude 8. Repent ye for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Matth. iii. 2. Behold the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgment upon them all Jude 14 15. My son fear thou the Lord and the King and meddle not with them that are given to change Prov. xxiv 21. FINIS