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Truth and loyalty vindicated from the reproches [sic] and clamours of Mr. Edward Bagshaw together with a further discovery of the libeller himself, and his seditious confederates / by Roger L'Estrange.
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L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
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The King of England no Monarch I. THe real Sovereignty here amongst us was in King Lords and Commons Pag. 72. The King has the Militia if the People please II. The Law that saith the King shall have the Militia supposeth it to be against Enemies and not against the Common-wealth nor them that have part of the Sovereignty with him To resist him here is not to resist Power but Usurpation and private will in such a case the Parliament is no more to be resisted then He. Thes. 363. III. If the King raise Warr against such a Parliament upon their Declaration of the Dangers of the Common-wealth The People judges of the King the People are to take it as raised against the Common-wealth Thes. 358. And may depose or resist him at pleasure IV. And in that Case saith he the King may not only be resisted but ceaseth to be a King and entreth into a State of Warr with the People Thes. 368. Of These Blasphemous and Seditious Maxims though Charg'd upon Mr. Baxter by the Bishop of Worcester the Libeller takes no notice otherwise then by a Tacit Allowance of them his Agreement with Mr. Baxter in These Particulars being sufficiently intimated in his express Acknowledgment wherein he dissents Nor in Summe are they any other then the pure result of his own Opinions only Digested into a more Popular and Intelligible Methode What Judgements may not That Nation expect from Divine vengeance where This Spirit of Treachery and Impâ—sture reigns in the Pulpit Or if This be Lâ—yalty what is it which the Law calls Treason If Mr. Bagsâ—aw had been very wise he would have forborn the Justification of so great a Guilt as under his own Hand appears against him and indeed his fate is hard that his Testimony which goes for nothing against any mâ—n else should yet stand good against himseâ—f He had been wiser yet if he had totally declined the Controversie and spent Those Hours in Gratitude and Repentance which he has rather chosen to Employ in Oâ—stinacy and further Disobedience But to cast himself at once out of all Terms both of Christianity and Humanity neither to Regard his Duty to God his Neighâ—our or Himself To lash out beyond all bounds of Piety Loyalty Modesty Truth and Prudence even to the forfeiture of his own safety This is a Prodigious heap of Miscarriages and yet no more then the Just Measure of his Confidence Fâ—lly and Wickedness To dip into the Immoralities of his Life were to stir a Puddle and in Truth rather to Gratifie my Revenge then my Duty so that I shall rather adhaere to my Purpose of Discovering a Publique Enemy then exercise the Sting of a Private Passion Those Pamphlets of his which in this Discourse I have made use of against him are Thus Dated De Mon. Aâ—s 1659. The Great Question 1660. After the Act of Indempnity Pars 2 a. of the Great Quest. Sept. 10. 1661. Pars 3 a. Of Heresies Jan. 10. 1661. Brief Treatise c. Feb. 15. 1661. Two Liâ—els against the Bishop of Worcester Jan. 21. Feb. 26. 1661 2 Signs of the Times Jan. 28. 1661 â— Letter to The Lord Chancellour May 10. 1662. Only the First of These can in the very poynt of Time pretend to any favour from the Act of Pardon but That will not much avail Mr. Bagshaw who by Justifying Now what he Did Then does it over again and stands accomptable for the same Fault upon another Score But methinks the Case is not here whether This Pamphâ—et but whether or no the very Authour of it be Pardon'd and This Question if any there be arises from the very Letter both of his Majesties Declaration from Breda and of the Act it self Decl. from Breda His Majesty in his Declaration from Breda Grants a Free and General Pardon to all that shall lay hold upon that Grace and Favour and by any Publique Act Declare their doing so and Return to the Loyalty and Obedience of Good Subiects Exceptis Excipiendis Which Loyalty is to be Manifested by not Persevering in Guilt for the Future and by not Opposâ—ng the quiet and happiness of their Country in the Restoration both of King Peers and People to their Just Antient and Fundamental Rights Here 's the Promise and Condition of the Pardon Persuant to which Promise and Correspondent to which Condition the following Pardon is said expresly to be Enacted i. e. In Performance of his Royal and Gracious Word signified by His Letters to the several Houses of Parliament now Assembled Act of Pardon and His Declarations in that behalf Published Now the Qâ—estion is first Whether Those that Persevere in their Guilt and oppose the Restoration of the King to any of his Just Antient and Fundamental Rights are not by This Limiting Condition excepted from Pardon And the next Question is Whether His Majesties Supreme Authority in Causes Ecclesiastical be not One of His Just Antient and Fundamental Rights If so Whoever Persists to oppose the Prerogative Royal in This Particular has no Right or Title to the Intent or Benefit of the Act of Indempnity The Extent of his Majesties Power as to the matter in Question may be seen in King James his Ratification of The Canons and Constitutions Ecclesiastical in 1603. Annexed to the Book of Canons We do not only by our Prerogative Royal and Supreme Authority in causes Ecclesiastical ratifie confirm and establish by These our Letters Patents the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions and all and every thing in Them contained as aforesaid but do likewise propound Publish and straightly enjoyn and Command by our Authority and by These our Letters Patents the same to be diligently observed executed and equally kept by all our loving Subjects of This our Kingdom c. Straightly Charging and Commanding all Arch-Bishops Bishops and all other that exercise any Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction within This Realm every man in his place to see and procure so much as in them lieth all and every of the said Canons Orders Ordinances and Constitutions to be in all Poynts duly observed not sparing to execute the Penalties in them severally mentioned upon any that shall wittingly or wilfully break or neglect to observe the same as they Tender the Honour of God the Peace of the Church Tranquillity of the Kingdom and their Duties and Services to Us their KING and Soveraign If the King's Authority in Church-Matters reaches Thus far And if His such Authority be a Just Antient and Fundamental Right And finally if a perseverance in Guilt and the Opposal of the Restoration of His Majesty to His Just Antient and Fundamental Rights be a Delinquency which is in Terminis Excepted And that the express Condition be a Return to the Loyalty and Obedience of Good Subjects In what a Case is Mr. Bagshaw who has Constantly and Openly defi'd the very Letter Intent and Equity of that Gratious and Incomparable Act of Mercy As is already
Truth and Loyalty VINDICATED From the Reproches and Clamours OF Mr. EDWARD BAGSHAW TOGETHER WITH A Further Discovery of the LIBELLER Himself and his Seditious Confederates By ROGER L'ESTRANGE Ex Ore Tuo LONDON Printed for H. Brome and A. Seile and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivy-lane and over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet June the 7 th 1662. TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE LORDS OF HIS MAJESTIES Most Honorable Privy-Counsel My LORDS IF in Duty to his Majesty I become Troublesome to your Lordships I hope you will vouchsafe to Pardon so honest an Importunity Especially considering the high Necessity of the Office as to the Publique and the little Benefit he expects to reap by it that Undertakes it It is in Truth My Lords grown hazzardous to Assert the Cause of the Late King or the Authority of This against the open and profess'd Adversaries of Both And they Proceed as if the Act of Oblivion had only Bound the Hands of his Majesties Friends and left his Enemies Free Which would not be were but your Lordships duly Enform'd in the Matter and That you may be so is the Scope and Service I pretend to in This most humble Dedication I Think My Lords it may be made appear upon a Modest Calculation that not so few as Two-Hundred-Thousand Seditious Copies have been Printed since the blessed Return of his Sacred Majesty which being Exposed with Freedome and Impunity cannot fail to be Bought up with Greediness To These may be added divers Millions of the Old Stock which are Contriv'd and Penn'd with Accurate Care and Cunning to Catch All Humours What This Glut of Poysonous Libels may Produce is submitted with Just Reverence to your Lordships Wisdom for I presume not to make a Judgement but barely to Offer an Information Wherein as the fairest Evidence of my Respect and Duty I shall be as short and plain as possibly the Case will bear The late War is in Terms Justified against the Late King Pag. 57. and His Majesty Charg'd as an Overthrower of Religion Parliaments Laws and Liberties Several Counterfeit Prodigies Apply'd Pag. 58. as Portents of Revolts Persecutions Casting off Kings And in fine the Drift of the whole Book tends Chiefly to Predict the Dissolution of the English Monarchy and Episcopacy The Totall Extirpation of Bishops under the Title of Sons of Belial is Recommended Pag. 59. in Mr. Manton his Publication of Smectymnuus The King 's Supreme Authority in Matters Ecclesiastical is absolutely disclaym'd Pag. 60. and the People are Encouraged to Oppose the Imposers of Ceremonies as Adversaries of the Truth The Power of the Two Houses is Asserted in Coordination with the King Pag. 62. Harrison Carew Ibid. c. are call'd the Servants of Christ Their Cause Christ's Cause and the Murther of the late King is reported as the most Noble Pag. 63. and High Act of Justice that our Story can Parallel Iâ—id The King's Judges and Counsell together with the Jury that Sate upon John James are Charg'd with thirsting after His Blood Iâ—id His Majesty is Revil'd and Menaced for his Proclamation against Conventicles For Opposing These Insolencies and Defending the King's Rights His Cause and Government without ever receiving any Pretence to a Reply I have been Twice Libell'd by Mr. Edward Bagshaw as Cromwels Spy Pag. 34. and a Person Infamous both for Condition and Morality My Lords I dare not Beg but I do secretly Wish that he may be call'd to make it Good which I the rather do because the Latter of the Two was Tender'd to your Lordships as My Character But Principally for the Consequence For if it comes to That once That in a time of Peace a Man cannot be Loyall but at the Hazzard of his Life and Honour and that it becomes more Safe and Beneficial to be Guilty then to be Innocent I do mâ—st Dutyfully remit the Rest to your Lordships Humbly Beseeching You My Lords to receive This further Advertisement concerning Mr. Bagshaw He denies the King's Supremacy Pag. 11. and Animates the Subject against it Affirming That God has not Committed unto the Magistrate but to his Son the Government of His Church even in the Outward Polity That the Command renders a Thing in it self Innocent utterly Unlawful He makes the King an Usurper An Idolater Pag. 12. An Impious Pretender Pag. 14. He calls the Praelation of Bishops an undue and Anti-Christian Dignity He Inferrs His Majesty either no King Pag. 15. or no Christian. He is Peremptory Pag. 16. That the King is Singulis Minor and that the People may Depose him Fixum Ratumque habeatur Pag. 17. Populi Semper esse debere Supremam Majestatem Having exposed These Particulars with several of the Authours and Publishers of them Referring to the Pages of the Ensuing Discourse I shall leave before your Lordships Feet This Humble Testimony of my Desires to serve the King Wherein if I have done Amisse I Submit if Otherwise I have done but my Duty Which obliges me to Live and Dy with an Unspotted and Inviolable Faith toward his Sacred Majesty keeping my self also within Those Terms of Modesty and Veneration which may become My LORDS Your Lordships Most Obedient Servant Roger L'Estrange The Praeface I Have no Ambition to get my self a Name by a Dispute with Mr. Bagshaw and in effect This way of Wrangling is but a putting of it to the Question Which is the finer Fool the Plaintiff or the Defendent Yet in regard that in This Case the Publique and my Particular appear so Complicated that as I Suffer for That so That likewise is Wounded through Mee for 't is the King is Strook at in his Loyal Subjects and They are only Persecuted as the Bar betwixt Auâ—hority and Rebellion I hold it but a Modest and Discreet Justice not to divide in the Defence what Faction and Malice have united in the Scandal This being Resolv'd upon The Course I mean to take with Bagshaw's late Rhetorical Libell obtruded upon the World in form of a Letter to my Lord Chancellour is to Report him Word for Word and then to Examine First his Pretended Loyalty and after That his Bold and Scurrilous Defamations Pag. 10 11 12 16 17. For want of Softer Words I must make use of Schism Sedition Treason c. All which are prov'd against him under his own Hand Touching the Libellous part I leave it so clear that I defie his greatest Adorers to be my Judges The Greatness of His mind we must Imagine would never have stoop'd to so low an Ebbe of Baseness Pag. 46. as to have brought a Fiddle under his Cloke for a Recommendation to Oliver as he sayes L'Estrange did See now This Miserable Snake licking the very Dust at the Feet of Bradshaw Pag. 53. The Measure of his Conduct and Veracity may be taken from his Frequent and Ill-Menag'd Contradictions For the Purity of