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cause_n	good_a	reason_n	see_v	3,316	5	3.1434	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37299	A word without doors concerning the bill for sucession	J. D.	1679 (1679)	Wing D49; ESTC R204396	8,789	4

A Word without Doors Concerning the BILL for SUCCESSION SIR I AM very sensible of the great Honour you were pleased to do me in your last which I received immediately after our late unhappy Dissolution but could have wished you would have laid your Commands on some more able Person to have given you Satisfaction in the matter you there propose relating to the Duke who you seem to insinuate was like if the Parliament had continued to have received hard measure I must Ingenuously confess to you I was not long since perfectly of your Opinion and thought it the highest Injustice imaginable for any Prince to be debar'd of his Native Right of Succession upon any pretence whatsoever But upon a more mature deliberation and enquiry I found my Error proceeded principally from the false Notions I had took up of Government it self and from my Ignorance of the practises of all Communities of Men in all Ages whenever self-preservation and necessity of their Affairs Obliged them to Declare their Opinion in Cases of the like Nature To the knowledge of all which the following Accident I shall Relate to you did very much contribute My Occasions obliging me one day to attend the coming of a Friend in a Coffee-house near Charing-Cross there happened to sit at the same Table with me two Ingenious Gentlemen who according to the frankness of Conversation now used in the Town began a Discourse on the same Subject you desire to be more particularly informed in and having Extolled the late House of Commons as the best number of Men that had ever sate within those Walls and that no House had ever more vigorously maintained and asserted English Liberty and Protestant Religion than they had done as far as the Nature of the things that came before them and the Circumstances of time would admit to all which I very readily and heartily assented they then added That the great Wisdom and Zeal of that House had appeared in nothing more than in Ordering a Bill to be brought in for debarring the Duke of Y. from Inheriting the Crown A Law they affirmed to be the most just and reasonable in the World and the only proper Remedy to Establish this Nation on a true and solid Interest both in Relation to the present and future times To which I could not but Reply That I begged their Pardon if I differed from them in Opinion and did believe that how honestly soever the House of Commons might intend in that matter yet that the point of Succession was so Sacred a thing and of so high a Nature that it was not Subjected to their Cognizance That Monarchy was of Divine Right That Princes Succeeded by Nature and Generation only and not by Authority Admission or Approbation of the People and consequently that neither the Merit or Demerit of their Persons nor the different influences from thence upon the People were to be respected or had in consideration but the Common-wealth ought to Obey and submit to the next Heir without any further Inquisition and if he proved a Worthy Vertuous and Just Prince it was a great Happiness if Unjust Barbarous and Tyrannical there was no other Remedy but Prayer Patience and an intire Submission to so difficult a Dispensation of Gods Providence I had no sooner ended my Discourse but one of the Gentlemen that was the most serious in the Company seeing me a Young Man gravely Replyed That he could not but be extreamly concerned to hear that such pernicious Notions against all Lawful Government had been Taught in the World That he believed they were in me purely the effects of an University-Education and that it had been my misfortune to have had a very high Church-man for my Tutor who had endeavoured as it was their constant practise to all Young Gentlemen under their Care to Debauch me with such Principles as would enslave my Mind to their Hierarchy and the Monarchical part of the Government without any Regard at all to the Aristocratical and Popular and that fat Parsonages Prebendships Deanaries and Episcopal Sees were the certain and constant Rewards of such Services That the place we were in was a little to Publick for Discourses of this Nature but if I would accept of a Bottle of Wine at the next Tavern he would undertake to give me juster measures adding it was pity so hopeful a Gentleman should be tainted with bad Principles My Friend coming in at the same time proved to be one of their particular Acquaintance and both he and I readily complied with so Generous a motion We had no sooner drank a Glass round but the Old Gentleman was pleased to renew his Discourse and said It was undoubtedly true that the inclination of Mankind to Live in Company from whence come Towns Cities and Common-wealths did proceed of Nature and consequently of God the Author of Nature So likewise Government and the Jurisdiction of Magistrates in general which does necessarily flow from the living together in Society is also of Nature and Ordained by God for the common good of Mankind but that the particular species and forms of this or that Government in this or that manner To have many few or one Governour or that they should have this or that Authority more or less for a longer or a shorter time or whether ordinarily by Succession or by Election All these things he said are Ordained and Diversified by the particular positive Laws of every Countrey and are not Establish'd either by Law Natural or Divine but left by God unto every Nation and Countrey to pitch upon what Form of Government they shall think most proper to promote the common good of the whole and best adapted to the Natures Constitutions and other Circumstances of the People which accordingly for the same Reasons may be altered or amended in any of its parts by the mutual Consent of the Governours and Governed whenever they shall see Reasonable cause so to do all which appears plainly both from the diversity of Governments extant in the World and by the same Nations living sometimes under one sort of Government and sometimes under another So we see God himself permitted his peculiar People the Jews to live under divers Forms of Government as first under Patriarchs then under Captains then under Judges then under High-Priests next under Kings and then under Captains and High-Priests again until they were conquered by the Romans who themselves also first lived under Kings and then Consuls whose authority they afterwards limited by a Senate by adding Tribunes of the People and in extraordinary emergencies of the Commonwealth they were governed by Dictators and last of all by Emperors So that it 's plain no Magistrate has his particular Government or an Interest of succession in it by any Institution of Nature but only by the particular Constitution of the Commonwealth within it self And as the kinds of Government are different so also are the measures of Power and Authority in the