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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	good_a	reason_n	think_v	2,515	5	3.9487	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46377	A just and modest vindication of His Royal Highness the Duke of York in observations upon a late revived pamphlet, intituled, A word without doors, wherein the reasons and arguments of that author, are considered and examined.		1680 (1680)	Wing J1222; ESTC R16770	11,050	16

A Just and Modest VINDICATION OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE Duke of YORK In Observations upon a late Revived Pamphlet Intituled A WORD WITHOUT DOORS WHEREIN The Reasons and Arguments of that AUTHOR are Considered and Examined LONDON Printed for Thomas Benskin in Green's Rents near Fleetbridge M. DC LXXX Observations upon a Pamphlet Intituled A Word without Doors c. IT is now about a Year since I hapned to meet with a Pamphlet called A Word without Doors And because I found it very much commended I read it over but could not discover any thing of so great worth as the World's praises gave me cause to expect Those strong Conclusions those invincible Arguments which the World cried it up for I confess I could not find out However I did not wonder that most Men esteemed it it is no new thing to Man to take every little Image or appearance of an Argument which tends to prove that which he desires for unanswerable Conclusions Now the greater part of this Nation though perhaps not the wiser and I think not at all the honester earnestly desire the Exclusion of his ROYAL HIGHNESS and therefore cannot but approve any thing that seems to open them a way to it by removing not only the difficulty but the seeming injustice of the action This Pamphlet having read I threw by where it still had laid if the restless temper of evil-minded Men had not revived it to the World against the coming of the Parliament as if they meant thereby to recommend to this House of Commons the undertaking of that very thing which was perhaps the great if not the Onely Cause of the Dissolution of the other By this sober Men will consider whether the Author and his Abettors do so much desire a Parliament as they pretend who are so diligent to cast I may say a stumbling Block in their way by thrusting them as it were upon a Business which we have great reason to believe they shall not only not compass but by the attempting it may be shorten their Sessions and so disappoint themselves and the people of so many good and glorious things they may do for the benefit and satisfaction of all honest Men 't was for this reason that I thought it might not be amiss to shew the World That there are no other directions in that adored Pamphlet that do either justifie the Bill for Succession or facilitate the passing of it than there was in every Mans understanding before Not to speak any thing of the Author for I intend not Reflections I do believe him a Member of the late House of Commons For the Matter of his Book a Man may consider it under these three Heads First Some Positions or Principles on which he builds and from which he derives the very foundation and being of Civil Government Secondly The justness and force of his Arguments to prove his main end viz. The Lawfulness of Disinheriting a Prince if the Good of the People require it Lastly I shall observe the Examples he alledges how far they make for his purpose And now first for his Principles of the Original and Continuance of Government pag. 3. he says That the inclination of mankind to live in company did proceed of nature and so of God the Author of nature and that the jurisdiction of Magistrates in general is also of God and ordained by him for the common good of mankind But then he adds That the particular Forms of Government in this or that manner to have many few or one Governor or that they should have this or that Authority more or less for a longer or shorter time or whether ordinarily by Succession or by Election all these are ordained and diversified by the particular positive Laws of every Countrey and are not establisht by either Law natural or divine but left by God to every Nation and Countrey to pitch upon what Form of Government they shall think most proper to promote the Common Good of the whole best adapted to the natures constitution 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 Governors and governed whenever they shall see reasonable cause so to do Thus far our Author And now what may we conclude from this That which no Man did ever deny that Government and Authority is of God but the several particular Forms in the several Nations and Countries of the Earth are of Men and therefore alterable by them as he says well By the consent of the Governors and governed Was there ever any thing more reasonable than this or was this ever questioned by any man Surely we all know that the KING with His Two Houses may direct the Succession of the Crown but their consents must then be had that of the Governor as well as of the governed that is the consent of the KING as well as that of His People in Parliament so that all his matter is no more than this That the Bill for Excluding His ROYAL HIGHNESS is not in itself unlawful because by possibility it may become otherwise viz. by gaining the Royal Assent which we agree and wish men would rest satisfied till that Assent be gained to which it is most reasonable we should all submit And indeed when the KING by Act of Parliament shall have declared another Successor I shall as readily and willingly obey Him then as till then I think my self obliged in Duty and Conscience to adhere to the Right Heir And what likelihood there is of gaining the Royal Assent to such a Bill after such repeated Declarations such large and Royal Proffers from His MAJESTY as never yet were made by any King to His Parliament provided always that they disturb not the Succession and Descent of the Crown in the Right Line or what reason men can have to imagine that they may get more as some men upon base and ignoble ends have imagined is not only not understood by me but I do think the grounds of their hopes as unreasonable as they are unkind but not to mention the strange advantages some men do conceive from the prevailing present necessity of His MAJESTIES Affairs a matter not fit for our handling return we to our Author As I allow him the particular Forms of Government to be of men by God's permission and therefore alterable by them whensoever they shall agree so to do So I trust it will be granted that those particular Forms made for the general good pursuant to the principles of man's nature and God's intention become so sacred that they are not to be touched or invaded by any part of a people under a Government be it what it will Now the particular Government of England is a successive and hereditary Monarchy directed and maintained by most excellent Laws which to alter or destroy in any part of it by any number of men were by the Laws of the