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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59340	Remarks on Algernoon Sidney's paper, delivered to the sherriffs at his execution	Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.	1683 (1683)	Wing S2715; ESTC R12784	7,216	4

of Witchcraft Rebellion inchant her Proselites 'T is well he satisfies some part of our Astonishment by owning as he lived so he died a Votary to the good Old Cause And for the Credit of his 40 years Apprentisship to it he 's grown so great a Master in the Craft of it that I assure you he has shot at one Bolt a Blacker Aspersion against the Honor of the Son then all the united Tongues and accumulated Forgeries of so many Years Triumphant Rebellion had Impudence to raise against his Father But if it were true that the Ld. Howard had really Confest that he could not obtain a pardon for his Crimes but by committing more Why did not this Guiltless this Plotless Gentleman at his Tryal lay hold of so lucky an Occasion as the subpaening those People that heard him confess it to averr the Truth of such a Confession A Confession the Proof whereof would not only have been a Confutation of the Credit of his Accuser and consequently the saving of his own Life but likewise an unanswerable Confirmation of that Innocence which the whole party so indefatigably labour to uphold and which the dying L. Russell so boldly asserted though by equivocating even with Heaven it self on the very Brink of Eternity and adding at his last Gasp Hipocrisy to Treason a Crime as Capital at Gods Tribunal as the Other at Mans. Well but what signifies that This dying speech was calculated for the understanding of the Rabble and Reson or Truth is no part of the Fuell where the Crowd is to be inflamed Calumny sticks with them though never so forged and Innocence though but a meer sound is substantial in a True Protestant The very Foundation of this Gentleman 's Good Old Cause was all no more The old Kings Popery and Arbitrary Power were all rank Calumny and Lies the Bugbears of so many distracted Years and the Incentives of the most Bloody Civil War and three flourishing Kingdoms Ruine was all but Sound and Noise And if Sham and Imposture was the great Business of the Good Old Cause in her Minority and the Good Old Cause ex confesso has been this Gentlemans Saint from his Youth to his very Death I cannot comprehend why she should be more modest or her Conscience straighter laced in this present 83 now she has gotten almost half a Hundred Years upon her Back and therefore this departing Gentleman from the Standart he dies under gives us very shrewd Suspicions of the Integrity of his Assertions But to return to the Paper Why this Villanous Reflection against his Majesty for his Tardiness in granting the L. Howard a Converted Fanaticks Pardon when his trusting or forgiving those sly and not easily reconciled Enemies is the greatest Prudence of the Government which fresh Example of his Majesties late too hasty Pardon sufficiently testifies when the Young Absalon in his late solemn and penitent Confession of his Conspiracy with the humblest prostration at the Feet of the King Duke made only a Politick Incursion into the Court for the Prize and Booty of a Pardon whilst the noblest Bounty and tenderest Mercy from the best and most indulgent of Kings was only returned with the poorest of Artifices and basest Ingratitude From this he comes to debate upon the Papers said as he calls it to be found in his Closet by the King's Officers and complains highly of the Injustice done first by laying the Guilt of a Paper to his Charge only upon the Similitude of a hand which may be counterfeit But the main matter and indeed a very great part of the whole Sheet is upon this string is the vindicating the Innocence of that Manuscript and accordingly he sets down the several Heads of the Discourse contained in it as not at all guilty of the least Treasonable Position but on the contray in his own Opinion the highest Arguments of Right-Reason the whole Recital of which I shall not here trouble my self with as being too immaterial here as indeed they are all mal a propos and impertinently urged there For what signifies his recital of the heads of a Treatise in defence of the Innocence of the whole Pamphlet without mention of those particular Passages which the Jury adjudged Treasonable If as by his own Confession those Topicks the Book treats upon were harmless it does not at all follow but dangerous and treasonable Methods may be laid down in it and that for the very obtaining even the fairest and most plausible Ends. I shall only repeat two Paragraphs of them That the Right and Power of Magistrates in every Country was That which the Laws of that Country made it to be That the Laws were to be observed and the Oaths taken by them having the force of a Contract between Magistrate and People could not be violated without danger of dissolving the whole Fabrick Now as blameless as this Discourse in his Thoughts may be what does he infer from the danger of Dissolving the whole Fabrick upon the supream Magistrates violating of his Oath but a licence for the People to rebel to cause this Dissolution in revenge of that Violation And then if there can be that Pretence whatever to impower them to make such a Dissolution it necessarily follows thar the Soveraign Power is accountable to his Subjects for his Breach of Trust and consequently the old High Court of Justice or any other shorter cut to punish him is the Right and Prerogative of the People I shall not enlarge upon the Confutation of that damnable Principle it being the subject of so many Pens already the very thought of it the abhorrence of every good Man and true Christian For though undoubtedly there is not nor can be a higher Obligation on a Prince than to Rule by the Laws and defend the Rights of his Subjects yet upon the Breach of that Obligation and the Invasion of those Rights the Tribunal of God is the only place where he must answer for it Besides if Monarchs were questionable and consequently punishable by the People let them produce their Law for such questioning or such a Punishment but if they can produce no such Law 't is very hard methinks that those violent Magna Charta Blades and Liberty and Property Men that would rail downright at the whipping but of a Beggar unless the Letter of the Law brings him to it should notwithstanding be for Judging Condemning nay deposing a Monarch without it But his greatest Grievance and that which he calls the highest Extravigancy of his Prosecutors is that the Contents of that Treatise should be interpreted by them as intended to stir up the People in Prosecution of the Designs of the Conspiracy when nothing of Particular application unto Time Place or Persons could be found in it as has ever been done by those who endeavour to raise Insurrections all was supply'd by Innuendo's Whatsoever is said of the Expulsion of Tarquin the Insurrection against Nero the Slaughter of