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A Collection of papers relating to the present juncture of affairs in England
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State the Care whereof is also entrusted to him was in the highest manner concerned that the said Kingdom might continue in Tranquillity and that all misunderstanding between the King and the Nation might be taken away That His Highness well knowing that to succeed in so Important and Laudable a Cause and not to be hindred and prevented by those that were evil inclined towards it it was necessary to pass over into that Kingdom accompanied with some Military Forces hath thereupon made known his Intentions to their Highnesses and desired Assistance from their Highnesses that their Highnesses having maturely weighed all things and considered that the King of France and Great Britain stood in very good Correspondence and Friendship one with the other which their Highnesses have been frequently very well assured of and in a strict and particular Alliance and that their Highnesses were informed and advertised that their Majesties had laboured upon a Concert to divide and separate this State from its Alliances and that the King of France hath upon several occasions shew'd himself dissatisfied with this State which gave cause to fear and apprehend that in case the King of Great Britain should happen to compass his Aim within his Kingdom and obtain an absolute Power over his People that then both Kings out of Interest of State and Hatred and Zeal against the Protestant Religion would endeavour to bring this State to Confusion and if possible quite to subject it have resolved to commend His Highness in his undertaking of the abovesaid Designs and to grant to him for his Assistance some Ships and Militia as Auxil aries that in pursuance thereof His Highness hath declared to their Highnesses that he is resolved with God's Grace and Favour to go over into England not with the least insight or intention to invade or subdue that Kingdom or to remove the King from his Throne much less to make himsâ—lf Master thereof or to invert or prejudice the Lawful Succession as also not to drive thence or persecute the Roman-Catholicks but only and solely to help that Nation in re-establishing the Laws and Priviledges that have been broken as also in maintaining their Religion and Liberty and to that end to further and bring it about that a free and lawful Parliament may be Call'd in such manner and of such persons as are regulated and qualified by the Laws and Form of that Government and that the said Parliament may deliberate upon and establish all such Matters as shall be judged necessary to assure and secure the Lords the Clergy Gentry and People that their Rights Laws and Priviledges shall be no more violated or broken that their High and Mightinesses hope and trust that with God's Blessing the Repose and Unity of that Kingdom shall be re-established and the same be thereby brought into a condition to be able powerfully to concur to the common benefit of Christendom and to the restoring and maintaining of Peace and Tranquillity in Europe That Copies hereof be delivered to all their Foreign Ministers residing here to be used by them as they shall see occasion The P. O's Letter to the English Army Gentlemen and Friends WE have given you so full and so true an Account of Our Intentions in this Expedition in Our Declaration that as We can add nothing to it so We are sure you can desire nothing more of Us. We are come to preserve your Religion and to restore and establish your Liberties and properties and therefore We cannot suffer Our selves to doubt but that all true English-Men will come and coneur with Us in Our desire to secure these Nations from POPERY and SLAVERY You must all plainly see that you are only made use of as Instruments to enslave the Nation and ruine the Protestant Religion and when that is done you may judge what ye your selves ought to expect both from the cashiering of all the Protestant and English Officers and Souldiers in Ireland and by the Irish Souldiers being brought over to be put in your places and of which you have seen so fresh an Instance that we need not put you in mind of it You know how many of your fellow-Officers have been used for their standing firm to the Protestant Religion and to the Laws of England and you cannot slatter your selves so far as to expect to be better used if those who have broke their word so often should by your means be brought out of those Straits to which they are reduced at present We hope likewise that you will not suffer your selves to be abused by a false Notion of Honour but that you will in the first place consider what you owe to Almighty God and your Religion to your Country to your Selves and to your Posterity which you as Men of Honour ought to prefer to all private Considerations and Engagements whatsoever We do therefore expect that you will consider the Honour that is now set before you of being the Instruments of serving your Country and securing your Religion and We will ever remember the Service you shall do Us upon this Occasion and will promise unto you that We shall place such particular Marks of our Favour on every one of you as your Behaviour at this time shall deserve of Us and the Nation in which we will make a great Distinction of those that shall come seasonably to join their Arms with Ours and you shall find us to be Your Well-wishing and Assured Friend W. H. P. O. An Account of a wicked design of Poysoning the Prince of Orange before he came out of Holland ALSO A Relation from the City of Orange of a strange METEOR representing a Crown of Light that was there seen in the Air May the 6th 1688. In a Letter from a Gentleman in Amsterdam to his Friend in London Octob. 1. 1688. SIR THE two inclosed Relations are sent me from an Eminent Divine now at the Hague you will do well to make them publick The Poysoning Business I doubt not but was contriv'd by a sort of Men that in all Ages stick at nothing to carry on their Bloody Religion An Account of a Design of Poisoning the PRINCE of ORANGE THere is a Man of Lunenburg Wolfenbuttel who being fallen in Debt in Amsterdam upon his Fathers Death his Brother taking no Care of him was put in Prison and brought extream low yet he was brought out by the means of a Friend And soon after a man who pretended to know him and to have seen him before though the German believes he never saw him seem'd to take pitty on him seeing him in a Coffee-House and gave him a Ducatoon and promised he should never want so he entred into a great familiarity with him but would never let him know where he lodged only he gave him Appointments in Coffee-Houses and Taverns and fed him from time to time with Mony At last after some weeks he drew him into a secret Walk in the Grounds that are not yet built and
Canons require that all Usurp'd and Foreign Jurisdiction is for most Just Causes taken away and abolish'd in this Realm and no manner of Obedience or Subjection due to the same or to any that pretend to act by virtue of it but that the King's Power being in his Dominions highest under God they upon all Occasions perswade the People to Loyalty and Obedience to his Majesty in all things Lawful and to patient Submission in the rest promoting as far as in them lies the publick Peace and Quiet of the World. VIII That they maintain fair Correspondence full of the kindest Respects of all sorts with the Gentry and Persons of Quality in their Neighbourhood as being deeply sensible what reasonable Assistance and Countenance this poor Church hath received from them in her Necessities IX That they often exhort all those of our Communion to continue stedfast to the end in their most Holy Faith and constant to their Profession and to that end to take heed of all Seducers and especially of Popish Emissaries who are now in great numbers gone forth amongst them and more busie and active than ever And that they take all occasions to convince our own Flock that 't is not enough for them to be Members of an Excellent Church rightly and duly Reformed both in Faith and Worship unless they also do reform and amend their own Lives and so order their Conversation in all things as becomes the Gospel of Christ X. And forasmuch as those Romish Emissaries like the Old Serpent Insidiantur Calcaneo are wont to be most busie and troublesome to our People at the end of their Lives labouring to unsettle and perplex them in time of Sickness and at the hour of Death that therefore all who have the Cure of Souls be more especially vigilant over them at that dangerous Season that they stay not till they be sent for but enquire out the Sick in their respective Parishes and visit them frequently that they examine them particularly concerning the state of their Souls and instruct them in their Duties and settle them in their Doubts and comfort them in their Sorrows and Sufferings and pray often with them and for them and by all the Methods which our Church prescribes prepare them for the due and worthy receiving of the Holy Eucharist the Pledg of their happy Resurrection thus with their utmost diligence watching over every Sheep within their Fold especially in that critical Moment lest those Evening Wolves devour them XI That they also walk in Wisdom towards those that are not of Our Communion and if there be in their Parishes any such that they neglect not frequently to confer with them in the Spirit of Meekness seeking by all good Ways and Means to gain and win them over to our Communion More especially that they have a very tender regard to our Brethren the Protestant Dissenters that upon occasion offered they visit them at their Houses and receive them kindly at their own and treat them fairly where-ever they meet them discoursing calmly and civilly with them perswading them if it may be to a full Compliance with our Church or at least that whereto we have already attained we may all walk by the same Rule and mind the same thing And in order hereunto that they take all opportunities of assuring and convincing them that the Bishops of this Church are really and sincerely irreconcileable Enemies to the Errors Superstitions Idolatries and Tyrannies of the Church of Rome and that the very unkind Jealousies which some have had of us to the contrary were altogether groundless And in the last place that they warmly and most affectionately exhort them to join with us in daily fervent Prayer to the God of Peace for an Universal Blessed Uuion of all Reformed Churches both at Home and Abroad against our common Enemies and that all they who do confess the Holy Name of our dear Lord and do agree in the Truth of his Holy Word may also meet in one Holy Communion and live in perfect Unity and Godly Love. An Account of the late PROPOSALS of the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury with some other Bishops to his Majesty In a LETTER to M. B. Esq SIR I Am much surprized at the ill Constructions some People make of the Actions of those Bishops who have lately waited upon the King especially considering that most of them are the very Men who not many Months ago appeared so publickly and so courageously even to the hazard of all the Interests they had in this World in defence of our Protestant Religion and the Laws of the Land. In order to the removing all groundless Jealousies and unreasonable Surmises in an Affair of so great Consequence which our Popish Enemies will I am sure be very ready to foment and keep up I have here sent you the Heads of those Matters which were proposed by them to the King. They waited upon him not as a Party separate either from the Nobility or Gentry whom they could I believe have wished his Majesty would rather have called for at this Juncture or from the rest of the Bishops or Clergy of England but as Persons whom the King was pleased upon Reasons known only to his Royal Breast to command to attend upon him The Heads which I send you are not taken from any Copy of the Paper which my Lords the Bishops presented to the King. I understand that all their Lordships have been extreamly careful to prevent the publishing of any Copies and that they still refuse to communicate any tho they now lie under no Obligations to the contrary However I do assure you with all faithfulness that these Heads which I am now sending you are true Contents obtained by another Method which in prudence you will imagine not sit for me to disclose You have already been told from me that every one of these Bishops were sent for up out of their Diocesses by Expresses from his Majesty whom they first waited on in a Body on Friday the 28th of September I cannot upon the strictest inquiry find that any thing passed betwixt the King and them at that first attendance upon him besides general Expressions of Favour and Protection from his Majesty and general returns of Duty and Loyalty from the Bishops This was matter of Admiration to us all here who could not believe but that the King had other Intentions of a nearer and more particular Concern when he first resolved to send so far for some of these Bishops but these Alterations in Councils are Things not fit for you or I to meddle with Hower my Lords the Bishops were not satisfied herewith concluding as I suppose that his Majesty would not have sent for them so far if he had not intended to have advised with them in this Juncture and to give them the liberty of offering him such Counsels as they thought necessary at this time And therefore when his Grace my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury waited on the King