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Orthodox state-queries, presented to all those who retain any sparks of their ancient loyalty.
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1660
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Wing O504; Thomason 669.f.24[2]
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Orthodox State-Queries Presented to all those who retain any Sparks of their ANCIENT LOYALTY Gentlemen WE presume again to kiss your hands according to our promise and although like the Fashion-Mongers of the times we have put on a different garb we hope the Crime is venial for that we thought it convenient since our present Subject is grave and weighty though but slightly handled not to appear in our Fanatique Dress LEt every rational man that is not blinded with ignorance or carried away by self-interest in plain English that is not branded with the Title of Fool or Knave consider whether as the case now stands these or the like Queries may not very fitly be propounded 1 Whether the generality of the people of England are not experimentally sensible of their great folly and madness in opposing their lawful King either directly in their own persons or indirectly by anyway aiding or abetting his enemies And whether their intrenching upon his Prerogatives were not an inrode to the throwing down the hedge of their own proper Rights Priviledges and Freedoms 2 Whether the Author of the Vtopian Commonwealth stiled the Rota may not be thought to have a rotation in his Peâ—…cranium and whether it be not probable that his wit is wasting and may be trusted up in an Egg-shell since his books do pass but for waste paper 3 Whether it be not an act of great imprudence novelty and innovation in any to endeavour the introduction of a strange Government in these Nations contrary to the Genius and complaxion of the people and whether Gen. Monk can do anything more pleasing to God and more acceptable to his Country then to restore unto it its antient Monarchical Government being to be preferred before all others and that which is not only exercised by God himself but as Naturalists observe by almost all the creatures 4 Whether since Monarchy is generally concluded to be the best of Governments the English Monarchy-may not challenge a precedency before all others Christian or Heathen sith its power is not absolute in all cases but admits of a Parliament confisting of Peers and Commons whereof the King is the Head by which Parliament all grievances whatsoever are redressed and amended whether relating to Prince or people and all things necessary to the mutual support of the King Peers and Commonalty provided A most excellent constitution of three Estates the second being equally concerned in both the other and in prudence as well as Justice obliged to defend the Dignities and Prerogatives of the first with the priviledges and Freedomes of the third 5 Whether any reasonable man can expect that these Nations can be established in a condition of peace and happiness until they be settled upon their old Basis again which is the Good Old Cause indeed every honest Christian and true Son of them ought earnestly to pray and contend for 6 Whether this present Parliament notwithstanding the readmission of the Members secluded in 48. in case they do not act in order to a speedy bringing in of their lawful exiled King may not as fitly be called a Rump though of a larger size as the former since they are but the lower parts the upper part of the body together with the head being still wanting And whether if they do not begin where they left off in receiving the Son according to their Articles with the Father at the Isle of Wight being the most probable way of restoring these almost ruined Nations to their pristine flourishing condition they do not stigmatize themselves with all those indelible marks of Infamy Injustice and oppression which Mr. Prynne a Member of them hath so manifestly by the Laws of God Nature and the Land proved the little Rump to be highly guilty of 7 Whether it be consistent with Religion Equity or common reason that the Free-born people of England c. should submit to a new kind of Government by way of a Commonwealth or otherwise being not only against the grain of their affections but also of their apprehensions meerly to support the unjust interests of some particular men in the three Nations who have advanc'd themselves by the ruines of our Church and Crown and in case these Purchasers considering their fat penniworths should be compelled to a restitution of their unlawful and sacrilegious possession it be not more then an even lay they would prove no loosers 8 Whether Charles Stuart since it hath pleased God to lead him through a series of such various kinds of providences and to indue him with a spirit of admired moderation on the one hand as well as continual patience on the other be not in great reason to be judged as fit a person of his age to sway a Scepter as any Prince in Christendome 9 Whether the foresaid Charles be not as was his Father before him the firmest Adherer to the true Protestant Religion in the world who notwithstanding the many and great temptations to Popery proceeding from his adverse fortune the malice of his enemies the alluring promises of several Catholique Princes together with his Holiness of Rome to furnish him with men and moneys to regain his Kingdomes continues fixt and immoveable to his first principles and profession wherein he was educated from his Infancy 10 Whether since as Mr. Prynne evidently demonstrates all our divisions and distractions have been chiefly fomented by Popish Emissaries and Jesuites who triumphed at the beheading and horrid murder of the late King concluding that then their work was done he being the Defender of our Faith and under God the Keeper and Preserver of his holy Vineyard the Church there can any way be found out by the wit of man so expedient for the healing up of our breaches both in Church and State and the restoring of unity peace and order amongst us as the establishment of his Son upon his Throne 11 Whether the trading of the City of London were ever at a lower ebbe since the memory of man then it is at this day and whether it be not most just with God to inflict upon her those lamentable Judgments of Sword and Famine who was the greatest cause of all these sad calamities that besel these Nations in the late Wars and whose hands were deeply imbrued in Her Soveraigns blood until such time as she hath been truly humbled for these hainous crimes and shall to Her utmost ability recompence her wrongs and Rebellion against Her Martyred King by Her beneficence to his whole Posterity and Her most strennuous endeavour to enthrone him that 't is not to be doubted in Gods due time must and will be his Successor 12 Whether it be not a duty incumbent upon every true Christian that desires the glory of God and the peace and prosperity of the three Nations to offer up daily Sacrifices of Prayer to the Almighty that he would be pleased to bless King Charles to settle him upon his Throne to make him a Nursing Father to our deplorable and almost ruined Church and to put an end to these dismal dayes of Blood Rapine and Oppression which will never be untill that happy and long-wisht-for time come when all Free-born honest hearts shall throw up their hats into the ayr with loud acclamations and rend the very Skies with the noyse of God save the King Printed for Philo-Basileuticus Verax