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A83953
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Englands crisis, or, The World well mended
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1689
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Wing E2954B; ESTC R42979
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Church of England must be deprived of their Freeholds and rendred uncapable of maintaining themselves and their Families for the very same Râ—ason And to add to the Comfort of our suffâ—ring that was done by a Popish King this by an Assembly of Protestants This is the Prologue and but the Prologue to the Tragedy that is like to ensue And now we have a Fast Proclaim'd to sanctify Rebellion and that there may not be any Wickedness done but in the Name and in the fear of the Lord. We must shut our Eyes and be wilfully blind if we do not discern this Written as with a Beam of the Sun That this wretched Nation must have no Peace nor expâ—ct any good without doing the King Justice and restoring him to his Throne which is his own undoubted and indefeisable Right for if he comes by force and whether we will or no without Abundance of Clemency what may not an injur'd Monarch do what must he not do to secure himself from a persidious and Rebellious People And if we consider how King Charles the First who did not begin till he had lost almost all the means of War Ireland being embroyl'd and Scotland against him too reduced the Rump Parliament to Extremity we cannot doubt but that King James who besides the Blessing that attends a good Cause has Ireland entire and the principal Nobility and Gentry and the whole Clergy of Scotland on his side and his good Subjects of Englands Eyes now opened will do more than set our new Government hard and at last overthrow it I cannot forbear inserting what I received in a Letter from an ingenious Hand in these Words It is an Old but True Observation concerning the People of the Jews to whom we of this Nation may in many respects be very fitly compared that they never Abdicated their King but they Abdicated their God and their Religion at the same time Moses for Example was their King and by God's own Appointment and the meekest Man upon the Earth yet even he did but withdraw for Forty Days into the Mount but his Rebellious Subjects began to Murmur and Complain That he had DESERTED his Government and left the Throne VACANT and having call'd à great Convention of the Jews they immediately made to themselves a GOLDEN CALF at HOREB Upon the whole what in Justice we ought in Prudence we must do that is call back the King who to our comfort offers his full Free and General Pardon no Crime no Person excepted and to leave all our Grievances to be accommodated by a Free and Legal Parliament freely chosen and held without any manner of constraint which as it will be a certain Expedient so it is the only one that can Establish the Peace and Prosperity of the Nation and since the King has made us the Offer in Policy as well as Honour he must keep his Word if we will be but so just and kind to our selves as to give him the meeting in another healing Parliament I assure the World I am no Papist and by the Grace of God never will be my expectations and my present Possessions are equally small I have no pretence to Greatness except what arises from an unshaken stedfastness to the Principles of Religion and Loyalty which I shall ever think inseparable Nothing could have drawn these Reflections from me but an invincible fidelity to Truth Justice and my Native Country upon which I see Ruin and Desolation rowling like a mighty Wave May these or some other from a more skilfull Hand awake and rouse the Sence and Ancient Courage of the Nation that we may not need to be beholden to the French whom we hate for bringing in the King whom we love and may we make hast to deliver our selves from the impend … Mischief of a Dutch Conquest or from the greatest of 〈◊〉 Mischiefs the Spirit of Slavery under a Commonwealth Imperium flagitiis aquisitum nemo unquas bonis artibus exercuit Tacit.