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A60710 Sober and seasonable queries humbly offered to all good Protestants in England in order to a choice of the new Parliament 1679 (1679) Wing S4403; ESTC R14618 10,212 16

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Betrayers of their Country who shall Resolvedly after such Discoveries of our Dangers and such Opportunities of being by Gods Blessing delivered from them by honest English Parliaments Sell themselves their Wives Children and Estates for one of Esau's Morsels Add. Whether we may not without breach of Charity conclude that it is as easy to call an Honest and disinteressed Man a known Pentioner as it was heretofore to Call Loyal Subjects Delinquents and Malignants and is now to Swear them Traytors And whether Free-holders or Electors will be Free-holders or Electors long if they chuse such as will suffer them to chuse no more but establish themselves in an absolute Dominion as well over their Elections as Free-holders And whether it will not be their own faults if they once more hearken to those Tales which they know involved them in all their past Miseries XXII Whether it be not the hearty Prayer of all good Protestants That the King would be pleased to hearken unto and rely upon the Advice of His Parliament and avoid all such who seek to make themselves Rich by making the King and Kingdom Poor Forasmuch as the Parliament are the Great Council of the King and Kingdom and by them the King is supplied out of the Purse of the Kingdom and they COMMAND and Encourage the People to venture the shedding of their dearest Blood in any Just and Righteous Cause to maintain the King and Kingdoms Power and Greatness Add. Whether it were not the hearty wish of all good Subjects that the Old King had not so much hearkened unto and relied upon the Advice of the Old Parliament but had avoided all such as sought to make themselves rich by destroying the King and Kingdom forasmuch as an evil Parliament if not Dissolved becomes the Bane of the King and Kingdom And by them the King is denied such supplies as are necessary And they COMMAND which doth not belong to them and Encourage the People to Rebel and venture the shedding of their dearest Blood in an unjust unlawful and unnatural war against their Natural and Lawful Sovereign to maintain their own unjust power and ambitious usurpations Whether our Author do not forget not only the Long-Parliament but also what he himself supposeth in his 17th Querie viz. that an ill Parliament may be chosen when he would have the King hearken unto and relie upon the advice of his Parliament right or wrong and without considering whether it be good or bad XXIII Whether if you will believe the Jesuits and Priests at St. Omers That there was never any such Man as Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey And if you will believe what his Murderers said at their Death that they did not Murder him then you must not believe there was any such Man as Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey in England ADD Whether any one of common sense can believe that the Jesuites of St. Omers could say a thing so absurd easily disprovable and nothing to the purpose as that there was never any such man as Sir Edmund bury Godfrey And whether there be not as little reason why the Papists should kill Sir Edm. Godfrey who was their Friend and if he had been their Enemy in this conjuncture could do them no harm unless by being Killed in such an unknown manner as he was And whether the Oaths and solemn Protestations of three Dying men whereof one was a Protestant who got nothing by them but if they were false eternal Damnation be not better proof that the Papists did not Kill him than the incoherent and improbable Oaths of Prance and Bedlow that they did the one having been frightned into it for the saving of his life and the Other enticed by the fair and competent reward of 500. pounds at a time wherein it was hard to tell whether his Want or Infamy were Greater Whether any well-meaning man how illiterate or ignorant soever may not perceive of what Stuffe the Stories against Papists are made when they are reported to affirm at St. Omers that there never was any such man as Sir Edmund-bury Godfrey and this to render it more absurd if possible whil'st either in or near that Place they were publishing Treatises both in French and English to let the world see how highly improbable it was that the said Sir Edmund-bury should have been Killed in Somerset-House And after all if you are credulous enough to believe the forgoing Chymera and also whatever else is now said and sworn against the Papists viz. that they were wont to send their treasonable Letters up and down the Countrey in a plain legible Hand by the ordinary ●osts that they entrusted scandalous and ignominious Rascals with Designs of the highest Consequence and afterward suffered them to Beg and be half-starv'd affronting and beating them into the bargain when it was in the power of such as they affronted to betray them that they forbore to sly or secure themselves when they had notice that their Plot was discovered that they have Dispensations to swear any thing and yet lose their Estates Liberties and Lives for want of Swearing and that they think they do God who is Truth it self good service when they solemnly invoke him with their last breath to bear witness to a Lye If I say you believe all these things with many more Absurdities of the like nature and Consider what you Believe I ask whether you will not Conclude that the Judges who are the only Advocates of Prisoners ought in all Conscience and Equity to have pleaded for the late pretended Criminals as most undoubtedly non Compotes mentis XXIV Lastly Whether of Popish Treasons and Murders render the Papists at their Death at Innocent as the Child unborn who would not be a Murderer and Popish Traytor Add. Whether if evident Presbyterian Treasons and open Rebellions heretofore found an Act of Oblivion and now lately in Scotland have met with Indulgence and Pardon and the unalterable Loyalty and palpable Innocence of worthy Persons cannot save them from Exile Imprisonment and Hanging it be not safer and more profitable to be a known Vanquished and Convicted Traytor than an Honest man And whether the vilest Felon or Murtherer who lieth in a Gaol if the same Conscience which permitted him for twenty shillings to Rob or Kill on the High-way in danger of his own life will now give him leave to take a false Oath without any hazard at all for 200. pounds Sterling be not in a better condition than any Innocent man who will not tell a lye to save his life Lastly Whether Perjury and the Shedding of innocent Blood do not Cry for Vengeance from Almighty God and whether our Author and his fellow Scriblers are not a part and beginning of those Punishments which we deserve and such Insects as are wont to Swarm in Corrupted air and usually precede and foretel the Approach of Greater Plagues And whether we may not gather from what the Scripture teacheth us of the Way which God chose for the destruction of Ahab viz. by permitting a Lying spirit to enter into all his Prophets that the too general Belief of such egregious Untruths as are daily vented is too sad an Omen of the ensuing Miseries and perhaps the utter Ruine of our poor Nation And whether to prevent this it be not better to amend our own lives than to take away those of the Innocent and peradventure lessen the number of Just men to that degree amongst us that so at length there may not be left enough for whose sakes God might be prevailed with to Spare us Justitia elevat Gentem Miseros autem facit Populos Peccatum Prov. 14. The Author of the Additions To all Honest Readers Dear Countrymen I Cannot but promise myself that such notorious and undenyable Matters of Fact as the Rebellious Proceedings of the Long Parliament the Heinous Murther of King Charles I. The Execrable Butchery of the Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews and the late Seditions in Scotland and the like whereon the foregoing Additional Queries are grounded will out-weigh in all sober and well-meaning Thoughts the implorable Surmises and empty Nothings which the other Authour entertains you with and consequently Disabuse all such as are not amongst Those who love Darkness rather than Light because their Deeds and their Designs are Evil for I have little hopes of being heard by Any who are playing the Old Game over again and perswade themselves that it is impossible they should ever have better Cards for it than are now in their Hands Per quos via Veritatis blasphemabitur Et in Avaritia fictis Verbis de vobis Negotiabuntur 2. Pet. 2. FINIS Printed in the Year 1679.
SOBER AND SEASONABLE QUERIES Humbly Offered to all GOOD PROTESTANTS IN ENGLAND IN ORDER TO A CHOICE OF THE NEW PARLIAMENT THE SECOND EDITION With Considerable Additions by another Author Interrogabo vos ego unum verbum Respondete mihi Luc. 20. I. WHether the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland are not designed for Destruction by the Hellish Conspiracy of the bloody Papists as hath been declared by two Parliaments and sufficiently proved by the King's Witnesses before the Judges of this Kingdom ADDITION Whether the abovesaid Kingdoms are not designed to be brought to the same pickle they were in during the late Troubles and Usurpation And whether the publick and open Murther of the Arch-Bishop of St. Andrews and the ensuing Rebellion in Scotland be not far better proofs thereof then the single Testimony of an Infamous Person on which the first of those two Parliaments Declared that there was an Hellish Conspiracy And whether the Second Parliament were more Infallible or less Factious than the First And whether the Judges and so worthy a Jury on maturer thoughts and after so much Consideration were more mistaken in the Acquital of Sr. George Wakeman a principal Conspirator and accused by the two most Principal of the King's Witnesses than the same Judges and other Juries were in Condemning the Rest at first and during the suddain Heat and Passion of the People and before the Contradictions or weakness of the Evidence grew so manifest as it is at present Whether it be impossible for such as have been great Rogues and notorious Perjurers all their lives to continue so when once they are become the King's Witnesses Whether Those who by false Oaths destroy the King 's best friends are not rather witnesses against him than for him II. What posture of Defence extraordinary is the City of London and Nation in at the Discovery of so Hellish a Plot to defend themselves from the Insurrection of Papists at home and Invasion from Papists abroad suitable to the desires of a Loyal Parliament ADD Whether the Parliament thought the King whose Life was particularly aimed at in any great danger from this Popish Conspiracy when on the first Discovery thereof and when the Papists were supposed to have an Army ready they were as hot in pressing the King to Disband the Forces which he then had as in their Clamours against the Hellish Plot And though they proposed the Raising the Train-Bands I ask whether it be suitable to the desires of a Loyal Parliament that the King should not have the choice of such Soldiers as were for the defence of his own Life III. Whether Prorogation and Dissolution of Parliaments at such a time as this doth not fill the hearts of Protestant Subjects with evident fears of Destruction and gives the cursed Plotters too too much ground to believe as they boast that yet their day is coming ADD Whether Prorogation and Dissolution of Parliaments had not been a better expedient for the securing the late Kings Crown and life than the making them first Triennial and after perpetual which gave those cunsed Plotters too too much Opportunity of accomplishing those accursed ends which they now Boast of and are ready to act over again IV. Whether have we not great reason to fear that the Papists will not hereby take encouragement to proceed in their Hellish Design to Murther the King who they know is sworn at his Coronation to maintain and defend the Protestants Religion and so is solemnly engaged against them whereby they may subvert the Government by bringing in a Popish Successor in whom is all their help and hope ADD Whether wee have not some reason to hope that hereby viz. by Prorogations and Dissolutions of Parliaments factious People will be discouraged from proceeding in the Hellish Design of their Predecessours to Murther the King who they Know is as solemnly engaged against the Presbyterians as against the Papists and hath much more cause to be affraid of the former who slew his Father and sought his life also to take it away than of the latter who fought for his Father and preserved Him And consequently whether they may not hereby be hindred from Subverting the Government and bringing in a Common-wealth in which is all their help and hope V. Whether any Speeches to or in Parliament in favour of a Popish Successor is not of direct tendency to prepare the Nation to make Tryal of it again as if the dreadful Effects of Queen Mary's Reign were or ever can be forgotten whose great promises were sealed with Fire and Faggot ADD Whether any speeches to or in Parliament against the Lawful Successor whether Papist or Protestant be not a breach of one of those Oaths which are now so strictly required of all Parliament-men and also Directly contrary to the Principles of Protestant Religion which deposeth no Prince on the account of Heresie much less on the account of a Profession which it acknowledgeth a safe way to salvation And whether the Nation is not likely to be more happy under a Prince of known Clemency and Generosity than under a Company of Base-spirited Crop-ear'd Sequestrators or Committee-men VI. If so what are we to think of them that have or shall discountenance or endeavour to corrupt the King's Witnesses or that do indulge arraigned Traytors impudently to asperse the Justice of the Land ADD What shall we think of those who admit of Infamous persons for credible Witnesses and who are at a vast expence to induce men of desperate fortunes to swear away the lives of his Majestie 's Loyal subjects Whence was it that Oates and Bedlow had 6. or 700. li. a-piece to dispose of And how was it that they could lay it out on account of the Plot as they say they did unless it were in Hiring under-Swearers Whether those who swore that Naboth was guilty of Treason and are called in scripture Sons of Bolial ought not to have been so grievously discountenanced because they were the King's Witnesses And whether Naboth's Judges if they had discountenanced them had not prevented the Shedding of innocent blood And whether they who cry out against the Judges and Jury for their having acquitted Sir George Wakeman and some others do not more impudently asperse the Justice of the Land than those did who Pleading for their Lives could not defend their Innocence without alledging that they were wrongfully accused VII Whether it is not the indispensable Duty of all Protestant Magistrates whatsoever with the People of England to consider with themselves and consult the Learned in the Laws what Power God and the King and the Laws have put into their hands for the prevention of Popery and Slavery both from themselves and posterity lest their Ignorance and Security bring Destruction without Recovery ADD Whether it is not the indispensable Duty of all good Subjects to apply themselves to the King for the Redress of all Grievances whatsoever as also to know that they have