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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70272	A free discourse wherein the doctrines which make for tyranny are display'd the title of our rightful and lawful King William vindicated, and the unreasonableness and mischievous tendency of the odious distinction of a king de facto, and de jure, discover'd / by a Person of Honour.	Person of honour.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.; Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.	1697 (1697)	Wing H2995A; ESTC R10075	41,911	132

August Assembly presently cheerfully subscrib'd the Association wherein after they Sincerely and Solemnly Profess Testifie and declare That his present Majesty King WILLIAM is Rightful and Lawful King of these Realms they mutually promise and engage to stand by and assist each other to the utmost of their Power in the support and defence of his Majesties most Sacred Person and Government against the late King James and his Adherents Further they oblige themselves if the King should come to any violent and untimely death which God forbid to revenge the same on his Enemies and their Adherents Lastly To support the Succession of the Crown according to an Act made in the First Year of KING WILLIAM and QUEEN MARY The House of Lords also moved by the same amazing occasion as the Commons damn'd the Mischievous distinction DE FACTO and DE IVRE declaring that His present Majesty King WILLIAM hath A Right by Law to the Crown which Words one might be afraid of but that their Lordships ever Honourable and Sincere took care to secure them from Exception by the next Plain Righteous and Decretory Sentence And that neither the late King James nor the pretended Prince of Wales nor any other Person hath any right whatsoever to the same I can't see wherein this Declaration comes short of that of the House of Commons for here the Lords determine that King WILLIAM hath a Right by Law to the Crown and such a Right by Law that neither the late King nor the pretended Prince of Wales nor any other Person hath any Right whatsoever to the same then of Consequence He hath all the right to the Crown that can be all the right that ever Prince had or can have And is in their Lordships Judgments what the Commons have declar'd him Viz. our Rightful and Lawful King I am glad the Houses are so well agreed But alas neither has their happy Agreement nor the following hearty and just Votes of the Commons carried the Association of the Commons thro' the Kingdom with that success as might have been expected and as was due to so well advised a Sanction for the Publick good The reason of which disappointment I cannot imagine for I hope that Commoner's Chaplain was not in the right who openly told an Acquaintance that the Penalties inforcing the Association were only In terrorem But as if he had been able to give the Refusers Security many stood off and began to frame Exceptions against it To pass by the little Cavils and impertient Sarcasms started by vain and unquiet Men who are proud to tell the World with what unfair Equivocation they swallow'd the Oaths of Allegiance and consonant to that Scandalous Wickedness will affix a sense of their own devising to the Parliament Association or else Associate in a cold empty Form of their own drawing up to pass by every thing of this nature I shall only reflect on the grand Exception which is so common in the mouths of all the De facto Men. And that is this They have as their bounden duty does require that awful regard for the Divine Prohibition of Revenge that they can by no means agree to oblige themselves to revenge the King 's violent death upon his Treacherous Enemies To this I have several things to reply 1. Tho' with some Men the Blood of a King is so cheap that it may be spilt like Water on the Ground and they never trouble their hearts about it Yet I make no question but were it the Blood but of an Arch-Bishop of St. Andrew they would be very active to hunt the Murtherers from their Coverts and bring them to condign Punishment That these words may not be wrested I do avow that it was a necessary piece of Justice the Punishment of that Arch-Bishop's Murtherers But I argue a fortiori how necessary then is it to punish Wicked Regicides II. when a Noble Peer is impeach'd in Parliament for High-Treason the Lords Spiritual pretend to a Right of Siting and Voting among his Judges so that Clergy-Men are not willing to be wholly Sequestred from their share in legal Revenges III. When the House of Commons declar'd upon the occasion of the Popish Plot discover'd by Doctor Oates that if His Majesty King Charles that then was should come to any violent Death which they pray'd God to prevent tho' as 't is thought they were not heard they would revenge it to the utmost on the Papists None of this Clan of Non-Associators bawl'd against that Vote as unchristian and yet I do not see but King WILLIAM's Life is as precious and ought to be as dear to the Nation as ever King Charles's was besides I perswade my self that popish Assassines deserve not to be more severely treated than than any other Assassines IV. When any private Person unites with the House of Commons to revenge the Violent death of the King which God prevent he unites with the Representatives of the Body of the People for the just Execution of a legal Revenge V. He that is not willing to do his part towards the bringing the Assassines of the King to suffer the Law may be justly suspected as an Abettor of the Assassination if such a thing should happen which God prevent and if he be treated accordingly he is not worse treated than the old Lady Lisle VI. In a state of Nature every Man has a Right to preserve all his honest Interests against the Injuries of others and to punish such Injuries according as he judges they deserve to be punish'd In political Society every Man resigns up this natural right to the Community who intrust some chosen Man or Men to govern them by setled Laws made with their own Consent Now if wicked Assassines shall traiterously take off the chief Head or Heads that govern and so reduce the People to the unhappy Necessity of a new Choice from whence may arise infinite Mischiefs by Reason of the Differences of ambitious Pretenders the People seem reduc'd to a state of Nature and then every particular individual Person has a Right to be reveng'd of the Assassines It is true the English Government is Hereditary and by Act of Parliament setled after the Death or demise of King William on the Princess Ann and the Heirs of her Body but then there is Danger that Jacobite Zeal may wade thro' more Blood to make a clear Vacancy for a Royal Abdicator and if so there 's Reason for every true Englishman by the Parliaments Association to denounce Vengeance against the Assassines but the single loss of King William alone by violent sudden Treachery might chance to throw us into those Confusions that it is just and prudent to associate to be aveng'd of them that shall tear that dear Interest from us VII Let who will refuse the Association yet it is honestly and wisely done of them who enter into it for thereby they not only discharge the Duty which they owe to the King but also do