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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28432	An appeal from the country to the city, for the preservation of His Majesties person, liberty, property, and the Protestant religion	Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.	1679 (1679)	Wing B3300; ESTC R228069	16,678	32

's untimely death will proceed from a confusion and want of some eminent and interessed person whom you may trust to Lead you up against a French and Popish Army for which purpose no person is fitter than his Grace the Duke of Monmouth as well for quality courage and conduct as for that his Life and Fortune depends upon the same bottom with yours he will stand by you therefore ought you to stand by him And remember the old Rule is He who hath the worst Title ever makes the best King as being constrain'd by a gracious Government to supply what he wants in Title that instead of God and my Right his Motto may be God and my People Upon the death of Alexander the Great when there was so great a confusion amonst the Officers about choosing a Successor to the Empire no other expedient could be found out to pacifie the uproar of the Multitude but the choosing of King Philip's illegitimate Son Aridaeus who nothwithstanding he was a man but of reasonable parts himself might as they thought perform that Office well enough by the help of his wife Protector Perdiccas I confess upon the News of his Grace's Banishment the Countries were much surprized and the more for that we all knew they could have no Interest or advantage by his absence till His Majesty was near his end Which puts me in mind of the Story that Iosephus relates concerning Herod viz. that Antipater to secure to himself the Crown having by his treachery and false accusations prevail'd with Herod to banish his two innocent Sons Alexander and Aristobulus as also in his life-time to declare Antipater for his Successor did after that the better to confirm his Title exasperate Herod to put them both to death which was no sooner done and Antipater freed from the Jealousie of their Succession but he begins to think Herod himself had lived too long wherefore entring into a Conspiracy with Herod's own Wife as well as with Pharoas and many others he decreed to poyson him yet not being willing to be present himself at the execution of it for fear of some popular Tumult he absented himself and went to Rome But providence discovering this Plot to Herod it soon after cost Antipater his Life and may all such Traytors succeed accordingly These things most worthy Citizens I have presumed to offer to your perusal in respect that upon the death of any King your Lord Mayor then in being is the only Magistrate in the Kingdom that retains any Office of power capable of serving the Subject You are the persons who must revenge our Soveraigns violent death which if ever it should happen the Countries one and all would be ready to assist you But Heaven defend us from the occasion God preserve the King and send your City to prosper which is the constant and hearty Prayer of Your Friend and Servant Iunius Brutus Postscript AS well to justifie part of my preceding Discourse as to acquaint you with the pernicious Tenents of the Church of Rome how dangerous they are both to Prince and People I have here inserted some few of their Canons which all Papists are oblig'd to believe and submit to Canons which the Romish Church holds to the Ruine and Dishonour of Princes are these which follow 1. The Emperor is the Bishop of Rome's Subject and the Bishop of Rome may revoke the Emperor's Sentence in Temporal Causes 2. Princes Laws if they be against the Canons and Decrees of the Bishop of Rome be of no force nor strength 3. All Kings Bishops and Noblemen that believe or suffer the Bishop of Rome's Decrees in any thing to be violate be accursed and for ever culpable before God as Transgressors of the Catholick Faith 4. The Bishop of Rome may Excommunicate Emperors and Princes depose them from their States and dis-ingage their Subjects from the Oaths and Obedience to them and so constrain them to Rebellion These and many more there are to the same purpose wherefore that Prince who thinks himself so weak as to need a Governour who thinks himself too Rich or desires to be a Slave to an old Bardasso let him turn Papist More Romish Canons fitting to be consider'd by all Abby-Landed men 1. The Goods of the Church may in no wise be alienated but whoseever receiveth or buyeth them is bound to restitution and if the Church have any Ground that is little or nothing worth yet it shall not be given to the Prince and if the Prince will needs buy it the sale shall be void and of no strength 2. It is not lawful for the Bishop of Rome to alienate or mortgage any Lands of the Church for any cause whatsoever except it be Houses in Cities which be very chargeable to support and maintain So that if any men who have Estates in Abby-Lands desire to beg their Bread and relinquish their Habitations and Fortunes to some old greasie bald-pated Abbot Monk or Friar then let him Vote for a Popish Successor and Popery for when once that Religion is established amongst us these Canons will all come in play and the Pope will then tell you whatsoeuer he may pretend at first that his Predecessor had no Right to give away what belong'd to the Church And this Mr. Coleman well knew when he promised himself no less than to be once Master of the Earl of Bedford's Estate but unluckily the Gallows prevented it in making him a Saint before his time He that desires to be further satisfied about these Canons let him look into Dr. Burnet's late excellent History of the Reformation and there he shall find the Original and Authentick Quotations which were too tedious here to insert FINIS Phil. Com. l. 6. c. 2. Phil. Com. l. 5. c. 6.8