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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46377	A just and modest vindication of His Royal Highness the Duke of York in observations upon a late revived pamphlet, intituled, A word without doors, wherein the reasons and arguments of that author, are considered and examined.		1680 (1680)	Wing J1222; ESTC R16770	11,050	16

the Kingdom which was at last preserved by a Parliament restoring all to right and declaring young Henry Successor which Stephen was forced to join in to the Exclusion of his Son and had it not been better never to have wrong'd him than for your own sakes to be forced to do him right And these are our Author's Examples which how much they make for his purpose whether they are of sufficient authority to determine so great and so important a matter as a Right to a Crown I leave to the judgment of every impartial Reader The thing he first desires to have granted is the lawfulness of altering Government by the King Lords and Commons and that was never a question as I know or have heard yet whether ignorantly or designedly I know not He mentions no Presidents save that of the Spaniard onely to that purpose the rest are ill Presidents of Princes injuriously and causlesly disinherited by the States onely and not by King and States out of which a reflecting spirit might conclude That though he colour his design with the specious title of King Lords and Commons yet that he would gladly persuade the people that they alone may do it because by many ill Examples it appears they have done so and this we might have more reason to believe for that in his 8th page he says Thus did the Parliament dispose of the Crown in those days so that the authority and assent of the King is but for fashion-sake Now though it appears that either he has set down a Maxim never questioned and therefore not to be proved in laying such power in the King and His two Houses or else disguised another which with all his Examples he has not made out so that I might very well end here I yet do think it not amiss to set down some Examples of as good Authority I am sure and nothing less to the purpose of the other side to prove That how though a people stir and torment themselves never so much God who neither can do nor will suffer wrong has still brought things about and either made right take place again or if for hidden causes he has suffer'd them for a time has yet at last by heavy judgments convinced the world that he does not approve all that he permits and that he will surely be avenged on them who injure even the Divine Majesty by stamping their own wicked deeds with a pretended approbation from Heaven Begin we with the greatest Man that perhaps ever lived Julius Caesar one to whom the State was as much bound to as any man one attended with continual and wonderful success whil'st he obey'd the Government he was born under no sooner had he alter'd that scarce warm in his ill gotten Empire while he was yet imagining those vast Enterprises of compassing the world with his Armies met the reward of his unjustice in that very place and from those very men where and with whom he had all the reason in the world to think himself most secure If ever people had or could have cause to remove a Prince sure the Romans might have done Nero yet what vengeance follow'd him that serv'd them in it Galba how sad and sudden was his destruction the Histories of that great people do sufficiently inform us Innumerable are the Examples abroad but let us see at home The Conqueror himself though he died possest of the Crown which he had won was yet for the many alterations he made in the Church and State so perplext at his death and had so strange a sense of it that he durst not bequeath it to any of his children believing that divine vengeance would follow them for his Crimes and so it did as we shall shew anon and yet who if a Conqueror may not who then shall venture upon Innovations His Sons for the wrong done to Robert their elder Brother or rather Henry for William had it from his Father escaped not justice from Heaven and dyed a violent death And no less evident was that justice when a King must disinherit his own beloved Son and join with a Parliament to acknowledge and pay a young Boy his Right to which natural affection and thirst of Empire must give way The Parliament at the request of Henry afterwards the 4th of that name deposed Richard the 2d and what was Henry's and that Kingdoms reward a life in continual jeopardy always fearing always troubled continually in War Rebellions great and frequent that shook the very Crown of his Head and by whom did Heaven do this by those very men who had lifted him to the top of his ambition and power with the forfeiture of their duty and conscience making them also to perish in the action giving them the reward of Traytors for their first villany But ere we leave this Prince I shall observe what opinion he himself had of his Right though he had an Act of Parliament joined with his nearness of blood for 't however living he carried it at the approach of death he begins to question whether he had done well that is whether the people of England could remove his Cousin and give him the Crown and owns his just doubt to his Son with grief and no doubt with much concern and perplexity of mind Now though he dyed in his Bed and his Son after him yet was his Sons life short the first part filled with follies and the latter with troubles in the very entrance upon the Throne hardly escaping a violent death which however reacht his Son after him who was the visible unfortunate Object of God's justice for the sins of his Grandfather for being full of virtue goodness and piety we cannot imagine his own sins pulled on his head so many judgments a long and miserable life despised and neglected at home conquer'd and thrust out of all abroad still in War because he loved Peace always a loser in every thing unfortunate and those losses coming upon him by degrees till from one to another like Job's calamities the last save his own was the loss of his Sons life more than once deposed twice imprisoned and at last murdered The Parliament impowered Henry the 8th to appoint a Successor by will if he had no Issue by his third Wife by the same power his two Daughters were disinherited yet God in due time made way for both and what was the end of those men who by a Will of Edward the 6th would have set them aside yet had they much colour for so doing for they had been so already by Act of Parliament past 228. of Henry the 8th which Act was indeed repealed by a subsequent 35 of the same King but the latter Act was full of Proviso's Conditions and Limitations and the Interest and Estate of the two Princesses in the Crown made subject to the last Will of that King or his Letters Patents add to this that the colourable pretence of saving Religion which same to necessitate their actions and therefore if it not justifie might at least help to palliate and excuse them Their end was violent Northumberland and his Party fell by the Sword because they would not know and follow the waies of Peace and Right and what was unhappy though most just with them perisht the Lady Jane Grey and her Husband who had no other fault but that of too great an obedience to their Father's wills and pleasures and in the punishment of that most excellent Princess surely God taught the world that not even the glorious pretence of Religion which must needs and did perish when the right Heir gotten though strengthened by a disinheriting Act of Parliament and the Will of a just departed Monarch could justifie their Rebellion Many more presidents I could cite but I shall conclude with this one the Restauration of our present Soveraign which by how much more it was the wonderful effect of an immediate providence not assisted by the arm of flesh so much more it is remarkable to prove our purpose and our position which we laid down a little before That whatever a people may do God will do justice and right to them that suffer wrong The latter part of our Author's Book being an Answer to a Pamplet I never saw I can say nothing to and now if we must end we will do it with a line of his own Book which he sets down as a false but we as a true Principle That Monarchy is of Divine Right and that Princes in England succeed by nature and generation only and not by authority admission or approbation of the people For further Information I refer the Reader to Sir Robert Philmer's Political Discourses And now before I conclude I would have no man to think that I do in all this design to lessen or disparage the Authority of a Parliament I have for those two Houses the highest veneration imaginable and own them joyned with Majesty to be my lawful Governours Nor would I have any man believe that I ether profess or affect the 〈◊〉 Catholick Religion There 's no man does more ardently desire to see the same Religion now establisht by Law continued and secured to us and our posterity together with the King's Person and the establisht Government than my self and it is that which will be worthy of the cares and pains of a Parliament to provide for by the most effectual means alwaies provided they be such as may neither disparage the grave wisdom nor swerve from the High Justice of that great and August Assembly for surely a good end must be compast by like means else all is naught there being nothing more sure than that the unlawful means corrupt and destroy that good end which they lead to and this is that which a Parliament may and I hope will look to when they sit which no doubt they had long since done if by the unreasonable malice of some and mistaken measures of others fears and jealousies had not been carried and fomented to that degree that the interest of our King and his People seemed not to be the same it ever was and I trust ever shall be a good understanding betwixt both Which that it may be increas'd and for ever continue ought to be the prayer of every good English man FINIS