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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67064	A Word within-doors, or, A reply to a word without-doors in which the divers opinions of succession to the Crown of England, are compared, in a letter to a person of worth.		1679 (1679)	Wing W3576; ESTC R23504	2,761	4

A Word within-doors OR A REPLY TO A WORD without-doors In which The divers OPINIONS of Succession to the CROWN of England are compared In a LETTER to a Person of Worth SIR AFter my Thanks to you for your double Favour first in laying your commands on me and then thinking me able to resolve that so much-every-where-controverted Question and every-where so differently decided of which indeed I may say that the different Interest and Affections of particular men are more than any other thing the occasion But Sir the people of your parts mistake the Question in making it Whether the Duke by being a Papist is ipso facto disabled to succeed The many Statutes they alleadge for preserving the Protestant Religion make nothing for your conclusion that therefore the Prince must be a Protestant To these men we need return no other Answer than the sense of the late House of Commons in which his R.H. had perhaps as few friends as ever any Prince had in that House For what other inference shall we deduce from their preparing a Bill and earnest endeavour to set him aside by Act of Parliament but that as yet there is no Law that dis-inherits a Papist No better is that other Argument of theirs from the Coronation-Oath to maintain the establisht Church and which his good Father say they was so religious an observer of that he long for that very reason resisted the two Houses for taking away the Bishops Votes in Parliament This Oath is part of a ceremony nothing adding to the Kings right who is absolutely to all intents and purposes King before his Coronation nor need he ever proceed to it Some of our Kings have raigned years without it some have received it more than once King Edward the Fifth was never Crowned yet he is reckoned amongst our Kings And our present Soveraign not to speak of his twelve years abroad ruled near a year before he was crowned and yet I think no man will question his Actions then as King But Sir we have in Town another Question viz. Whether admitting the D. unquestionable Right it may be lawful for the preserving Religion and the Peace of three Nations to devest him of that Right because he is a Roman Catholick for to this indeed however the words may disguise it is the Question brought Whether we may not rob a Prince of his Right because that Right sutes not with our Interest The doing of evil though good come of it I read is forbidden and I do not find that there is any one Exception to so absolute and general a Rule But leaving the decision of the Question as to Jus Divinum naturale politicum to the professors of those Sciences I shall answer this Question with an Example as well for that this better convinces and is the shorter way long a per praecepta via per exempla brevis Whoever will reflect on the fortune of Mary Queen of Scots whatever the civil pretensions were against her will find that the cause of Religion was that which destroyed her and sure there were all and greater Motives for that than here are yet is that death reproacht and for ever will be to a Queen in whose whole life though long and filled with as great strange sudden and important Actions and Revolutions as that of any one Prince whatsoever there is nothing to accuse her of besides Whatever she might endure in her person and conscience sure her Reputation has greatly suffered though it be uncertain how far she were privy to that Action whether by direct order and appointment or by bare consent and connivance onely though if we believe Mr. Cambden it was neither Yet then if ever there was a necessity of doing wrong and then if ever might that necessity have been justified and that for these following Reasons 1. The Kingdom was on a double account in despair of Issue from the Queens absolute aversion to and often repeated declaration in Parliament against Marriage and from her years she being then some Fifty four 2. The next Heir the Queen of Scots had been born and brought up a Papist and having never had other Faith it was unlikely she should at her age embrace new Principles for which she had sucked Hatred with her Milk which Hatred received no small increase from the actions of Murray and other Rebels who pretending to profess the Reformed Religion acted under those pretences such Villany and Injustice as could not but continue the Queen more averse to a Religion which as she believed gave colour and countenance to such Practices 3. The state of the Kingdom at that time The Reformation as establisht by Queen Elizabeth was not yet thirty Years old and more than half the Kingdom was yet living who remembred it and had known Queen Mary and therefore might easily under another Queen Mary be brought to return to their first Opinion The contrary of these three in our present case there is no man but can inform them and therefore I shall omit it to shew that even the Case expressed was an unlawful and unjust act Turn we to the Story and there see what ways and means were studied for what endeavours were used to secure the Protestant Religion without destroying that Princess and her Right and that by all the Ministers of State we shall have cause to believe they as Ministers of State were obliged to actions that themselves in their Conscience believed unlawful and yet these were wise and able Ministers if ever Prince had any But if we consider the Queen herself and what was her sense of and her behaviour after her Cozens Death we shall have all the reason in the world knowing her great Judgment and Knowledge to conclude that herself was well assured that what had been done was wicked and unlawful But some will say We desire not nor design the Death of the Duke but to exclude him Such men argue ill a private man may outlive his fortunes but 't is not so with Princes he that would deny a Prince his Throne would as little allow him Life if he could But not to tire you I shall conclude with this Q. Mary died sitting the Parliament Heath Archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor by Order of both Houses declar'd the Lady Elizabeth Queen though well known to be a Protestant they article not with the Queen but rely on Gods Providence for their Religion Let us not then Sir declame against their Principles and our selves practise them leave that to the Puritans who with all their pretended Reformation agree with them in this the Pope pretends a Power superior to Kings and so do they though they place it elsewhere what else means that Maxime of theirs A King is accountable to his People collectively Assembled in Parliament Again the Pope and his Followers maintain That a King if an Heretick may be Deposed The Puritan will not have the Duke to succeed because he believes Popery that is Heresie I shall take my leave with my Prayers for your Health and that you may continue firm to your Mother-Church of England of which to write any other Encomium or make any other Character than that which is left us by our late King in his Eikoon Basilikee to do wrong to his most incomparable Pen take it then Sir in his words I have tryed it says that Wife and Learned Prince and after much search and many Disputes have concluded it to be the best in the world not only in the community as Christian but also in the special Notion as Reformed keeping the middle way between the Pomp of Superstitious Tyranny and the Meanness of Fantastick Anarchy These are his words and in them is great truth But I shall tire you Farewel Sir God keep you long in Health and send you better Neighbours Do Justice and fear nothing 't is both the Advice and Resolution of Your very c. 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