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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37294	A word without-doors concerning the bill for succession	J. D.	1670 (1670)	Wing D48; ESTC R24908	8,795	11

Canterbury who had a great opinion of his Virtue and Probity was admitted King by the consent of the Realm his elder Brother Robert Duke of Normandy being then in the War at Jerusalem William dying his younger Brother Henry by his ingenuity and fair carriage and by the assistance of Henry Earl of Warwick who had greatest interest in the Nobility and Maurice Bishop of London a leading-man amongst the Clergy obtained also the Crown And Robert Duke of Normandy was a second time excluded And though this King Henry could pretend no other Title to the Crown than the Election and Admission of the Realm yet he defended it so well and God prospered him with such success that when his elder Brother Robert came to claim the Kingdom by force of Arms he beat him in a Pitcht-Battel took him Prisoner and so he dyed miserably in Bonds King Henry had one only daughter named Maud or Matilda who was married to the Emperor and he dying without issue she was afterwards married to Geofrey Plantagenet Earl of Anjou in France by whom she had a Son named Henry whom his Grandfather declared Heir-apparent to the Crown in his life-time yet after his death Henry was excluded and Stephen Earl of Bulloine Son of Adela Daughter of William the Conqueror was by the States thought more fit to govern than Prince Henry who was then but a Child And this was done by the perswasion of Henry Bishop of Winchester and at the solicitation of the Abbot of Glastenbury and others who thought they might do the same lawfully and with a good conscience for the publick good of the Realm But the event did not prove so well as they intended for this occasioned great Factions and Divisions in the Kingdom for the quieting of which there was a Parliament held at Wallingford which passed a Law That Stephen should be King only during his Life and that Prince Henry and his off-spring should succeed him and by the same Law debarred William Son of King Stephen from inheriting the Crown and only made him Earl of Norfolk Thus did the Parliament dispose of the Crown in those days which was in the year 1153 which sufficiently proves what I have asserted The sum of all I have said amounts to this That Government in general is by the Law of Nature and consequently the Ordinance of God but that the different forms of Government whether to reside in One Few or Many or whether it shall be continued by Succession or by Election together with the different measures and limitations of Power and Authority in Governours of the same kind in several Countreys All these things I say are ordained by and purely depend upon Positive and Human Laws From whence it will necessarily follow That the same human Authority residing in King Lords and Commons here in England which gave being to those Laws for the good of the Community is superintendent over them and both may and ought to make any addition to or alteration of them when the publick Good and Welfare of the Nation shall require it unless you will admit That an human Authority establishing any thing intentionally for the common good of the Society which in tract of time by reason of unforeseen circumstances and emergencies proves destructive of it has by that Act concluded it self and made that accidental evil moral and unchangeable which to affirm is sensless and repugnant AND now Sir I hope by this time said the old Gentleman you begin to think that the Bill for disabling the Duke was not so unjust and unreasonable as was pretended and that the course of Succession being founded upon the same bottom with other Civil Constitutions might likewise as justly have been altered by the King Lords and Commons as any other Law or Custom whatever And here I might conclude But because a late PENTIONARY Pen has publickly arraign'd the Wisdom Loyalty and Justice of the Honourable House of Commons on the account of this Bill I will ex abundanti add a word or two more to that particular Whereupon he pluckt a Paper out of his Pocket entituled Great and weighty Considerations relating to the Duke and Successor of the Crown c. Which as soon as he had read unto us You see here said he the true temper of those men of whom I first gave you caution There never was an endeavour though in a Legal and Parliamentary way after any Reformation either in Church or State but the promoters of it were sure to be branded by them with the odious imputations of Fanaticism and Faction Nay if the Countrey Electors of Parliament-men will not pitch upon such Rake-hells of the Nation as are usually proposed by them but on the contrary make use of their Freedom and Consciences in chusing able upright and deserving persons and if good men thus chosen do but according to their Duty in the House enquire into publick Grievances pursue in a Legal course notorious Offenders and consult and advise the security of the Government and Protestant Religion the high Church-man immediately swells and in passion tells you That all this proceeds from the old Phanatick Leven not yet worn out amongst the people That we are going back again to Forty one and acting over afresh the sins of our Forefathers Thus ignorantly do they complement the Times and Persons they endeavour to expose by appropriating to them such Virtues as were common to good men in all Ages But enough of this In the next place pray observe how hypocritically the CONSIDERER puts this Question viz. Whether Protestant Religion was not setled in this Nation by the same mighty hand of God that establisht Jeroboam in the Kingdom of Israel And then adds Whether we like that wicked King should so far despair of Gods Providence in preserving the work of his own hands as never to think it safe unless it be establisht on the Quick-sands of our own wicked Inventions viz. the Bill against the Duke And throughout his whole Discourse he frequently calls all Care of preserving our Religion a mistrust of God's Providence and on that score calls out to the Nation O ye of little faith c. Now I will allow him That the least evil is not to be done that the greatest and most important Good may ensue But that the Bill for Disabling the Duke is highly justifiable both by the Laws of God and Constitution of our Government I think by my former Discourse I have left no room to doubt and the Considerer having scarce attempted to prove the contrary it 's preposterously done of him to give us his Use of Reproof before he has clear'd his Doctrine However I owe him many thanks for putting me in mind how Protestant Religion was first establisht here in England It was indeed by the mighty hand of God influencing the Publick Councels of the Nation so that all imaginable care was taken both by Prince and people to rescue themselves from under the