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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61424	A caveat against flattery, and profanation of sacred things to secular ends upon sight of the order of the convention for the thanksgiving, and consideration of the misgovernment and misfortunes of the last race of kings of this nation.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1689 (1689)	Wing S5424; ESTC R184625	23,049	37

his Mother and Grandfather having both born their own burdens was by the Providence of God brought to the Throne of this Kingdom in Peace even beyond the expectation of himself and many others And though the restless and desperate attempts of the Papists were otherwise enough to terrifie a man of greater natural Courage than himself yet he had for his Encouragement an admirable experiment of the Special Providence of God in the Preservation of his next immediate Predecessor Queen Elizabeth through a long Reign of forty four years notwithstanding all their Conspiracies against her And lest that should not sufficiently affect him he had moreover in the very beginning of his Reign a like experiment thereof in the Preservation of himself and his own Family from one of the most horrid desperate and secret Conspiracies that the World hath ever heard of And what did all this require of him Could it be any thing less than the highest demonstration of Gratitude to God most confident Dependance upon him and intire Fidelity to him And what less from the Nation But what was the Return It was wisely said at his first coming in by one of his Scotch Courtiers to one of the English We have brought you a good King but you Court Flatterers will soon spoil him And so it proved It was indeed a great happiness to have all Causes of Dissention not only in this Nation but also between both Nations so plainly and fully extinguish'd in his person But such was partly the Transport of all sorts of people and such the gross Flattery of many that nothing was enough to magnify either his Wisdom or his Power This and the pompous Titles of Monarch Absolute and Imperial Crown c. soon raised his thoughts above the pitch of an English King. He thought himself as free to exceed the Laws of the Land as God the Laws of Nature when he saw occasion for it though he thought in Prudence such extraordinary Acts like Miracles in Nature were not ordinarily to be done He thought the Rights and Liberties of the People were but Indulgences wrested from their Kings his Predecessors cujus contrarium est verum and might thereupon infer and had wit enough to do it that it was but reasonable for him to regain by Policy if he could what they had lost by Necessity or Constraint These fancies of his were continually fed and confirm'd by self-seeking flattering persons who perceiving that to be the way to Preferment strained all their Wit and Parts to gratify his humour and it was not long before he found occasion to exercise that Freedom The Discovery of that horrid Conspiracy which by his admirable Deliverance should have confirmed his Dependance upon the Divine Providence for the future having a contrary effect upon him he cast about to secure his Safety and Quiet by his own Craft and Policy And the only way for that he conceived was by making not only Amity and Leagues but the nearest Alliance that could be with some Potent Prince of the Popish Religion And by all means he must have a match for his Son either from France or Spain for the Accomplishment whereof the Pope whom he had before asserted to be Anti-christ must be complemented with no meaner Title than Sanctissime Pater Indulgence to Papists contrary to the Laws must be agreed and the effectual Execution of the Laws against them actually stopp'd by secret Orders for a publick Declaration for that purpose would not then pass for a Legal Act of Dispensing Power And because they who were most Zealous in Religion were like to be most averse from compliance in these things the very Power of Religion must be discountenanced under the Notion of Puritanism and Indifference and Formality incouraged under the Notion of Loyalty Obedience and Conformity And to this end was the Book of Sports injoyned to be read in Churches and many Pious and able Divines put out of their Employments if not Freeholds too for refusing to read it Nor did he want incouragement in all these things from Flatterers of all sorts who easily prevailed against the sounder and safer Counsels of others And though some of them who had published their false and flattering Argument in Print were questioned in Parliament for it both in King James and in King Charles I time yet even for some of them did the King intercede in Parliament as King James 7. Jac. for Dr. Cowel and others were preferr'd or favoured afterward as Dr. Mainwaring by King Charles I. as others since have gotten what they wrote for and have been well rewarded for their pains Of the former sort see Rushworth and Mr. Petyts Miscellanea Parlementaria of these latter 't is like the Parliament in due time will take notice This unhappy Policy as it was not unlike in its Principles to that of Jeroboam which became a sin to his House even to cut it off and destroy it from off the face of the earth so it proved also in its consequence His eldest and hopeful Son Prince Henry was in the beginning of these courses and soon after the first proposal of such a match taken away by an immature death and himself persisting therein by a death questioned then and in the dark to this day whether not untimely His next Son and Successor King Charles I. whom he had involved in these snares but never lived to see his Marriage accomplished proceeding in the like courses giving incouragement to Flatterers and through their false and deceitful Counsels in many things transgressing the Laws indulging to Papists and discouraging and oppressing many of the most Religious and Conscientious of the Protestants as Puritans and Factious and renewing with more severity that unhappy Policy of the Book of Sports at last concluded this Scene with that unhappy Catastrophe which is well known to the World. King Charles I. having also born his burden to his Son King Charles the Second after he had been tutor'd in a Wilderness of twelve years Exile was Almighty God pleased to open the Gates of his Mercy and when all hopes either from Foreign Assistance or Domestick Conspiracies sailed then by a favourable and manifest Providence to admit or rather conduct him to his Fathers Throne in Peace to the great Joy of himself and the whole Nation putting into his hand upon terms of his Behaviour the prize of a fair opportunity to have made himself and these Nations happy had he had a heart to it and they been disposed for it But such was the Transport they were all under at that time that they soon forgot themselves forgot God and like Pigs to the Trough ran greedily to a brutish enjoyment of their unexpected Happiness and through their Ingratitude to God instead of Blessings which they might have been proved mutual Temptations and occasions of Corruption and Debauchery each to other the new King by a most pernicious evil Example and those about him by self-seeking Flattery Compliance

and Imitation whereby they both encouraged and hardened him in those evil Courses and propagated the Imitation of it to all ranks of people The Parliament it self that is the Majority unadvisedly and contrary to the true Constitution of this Government declared him to be by the Fundamental Laws of this Kingdom in effect above all Law and his very Officers irresistible and required of all Officers of Corporations Officers and Souldiers in the Militia and of the Clergy and Universities a Declaration to the same effect subjected the Dwelling-houses of the People to be searched at the pleasure of his Officers formed a new Militia and put it wholly into his Hands and profusely gave him vast summs of Money out of the Estates of the people beyond all need reason and justice The Commissioners and Convocations of the Clergy in their new Additions to the Common Prayer without any regard to what he or his Successors might prove in time or to the inconvenience they might thereby bring upon themselves needlessly gave him the Title of most Religious and Gracious in publick forms of most solemn address to Almighty God and the Kings Arms were in divers Churches in the City set above the Commandments of God in the place of most solemn Worship whereas at Oxford as I have heard the Founders Arms in the Theatre being placed above the Kings were ordered to be taken down for the Indecency Agreeable hereunto was Loyalty as they call'd Compliance with the Will and Pleasure of the King whether legal or not cry'd up as the only Honesty and Non-Resistauce and Passive-Obedience as if they were the greatest and most necessary Doctrines of Religion by all who sought the Favour of the Times in their ordinary Discourse and Conversation and publickly so asserted in Speeches in Sermons from the Pulpit and in Printed Books by such as expected any special Favour or Preferment Nor stay'd it here for the King now assured by such Demonstrations of the Obedience and Compliance of his People and thereby encouraged to take the Liberty to gratifie his Lust more openly than otherwise perhaps he would have done and being a Person of a pleasant Wit and delighting in Repertees Jests and such like Diversions from serious thoughts the stream of the Courtiers Gallants and all who affected to be reputed such presently ran with a full torrent into the same Chanel and soon overspread a great part of the Nation And vain aiery Lightness frothy and Obscene Discourse profane and horrid Swearing and more then brutish satisfaction of Lust and Contempt of all Religion were not only indulged but affected too as generous qualities of a Gentleman and certain Notes and Evidences of Loyalty and Fidelity to the King and consormity to his own heart and mind And those who made any scruple of Conscience to run to the same Excess of Riot were looked upon and despised as disaffected disloyal mean spirited fools and Fanaticks but those who did dare to oppose either the Debaucheries of these Loyalists or the illegal actions of the King as Imprudent Rash and Madmen And so great a Baseness and Degeneracy thereupon presently seised and tainted many that not considering the severe Denunciations of our Saviour against such they were even out-faced and ashamed of their Religion and became Hypocrites in Debauchery and to avoid the Imputation and Reproach of being religious and sneaking did actually sneak to such degenerate and despicable Wretches while by base compliance in obscene Discourse and familiar Swearing they gloried in their shame and would seem companions with them in such things as yet they never acted indeed And in so degenerate a state what can be so absurd and inconsistant that Men will not do What wonder is it then to see Men at the same time in Words applaud the Non-Obedience of the Bishops and yet in their acts comply with the Dispensing Power To see those who by their High Professions of Loyalty and Non-Resistance had invited and encouraged the King to use his liberty to inslave them when they found that he presuming too much upon their High Profession was like indeed to involve them in the same Slavery and Mischiefs with the rest choose rather to enter with others into secret Conspiracies for the Common Safety than in time to prevent that with a true and generous Loyalty and Fidelity openly oppose his Illegal Proceedings These things with some few others made the Government of King Charles II. uneasy and brought King James II. to his Exit We are now entring as I said into a New Scene of Affairs And that this may proceed more happily it cannot but be of great use to reflect upon and consider well the Errors Miscarriages and true Causes of the unhappiness and sad Catastrophes of the two former I have already briefly touched some of the more immediate and visible Causes Historically as to the matter of Fact But to make a right use of them it may be necessary to enquire a little more deeply and Philosophically into them These Causes therefore to go to the bottom are two-fold Natural and Divine which doth secretly but effectually dispose and order the Natural The Divine is by way of Judgment which is always just and for some Sin and doth frequently proceed to Excision cutting off and Extirpation of whole Families when the sin is persisted in though for the most part unless in case of some heinous crime gradually giving fair warnings and opportunities to one after another to prevent by Reformation the final and utter Extirpation of all And though many times the Root of Bitterness lye deep and be hard by others to be detected yet it is not seldom that the Sin is legible and apparent in the Punishment and certainly if we well consider what a Sin it is to resist oppose and oppress the Truth when offered especially in matters of great consequence and presented by some special Providence of God all who believe Popery to be an abominable Abuse and Corruption of the genuine Christianity tending to the defacing enervating and subversion of it and that the Reformation desired is nothing but the Restitution of it to its pristine and genuine Lustre and Power must of necessity believe that the Cherishing of Popery and Opposing of such a Reformation may be such a Sin as being persisted in may provoke as great Judgments as this And then if we reflect back as far as the Grand-father of our King James the First and thence observe how Indulgence and Favour to Popery from this first Opposing of the Reformation in Scotland has been continued and continually attended with destructive signal Judgments in his Posterity ever since beginning with one very Prodigious a horrid Dream of the loss of both his Arms and the sudden Death of both his Sons all at distant places in one Night as may be seen in Spotswood it will not be hard to trace and detect the True Root which hath born all this bitter Fruit in that Family