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A65179
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Vox Regni, or, The voice of the kingdom being a dialogue between the city and countrey.
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1680
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Wing V738; ESTC R1058
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VOX REGNI OR The Voice of the Kingdom BEING A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE City and Countrey Countrey GOod Neighbour City Let us revive and renew that intimacy and correspondency we formerly had in the days of Queen Elizabeth you know we have a mutual dependency upon each other and the Happiness or Misery of the One will be the same to the Other And therefore let us with good Protestant Hearts resolve to love each other as Protestants and live and die together in a Resolution to Preserve and Defend our Protestant King from all Bloody Papists together with our Properties and the Priviledges of Parliament And in special manner let us maintain the True Protestant Religion with Heart and Hand with Purse and Power as becometh Christians and Good Subjects forasmuch as the Protestant Religion is the Best in the whole World the good Word of God being the onely Rule thereof both as touching matters of Faith and matters of Conversation and it doth not allow of any kind of wickedness City This Proposal and Desire of the Countrey doth greatly rejoyce the hearts of all true Protestants in the City We can heartily and readily say One and All One and All for our Protestant King for our Parliament-Privileges for our Properties and for our precious Protestant Religion O these things are near and dear unto us And when we seriously consider the present dangers that attend the King and Kingdom and the future miseries that may come by the cruelty of the bloody Papists our very hearts are ready to break And therefore we do agree with you to live and die together in the Protestant Cause as before expressed Countrey If we should not thus agree our Posterity may pour out Curses both upon City and Countrey For if we suffer the Popish Party to get uppermost we shall leave them that will be Protestants nothing to possess but Popish Cruelty Farewel then to the precious Gospel of Christ farewel to the sweet Ministers of Christ as well the Conformists as the Nonconformists Popish Cruelty will make no difference between them the same Gallows shall hang them and the same Fire shall burn them O what a dreadful Change will then be in our Land Instead of the holy Scriptures in English there will be Latin Mattins or Masses instead of Christs holy Ordinances there will be the Inventions and Traditions of Rome instead of powerful Soul-searching Ministers the Land will be filled with Jesuits Monks and Friars like the Locusts that came out of the bottomless Pit City We are glad that the Countrey hath such a good apprehension and feeling sence of the miseries which come into a Nation with Popery We also must say If Popery do get uppermost Vndone Vâ—done Vndone every way undone you in the Countrey and wâ— in the City utterly undone And therefore it highly concerns us to act according to the old English Proverb and since we are Fore-warn'd to be Fore-arm'd especially considering what Endeavours there hath been and what Longings there now is for the Death of our Protestant King by the Popish Party because they reckon that then they shall certainly have a Popish King Lord have mercy upon us How dreâ—dfull 〈…〉 we been deceived About twenty years ago we could not be perswaded 〈…〉 f the Royal Family would appear for Popery but then we were swallowed up with expectations of seeing the happiest days and being the most happy People upon Earth But instead thereof how have our Goals been filled with Good Christians yea even in the time of the Raging Pestilence After which our famous City was set on Fire and continued burning four days in which time more then thirteen thousand Houses were destroyed and now not our Houses onely but our Bodies also are in danger of Burning for all the talk is of a Popish Successor and a Popish Religion upon the Death of the King whom God long preserve Countrey In troth good City when we look back upon things past and consider the present state of Affairs together with what is like to come upon us it is a heart-breaking Consideration But let us chear up blessed be God we have a good Parliament We have had many a hard tug in chusing them and were almost wearied out in looking for their sitting which made us often enquire of you in the City what might be the meaning of so many Prorogations but you could not tell us though we did believe the King had some Bad Folks about Him that might be the cause of it But when His Majesty was graciously pleased to send his Proclamation into the Countrey wherein He did promise they should not onely Meet but Sit it filled the Countrey Protestants with great joy City This was the great joy of the City also and the first day of their meeting thousands of People did appear at Westminster to see them and a chearful countenance was in the face of all good Protestants At which time His Majesty made a Speech to both Houses of Parliament in which He did put the Parliament upon an Impartial Inquiry into the Plot and bringing the Lords in the Tower to a Tryal that Justice might be done and His Majesty did give unto them great Assurances that nothing should be wanting on His part to maintain the Protestant Religion in concurrence with them in any new means or ways they should propose to Him that should consist with preserving the Succession of the Crown in its due and legal Course of Descent He also commended unto them the state of Tangier and said it would not be long tenable without help from them and having pressed them to Vnity among themselves at last concluded That the World should see it was not his fault if this were not a happy Session Countrey Verily this was a brave Speech and we believe this Parliament are as right for the impartial management of these things as ever Parliament were in England And they do well know that the Countrey and City chose them for this very purpose viz. To inquire into the Plot so as to find out all that are guilty of it of what Rank or Quality soever and as for the Protestant Religion they know England is quite undone if that be not well secured both for the present and hereafter and for the Tryal of the Lords in the Tower they know the Countrey is highly displeased and greatly grieved that men impeached of High Treason and that by the Commons of England should be so long before they be brought to their Tryals for if they be Innocent it is great wrong to them and if they be Guilty it is no kindness to the Kingdom to let them live so long But pray good City tell us what is the meaning of those words The Succession of the Crown in its due and legal Course of Descent City Truly it is a hard matter to hit upon the right meaning of Princes but as to those words some do think it is a keeping of the Crown