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A37415 Defensio legis, or, The Whole state of England inquisited and defended for general satisfaction. 1674 (1674) Wing D821; ESTC R33438 97,443 336

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the Spiritual Law hard They may stand on Terms and Camphyle with the Temporal And by their Trivancy in Scrupling and non-obeying the one the other is Maim'd and Resisted Diversity of Religion Destructive to Monarchy Hardly Peace in the State without Unity in the Church is an approved Maxim Contrariety of Judgment in Spiritual Matters wherein should be the fullest Assent Dis-joynts the Affection makes Parties and several Factions for though Teeth outwards they may appear somewhat Curteous and fair yet inwardly there 's not that Graciousness of good Will and Debonaireness of Love As when All of one Belief Therefore a general Liberty not only inconsistent with the Purity of Religion but even very Incongruous and against the Interest of State Thus we contend for no light matter with the most Prudential Salus Regis or the very Being of Monarchy lies at Stake And therefore the Law not over whetted but too Dull and Curt. 'T is Agreed that in Republiques Consisting of Trucking Nurture one Size of State Studious only to amass and hoord up Pilth a Liberty of Ranting happily not so Formidable there being no Pyramids of Envy to blaze Ambition But for Monarchy the Colony of Honour and Element of Ambition 't is fear'd their Shafts will be too Busie and if not Button'd too Bold and Dangerous Like the Heat of the two Competitours the one would brook no Peer the other no Supreme In brief any little Faculty of Dispensation will prove Ruinous to Monarchy 3. In Law After the Judgment of several Acts of Parliament 't is against the Safety of the Kings Soul And Sedition like Murder can hardly Conceal long it must out though to the Ruine of the Contriver 4. In the Isonomy or even Poise of Justice 'T is very Hard that the Obedients that readily Comply leading a dutiful and sober life should fare worse then the Surly and Undutiful the fearless Darers that Vapour against Law and Reason and make all the Bustle Such Partiality is enough to Dis-spirit and cast down the most Valiant'st into more then Heaviness even Despair and to Entice and Embolden the Cowardous and even harden their Haughtiness The Sequel is plain enough to the least Speck of understanding though bred at the Plough tail If Surliness be cock'd up with Indulgings 't will vaunt more ragingly in Churlings And glory to Alarum Church and State with Continual Dislikings which shall always unsetle the one and Disquiet the other So that through remiss Cockerings we shall never Enjoy Religion nor indeed Peace 5. In Politick Prudence To keep Peace on the Hindge the surest Contrivance is to cherish Obedience to Law If some few inconsiderable Wretches are Pleas'd the Solider and better Part will be Disoblig'd then their Dissentings may prove as Fearful and more then the former because forty Times more Worthy And to slight a Friend and not abate an Enemy is Doting Wisdom A Friend will stick to the End and therefore ought to be put in the Bosom and made much of for his Integrity will avail more in Time of Need then a Crowd of Foes seemingly Fetch'd off with easie yieldings to Ignorance and Pride Muffling their Passions from open Ravings till opportunity invite them to Staring Frantickness Thus the Gratifying one Faction will beget a greater and so a Stone in the Foot still The State sicker for Changing the Law But quod inconsultò Diximus Consultò Revocamus what we have Indulgently Voted we Advisedly Repeal otherwise the Church without running to a Seer will certainly be Destroy'd and the Monarchy overthrown Par. 179. An Advisement to Princes how they Dandle the Picqueerers against Monarchy 'T IS held a safe Tenent of State with the Judicious that nothing doth more Exalt and Amplifie Princedoms then Sticking close to Vnity in Religion Liberty of Conscience O sad Juggle a Sophism of Delusion and impossible to be Allow'd unless the Prince be weary of his Crown for if Connivings produce these Scaring Blunders what will do a full Liberty that will soon end the Strife and throw Monarchy shear out of the Window Currat Lex For the smallest Indulgence Imaginable will be the Mother of more Mischief then hapily a Session of Wits can Redress Give but an Inch and under Colour of Dispensation such is the Malapertness of Cocker'd Schism they 'le take an Ell And deem it but scanting measure though they skip all Bounds of Piety and Manners Liberty of Roving will give them the choice of Ruffus Shield to repudiate Heaven or Espowse Hell Vivat Ecclesia Otherwise this Audaciousness will swell to Confront Sovereignty and in a short Time had they Teeth to their Stomach Create a martial Disturbance Par. 180. Mournings for Moroseness I 'ME struck to the Heart that so Gallant a Prince as the Majesty of England should be thus Abus'd That no Acts of Grace no softness of Temper should prove Disswasives sufficient to silence the Froward But rather Condensate and brazen their Impiety but it hath been Told Though rushie Anchors break iron will Hold. Forbearings signifie no more then words written in Water If the Galaxy or milkey Monishings fail persevering in Ecclesiastical Unity will pick stubborness out of the Breast And spare legal Buffetings the Trouble of Converting the Spirit Since Mildness cannot Prevail undoubtedly Executing the Will of Heaven in suppressing Faction will Kill the Serpent and Keep the Crown on his Head Par. 181. Vive le Ley. ELse Religion must suffer and in time be overturn'd for every Hot-head that pleads so fiercely for Liberty of Conscience without Begging him for an Anatomy hath apparently a Pope in his Belly Designing to reduce the Church into a despicable Condition through Tumult and Confusion And then to slip in the golden Cross which in Truth are the Vniversal Designments of all the Whinings and Soothings for Freedom of Conscience Par. 182. The Precation for the Dethroners of Monarchy AT the great Advent of the Sovereign of Souls and Justiciary of Spirits When the Soul must appear in its Albe or natural Shape without Frock or Shift and Plead peremptorily Pray God this Sowrness against the State be not Sentenc'd to Chains of Darkness Par. 183. The Conclusion 1. TO Conclude the State having been too much Bruis'd through so lame a Patrociny No Satyrick Fume or sporting Vein through Florridness of Stile to bait the poor beguiled Ramble No swelling Thoughts to Enlarge my Privacy through Romantick Pride to look Big in Print Sneakingly to Creep or Curry Favour with Parmenio Hath occasioned this Emparlance But meerly the Impulse of Conscience out of the Allegiance I owe to the Church to lay the Spirit of Error for the safeguard of the Soul and the Good of Monarchy In truth to Confirm the Regular and if it Stand with the Divine Pleasure to reduce the Pilgrim 2. Pardon the Frequency of some French words us'd out of necessity because Adapted by Law not foisted in out of the Common Fondness that admit of no Compleat