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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41868	Great and weighty considerations relating to the D[uke of York] or successor of the crown humbly offer'd to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and both Houses of Parliament / by a true patriot.	True patriot.; Hunt, Thomas, 1627?-1688.	1679 (1679)	Wing G1660; ESTC R5871	12,981	12

it to their undoubted Prince Certainly if God was so much incensed against Esau for selling his Birth right to his Brother Jacob as the Apostle tells us Heb. 12.17 how much think we shall his fury be kindled against our proceedings where not an ordinary man as Esau looseth his Birth-right but a most illustrious Prince by Birth and Lineal Descent of so many Glorious Kings and looseth not a Birth-right to a small Inheritance but to several Kingdoms and that not made away by himself but contrary to his will and all justice is robb'd thereof by a prevailing Faction of his Inferiours But if neither the unlawfulness of this desperate attempt nor the heinous guilt of perjury thereupon necessarily ensuing can move or deter us from it yet let both our private and publick dangers and the sad effects inevitably consequential thereunto withdraw us from such violent proceedings If it be God's pleasure that his Royal Highness shall survive your Sacred Majesty without having any Lawful Issue we need not doubt but he will endeavour to recover his Right by force if by fair means he cannot And in this case we may consider how these three Kingdoms are most strangely divided into a numberless number both of Religions and Interests and it is a true saying Omne Regnum in se divisum desolabitur And the strength of Protestants abroad is not very great and their will to help us if need require I am afraid is less But the Papists are very strong and we may be sure the Pope will prevail with most of them to help a Catholick Prince deprived of his Right for his Religion and no doubt will not be backward himself in the Expedition The French King likewise who is now in a manner at peace with all the World and yet must of necessity be somewhere in action to give vent to the fiery Spirits of his busie Subjects will undoubtedly be glad of the opportunity and will hold it a glorious pretence to assist though I am afraid most for his own ends a Catholick Prince excluded from his Kingdom for the Catholick Faith And without all peradventure his Royal Highness shall find enough even in these three Kingdoms not onely of Papists and other Male-contents but also of the best and most conscientious Protestants as in duty bound ready to take his part in so just a quarrel How then shall we defend our selves neither united at home nor assisted from abroad or shall we expect to be miraculously delivered by God of whose protection and providence we shew our selves now so mistrustful Truely I am afraid we shall rather be miraculously punished like Sodom or Gomorrah for our hainous sins and daily multiplyed transgressions than any wayes delivered from the just judgments of God unless we refrain in time from our desperate proceedings and no more endeavour with such manifest injustice to hinder the order of Gods Providence or debar our Prince because of a different perswasion from his undoubted Birthright For nothing doth so much exasperate the divine patience and longanimity as to establish injustice by publick authority and to make that seem lawful which the Law of God declares abominable By what means then can we expect to escape his vengeance if the great Representative of the whole Nation which should reform and redress all transgressions of Gods Law do attempt contrary to the express word of God and all justice to rob their Prince of his undoubted right and to make the Imperial Crown of England which since the beginning of Monarchy in this Island was never got but by Conquest or Inheritance now to go by Election and the greatest Vote in the House of Commons thereby making the King himself for all ensuing Ages to be Tenant at will to every prevailing Faction in Parliament I say Tenant at will for nothing is more certain than that by whatsoever power or pretence the Parliament can depose the presumptive Heir by the same they may depose the actual possessor of the Crown as the Rump Parliament well understood For the fundamental Reason why a presumptive Heir to the Crown may be dis-inherited or deposed either by King Parliament or both together is because whatsoever is suspected to tend to the Subversion of the Government or of the true Religion here established by Law is necessarily to be removed to secure the good and welfare of the people according to the Ancient saying Salus populi suprema lex esto But that this reason has no less force against the Actual Possessor than against the Presumptive Heir of the Crown is a thing in it self so evident that I think no man in his wits especially acquainted with the late intestine troubles and present temper of our blind Zealots can call it into question For what if the King himself be at any time thus suspected to endeavour the Subversion of the Government is there no remedy to be expected Undoubtly their is say our great Politicians and a good one too For our Omnipotent Parliament i. e. themselves only and their Emissaries whose Religion is the Bellowes of Rebellion the grand Jury of the whole Nation and the publick Inquest of all Grievances is authorized by God when the King fails to use their absolute Power against all manner of persons of what degree or condition soever they be to secure the good and welfare of the people because as before said Salus populi suprema lex esto And thus our grand Principle as it is the fundamental Reason of deposing a presumptive Heir to the Crown so it is the ground work of all Anarchy and Rebellion It is the spring and source of all our last intestine troubles which overflow'd the three Kingdoms with a deluge of crimson streames nay it was the chief foundation whereon the bloody Rumpers chiefly insisted in Sacrificing our Royal Martyr as a Tyrant Subverting the Government and true Protestant Religion But if a Prince so mild so just and so Religious be thus Cruelly Butcher'd upon these grounds by a prevailing Faction of his Subjects it is inconceivable to me how can any King of England judge himself otherwise than Tenant at will to every prevailing Faction in Parliament or at least think himself secure while such principles are maintained by his Subjects especially if they be established by Law as in effect they would have been had that abortive Embrio of the House of Commons received life which I hope will never happen through the influence of Your Majesties Royal Assent Truly our greatest comfort in this desperate juncture of Affairs after the unlimitted mercy of our gracious Saviour is the assured confidence we always repose in Your Majesties Princely Wisdom and Courage and in the Grave and Mature Deliberations of the House of Lords and of Your most Honourable Privy-Council whose tryed Loyalty both to Your Sacred Majesty and to Your Royal Father assures us that neither the pretence of establishing the true Protestat Religion which of it self is sufficiently upheld by the mighty hand of God nor any consideration of Temporal gain or Worldly interest can induce them to decline in the least from their Sworn Allegiance and Fidelity to the Royal Blood of your Glorious Father who so magnanimously deposed his life in defence of his Subjects Lives and Liberties against the Anarchial encroachments of the Factious Members of the House of Commons in the Rump Parliament whose footsteps some I am afraid no less Factious Members of this present House of Commons seem exactly to follow pretending as the former did to secure and establish the true Protestant Religion according to that Machiavilian maxime Quoties vis fallere plebem finge Deum Whereas it is apparent they do no more regard the establishing thereof than the Rump Parliament did in Oliver's dayes Yet this I say not no nor any thing else I have hitherto misliked or reprehended of the whole House of Commons much less of the whole Parliament God forbid I should think so ill of that Grave and Reverend Senate I know there are many true and well-meaning Loyalists in that Honourable House who bear the Faith and Allegiance as well as the name and power of the Commons of England And I am of Opinion that as the Faithful and Orthodox Bishops at the Councel of Arimine through their over zealous desire of procuring the peace and unity of Christs Church were by the specious Arguments of the Arians inclined unawares to make a decree against the true Faith and Doctrine of Christ which unadvised decree themselves upon second thoughts and more mature deliberations seeing the unexpected advantages their Adversaries took by their well intended condescension immediatly recalled and publickly protested against it So these Loyal and well meaning Members of the House of Commons through their excessive zeal of establishing the true Protestant Religion were by the plausible pretences of some overactive Spirits induced unwittingly to Vote against that Allegiance and Fidelity they Swore not only to your Majesty but also to your Heirs and Successors which over zealous Votes I am fully perswaded these same members after due reflection perceiving the fatal consequences inevitably consequential to such proceedings would have recalled had they sate longer or will at their next Sessions recall them as being wholly repugnant not only to their Sworn Allegiance and Fidelity but also to Gods revealed will But as to this time will best discover the reality of all their intentions and therefore I leave it to your Majesties further consideration humbly submitting what I have said hitherto to your most Excellent Majesty and to your most Honourable Privy Council by whom I hope these my Reasons and Arguments shall be interpreted with that candour and sincerity wherewith I here present them unto your most Excellent Majesty And so begging of the Almighty to direct your Sacred Majesty in what is most advantageous to the Glory of God and to the Spirritual and temporal welfare of your Loyal Subjects I conclude this last of June with my everlasting Prayer Vivat Regnet in aeternum ultra Carolus Secundus nemini Secundus