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A44969
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An humble addresse to the right honourable Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament in vindication of kingly power and government against the damnable positions of Jesuits and phanatiques desiring they would be pleased to call in the king without dishonourable conditions according to his just right / written by the author of a letter to a member.
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Author of A letter to a member.
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1660
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Wing H3391; ESTC R31130
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the King and people and all sacred moral and national laws and liberties to their own base tyranny and avarice Though for the present for the breaches of priviledges of Parliament and the unlawful resistance of Kingly power we have been lately whipped by the divine hand inflicting great sufferings on us as a due punishment for our greater sins into a thought of restoring the supreme Magistrate to whom as Gods Vicegerent we truly intend to pay a just duty of Allegiance Yet succeeding ages being not sensible of our smarts and ills may be so dandled with the same vain phantasies the people being naturally adorers of power and licentiousness should being led by their forefathers example whom they may count honourable to imitate when before prepossessed with their own ambitious desires may by our fault fall into our errors and miseries if the King being disarmed in the loss of his Militia shall not be able to defend himself and his loyal subjects against the insolence of his rebellious oppressors Be not pleased to entertain your selves with the least suspicion that the King will not weild the sword of justice in the most prudent and pious Managery of his government over us with the greatest moderation and integrity imaginable be pleased seriously to consider in his low ebbe of condition being exposed to the charity of forreigners how obnoxious he was rendered to a sea of temptations when he was highly imbarqued among them courting him with a powerfull assistance in order to the restauration of his Royall dignities if he would innovate his Religion choosing rather to dure the worst of fortune then by a forreign invasion to gain a Crown in the forfeiture of his honour conscience and religion What can be more pleasing to God and advantageous to the nation then honourably to possess the King with his own without ugly obligations which will reasonably induce him he being so much a friend to himself to improve his utmost endeavours to free himself from those bonds which shall be unjustly imposed upon him and this will create such a perpetual jealousie between him and his people that it must necessarily speak them both mutually unhappy But the great Remora and obstruction of the Kings Royal and free inauguration in order to civils is the opposition of those who have possessed themselves of the Crown Bishops Dean and Chapter Lands and Revenues in answer to which the King out of his gracious condescension to a firm peace will vouchsafe not to be his own carver wholly refering himself to the Honourable Houses who will assuredly treat them with all the justice and equity imaginable And for his own part let them read for their ample satisfaction his late Declaration wherein he promiseth they shall have his lands and the Churches till they are reimbursed of the money principal and interest which they have paid for them and they are bound in conscience to restore them to the true owners the Church and Crown In order to Ecclesiasticks the onely way to make up the sad breaches of the Church in point of doctrine and discipline is to restore the ancient and Reverend Fathers of it instituted by the holy Apostles as conservatours of it against heresie and schisme and our gracious Soveraign when he shall be intrusted with the government out of his Princely care and Royal inclinations will preserve the unity of of the Church that nothing shall be imposed on truly consciencious persons contrary to their different judgements professing the same fundamentals of Orthodox Christian Religion and differing onely in circumstancials conditionally they deport themselves with humility not intrenching on the publick in giving a disturbance to the unity of the Church and peace of the nation Nothing can give me a greater truth and admiration then by sad experience to see England most eminent heretofore for Religion and Loyalty should in this present age so far degenerate from the principles of our Church and the ancient honour of the nation who have had so high a duty for their native Prince that they had rather quit thier lives then their sense of Allegiance Wherefore my most humble request to the two honourable Houses our faithful Trustees is that they would be pleased to repair the honour of the nation so lost abroad that no traveller dareth own himself an English man being in danger of being sacrificed except he recant the publick errors of the nation in the most honourable reception of the King most Illustrious in vertue and Religion According to his just Rights by law and vindicate the ancient priviledges of Parliament and the due liberty and propriety of the subject which will speak glory to God and honour to your selves and the Nation FINIS