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duty_n	according_a	king_n	law_n	1,830	5	4.8875	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44226	A second defence of King Charles I by way of reply to an infamous libel called Ludlow's letter to Dr. Hollingworth ...	Hollingworth, Richard, 1639?-1701.	1692 (1692)	Wing H2504; ESTC R19193	31,943	63

of the Page you will find something that truly concerns yourself and upon that score I have transcribed it There is a Spirit of Zeal and Faction the Principles of which if not restrained will ruin the best Princes and overturn the best Government in the World for they make little difference between Princes when they can find Pretence and Power Now Sir I say again have you not read or at least heard of these two Sermons And durst you then venture out into the World thus armed with hellish Revenge and black Malice to stab the Memory of and murther a-fresh a Prince for whom so great so wise a part of the Nation have so unspeakable and withal so just a Value and Veneration Good God! when Men are once hardned in Sin and by living long in it have contracted Habits and Customs what bold and impudent things will they not both say and do God Almighty open your Eyes and shew you the Evil of your ways before it be too late that so you may not perish in and by this your great Iniquity And now Sir I come to Examine your Letter it self The Title page is General Ludlow's Letter to Dr. Hollingworth Pray Sir how durst you assume this Name for we are not so ignorant who you are as it may be you think we are Pray Sir do not you know that Ludlow for the Name of General belongs not to him hath stood condemned for above Thirty Years as an execrable Traytor by Act of Parliament and that when he had the Confidence to come lately to London the Spirit of the Nation rose so up against him that the then Parliament addressed to the King to issue out his Proclamation in order to apprehend him that he might suffer that Death his Treason deserved and the Law had provided upon Notice of which you know he fled Now certainly Sir you are a very bold Man and 't is pity the Government does not take you at your Word and hang you up in his stead for there is a Debt due from Ludlow to the Justice of the Nation and I know no Man fitter to pay it than he that is so fond of the Traytor as to personate him and in his Name to vindicate those Actions for which he stands condemned There is one thing more I cannot but observe in your Title-page and that is your Quotation out of one of Bishop Burnet's Sermons and by which you would seem to justifie your calling the Thirtieth of Ianuary the Madding-day the Words are these which I transcribe on purpose to let the World see what a Cheat you are willing to put upon your Readers and thereby suppose them to be the most silly Persons in Nature I acknowledge it were better if we could have Iob's Wish That this Day should perish and the Shadow of Death should cover it that it should not see the dawning of the Day nor should the Light shine upon it it were better to strike it out of the Calender and make our Ianuary terminate at the 29th and add these remaining Days to February Now I appeal to any Man of Common Sence and Ingenuity whether he can wrest these words to your malicious Design when they appear at first fight only a Rhetorical Flight whereby that Right Reverend Person would express the detestableness and horridness of the Fact which he bewailed that Day a way that all Orators have given themselves the liberty to declaim against any thing that was notoriously bad in its Nature and Consequences and yet so fond are you of these words in hopes by them to impose upon your credulous Reader that you repeat them again pag. 9. and sillily tell me you hope by them to have offered something to cool my red-hot Zeal for the Observation of that day Poor Man how much are you mistaken when these very Words carry so much in them of the Bishop's abhorrence of the Fact that if it was possible to raise my Opinion of the necessity of still keeping that Day they would contribute towards it The next thing that offers in your Book is an Epistle Dedicatory and pray let us see who are the Persons that are thought worthy to Patronize this modest and harmless Book that tells the Truth the Whole Truth and nothing but the Truth sure either the King and Queen or else the Lords of the Council are only fit to have their Names prefixt to a Book that defends the Rights of the Nation their Laws and Liberties against the Encroachments and Usurpations of a proud Nimrod and hardened Pharaoh and in plain English a merciless Tyrant as you are pleased in your wonted mannerly way to stile King Charles the First pag. 68. No no Sir your Common-wealths-Men are always for encreasing their Party and courting the Populace and therefore this famous Tract must be dedicated To all sincere Lovers of Old England inhabiting in the Parish of St. Buttolphs Aldgate London tho' when we come to examine these Words well I believe you will find you have mistaken your Men and will miss of your Aim in this Dedication If indeed you mean Old England as I am sure you ought to do and which really I believe and that upon good grounds you do not namely the Government of England by King Lords and Commons I do then assure you we have and I thank God for it abundance of those in Aldgate Parish who scorn to suffer themselves to be put upon by such insinuations as these are they love their Country and its Laws and Liberties and desire no more to see the Day wherein Ordinances supersede Acts of Parliament and Kings forced by Tumults from their Palaces and Subjects with armed Force assaulting their Natural Prince and Armies turning their Masters out of Doors and the Faithful and Loyal Nobility and Gentry thrown by the Hands of Violence and against all Law out of House and Home and many of them seeking their Bread in strange Countries who desire no more to see the Day when worthy Persons are forced up to London to compound for their Estates at Goldsmiths and Haber-dashers-Halls only for doing their Duties and standing by their Prince according to the Laws of the Land and the Oaths they had taken no more to see the Day wherein their King is Imprisoned denyed the Comfort of his Servants and Chaplains and at last murthered by a vile Brood a Generation of Vipers who neither fear God nor Man Sir If these be the Men you address to you have lost your Aim and your Letter will find no Welcome to my knowledge in the Parish of Aldgate as for others in my Parish and I know but few of them that are Lovers of Old England in your Sence that is Lovers of Old England as it consists of a very few Lords and half a House of Commons in opposition to and in an actual War with their Lawful Soveraign or as it consists of a Rump made up of Forty eight Persons assuming the Confidence to