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duty_n	allegiance_n	king_n	subject_n	2,355	5	7.0118	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87904	Sir politique uncased, or, A sober answer to a juggling pamphlet, entituled, A letter intercepted printed for the use and benefit of the ingenuous reader: in which the two different forms of Monarchy, and popular government, are briefly controverted. The Common-wealth party are advised not to buy this. By N.D. gent. By D.N. gent.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1660 (1660)	Wing L1308A; Thomason E1019_5; ESTC R208281	8,470	16

thank himself I would fain learn from whence we date our Freedom Who has ABSOLVED US of our OATHS and DVTIES of ALLEGEANCE Did we not swear to the Late King and to his Heirs And can a Government be Altered but by Consent of all the Parties to it This is too much said upon a Subject not properly my Business I 'll proceed and wait upon him to his next Enquiry and that 's concerning Regulated Monarchy but so Embroyled 't is infinitely harder to Understand than to confute Of Regulated Monarchies Ours here in England is beholden to him he likes That best and gives his Reason Thus The Excellency of that Monarchy WAS that the Monarch without his Counsel could do no considerable thing By his fair Leave the Excellency of the GOVERNMENT he would have said for 't is the Imperfection of the Monarchy But why WAS Is it not de Jure still the same He prosecutes this Trayn of Errors yet with more All things were to be done in conjunction with his Counsel either that Grand one his Parliament consisting of Nobles and Commons or his Lesser Counsel consisting of Nobles chiefly c. Our Author I perceive is willing to confound Counsel and Authority Whereas to represent is one thing 't is another thing to Judge It is the Counsell's duty to propose and Advise according to their Reason but still it is the Monarch's part to Act according to his own without that Freedom the Prince is bound to Act in many Cases against his Conscience and his Assistants are become his Governours Not to insist upon the Gentleman's mistake in asserting All things to be done in conjunction with his Counsel This is too evident to need a refutation He spends his Two next Pages in dilating upon the Desire of Absolute Power in the Monarch and the Reserves or Acquisitions of the People where he Dashes the Kings Prerogative and the Privileges of Parliament the One against the Other Whereas the King hath some Prerogatives without a Parliament but the Parliament hath not so much as any Being without the King he being an essential of it To passe over his False-fires I shall come now to his main strength And thus it runs The Monarch cannot Rationally be thought to have other Business or Study than to confirm and establish the Monarchy to himself To this First Hee 's Entitled to the Government That pro concesso Next hee 's Entrusted in Order to the Publique Welfare to Uphold it and That not only in the Form but to Himself 'T were to Betray his Trust should he do Lesse As to the Appetite of Rule which as our Popular Champion will have it transports the Monarch into a dangerous elevation above the People That Restless impotency is much more Hazzardous in any other Government than in that of Monarchy For the Monarch's upper most already and rationally Ambition seeks rather to Raise it self Above all Others than when 't is at that Height still to exceed it self 'T is but a Glorious Envy which aspires till it be highest and there determines As there is lesse temptation from without so must the inclination be much calmer Greatnesse is native and familiar to the Monarch or in case any eagerness of Spirit should enstame him It spends self upon his Neighbours liberties rather than upon his Peoples and 't is extent of Empire abroad not enlargement of Prerogative at home he covets This is not to exempt the Person of a Prince from the srailties of a Man he may be vitious But that too with lesse mischief to the Publique than to Himself He ha's no private Ayms but what proceed from Principles nearer ally'd to Kindnesse then to Malice Now to examine the likely Incidences to popular Government and to proceed upon his Postulatum that in all men there 's an in bred appetency of Power That granted what can we expect from Persons of mean Fortunes and extraction invested with a title to Dominion but Bondage and Oppression The short is there are many men earnestly intent upon the same end spurr'd on by keen and craving Desires to make themselves Rich Great and these design to rayse their Fortunes and Reputations upon the Publique stock of blood and treasure At last when they have skrewed themselves up to that pitch of Power by force and craft where divine providence by birth had placed the single Person when after a sharp long and chargeable contest they have brought us within view but of the counterfeit of what we quietly enjoy'd before Ready to seize the sum of their own wishes and the dear-purchas'd Fruit of all their Labours they find that point which supports Soveraignty too narrow for them all too large for any one of them and as they climb'd together so they fall crush'd by those Hands and Principles that rais'd them We need not look far Back for instances what ha's obstructed our long-look'd-for Settlement but Competitours for a personal rule even among the Salus-populi-men themselves 'T is nobler at the worst to yeeld our selves a prey to a single Lyon than to a Herd of Wolves and that 's the Difference upon experiment betwixt the tyranny of one and of a hundred old Oliver and the Rump Methinks 't is a strange Confidence to Argue for a Cause confuted by the losse of so many Lives and Millions For these twelve years last past we have been Slaves to Tyrants Divided in design to supplant one another but still united to destroy the Nation under the gay amusement of a Free-state But I grow tedious The next thing I take notice of is very remarkable i. e. Our Author 's in the right he saies that From the Soveraignty there lies no appeal But then he follows that where a People will be ruled by a King they must give that King absolute Power to Govern No need of that sure neither the Soveraignty is in the King tho' in a Limited Monarchy which so attemper'd as that the People may not Rule in any Case nor the King singly by himself in All secures all Interests I must fix one note here before I passe Although our Author tells us that Absolute Monarchy is Unlawful and Regulated Dangerous neverthelesse he rather advises the former than the latter That which he terms Disconsonant to the Laws of God than the Other which he pronounces only Dangerous as related to the civil Good and Utility of the People This is the Method of the whole Party they decry first the Form it self as being too Tyrannical yet they condemn the Limited of Insufficience as to the Exercise of Government and the Absolute of Exorbitancy as to the end of it One has too much Liberty the Other too Little What is 't they offer in Exchange a Free-State of a Model ten times more Arbitrary and Pernicious When they have spent their Powder upon the Government for 't is but Powder their Shot is still directed to the Person Hinc ille Lacrymae