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A54580	The happy future state of England, or, A discourse by way of a letter to the late Earl of Anglesey vindicating him from the reflections of an affidavit published by the House of Commons, ao. 1680, by occasion whereof observations are made concerning infamous witnesses : the said discourse likewise contains various political remarks and calculations referring to many parts of Christendom, with observations of the number of the people of England, and of its growth in populousness and trade, the vanity of the late fears and jealousies being shewn, the author doth on the grounds of nature predict the happy future state of the realm : at the end of the discourse there is a casuistical discussion of the obligation to the king, his heirs and successors, wherein many of the moral offices of absolution and unconditional loyalty are asserted : before the discourse is a large preface, giving an account of the whole work, with an index of the principal matters : also, The obligation resulting from the Oath of supremacy to assist and defend the preheminence or prerogative of the dispensative power belonging to the king ...	Pett, Peter, Sir, 1630-1699.	1688 (1688)	Wing P1883; ESTC R35105	603,568	476

under the Gospel and tho no Presbyterians that I know of were here Arraigned for any design to fire our Metropolis and some Fanatical Fifth-Monarchy men only were Arraigned Convicted and Executed for such a design and whose Names I think might on that account have been properly enough engraven on the City Monument yet of the out-●age of our Presbyterians having actually fired the Church and State with an intestine War the whole Kingdom is a Monument and where now their Principles are so seen and seen through that I believe any other such inhumane Ecclesiasticks as many of our former Presbyterians were will be ashamed to appear among us Their Assembly is adjourned to the Grave and no Divines will I believe in any future Course of time find the People of England willing to have 4 s. a day the wages of each in the Parliaments Synod allowed to them for endeavouring to bring our Consciences under the Mosaic Pedagogy and the noise of the World from Hammers of Hereticks either in any Presbyterian Synod in England or in any new Popish General Council beyond Sea will I believe be utterly over And tho perhaps the Centum gravamina did heretofore cause the last pretended General Council to be called I mean the Famous Tridentine one I may looking on the Course of Nature conclude that there will never be any General Council more and that not only for that the Pope hath been hors de page since the breaking up that of Trent but because that having been Revera a Council of Pensioners and having stood the Papacy for Pensions in 3000 Crowns a Month i. e. in 750 l. Sterling and having put the Popes to that Charge during its sitting for 18 years as it is easie to Calculate how much in pounds Sterling that Council cost the Popes in all so it is as easie to foresee that if the Pope should have occasion for the fellow to that Council he would not have that quantity of Money to spare for the same There is another thing that I may from the Course of Nature fortel much quiet to my Prince and happiness to my Country by and that is the extermination of all Mercenary Loyalty and of an inglorious Loyalty-Trade as well as of a Religion-Trade and mens not thinking they are to have Offices or Donatives for not being Villains or that by Monopolizing to themselves the name of the Loyal they should expect therefore a lucrative Monopoly the which would stain their Loyalty indeed and make it as null and void as any Monopoly for the word Loyal being used for Lawful he is not homo legalis in one sense who is bought to be just The apparent vast number of the Kings Subjects rendring them too many to hope all for largesses and the too great probability of the Future State of England according to my Notion requiring for the support and defence of the Government all that to be employed in order thereunto what giving Parliaments can well give will make People ashamed to cling to the Royal-Oak like Ivy and by preying on its vigour make it the less able to give shelter by its branches I was overjoyed with a piece of News a Gentleman sent me namely that he discoursing once at dinner with the Lord Hide the first Commissioner of the Treasury concerning the Insolence of some mens expecting to be rewarded by the King for not doing mischief to his Government or Revenue his Lordship occasionally mentioned somewhat to this effect viz. that the Trade of ●●ch men was now broke there will now be no more taking off of men as the word was and if by his Lordship's Advice to his Great Master the resolving against taking off of men by Pensions and Rewards was settled as a new Fundamental Rule in the English Politicks as I am informed it was I shall think his Lordship deserves to find an everlasting Triumph in the History of the Age and to be more honoured by England than if as Commander of an Army he had vanquished very many Thousands of its Enemies for that the taking off of Hydra's Heads by Gifts as was beforementioned would be an endless work and the ill effects thereof inclusive of so much Hostility to the publick would be innumerable But God be thanked the King by the Political Conduct of this his Minister is now made Victorious over all those Enemies and if I had heard that any near his Majesty had moved for a day of Thanksgiving by reason hereof I should not have wondered at it the thing being of so great importance to England And no doubt but the shame of any mens diminishing the Royal Revenue by begging from the Crown will be the greater when the necessary improvement of our Land by our numerous People shall have enriched as many as deserve to be so and when to all who are industrious there will every where be multiplex praeda in medio posita and the effects of diligence fill all hands with profit and eyes with pleasure This is one kind of a New Heaven and a New Earth that perhaps we may shortly see in old England and when men shall by enquiries about Religion design only lucriferous experiments and not luciferous as my Lord Bacon's Phrase is and men shall improve their fortunes by the improvement and culture of the Earth and to this effect we find the Prophecies of Prosperity to the Iews in the old Testament expressed by the Trees yielding their fruit and the Earth their encrease the Seed shall be prosperous the Vine shall give her Fruit and the Ground shall give her encrease the Earth shall hear the Corn and the Wine and the Oyl c. And they who are now by seducers that augment wild fears and jealousies directed to look up for strange Prodigies to the Sky will need no Monitors to behold with joy the unusual fruitfulness of the cultivated Earth and therefore I think that one Philosopher looking on the Future State of England may well say to another Aspice venturo laetentur ut omnia saeclo Then shall men on the account of Profit turn their Swords to Plough-shares and the Religion-Trading false Prophet baffled by fate shall then say as 't is in Zachary Non sunt Propheta agricola sum I do not wonder at some mens menacing our English World with ill news from Fate It is no irrational thing to suppose that the false Prophets in all ages did often find it turn to their private account to foretel evil rather than good to Kingdoms for that many might hope to mend their fortunes by the publick ruines and would therefore be well pleased with the Predictors of ill to the publick and would celebrate the Predicters and therefore it was not without cunning contrived that the prolation of Events by the ancient Oracles should be in a double sense sometimes because it might then be a moot point whether the Party of those that desired the quiet or disorder of great Bodies of People was

the Earth and scandals to Heaven I mean all Religion-Traders whether Popish or Fanatical those vilest of Nominales who cheat in nomine Domini and such likewise who disquiet States by assuming the Trade of World-menders and everlasting Propounders that are like busie Insects flying in the Eys of Mankind and whom Sir E. Coke in the 85. Ch. of his Institutes which is entituled against Monopolists Propounders and Projectors deservedly brands and Atheists that would reform a Church Bankrupts in their particular Trades that would advance Trade in general Defiers of Justice who would amend the Law and wasting that time as Censors of the Manners of Kings for not paying their Debts which they should employ in acquiring Assets to pay their own In fine Undertakers to Cure Church and State as Confident as the Quack who said in his Bills He Cureth all Diseases both cureable and incureable All these sorts of men whose Trade is talking and whose talk is cheat will only come to be Bankrupt by being heaved out of all places by the Generations of Useful Traders multiplying there Nature that has been long laying its Siege to such Idlers in places of resort will then at last carry on its works so far as to leave them no Earth to play their Engines upon and such unprofitable people will be as naturally extruded out of our Towns as are Women and Children out of Places besieged nor can all the humming of their Propositions procure them more continuance in such places of business then the noyse of Drones entitle them to a residence in the Hive and it will as little quit Cost to have them planted in our Cities as for a Gardiner that pays a high Rent to have beds for weeds Of the Improvement of great quantities of Land by Gardening the Ilands of Iersey and Guernsey are examples and we have a Pleasant and Profitable Prospect of such Improvement near our Metropolis and other Great Cities and I doubt not but England may flourish so as to become the Garden of the World and do as little doubt of any Course of time bringing the Pope again to say as Matthew Paris tells us he did Verè hortus Noster deliciarum est Anglia as I do of that honest Monk's sleeping till the Resurrection or Mr. Coleman's having any more Dreams of a Paradise in the Gardens of Wooburn 'T is hard for a Visionaire not to fancy any thing possible but he who shall pronounce that England can from its present improvement and populousness be driven back ad primordia rerum and that the many cultivated understandings in it and who have reduced Knowledge ad firmam by calculation can be reduced to the Calculation only of Beads and be imposed on like the Indians to part with their Gold for Beads and that half the Land of England now inhabited by three Millions of People as all estimates make to be the least that half of it contains will be delivered up to 50000 Regulars and to persons that the Laws in being allow not so much as a Foot of Earth for Graves and that it is not of equal detriment to a Country to have half the Land made unprofitable and become Bog or the like as to be long in perpetuity to unprofitable people and that such as make property their God which they who over value the things of this Life do and are the Majority of any Country will idlely sacrifice it to those real Impropriators who make but a Property as I may say of God I mean those hypocritical Idlers who only by a Religion-Craft without any service useful to Mankind claim a great Quota of the Profits of others labours and that when we are going on so fast toward the exactest culture by Gardening which excludes all Weeds the old inimicus homo shall find six Millions asleep to give him an opportunity to sow Tares and to ask half the Land for his pains I say he who shall pronounce as aforesaid is one that looks but at few things and so de facili shoots his Bolt and is one that we may think to be a fool without being in danger of Hell Fire and Holy Churches great work of the Conversion of three Kingdoms to the end that it may Convert half the Land again to its use is likely to prove as fruitless as the Christian endeavours to recover the Holy Land. There is such a strong Rampart of living Earth against the assaults of Popery in this kind I mean the Number of our Protestants and particularly of those employ'd in Tilling the Land that Popery cannot dissolve and let it pipe never so plausibly we shall be like the deaf Adder stopping our Ears by laying them against the Earth we are possest of My Lord They who have observed the Intervals of your pleasure when you have had some breathing times for retirement from the fatigue of Affairs of State know that the contriving the improvement of your Ground by Tillage and Planting and Gardening hath been at once your care and your delight And I believe Cicero's Cato Major doth not describe the pleasure of old Age in the improvement of the Earth with greater hight then your Lordship is able to do and your example in this thing may Crown both that of Tully and the Aged Hero's by him there commemorated for delighting in Husbandry and indeed it may be supposed but natural for old Age being so near the Earth its Center to move with a quicker sort of delight toward it and especially among Christians to whom the dull Earth Aided by the acuteness of St. Paul I referr to his similitude of the Corn is so kind and greateful for their culture of it as to Court them with an Embleme of their Resurrection and to teach them a surer way then Galilaeus had found out to Transplant the Earth into Heaven But now methinks to one that has so curious and perfect a Sence of this solid and manly pleasure that the Culture of the Earth affords as your Lordship the very Idea of England's Degeneracy from its thriving State of Agriculture to poor solitary pasture how unpracticable soever the thing is must necessarily carry some horrour with it to be imagined and the very telling it to you that some vain Popish Projectors would rob us not only of the Culture of Learning but even of that of the very Earth must give your thoughts a Nausea instead of such a Noble Extacy as fill'd the whole Soul of Erasmus who in his old Age in a Letter to Budaeus speaking of Sir Thomas More 's and other mens Works that did then begin to beautifie the World with Learning cryes out Deum immortalem quod seculum video brevi futurum Vtinam contingat rejuvenescere And as I am sure you would not desire to Renew your Youth like the Eagle only to live in an Age of buzzards so you know too much of the course of nature to wish your Life a day shorter for fear of the