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england_n	advice_n	advise_v	affair_n	15	3	6.5361	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37439	The six distinguishing characters of a Parliament-man address'd to the good people of England.	Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.	1700 (1700)	Wing D846; ESTC R17561	8,259	28

know about which they are to Advise And because the Debate of an Army is a tender nice Point I shall explain my self I do not mean that a Standing Army shou'd have been kept up in England in time of Peace but I say it had been better for England and all Europe that we had not disarm'd our selves so soon and if we had disarm'd that we had not so entirely done it all at once whereby we rendred our selves so despicable that the French King has had an opportunity to Affront the whole Confederacy in renouncing a League ratify'd and exchang'd and taking Possession of a Crown for his Grandson on the new invented Title of a last Will and Testament This he wou'd not have adventur'd to ha' done had the English been in a Capacity to have possess'd Flanders and to have appear'd at Sea to have protected the Princes of Italy in their adherence to the Emperor But the English having reduc'd themselves to such a Condition that whenever the French or any body else please to Quarrel with us we must be a considerable while before we can be in a posture to act offensively and the French having so insulted us in the Affair of Spain that it will stand as an effectual Proof whether we are in a Capacity to resent an Affront or no His Majesty who when in a much lower Station did not use to suffer himself to be so treated has thought fit to advise with the English Parliament in the Case By advising with the Parliament I understand informing them of the State of Affairs telling them his own Opinion and asking theirs proposing the Measures he thinks fit to take and desiring their Opinion of the matter and if they agree with him in the Measures which are to be taken then to Propose their making provision in a Parliamentary way for enabling him to Prosecute such Measures as they agree to For to debate and consider Matters of so much Consequence the King has directed Writs for the calling a new Parliament to meet at Westminster the Sixth of February next Since then the Matter is referr'd to the People of England and they are to chuse Representatives for so great a Work as to advise with a Protestant King about things of the highest Importance to the Kingdom Give a stander-by leave Gentlemen to offer something to the People of England by way of Advice or Direction in the great Affair they have before them and if it be with more freedom than is usual bear with him for once because 't is about Matters of the highest Importance The usual Advices given in like Cases formerly when the Elections of Members were so corrupted that indeed Advice was necessary tho' hopeless use to be to chuse Men that had Estates and Men of Honesty Men that had Interests in the Freehold and in the Corporations and that wou'd not give away their Liberties and the Advice was good And had the Country taken that Advice the P wou'd not ha' been huff'd by King James into a tacit Permission both of a standing Army at home and the dispensing the Popish Officers continuing in Commission without taking the Test But my Advice must differ from tho' it must include part of the forementioned Particulars and therefore while I am directing these Sheets to the Freeholders of England I beg them to consider in their Choice of Parliament-men that there may be Men of Estates and Men of Honour in the Countries who by some Circumstances may not be proper to serve in this Parliament because by Prejudice or private Principles their Judgment may be pre-engaged to the Disadvantage of the Nation 's Interest and since there are such 't is necessary Gentlemen to caution you First That you be well assur'd the Gentlemen you shall chuse are throughly engag'd with the present Circumstances of the Nation and thoroughly satisfied with the present Establishment of the Government as Papists are justly excluded by Law from coming to Parliament because it cannot be expected that a Roman Catholick can be a proper Person to consult about the Interest of a Protestant Kingdom so it cannot be rational that he who is a declar'd Friend to King James or his Interest can be a proper Person to advise with King William about Matters of the highest Importance to the Kingdom it cannot be rational that he who wou'd be willing to have this Nation return to her Obedience to a Popish King can be a proper Person to be consulted with in Parliament about securing and defending the Protestant Religion this were to pull down what we intend to build and wou'd be as proper a way to help us as a French Army maintain'd in England wou'd be proper to defend us against Lewis the XIV Those Men that Drink Healths to King James and wish him all manner of Prosperity are they fit Men to represent a Protestant Nation and to advise a Protestant Prince for the security of the Protestant Religion Wherefore Gentlemen for God sake and for your own sakes take heed and set a mark on such Men if you chuse Men disaffected to the Present Settlement of the Nation Friends to the late King or to his Interest you may be certain such Men will pull back the Nation 's Deliverance and hinder not further that Unanimity of Councils which is so much more needful now than ever can the Friends to a Popish Prince be fit to represent a Protestant People I have nothing to say to those we call Jacobites tho' I wonder any can be such and yet be Protestants but as to their Persons I say nothing to them no nor to the Papists provided they keep the Peace but to single such out to serve the Nation in a Protestant Parliament and to advise with King William in Matters of the highest Importance this is a thing so Preposterous is such a Contradiction that I know not what to say to it 't is like going to the Devil with a Case of Conscience Even our Adversaries cannot but laugh at the folly of the English Nation that they shou'd chuse their Enemies to be their Councellors and think to Establish King William by King James's Friends nothing can sooner compleat the Ruin of the Kingdom than to fill the House of Commons with Jacobite Members who will be sure to forward any thing that tends to division in order to hinder the Nations Happiness wherefore tho' I might imagine such Advice to be needless I must insist upon it that you will avoid such Men as either have discover'd a Disaffection to King William and the Present Settlement of the Nation or that have been upheld by that Party In the next place Gentlemen let your Eyes be upon Men of Religion chuse no Atheists Socinians Hereticks Asgillites and Blasphemers Had the Original of the late War been under the Reign of such a Body of Men England might have made a Will and given her Crown to the Duke d' Berry as Spain has to the