mind mine His Bookseller Mr. Chiswell by whom I had the Message seemed loath to carry him that blunt Answer Oh says I he has got the Title of a Lord lately I must Qualify my Answer Let him please to mind his own Business I will mind mine But the Bishop was mistaken in his Man all over for it was always in my Nature even to a Fault to spare every body Sr. Roger Lestrange knows it and many a Man besides notwithstanding very great Provocations And I have been so far from rigour all my Life that I never sued any Man though I have lost several Scores of Pounds by it which I have since known the want of And therefore the Bishop was out in thinking that I wanted such a Message and as much out in thinking that I would mind it What did he take me to be one of his Cubs whom he could lick into his own Shape and Fashion by a Message I am a Slave to Truth and Right and therefore any bodies Message supported with Wise and Honest Reasons would have moved me but I knew at the first sight that neither one nor t'other belonged to that Message Now the Bishop may see how little I regard his Message for I will name Persons when I have just Occasion though it chance to be his Lordship But at that time I confess I was so wrap'd up with the hopes of a Happy Reign to come and that the evil Instruments about the King would at least at the Instance of the Parliament be dismissed that I was got into Mephibosheth's Elevation let Ziba take all the Land to himself I care neither for the purloyned half nor the remaining half Let Shimei live and mend they are not worth their Halters why then should the Nation be at that Expence Let them go to the end of the World why should we stop them And so they had gone if Great Men from Court had not sent to them to pray them stay In short I was so intenâ— upon the Publick Welfare and ever inclined to give that the precedence that I could not snatch and catch at the Advantages of a Revolution as others did to whom they were not due but when my Friends urged me to mind my own Business my constant Answer was that it would keep cold I have â—eason to remember it because an honest Yonker in my own House has since upbraided me that my Business has catch'd cold I have taken this freedom with the Bishop of Salisbâ—ry because he has taken a greater latitude with Me and has given me out for a Mad-man above these four Years But I speak the words of Truth and Soberness which are always well-weighed That I will sooner prove him a Betrayer of England and a Publick Enemy than he shall prove me a Mad-man It is an ugly Imputation if it be but laid upon a Dog because of the ill Consequence of it for it amounts to the knocking out his Brains but it is still worse to place it upon a Man because it makes a Fool of all his wisest Discourse which is the end of a Man's living here for if they dislike any thing he says they have Authority to call it Raving and if they chance to like it it shall only have the allowance of lucid Intervals Besides it effectually ruins all a Man's Preferment because it Unqualifies him whereby his Posterity suffers for it to the end of the World so that the Madman fares worse in that Case than the Mad Dog because that Imputation never affects his Breed But I am not the only Person who has been so serv'd the Courtiers of this Reign serve every body so if they do not like them I appeal to the House of Commons whether Sir Peter Coryton a worthy Member of that Honourable House and since intrusted by them as one of their Commissioners to supervise all the Publick Accounts of the Nation which is a Charge that requires some Brains as well as all Honesty ought to suffer under such an Imputation and whether it be not at least Breach of Privilege And yet he lost a Considerable Government in the West-Indies by being so represented to his Majesty after the King had promised it him with which Suggestion the King was so far imposed upon and so fully possessed with it that he pitied the poor Gentleman And so Kendal had the Government a Man no doubt more for these Courtiers turn and not blemished with that sort of Insufficiency I have not Evidence for what I am now going to say but I am morally assured of it that the Great Wallop was thus hindred from being made a Judg of whom I will say the less because his own Integrity in the worst of Times has Eterniz'd him And if he be not Honoured for it in these Times then they are the worst To pass by a Hundred more of his Sayings his comparing King Iames's Declaration upon the very Spot to the Scaffolding of Paul's Church was so wise so weighty so seasonable and so useful a Saying that that New Paul's when it is built shall want new Scaffolding again before that Saying is forgot by the wise and honest part of this Nation One Mr. Stephens another brave Man has been put into the List though I am certain Sir Matthew Hales was of another Opinion when he made him his Executor but one would sooner take him to be a Witch than a Madman when he talkt of the Cart being Bewitch'd I will not mention all the People of Quality that have been so used They themselves may look after their own dry Godfathers who have given them that Name out of Baptism I know mine and I will stick to him and though I have burnt all my Reading yet he shall know when ever he pleases to put me to it that I have an odd Remnant of honest Intellectuals still left at his Service It is the cunningest Accusation in the World because it oftentimes proves it self for to treat a Man like a Madman is enough to make him so But I would advise them not to multiply their Madmen too fast for the sake of a Story that I know There was a Fellow of Magdalen-College in Oxford who had the misfortune to be really crazed and either was or at least thought himself to be ill used by the other Fellows and when another of the Fellows fell Mad he was wonderfully pleased with it and being ask'd the reason of his Joy Oh says he we shall be a Majority in time and then we will use the other Fellows as they used me I think I shall never finish my intended Story for these Impertinencies which continually cross my way but in short after the Grand Jury had dismissed the Bill of Indictment against my Lord Shaftsbury for the Oxford Plot the Court had not done with him so but invented a New thing and made the Earth open its Mouth upon him I mean their dirty Abhorrers I know that Great Men have fall'n under
Battery more I remember my Lord Russel was mightily pleased with the Courage of the Citizens at that time and particularly of Alderman Cornish who slighted these Preparations against them by saying they might indeed do some Dammage to some of their Chimneys I need not mention the Intended Cittadel of Chelsey-College to straiten the City on that Side nor their greatest Cittadel of Westminster-Hall where they had perverted all Law and plainly put a stop to it by dismissing a Grand Jury before their time At the Notorious Case of Fitz Harris my Lord was present for which Serjeant Pemberton can give the best Reasons because he reserved them at that time and no doubt they are improved by this and brought up a Fashion which we do not find in the Year-Books for Judges to give no Reasons for their Judgments As to the Case of the City Charter it was so very plain that I desired Sir George Treby now Lord Chief Justice who was to argue for it to use only this short Argument to carry Magna Charta in one Hand and a Penknife in the other and to desire the Court to cut out the Chapter of Magna Charta where the Rights of the City of London and the other Vills and Burghs and Cinque-Ports are confirmed and when their hand was in to make but one Business of it and to cut out all the rest I am sure the City of London will give me leave to say that they and their Chamber which was the best Fund in England was at that time broke and when it will be repaired I know not but they may easily know whom to sue for Dilapidations and in what High Court that ought to be done And the ready way is to Extend the Estates of all those that treacherously destroyed that City and made it the finest Village in Europe and saluted the King King of London as if he had not been compleat King of it till it was Ruin'd I need not mention their Standing Guards in time of Peace of which the Parliament-men used to say There go our Masters and so they had reason after Sir Iohn Coventry's usage and which all the great Lawyers of England declared to be Illegal from the first and such a Force upon the Nation as the Law abhors The Lord Chief Justice Vaughan had the Honesty and Courage to tell my late Lord Macclesfield so though he then Commanded and was at the Head of them My Lord very honourably remembered this as an Instance of that Great Man's Integrity And who that ever had the Honour of knowing the last Great Man can ever forget His But the Guards became more Formidable afterwards when an Undertaker offered with a Thousand of their Horse of which they had always more to go and conquer the City of London in a contemptuous manner and when with their Detachements and filling up again with new Men they could at any time Form an Army They had likewise their Nursery of Tangier within call and when they saw their time it came over Ever since the last Sentence that passed upon me I am somewhat out of conceit with the Name of Guards For having made as Honest an Address to the Army as the World can shew any thing and being run down for it as a High Misdemeanour I took my Exceptions to the Information amongst other things that there was no averrment of any Army in it and I said there could be no such thing because it was Contrary to the Law of England Whereupon both the Attorney General Sawyer and the Court of King's-Bench said that the Camp at Hownslow-Heath was not an Army but only the King's Guards I replied that I thought they were too far off for Guards and too great a Number To which the Lord Chief Justice Herbert answered that the King wanted a Greater Number to Defend him from my Papers At which I could only smile to see a Rag or two of the Press made a Pretence to keep up a Great Army But as I intimated before Guards shall be an Army and an Army shall be Guards when such Men think fit Aristotle in his Politicks is very severe upon Guards and says That it is the Mark of a King 's turning Tyrant if he require a Guard and says further that if a King demand a Guard to defend him against his People his People ought to demand a Guard to defend them against him And it is very plain that the Additional Guards of Horse and Foot in the two last Reigns for there were never any before but the Band of Pensioners and the Band of Archers now Yeomen who were the Antient Establishment for the Preservation of the King's Person were not intended for the King's Preservation for that was done to their hand but to awe the Nation to animate Judges in false Judgments and to back Officers in illegal Proceedings for where the Law would not hold out in the way of a Legal Writ it was as well supplied by an Arbitrary Command and two or three Files of Musketteers I will name but one thing more which was Occasioned by the Bill of Exclusion That Bill was carried Nemine Contradicente several times in the House of Commons but when it came in the Westminster Parliament to be carried up by my Lord Russell to the House of Lords it was so ill received there â—hat the Bishops were for throwing it out to rights However after a Reading and after a Debate which lasted till about Midnight it was thrown out That Learned Nobleman the Great Earl of Essex was pleased to tell me what Arguments he insisted upon in that Debate The first was that the Regality of England was an Office concerning which the 17 th Chapter of King Edward the Confessor's Laws is wholly spent and it is so Declared to be in Many Acts of Parliament as low as Queen Mary's Time and that a Woman as well as a Man might be invested with the Regal Office Hereupon he said that a Person Unqualified as all the World knew the Duke of York was could not be admitted to that Office Upon discourse about this I remember his Lordship was pleased to take down Lambert's Saxon Laws and shew me several Particulars in that 17 th Chapter which I had forgot His second Argument was to prove that if the Duke of York had Unqualified himself for that High Office as he plainly had for the meanest Office in England then the Parliament had undoubtedly Power to foreclose him and set aside his Remainder in the Crown because they had Power to do more This he said was the known Law of England and agreed upon by the Lord Chancellor More and Richard Rich then Sollicitor General and afterwardsâ— Lord Rich as a First established Principle upon which they argued about the Supremacy It stands thus in the Record as we have it p. 421. of the Lord Herbert's History The Sollicitor Demanded if it were enacted by Parliament that Richard Rich should be King and
Mysteries before The Reason why the Clergy were so zealous for Tyranny was because it was a Tyranny on their Side their own Interest and Strength to crush all other Protestants lay therein and then according to the Greek and Latin wish to Enemies Invasion so applied was a good thing and the worse the better That made them so very liberal of the English Rights and to sacrifice them all at once in a Peace-Oâ—fering to Moloch and it was a true Act of Worship for it signalized their Loyalty But when Iudgment began at the House of God as Dr. Sherlock preached upon the Bishops being sent to the Tower then their Note was quite altered King James had Forfeited and ought to be Deposed with a great deal more to that purpose This which I say should be deposed as well as King Iames if need were But afterwards when they grew jealous of this Revolution and could not tell what to make of it having missed two Hits both of having King Iames and afterwards of having his intended Deputy the Prince of Orange in Their hands and wanted a third Hit then the words were these Well will not the Convention send for the King back again If they will not we have Fourty Thousand Men to fetch him back Dr. Shorlock best knows where those Fourty Thousand Men now are but I believe King Iames would be very glad of half the Number To proceed in my Story the very Man that had asserted that King Iames had Forfeited and ought to be Deposed long before he was or even before the Prince of Orange was expected began with change of Interest to have change of Thoughts and then he could not allow King Iames to be lawfully set aside nor would Swear to this present Government and His forfeited Place at the Temple was supplied by I know who At last after he had stuck as himself says a great while for Stick he did he was happily relieved by a lucky Coincidence of Bishop Overall's Canons and the Victory at the Boyne And then he settled the Government upon it's own Settlement which we that pretend to dull Reason do say is a Circle and proving a thing by it self It is true he called Providence in Aid of this Settlement but they have talk'd of late as meanly of Providence as ever Mankind did of a Swiss who are of all Sides and in French and Dutch Service both at once Or as a great Bishop wisely decided the Business it was a great Providence of God that so many of the Clergy swore to this Government lest the Church should be destroyed And it was the same Providence of God that so many of the Clergy refused the Oath lest People should think that there was no such thing as Religion and incline to Atheism But I am afraid the Prospect of double Bishopricks makes Men see double Whenever I am like to have any undue Thoughts of the Divine Providence I desire to die the Year before and not the Year after for that would be a Year too late but as for these Men they are not sit to take the Name of God's Providence in their Mouth for as they order the matter Providence is of contrary Parties it is with the Swearers and it is with the Non-swearers but I am confirmed by an Infallible Authority that Providence thus divided against it self cannot stand For to say that Providence ordains that Men shall Swear and that they shall not Swear in the same Instance and forecasts both Ways is to say that it has two Wills or which is the same thing has one Contradictious Will Now this is an Imperfection which may befall mistaken and ill advised Mortal Men they may or they may not deliver Folks out of Bad Hands into the self-same Hands again they may be of two Contrary Parties that is of none and so have none for Them they may Conquer known Enemies with unavailing bosome kindness and they may Conquer known Friends with Unkindness at arms length they may eat and drink and sleep and live Contradictions so that all they do shall be as broad as 't is long and come to nothing they may at every turn of two contrary Men conjunct make one known Compound they may go to Plough with an Ox and an Ass and make baulks of very good Land But far be it from all Mankind to impute such All to mall and Linsey-wolsey to the Providence of God for he is not a Man that he should Repent or be better advised I have not forgot my Preacher who said that Iudgment began at the House of God when the Bishops were in the Tower whereas I know that it began at the House of God when Stephen Colledge was Murdered who Suffered more for the Protestant Religion and his Countrey than all the Bishops either in or out of the Tower and than the whole Clergy of England put together and left a dying Speech which out-weighs their Sermons And he was a true First-Martyr Stephen for as his barefaced Murder threatned every Honest Man in England so he was followed in his Martyrdom by better Men than are now living whom this Nation does dearly miss And yet when he was sent down to the Oxford Slaughterhouse to be destroyed because it could not be done here at London I remember several of the Clergy played with his Death and were very much pleased that they had one Colledge more in their University But for quietness-sake it shall be his own House of God the Bishops for I grant that that word and the true Religion and the like are doubtful words and signify nothing till we know of what Religion the Man himself is These are by-matters but the Question is how a Man that had a Rightâ— Notion before came to lose it the next Year and has not been able to recover it to this Day For if he had stuck to his own Occasional English Principle but then was then and now is now That King James being a Tyrant had Forfeited and having broke with the Nation ought not to Reign he had not stuck at all among Jacobite Principles which however are forty times better than his own Hypothesis of Usurpation for the Jacobites though mistaken pretend to Right but he proceâ—ds upon avowed bare-faced open impudent outragious Wrong as Usurpation either is or there is no such thing in the World It is all that either the Giants or the Devils ever attempted against Heaven But he had no other way to make a Case of Allegiance to King William to chime in with his Unretracted Case of Resistance written heretofore in Favour of Tyranny for though Passive Obedience had no hand in the Revolution yet perhaps he was informed it might be a grateful Present to a Settlement however I must tell him that Passive Obedience must be crook'd and bent like a Nine-pence and look contrary ways before he can make a Token of it to this Government for actual Resistance of Tyranny gave this
Ostracisms in Greece and even Cartes himself was used like a Skellum in Holland but those were Legal Banishments and according to the Custom of the Country whereas that Earl's Usage was never known to any Civilized part of the World For having his Papers plundered to find Matter against him which my Lord Anglesey though he was one of the Committee of Council appointed to overlook those Papers acknowledged to Mr. Charleton and me was a very illegal Practice and abominable foul Play even while he himself was employed about it amongst his Papers they found a naked Draught of an Association which as I said before was a thing so much above-board that it was Ordered by the House of Lords themselves This Paper which signified nothing when it was accumulated with their Irish Evidence at the Old Baily was not to be lost but was afterwards set up by it self for a Countrey Quintin to be thrown at by all the Loyal Sparks of the Nation where they were to get Garlands for knocking it down For those were the Men whom the King delighted to Honour and it was an assured Knighthood to the Foreman of an Abhorrence if not to several of his Fellows And if the Knights of England were to be surveyed I believe the Knights of the Address and of the Abhoâ—rence of Associations would be found to be the largest Order but I dare say would have been the thinnest if they were to have been Created Bannerets But the rotten part of the Law belonging to the Middle-Temple who were in haste for Preferment the Saunderses and the Shoreses and I care not who were forward to pleasure the Court in this Matter and began the Yelp from an Inns of Court which was thought Authentick in the Countrey and so all the Curs in England from the Foreland of Kent to St. Michael's Mount set up a full-mouth'd Cry against that Earl I refer my self to the Infamous Gazetts of the Year 82. Which were remarkable upon this account that they were often a whole Sheeâ— being swoln with Abhorrences Now I desire any Noble Earl in England to lay his Hand upon his Heart and consider whether he would be content to be so serv'd and to be baited twice a Week with Abhorrers in Sir Lionel Ienkins's Bear-Garden for the best part of a Twelvemonth together and at last be forced with downright worrying to steal out of England and go and die in a Ditch After this no Man could call his Countrey his own for the Character of my Lord Shaftsbury which they had endeavoured to render hateful with the same ease might have been stuck upon another for the Kingdom of Poland being Elective it lay in the Breast of the Court to choose whom they pleased King of Poland If when my Lord Shaftsbury was forced to leave his own House and had secreted himself at Mr. Watson's he talk'd with Howard of Escreck about relieving himself and his Countrey he did amiss and it was a defect for talk is but talk when all 's done Now my Lord Russel was an Eye-witness to this long Scene of Invasion of Rights and his Foresight was much earlier witness a Letter of his of an old Date which I shed Tears upon at Woburn at some distance of time after his Death but I find that no length of time will dry them up I have spoiled the entireness of that Scene of Tyranny which my Lord lived to see by frequent Digressions but it signifies nothing because the Bishops that mooted the Case with his Lordship supposed the Religion and Rights of the Nation to be Actually Invaded which Case his Lordship wisely shortened by saying that our Religion being established by Law was a Civil Right and so the Question reduced is in short Whether the Rights of the Nation being Actually Invaded may be Defended And here I join Issue with those two Bishops and so I would with a Bench of them upon these two Points which I will maintain First That the Rights of the Nation being Invaded may be Defended Secondly That no body has a Right to Defend them but they whose Rights they are First That the Rights of the Nation being Invaded may be Defended for otherwise they are No Rights They may be the Effects of special Grace and Favour Bounties Courtesies Court-Smiles Places at Whithall during Pleasure the Breath of the Court which may be suckt in again ill-advised Gifts which may be recalled by Acts of Resumption or any thing but Rights If I cannot defend that which is mine from him that would take it away then it was not mine from the first As Mr. Selden used to say he that had but Two pence was King of Two pence and might defend his own against a King of Ten-pence What signifies the King's having more Rights than I if they be all upon the same Bottom for if he Invades my Two-pence at the same time he destroys his own Ten-pence because he breaks down that Hedge of the Law which secures all Mens Rights and then I am sure all lies in Common Words do but darken so clear a Point for if any thing be mine it is mine to Have and to Hold. Secondly That no body has a Right to defend these Rights but they whose Rights they are This necessarily follows from the Former for Rights must be a Man 's to Have before they can be his to Hold. Besides what has any body else to do with other Mens Rights It must needs be that the Rights of a Nation are to be Defended for Kings and Queens and all the Retinue of Government were ordained by the Nation for that very End and if they turn upon us and Invade our Rights as Chancellor Fortescue saysâ— We are Defrauded and over-reached in our first Intention for then our King shall Injure us which before we had Kings it was Lawful for No Man to do That 's a hard Case for a King of England had always Revenue enough to keep him Honest and had no need to take indirect ways to Enslave his People that is to say to put an end to a Government which it was so much worth his while to keep And there can no Tolerable Account be given of the Attempts made in the three last Reigns upon our Liberties but only Bigottry They had a mind to Convert their Kingdoms and knowing that most Mens Souls follow their Bodies they took it for Granted that if they established an absolute Empire over the one they should have a full Command of the other And so after a world of Arbitrary Proceedings the Common-Prayer-Book was sent down into Scotland where the King had no more Right to send it than into the Mogull's Countrey but it was under a Pretence of Uniformity when there was nothing less meant for it varied from ours and was nearer the Original Mass-book out of which it was taken No the Design was to enter them of the King's Religion and then they might have had a New Edition of their
Common-Prayer-Book the next Year and then the Reason of Uniformity holding alike in both Kingdoms ours ought to be like theirs But the old Herb-woman at Edinburgh put an end to that Game for hearing the Arch-Bishop who watch'd the Rubrick directing him that read the Book to read the Collect for the Day she made a Gross mistake and cried The Diewl Collick in the Wemb of thee and withal threw her Cricket-stool at his Head which gave a Beginning to the War of Scotland for when the Statesmen have reduced a Kingdom to Tinder the least Spark will kindle it The Best Friends that King had and who spilt their Blood for him cannot deny but he had set his Heart upon a Laudean Religion and an English Patriarchate which we all know would have ended in Latin and have been still Ecclesia Anglicana as it was in all Ages I must needs be very Impartial in relating these things for I was a great Neutral in those Days I cannot say I was so in the following Times for I saw the Church-game played here and heard of the Counterpart which was at the Pyrâ—naean Treaty and in the Polish Memorial and I have viewed the very Mass-house where the Last opened Shop and wanted Customers Now we ought to be somewhat the wiser for our Dear bought Experience and never to suffer a Prince Popishly inclined to be admitted to the Government more for they have a standing Pretence of Religion and Conscience to Enslave the Nation and to do it for our own Good to save our Souls and so all our Temporals shall go to wreck in ordine ad Spiritualia whereas whenever a Prince is known to be of our own Religion or of a Travelling Religion which will comply with our's then he has no Church-Pretence of spoiling the Government he cannot be Arbitrary if he would because he has no Excuse left he must Tyrannize for Tyranny's sake and that being open will never go far nor last long Nor will any wise Protestant Prince venture upon such a Hazardous thing for if he should miscarry in it he will not have so much as a Bull from Rome to Bless himself withall And if any future Prince should arise who should think that to be Prerogative which those former Kings practised and thereupon form a Resolution that the Crown of England shall not be the worse for his wearing I shall humbly offer him my Advice before hand not to think of Their Crown for it was no wearing Crown it was so stufft with Prerogative that it was top-heavy and it visibly hurt two of the Heads that wore it I know not nor I care not who eased the Middlemost of that Burden But our Present King came on purpose as appears by his Two Declarations to discharge the Crown of all Arbitrariness and to reduce it to the Standard So that if our Parliaments do not pursue the Ends of those Declarations which are Annexed to the Crown and are the Foundation of this Government they betray the Nation and are Worse to us than the Pensioner Parliament was 2 dly The second Thing which I propounded was to Consider the Point of Defending our Rights wiâ—h Reference to this Revoâ—ution In which I shall carefully Distinguish betwixt the English Right of Self-Defence and the welcome Assistance of the Prince of Orange which came like a Hand out of the Clouds to Help us First I say That if the People of England have not a Right to Defend their Liberties and Properties against Tyranny they have neither Liberties nor Properties 2 dly When this Nation falls under Tyranny they must be Delivered either by Miracle or Means Not by Miracle as a Great Man very Truly said and therefore we must use the Means 3 dly If we have not a Power within our selves to Preserve our selves then as Mr. Manwood said in Queen Elizabeth's Time in Parliament The Realm is no Realm but we depend upon some body from Abroad 4 thly I say That neither the Duke of Hanover nor any other Foreign Prince who is Related to the Royal Family is Guarantee to the Coronation Oath and the Oath of Allegiance which are the Terms of this Government 5 thly That if the Prince of Orange had not come in by the Sollicitation and Consent of the English People it had been a Proper Invasion 6 thly The Original Right which the People of England have to Defend themselves enables them to Call for Assistance whenever they are beâ—set and cannot help themselves and to Pray in Aid And here this Happy Revolution Centers For it would be a strange Thing to me That any Person who only looks over the Hedge should have more Right to Defend a Man's Freehold than the Owner himself who is upon the Premises And thus I have done with the Maxim about Defence and come at last to our Author's Touchstone of Maxims which is That all which tend to the inevitable Destruction of Cities and Societies as indiffeasable Allegiance does are False Maxims But what then is become of their Darling Maxim with which their Churches used to Ecchoe in the Exclusion-Time Fiat Iustitia pereat Mundus Let the Duke of York have his No Right though the World go to wreck For that was the true English of it True or False they have no Maxims nor Principles at all for they are steddy in none For is not Fiat Iustitia pereat Mundus as True a Maxim in an Abdication as in an Exclusion It is with some Assurance that I speak it because I have already proved it That Allegiance is a rigid obstinate unalterable and Indefeasible Thing and that it must be Dissolved by one of the two Parties themselves but is Impossible to be Dissolved by any Third Person I had but Two Maxims in the World in reference to State-matters the one was that Honesty is the Best Policy and the other was that Allegiance is Indefeasible and he is a going to take away my last Maxim from me which I will not part with because I have Sworn it to King William and Queen Mary I said I would not part with my Indiffesable Allegiance but he brings a whole Posse upon me to prove it false in these words And this is the Opinion in which all who have considered this Matter either as Lawyers as Casuists do agree Now I say That All his Lawyers and Casuists never said a word of Truth in their whole Lives For All Lawyers and Casuists are None and He having named No body I have Affronted No body But whenever he pleases to name his Lawyers and Casuists and produce their strong Reasons against my Indiffeasible Allegiance I will talk with them round In the mean time I am weary and break off here FINIS Books written by the Reverend Mr. Samuel Johnson JVlian the Apostate Being a short â—â—ount of his Life the Sense of the Primitive Châ—istians about his Succession and their Behaviour towards him Together with a Comparison of Popery and Paganism Iulian's Arts to undermine and extirpate Christianity Together with Answers to Constantius the Apostate and Iovian Remarks upon Dr. Shâ—rlock's Book intituled The Case of Resistance of the Supream Power stated and reâ—olved according to the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures Reflections on the History of Passive Obedience A second five Year's Struggle against Popery and Tyranny being a Collection of Papers published by the Reverend Mr. Samuel Iohnson during his last Imprisonment of five Years and ten Days Wherein are contained these following Tracts 1. A Sermon preached at Guildhall-Chappel 2. The Church of England as by Law established c. 3. Godly and wholsom Doctrine and necessary for these Times 4. A short Disswasive â—rom Popery and from Countenancing and Encouraging Papists 5. A Parcel of wry Reasons wrong Inferences but right Observator 6. An Oration of Mr. Iohn Hales 7. Several Reasons â—or the establishing a standing Army and the dissolving the Militia 8. Four Chapters 1. Oâ— Magistracy 2. Of Prerogative by Divine Right 3. Of Obedience 4. Of Laws 9. The Grounds and Reasons of the Laws against Popery 10. An Humble and Hearty Address to all the English Protestants in King Iames's Army 11. The Opinion that Resistance may be used in case our Religion and Rights should be invaded 12. The Trial and Examination of the New Test of the Church of England's Loyalty 13. Reflections upon the Instance of the Church of England's Loyalty 14. The absolute Impossibility of Transubstantiation demonstrated 15. Bishop Ridley's Letter to Bishop Hooper with some Observations on it 16. A Letter from a Freeholder to the rest of the Freeholders of England 17. Religion founded upon a Rock 18. The True Mother Church An Argument proving That the Abrogation of King Iames by the People of England from the Regal Throne and the Promotion of the Prince of Orange oâ—e of the Royal Family to the Throne of the Kingdom in his stead was according to the Constitution of the English Government and Prescribed by it In Opposition to all the false and treacherous Hypotheses of Usuâ—pation Conâ—quest Desertion and of taking the Powers that Are upon Content An Essay concerning Parliaments at a Certainty or the Kalends of May.