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england_n	english_a	king_n	scotland_n	6,997	5	8.4384	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41901	The great grievance of Scotland, the mother and nurse of many evils to church and state. Together with a rational proposal, a suitable expedient, and the proper remedy.		1689 (1689)	Wing G1705; ESTC R218497	12,778	27

his Happiness and long Reign and their satisfaction with his Government and to live under his shadow Let Court Parasites suggest what they please the Love of the People is the best Pillar of the Throne Hence His Majesty in his first Speech to the English Parliament immediately after his return Anno. 1660. wisely said That He valued the Love of his People more then many Crowns And after enquiry the Satisfaction and Affection of the Subjects will be found the strongest Bull-work and most concludent Argument against Defensive Arms. For let men dispute as they will a People once provok'd finding themselves in a capacity to right themselves will I do not now enquire whether or when they should make the Sword cut the Cords of all Bonds that would bind their Hands and bear them down nay the more strong and pinching these be they will be accounted the more Intolerable and being cast off will render the dissatisfied the more implacable Who knows what a loss His Majesty was at upon the account of the dissatisfaction of good People and most Loyal Subjects because of the Hierarchical Corruptions and Prelacy it self the Mother of these Abuses and Nursery of Popery and Prophanity which never did nor is likely to do any good Office to the Throne but if the Prelat were Popular and had Moyen with the People and thus once were in a Capacity would as formerly he hath be Ready to improve his Honour against the Throne to stir up to Sedition and Sound a Trumpet to Rebellion as Mr. Pryn hath fully * Antypathy of the English-Prelacy to Regal Monarchy and Civil Vnity demonstrated in a large Volume containing an History of the Conspiracies Rebellions and Treachery of the Prelates both Popish and Protestant and from thence concludeth that the English Prelates in all Ages have been the greatest Rebels Traytors Conspirators and Opposites to their Kings the Chiefest Incendiaries and Firebrands which have Infested the Realm and the Archest Tyrants and Oppressours of the People and Invaders of the Laws and Liberties of all other Callings and Professions of Men severally or joyntly considered And what the Carriage of most of them and the Inferiour Clergy hath been and is to this present King is too well known But some will say If the Prelates Wings were Clipt he needed not be much feared Answer Tho' Moderation in Evil be more tolerable then the Excess yet who can say it is good and Eligible Vertue is placed between two Extreams but doth not partake and borrow more or less from either and O what a Monster would a Moderate Prelate be and how few his Days How would that Implacable and Furious Creature Rage till either he burst asunder or did break all the Bonds wherewith he were bound and kept under 2. What a Ridiculous Empty Shadow and Non-significant Cypher would he be and for what would he serve He would not then be a Curb and Terrour to the Nobility nor so misrepresent Affairs and Persons to his Majesty as to make Men fawn on him nor so Oppress the Saints c. and he hath Mettle for no other Work Hence 3. He would turn despicable for if once he lost his Sting none would Fear as none do Love him yea his own Creatures and Vicars with the first would be ready to Hiss at him and Curse the Day they first saw his Face 4. As this Mongrel Prelate would neither be for Work nor Pleasure so neither for Meat nor Medicine such an Impoysoned Morsel and Venomous Plaister would rather breed new Distempers then Cure former Diseases such a Hotch Potch could not stop the Mouths of them who now Complain nor satisfie the desires of Loyal Subjects and sober Christians who are waiting and Praying for better things nor remove the occasion of Schism and Confusion which threaten such sad things both to Church and State Ah may we not then say of that poor Creature Cui bono Regi cui usui Ecclesiae vel Reipublicae O! but if the Bastard Prelate were once cast out and Presbyterian Government settled according to the excellent Patern held forth in other Reformed Churches and agreed upon by both Houses of the English Parliament and Ordered to be observed in the Church of England and Ireland Die Martis 19. August 1648. What Acclamations of Joy What expressions of Satisfaction and returns of thanks to his Majesty and to such as had been Instrumental in that good Work from all Ranks of People And how quickly would all disloyal and Seditious Persons be Discovered how easily their Mouth stopt and their Hands bound and such become a Reproach to all but a Terrour to none but themselves And they who now lurk under the honest Mantle of Non-conformity and Presbytery would appear in their own Colours sad experience may Teach how little the Hierarchical Lords can do for holding out or removing Schisms Heresie and Sedition notwithstanding all their Power and Violence and how from time to time they have been the Seed and occasion of these woful Evils But Presbyterian Government in it's due Exercise would as King James told the English Prelates speaking to this very Point and showing the Cause why then there were no Sectaries in the Church of Scotland while they abounded in England Kill the Cocatrice in the Egg and tho' it were Hatcht quickly find it out and Kill it as it were with a Look but not of Hierarchical Fury but of Meekness and by drawing with the Cords of Love and the Methods held forth in Mr. Burrough's Golden Irenicum while all means Essayed for preventing Sedition in the State and Confusion in the Church are to no purpose Essayed And when neither the Prelatical Persecution nor any State Policy or Expedient can do the turn what we now plead for would prove effectual and a Wedge of the same Timber will Cleave the Knotty Tree that would not yield to what seemed to be more forcible and irresistable If such as say No Bishop no King would seriously consider they might acknowledge that with as good Reason it might be said There could be no King if there were none to Vndermine and Ruin the Throne and O what a Reproach is it to the Throne to imagine that it can be better supported by the Rotten Pillar of Prelacy then by the Divine Cords of Presbytery which is so well Founded on the Scriptures But now waving all Extrinsical Considerations and abstracting from Effects and Consequences yea and from all Moral and Religious Respects let me Tender a Proposal that may cut off all the pretended Politicians poor Pleas and it is this If his Majesties Royal Prerogatives the Liberties and Priviledges of Civil Courts and the Honour of Nobles be not better secured from Ecclesiastical Encroachments by Presbytery then Prelacy let King and Nobles Reject this Motion The Scotish Prelates in their seasonable Case and frequently in their Discourses pretended they were but the Kings Commissioners and thus must stand only in a Civil