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An apostrophe from the loyal party to the King's Most Sacred Majesty humbly shewing how the next House of Commons by law may be purged of its dis-affected members.
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longer now as a King to govern the People but as a Pupil to be governed by them This makes us fear you have delivered your Royal Scepter into their hands And if so you have made your Self and Friends one Sacrifice to the Fury and Malice of your Enemies So that we have nothing now in prospect but the Old Tragedy acted over again where we behold a Stage filled with Rapine Sword Fire Blond and Massacres with the Desolation and Overthrow of three Kingdoms Dread Sovereign You are the Object on which all our eyes are fixed You are the Center in which the hopes and desires of all Loyal hearts are lodged Now is the time to make your self a King and us a happy people or never If You put on an unshaken Resolution You will encourage and strengthen Your Friends to stand by you to the last which we are resolved to do if you force us not from you And this will not a little tame the Insolency of those bad men who brand all those who stand up for your Rights and Prerogatives with that scandalous Name Papist All those honest Gentlemen who had a desire to serve their Country by being Parliament-men because they opposed the Rump Faction they and all their Friends were Papists rank bare-fac'd Papists If these men can make us Papists at this rate we shall have Popery among us before we know where we are and really I think we have no great reason to be so much afraid on 't for 't is come to that that you shall not heaâ— of an honest Cavalier nay scarce an honest man but presently he is a Papist Sir you have been silent too long therefore since You have given us your Royal word That our Laws shall be Your Rule and Measure by which You are resolved to Govern let us hear you roar like the King of Lionâ— when next you meet your Parliament cry ha to them and ha again till like your Predecessor H. VIII you make them tremble Sir remember you are as well King of France as England therefore let not the French King be a greater Monarch than your self At least for a time shew yourself as absolute over your people as he is and since that Law is Your Measure like him tell them sic volo sic jubeo and take off the head of that man who shall dare to open his Lips to contradict it And be assured that this way of Governing shall gain you more Friends in one day than all your complyance to the unreasonable demands of your Parliament shall gain you in an age Be pleased to take from the Commons that old Theme Religion or else you must never expect any business to be done by them either for the good of your self or your Kingdom If we must have a Change or Reformation in our spiritual Government let it be done by spiritual men the Bishops and such who understand what Religion is But for such men whose conversation is chiefly among Dogs Horses Women and Wine to be perpetually making new Reformations in Religion is the most preposterous thing in the world What a monstrous thing it is to see the Tail pretend to more Wisdom and Understanding in Government than the Head We have too sadly experienced what it is to live under this dam'd Rump Government therefore for Heavens sake Sir let us have no more on 't Sir as God was pleas'd to perform wonders at your Preservation and Restauration so hath he done no less all the time of your Government For setting aside the precipice into which your Father fell and in it was irrecoverably lost which still lies open â—â—fore the Gates of your Palace so that 't is not possible for You to enter in or out but you must necessarily remember your Fathers sad Fate The Peal that these men daily ring in your ears which was your Fathers Knell setting aside I say these things Heaven and Earth have conspired daily to alarm you and bid you arm your self against the Treacheries and damn'd Conspiracies which are hourly acting against your Life and Government Sir the first thing you are to do is to know your Enemies and then to arm your self against them You cannot have forgotten those men by whom your Royal Father fell and pursued you to Banishment These are the men Sir who strike so boldly at your Crown therefore beware your Head You cannot therefore perswade your self that the Murderers of the Father can ever love the Son But least your Majesty should mistake these men and think them to be your Friends our famous Salamancha Doctor hath unmask'd them unto you For he says and what he says with us is Gospel That they are Papists in Masquerade disguised in the Habit and Manners of the Godly Brethren So that 't is to be hop'd your Majesty will trust none of them nor any thing that looks like this kind of Cattle We humbly therefore beg that the next Parliament you will take aview of your House of Commons that You may know the Members of which it is compos'd and if there be any of these disguis'd Papists there that they may be turn'd out that is not a place for them for the Law says No Papist shall Sit in the House If therfore there be any there who had their hands imbrewed in your Fathers bloud they are disguised Papists they must out also If there be any there who have unsheath'd their Swords against their lawful Sovereign and appeared in open Rebellion against him they are the same they must out too for they are all Papists in Masquerade Or if there be any of the Sons of these men they are the same Flesh and Bloud and they 'l prove themselves no Bastards I 'l warrant you they have suck'd in their Fathers Disloyalty and bloudy Nature with their Mill which 't is to be feared they will never disgest so long as they have an hour to live therefore These must out too And when the House is thus purg'd of these kind of Cattel we may hope to see good times again and not till then For believe it Sir they are are so glutted with the Spoils and Sweet of their last Rebellion that they will now be Caesars or nothing which Heaven and your endeavours must prevent I could wish with all my soul that what the Prophet Isâ—iah spoke of the Counsellors of King Pharaoh may not truly be verified in the people of this Nation God hath sent among them a spirit of giddiness and made them reel up and down in all their actions like drunken men Sir great and terrible are the menaces which God thunders out by the mouth of holy Job against those who wander from the true way of Justice God says he suffereth these wise Counsellors to fall into the hazards of senselss men God maketh the Judges stupid taketh away the Sword and Belt from Kings to ingirt their Reins with a Cord God maketh the Priests to appear Infamous supplanteth the Principal of the people changeth the Lips of Truth-speakers taketh away the Doctrine of Old men and powreth out Contempt upon Princes Job 12. But that these things may not fall upon this Kingdom and that they may be timely prevented be pleas'd Great Sir to hear the Coursel that a great Statesman gave to the Governours of the Empire and it is this Vse the matters so that Judges of Provinces may be very careful in the observance of Laws that Tribunals spare not to thunder out Sentences against ill Manners but especially against False Witnesses and Perjurers That Thieves may fear the Gates of your Palace That the Adulterer may tremble before a chast Officer That the Forgerer may feel horrour at the voice of a Herauld And that all Crimes may be banished from our Teritory That no man oppress the poor That the Persecutors be apprehended and pursued as disturbers of the â—ublick repose You shall make a general peace when you have beaten down the Authors of mischiefs which are committed Let Captains contain their Souldiers in all manner of Discipline in such sort that the Labourer the Merchant the Sailer and Artificer may understand Arms are not made but for their defence I will not likewise that my nearest Allies be pardoned in any case of Justice since I have taken the Commonwealth into my charge I have dispoyled my proper Interests I wish well to mine but in the generality Sir when we shall behold these things practiced within your Dominions we shall conclude that all these prodigies which have been done in your Preservation and Restauration were performed by Heaven for no other end than that you should be that darling Prince to make your Kingdoms flourish and Us a happy people which we all promise our selves and that we shall see you the greatest of Monarchs It was to Princes that the Angel in the Apocalypse speaks these words He who shall overcome and keep my works unto the end I will give him power over Nations and he shall rule them with a Rod of Iron and as the Vessel of the Potter they shall be broken VIVAT REX London Printed Anno Domini MDCLXXXI