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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

told me he knew well enough that the Canon Law did not as such bind all Papists in foro conscientiae but he would stay in no Church that he should find to be built in any Akeldama or Field of Blood that is a Church that approved of Tenets destructive of Civil Societies or condemned not Tenets that where any other Religion than the Popes was would Condemn men like Nebuchadnezor to grasing and to solitude or if they would live in Towns or Cities make them live there in Houses under Ground as Dr. Browne in his Travels saith He saw some Towns in the Turkish Dominions where Christians so lived like the Troglodytes and subterraneous Nations about Egypt and which might be occasioned by many Armies marching that way and burning of Towns en passant and that till the Pope disclaimed this power and damned such Tenet in his Canon Law that hung up there a Light conspicuous to the World for the lawful kindling of the Torches that should set fire to Heretical Cities such Cities as he called Heretical would be in fear of their being incendio delendae and that in the mean time the Iesuites who assert the plenitude of his power would implicitly obey his Commands and their Emissaries execute theirs without considering whether Gratian as a Fool or a Knave misapplied Cyprian and he granted that if as an Universal Censor morum the Pope did Command the Iesuites or others to inflict spiritual Censures in Cases of Sin or Non-belief of any Religionary Notion and those Censures were not to operate beyond the Soul that Civil Societies might yet be maintained but to give the Pope power to issue out Orders to burn the Cities and Towns where the Roman Catholick Religion is not professed is said he to give him Arbitrary Power over a great part of the World and to leave it to his Arbitrage whether there shall be any Political Government and Commerce in the States and Kingdoms of Hereticks and the World might suffer Confusion by the Papacy's having this power de facto as much as if it had it de jure and that several places have been burned as Heretical and when certainly they had a right not to be so served and particularly the Heretical Villages at the Massacre of Merindol of which Dr. Heylin in his Geoghraphy in Folio makes mention saying that in the Year 1560. there were above 1250 Churches of the Hugonots in France which cannot in such a long time but be wonderfully augmented tho scarce any of them have scaped some Massacre or other Of these Massacres two are most memorable viz. that of Merindol and Chabiers as being the first and that of Paris as being the greatest That of Merindol happened in the Year 1545. the instrument of it being Minier the President of the Council of Aix for having Condemned those poor people of Heresy he mustered a small Army and set fire on the Villages He directed me further for the proof of that Fact to Maimbourg's History of Calvinism Book 2d where he mentions the Decree of the Parliament of Aix to which Heylin refers and saith Maimbourg of it Par le quel il Condamn ' par Contumace dix neuf de Ces Heretiques à estre brasléz c. ordonne que toutes les Maisons de Merindol qui sont toutes remplies de Ces Heretiques soient entierement démolies renverses de fond en comble c. He further said that there was another guess Fire projected by the Jesuites as was before mentioned out of Thuanus and which was abetted by the Pope which shewed there was another Pope beside Eugenius that thought the burning of Heretical Cities lawful and meritorious and he referred it to the Consideration of the Criticks in Gun-powder how far so great a quantity of it lodged in a strait Vault might have tended to the demolishing of the Heretical Cities of Westminster and even of London if the experiment of the Gun-powder Treason had took effect for said he the utmost power of Gun-powder was never yet tryed He told me that Osborn in his King Iames having spoke of the Gun-powder Treason saith I never met two of the like conceit concerning any effect or extent this Powder might have reached had it not failed of success some men confining it to the Circle it lay in and no farther whereas the judgment of others no less experienced delivered at least the whole Isle to the fury of it and then he quotes it as the more probable Conjecture then that it could not but work dire effects on the City it self He further discoursed that in this Case of securing Protestant Cities from Fire at the Popes pleasure Pere Veron's artifice in making the Church of Rome chargeable with nothing to be believed but what is proposed by the Catholick Church in her general Councils or by her Vniversal Practice to be believed as an Article or Doctrine of Catholick Faith or any Papists in this Case joyning with Protestants to decry the Canon Law is but trifling away time as to any giving light to our understandings or keeping Fire from our Cities for if each Pope believes he hath this power and the Jesuites too believe it the Notion of a things not being de fide will not be sufficient to save our Cities when the Incendiaries even by the Doctrine of probability may save their Souls and when they shall have such Doctors as the Pope and Gratian and as they may think Cyprian for the opinion of burning the Nests of Heretical Hornets He moreover mentioned how Bellarmine as to the Tenet of all Christian Monarchies owing subjection to the Pope said the contrary to it is Heretical tho he well knew that no definition of the Church ever made it Heresy and might as well have called the denial of this Incendiary Power of the Pope against Heretical Cities to be Heresy Moreover he told me he had read Bellarmine cited in that Book of Donne p. 277. for writing against a Doctor who had defended the Venetian Cause against the Popes Censures and reprimanding that Doctor in these words viz. It is a grievous rashness not to be left unpunished that he should say the Canons as being but Humane Laws cannot have equal Authority with divine for this is a Contempt of the Canons as tho they were not made by the direction of the Holy Ghost and yet saith Donne citing that Doctor that impugned the Canons those Canons that he referred to were but two and cited but by Gratian. And that Donne further in that Page observed that when Parsons is to make his advantage of any Sentence in Gratian he uses to dignify it thus that it is translated by the Popes into the Corps of the Canon Law and so not only allowed and admitted and approved but commended and commanded canonized and determined for Canonical Law and authorized and set forth for Sacred and Authentical by all Popes whatsoever Treat of Mitag ca. 7. ● 42. That moreover tho we

by some accidents be made to cast Anchor or they may be sunk but they cannot be forced to go back When a man hath long been compell'd to creep with Chains on him through a toilsome dark Labyrinth and having extricated himself out of it and being come to enjoy his liberty in the light of the Sun the persuasion of words cannot make him go back again My Lord I lately mentioned the Motto of the Royal Society of England of which your Lordship is a Member and I look on the very constitution of that Society to be an inexpugnable Bulwark against Popery In which Society many of our choice English Witts have shew'd as much subtilty and curiosity in the Architecture of Real Science and such as tends to the edification of the world as any of our Countrey men heretofore did in those curious but useless Cobwebs of holy Church call'd School Divinity And the constitution of that Society hath not only been useful in encreasing the Trade of Knowledge among its members by a joyned stock but moreover hath tended to the raising in the Kingdom a general inclination to pursue Real science and to contemn all science falsly so call'd and the Raising of this inclination I will call a Spirit that can never be Conjur'd down nor can the knowledge that depends on number weight and local Motion be ever exterminated by Sophisms or Canting or terms of Art Nor will they who have from this Society learned to weigh Ayre give up their Souls to any Religion that is all Ayre without weighing it or notwithstanding any hard name that may come to be in vogue ever forget that bread is bread His Majesty by the founding of this great Conservatory of knowledge presently after his Restoration wherein his great Minister then the Earl of Clarendon was an honourable Member did convey real knowledge and a demonstration of his being an Abhorrer of Arbitrary Power to all that can understand Reason and affect not the ridiculous Treasonableness of Bradshaw's Court to say that they will not hear reason for had he like the Eastern King 's affected Arbitrary Power he would have used their artifice of endeavouring to cast mists before the understanding faculties of his Subjects and to detain them from knowledge by admiration and to deprive them of sight like horses that are still to drudge in the Mill of Government by blind obedience But to shew that he abhorr'd both such obedience and implicit Faith and that he intended to establish his Throne as well in the heads as in the hearts of his Subjects he presently setled this Great Store-house of Knowledge that shew'd it was his desire and ambition by the general Communication of Knowledge in his Dominions to Command Subjects whose heads were with the Rays of Science crown'd within And therefore I think His Majesties Munificence to the Royal Society in giving them Chelsey-Colledge at their first institution was very Consistent with the Primary Intention of the erecting that Colledge which was to be a Magazine for Polemical-Divinity wherewith to attaque the Writers for Popery for the very planting of a general disposition to believe nothing contrary to Reason is the cutting of the gra●s under Poperies feet and His Majesty providing for the growth of reason did apparently check the growth of Popery as well as of Arbitrary Power without the prop of which Popery can never run up to any height more then the Sun-flower without a supporter and the setling in men an humour of Inquisition into the truth and nature of things is as I partly said before an everlasting barricade against the Popes darling Court of the Inquisition That great and noble notion of the Circulation of the blood took its first rise from the hints of a common persons enquiring what became of all the blood that iss●●d out of the heart seeing that the heart beats above Three Thousand times an hour thô but one drop should be pump'd out at every stroke and if any one shall tell me that he believes that Popery with its retinue of implicit faith and ignorance can over-run us I will ask him what will then become of all that knowledge the vital blood of the Soul that hath issued from the heads of inquisitive Protestants and been Circulating in the World for above a Hundred and Fifty years and I doubt not but it will be in mens Souls as long as blood shall have its Circular Course in their bodies and maugre all the Calumnies cast on the Divines of the Church of England for being fautors of Popery I shall expect that our learned Colledge of Physicians will as soon be brought to disbelieve the Circulation of the blood of our Royal Society to take down the Kings Standard that they have set up against implicit faith as our learned Convocation the learnedest that ever England had be brought to believe the principles of Popery I know My Lord ' t●s obvious against this my hypothesis of the unpracticableness of Popery being here the State-Religion to say that in little more then Twenty years time Four great changes in Religion happen'd in England and that the generality of the people then like dead Fishes went with the stream of the Times but I ask if the generality of the people had been throughly enlighten'd in the rationality of the Protestant Principles Twenty years together would they have return'd to the belief of the Popish Will they now do it after the establishment of a Rational Religion for above a Hundred years together Can Popery now find the way into most Mens brains here presently after the whole Nation almost were Preachers and when all our great and little unruly disagreeing Sects yet agreed in this as a fundamental that the Bishop of Rome is the Antichrist If Printing had been free in Turky for a Hundred years and a libera Philosophia and Theologia had been there in fashion for a Hundred years and every man had been allow'd his Judgment of discretion so long about the sense of the Alchoran or of the holy Scripture and of all Books of Religion could ignorance even there come into play again or if the Turkes had drank Wine for a Hundred years together could any one Conjure the glasses out of their hands by telling them there was a Devil in every grape If that Law in Muscovy that makes it death for any Subject to travel out of that Kingdom without the Emperors Licence lest his Subjects having seen the freedome of other Countreys should never again return to the Arbitrary Power in their own again I say if that Law had been repeal'd for a Hundred years and multitudes of oppress'd mankind had thence found the way to breath in the ayre of Liberty like men could they be persuaded to return to the Yokes of Beasts again When a floating Island has been a Hundred years fixt to the Continent can any teach it to swim again Consulitur de Religione is likely to be the eternal

sententia hic pronuntiata fuit Quaenam illa Reus est mortis Hanc sententiam à spiritu sancto profectam esse non est dubium O hominem sacrilegum blasphemum Ille ne Reus mortis qui innocens innoxius vitam dedit But as inhumane as any Principles of Papists or Mahumetans or any Enthusiasts or as desperate as the very Iesuites beforementioned ones are supposeable to be and as much as any of Mankind can strive to delude others by Implicit Faith yet as it is in no mans power presently to believe what even his own and much less what his Guides appetite would have him notwithstanding any Ecclesiastical Association he may have prosessedly linked his Faith in so no man can ensure the continuance of his Belief or its holding for a Moment and therefore the more absurd and inhumane any mens Tenets are I shall expect them to be the less believed and for the less time and it is more then Holy Church can know that any one at all believes as it believes how great soever the number that pretends so to do appears Of all Papists not professing themselves bound to withdraw their Allegiance from Heretical Princes and even from such as by a particular Bull were Excommunicated by the Pope History affords many Examples and particularly of the many Loyal Papists who when the inheritable Right of the Crown of France was devolved on the King of Navarre a Protestant and as such Excommunicated with their Lives and Fortunes asserted his Title to the Crown Any of the Readers of Thuanus know that in Book 93 't is related how when many Papists would have debarred him from the Succession and that the minds of those qui in Castris erant were in that point variously affected yet Major sanior pars sic existimabat nullam publicae salutis spem superesse nisi servato legitimae successionis ordine and so were for Harry the 4 ths Right therein and whom they believed was late reconciled to the King his Predecessor for that he did per eum res administrare as the Historian's words are i. e. Harry the 4 th a Protestant Successor was Primier Ministre to Harry the 3 d a Papist And not only the Major part and the sober Party of the Popish Souldiery i. e. in Thuanus his words sanior pars was loyally addicted to the Right of the Protestant Successor but several of the Grandees of the Popish Clergy were so and particularly the Arch-Bishop whose Speech for that purpose Thuanus Book 106. sets down wherein 't is said Neque verò aut Regis personam aut subditorum robur debilitatemque heic considerandum esse quando Reges lege ad regnum vocantur Neque exemplis doceri posse quicquid contrajactetur in priscâ lege populum Israeliticum ob Religionem regibus suis defecisse c. sed totum id Deo dijudicandum reliquisse in cujus manibus regum corda sunt quae ille pro arbitrio quo vult inclinat Quid in Christianâ Ecclesiâ Nonne Christum generis humani redemptorem ejusque beatissimam matrem nomina sua apud censum Augusto imperante Gentilium sacris addicto professos esse Nonne Caesari suo Petri nomine tributum pependisse Quod verò de legibus civilibus imperialibus constitut affertur quibus Manichaei Arriani à dignitatum magistratuum ac publicorum munerum participatione excluduntur id intelligi de magistratibus inferioribus non de principalibus qui nisi cum excidio populorum Reip. eversione jure suo privari non possunt de quibus decernere ad solius Dei Omnipotentis Iurisdictionem pertinet The whole Speech is argumentative to that purpose out of the old and new Testament and Fathers c. and that Noble Loyalty of those Papists to a Protestant Successor met with a requital as to their Religion and thereby I may say in the Scripture expression that they did at once heap both a Crown and Coals of Fire upon his head Any one may be rather apt to think me less sanguine as I may say in my belief of Shame 's operating more and more among both Lay and Clerical Roman Catholicks and even among our Jesuited Protestants I mean many of our Non-Conformists that have had sanguinary and disloyal Principles transfused into them by Jesuites to the making them out of love with such Principles when he shall consider how the ingenious Maimbourg doth in the 6 th Book of his History of Calvinisme reflect on the great Calvin for his opinion and practice relating to the punishment of Heretics with death and instanceth in the Case of Servetus who was burn'd by the Magistrates of Geneva as an Heretick on Calvin's instigating them so to deal with him as Maimbourg tells us and concludes his Historical Account of the Parisian Massacre with the mention of the said opinion and practice of Calvin and doth with great Judgment and Candour thus observe viz. On á veu neanmoins de tout temps que le moyen le plus efficace quand l' heresie est deja puissamment etablie n' estoient point les supplices beaucoup moins la violence le trop de Rigueur Bien loin que le massacre qu' on fit a Paris entant d' autres villes ait aneanti ou du moins affoibli le Calvinisme qu' au Contraire il en devint plus enracinè plus puissant plus formidable qu' auparavant Les Huguenots ne voulurent plus se fier aux declarations que l' on fit p●ur les rasleurer c. Alsted in his Chronology of Heresy tells us that Michael Servetus Hispanus docuit nullam esse in Deo realem generationem aut distinctionem and Calvin in his Opuscula saith of Servetus vel sola modestia potuisset vitam redimere but I believe the World will grow more modest then to burn men for immodesty and 't is most certain that as the World grows the nearer to its Period and growing more and more populous that populousness will naturally tend to unite all Countries at home by preparing them to resist Invasion from abroad and make the fantastical squandring away the Members of the Common-wealth more and more ridiculous and insensibly to grow out of fashion Thus 't was with the increase of the People among the Jews and Turks that the Sicacious Zealots among the former and Dervices among the latter did gradually decrease and at last insensibly grew obsolete And thus of old did Draco's Laws evaporate Aulus Gellius tells us in his Noctes Atticae that Draco Atheniensis vir bonus multáque esse prudentia existimatus est jurisque divini humani peritus fuit Is Draco leges quibus Athenienses uterentur primus omnium tulit In illis legibus furem cujuscunque modi furti supplicio capitis puniendum esse alia pleraque nimis severe censuit sanxitque Ejus igitur leges quoniam videbantur impendio acerbiores non