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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50889	A narrative of the causes and events of civil-war between princes and people together with the manner how the people of Rome and of the Netherlands rejected and abjured their king and kingly government, with the form of their oaths of abjuration : extracted out of the Roman and Netherlands history : as likewise some objections now in contest concerning the taking of the like oath in this Common-Wealth examined and answered, if not for satisfaction at least for information of such as are concerned / by F.M.	F. M.	1659 (1659)	Wing M21; ESTC R3469	13,630	21

what Plots contrived by him and his Queen to subvert Law and Religion in these Nations his inviting of the German Horse in time of Peace and in time of War pawn the Jewels of the Crown to bring over whole Regiments of Papists to kill destroy plunder ravish and barbarously use the Protestant People of this Nation And moreover of my certain knowledge their sending Sir Kelom Digbys to the Pope for Assistance c. The realty of these unparallel'd actings being seriously corsidered and all by-ends and self-interest laid aside and onely that of the Publick eyed upon then it must needs be acknowledged that besides those enormities that many Lucretias have been ravished by those Kings and their Interest and that their wars devastations and cruelties have far exceeded either those of the Tarquin's or Kings of Spain at Rome or in the Netherlands in Rome the ravishing of one Lucretia by the Kings son was the principal occasion of the Peoples banishing and abjuring the whole brood of their Kings and in the Netherlands the oppression and cruelty of the King of Spain occasioned the States of that Countrey to do the like Weigh but the one and the other together in the Ballance of Justice and Reason against the cruelties and licentious wills of our Kings and you will be sure to find them light and inconsiderable as to what hath been exercised here since the Normans subdued England under their heavy and oppressive yoak that in reason it must be acknowledged and granted that for the safety of the People the Parliament of England have after their so many signal Victories and their ownings of God for the same far more and justifiable reasons to renounce and cause to be renounced the whole Line of the Kings and kingship or other single Persons pretending any right or title of Chief Magistrates over these Nations then either the Romans or State of the Netherlands had in renouncing and abjuring their King and kingship against which Oath it may be Objected First That the Oath of Abjuration taken by the Romans and Netherlands could not be advantagious to them as for the keeping out their Kings from returning and that say some because any wicked man to bring his designs to pass will make no Difficulty nor Conscience to swallow any manner of Oaths To which it may be Answered that this short Narrative extracted out of the History is sufficient to remove that Objection for first It is not to be doubled had it not been for the Oath taken by the Romans against the return of their Kings undoubtedly they had never been kept out And secondly for the States of the Netherlands It was not onely useful to weed out of their Armies and Garrisons all the friends of the King of Spain and likewise out of the Courts of Justice and other places of eminent trust and certainly if the hearing of it read and proposed could have so much power as to kill that Great and Wise Counsellor how much more dreadful was it to all others of the King of Spains faction and party who several of them upon refusal of the said Oath were displaced out of their several imployments and besides it is very remarkable that after it was imposed upon all Military Officers there was neither Garrisons nor Forces betrayed to the King of Spain as formerly before it was daily observed there was whereupon the King of Spain was forced to make Peace with them And thirdly It is impossible for the rarest Artists of the world to erect any lasting Fabrick upon an old Foundation unless first the rubish and old ruine thereof be absolutely removed and cast out so likewise and comparatively it is impossible of a Monarchical Government to introduce and establish upon a sure basis a Democratical Government without first casting off and renouncing that old ruinous and rubish Government of King and kingship which if it had been effected in the year 1648 when these Nations were declared a Free State by imposing an Oath of that nature upon those Persons then eminently intrusted in Civil Military places there is sufficient ground to believe that Cromwell nor his Adherents would never have attempted to subvert and usurp the Government as they did which hath in a manner almost ruined both the Cause and Nation and for want of taking such an Oath we see what hopes the Family of the Stuarts and other single Persons have had and have still to return which will never be removed until in imitation of our Neighbours the Netherlands those back-doors be dammed up by taking such an Oath and moreover doth not at present the Royal Party dare with boldness assert and maintain laying Wagers to one that the Chief in Parliament and Army will refuse the same and upon that do openly declare their great hopes which would be soon over if those Worthies would be but sensible thereof and put no further delayes in a business of so great concernment to the settlement of the Nation and Commonwealth The second Objection which is found in the mouths of many which are no better then kinglings but would put it off upon a case of Conscience viz. That in case God who is the Omnipotent over all Governments of the world should in his Providence seem good to bring back some of the Line of the late King to be Ruler over these Nations then say they if we should take such an Oath of Abjuration or Renunciation we should be found to have resisted the Will of God For Answer God is Just and Righteous in all his Dispensations and Providences and for any Person that hath seen and several times returned thanks unto him for his wonderful and miraculous Providences in owning a Cause so much contended for by giving so many signal and marvellous Victories and Deliverances to this Parliament and their Forces against the late King Family in several conflicts and that at such a time when he was very formidable and his party and Armies consisted of most of the Nobility and Gentry of the three Nations and yet God by making use of a company of men of low Estate and condition and not brought up in the Military Art did in such wonderful manner own and prosper them in that War against the King and his Son that at length the Father was by his Divine Providence brought to the block and the Sons endeavours all blasted and brought to nought I say when men have been eye witnesses of such extraordinary Providences in not onely blasting and disowning Kingship in that Family but likewise in the late family of the Apostate Cromwells who attempted the same and that by a Parliamentary way And besides for such as have made War against Kingship and against that Family and Voted the Kingly office uselesse dangerous and chargeable making it Treason to promote Charles Stuart or any other to be chief Magistrate of England selling all the support of Kingship and all other Estate belonging to it And seeing