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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54696	Ursa major & minor, or, A sober and impartial enquiry into those pretended fears and jealousies of popery and arbitrary power with some things offered to consideration touching His Majestie's league made with the King of France upon occasion of his wars with Holland and the United Provinces : in a letter written to a learned friend.	Philipps, Fabian, 1601-1690.	1681 (1681)	Wing P2019A; Wing U141_CANCELLED; ESTC R23216	69,552	56

the Protestant Cause or tend to a Subversion of that Religion more than it did than when Oliver could League with France and its Politick Cardinal Mazarine and set the Dane to Invade the Sweed and after that to put the Sweed upon the Dane on purpose to disenable him from assisting His now Majesty his near Allie and Kinsman without any prejudice supposed to the Protestant Religion of either side and be commended for it Charles the Fifth Emperor Imprisoning the Pope and putting him to a Ransom made him not suspected to be a Calvinist or Lutheran Lewis the 13 th King of France a Catholick Prince could heretofore make a League with the Great Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweeden a Protestant back him with Leagues and yearly great Sums of Money to Deplume the Roman Eagle and make those glorious feats of Arms which he did accomplish to be the Ruine and Disturbance of many a Popish Prince and to be so formidable as to shake the Foundations of the House of Austria and the Pope and all the Partakers of them The now King of France could for a wrong done by others to his Embassadors in the Court of Rome make the Pope himself submit to the setting up of a Pillar of Infamy at Rome to be a witness to the World of the Indignation of the one and Chastisement of the other and hath lately vigorously assisted the now King of Sweden against the Danes and Elector of Brandenburgh being all Protestants and did not think that he forfeited thereby the Title of the most Christian King and a great Maintainer of the Popish Religion of which and much more which might be said there may be as many approved Examples to be met withal in History as there may be well digested Reasons in order to Publick Peace and Tranquility alleadged for it so that they that would Criticise and be over Censorious should if they would be just whilst they Condemn His Majestie 's League with France to be as a strengthening and weighing down of the Balance on the Popish part consider that the last King of France did by his League with Gustavus King of Sweden so advance the Protestant side of the Balance as it endangered all the other side that the Villanies at home against His late Majesty and the setting up of Oliver and his League with France depressing the Spaniard and making France so over-Potent hath ever since turned the Balance and disordered it And that Balances may notwithstanding at other times be rectified and made equilibrious without any damage to the Protestant Religion or the various Profession of it Which League of His Majesty with France and that Active Princes Power and concurrent Interest to enervate the dangerous neighbouring greatness of the Dutch overgrown Republick did so little weaken the Balance on the Protestant part as the Event hath clearly demonstrated it to have been the only means of re-establishing the Prince of Orange his Nephew no remote Heir to the Crowns of England Scotland and Ireland and the Heirs Males of His Body in the Authority and Dignity of Stadtholder of the United Belgick Provinces Generalissimo of all their Forces and Armies by Land and Admiral of their formidable and to a wonder very numerous Fleets of which by the contrivance of Cromwell the Profess'd Enemy of His Majestie 's Royal Line and Family and his encouragement of the Faction of the De Wits he had most ingratefully been deprived concerning which there appears not in the Petition of the Parliament for a War with the Dutch to have been any prospect or design and rendred him thereby together with the access of his Personal Virtues Valour and Wisdom being not yet of the Age of Thirty years not only the great Imitator of his glorious Ancestors on the Fathers and Mothers side but the probability if the over-hazarding of his Person doth not shorten the hopeful race and course of his life of being the greatest Captain of the Christian World an Honour of the Protestant Religion and the strengthening of it And it can therefore be no unwholsome advice not to set our own House on Fire by needless Fears and Jealousies as we have done or make our selves less wise than the Seditious Rabble of Rome who by the Wisdom of Menenius Agrippa were Charmed into a Pacification and quiet of Spirits by the Fable or Apologue of the mutiny of the Members of the Body against the Belly or Paunch which could not be altogether so perillous as ours would be against the Head for until the Laws of God Nature and Nations shall be repealed and the wiser part of the People who have lived in the habitable World can by any of that Party or Children of Contention now living be convinced and brought by any Rules of right Reason or Wisdom to acknowledge that Particulars in a Body Politick are more to be heeded and taken Care of than Universals the lesser part more than the greater a few more than a multitude or that in the Body Natural the Heart Liver Lungs Arms Back Belly Legs Bones Sinews Muscles and Ligaments with Hundreds of little Parts and Particles appertaining to that excellent Frame and Structure of Man's Body can subsist and do well when the Head which gives motion and comfort unto all and the least of them is Sick and ruining for want of its necessary Support and Supply from them in their several Offices We need not be at much pains in the search of Reason that they who do purchase the Occasions or Advantages of Contention which may in the end howsoever contenting and profitable it may seem to be in the beginning or pursuit of it prove to be their own as well as others Irrepairable Ruine and do all that they can to disturb and mud the Waters that refresh and make glad the Valleys of our Syon should justly be accompted to be no wiser in the Event than he who having all his Goods in a Friend's House set on fire by some that designed it and their own Benefit as our Neighbour Dutch were said to have done in the Wars of Bohemia or by some evil Accident would so much forget his Charity and Duty to his Neighbour and care of himself as to refuse to aid or help him either by Water Ladder Buckets or Engines until he should first have called him and his Servants to Accompt and Examination how and where the Fire began by whose negligence or miscarriage what method care and order will be taken to prevent it for the future and what Security he will or can give that there shall be no more such an accident hereafter And whilst he is thus over-running his Discretion and acting his own Folly and new sound Politicks suffer the Fire to do what it list Burn the House and all his own Goods as well as those of his Friends and Neighbours in it When History and the Records and never enough bewailed Experience of times past might have told him and all that