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A30679 Advice to the Commons within all His Majesties realms and dominions written by Jacob Bury, Esq. ... ; containing the perfect harmony, consent and agreement between divinity and law, in defence of the government established by law in church and state, and that kingly government is by divine right. Bury, Jacob. 1685 (1685) Wing B6212; ESTC R6090 62,727 80

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ADVICE TO THE COMMONS Within all His MAJESTIES Realms and Dominions Written By Jacob Bury Esq An old Indigent Officer for the County of Bedford as a Captain of Horse in the Royal Army of King Charles the First Containing the perfect Harmony Consent and Agreement between Divinity and Law in defence of the Government Established by Law in Church and State And that Kingly Government is by Divine Right Nihil dictum nec scriptum est quod non dictum scriptum prius LONDON Printed by Henry Hills Jun. for Richard Northcott adjoyning to St. Peters Alley in Cornhill and at the Marriner and Anchor on Fishstreet hill near London-Bridg 1685. To the Right Honourable Robert Earl of Ailesbury and Elgin Vicount Bruce of Ampthill Baron Bruce of Wharlton Skelton and Kinloss Lord of the Honour of Ampthill High Steward of Leicester Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the Counties of Bedford Huntington and Cambridge and one of the Lords of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. Right Honourable HAving received some kindness from your Lordship as also from the rest of His Majesties Commissioners of the Peace for the County of Bedford whereof and wherein your Honour is deservedly for your known and well approved Loyalty Summus procerum proximus à Rege the Chiefest of the Governours and the very next under and after the King therefore I thought my self obliged to shew my thankfulness by doing something that might tend to the good of the whole Community In order thereunto I was principally moved to Write this small ensuing Treatise wherein is contained chiefly The perfect Harmony Consent and Agreement between Divinity and Law in Defence of the Government by Law established in Church and State and is plainly demonstrated That Kingly Government is by Divine Right And now my Lord I most humbly beg your Pardon that I presume to prefix your great Name before this Discourse But since there is nothing therein but what hath its Weight and Warrant from the Holy Scriptures or our Authentick undeniable and well approved of Books of Law I cannot but hope your kind Approbation and Acceptance and am very well pleased I have the occasion offered me to let your Honour know how much I am My Lord Your most Humble and very Obedient Servant Jacob Bury THE PREFACE TO THE READER Courteous Reader THis small ensuing Treatise Entituled Advice to the Commons within all His Majesties Realms and Dominions are confessed to be but the Gleanings of an Old Indigent Officer of the Royal Army of King Charles the First gathered from the vintage or the larger and more Fruitful Fields of such Authentick Books of Law c. as are cited by the Author for his Vouchers It was Written in time a little before and is Published in short time after the Demise or Death of the Natural Body of our late most Gracious Soveraign Lord King Charles the Second who to his Glory and Honour in all after Ages to come will be Chronicled Miraculously to have excelled all his Royal Ancestors in Mercy and Amnesty to all his Subjects whatsoever that survive him by whose Prudent Governance and Wise Management of all Publick Affairs the Publick Peace of these Kingdoms was to a Miracle preserved ever since his long expected and for good reasons much wished for Restauration Now blessed be God for it his rightful Successor whom God long preserve hath declared and promised that as he is by Right of Bloud and Act in Law next and immediately to succeed his said dear Royal Brother in the Station God hath placed him that is to say in the Governance of these his Realms and Dominions as our Soveraign Lord and King so he shall always imitate his Predecessor in Clemency and Mercy to his Subjects that however he hath before by Wicked and foul Mouthed Detraction been misreported to have been for Arbitrary Government that he always shall and will do his utmost endeavours for the defence and preservation of the Government as it is Established by Law in Church and State that he will invade no Mans property c. Now seeing that it hath pleased God to take to himself from us our late Gracious Soveraign let us all rest contented and fully satisfied that we have wofully experienced the Mouths of Slanderors to have been always apt to call all things into question but that always also they have been unready to approve of any thing tending to the publick Peace and welfare of the whole Community Therefore believe the Word and gracious Promise of his Sacred Majesty believe not every Idle report neither be moved by vain suggestions least through light trust thou bring thy self into danger and which is more bad be counted a fool Let us all believe that none sprung from the Loyns of King James the First will ever alter the Protestant Religion or the Government Established by Law in Church and State Remember there was this Plea allowed in bar of an Action brought in the late times of Rebellion for that the Plantiff had not taken the ingagement to be true and faithful to the Commonwealth without King or House of Lords Take into consideration also what the Impression and Charecter of the Money Coined at Oxford was in these times and also consider what was the Impression and Charecter of the Money then Coined by the late Vsurpers these matters duly considered will without further Arguments demonstrate what the good Old Cause Men aimed at certainly they aimed at nothing less than the alteration of the Government both in Church and State and in order thereunto it may be said that at the last they Fought neither against great nor small but only against King Charles the First the blessed Martyr of ever blessed Memory Now though it be in these his Majsties Realms and Dominions suffered to every one by Lawful ways and means to desire to aspire to a better private Fortune yet withal it is an Office just in all inferior degrees to bear without grudging the Ordinance and Sentence of their Lot otherwise there would be confusion of all Imperies and Governments if it were suffered to every one to aspire to such liberty as he lusteth after beyond the quality State and condition of a Subject wherein God hath placed him The late Plots proceeded as it were by the publick consent of the Dissenters to the present Government and by incitation of certain Seditious Heads who by their rashness are wont to draw the Commons into commotion that by Poverty are assured they can lose nothing and by their Nature are always desirous of Innovation and being easily filled with vain errors and false perswasions are moved at the appetite of any that will provoke them and be their leaders as the Waves of the Sea are carried and hurried hither and thither with the blasts of the Wind. Therefore every Law was made at the first to no other end but to bridle such as would live without Reason and Law and