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kingdom_n	king_n	law_n	monarchy_n	1,734	5	9.5667	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53381	A sober discourse of the honest cavalier with the popish couranter wherein the author of the Dialogue between the Pope and fanatick vindicates himself to be an hearty lover of his prince and countrey : to which is annexed, A serious epistle to Hodge / by a person of quality.	Onslow, Richard Onslow, Baron, 1654-1717.	1680 (1680)	Wing O350; ESTC R21447	17,153	26

and a fit respect to the lesser Wheels that then all would move with quiet and order and the work would be as glorious and useful as ever it was in the daies of his Prodecessors But I see that which frights most is the King 's Taking up the Imperial Crown The words despotic and absolute I grant to be greater Buggs than Blazing Stars and extraordinary Eruptions of Aetna I know you are pleas'd to allow the King the Complement of the Crown-Imperial but you would have it signifie no more than the Cap at Venice Your Friends are unwilling to grant the King so much despotick Power as to be Master of his own Head You would have the Government of England to be a mear Game at Chess betwen King and Parliament and when the Knights and Paunes have out-plotted the King forc'd him into streights The King must not move beyond the exact square but must yield himself to be check-mated and the Royal Game to be lost You would reduce your Prince unto such difficulties as should be insuperable according to Law and then having gain'd this advantage upon him the King must tamely give up his Head and his Crown but in no case make Use of one extraordinary motion of Authority to secure his Life and Monarchy If this be the Case of Princes God have mercy upon poor Kings who must be so Tyrannically restrain'd as not to be allowed the privilege of the Law of Nature not to be suffer'd to preserve themselves in extremity by any extraordinary method of proceeding but to be ruin'd by the punctili● of a Law And though under the Obligation of an Oath to protect their Subjects be yet deny'd the power of doing it There is no Government upon Earth so well constituted but corruption of time and manners may produce such mischiefs and difficulties as will be impossible to redress without some new measure of proceeding and in such a case of necessity I think the Supream Power may secure it self by some unusual act of Authority without being thought despotick or absolute I believe the Kings of Israel were not absolute Ahab could not seize upon Naboth's Property without his consent or Legal forfeiture But put case the Syrians had invaded the Land and so far advanc'd as to besiege the Royal City and Palace had it not been lawful in this extremity for the King to have cut down the Vines and turned Naboth's Vineyard into a Garrison without or against his consent Suppose there were a mutual Law between both these Kingdoms that no English Army should enter the Bounds of Scotland without the consent of that Parliament and so vice versa Now suppose that which thanks be to God we have no reason to fear almost all the whole People of Scotland should revolt and crown an Usurper must the King with his English Army stand conjur'd up within the Circle of Tweed and lose a whole Kingdom upon a point of Law or out of Complement to a Statute or might not his Majesty in this extremity enter into the Bowels of Scotland with a non obstante Thus if the Age were calm and sober and allegiance were the general Mode of England and none could represent the People but such who are devout to Church and State then the King would be safe enough within the Boundaries of Law and should have no reason to act beyond the Circle of that Crown-Imperial which is already his just Right and Possession and in my greatest extasie of Loyalty I will never wish the King more despotic than to be always in the Head of Loyal Parliaments but let us presume that the greatest part of the Populacy should be so debauch'd by Republican-Arts or Fanatick-Principles that it were absolutely impossible that a Loyal Parliament should be chosen but that most of the Members who were to be return'd should only serve as the Factious Granadeers to make some bold assault upon King and Monarchy would not you grant that during these unlucky circumstances Parliaments were impracticable and exhaling such Sulphurie Clouds would only produce Thunder and Tempest Remember the Fatal Instance of Charles the First and what he was brought to by the Insolencies of a Factious House of Commons and then consider whether under the like difficulties it were not justifiable in the King rather to lengthen his Scepter half an Inch than to suffer himself to be shortned by the whole head Whether it be not lawful for the King in his Supream Wisdom rather to exert one unusual Act of Royal Power upon State-Necessity than to reduce himself and his Loyal Subjects under the absolute and Despotic-Power of a Fanatick-Commonwealth or Vsurper of whose Tyrannies we have felt too much already Indeed if the abused Countrey-Men could be brought to their right ●●●fits and Senses and the Gentlemen would increase to full Understanding and leave the Phanatick naked to his own ill looking Countenance and Interest then I should think the Faction inconsiderable and the old method of Elections as practicable as ever but in the mean time till this Miracle be wrought suppose the King should by his Imperial authority command that no Papist or any desperate Phanatick who by Ecclesiastical Censure or their own perverse Separation stood excommunicate from the Established Church should have any Votes in the Election of Knights and Burgesses who were to serve in Parliament Sir this is the utmost I ever meant by taking up the Imperial Crown and therefore had you been ingenuous you should have inserted those words of mine or else by his Supreme wisdom contrive some more quiet and safer method of Elections but this whole expression you have designedly omitted I am sure this Method may be vindicated by common Reason and that is a more universal and elder Sanction than common Law Can any Man in reason expect that those men should be well qualified to establish the Quiet of the Kingdom who are chosen in Phanatick Hurricanes Are these men that Saint the murderers of Charles the First fit persons to chuse a Councel for the Second Can the declared Enemies to the Monarchy and Church of England ever be presumed to chuse those who are friends to either Is it reasonable that the inveterate Enemies of the Government should be intrusted with such a power as shall be constantly improv'd to destroy it I know a Loyal or Church-of England Parliament would keep their Ancient Land-marks and be thankful to the Throne for the Favour of the Chair and not think it the Peoples chiefest Privilege and Business to encroach upon their Prince and his Prerogative But if we must have Presbyterians to represent us pray let me request you to compile an exact Map of their Dominions for it would much tend to the Quiet of the Kingdom to know the certain Extent and Boundaries of such a House of Commons for if their Privileges be Infinite or Vnlimited we are not yet secure from Arbitrary Power and I should think 500 Masters is as much Despotick Government as a Single Caesar But pray when you draw this Map do it after the Old Modest Measure of the English Compass and not according to the Tedious Scale of German Miles which makes one Privilege as long as Three And thus I am Sir in spight of your Calumnies an honest Cavalier a sincere Member of the Establish'd Church of England a great Friend to Honest and Loyal Parliaments a hearty Lover of my Prince and Countrey and strike at none but the Pope and Fanatick and I hope you will not call Them the Basis of the Government