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An Apostrophe from the loyal party to the Kings Most Sacred Majesty; humbly shewing how the next House of Commons by law may be purged of it's dis.affected members.
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1681
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Wing A3563; ESTC R170360
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AN APOSTROPHE From the LOYAL PARTY To the Kings Most Sacred Majesty Humbly shewing how the next House of Commons by Law may be purged of its dis affected Members Great King WHom God has chosen to be his Anointed and for whose Preservation wonders and miracles were done to that degree as to joy the Faithful and confound the Incredulous It was for this that God touched the heart of a Woman and made her become another Judeth to pass through the Assyrians Camp at the same time that Bethulia was besieged to the end she might deliver the Kingdom and People from the fury of the Enemy Judeth deliver'd Bethulia and her distressed People by carrying away the dead Head of the Assyrians General and this delivers the People of three Kingdoms from the Slavery and Tyranny of Usurpers by bravely carrying away the living Head of these Three Kingdoms It was for This that she couragiously look't Death in the Face and expos'd her Life and Fortune to the worst of Fates It was for this that Gold was to Peasants of no other value than Dirt when it was only to be purchased by delivering up the Innocent into the hands of the Guilty But that which makes it the more remarkable and worthy of admiration is That God should make use of such Instruments to effect Your Preservation as have now lately been Accused Condemned and Sacrificed for attempting to destroy You whom with the hazard of their Lives they had formerly preserved Nay for this it was that even the Romish Priests themselves were instrumental Sir God took You out of the hands of your Enemies at a time when all the world despair'd of seeing You seated on any other Throne than that on which Your Royal Father acted the last Scene of a Horrid and Bloudy Tragedy Who can repeat the buying and selling of a King the best that ever People had and this by his own Vassals his being accused by them his being betrayed by them his being judged by them his being condemned by them and his being murdered by them in the Face of Heaven and the whole World Who I say can repeat these things without Horrour and Execration God miraculously delivered You out of the hands of a barbarous people who sought you for no other end than to destroy You but he mercifully with-held the blow which all the world believ'd was inevitably falling on You for there was no one could avert it but God alone And he did it that we might one day see you seated on the Throne of Glory 'T is true he with-held You from Us for some time but it was that You might return the more glorious and welcome and to make Us sensible of the ill was done in banishing Him from us whom God had appointed to Rule Govern us I believe there are few alive now who liv'd then who have forgotten the Calamity this Kingdom groaned under at that time and the sad Catastrophe attended Your absence It was a sad thing to see your 3 Kingdoms governed by the Murderers of your Royal Father to see Mechanicks seated in the Throne of Princes and the giddy-headed Mobile to Lord it over the Nobility Coblers Bricklayers turn Preachers whilst the Bishops have their Rockets pull'd over their ears and the best of the Clergy turn'd out of their Benefices at the same time their Wives and Children going a begging to hear nothing but Sedition Treason daily preached out of the Pulpits to see the Royal Party dance attendance every day to a damn'd Committee made up of a Company of formal prick-ear'd Raskals who had no other Religion than by sinister ways to monopolize the Riches of the Nation whilst honest men turn'd Bankrupts to see those men who had serv'd the King your Father with their Bloud and Fortunes by these Governours Banished Imprisoned and Tortured and for no other Crime than because they had the honesty to be Loyal to see the best of these men forced to buy their own Estates three or four times over of these Villains who had seized them as their own whilst other of the meaner sort had not Bread to put in their Heads But God was pleased at his proper time to commiserate our Sufferings by out-doing his former Prodigies which were acted in your Preservation in restoring You to a People who lived with no other hope than despair of ever seeing You seated upon the Imperial Throne of Great Britain Sir 't is undouâ—bed Your Restauration was decreed by Heaven and to confirm which God as it were with his own hand led You into Your Kingdoms that there You might be made Sacred and have your Temples incircled with a Crown and then it was he consigned a Scepter into Your Sacred hand with which at the same time be commanded You to Rule and Govern your People in the strict observance of Justice and Equity and after that perfect Model which he himself hath left you in his Sacred and Divine Laws and not according to those exorbitant Laws the ignorant Rabble and their Abettors would prescribe you What joy was it at that time to all true English hearts to see You Return in Triumph from your long Exile to see You not only received into your Kingdoms but into the hearts of Your People who looked upon You as no other than the Angel of Peace sent by the living God to comfort an afflicted People and to redeem them from Slavery It was then that we were all big with hopes no longer to see our Laws which are the best in the world trampled under foot by Tyrranical Vsurpers It vvas them that we gave our selves the assurance that we should see Justice and Mercy equally poysed in one Ballance and neither to out-weigh each other It was then that we expected to see Impiety banished out of your Kingdoms as an Imposter and Virtue rais'd to that Throne it deserves that is to be seated on the right of Kings And then it was that we believ'd that the Loyal iâ— shuld nobly be rewarded for their Fidelity and past Sufferings and the Disloyal Traitor punished and for ever banished from the Influence of your Bounty the performance of which had establish'd to Your People a Kingdom of Peace and we should have seen a Golden Age to flourish But Sir there are some men who are bold and take leave to say that your Clemencie and Mercie have infinitely out-weighed the Scale of Justice That you have mis-placed your Bounty And they now begin to fear You have Sacrificed your Friends to please your Enemies And this they say hath alienated your Friends and made their Loyal hearts grow cold and freeze And bold Mouths spit their Allegiance out This hath so far prevailed upon your Enemies as to perswade them that their former ill-doings were well done which makes them bold to act them over again Sir such are their proceedings s make us fear you have delivered your Royal Scepter into their hands And if so you have
made Your Self and Friends one Sacrifice to the Furie and Malice of Your Enemies So that we have nothing now in prospect but the Old Tragidie acted over again where we behold a Stage filled with Rapine Sword Fire Blood and Masacres with the Desolation and Overthrovv of three Kingdoms Dread Soveraign You are the Object on which alll our eyes fixed You are the Center in which the hopes and desires of all Loyal hearts are lodged Now is the time to make your self a King and us a happie people or never if you put on an unshaken Resolution You wil en courage and strengthen Your Friends to stand by you to the last which we are resolved to do if you force us not from you And this will not a little tame the insolency of those bad men who brand all those who stand up for your Rights and Prerogatives with that scandalous Name Papist All those honest Gentlemen had a desire to serve their Country by being Parliamentmen because they opposed the Rump Faction they and all their Friends were Papists rank bare-fac'd Papists If these men can make us Papists at this rate vve shall have Popery among us beforevve knovv vvhere vve are and really I think we have no great reason to be so much afraid on 't for 't is come to that that you shall not hear of an honest Cavalier nay scarce an honest man but presently he is a Papist Sir you have been silent too long therefore since you have given us your Royal word That our Laws shall be your Rule and Measure by which You are resolved to Govern let us hear you roar like the King of Lions when next you meet your Parliament cry ha to them and ha again till like your Predecessor H. 8. you make them tremble Sir remember you are as well King of France as England therefore let not the French King be a greater Monarch than your self At least for a time shew your self as absolute over your people as he is since the Law is Your Measure take off the head of that man who shall dare to open his lips to contradict it And be assured that this way of Governing shall gain you more Friends in one day than all your complyances to the unreasonable demands of your Parliament shall gain you in an Age. Be pleased to take from the Commons that old Theme Religion or else you must never expect any business to be done by them either for the good of your self or your Kingdom If we must have a Change or Reformation in our spiritual Government let it be done by spiritual men the Bishops and such who understand what Religion is But for such men whose conversation is chiefly among Dogs Horses Women and Wine to be perpetually making new Reformations in Religion is the most preposterous thing in the world What a monstrous thing it is to see the Tail pretend to more Wisdom and Understanding in Government than the Head We have too sadly experienced what it is to live under this damn'd Rump Government therefore for Heavens sake Sir let us have no more on 't Sir as God was pleas'd to perform wonders at your Preservation and Restauration so hath he done no less al the time of your Government For setting aside the precipice into which your Father fell and in it was irrecoverably lost which stil lies open before the Gates of your Palace so that it is not possible for You to enter in or out but you must necessarily remember your Fathers sad fate The Peal that these men daily ring in your ears which was your Fathers Knell setting aside I say these things Heaven and Earth have conspired dayly to alarm you and bid you arm your self against the Treacheries and dam'nd Conspiracies which are hourly acting against your Life and Government Sir the first thing you are to do is to know your Enemies and then to arm your self against them You cannot have forgotten those men by whom Your Royal Father fell and pursued you to Banishment These are the men Sir who strike so boldlie at Your Crown therefore beware Your Head You cennot therefore perswade your self that the Murderers of of the Father can ever love the Son But lest Your Majestie should mistake these men and think them to be your Friends our famous Salamancha Doctor Oates hat hunmask ' d them unto You For he sayes and what he sayes with us is Gospel That they are Papists in Masquerade disguised in the Habit and Manners of the Godlie Brethren So that 't is to be hop'd your Majestie will trust none of them nor anie thing that looks like this kind of Cattle We humblie therefore beg that the next Parliament You will take a view of your House of Commons that You may know the Members of which it is compos'd and if there be any of these disguis'd Papists there that they may be turn'd out that is not a place for them for the Law says No Paepist shal sit in the House If therefore there be anie there who had their hands imbrewed in Your Fathers bloud they are disguised Papists they must out also If there be anie there who have unsheath'd their Swords against their lawful Sovereign and appeared in open Rebellion against him they are the same they must out too for they are all Papists in Masquerade Or if there be any of the Sons of these men they are the same flesh and blood and they 'l prove themselves no Bastards I 'l warrant you they have suck'd in their Fathers Disloyaltie and bloody Nature with their Milk which 't is to be feared they wil never dilgest so long as they have an hour to live therefore these must out too And when the House is thus purg'd of these kind of Cattel we may hope to see good times again and not till then For believe it Sir they are so glutted with the Spoils and Sweet of their last Rebellion that they will now be Caesars or nothing which Heaven and your endeavours must prevent I could wish with all my soul that what the Prophet Isaiah spoke of the Counsellors of King Pharaoh may not truly be verified in the people of this Nation God hath sent among them a spirit of giddiness and made them reel up and down in all their actions like drunken men Sir great and terrible are the menaces which God thunders out by the mouthof holy Job against those who wander from the true way of Justice God sayes he suffereth these wise Counsellors to fall into the hazards of senseless men God maketh the Judges stupid taketh away the Sword and Belt from Kings to ingirt their Reins with a Cord God maketh the Priests to appear Infamous supplanteth the Principal of the people changeth the lips of Truth-speakers taketh away the Doctrine of Old men and pou eth out contempt upon Princes Job 12. But that these things may not fal upon this Kingdom that they may be timely prevented be pleas'd Great Sir to hear the Counsel that a great Statesman gave to the Governours of the Empire and it is this Vse the matters so that Judges of Provinces may be very careful in the observance of Laws that Tribunals spare not to thunder out Sentences against ill manners but especially against False Witnesses and Perjurers That Thieves may fear the Gates of your Palace That the Forgerer may feel horrour at the voice of a Herauld And that all Crimes may be banished from our Teritory That no man oppresse the poor That the persecutors be apprehended and pursued as disturbers of the pulick repose You shall make a general peace when you have beaten down the Authors of mischiefs which are committed Let Captains contain their Souldiers in all manner of Discipline in such sort that the Labourer the Merchant the Sailer and Artificer may understand Arms are not made but for their defence I will not likewise that my nearest Allies be pardoned in any cause of justice since I have taken the Commonn ealth into my charge I have dispoyled my proper Interests I wish well to mine but in the generality Sir when we shall behold these things practiced within your Dominions we shall conclude that all these prodigies which have been done in your Preservation and Restauration were peformed by Heaven for no other end than that you should be that darling Prince to make your Kingdoms flourish and Us a happy people which we all promise our selves and that we shall see you the greatest of Monarchs It was to Princes that the Angel in the Apocalypse speaks these words He who shall overcome and keep my works unto the end I will give him power over Nations and he shall rule them with a Rod of Iron and as the Vessel of the Potter they shall be broken VIVAT REX Edinburgh Re-Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson Printer to the Kings most Sacred Majesty 1681.