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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54586	The visions of government wherein the antimonarchical principles and practices of all fanatical commonwealths-men and Jesuitical politicians are discovered, confuted, and exposed / by Edward Pettit ...	Pettit, Edward.	1684 (1684)	Wing P1892; ESTC R272	100,706	264

But the Kings of England need not to trouble themselves about the knowledge of their Successors by seeking to Magicians since God by his ordinary Providence in the course of Nature and by the Fundamental Laws of this Hereditary Monarchy has indisputably determin'd and appointed them which is certainly the best Law both for Prince and People for if Tully said * de Legibus Nos Legem bonam à mala nullâ aliâ ratione nisi naturae norma dividere possumus We cannot distinguish a good Law from a bad one by any other Rule than that of Nature We may conclude that to be the Best of all Laws which to the Fundamental Law of Nature has the additional Authority of the grace of God It being thus much the right of the Princes of the English Blood Royal to succeed in the right Hereditary Line both according to the Law of God and Nature How great is the injustice as well as the inconvenience of excluding or debarring any one of them upon any pretence especially upon such an one as will not justifie any private man to disinherit his next Heir at Law Among the Romans there was no such thing as an Entail Yet in the Civil Law † Sir Rob. Wiseman's Law of Laws p. 141. if a Child were quite left out of his Fathers Will or were especially disinherited but without any Cause mention'd or upon such a Cause as the Law did not allow of Or if upon a Legal Cause yet not such as was true in fact the Will was void and null How then shall a Prince of the English Blood Royal who has his right from God and the Feudal Laws be precluded from that Right upon an illegal Cause contrary to the Fundamental Laws of this Realm contrary to the essential reasons and ends of Parliament contrary to that very Oath by which every member is inabled and qualified to sit in it contrary to the Oaths and Obligations of all the Subjects of this Monarchy of what quality or condition soever they be contrary to the last Words and Will of King Charles the First How can any Act or Ordinance be valid and not ipso facto void and null that should be made to preclude him I wonder that any English Gentleman that has the least veneration for the memory of that good King should go about to preclude his Second Son 'T is certain that they who cut off the Fathers Head will not scruple to cut off the Entail from the Son But I marvel much that men professing so great a Veneration for that glorious Prince should do it contrary to his last Will and words to his third Son the Duke of Glocester Mark what I say Child you must not be a King so long as your Brothers Charles and James do live But above all 't is very strange that such a motion should be made against a Prince that has signaliz'd his love and kindness in so many dangers to his Countrey his compassion to many people in distress his Charity to his Foes his Fidelity to his Friends insomuch that his Enemies lay his vertues to his charge instead of Crimes and like Owls quarrel with the Sun that dazzles them 'T is strange that such a Prince the Son of such a Father that has apparently such unquestionable right and who has given such assurance for the safety and prosperity of the Church of England should be debarr'd from that right by such an illegal Plea as that of Presumptive Popery Presumptive Popery said the Jesuit in Presbyterian disguise Well! Is it only presumptive Hark you Sir I pray said he to the Excluder I think the most part of Your Estate is in Abby Lands it is so indeed reply'd he and I have been told that at Rome they have the Terriers of every foot of ground that did formerly belong to their Monasteries and Nunneries So I have heard reply'd the Jesuit they are a pack of subtle Knaves and they do hope to recover them again or else they would not Plot and Contrive so damnably as they do Well! well reply'd he We shall defeat their designs and cut off all their hopes if we can but get the Bill of Exclusion to pass we need not fear them For 't is certain that if he comes to be King they expect that he should bring in Popery I think your Lands about your Seat did formerly belong to a sort of Monks they call'd Benedictines I will say that of the Jesuits to give the Devil his due that they have not those Secular ends in converting England to the Church of Rome which other Priests and Monks have for they have no Lands to recover as others have but if you follow your business you may keep your Lands long enough for all the Papists Come Sir be not troubled about it I thought you had been a man of a better Spirit What shall I give you for 1000. Acres when Popery comes in Prithee reply'd he What do you take me for do you think that I am afraid of them I do so little fear them that give me but one Guinea down and I will be bound to let you have every Acre of those Grounds for sixpence an Acre that day they come to demand them Done Done reply'd the Jesuit I 'le try what metal you are of so a Bargain was concluded and they merrily parted As soon as he was gone another that had been an Excluder came in very melancholy and walking about the Room in a pensive posture How now Sir said the Jesuit to him Pray what is it that troubles you Are you grieved that you cannot get the Bill to pass the House of Lords In truth Sir reply'd he I had rather have given half my Estate than that ever it was brought into the House of Commons I am sure a great many Gentlemen more are of my mind pox on 't that a man should be so damnably wheedled by a pack of Knaves and Fools I think I shall have a care of being heated again as long as I live I think there is some Magical Vapours and Damps that infatuate a man sometimes in that House You see now Sir said he what becomes of the Jesuits Plot it was a fair stalking-Horse for the Fanaticks to go a Blunderbuzzing with If the Devil had them all reply'd the Gentleman it were not a farthing matter we honest Gentlemen shall never be quiet until they are all hang'd No more you will not truly said the Jesuit turning from him with a smile and going to a Gentleman that was walking in the Garden we followed him At the first meeting pray what news Sir said the Gentleman Oh! Sir said he we are all utterly undone I just now understand that the Bill of Exclusion is thrown out by the House of Lords so that all the whole Scheme of our designs is broken and nothing now but silence and forgetfulness must do our business unless the Presbyterians and Independents by some extravagant

Attempt do it for us Pray Sir said he What did you expect would be the consequence of that Bills passing Why said the Jesuit we in a short time would have made the Kingdom of England Elective and this would have dissolv'd the Hereditary lineal Descent for ever for by that Precedent we had never wanted some excuse or other for a Bill of Exclusion which would have been of greater Authority than all the Antiquated and disparate instances which Doleman hath gathered from all History And then we should have removed the greatest Obstacle in the world to our affairs by setting up Kings of another Family in opposition to the true Hereditary Line which was the advice of Campanella a great many years ago and it was wise Counsel then and wiser now For First That Family is so mortally and justly incens'd against us that we can never expect that they will ever trust or be reconcil'd unto us Secondly The Profits Honours and security which that Royal Family according to the Laws of the present Establisht Government injoys and to which it has a fundamental Right are greater than any Prince that is a Roman Catholick can have were it not for the disturbances we give them by making Factions and Divisions among the People And Thirdly The People of England under the Rules of that Government and the protection of that Royal Family enjoy such advantages not only of Riches but of Knowledge and good Conversation that all the little Monastical Arts and Devices of Monks and Friars can never over-reach or impose upon them but if we could ruine that Family their Government would soon fall and nothing would more effectually have done it than the Bill of Exclusion had it passed Well! and What then reply'd the Gentleman looking a little sternly upon him Why then said he England should have been an Island of Jesuits An Island of Devils said the Gentleman frowning You will never have done until you have ruin'd us our condition was pretty tolerable before such perfidious Traytors as you are justly provok't the Government to which you have been so injurious to Enact severe Laws and Statutes against us 'T is you that have imbroil'd all the rest of Christendom and now you envy that so small a spot of ground should injoy the blessings of Peace For by this infernal stratagem you would again involve us in the miserable Confusions of Civil Wars that so no part of the Earth may be free from your wickedness and no place in Hell too hot for your reward What do you mean Sir said the Jesuit What! are you turn'd Heretick No Sir replyed he I acknowledge that I am a Roman Catholick yet I detest such barbarous and unnatural Doctrines and Practices the very Venemous Conceptions of Father Parsons who was not only the worst of Jesuits but a Bastard to boot and I have here with me a poor Indian Savage that can indeed speak English but has scarceshak't of his Soot and Grease and is just polisht enough for the common Civilities of life and I dare venture my reputation that as soon as you shall acquaint him with and make him understand such a Proposition that he will naturally abhor and condemn it All this while there stood waiting behind him a tall man of a true Philomot complexion but a very lusty Fellow Co●●● Come hither said the Gentleman his Master come hither to this man At this he fell a shuddering and went backwards so that his Master stept to him and took him by the Arm but then he drew back until his breech almost toucht the ground spreading out his hands and staring like a wild Bull. I pray Master said he I am afraid indeed I am not Christian enough yet What do you mean Sirrah said his Master Is not this Sir said he Tanto Tanto said the Jesuit What is that That is replyed the Gentleman the Devil or the Tempter but Co●●● Why do you fancy this man to be Tanto Why then he is a Presbyterian Christian as you call 'um and I tell you why I am afraid of him My Father knowing that I was tamper'd with one of them like this man at Boston in New England beat me almost to death for it telling me that he would learn me to kill my Father and to kill my King Well Corëe said his Master tell me one thing do you Indians love your King And do you love his Son for his sake And when your King dies and goes to the Green Fields behind the Hills has his Son his Matts his Skins his Canoes his Feathers his Bracelets and all his fine things Yes yes said he All All. And if the King said his Master has no Sons do you Indians love his Brother if he has one O yes said he and his Brother has all his Whigwhams his Womans all all and then we go lay our hands on our knees and he laies his head on his shoulders and then we sing and dance and go out to sight for him and to hunt for him and indeed if it were not for our Kings we should utterly destroy one another Now although the Massachusetes are several Nations yet every one takes their Kings part and do what he commands and honour him as much as he can and so keep together and defend one another Nor is it only the Custome of the Massachusetes in New England but the Paroisti ' s in Florida are honoured so too When English men came first to New England our people used to say that King James was a good King and his God a good God but our Tanto naught But when they heard that they killed that Kings Son when he came to be King they said that they were all Tanto's and could not endure them but said that you sent thither the worst Christians you had for in all places the Indians love their Kings and his Brothers and his Sons and do but ask those that have a Plantation call'd New York and they will give you a better account than I can for I was very young when I came first among the English That place replyed the Gentleman is so called from his Royal Highness the chief Proprietor and then turning to his Indian hark you Corëe thou art Christian enough to incounter that Tanto Devil therefore beat him soundly and tell him I bid you do so The Jesuit seeing the Indian coming up to him in good earnest began to run for it however he soon overtook him and gave him half a dozen American Complements with his Indian Bill in exchange for his Bill of Exclusion As soon as they were gone I am very glad Sir said I to see this Jesuit so disappointed I do not question Sir said he but you may find a great many called Roman Catholicks of my mind as to the Doctrine of Submission and Obedience to the Civil Magistrate And I do declare that I from the bottom of my heart do abhor all Traiterous Positions and Practices tending to