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A46925
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A new answer to a speech said to be lately made by a noble peer of this realm
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J. E.
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1681
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Wing J8; ESTC R1518
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A New ANSWER TO A SPEECH said to be lately made by a Noble PEER of this REALM My Lord I Very much wonder that the Kings Speech that was so short and moderate as though his Majesty was loath to offend with too many Circumstances and sure I am if the care of his Kingdom had not compelled him he would not have troubled your Honours with any therefore I much wonder you return'd His Majesty such an Answer which never was spoken by any Peer to a King or in his presence therefore I can hardly believe any Peer of this Realm would so speak because it is to be supposed that your Wisdom should teach you better things than to go above your Element for God never gave such power no not to his Church but to submit to all Authority Nay Christ himself submitted for Examples sake and I am sure that the Church of England hath no such Principles but the Whore of Babylon and the Pope and Antichrist is known to usurp Authority over Kings and Princes and compels them to go against their Conscience for their own Interest but the Primitive Christians were known by their purity and if their Prince did command them any thing that was against their Conscience they would sacrifice their lives rather than to offend God or Man but God be thanked this is not our Case why then should any one be so jealous without a Cause when God out of his infinite Goodness hath given us a Protestant King that abhors the Superstition and Idolatry of the Church of Rome Give me leave Sir to speak a little in this matter for I know if the King was not a true sincere Protestant he would never have hearkened to a poor Subject who about 9 or 10 years ago was by chance compelled to have some Discourse with a Roman Catholick who finding her not easily to be perswaded they imployed others to try if the could perswade her sometimes lifting her up to Heaven sometimes flinging her down to Hell but when they saw that neither flatteries nor threats would move her to incline or hearken to their pernicious Principles they fell out a railing saying We were all Hereticks from the highest to the lowest At which words the Woman was sadly troubled and was resolved after few days to shew it to the King who graciously received her Petition Though his Majesty could not tell what to do in the matter and notwithstanding their Plottings were not manifested within a few days the King put out a Proclamation by which he delivered the Woman from her Spiritual Adversaries who shall ever speak of his praise and does think it a great sin to speak against the Lords Annointed or to think much of what God hath given him No Prince in the World liveth meaner than he doth therefore it would be a madness to desire that to be less that is too little already I much wonder Sir you press so hard for the pleasing of the People which is unpossible for David saith It is God subdued the People unto me But I much wonder your Honour being so Good so Wise and so Holy do forget God in all your Speech Now it would have been the joy of my Soul that his Majesty had been so happy as to enjoy a true Protestant Wife but such is the misfortune of Kings and Princes that they have not that liberty as their Subjects have to take where they like best but they must be confined to many disadvantages so that his Majesty who should be in perfect freedom is more confined then any May it please your Honour since the case stands so there is no body much to blame but however cursed are them that part Man and Wife And as for chargeable Ladies God forbid that we should desire the destruction of their Souls that they should be a Sacrifice to the People Sir you say there will be a change but I wonder what change you mean if you mean as you declare against Popish Favourites or Popish Mistrisses and Popish Councellors if it be so that you sincerely desire it for Gods Glory and for the Good of his Majesty and for the Example of others I sincerely desire it my self and I am certain there is no true Christian in the World but heartily desires the same But Sir may not you be under a mistake in supposing them to be Popishly inclined that are not for it is Crime enough to be a Courtier as the World goes now as though all Courtiers of necessity must be evil though they are never so good for I dare to say there is as many good Souls for quantity there as in the City and it is the heighth of my desire that as they exceed others in Greatness they may exceed them in Goodness and I am sure there is no good Soul but would say Amen to that But who is able to work this Change None but God alone for the Almighty has said The Tares and the Wheat shall grow together till the Harvest and then he will send his Angels and methinks you speak like a Man and not like an Angel because the Nature of Angels is to rejoyce at New Converts Sir I know not who you mean that is a Lady and belongs not to the Court that is so mischievous sure if I knew her I should be her Enemy if she be as mischievous as you say And for the Kings Distress I hope God will give him such Courage and Innocency that he need not fear his Enemies abroad nor at home and why is your Honour so fearful for when the ways of men please God he makes their Enemies to be at peace with them But Sir as to the greatest Influence in your present Councils let it be the fear of God that his Wisdom may make you wise to search out the matter for your Honours may think to do great matters and without the assistance of God perform nothing and if so how will the King be supplied And as for the House of Commons I hope God will give them such Wisdom and Goodness as they shall never offer to the King any thing that His Majesty shall not think worth answering If the King should fall into any Inconvenience for want of your Aid and Assistance would it not be thought that you are ungrateful People that would not help your King in his necessities even Gods Anointed would not this justly provoke the Almighties Anger to deliver us up to believe Lies for what hath provoked the Lord but Sin and Wickedness and Distrusting of his Providence in Governing the World If the Lord be your God study to appease his Anger for if you were zealous and in good earnest loved God truly how could you suffer such Antichristian Actions in a Christian City as the Picking up Men and Women in the Streets which is the Ruin of many Families and the Destroying of Youth the very Motion of this Wickedness every Good Christian ought to abhor So that there is a