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An account of the growth of knavery under the pretended fears of arbitrary government and popery with a parallel betwixt the reformers of 1677 and those of 1641 in their methods and designs : in a letter to a friend.; Parallel
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L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
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very good at it that drove away from their Churches 85 Ministers of 97 within the Walls of London We 'll agree in the Matter with him That want of Mony and want of Religion will put Men upon Despesperate Courses for my Charity perswades me he would never have written these Libels else He is a little positive me thinks in Averring that a Great Lord lost his Place for defending the Protestant Religion pag. 44. But he has forgotten the Statute of his own Citing pag. 15. that makes it Incapacity for saying That the King is a Papist or an Introducer of Popery and that it was the King himself that remov'd his Lordship And what do you think of his Irony pag. 43 where he says that The Parliament by the Conspiratours good Leave was admitted to sit again at the day appointed He tells us of another Affair too pag. 51 which being transmitted to his Majesty was easily chang'd into a Court Intrigue And pag. 63. That the Conspiratours might so represent things to his Majesty as to incense him against the Parliament and distrusting all Parliamentary Advice to take Counsel from Themselves from France and from Necessity In this Disloyal and Irreverent Licence he drops you a word or two now and then before he is aware against the King himself and other whiles Discharges his Malice to the Government upon the Heads of Publick Ministers The Subject Matter of his Complaint is a Tendency of Counsels and Actions towards Tyranny and Popery But the King says he pag. 4. can do no wrong and so goes on nor can he receive wrong What is this but a Justification of all the Violences that were acted upon the late King even to the very Murther of him under that Mortal and Treasonous Distinction betwixt his AVTHORITY and his PERSON And an Allowance that the same Course may be taken with his Royal Successours The King can receive no wrong he says What does he mean by this Is not his Majesties Breath in his Nostrils Is he not Flesh and Bloud Is not his Body lyable to Wounds Distempers Emprisonment and Death He 'll tell you Yes but This is not the KING but the MAN the PERSON But the KING all this while that is to say the Authority is Sacred and Invulnerable Now for Peace and Brevity sake let us suppose that this Charge of a Popish and Arbitrary Design does neither Intend nor Reflect any Imputation upon his Majesty his Religion and his Tenderness of Nature being Unquestionable It is yet a worse Libel Another way Worse I say both as to the Drift and to the Scandal of it by how much Contempt is more dangerous to a Prince than Hatred For he employes his Utmost Skill to represent his Majesty only Passive in all his Administrations and so to lessen the Indubitable Fame of his Royal Prudence and Courage among his People You see Sir the Freedom he takes with the King and his Ministers the next Point will be to enquire how he stands affected to the Government it self The Subjects says he pag. 3 retain their Proportion in the Legislature In which saying he makes them Partners of the Sovereignty and turns the Monarchy of England into a Tripartite and Coordinate Government which is as well Destructive of Parliaments on the One hand as of Royalty on the Other Upon the Admittance of this Co-ordination any Two of the Three may destroy the Third the Two Houses may destroy the King and the King with Either of the Houses may destroy the Other Which if it be so what Prince that is Imperial in the Intervalls would ever hazard the Dethroning of himself by a Session The Making of Law is a Peculiar and Incommunicable Priviledge of the Supreme Power and the Office of the Two Houses in this Case is only Consultive or Preparatory but the Character of Power rests in the Final Sanction which is in the King And Effectually the Passing of a Bill is but the granting of a Request The Two Houses make the Bill 't is true but the King makes the Law and 't is the Stamp not the Matter that makes it Current Nor does the Subject any otherwise make Laws than the Petitioner makes Orders of Council It is a Suspicious and Ill-looking Passage that he has Pag. 14. As to Matter of Government says he If to murther the King be as certainly it is a Fact so horrid he does not say how horrid how much more Hainous is it to Assassinate the Kingdom Here is First involv'd in this Clause the Deposing Position of 41 that the King is Singulis major Vniversis minor For it is clear that the Comparison was only made to draw on the Preference and to possess the People that they have a greater Prize at Stake in the hazard of their Religion than in the Tye of their Civil Obedience the very Translation still of 41. And for their further Encouragement he tells them pag. 4. that We have the same Right modestly understood in our Propriety that the Prince hath in his Regality which carries with it an Innuendo that the King may as well Forfeit his Crown as the Subject his Free-hold It cannot be imagin'd that all these Leading and Desperate Hints should fall from a Man of Brains and Sense by Chance and you see the whole Tract takes the same Biass No King of England says he pag. 58. had ever so great a Treasure of his Peoples Affections except what those Ill men have as they have done all the rest consum'd whom but out of an Excess of Love to his Person the Kingdom would never for it never did formerly so long have suffer'd Here 's still the Crocodile of 41 nothing but Love and Reverence to his late Majesty too till his Head was off But let us Reason the Matter in a word These Ill men have no Names it seems so that any Man that 's near the King is by this Libeller set up for a Mark to the Outrage of the People And then he says The Kingdom would never have suffer'd them Who are they I pray that he calls the Kingdom but the Rabble still of 41 the Execrable Instruments of That Rebellion and the Hopes of Another But if the Kingdom would not suffer it what would he have them do to help themselves The Law is open in Case of any Legal Impeachment and 't is too Early Days yet for a Tumult In his Descant upon the Test he is wonderfully free of his Figures Never says he pag. 59. was so much sence contain'd in so few words no Conveyancer could ever in more Compendious or Binding Terms have drawn a Dissettlement of the whole Birth-right of England This Test has made a great Noise and it will be worth the while to examine what is said against it The Form of it is as follows I. A. B. do declare that it is not lawful upon any Pretence whatsoever to take up Arms against the King and that I do abhor that Trayterous