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love_n	john_n	richard_n	william_n	3,312	5	9.5642	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59543	The addres [sic] of the University of St. Andrews to the King by the rector, vice-chancellor, heads of the colledges, deans of faculties and the rest of the masters and professors of the University of St. Andrews, whose names are insert at the end of their address; also a letter from the arch-bishops and bishops to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty.	University of St. Andrews.	1689 (1689)	Wing S297; ESTC R33582	14,817	22

enjoyed under the Princely Government of their Royal Kings who by the special blessing of Almighty God have reigned over them in so long and unparalelled a Series of Royal Discents and the Obligations thereby lying on them in Conscience Honour and Gratitude to own and assert the Royal Prerogatives of the Imperial Crown of this Kingdom which the Kings Majesty holds from God Almighty alone and to vindicate the same from all Invasions made upon it that all Government and Jurisdiction within his Majesties Ancient Kingdom does Originally recide in his Sacred Majestys Lawful Heirs Successors and it being impossible to invent any surer way of knowing the Government of any Kingdom who e're impartially considers these with many such other Declarations whereof some have been made when any doubt arose concerning any particular of the Royal Prerogatives and some after a sad experience of the fatal consequences of Sacrilegious Invasions upon them and all to express the publick sense of the Nation concerning the rights of their Sacred Soveraign Who ever take notice that our Kings have ever been the Fountain of Civil Justice making Laws of Universal unquestioned Obligation on all the Subjects sometimes by themselves alone sometime by the Advice and consent of their Barrons sometimes of their Earls sometimes of their Prelats and sometimes of their Representatives of the Generality of their Subjects which have been assembled by their Authority and are in these Laws frequently called their great Council or Parliament And in a Word who ever considers the whole threed of our free and unbaysed History cannot but be convinced how clear and certain it is if it be possible for words clearly to express any thing That this ancient Government is properly Monarchical And that in the Sacred Person of our King is lodged the Supreme Power and Authority with all these inviolable Rights and Prerogatives which belongs to the intire Soveraignity Fourtenthly In Buchannan who has been justly called a reproach as well as any Ornament of our Country we admire the empty loosnes of his reasoning no less then we do the purity of his Latine his frothie Dialogue is an instance how farr Malice Passion and mistaken interest can lead men out of the common Rod of sense and reason his Characters of a King and of a Tyrant are so Chimerical and Imaginarie and with all so nyce and possitive that according to his discriptions there were never King or Tyrant in the World. But in short if his intended paralel of a King and Physician be in many things impertinent if it be inconsistant that his King be sometimes the perfectest thing in the World or otherways to be resisted or expelled and sometimes very imperfect that he may get Laws to govern him just as the Latine and the Rapture takes the Author if he is blindly in Love with the word Laws without considering the thing who shall make them if it do not follow that because some Kings have been Ill men therefore there should be no King Or if the same reason hold in the Popular Government and if there have been at least as many and great corruptions in Popular Governments as in Monarchies which are things any can demonstrate who are not strangers to Reason and History Then all these Rhetorical Florishes which makes up this Authors Book about Government which hath abused some whose considerations go not beyond the surfice of things do conclude nothing but that if he had bestowed a little of that time which he spent in acquiring of Language on the study either of Law or Geometry he might have Learned to pursue this malicious design a little more closly while as now he hath only made it appear that he was capable to write a Play but not either Law or Reason concerning Government SIR These Assertions and Observations are owned by the whole Body of this University since they seem to be founded on clear Methedical and Permanent Reasons If they do not displease your Majesty we shall be carefull to insert them in our most Solemn Records to remain as a perpetual Monument of the unalterable Principles of this Society We do not offer to your Majesty without the special Approbation of the most Reverend Chancellor of this University the great and happy Influence of whose Example and Council on the Loyalty Order of this Place is sutable to the geeatness of his Trust Interest in it We shall rejoyce in our happiness if what we have said can do any service to Dissipate the clouds of Ignorance or Prejudice that are on the minds of any who have not leasure or advantages of long and Laborious Inquiries into the Reasonable Foundation of their Allegience there being nothing dearer to us then the Fidelity and Affection we bear to the most Ancient and Royal Government of this Kingdom and to your Majesties sacred Person who is the breath of our Nostirls and who has been graciously pleased to take the State of your Universities among the first and principal Concerns of Your Government and who we do not doubt will continue to confirm and enlarge with Your Empire the Learned Glory of Your Kingdoms And we dare with the sincerest boldness of our honest Hearts assure Your Majesty that the just and never unfashionable Notions of our Duty with the intire Trust and Confidence we repose in Your Majesty shall ever preserve us from being diverted or frighted from our Love and Obedience and shall excite from Your Majesty and Kingdoms happiness the perpetual Prayers of c. Signed by Arthur Arch-bishop Chancellor Alexander Skeen Vice-chancellor Richard Waddel Arch-deacon James Lorimer D. D. All Regents Charles Kinnard John Menzies Alexander Skeen Patrick Mcgill William Comery James Ross John Monro A LETTER From the Arch-bishops and Bishops to the King 's most Excellent Majesty May it please Your most Sacred Majesty WE prostrate our selves to pay our most Devoute Thanks and Adoration to the Soveraign Majesty of Heaven and Earth for preserving Your Sacred Life and Person so frequently exposed to the greatest hazards and as often delivered and you miraculonsly prospered with Glory and Victory in the Defence of the Rights and Honour of Your Majesties August Brother and of these Kingdoms and that by his Merciful Goodness the Ragings of the Sea and madness of unreasonable Men have been stilled and calmed Your Majesty as the Darling of Heaven peaceably seated on the Thrones of Your Royal Ancestors whose Long Flustrious and Vnparallelled Line is the greatest glory of this Your Ancient Kingdom We pay our most humble gratitude to Your Majesty for the Repeating Assurances of Rour Yoyal Protection to our National Church and Religion as the Laws have Established them Which are very suitable to the Gracious Countenance Encouragement and protection Your Majesty was pleased to afford to our Church and Order whilst we were happy in Your presence amongst us We Magnifie the Divine Mercy in blessing Your Majesty with a SON and us with a PRINCE whom we pray Heaven may bless and preserve to sway Your Royal Seepters after you and that he may Inherit with Your Dominions the Illustrious and Heroick Vertues of his August and most Serene parents We are amazed to hear of the Danger of an Invasion from Holland which excites our prayers for an universal repentance to all Orders of Men that God may yet spare his people preserve your Royal person and prevent the Effusion of Christian Bloods and to give such success to your Majesties Arms that all who Invade your Majesties Just and Vndoubted Rights and Disturb or interrupt the peace of your Realms may be Disappointed and clothed with shame so that on your Royal Head the Crown may still flourish As by the Grace of God we shall preserve in our selves a firm and unshaken Loyalty so we shall be careful and zealous to promote in all your Subjects an Intemerable and stedfast Allegiance to your Majesty as an Essential Part of their Religion and of the Glory of our Holy profession not doubting but that God in his great mercy who hath so often preserved and delivered your Majesty will still preserve and deliver You by giving You the Hearts of your Subjects and the Necks of your Enemies So pray we who in all Humility are May it please your most Sacred Majesty your Majesties most Humble most Faithful and most Obedient Subjects and Servants Edinburgh Nov. 3. 1688. Signed by Arch St And Jo. Glasgow Alexr Edinburgen Jo Galloviden Jo Dunkelden Gec Abredonen Will Moravien Ja Rossen Ja Brichen Ro Dumblanen Arch Sodoren And Orcaden FINIS