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A54580	The happy future state of England, or, A discourse by way of a letter to the late Earl of Anglesey vindicating him from the reflections of an affidavit published by the House of Commons, ao. 1680, by occasion whereof observations are made concerning infamous witnesses : the said discourse likewise contains various political remarks and calculations referring to many parts of Christendom, with observations of the number of the people of England, and of its growth in populousness and trade, the vanity of the late fears and jealousies being shewn, the author doth on the grounds of nature predict the happy future state of the realm : at the end of the discourse there is a casuistical discussion of the obligation to the king, his heirs and successors, wherein many of the moral offices of absolution and unconditional loyalty are asserted : before the discourse is a large preface, giving an account of the whole work, with an index of the principal matters : also, The obligation resulting from the Oath of supremacy to assist and defend the preheminence or prerogative of the dispensative power belonging to the king ...	Pett, Peter, Sir, 1630-1699.	1688 (1688)	Wing P1883; ESTC R35105	603,568	476

water and the Sea and like that they are apt to be eating towards the Roots of the Powers of Soveraigns but while the Mountains of their Power are bottom'd on Natural Justice all the preying of the Sea of the People there makes but the promontory more surely guarded and appear more majestic as well as be more inaccessible And of this Sea of the Peoples as I would wish every Prince in the just observance of the Municipal Laws of his Country to espouse the Interest as much as the Duke of Venice doth his Adriatic yet should I see one for fear of Popular Envy or Obloquy forbearing to administer Iustice and to follow the real last Dictates of his practical understanding rightly informed and servily giving up himself to obey any mens pretended ones I should think it to be as extravagant a Madness as Hydrophoby or fear of water on the biting of a Mad Dog and while a Sovereign observes the immutable Principles of Justice he may acquiesce in the results of Providence and expect that the troubling of the waters may be like that of the Angel before the time of healing or a Conjuncture of the Peoples being possessed of healing Principles and in fine a King when he finds the Waters of Popular Discontent more tumultuous by Religionary Parties as two Seas meeting as for example Papists and Presbyterians he may depend on his being near Land that being always near where two Seas meet and let every Prince be assured that 't is not only Popery but Atheisme in Masquerade to do an unjust Act to support Religion I know that it hath been incident to some good men to strain pretences beyond the nature of things for justice Causes of War abroad in the World to advance the Protestant Religion And thus in the last Age the Crown and Populace of England being clutter'd with the Affair of the Palatinate the Prince Palatine had here many well-wishers to his Title for the Bohemian Crown and Rushworth tells us in his 1st Vol. Ann. 1619. That he being Elected King of Bohemia craved Advice of his Father in Law the King of Great Brittain touching the acceptation of that Royal Dignity and that when this Affair was debated in the Kings Council Arch-Bishop Abbot whose infirmity would not suffer him to be present at the Consultation wrote his mind to Sir R. Nauton the Kings Secretary viz. That God had set up this Prince his Majesties Son in Law as a Mark of Honour throughout all Christendome to propagate the Gospel and protect the Oppressed That for his own part he dares not but give advice to follow where God leads apprehending the work of God in this and that of Hungary that by the P●ece and Peece the Kings of the Earth that gave their power to the Beast shall leave the Whore and make her desolate that he was satisfied in Conscience that the Bohemians had just Cause to reject that Proud and Bloody Man who had taken a Course to make that Kingdom not Elective in taking it by Donation of another c. And concludes Let all our Spirits be gathered up to animate this Business that the World may take notice that we are awake when God calls Rushworth saith that King Iames disavowed the Act of his accepting that Crown and would never grace his Son in Law with the Style of his new Dignity And in King Charles the Firsts time in the Common-Prayer relating to the Royal Family the Prayer runs for Frederick Prince Palatine of the Rhine and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife yet in the Assemblies Directory afterward as to the Prayer for the Royal Family that Lady Elizabeth is Styled Queen of Bohemia But our Princes not being satisfied it seems that the Palatine of the Rhine had a just Title to the Bohemian Crown thought it not just for them to assert it However that Arch-Bishop Abbot the Achilles of the Protestants here in his Generation thought that the English Crown ought to descend in its true Line of Succession whatever profession of Religion any Member thereof should own appears out of Mr. Pryns Introduction to the History of the Arch Bishop of Canterburies Tryal where having in p. 3. mentioned the Articles sent by King Iames to his Embassador in Spain in order to the Match with the Infanta and that one was That the Children of this Marriage shall no way be compelled or constrained in point of Conscience of Religion wherefore there is no doubt that their Title shall be prejudiced in case it should please God that they should prove Catholicks and in p. 6. Cited the same in Latin out of the French Mercury Tom. 9. as offered from England Quod liberi ex hoc matrimonio oriundi non cogentur neque compellentur in causâ religionis vel conscientiae neque leges contra Catholicos attingent illos in casu siquis eorum fuerit Catholicus non ob hoc perdet jus successionis in Regna Dominia Magnae Britanniae and afterward in p. 7. mentioned it as an Additional Article offer'd from England That the King of Great Brittain and Prince of Wales should bind themselves by Oath for the observance of the Articles and that the Privy Council should Sign the same under their hands c. He in p. 43. mentions Arch-Bishop Abbots among other Privy-Counsellers accordingly Signing those Articles and further in p. 46. mentions the Oath of the Privy-Council for the observance of those Articles as far as lay in them and had before given an account not only of Arch-Bishop Abbots but of other magna nomina of the Clergy and Layety in the Council that Signed the same and particularly of John Bishop of Lincoln Keeper of the Great Seal Lionel Earl of Middlesex Lord High Treasurer of England Henry Viscount Mandevile Lord President of the Council Edward Earl of Worcester Lord Privy-Seal Lewis Duke of Richmond and Lennox Lord High Steward of the Houshold James Marquess of Hamilton James Earl of Carlile Lancelot Bishop of Winchester Oliver Viscount Grandison Arthur Baron Chichester of Belfast Lord Treasurer of Ireland Sir Thomas Edmonds Kt. Treasurer of the Houshold Sir John Suckling Comptroller of the Houshold Sir George Calvert and Sir Edward Conway Principal Secretaries of State Sir Richard Weston Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Julius Caesar Master of the Rolls who had done the same Mr. Pryn afterward in p. 69. having mentioned the Dissolution of the Spanish Match gives an account of the bringing on the Marriage with France and saith It was concluded in the life of King James the Articles concerning Religion being the same almost Verbatim with those formerly agreed on in the Spanish Treaty and so easily condescended to without much Debate and referreth there to the Rot. tractationis ratificationis matrimonii inter Dom. Carolum Regem Dom. Henrettam Mariam sororem Regis Franc. 1 Car. in the Rolls The Demagogues of the old long Parliament who made such loud Out-cries of the danger of Popery

then in the world had put a period to the night of ignorance in which the Beasts of Prey had domineer'd and to their Monastic denns themselves The enlighten'd part of mankind was weary of growing pale among papers and sometimes red hot with arguing about terms of art and all those barbarous too that had formerly hid the God of nature and would no longer account implicit faith the only justifying one and could not more esteem the imposing of such a blind faith commendable that was made previous to mens quest after pabulum for their Souls then that practice of the boy of Athens who did put out the eyes of birds and then expose them to fly abroad for food The Learning then introduced into the world shew'd that the hierarchical grandeur of the Roman Church was not extant formerly in the learned times when the old Roman Empire flourish'd but was contrived in the times of ignorance between the Bishops of Rome and the Leaders or Princes of the Barbarians and that it had its beginning from the Inundations of the Northern people so that with Mr. Colemans leave by the way Popery may be call'd too a pestilent Northern heresy and that to the end that those Barbarians might not find out the original of the papal power and see how narrow the stream of it was at its fountain when every Bishop was call'd Papa as every woman is now with us call'd Madam and Lady that the Pope by affronting the Emperors power effected a strangeness between the Greeks and Latines by means whereof the Barbarians being brought up in prejudice against the Graecians neglected their Language to the decay whereof in the world not only the decay of the purity of the Latine Tongue may be imputed but also of History Geography Geometry skill in antiquity and even the worlds not knowingly then conversing with the Latine Fathers It was in an age of non-sense when a Canonist venturing to be a Critic told the world concerning the Greek word Allegoria istud vocabulum fit ex duobus vocabulis ab allo quod est alienum goro sensus and when an old Schoolman Thomas de Argentina thus gave the derivation of latria istud vocabulum fit ex duobus vocabulis à La quod est laus tria quod est trinitas quia latria est laus trinitatis But the very understanding of two ordinary Greek words namely 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 equal priviledges in ecclesiastical matters to the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople allow'd by a General Councel that were obvious to every enquirer into history did quite blow up all pretences of the Popes supremacy and one versicle in that long unknown Greek Book 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. Luke 24. 47. which shews that the teaching of Repentance and remission of sins in the name of Christ by his own order began at Ierusalem did surprize thinking men with amazement when they heard a Pope and General Councel calling Rome the Mother and Mistress of all the Churches and anathematising all who think otherwise and saying further extra hanc fidem nemo potest esse salvus for this the Trent Councel did Thus then the abolition of the papal power here brought the world at the first step out of a blind Chaos into a Paradise of Knowledge and help'd Christians to demonstrate to themselves and to Jews and Pagans the truth of the Christian Religion for the certainty of the doctrine of which during that time of papal darkness the world had only the assertion of the present age that call'd it self the tradition of the Church but by the introduction of the Greek Tongue and other learning Christians had the sense of the Greek and Latine Fathers and those historical Records that brought down to them the certainty of the Miracles that were wrought in the founding of Christianity from the Primitive Christians who saw them 'T was the restoration of learning in general help'd them to say with Tertullian fidem colimus rationalem and with St. Paul I know whom I have believed and without the introducing of humane learning the Protestant Religion could no more have been advanced to its height in the world then men can be perfected in Astronomy without the knowledge of Arithmetic Luther came into the field arm'd with the Knowledg both of the Greek and Hebrew Tongues when he was to contest with the Errors of the Papacy and he having for his Antagonist Cardinal Cajetan who was the Legate in Germany and an eminent School Divine and who made a home thrust at Luther out of the Scripture according to the Vulgar Latine translation Luther told him in plain terms That that translation was false and dissonant to the original and hereupon the Cardinal thô he and the Papacy too had one foot in the grave Cato ●like fell eagerly on the studying of Greek that he might be able so confute Luther and his followers out of the Scriptures and was put to it to make his weapon when he was in the field And can any one think now that in this present state of England when we see so many that are Critical Masters of Experimental Philosophy and who by means of the great useful pains formerly taken by Erasmus Sir Thomas Moore and others in restoring Philological Learning have now entire leisure to devote their Studies to the substantial Knowledge of things and whose Motto is Nullius in verba and who know that if they would have every one trust them they must take nothing on trust from any one and who know that since truth doth always sail in sight of error they must all the way go sounding by experiment I say can any one think that it was less easie for the Sun to go back Ten degrees on Ahaz his Dial then 't is to make this Age run back to implicit faith and ignorance and barbarisme And is it to be thought that men who weigh Silver in Scales will not weigh Gold I mean not examine notions of Religion with care when they are so cautious in others Can we think that men who will not part with those Notions that salve the phaenomena will quit those that save their Souls and especially considering the proverbial addiction of the English genius to Religion and considering too that men by long use and Custom have been habituated to the profession of a rational Religion and that it can plead here a hundred years prescription It is certainly more easie to unteach men the use of the Sea-Compass in Navigation then the use of Reason in Religion and the inclination of the Needle to the North is not likely to be more durable then the tendency of mens affection in England to the Northern heresy so call'd and it is more easie to teach all Mankind the use of Letters then to unteach it to any one man and when the temper of an inquisitive Age is like a Trade-wind carrying men toward Knowledge and toward a rational Divinity they may

by Some non-Papists I know not My Author for it is Mr. Iohn Gee Master of Arts of Exeter Colledge in Oxford in his Book 4 to Call'd New Shreds of the Old Share p. 103. Printed at London in the Year 1624. In any such wretched Contention between the faex Romuli and any of the Protestants here who should become most impure by Calumny as the Protestants being much more Numerous than the Papists would be able to out-shamme them and to make the more plain detections of the Shammes contriv'd by their Adversaries it would likewise go the harder with any Sect that the Majority of Numbers would thus run down with Shammes in this Nation at this Conjuncture of time when the many swarms of those who offer at Wit and think they merit the being call'd Witts by doing the exercise in a Coffey-house Call'd Baldring that is with a serious grave face telling idle feign'd Stories farced with particular Circumstances to ensnare the belief of the Credulous which kind of ungenerous triumphing over weak Understandings by ridiculous Shammes is a false sort of wit and humour below not only the gravity of the English Nation but the levity of the French and used by none but Fools who stand for the place of being Knaves There is no doubt but the talent of these foolish Shammers as their interest and dependances or humors incline them to wish well either to Popery or Protestancy extending to abuse the belief of the unthinking Vulgar with little romantic Stories concerning those Religions helps to Convey them into the Press which gives wings to these Shams presently to fly round the Kingdome If the Papists think the Press hath not in any of the Pamphlets it dayly spits charged them with Calumny and of Such a Nature as to bring universal odium on them by alarming the Kingdom almost as much as it could be by forrain invasion and occasionally laying a Tax on men to buy what Arms for their defence the Law allowes I will ask them what they think of one of our printed Intelligences that Came out on the 26 th of February 1680 1 wherein 't is said Last Fryday came a Letter from Stafford directed to one Bacchus Tenant to the Lord Stafford from one Wilson in Cheshire but ordered to be left with one Finny of Stafford to be sent to the said Bacchus but Finny observing Letters so directed to pass through his hands and apprehending they might relate to some dangerous Correspondence took the liberty to Open this and therein to his great surprize found directions to Bacchus for burning of Stafford and several great Towns upon which making a speedy discovery to a Magistrate Bacchus was sent for who after some evasions did confess he had received Letters to that purpose And just now the said Wilson is apprehended and committed and confesseth he was by the order of a Certain Lord to fire Stafford Drayton Shrewsbury Nantwich Chester Congerton New-Castle Under-Line and two more and that he was to have 900 l. for fireing those Nine Towns. I having never heard of any Proclamation or proceedings either of the Magistracy or Lievtenancy of this Kingdom after such an alarm of public hostility and of a Rebellion hatch'd in the Kingdom nor of the last punishment inflicted on the pretended Certain Lord that was the General of those Incendiaries did look on them under the Notion of an Army in disguise But whatever ground the Protestant Religion hath got or shall get by these poor means I desire that it may go to the Next occupant for not only the ayr it exhales is Pestilential but it includes that ayr in it which may produce Earthquakes which dangers therefore the New Popish or Jesuited Religion must be exposed to by the ayr of Shams and Calumnies My Lord I shall here entertain your Lordship with somewhat very Remarkable out of the Book of Father Parsons of the Succession whereby you will see that instead of Allowing the oportet esse haereses he doth in effect tell us that while the Kingdom has two Religions in it oportet esse Calumnias that great Jesuite having with much agility danced on the high rope as to the Casuistical part of the Question of the Succession affects to do it too in the Politics but miss'd his Center of gravity in his motion both as a Divine and a States-man and did shamefully fall in either Capacity as your Lordship will find by the reading of his words He saith p. 217. being near the Conclusion of the first part of his Book And thus much now for matter of Conscience But if we Consider Reason of State also and worldly Policy it Cannot be but great folly and oversight for a man of whatsoever Religion he be to promote to a Kingdom in which himself must live one of a Contrary Religion to himself for let the bargains and agreements be what they will and fair promises and vain hopes never so great yet seeing the Prince once made and settled must needs proceed according to the Principles of his own Religion it follows also that he must Come quickly to break with the other party tho he loved him never so well which yet perhaps is very hard if not impossible for two of different Religions to love sincerely but if it were so yet many jealousies suspicions accusations Calumniations and other aversions must needs light upon the Party that is of different Religion from the State and Prince under whom he lives as not only he Cannot be Capable of such Preferments Honours Charges Government and the like which men may deserve and desire in their Commonwealth but also he shall be in Continual danger and subject to a thousand molestations and injuries which are incident to the Condition and state of him that is not Current with the same Course of his Prince and Realm in matters of Religion and so before he be aware he becomes to be accounted an Enemy or backward man which in Mind he must either dissemble deeply and against his own Conscience make shew to favour and set forward that which in his heart he doth detest which is the greatest Calamity and Misery of all other tho yet many times not sufficient to deliver him from suspicion or else to avoid this everlasting perdition he must break with all the temporal Commodities of this life which his Country and Realm might yield him and this is the ordinary end of all such men how soft and sweet soever the beginning be This Iesuite who was before mention'd to have been Call'd one of the greatest Men that his Order has produced was here it seems a States-man in his heart and no More and has very honestly foretold all Protestants that shall live under a Prince of another Religion how dishonest Roman Catholics will prove to them The Jesuite was here an Almanac-maker who predicted nothing to Protestants but Lightning and Thunder and too the Continual Raining of Snares upon them during such a Conjuncture and