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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70573	The Earle of Melfort's letter to the Presbyterian-ministers in Scotland writ in His Majesty's name upon their address together with some remarks upon it.; Letter to the Presbyterian-ministers in Scotland	Melfort, John Drummond, Earl of, 1649-1715.; Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.	1687 (1687)	Wing M1641; ESTC R15002	4,996	6

THE EARLE of MELFORT's LETTER To the Presbyterian-Ministers IN SCOTLAND Writ in his Majesty's Name upon their Address Together with some Remarks upon it The Earle of Melfort's Letter Gentlemen I Am commanded by his Majesty to signify unto you his gracious acceptance of your Address that he is well satisfied with your Loyalty expressed therein for the which he resolves to perpetuate the favour not only during his own Reign but also to lay down Ways for its Continuance and that by appointing in the next ensuing Parliament the taking off all Penal Statutes contrary to the Liberty or Toleration granted by him His Majesty knows that Enemies to Him to You and this Toleration will be using all Endeavours to infringe the same but as ever the Happiness of his Subjects Standing in Liberty of Conscience and the Security of their Properties next the Glory of God hath been his Majesty's great end so he intends to continue if he have all sutable Encouragement and Concurrence from you in your Doctrine and Practice and therefore as he hath taken away the Protestant Penal Statutes lying on you and herein has walked contrary not only to other Catholick Kings but also in a way different from Protestant Kings who have gone before him whose Maxime was to undoe you by Fining Confining and taking away your Estates and to harrass you in your Persons Liberties and Priviledges so he expects a thankful acknowledgment from you by making your Doctrine tend to cause all his Subjects to walk obediently and by your Practice walking so as shall be most pleasing to his Majesty and the concurring with him for the removing these Penal Statutes and he further expects that you continue your Prayers to God for his long and happy Reign and for all Blessings on his Person and Government and likewise that you look well to your Doctrine and that your Example be influential all these are his Majesty's Commands Sic subs MELFORT REMARKS THe Secretary hand is known to al the Writing Masters of the Town but here is an Essay of the Secretary's Stile for the Masters of our Language This is an Age of Improvements and Men that come very young into Imployments make commonly a great progress therefore common things are not to be expected here it is true some Roughnesses in the Stile seem to intimate that the Writer could turn his Conscience more easily than he can do his Pen and that the one is a little stiffer and less compliant than the other He tells the Addressers that His Majesty is well satisfied with their Loyalty contained in their Address for the which he resolves to perpetuate the favour It appears that the Secretary Stile and the Notary Stile come nearer one another than was generally believed For the which here infringe the same afterwards are beauties borrowed from the Notary Stile the foresaid is not much courser The King 's perpetuating the Favour is no easy thing unless he could first perpetuate himself Now tho his Majesty's Fame will be certainly immortal yet to our great Regret his Person is mortal so it is hard to conceive how this perpetuity should be setled The Method here proposed is a new Figure of the Secretary Stile which is the Appointing in the next ensuing Parliament the taking off all Penal Laws All former Secretaries used the modest Words of proposing or recommending but he who in a former Essay of this Stile told us of his Majesty's Absolute Power to which all the Subjects are to obey without reserve furnishes us now with this new term of the King 's appointing what shal be done in Parliament But what if after all the Parliament proves so stubborn as not to comply with this Appointment I am afraid then the Perpetuity will be of a shrort continuance He in the next place mentions the Liberty or Toleration granted by the King. Liberty is not so hard a Word but that it might be understood without this Explanation or Toleration unless the Secretary Stile either approaches to the Notary Stile in some nauseous Repetitions or that he would intimate by this that all the Liberty that is left the Subjects is comprehended in this Toleration And indeed after Absolute Power was once asserted it was never fit to name Liberty without some restriction After this comes a stately Period The Enemies to him to you and to this Toleration Yet I should be sorry if it were true for I hope there are many Enemies to this Toleration who are neither Enemies to the King nor to these Addressers and that on the contrary they are Enemies to it because they are the best Friends that both the King and the People have It is now no secret that tho' both the Prince and Princess of Orange are great Enemies to Persecution and in particular to all Rigour against the Presbyterians yet they are not satisfied with the way in which this Toleration is granted But the reckoning of them as Enemies either to the King or the People is one of the Figures of this Stile that will hardly pass and some will not stick to say that the Writer of this Letter has with this dash of his Pen declared more Men Enemies to the King than ever he will be able to make Friends to him He tells them next that these Enemies will be using all endeavours to infringe the same This is also a strong Expression We know the use of the Noun Infraction but Infringe is borrowed from the Notaries yet the plain sense of this seems to be that those Enemies will disturb the Meetings of which I do not hear any of them have the least thought yet by a secret Figure of the Secretary Stile perhaps this belongs to all those who either think that the King cannot do it by Law or that will not give their Vote to confirm it in Parliament but I am not so well acquainted with all the Mysteries of this Stile as to know its full depth There comes next a long period of 50 words for I was at the pains to count them all which seemed a little too prolix for so short a letter especially in one that writes after the French pattern But as ever the Happiness of his Subjects Standing in Liberty of Conscience and the Security of their Properties next the Glory of God hath been his Majesty's great End So he Intends to continue if he have all suteable Encouragement and Concurrence from you in your Doctrine and Practice The putting ever at the beginning of the Period and at so great a Distance from that to which it belongs is a new beauty of Stile And the Standing of this Happiness makes me reflect on that which I hear a Scotch Preacher delivered in a Sermon that he doubted this Liberty would prove but like a Standing Drink The King 's receiving suteable Encouragement from his Subjects agrees ill with the height of Stile that went before of appointing what the Parliament must do Kings receive returns of