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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

could not have been conducted so far as it was by any private persons the Book called Popery absolutely destructive to Monarchy printed in London in the year 1673. shews the danger of ordinary Magistrates intermedling with the numbers of Papists in particular Parishes by instancing p. 115. how when the long Parliament was first call'd Iustice Howard was ordered to deliver up a Catalogue of all Recusants within the Liberties of Westminster to prevent which Mr. John James a Zealous Popist stabb'd the Iustice in Westminster-hall and Sir George Wharton in his Gesta Britannorum saith Anno 1640. November 21. Iustice Howard assaulted and stabb'd in Westminster-hall It seems that Iustice of Peace as well as Iustice Godfry found what it was to anger St. Peter and so has that Noble Earl done I believe by some Papists murdering his reputation and shamming the Blood of Godfry on him in vallanous Pamphlets of which I hear that 32000 were dispersed in one Week and that it appeared at an Honourable Committee that no inconsiderable quantity of them was dispers'd by Celier 'T is probable that the time that was taken for discovering the number both of Papists and other Dissenters was most proper in regard that the Declaration of Indulgence visiting them as with a Sun-shine after the Rain invited them out of their Recesses to appear abroad visibly and as the words of the Scripture in another sence are To move out of their holes like Worms of the Earth And as if any man would give himself the trouble to essay the numbring of the Worms that are in the Earth the properest time for that his affected Curiosity would be after the Rain making the earth soft and the Sun then warming it had invited those Animals to come out of the Earth the which lye within a few Foot of the Surface of it so for the above reason was the investigation of the numbers of the Papists most properly timed I am therefore of opinion with the aforesaid Dr. That the number of the Papists was near the matter retain'd with truth and that their number is still waining and will be so more and more but in some accidental Conjunctures of time A late Author hath publish't it That in England in these twenty years last past 250 Families of the Gentry and 12 of the Nobility have quitted the profession of Popery And if any one shall affirm as some considerate Papists have done that the number here of secret Papists and who go not to Mass is as great as the number of the professed ones I shall say that the number of the people of England having been in this Discourse represented so much greater then it was in former Estimates the number of secret Papists cast into that of the known ones will perhaps signifie little more then the dust in the Ballance of the Nation Their Numbers that did somewhat encrease in the beginning of the Conjuncture of their petulant Insolence that went before the time of the Popish Plot as the Purples Small-pox and other Malignant Diseases fore-run the Plague did sensibly and suddenly decay by the change of the Air that the Loyal long Parliament and its Act of the Test made just as the Observator of the Bills of Mortality hath let us see that by the reason of the changes and dispositions in the Air the Plague doth by sudden Jumps start back in a very few days time from vast numbers to very small ones insomuch that presently after the breaking out of the Plot they took the advantage of the detection of the paucity of their Numbers that the Earl of Danby's aforesaid Prudence had made as thence to raise an Argument ab impossibili that they should design a Plot to turn the Tide of Nature in the Nation And thus as Men once pass'd the valuing themselves on the Charmes and Vigour of Youth do it for the Reverence of their Old Age and hope to be the better treated as Guests in the World for the shortness of the time they are to stay in it they did resemblingly too look big upon the smallness of their Num●e●s The Author therefore of the Compendium printed Anno 1679 tells us à propos p. 85 That there are not 50000 of the Roman Catholick Religion in England Men Women and Children and that agrees well enough with the Surveys of the Numbers of those of that Religion in the Province of Canterbury of the Age of Communicants and admitting the Total of such to be doubled on the account of Papists below the Age of Sixteen an account that ought to be admitted the Observator on the Bills of Mortality having taught us as aforesaid that there are in nature about as many under the Age of 16 as above it and with the making the Total of all the Papists in the Province of York according to Fuller equal to that in the Province of Canterbury the number of the Papists throughout England will appear to be probably near what the Author of the Compendium hath estimated That their Numbers did considerably decrease after the fermentation in peoples minds relating to Religion followed the Declaration of Indulgence and after the severity of the Parliament to Papists thereby occasion'd a convincing Argument may be had from the Letters of Mr. Coleman the which did confute several imp●tations of it in Mr. Marvel's Growth of Popery to the King's Ministers better than any Apologies could have done and has enabled Fame to Trumpet them forth to Posterity as Confessors whom Envy here whisper'd to be Traditors and let the present Age see that their alledged Closing with Popery was but in the way of contending Wrestlers and not of friendly Embracers And no doubt then but the many Dependants and Followers those Ministers had and the Candidates for their favour and expectants of Offices thereby were then Enemies to all implicit Faith but only for what they thought the Religion of their Chiefs In his Letter to le Cheese of September 29 1675 He saith That the Lord Treasurer Lord Keeper and Duke of Lauderdale were become as fierce Apostles and as Zealous for Protestant Religion and against Popery as ever my Lord Arlington was before them and in pursuance thereof perswaded the King to issue out those severe Orders and Proclamations against Catholicks which came out in February last by which they did as much as in them lay to extirpate all Catholicks and Catholick Religion out of the Kingdom And he in his Letter to the Internuntio of the 5th of February 1674 5 tells him That the King had sign'd a Proclamation last Wednesday to banish all the Priests Natives of this Kingdom to forbid all Subjects to hear Mass in the Queens Chappel and at the Houses of Ambassadors to bring home all the Youth that is now out of the Kingdom in any Popish Colledges to prosecute all Persons as to their Estates according to the Laws which are so insupportable that 't is impossible for any that is reach'd by them

Treaty cited in the Margent of the Author of The Reasonable Defence as I have mentioned the thing with Historical Truth Arch-Bishop Brambal in p. 178 of his just Vindication of the Church of England speaking of that Peace and how thereby freedom of Religion was secured to Protestants and Bishopricks and other Ecclesiastical Dignities conferred on them and that many Lands and other Hereditaments of great value were alienated from the Church in Perpetuity and yet the Popes Nuntio protested against it and having there in his Margent referred to the aforesaid Bull of Pope Innocent saith yet the Emperor and the Princes of Germany stand to their Contracts assert the Municipal Laws and Customs of the Empire and assume to themselves to be the only Iudges of their own Privileges and Necessities And moreover Sir William Temple in his said Survey of the Constitutions and Interests of the Empire writ in 1671 mentioning The Domestick Interest of the Empire to be the limited Constitution of the Imperial Power and the Balance of the several free Princes and States of the Empire among themselves saith that those Interests have raised no doubt since the Peace of Munster While the Iesuites make the Pope infallible and some Anti-Papists generally make him a meer natural Agent that must always Act Ad extremum virium I fear not to take a middle way and to suppose him to be a rational Animal and one that knows when the Papacy is not to exert its former Principles against the Power of Kings and lives of Hereticks and for this reason namely Quia deerant vires and one who will not do it for the Future in all places Quia deerunt vires He is not to learn the reasonableness of that Gloss in his Canon Law that Canes propter pacem tolerantur in ecclesiâ and especially when the Heretical Dogs are there the most numerous nor needed he or the Popish or Protestant Princes of the Empire to have been minded of the Dutch Proverb so well known there viz. Veel Honden Zyn de' haez d●ot i. e. Many Dogs are the Hares death and that the old sport of hunting down Hereticks with Crusado's was hardly practicable when both Popish as well as Protestant Princes were weary of it and that therefore according to the saying Difficile est ire venatum invitis Canibus Nor was either the Pope or the Popish Princes of Germany to be taught that if ever there was to be that wild thing of a Crusado against Hereticks again better use might be made of them then by killing them and that it would turn to better Account to deal with them as Mathew Paris tells us on the year 1250 the time about which Crusado's were most in fashion and when Popes that had a mind to ravish the Regal Rights of Princes would take an opportunity to do it by sending them on Fools Errands to the Holy Land that the Pope dealt with the many Pilgrims who were Cruce signati in an Adventure for that Land namely that he very fairly sold those crossed Pilgrims for ready Money as the Iews did their Doves and their Sheep in the Temple And if the 100,000 Hereticks that I mentioned out of Bellarmine as slain by one Crusado had been sold but for 20 l. Sterling each a fond might have been thereby provided for the incommoding the Turk very much more than by the taking from him the Holy Land. But the Pope and those Popish Princes are sufficiently sensible of their want of Power for any such Nonsensical Outrage and I wish that our English Owners of the Doctrine of Resistance and who with Bellarmine have agreed in that being the Cause of the Primitive Christians not attempting to shake the Empire namely because they had not strength to do it were but as sensible as the Papacy is of their wanting strength to do it in England No marvel therefore that the Iupiter Capitolinus in his Bull of Nullity did not discharge the old Artillery of the Lightning and Thunder of Anathemas and the greater Excommunications against the Emperor and Roman-Catholick Crown'd Heads and Princes concerned in the Munster Peace as I have shewn nor according to the Expression in the Reasonable Defence damned them to the Pitt of Hell for it No both the World and the Papacy were so Metamorphosed and their old fashions so far passed away that those Popish Crown'd Heads found that there was in this Bull only what partly resembled that which Ovid tells us of in his Metamorphosis viz. Est aliud levius sulmen cui dextra Cyclopum Saevitiae flammaeque minus minus addidit irae Tela secunda vocant superi c. But as I just now expressed my wishes that some of our English Owners of the Doctrine of Resistance were as sensible of their wanting strength to subvert the Rights of the Monarchy in England as the Pope was of his wanting it to break the Measures of the Crown'd Heads relating to the Munster Peace I have in this Discourse expressed not only my hopes but belief that nature it self which is thus always Acting to the extremity of its Power will overpower the Arts by which they have been seduced to Principles for endeavouring it and will render the Principles of many of our Protestant Recusants coincident with those of the Primitive Christians instead of those of the Jesuites and that this Storm which the World hath brought on the Irreligionary part of their Principles as well as of the Iesuites both of which have brought so many dismal Storms on the World will make them come to an Avarage and to submit to the casting many of their Principles over-board as well as the Iesuites have been obliged so to do by the Pope as Master of the Vessel commanding the same And as in a Storm the very Victuals of the Mariners are often according to the Maritime Law cast into the Sea to lighten the Vessel it may resemblingly be expected that many of our Dissenting Religionaries will now part with some of those Principles that have in their Religion-Trade afforded them a Subsistance and that when they shall consider how this present Pope notwithstanding the Privilege of a Master of a Ship by which he may refuse to begin the Iactus by throwing out first his own Wares and Goods did about a year before he threw out the Lumber of the Iesuites and Casuists throw over-board a vast Treasure of Papal Indulgences and by which the Ship of the Papacy was formerly victualled It was by the Popes Decree of the 7th of March 1678 that a Multitude of Indulgences was suppressed and the Names of 14 Famous Popes are there mentioned as having granted some thereof and great numbers of others are by him quashed without mentioning the Popes by whom granted and there was a particular Clause in the Decree that did shake the whole Body of Indulgences And tho the Virgin Mary hath been by many of the Vulgus of Papists oftner pray'd to in Storms than the Trinity