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A26677 Allegiance and prerogative considered in a letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend, upon his being chosen a member of the meeting of states in Scotland. Gentleman in the country. 1689 (1689) Wing A955; ESTC R11003 11,569 18

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established but upon the Ruines of the whole Reformed Interest in Christendom Let all therefore awfully observe the hand of GOD and chearfully submit to his will and without attempting to strugle against Heaven leave K. James to the disposal of Providence Let every Man in his Station contribute what in him lyes to re●reive our Religion and Laws from the grievous abuses they have suffered and to secure them to us and our Posterity from the like hereafter and from falling under the fatal Dangers from which GOD has been pleased so signally to rescue them Neither let this Assembly of Estates look back as if they were under any tye to withhold them from advancing vigorously in setling the Government of this Nation now under Anarchy a State in which it cannot subsist Nor let any thoughts of the Right of Succession stop their procedure For besides that there can be no Heir to a living Man the former Arguments are as part against the Prince of Wales true or Supposititious as against King James the 7. But now when God has so wonderfully put this opportunity in their hands let them be as honest and upright hearted Patriots set themselves seriously to consider what is fit to be done for settling a Government in this Nation upon just and solid Foundations whereby the true Religion and publick Peace may be established and secured the just property and Liberties of the Subject clearly asserted and the high-stretched Prerogative of the Crown brought to an equal frame I am perswaded that as it is the Genius so it is the Interest of this Nation to have a Monarchy still established for any other Form must unavoidably evert the whole bulk of our Laws and Customs which might be of fatal Consequence Nor could any other Model be long liv'd here considering the natural bent of Scotsmen to this Besides since experience has discovered to us the worst diseases that can attend Monarchy I think if we be wise we may now apply such Remedies as may secure us for the future against them And so we may be safer under it then any other kind of Government the inconvenieneies whereof in this Nation at least we can only discover by a tract of time As to the choice of a Monarch I think the best method is to follow the example England has set us For besides the just and solid Reasons that determined their choice which are all as pregnant and applicable to us We have further this cogent Reason that England having already declared the Prince of Orange their King out of a due sense of the Great Deliverance he has been Instrumental in working for them We must do the same unless we will declare our selves the most ingrate of Mankind since we are delivered from a far greater Bondage then ever England felt And unless we will resolve to break with England and their King which how fatal it might soon prove every Body can see more then is fit for the Honour of this Nation to express This I shall only say that it were certainly very unkind to the Reformed Religion to divert and weaken by such a breach the K. of Englands hands who is now under GOD the chief support of it But seeing the Fondness of this Nation for the Restoration of K. Charles the Second did hurry them from one extream to another from having abandoned the King and Royal Family to give too much and lay the Foundations of an unbounded Prerogative upon which an Aspiring Court designing to Copy after the Perfidous Cruel H●ctor of Europe finding still unhappily amongst this poor Proud Self seeking People fit Tools for their service have rear'd up an Uncontrolable Despotick Absolute Power in the King and that by repeated Laws but more by a constant Series of Arbitrary practices Whereby they have brought us into Absolute Bondage and laid a Yoke upon us that neither we nor our Fathers were able to bear It therefore nearly concerns and highly becomes the Wisdom of the States of the Kingdom Yea it is their Duty to the Nation whom they Represent and what they owe to their posterity in After-Ages before they give the Crown out of their hands to smooth and purge it of every thing that may be hard and grievous to the People And to leave it only Adorned with such Jewels as can only be firm and shining when by Justice and Mercy they attract the Peoples hearts but will prove brittle and dim when put to gall their Necks I would therefore humbly offer to the Consideration of this Ensueing Meeting some things that to me seem necessary and incumbent for them to do for retrieving this Nation from the intollerable Thraldom we have been brought under And for vindicating and asserting the Peoples Just Right and Freedom without robbing the Crown of any Jewel that 's fit for the Hononr of a King who is to Rule by Law Or without diminishing any part of the Kingly Power that is necessary for enabling out Kings to perform the great duties of their High Charge Let our Kings be Vested with Power to be Nursing Fathers to the Church to be Patres Patriae vigorous Asterters and Defenders of the Honour and Well of the Nation against Attempts from Abroad or Seditions at Home Let them have Power to be Terrors to Evil doers and Encouragers of these that do Well Let them have Power to preserve to all their Subjects their Respective Properties and Liberties from all Insolence and Injustice to see all our Laws vigorously Executed and all Transgressors impartially punished These are the only true Jewels of the Crown and every beyond this that 's fixed to it ought to be cleansed and wiped off as noisom dust and rust that will throughly corrupt it It is then the unquestiouable Duty of this Meeting of the States to cut off from the Crown all such Excressences as are useless to a Just King and to our sad experience are Pernicious and of most dangerous consequence to the People First Then it has been often Asserted and maintained That the King derives his Crown and Dignity immediately from GOD that the People do not nor cannot give any Right or Title to it That all power and Authority is Originally and Eminently Inherent in the Crown and that therefore the Parliament can give no Prerogative to the King. This has been long Currant Coyn at Court and amongst Court parasites and of late has had the boldness to appear Bare-fac'd in our Parliaments where it seems to have given rise to yea dictated some of our Acts about the prerogative But it is obvious that this is a Mother Evil and may be broody of all the mischiefs that can be dreaded from Arbitrary Power or Tyranny For if this Maxime hold good what security for our Religion Laws Property or any thing that 's dear to Free men or Christians Sure none but the Princes pleasure Why then should we complain of the late Court stile which makes the Prerogative Royal and