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prince_n	great_a	king_n	wales_n	5,053	5	10.0183	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85191	The interest of England stated: or A faithful and just account of the aims of all parties now pretending. Distinctly treating of the designements of [brace] the Roman Catholick. The royalist. The Presbyterian. The Anabaptist. The Army. The late Protector. The Parliament. With their effects in respect of themselves, of one another, and of the publick. Cleerly evidencing the unavoydable ruine upon all from longer contest: and offering an expedient for the composure of the respective differences; to the security and advantage, not onely of every single interest, but to the bringing solid, lasting peace unto the nation.	Fell, John, 1625-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing F613; Thomason E763_4; ESTC R201989	13,886	15

for so many years devoted to hell as well as death under the title of Heritick and Apostate and by so doing became suddenly the most flourishing and the most potent people of Europe But besides all this the King has yet a farther motive to offer Grace to all that will accept it and religiously to make it good that is peculiar to himself and of proportionate value with him the command and strict injunction of his dying Father whose memory he too much esteems not to fulfill that legacy and last bequest of his were there no other motive to perswade him His scrupulousness in this particular is known to be such as to become a charge against him and that with more than ordinary vehemence from the hot-spurs of the two extreme parties he has had occasion to deal with the Catholick and the Pre●byterian The injunction I mean is notorious to every person making up a great part of the Missive directed to the now present King under the style of Prince of Wales The Kings Book Sect. 27. I cannot forbear to insert a few lines as they fell from the Pen of the incomparable Author They run thus I have offered Acts of Indempnity and Oblivion in so great a latitude as may include all that can but suspect themselves to be any way obnoxious to the Laws and which might serve to exclude all future jealousies and insecurities I would have you alwayes propense to the same way when ever it shall be desired and accepted let it be granted not onely as an act of State policy and nicessity but of Christian charity and choyce It is all I have now left me a power to forgive those that have depriv'd me of all and I thank God I have a heart to do it and joy as much in this grace which God has given me as in all my former enjoyments for this is a greater argument of God love to me than any prosperity can be Be confident as I am that the most of all sides who have done amiss have done so not out of malice but misinformation or misapprehension of things None will be more loyal and faithful to me and you than those Subjects who sensible of their Errors and our Injuries will feel in their own souls most vehement motives to repentance and earnest desires to make some reparations for their former defects But if all this be not enough to supersede suspicion and doubt let me yet add a farther testimony The King admits at this day to his bosome and neerest trust several persons that have been engaged against his father and some of them in actions most fatal to his affairs an infallible assurance that it is only the fault of the rest that they are not there too more then this concerning a future performance to assure it can not be said or done except it should please God to work Miracles which I hope no body does now expect The short of all is Without trusting some one or other the Nation is certainly destroyed and no perfon in the World besides the King is in a capacity to avert the impendent ruin or can give the like security of himself as he can do I will not now prescribe unto the Readers understanding in dictating an inference but from the Premises desire him at his leisure to draw out the Conclusion Having thus without passion partiality or prejudice endevoured clearly to lay down the exact case of the Nation both in respect of its disease and cure 't will be superfluous to add perswasives for men do not use to be importuned to leave their torment or disease or want rhetorical Enducements after the pleadings of Interest and Profit I forbear therefore to addresse my self unto affection and to beg that thing which visibly it concerns them that are courted to render their importunate request and suit Nor will I enlarge upon the Motives yet untoucht drawn from Religion and the respects of Protestations Covenants and Oaths as also native allegiance or what is infinitely considerable Motives taken from the state of publick affairs abroad our neighbour Nations being now at peace among themselves and looking out for forraign War thereby to employ their uselesse forces pretence and colour and desire too for the undertaking of which we have given to every one about us in our late attempts on them and likewise yeelds assurance that they shall succeed by our disagreement here among our selves Let all this be seriously weigh'd I am factor for no iuterest or party nor seek the thanks or favour of any derson but rather expect the fate of Reconcilers to displease every body but let that succeed as it shall happen the injury that I have done cannot certainly be esteemed great all that is said amounting but to this very reasonable desire that my fellow Subjects will remember these two plain truths that they are English men and so consider the good of the Nation and then that they are Men and so pursue their own The End

he frequently contend for their honour that fought against his honor and life to boot and was their Champion who were his Enemies And indeed it would be infinitely strange that they who so prodigally spent their blood by Sea and Land to establish an ungrateful Monster whose recompence for the greatest merits was only the objecting unto new and greater dangers whose certainest pay was suspicion affront and injury then afterwards submitted to his Son a person of no worth or credit of whom this comparative commendation can only be given that he is not so very a Brute as his Brother and to close all assumed the long forgotten dregs of a cast Parliament should envy to themselves the honor and advantage of being commanded by a Prince of known Integrity and Virtue a Prince that loves them even in despight of all their injuries and which is the highest endearment among Soldiers a Prince of eminent personal Valour which several of themselves are witnesse of especially at Worcester and Mardike and if they pleased might be in more and fairer instances Lastly a Prince who is the only visible expedient upon earth to render at once them and their posterity and the whole Nation happy Were this directed to the French or Spanish Infantry those venal Souls that understand nothing besides pay and plunder these arguments from reason national Interest and honor would possibly be lost But to the English Army that still has owned a publique Spirit where every common man knows to direct as well as to obey and judge no lesse then execute to have proposed the Truth must be enough nor will they fail to fix their thoughts upon it or steer themselves as prudence shall instruct Lastly as to the Interest of the Protectors party and the Parliament they are concerned to call in the King for it being impossible for them to make good their aims it must be wisdome to secure themselves and their estates and take part in that Oblivion and amnesty which he is ready to give as also those rewards which whoever serve him in any kind especially in being instrumental to his restitution will be sure to have Now to all this I can foresee but one material objection which is that the several forementioned parties can not be secured that the admission of the King will not be insidious and ensnaring to them and that whatever engagements he now makes when he comes to power he will in likely-hood rescind and cancel To which I breifly answer that this is no real objection at all for some body or other must be trusted still there being no living in the World without mutual confidence and whoever is invested with power may do injuriously in despight of any foresight Besides amongst all these parties where each is exasperated against the other there will be the same or greater cause of Jealousie if any of them were suffered to prevail And 't would be worth the thinking of whether it were not a manifest Judgement of God upon us that broke the treaty with the late King upon suggestions that it was not safe to trust him and chose to rely upon the faith of one of our fellow Subjects That he should prove the most perfidious person in the World to all that trusted him to the Parliament the Army the Nation and even his private friends and allyes insomuch that no history of any age or people can yield a parallel to him for falsenesse perjury hypocrisie and and breach of faith and if this look like judgement 't will then be worth the weighing whether it become us to go on in our infortunate infidel practise still In cases of this kind there are but two ways of assurance I mean so perfectly incontroulable as to be valid if either of them both be present The one is the honesty of the person that engages the other is his Interest and here not one of these alone is present but both concur which certainly must make up a security beyond all doubt or question As to the Honesty of the King no malice has the impudence to blast it his Moderation Sobriety and Justice being as well known as his misfortunes are Next as to Interest it visibly concerns him to be puctual in his engagements First to offer pardon to all that stand in need of it and then most faithfully to make it good in each particular losse of Credit infallibly breaking the Merchant and private dealer but ruining more irrepirably the publick national one when on the other side precise exact performance strangely supports both one and the other Of the benefit hereof I shall give an eminent instance of late memory in his own Family and therefore of which we cannot suppose him ignorant It is his Grandfather Henry the fourth of France who after long Wars coming to his right besides his relief from Q. Elizabeth by no other humane aid but the relenting and late wisdome of his own people and being forc'd to make a Peace by many particular Treaties still was exact in keeping them and received into his entire favour and solid friendship all those who had fought against him govern'd his most important affairs both Civil and Military by the counsel and conduct of his sometimes Enemies such as were not onely the Duke of Novers Villeroy and President Jeanin but even the head of the League the Duke of Maine himself to whom he committed the conduct of all the force of France though then personally present when the Prince of Parma came to relieve Amiens and after to make good his own promise of Indempnity protected him being questioned for the Murther of Henry the third by interposing his own supreme power when the chambers of Parliament were ready to condemn him though thereby he was sure to undergoe the imputation of rescuing so great a Malefactor against the clamours of the people the regular process of the Law the passionate demands of a disconsolate Widow Queen and his own particular neernesses of the highest mark his relation both in Blood and in Succession Yet by doing this he not onely setled himself but attained that greatness which no other method could have contrived for him And why we should think the King resolv'd not to consult as well for himself as his Grandfather did I suppose it will puzzle the wisest patrons of distrust to give the least pretence or shew of reason as also it would do why We should not take pattern by that part of the Story which as neerly concerns us for they being exactly in the same case we now are in crumbled into as many divisions and subdivisions as so great variety of Interest and Religion in that long Civil war could make bearing an inveterate mortal hatred each to other and almost all of them to the King yet seeing the ruine approaching both from themselves and strangers the whole French Nation did submit to that Prince against whose throat their sword had so often pointed and whom they had