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A70223	The history of Whiggism, or, The Whiggish-plots, principles, and practices (mining and countermining the Tory-plots and principles) in the reign of King Charles the First, during the conduct of affaires, under the influence of the three great minions and favourites : Buckingham, Laud, and Strafford, and the sad forre-runners and prologues to that fatal-year (to England and Ireland) 41 : wherein (as in a mirrour) is shown the face of the late (we do not say the present) times.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1682 (1682)	Wing H1809; Wing H1825C; ESTC R12704	66,369	53

the Strangest Law in the World if it should give a Prerogative to destroy it self and so become felo de se it s own Executioner having so carefully fenc'd against Arbitrary sway in all Ages and so Industriously and zealously too have our Ancestors stood up for the same to the last drop of their Bloods as chusing rather to leave us no Lands Charters Priviledges and Fields rather than Akeldama's as one calls them Fields of Blood and such as we must like them be forc'd to Fight for their Defence and our own against Arbitrary Projects Whig There needs no Fighting for them if we make the good Old Laws the Arbitrator of the Good Old Cause For the Law alone gives the King his due and his Subjects their due but because men naturally encline to do what they list without controul wonder not if even the best of Kings surrounded with so many Parasites and pimping Sycophants have been tempted to rule and do as he list without Check-mate of Bishops and Knights and Lords in Parliament Tant Why Has Parliaments then been as Old a Constitution as Kings of England Whig Yes for ought can be known to the contrary The said Famous Old Book the said Mirrour of Justice shows that Parliaments were before a single King Ruled England namely during the Heptarchy when there were seven Kings rather than fail to rule England Tant I shall never have enow of Kings I do so love them Whig Ay but seven Kings were accounted more than enough and after the Heptarchy when the King of the West-Saxons namely Cornwall Devonshire Dor setshire Sommer setshire Wiltshire Hampshire and Barkshire had swallowed up all the rest Parliaments still were or Senates as long before this during the Reign of the Senate and Caesars of Rome here in England So also after Egbert when the Bishop of Winchester Ethelwolph his Eldest Son with much ado was perswaded to leave his Bishoprick and a Religious Life for a Kingdom after he had purchas'd a Pardon from the Pope for breaking his Religious Vow And yet he had much ado to keep his Crown upon his head for breaking but one poor Law for if he had not by death timely death cheated his Lords they had certainly Depos'd him for placing his Queen in a Chair of State which was then contrary to Law made ever since Queen Ethelburg by chance Poison'd her Husband King Birthrick by a Venemous Potion which she said at least she had prepared for another but being a Handsome Whore she fled into France 'till by frequent Adulteries she died Miserably and like a Rotten Whore and for her sake the West-Saxons ordained whence Note they were Law-makers in these days a Law that no Kings Wife should hereafter have the Title or Majesty of a Queen which Law as aforesaid King Ethelwolph being so bold as to dispense with and break the Lords would certainly have Depos'd him but that his Grave prevented them Tant Then belike it was not safe for Kings to break Laws in those days Whig Judge you and long after Stout King Edward I. told the Bishops plainly that he could not being but one Member of the Body though the Head undo what the whole Body had done and Enacted as is before remembred Tant You are full of your Old Storyes to maintain your Whiggism Whig I invent none I write nothing but what I have Authentick Histories and Records to Vouch and Attest the Truth And thus Parliaments continued in the short Reign of Ethelbald Successor to his Fathers Crown and Bed for to his Eternal shame he Married Judith his Fathers Widdow So also in the Reigns of Ethelbert Ethelred and Alfred the four Sons of Ethelwolph who Successively Reigned one after another which Alfred was as Learned as Valiant and first Founded the University of Oxford one of the Oldest Universities in the World Tant I thought Universities had been as Old as Christianity What could Christianity and the Ministry continue in the World nine hundred years in its greatest splendor without an University and an Academian Whig Yea so it seems without either Oxford-Scholar Bloxford-Schollar or Cantabrigian Alas alas Universities were at first the Pope's Invention so also were School-men School-Divinity and Canon-Laws with which he has so defac'd Christianity with his Painting Glazings Glossings Comments Arguments Syllogismes Fallacies Fripperies and Metaphysical-Fopperies that Schollars are forc'd to Fool away a great deal of time in Cracking these Insipid Shells and Outward Rindes that their Teeth are broke and worn out before they come to Taste true and Solid Learning or Christianity nay the Majority never come at the Kernel and Marrow of true Divinity and useful Learning during their whole Life not much unlike that Popish Doctor that had been nine years Doctor of Divinity before he saw a Bible Tant Doctor Subtilis I 'le warrant Tory. Prythee Parson do not thus Interrupt Mr. Whigg with your Impertinent Parenthesis Go on Whigg Whig To serve you Tory I will and will let you know that there were Parliaments to which Knights and Burgesses were Summon'd after the Heptarchy in the Reigns aforesaid and the Reigns of Alfred's Sons King Edward as Stout a man as his Father not so Book-Learn'd but more Successful through the help of his Sister Madam Elfled the Wife of Ethelred Earl of Mereia to whom when she had brought him one Daughter with Grievous Pains in her Travel she turn'd Souldier and Virago helping her Brother most Manfully against the Welsh and Danes and brought them all under her refusing the Nuptial Bed of her Husband saying It was a floolish pleasure that brought with it so Excessive Pains Tant Few of our women now a dayes are of her mind they 'l venture again and again Tory. This Parson is always Interrupting us with his Idle Notes Commentaries and Observations Proceed good Mr. Whigg there is some profit and understanding to be learn'd by you Parson hold your Tongue if it be possible for a Prating Circingle to leave his Impertinence in Company Whig This Old Fundamental frame continued in the Reigns of Athelstone Edgar Ethelred Canutus Harold William the Conqueror c. So that Parliaments are part of the Frame of the Common-Law which no Kings can defeat frustrate or make void nor did ever any attempt the same but it proved Fatal to him nay proved to be his ruine Witness all the Unhappy Reigns and Violent Deaths of English Kings that have broke loose and made Rapes and violent attempts upon the known Chast and Sacred Laws of England the Common-Law to King and People fram'd in the Law and Light of Nature Right Reason and Holy-Writ Secondly According to the said Law made in the Reign of King Alfred Parliaments are to Sit frequently Right and good Reason I do not say as often as you take Physick Spring and Fall at least but however so often as the Noxious Humours abound above the Boundaries Banks and Limits of the Law and

wrong by Law or without Law by or without the Magistrate Tant The Article you mention sayes it is lawful to wear Weapons and serve in the Wars at the Command of the Magistrate Whigg Right I say no other the other resisting without the Magistrate is onely in a Christians own Defence the dictates of the Law of God the Law of Nature the Law of Wisdom reason and Prudence the Law that Worms and all Creatures have of Self-preservation he 's accessary to his own Death and felo de se that resists not a Murtherer or a Robber Tant Ay but suppose the Magistrate take your Goods violently against Law Whigg That also is impossible for as he is a Magistrate he acts by Law and cannot possibly Act as a Magistrate but by having the Law on his side if he has not the Law to Vouch him he Acts not like a Magistrate but as a Robber but this must be certain clear and evident otherwise Resistance is a Sin Tant This is right Whiggish Principles and Whiggish Doctrines and Whiggish Practices Whigg This is the old English Practice and the dictates of right Reason and the Law Tant Where did you learn these Doctrines Whigg I cannot well tell where first I had them for they are connate and coeval with the reason of every Wise man and Good man but I think I first had them in Print out of a Sermon Preach't by one of the Kings Chaplains in Ordinary William Haywood D. D. Preacht before his Majesty at Newport in the Isle of Wight during the time of the Treaty there for Peace betwixt the King Charles 1. and the Parliament upon a suitable Text Rom. 12.18 If it be possible as much as lyeth in you live peaceably with all men Where excellently and suitably he Discourses of the first words of the Text I 'le repeat onely his own words in Print in descant upon the words If it be possible namely He sayes A form of Speech this is which implieth often Difficulties in the business and sometimes Impossibility difficult where the Parties to be reconciled are froward and self-willed Enemies to Peace in Davids language Impossibility where no Agreement will be had without loss of a good Conscience Where Gods Honour or the administration of Justice or the discharge of our calling lieth at stake so that we cannot have Peace with men unless we be irreligious unjust or unfaithful In the former case where Peace is only difficult that should stir up our dilgence the rather endeavour with so much the more Patience and unwearied Industry to overcome the frowardness of those we have to deal with and where so precious a Jewel as Peace is to be compassed with expence of our labour or our substance there spare for no cost or pains But where it is impossible to a Servant of God where nothing will do it but the sale of a good Conscience there rouse up our courage and prefer not outward Peace before inward mens contentment or our own temporal commodity or safety before Gods Honour our Souls quiet and the publick good But it will here be demanded How we may know when Peace is possible when not Six cases are mentioned by some Divines ye may referr them to the three heads aforenamed of Religion Justice and Faithfulness in our calling Of Religion first God himself in case his publick Worship be indangered enjoyns us flatly to break the Peace If thy Brother the son of thy Mother or thy Son or thy Daughter or the Wife of thy bosom or thy friend which is as thine own Soul entice thee secretly saying Let us go and Serve other Gods which thou shalt not know c. Thou shalt not consent unto him nor hearken unto him neither shall thine eye pitty him Thou shalt not spare nor conceal him but thou shalt surely kill him thy hand shall be first upon him and afterward the hand of all the People Deut. 13.6 Thus ye are to understand it in case of Temptation to manifest Idolatry and Popery is clearly prov'd to be Idolatry Blasphemy Heresie or Apostacy from the true Faith and Worship of God we can have no Peace nay we can have no Mercy we are not allowed to spare and conceal the party so tempting us but deliver him up to just Punishment be he never so near or dear to us Secondly where our selves are Persecuted for Religion or Vertue or Obedience to Gods Law in any kind and there is no way of satisfying our Persecutors or delivering our selves from trouble but by denying our Faith yielding up our Vertue or violating our Obedience to Gods Commandments In these two cases the one offensive the other defensive for preservation of our Religion and our Duty to God no Peace possible Two other cases follow which belong to Justice One where we are passive or those who are one with us and we are violently assaulted contrary to Law and Equity We may then break the Peace for our own Preservation in defending our selves so we do it Cum moderamine inculpatae tutelae go not beyond what is needful to our honest defence or theirs who depend on us as our Wives Children or Family The like holds when we are violently handled because we will not joyn with others in breaking Peace and trampling down Justice Cast in thy lot among us We will find all precious substance and fill our Houses with spoil Prov. 1.13 Thus where in defence of Justice to our selves and our own private being Innocent and against wrongful Authority our Lot is to be passive Another case may fall out wherein it becomes us to be active though our selves in our particular Interest suffer not and that is where we see our innocent neighbours wrongfully abused and distressed to extremity by lawless hands we may there rise up in rescue of oppressed Innocence and do as much in our neighbours case as we would wish done in our own Thus Lot resisted the Sodomites in behalf of the Angels whom they Invaded with violence And Moses succoured the Israelite striving with the Egyptian Exod. 2.12 And thus every good man armed with wealth and power may and ought to stand up in defence of the poor Widow and fatherless against their tyrannous oppressors Nor are they breakers of the Peace in so doing but these cruel grinders of the Poor whom they resist Now Tantivee what think you of your Doctrine that Christians may use no other Weapons but Prayers and Tears and what your Design may be in Preaching up and every Sunday inculcating such Crambee Doctrine at this Juncture I do not know it looks like a Set-business What think you of Dalilah's Policy the crafty Whore was Brib'd to Betray Sampson but the Philistines durst not set upon him 'till he was Bound for they had woful Experience of his Whiggish Valour therefore they hire the Hireling to Bind him first that they might securely Spoil him a very crafty Piece of Politicks Tant Ay and if all you Whiggs