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A47806 L'Estrange his appeal humbly submitted to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and the three estates assembled in Parliament; Appeal humbly submitted to the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and the three estates assembled in Parliament L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704. 1681 (1681) Wing L1202; ESTC R13428 24,333 40

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them on from Perverse Principles in the matter of Rule and Subj●ction to Evil Thoughts of their Superiors and Governors and from Thence to transport them into Undutiful and Intemperate Practises against the publick Peace We have already felt the Effects of This way of Proceeding in the most outragious Rebellion in all Circumstances perhaps that ever was heard of And the Late King himself imputed it principally to the Force of Seditions Libels Now the same Methods being set a foot again and That Invective Course of Liberty against both the Church and the State proceeding without any Check or Controll I thought my self bound in Honour and Duty both as an English Man and as a Subject to use the best means I could either to Stop or to divert that Torrent Upon This I took upon me so much as in Me lay the Defence of the Law and the Government against all those Erroneous and Disloyal Positions that were dayly Published and imposed upon the Unskilful and Unwary Multitude to the extreme Hazard and Dishonour of the State I brought the Terms of Dominion and Obedience to the Right Standard I laid Open and Rectified all their Fallacious Distinctions and the dismal Consequences of the Peoples swallowing such Mistakes I took off the Baits of Religion Liberty and Reformation in the very sight of the Common People and laid open the Hook that was under them I shewed them that the whole Pretence was no other than a Counterfeit and that there was no more of Religion Liberty or Reformation in the bottom of it then of a Living Fly in an Artificial one and that one Leap at it was as much as their Lives Estates and their Souls were worth I gave the Multitude Antidotes against all their Pestilent and Poysonous Infusions I resolv'd all their Riddles and from their own Actions and Acknowledgments in the like Cases expounded their meanings In one word by the blessing of God upon this Naked and honest Simplicity of Dealing I have found some Well-meaning Dissenters reclaim'd from their Errors and Others that were wavering before Now to be fully fatisfyed and Confirm'd Nor can it well be otherwise in so Righteous and Reasonable a Cause where the manifest Iustice and Evidence of the matter would do its own business with the help even of a very slender Advocate to support it I have spoken enough to the Circumstances of my Charge but all That Story serves only for a Blind And in truth my Zeal for the Upholding of the Government is my Unpardonable Crime the Libellers would Otherwise take notice of the many and the open Scandals that are cast upon the King and the Church with an Evident Design to expose Majesty and Episcopacy to Hatred and Scorn and shew their Affections That way for the Life and Honour of the KING and for the Protestant Religion and not stand picking of Holes in the Coat of a person that has so unquestionably dedicated all the Faculties of his Soul Body Fortune and Interests to the Service of his Prince and Country and to set Spyes upon every Action and Line in his whole Life to try if they can find but any one poynt either in his Conversation or Writings that might bear a Double meaning and at last to render that very Ambiguity if it were possible no less than Capital too But I thank God My Faults of That kind are as hard to be found out as my Accusers Virtues It goes a great way with many Moderate Nonconformists and other Reasonable Persons too that have not as yet taken any strong Impressions either on the one side or on the other that notwithstanding all the rudenesses of Clamor and ill Language against me for the Papers I have Published I have not as yet received one single Reply to the Argument of any thing that ever I wrote more than the Opposing of Revilings to my Reasons So that their Quarrel to me is purely for interposing betwixt Faction and Authority It will be said perhaps that my Papers are not worth the Answering How comes it then that they think it worth the while to bestow so much pains upon my Person nay and to propound and meditate so many extraordinary Ways of Animadversion upon L'Estrange as if the Foundations of the Government were to be removed for my sake and that an Englishman were to be no longer safe under the Protection of the Law But these are only Coffee-House-Imaginations and which I am sure will never receive any Countenance or Encouragement from the Authority and Wisdom of a Parliament But since my Hand is in upon this Subject there are Two Points more worth the Clearing than all the rest as being of greater Importance toward the understanding of the present Controversie The One has a Respect to the more effectual Discovery of Priests and Iesuits The Other To the Impartial Stating and Discussing the Business of Toleration The former of these I have handled in my Further Discovery Dedicated to Dr. Oates and Grounded upon the Authority of his Evidence The Other I have Treated upon more at large in my Toleration Discussed and with a regard to all the Circumstances that I could fairly bring within the Compass of the Question Let the whole World fairly and by dint of Reason overthrow either the One or the Other and I will yield my self to have been all this while under a great Mistake I know very well that I am Charg'd for writing more than my Share when the true Reason of it was that others wrote less and in effect it was more than one Man's Work to attempt what I have done But upon a Sense that the thing was of absolute Necessity for some body to do and finding other People more Cautious than I thought was either Needful or Expedient in so Publick a Case I engag'd my self further than my Neighbours and not without the Foresight of these Outrages which I knew I was to draw upon my self Neither is this the first time that I have Sacrificed all other Considerations to my Duty Some will have it that I have been set on by the Promises and Temptations of Advantages and Reward which is an Imagination so far from the truth of this Matter that all things considered saving my Veneration and Humble Acknowledgments to His Majesty who hath been very Gracious to me I do positively averr that the King has not a Subject in his Three Kingdoms that has suffered harder Measure and more contrary to Law and Iustice than I my self have done and all this without the Ballance of any other Recompence than a little Court-Holy-Water and Fair Words Besides that in the Worst of Times I did the same thing through all Difficulties and Hazards Having already in general Terms reflected upon Scandalous and Dangerous Libels as the Occasion of my Writings I shall now take a Taste of the Condition and Tendency of those Libels and lay open as briefly as I