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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38384	Englands concern in the case of His R.H.		1680 (1680)	Wing E2953; ESTC R4819	21,170	27

all Offices R. C. are excluded by Oaths and Penalties not in the Princes Power to remit or forgive So that upon the whole there is indeed on this account no real danger of any Innovation in Religion and therefore we may well look on this but as a Pretence to undermine Monarchy it self But lest this single String should fail they have cunningly found out another for their Bow The Inexorableness of the D's temper if once offended A groundless and malicious Scandal an Opinion that being generally spread abroad has already begot many great Evils and if continued will in all probability run us into infinite Calamities and Disorders not to be equall'd but by the Malice of the Contrivers For his being thus misrepresented must needs add to the Peoples obstinacy in opposing and his violence in asserting his Right to the Crown and therefore I wonder why you suffer your selves to be impos'd upon and your Understandings subjected to that Slavery which is certainly designed against your Persons by the Ambitious without prying into the Grounds and considering the Consequences of that Calumny I am sure did his Enemies allow but half the time for Consideration as they do for Passion they would find his R. H. is much less fway'd with an inordinate desire of Revenge than they are with a false and misguided Zeal or which is more that he is as void of that spiteful Humour as they that charge him with it are of Candour and Integrity The knowledge of this Truth I owe to my observation of his Temper Principles and Practice in the many Varieties of his Fortune But I am now more bold to affirm it since his coming into Scotland because three days after I had shew'd him your Letters he publickly declared in Council That tho' the Malice of his Adversaries might possibly deprive him of a Crown together with the Affections of the People yet it would never of the Royal Vertue of Clemency which whether he derives more from the Blood of his Father or the Example of his Brother is an undecided Question as it likewise is whether the one merited more by laying down his Life for his Peoples Liberty than the other by pardoning so many thousands who had forfeited theirs to his Justice That he was not ignorant how Machiavil's Advice of Eortiter calumniare aliquid adhaerebit was daily put in practice by his Adversaries nothing being so usual with them as to traduce his most blameless Actions calling Justice Cruelty Bounty Prodigality Resolution Obstinacy Valour Rashness and in fine any thing that is Great or Glorious Base and D●●generous Yet he hoped Truth would at last prevail against his and its own Enemies and make it as impossible for them to spread their Calumnies to his disadvantage as for him to leave any to severity or punishment that had first left their Crimes That he always look'd upon Revenge as the Result of a canker'd and impotent Mind inhumantly rejoycing in the Calamities of the Oppressed and as insatiable in Cruelty as the memory of receiv'd Injuries is commonly indelible than which nothing was more contrary to his Nature having besides the Commands of Christianity been taught from his Infancy That so poor and mean a Passion ought never to influence a Prince who is obliged by Honour to end his Wrath as soon as his Enemies do their Malice and having no Rivals to contend with is then to be accounted most victorious when he triumphs over himself by conquering his Passions That he challeng'd any that knew him to give one Instance wherein he had swerv'd from this Maxim or exercis'd any Rigour against any Offender that had truly and sincerely repented That it was true he could not forget the French Proverb Qui se fait un brebis le Loup le mange i. e. The Wolf devours him that makes himself a Sheep and therefore would not by an over-easiness of Nature yield tamely to his own Ruine and suffer himself to be made a Prey to the Ambition and Insolence of others but was resolv'd to temper the Methods of gaining and enjoying his just Rights with a mixture of Severity and Mildness proportionable to the opposition he should meet with And lastly That he could distinguish very well between those whom Ignorance or Imprudence carried insensibly beyond the bounds of Duty and those who knowingly and advisedly ran not onely into Extremes themselves but likewise by Lies and false Suggestions hindred many to return from and drove others to wicked and malicious Practices and consequently he hop'd none would wonder if These should feel the smart of his Justice as the Other might be sure upon disclaiming their Errours to be receiv'd into Mercy being persuaded that punishing such Men could no more be termed Revenge than executing the Laws against Traytors and Disturbers of the Publick Quiet could reasonably be accounted Cruelty But lest upon this score he should be thought to reserve a Latitude to himself of wreaking his Anger against any at pleasure he was willing to give all the Assurances they themselves could expect and would move his Brother to agree to an Act of Parliament for that purpose that he would freely forgive and bury in eternal Oblivion whatever is past that so either all may be throughly reconciled or such as are guilty of that Implacability which they attribute to him differenced from the rest and left without excuse to the terror of their own evil Consciences and his just Resentments I cannot imagine what further can reasonably be expected from an injur'd Prince and am confident whoever after continues dissatisfied is as great an Enemy to Reason as he is to his R. H. and in stead of taking away seeks to perpetuate your Differences Nor do I see why any before him should be credited in an Affair of this Importance since all acknowledge him to be of a frank and generous Nature free from all Dissimulation and the little Politick Fetches and Evasions which serve other Mens turn to break their Promises Whereas the Ringleaders of his Adversaries are vers'd in all the Arts and Wiles of forming Parties and Factions and consequently cannot be thought to stick at forging any Lie or Aspersion beneficial to the End they propose But allowing an equal probability of truth in his Denial and their Charge yet to erre of his side is not less safe and I am sure much more honest and honourable 'T is indeed the usual Cheat of aspiring Men by specious Pretences first to engage the unwary in their Conspiracies and when either Fear or Honesty opens their Eyes then to make them believe they are so far advanced that they cannot with safety retire and that the State or Person they provok'd will admit of no other Attonement than that of their Lives and Fortunes This Device to omit ancienter Times in Philip the Second's Reign fill'd the Belgick Plains with the Blood of his Spanish and Flemish Subjects brought France successively under several Kings almost to a