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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51057	The English ballance weighing the reasons of Englands present conjunction with France against the Dutch vvith some observes upon His Majesties declaration of liberty to tender consciences.	McWard, Robert, 1633?-1687.	1672 (1672)	Wing M232; ESTC R18026	79,957	111

whereof he hath made himself and his dominion guilty may rather make us wonder if the Lord do not leave him to follovv these courses then to see him given up unto them Is it not a righteous thing vvith God since he hath broken his Covenant with the most High wherein as he was bound to nothing but to walk with God in his Kingly capacity and rule for him so in the same Covenant his subjects in a just subordination to the Lord his Christ were solemnely engaged to obey him to be religiously tender of his honour and interests and himself together with the world knoweth that it is to this Oath of God whereby his subjects found themselves obliged in Conscience to endeavour his restauration that he oweth his crown and peaceable restitution I say is it not a righteous thing with God since he hath broken such a Covenant whereof he hath reaped so much advantage to leave him to such courses and the making of such confederacies as shall make the world see feare and tremble at the revelation of his judgments because of a broken Covenant It were as superfluous for me to offer the nation an account of the manner and methods followed in breaking this Covenant as it might seem to savour of a malicious designe if matter of fact were represented with some of those most obvious aggravations which made the sinfulnesse of it reach heaven and is like to cause God remember this iniquity But sure each soul who hath not sinned away all conscience of the sacred obligatorinesse of Oaths and covenants especially these made not onely before the most High as a judge but vvith him as with the party contracting cannot remember with what solemnity this covenant was entered into and vvith vvhat insolence rage and spight it hath been throvvn in the fire and trampled upon and made treasonable for any to assert it's obligation and hovv to this day vvhosoever dare not for feare of the Almighty do the same abominable thing which his soul hateth maketh himself an offender and exposeth his person to the lash of the mischiefs framed into a law against the asserters of this obligation o daring insolence against God and base ingratitude against men thus to destroy the men who were the sole instruments of restoring his Majesty But as he must perceive the contrivers and framers of these lawes abandoned of God to vvalk in the vvayes and imaginations of their own evil heart so he needeth not wonder if persons so judicialy left to courses destructive of their eternal welbeing and the onely valuable interest of their soul be also in the righteous judgement of the Lord left to such courses as are truely destructive of their temporal interests the not receiving of the love of the truth especialy the opposing and persecuting it may not onely be punished with a being given up of God to strong delusions to beleeve a lye that they may be damned but also to a being given up to strong delusions to beleeve a lye about all their worldly interests and concerns O that it might be given unto his Maj. as his mercy which were a favour every way preferable to the Empire of the Universe and as the mercy of this poor nation to remember his ovvn evil vvayes and to turn to the living God that so he might turn avvay from the fiercenesse of his anger and then establish his throne upon the solid base of Religion and righteousnesse Thirdly let such over-wise politicians awake out of this dreame to consider not onely the facility of this establishment but hovv it is so really and upon the matter already setled while vve sleep that the prevention of a formal establishment seemeth onely in his Power who laughs the wicked out of their project 's and bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought to say nothing of the unmasked confidence and plain peremptorinesse wherewith the Popish party amongst our selves have of a long time boasted in terminis hovv their plot was so laid that it could not misgive nor of their insultings abroad upon the same grounds of assurance Let it be considered first to what number strength and Power the Popish party amongst us is arrived partly by the secret encouragement partly by the open countenance they have had since his Majesties return As for their Power and prevalency at Court the current of affairs is demonstrative that they are the only cabal who spirit and animat all our motions for it had been impossible else ever to have engaged and involved us in this war against the Dutch in whose designed overthrow the destruction of the Protestant interest is intended And as to there number besids the swarmes of those locusts which cover the face of our Court and city and overspread the whole land and that inundation which like a torrent floweth in upon us from forraigne parts as if Rome had opened it's Sluce to drown us with that deludge or rather the dragon had cast these waters out of his mouth to cause the woman thereby to be carryed avvay and svvallovved up vvhich lately had brought forth the man child of such a reformation Is it not found by experience for regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis that not a fevv persons of quality are gone over and seduced into the Romish perswasion of whom no such thing was feared or apprehended insomuch that he who is not tainted himself with this wicked contagion beginneth to doubt what person of quality may be concluded to be realy fixed in an opposition to this wickednesse there seemeth to be nothing but a fit opportunity vvanting to make an incredible discovery of persons vvho yet think it convenient to goe under the name and disguise of Protestants And as men vvho knovv the Romish principles and hovv ordinary it is for them to tranforme themselves into every shape that while appearing like Angels of light they may with lesse observation and more certainty carry on their work and establish their Kingdom of darknesse may very rationaly judge that they are numerously lurking under the garbe even of the manifold and various perswasions which seem in their principles practices most remote from and opposit to Popery I need not mention how they svvarme amongst and are served by our Episcopal Clergy so it is very vvell knovvn in vvhat numbers they have hid themselves and hatched their vvickednesse under the dottage and disguise of Quakerisme insomuch that sober and discerning men from the consideration of these mens priciples their desperat enmity especialy at the Stanch Protestants and more eminently godly Non-conformists together with the good understanding which is between the leading persons of that party and the Court do rationaly inferre if ever there be an opportunity for these men to discover what they are at bottome the bulck of them will be found vvith the utmost of irrational and brutish fury to adjoine themselves to the Popish party or rather discover hovv being already their

reasonably on such a subject and yet on the other part I am confident that if some remains of natural shame had not opposed an expresse confession of our folly and vvickednesse vve vvould rather have ventured upon the vvorlds lighter censure then incurred their detasting horrour But vvhy do I inlarge Or vvhat do I exspect by reasoning Nay quid vota furentem c. That the Dutch their small lose through this treachery is infinitly compensed by the gaine it brings of all other nations favour and an accession of as much more confidence in God and firme courage as the King of England hath added of dishonour to his violence is too too evident How much more it may excit my countrey men to the dueties whereunto I have exhorted I leave it to the perswasion of the thing it self which needeth no words either to illustrat or enforce it Ambrose tells us of the primitive times Julianus Imperator Apostata babuit sub sa Christianos milites quibus cum dicebat producite actem pro defensiane Ret publicae obediebant cum autem eis dicoret producite arma in Christianos tunc agnosceb●● Imperatorem Coeli Which passage doth here so exactly quadrat as I am assured that every one who reveres the same great God must acknowledge its force But our God is in the heaven he will do whatsoever he pleaseth A More particular Reviewe of his Majesties Declarations for his War with the Dutch and Indulgence to Tender Consciences OBserving in the Postscript to my former that the King of England had taken up armes I thought that there I had also laid down my pen but since it hath at length pleased his Majesty to appeare in print in a Declaration of war against the Stats General c. and likewise in an other of indulgence to all his loving subjects their relation to my former discourse hath likewise inclined me to a summar reviewe of both And because the war is now certain and formed I suppose it may conduce to a more satisfying understanding of the whole that by way of preface I briefly resume it's progresse unto the present period There are not yet many moneths past since the Dutch of a long time threatned by the French King his preparations and approaches did solicite the King of England to their aid conforme to their Alliance which though by reason of former resentments and late displeasures was indeed hopelesse yet most men thought that the singular benefit of peace in the midst of our neighbours wars the greater likelyhood of the Dutch their condescendence and submission in the hope of reliefe then in desperat hostilitie with the assured satisfaction either of an easie revenge upon the Dutch continueing refractory by the hand of the French or of the advantageous glory of umpireing it betwixt both would undoubtedly determin us to subsist in an attentive and well prepared neutrality but the French their addresse and advance prevailing upon our inconstant passions and debauched penury we proceed notwithstanding of the Genius inclination and interest of the nation and the dissvvasion both of reason and religion to Ballance to the French assistance vvhich vvas the occasion of my first discourse And neither in this shevving more fixednesse the precipitancy of error and fury still driveing vve on a sudden in the very time that the Dutch had sent an extraordinary Ambassadour to propose their utmost condescensions for appeasing us vvithout any promulgation of vvar fall upon the Merchant ships returning striking to us in the Channel destroying and taking all we could as I have remarked in my foregoing Postscript and thereafter we emitt the declaration of war which cometh now to be examined Wherein suppressing the Date as being ashamed to confesse our anterior piratick violence his Majesty beginning with the attestation of his own zeal for the quiet of Christendome hopeth that the world will beleeve that it is inevitable necessity forceth him to Armes I shall not question the truth of his Majesties confidence in this insinuation though I heartily wish that he could have appealed to some more known and credible proof He tells us indeed that after his restauration which was in the yeer 1660 his first work was to establish Peace with his neighbours and to conclude a strict league with the Dutch But as this was at best nothing more then a convenient formality in such ane exigent so we know too well the horrible subversions and persecutions wherein contrair to his solemne Oaths and promises both old and late he was at that time exercised in at home to conclude from this his short and necessary abstaining from forraigne disturbances that reguard which he pretends for Christendomes quiet As for his sudden rupture with the Dutch in the yeer 1665 he foreseeth the objection and would lay it upon the Parliament moved thereto by the Dutch their injuries and oppressions and justifieth it by his preceeding endeavours of a reasonable accommodation But will the world receive this naked affirmation when as it neither then had nor is it ever like to have a distinct let be a satisfying account of that matter And even England is convinced that nothing save a maligne envy influenced by the sinistruous designes of a corrupt Minister and a vaine royal Company did pousse us on to that extravagance and with what tendernesse of Christendom's peace we in the prosecution thereof hired the Bishop of Munster to a land invasion needeth not my pen to make it be remembred As for the shameful and disastruous event of that war I should not have mentioned it the Dutch their braving it upon our coasts in the end of the yeer 1665 routing our whole fleet in 66 sole Masters of the sea infesting our ports to the very beseiging of the nation firing therein our best ships and leading our Charles in triumph in the 67 are things too sad and recent for a true English man to think on without confusion and blushing But seing his Majesty is pleased to say that his victories and the Dutch losses were memorable enough to put them in mind of being more faithful I cannot but regrat that the nations from such a reference should have such ample ground both to condemne us upon our owne allegations aud flout us for our vaine effrontry But to let passe this pitiful transition we are in the next place told that the last Peace was no sooner made but the Tutch returned to their use of breaking Articles and supplaenting our trade As for instance foresooth the Stats were Particularly engaged by an Article of the Treaty at Breda to send Commissioners to London for regulating of the East-Indie trade But they were so far from it that on the contrary our Ambassadours were by them slighted and no forebearance of farmer wrongs obtained A man might have thought that such ane open challenge of perfidy and fraud would certainly be followed by a weighty and liquid condescendence and that in place of the accidental