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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53100	The common interest of king and people shewing the original, antiquity and excellency of monarchy, compared with aristocracy and democracy, and particularly of our English monarchy, and that absolute, papal and Presbyterian popular supremacy are utterly inconsistent with prerogative, property and liberty / by John Nalson.	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1677 (1677)	Wing N92; ESTC R10092	110,919	290

Superior nor owes either Tribute or Homage to any other besides the Almighty Sovereign the Supreme Majesty of Heaven and Earth from whom as the King receives it so to him only is he accountable for the managery and administration of it The King is the sole Fountain of all Honour The greatness of his Power according to Laws and the Foundation of all Law nay the very Soul and Life of it for by his Royal word he gives it a Being and by his * Le Roy le veult Affirmative breath that which before was a dead and inanimate Bill becomes a living and an Active Law And in like manner by his powerful negative or ‖ Le Roy s' avisera suspending his consent any intended Sanction becomes abortive and never sees the Sun And as it is both his and his Peoples happiness that his Will is not his Law but that his Law is his Will so it is but highly reasonable that he should have the liberty and freedom of the choice of those Laws by which he obliges himself to Rule and Govern In him is the sole Power of the Sword the Power of making Peace and War and in order thereunto of raising Forces granting Commissions both for Land and Sea In him is the sole Power of Calling Adjourning Proroguing and dissolving Parliaments when and where he judges it most expedient In his power it is to remit the severities of the Penal Laws whereby he may manifest his goodness and clemency as well as his greatness and justice by graciously pardoning both the smaller breaches of his Laws and the more capital offences which he might most justly punish From him all metals receive their Impress and according to the Standard he puts upon them they become valuable and currant Coin From him all places of high Trust derive their Authority by his Commission they Act and put his Commands and the Laws in execution And in short without him or against his Will and Consent nothing can be legally acted or done The Person of the King most Sacred AND as his Power is thus Great so his Person is most Sacred and is therefore most strictly guarded by the Laws which like Solomon's Lions stand on each side of the steps and ascents of his Imperial Throne 13 Car. 2. and with no less Terror than Majesty declare That it is High Treason within or without the Realm to Compass Imagine Invent Devise or Intend Death or Destruction or any bodily harm tending to death or destruction maim or wounding imprisonment or restraint of the Person of the King or to deprive or depose him from the Stile Honour or Kingly Name of the Imperial Crown of this Realm or any other of his Dominions or Countries or to levy War against him within or without the Realm or any other of the Kings Dominions or Countries being under his Obeysance THESE amongst many others are the principal Jewels which adorn the glorious Diadem of the English Sovereigns whose Government being so remote from Arbitrary that it is altogether by the exact Rule of Law Justice and Equity as it must needs be easie for the people so it contributes extremely to the Happiness and prosperous tranquillity of the Princes Reign And were it possible to add one Prerogative more to the Crown That the King might rule in the Hearts and kind affections of his People as well as over their Persons certainly there could no greater happiness befall both the King and his Subjects in this World And as such a blessed Union and Agreement would be their great and Common Interest where the one ruling with Love the other should obey their Ruler from a principle of affection so it is to be hoped that time and a right understanding of the most obliging Temper of their Prince or some other wise expedients will at last allay that dangerous Democratick fury the only present visible obstacle to this desired Happiness which whereever it prevails or enters possesses men with the principles of Usurpation upon many other but more especially upon this fundamental prerogative of the Sovereign by devesting him of the loyal and sincere affections of his People HAVING thus taken such a short view of it as the dazling Lustre of Majesty will permit let us pass from the Sovereign to the Subjects and there likewise we shall most convincingly see the effects of the most prudent easie safe and happy constitution of the English Government under which there is no person who lives in obedience to it who escapes the particular care and cognizance of the Laws The Priviledges of the People first in the sending their Representatives to the Parliament THE first great and fundamental Priviledge of the Subjects consists in the free Choice which the Commons of England have of Delegates or Representatives to be sent to the most Honourable Assembly of the Parliament there to make known the just grievances of the People and to offer such good wholsome and necessary Bills in order to their being promoted into Laws by the Royal Will as may be most for the advantage and happiness of those whom they represent By reason whereof all those Laws by which the people are governed for the present or are to be Governed for the future are such as they themselves have a share in the propounding and preparing there being nothing that can by the Royal assent pass into an obliging Statute or Act of Parliament either against or without their knowledge and consent as is evident from the Proem to most of those Acts which compose our Statute-Law which are in these or the like words Be it Enacted by the Kings most Excellent Majesty by the Advice and with the Assent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons in this present Parliament Assembled and by the Authority of the same So that they must be the most unreasonable amongst mankind who are not contented to be obedient to those Laws which are by their King Enacted and Established not only according to their own preparation and with their free and full assent but at their earnest request and humble Importunity NOR are they only highly irrational but most barbarously treacherous and perfidious who make no account of such mutual stipulations and lawful contracts with which they have obliged themselves as the whole Nation does when by the Parliament they Petition the King to make such or such Laws and upon that condition that he will please to give them the force and power of Laws they will live in obedience to him according to the direction of those Laws For Obedience is the end of all Laws and solemn Faith of Contracts is the essential Foundation upon which all Government and Happiness in this World does depend and there can no Bill pass into an Act of Parliament but it obliges Universally all Subjects to obedience by vertue not only of Royal Authority but of every individual persons promise For whoever gives his Voice

effected must suppose the Designers to act according to the Principles not of hope or reason but of a brutal Rage or rather desperate Fury and revengeful Frenzy For an impatient Bajazet who was once a mighty Monarch to dash out his despairing brains against the Bars of his Iron Cage admits of some reason and excuse but for people to do it who are free and happy is certainly a most unaccountable madness And whoever goes about to undermine and overthrow a Pile of that weight and bigness if they do unfortunately succeed in the strange attempt cannot in probability expect to rejoyce in those Ruines which in all likelihood will fall upon them and crush them to Atoms And certainly only such who have lost the eyes of their reason can be ambitious of such a rude Mausoleum as that of Sampson who pull'd down the house to be revenged of his enemies and thereby gave himself an uncommon Monument amongst the perishing croud And one would believe that Eternal infamy were no tempting Epitaph to be written upon such Tombs of Rubbish as are rais'd by the fall of the State and Government But if they do not succeed but happen from their high attempts and lofty expectations to fail of their designs and fall upon the well-built Pyramid they must unavoidably run the fate of Phaeton and cool those flames which their wild ambition has thrown abroad in the World by attempting upon the reins of Government in the Ocean of Ruine Notwithstanding all which affrighting considerations yet such men there are if they who are divested both of Reason and true Religion can deserve that Name or rather Monsters in Humane shape and too many of them there are to be found Inhumane and Unnatural whom no Happiness is able to content but what is built upon the Ruine and Misery of others No Government can please but whose foundation is laid upon the subversion of the present and cemented with bloud And whose very principles are destructive of themselves because of all Government Society and Happiness in this World The great Misfortune of the World which makes Religion the great pretence to ruine Monarchy BUT the greatest of all our Misfortunes is That these dangerous Enemies to our present Peace and future Happiness pretend to draw both their Principles and Practice not from Politicks but Religion which certainly was designed by the Almighty Creator to oblige men to Obedience and intended to be the great support of Government See the unhappy Chymistry of over-heated Brains and Religion or Fancy rather under that Sacred Name run out of its Wits which by the late discovery of New Regions of Faith and New Lights of Religion has given such disturbances to the Old and can force that which in its own Nature is undoubtedly the greatest security of Crowns and the Interest of any People to become the greatest Traitor to the one and Treachery to the other which can make even Religion not only stoop to wicked Designs but turn Renegado and deny the Ancient Catholick Faith of Christ But alas it is not Religion That is all Bright Peaceful and Innocent It is a Cloak a Vizor a Form of Godliness or an appearance without the Power the Soul of Piety which Counterfeit and Impostor works all these dismal effects That Wisdom which is from above is like its Author and the blest Regions from whence it comes 5. Jam. 3.14 Pure and Peaceable full of Good works But that is Earthly Sensual Devilish which is the Mother of our Strife Confusions and every evil Work And however with the most fair appearances and sanctimonious pretences it may deceive the Unwary and cover the Malicious yet certainly it is one of the most refined stratagems of the Primitive Arch-rebel the degraded Lucifer that implacable Enemy of Mankind and the perpetual envious disturber of their Happiness For under this pretence of Religion he does but too successfully endeavour to ruine it and whilest he perswades the Credulous that there is no other design in a New Faith or thorough Reformation but to repair the House he certainly knows he shall pull it down or at least deface it Thus some unforeseeing people overcome with the old temptation whilest they would know Good and Evil and become like Gods by tasting the forbidden Apple of State they run the hazard of making themselves and posterity become like the Tempter malicious and miserable to a degree below the Beasts that perish NOR can this old guilded Serpent with all his Generation of Vipers A stratagem of the Devil to extirpate all true Religion by feeding upon the Mother that brought them forth propose any Way more probable to undo the Reputation of the true Religion than by making others as like in appearance as may be and endeavouring to obtrude their shining and painted Glass upon the World as the true and inestimable Jewel of Piety By which Artifice the true and innocent Religion shall become chargeable with the Wars Tumults Seditions and Disorders of the World which in reality are the products of the Counterfeits And whilest by Disobedience and Rebellion Disloyalties and Treasons Plots and Conspiracies under the pretences of Conscience such disturbances are given to the safety and security of Sovereign Princes and Mankind in general a fair train is laid to blow up all Piety and to introduce Atheism and at once to extirpate all Religion from the minds of Men who must look upon it as a pernicious Impostor which pretends one thing and acts another directly contrary to it And if once men come to hate it and wish there were no such thing in the World it would not be long before it would be so nor can any thing bid fairer to effect this than such Actions as may perswade the Monarchs of the Earth to entertain aversions against it as a principle which runs their Subjects into Mutinies Disobedience and Rebellion and which intrecches too much upon the Royal Prerogative by a continual cutting off the skirts of the Robes of Majesty and not being always innocent of attempting against their Lives and Crowns And could this transformed Angel of Light and his reforming Ministers of Righteousness but effect this which with all their I wish I could say mistaken Zeal they so industriously labour to do and are in the ready way for it The fatal consequences may without difficulty not only be conjectured but most certainly foretold THERE is no creature so innocent that is without its particular enemies to whose violences that does often give encouragement and invitation Neither is there any vertue without its opposites and extremes which manage a continual either open hostility or secret war against it The soundest Constitutions and most healthful Bodies are not without a mixture of such fermenting Spirits and Humours as are the stamina morborum which sometimes rush them into violent and dangerous distempers and if we will credit the sons of Aesculapius there is no state of Body so near

their Loyalty and Allegiance to their King and Obedience to the Laws and Government whenas in truth no People in the World in humane probability are at a greater distance from those imaginary dangers than we unless by believing these men and their Principles we precipitate our selves headlong into them nor is there any thing wanting to render us compleatly happy and secure at home and abroad besides Unity amongst ourselves and Loyalty towards our Prince of both which it is the main design of these Enemies of our Peace Prosperity and Happiness at once to rob us and whoever will take the pains to consider the rise growth and continuance of this Doctrine of Calvinism will find it a meer Salamander of Religion bred in the Flames of Rebellion nourisht with the fire of mistaken Zeal at best and that it constantly delights to dwell in the blaze of Contention The peace and settlement of the Nation are its utter Enemies and opposites and no wonder then if the Patrons of it are the Enemies of our Peace and as a Pope once said to Charles Brother to the French King concerning Conradine King of Naples and Sicily which gave him his Death The Life of Conradine is the Death of Charles Vrsper p. 11. and the Death of Conradine is the Life of Charles so may we truly say The Peace and Unity of our Monarchy is the Death and Ruine of Presbytery and the Death of Presbytery is the Life of Monarchy which is the true reason why they struggle for their Life to keep up discords differences and animosities and it may be are all of the sudden become so Zealous for a Foreign War the discovery of their Plot having put them out of hopes of one at home So long as the Government is but busie and the Crown necessitous they do not only think themselves secure but are in hopes that the expences or unforeseen accidents of War may at last occasion differences at home upon which ill humors of the body Politick like Plagues and Gangrenes they always feed and increase and hope in the end to prove fatal to it for they know by experience that Corruptio Vnius est Generatio Alterius A dead Monarchy fly-blown by Presbytery breeds the short-liv'd Maggots of a putrified Common-wealth But these things have been so well taken notice of and their whole Intrigue discovered by the charitable hand of the Author of the two Pacquets of Advices c. that a clearer exposing of them is altogether needless IT is the wishes prayers and hopes of the best subjects of these Nations that the dangerous noise and clamours which they make themselves will oblige Authority to take notice of them and their mischievous intentions and that this very Parliament which they fear and therefore hate with all their Hearts as is plain by their Ringing so loud its passing Bell and perswading the World it is Dead that their Cruelty may be satisfied with the Revenge of burying it alive will take notice of such an affront to a King and his Parliament as no Age can parallel nor any persons be guilty of but Presbyterians and offer some expedients according to their Wisdom and Prudence to ease the Loyal and faithful Subjects amongst which they challenge the first rank themselves of those just fears and jealousies and those uneasinesses which afflict them by reason of the growth increase and confidence of these implacable malicious sanguinary and restless Antimonarchical and Anti-Parliamentary spirited People and their Principles TO conclude From the former Discourse these necessary consequences follow Some necessary consequences from the former Discourse First That no person whatsoever let him pretend never so much Religion Sanctity or Innocence can possibly be a good Subject so long as he continues a true Presbyterian or of their off-spring in regard they always carry about with them as the main of their Religion such Principles as are directly contrary to Monarchy and destructive of Loyalty to which he can never be a firm true and assured Friend who owns a Power Superior to that of his Prince within his Dominions and that such a Power may of right depose him and take away his Crown and Life which has been proved to be the avowed Doctrine of the Consistorians of Geneva Scotland and England both in Print and Practice Secondly That no Monarch can be safe or his best Subjects at ease and secure so long as this faction is either owned tolerated permitted or favoured publickly or privately within his Dominions especially the Ring-leaders of the Party which guilded Snakes can no sooner be warm in the Bosom of Indulgence but they begin to hiss and sting and are constantly either the Whisperers or Trumpeters of Sedition and Rebellion the very practice of what they call their Religion in prohibited Conventicles and Assemblies being but the younger Brothers of Tumults and Insurrections and Rebellion against the King and Government both Civil and Ecclesiastical in a demure dress and garb of Innocence which is so far from making it better than that in the Field with Drums and Colours that it renders it worse because more dangerous and apt to deceive many people being willing to become Volunteers to the Pulpit as Hudibras calls it The drum Ecclesiastick When beat with fist instead of a stick Hudibr Cant. 1. Who would not list themselves into open and barefac't Rebellion till from thence they hear the dreadful thunder of a Curse ye Meroz or The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon AND let them not call this necessary Caution for the publick and all honest mens preservation the effect of a persecuting Spirit since though they may charge the Government with Cruelty it is they who are cruel to themselves and the whole Community by being evil doers busie bodies seditious trayterous heady high minded opposers of Government disturbers of Order Enemies to our Peace Unity and Happiness and to the very Fundamental Laws Establishments Constitution and whole Frame of the National Government both in Church and State I appeal to all the Records of time both our own and of other Nations which will witness That whoever did act thus contrary to the publick Interest have in all Ages in all Places by all Laws and Persons in Authority been esteemed justly and deservedly punished as being the common mischiefs of nature directly opposite to the security and happiness of all mankind in general not excepting themselves out of the number whose restless uneasie discontented humor certainly renders them the most unfortunate of all humane race because ever most unquiet and unpleased being indeed utterly uncapable of satisfaction the concessions and condescensions of Authority to day emboldening them to demand greater tomorrow and Indulgence being so far from making them grateful that it gives them the pain to invent new Requests their desires being therefore boundless and unlimited because they neither know positively what they would have nor are able to determine what it is