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A48225
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A letter to the author of The Dutch design, anatomized written by a citizen of London, for the promoting of His Majesties service.
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Citizen of London.
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1688
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Wing L1725; ESTC R10817
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of that Is it a part of our Priviledges to be turn'd out because we will not promise to repeal our Laws and Tests which are our best Securities against the holy Society A new Set of Traders will fill the Exchange Sir I believe you are much more concern'd for the Savoy than the Exchange Page 21. You say they have watched the Critical Season of our Discontents which they have fomented to Wound us on our Blind-side I pray Sir who caused these Discontents Why should the Church of England be more suspected now than in the beginning of his Majesties Reign Why you will say they are discontented who has done this they are not discontented without great cause private persons may Bodies of Men never do take pet at small things never was Prince received with more Loyalty or defended with more Bravery than this King was by the Church of England-men his Brother only Excepted as to the first whose many years absence contributed to the Enhancing the value of his Restitution Whence then comes this Cloud of Discontents What has your Reverences occasion'd it Why then a little Justice done upon you I will undertake shall appease the Church of England-men God and their King are the only beings they worship And I am confident they of all the World never will have a quarrel against the King it is only a few small Politico's such as your Reverence F. P. R. B. c. small Cattel for which a Crown ought not to be hazarded and some others not to be Named by me but by the Three Estates If any ill Treatments hath been given to the E. C. men upon Mistakes or Suspition that some encouragement had been from Holland that had occasion'd some Obstinacy yet since now by several Acts of Grace the King hath made a reparation upon the full discovery of the Dutifulness c. pag. 22. If any ill Treatments Are we still at Ifs and And 's whether we have been ill Treated or no But it was for our Obstinacy Your humble Sevant Sir We might have been more pliant to your Reverences and then we should have been better treated But we were suspected to have borrowed this Obstinacy from Holland Yes we did not know the value of our Religion and our Laws till Monsieur Fagel set the price and G. B. sent over an Apology Well But we have had reparation Why Sir who was Hanged for this Attempt upon us who was tried Is the Dispencing Power or the Ecclesiastical Commission or the Mock Tryal declared Illegal may not all be Acted over again 〈◊〉 Morrow Sir we do not desire reparation from our King but We think it reasonable nevertheless that we should be well secured for the future When this is done Sir you may assure his Majesty if you can come so near him that the English Loyalty Valour and Bravery are not dead But to fight our selves into eternal Slavery to ruin all the hopes of Redress for ever at one blow in one day will need a better Orator than you to perswade as We are no Strangers to either your faith or practises We remember Q. Marys days and the maxims of another Mary who was Regent of Scotland in her time That Promises was not to be kept with Hereticks and that if she could make an honest excuse after the fact was committed she would take it upon her Conscience to kill and undo all that Sect Spotswood pag. 123. And accordingly she broke her Faith so often that at last they eased her of that trouble by refusing evermore to trust her The same maxim was used in the Low-Countrys by Philip the II. In France in Germany in Hungary and indeed where not So that we shall have good reason to expect something more than a bare Promise Sr. you are not to think that the Wheede in your 23. pag. will signifie much But whereas you tell us there has been no blot upon his the Church of Englands Mans Scutcheon upon that account since the Reformation That is they were never disloyal to the Crown I must refer you to the NEW TEST of the Church of Englands Loyalty printed with Allowance the whole design of which Paper is to brand us with Setting up Jane Seymore and Q. Elizabeth whom he called a Known Bastard I suppose the Church of England has good reason to demand Repairations for that Slander If there be indeed no blot in her Seutcheon since the Reformation I assure you Sir that infamous Libel will one day be reckon'd for if you do not prevent Justice by an Examplary and Voluntary Correction of the Author the Allower and Publisher of it Pag. the 24th you tell us it hath hitherto been reputed an Vnjust and Scandalous Censure that We would be no longer Loyal than whilst we had a Prince of our own Religion But then this has been thrown in our Dish several times since his now Majesty came to the Crown by R. C. with Allowance notwithstanding all our Zeal and Fidelity to him and has any Repairation been yet made for this Injury Methinks before you teach our Clergy what they are to Preach you should have taken care of this It has been reputed injurious c. By whom Oh by Church of England Men and not by R. C's you may be sure So that we â—ust still be contented the Devils insinuation against Job â—â—ould stand good against us if we will not put our Selves our Lives and our Fortunes intirely into their power and Hang or Burn as they think fit Pag the 25. he tells us Liberty of Conscience and the Church of England are already Setled True Sir and that is the very very reason of all the Strugle to get our Laws and Tests Repealed because they secure both these things tho' not alike to all Protestants Now these Gentlemen pretended to give the Dessenters more Liberty to obtain their Assistance against the Church Party for the Repeal but the Dessenters knew these Hucksters and would not Bite Hence all the Rage against the whole body of Protestants especially against the Dissentes But Sir they know very well you have given them what you can never re-call and they laugh at your Rage As to the Reports pag. 26th and your Answers I have nothing to say to them As for what you affirm that some of these things the King had resolved to have granted before the sitting of the intended Parliament and before he had the least intelligence of the Dutch Preparations as testimonies that he designed the Protection of the Church of England And that this was known to some persons of Honour and Credit pag. 27. This is the best thing in all your Book and might perhaps have been believed if these worthy Persons had been named pag. 28th We are told the King Judgeth that Liberty of Conscience is the very Fundamental of that happiness which he wisheth to his People it is very odly worded but let that pass His People may enjoy this Liberty without Repealing