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A52759	Honesty's best policy, or, Penitence the sum of prudence being a brief discourse, in honour of the Right Honourable Anthony, Earl of Shaftsbury's humble acknowledgment and submission for his offences ... on the 25th of Febr. 1677 : together with the several proceedings of the said Right Honourable House ...	Nedham, Marchamont, 1620-1678.	1677 (1677)	Wing N390; ESTC R20017	20,550	16

to serve it self by new Elections doubted not but so plausible a Plea as a New Parliament would easily take place and afford every one the advantages they hoped for by a Change His Majesty and His Conncil and the Parliament soon smelt out the desperate meaning of this Privy Conspiracy under cover of so publick a Plea and the Faction was soon made to understand that their Plot was understood and that Crafty Tricks with Loud Popular Clamors and Long Speeches of their Correspondents in Parliament with other Machinations under the Sacred shelter and Claim of Free speaking and Priviledge was no honest English way to bring on New Parliaments the Law having left it wholly to the Judgment and Power of the King who hath at all times had a willingness to call one as soon as the Publick work lying before this Parliament can be finished and the Heats high Cants and Traiterous designs of Factions to make an uproar can be evaporated The working of all these Evils was plainly seen so soon as in this April-Session of 75. to be the wretched effect of those Principles and Doctrines of State which by the care of the Conspirators had been most industriously spread in Prints and otherwise for Poysoning the Opinion of City and Countrey about the King and His Parliament and the Government all exposed for a subversion Some Noble Lords at that Season reflecting on their own Allegiance and Obligation to prevent this brought into the House of Peers a Bill in which was that Oath so much clamour'd at called the Oath of Test or Tryal conceiving it would be a good security to Church and State if men thereby renewed their Allegiance It seems the Plot after the Rate of 1641. was so forward that the Masters of it were touched to the quick and feared this Oath would touch too home also upon their Proselytes who by it were to swear down the Principles and Doctrines of 41. which were now again to be made use of such as allowed of taking Arms against the King upon Parliamentary pretences and by His Authority against His Person and of making Alterations without Him in Church and State If the Book called A Letter from a Person of Quality to his Friend in the Countrey published this year 75. be of any Credit it hath these words in page 9. That the Earl of Shaftsbury was the man in the House that opened at large the Mischievous and ill Designs as he calls it and Consequences of the Bill and convinced many other Lords into a humour of Protesting against the Bill Now the design was bare-faced And because the Church was to have been alter'd as well as State therefore he who will believe that Book may if he please when as in 20. and 21. and 22 pages it saith That his Lordship spake things in disgrace of those old repositories of the Doctrine and Discipline of the Church of England the 39 Articles the Liturgy the Catechism the Homilies and the Canons And I am sure the same Book which condemned these and vilified the Bishops too bestows very high commendations of his Lordships Parts Pains and Labour about these matters which to the praise of his and some other mens Lungs took up the House of Lords with a debate of Sixteen or Seventeen whole days together the House sitting many times till Eight or Nine a clock at night and sometimes till midnight However they could not save the Book which makes report of this Noble Prize from being by Order of the Peers burnt by the hand of the Hangman And indeed it well deserved so because it charged the main stress of the Debate upon the shoulders of his Lordship though the Author wrote as if he had been his Friend by reason of the immoderate Praises that he loads him with in divers places 'T is an unhappy thing and looks ill that his Lordship should have such dangerous Friends as deserve Execution by the Hangman for what praise soever the fore-going Author may have fallen short in another Author endeavours to make up who seems a Friend too of his Lordship by an excess of praising him for the opposing of that Oath as may be seen in pages 17 58 59 69. and 61 62 of that Author whom a little before we named the Record-Keeper or Recorder of the Faction that is more plainly the Author of that most Villainous Book Entitulep An Account c. in the 61 page whereof are these very words It might be injurious where all of them did so excillently well to attribute more to any one of those Lords than to another unless because the Duke of Buckingham and the Earl of Shaftsbury have been the more reproached for this brave Action it being requisite by a double proportion of praise to set them two on equal terms with the best of their Companions in Honour And in page 62. He glorieth in these words concern●ng the Issue of these doings That by this means the Test Dyed and the Matter in conclusion was so Husbanded betwixt this business and the business of Dr. Shirly and Sir John Fagg that any longer converse between the two Houses grew impracticable so that His Majesty was necessitated to Prorogue them till the 13th of October 1675. following Let the World judge then to what height of Crime such mens behaviour doth tend when it must puzzle the most exquisite Politician to distinguish in point of Treason betwixt a Frustrator and a Subverter of the Meetings of Parliament And so you have seen what Friends his Lordship hath and if their Prints are to be believed you see what he did and how he did and how he bestirred himself during that April-Session of the year 1675 Now we pass on to October-Session of the same year and in this it will appear how the work of publick Disturbance and of Frustrating this Meeting of Parliament likewise proceeded for it also came to nothing but by whose means let the Reader judge by what followeth in short The Parliament being met the first Artifice of some was to set on Foot again the late Quarrel betwixt both Houses about their Priviledges In which Master-piece if we may credit a Speech Printed in the name of the Earl of Shaftsbury his Lordship acted a principal part and it was improved from being a private Cause between Shirly and Fagg to become a cause of too much concern to the King the whole Parliament and Kingdom Therefore divers Lords argued in their House to lay aside for a while that Cause as a matter that would revive their Contest with the Commons and thereby hinder the Kingdoms business of preparing a Navy and other pressing Affairs and Occasions and so most of the Lords spake for adjourning that Cause for six weeks But saith the printed Speech in my Lord Shaftsbury's name Take heed what you do and argued these Particulars following That then the Money-Bill for the King to build Ships would be passed Oh take heed of that for though in a

complaining in our Streets So that a man can hardly know there is a War Let God be blessed that he hath given this King signally the Hearts of his People and most particularly of this Parliament who in their Affections and Loyalty to their Prince have exceeded all their Predecessors A Parliament with whom the King hath lived many years with all the Garesses of a happy Marriage Has the Kings had a Concern you have wedded it Has his Majesty wanted Supplyes you have readily chearfully and fully provided for them you have relyed upon the Wisdom and Conduct of His Majesty in all His Affairs So that you have never attempted to exceed your Bounds or to impose upon him On the other side He hath been so tender of you that He hath upon his own Revenue and Credit endeavour'd to support even Forein Wars lest he might become uneasie to you or burdensome to His People I can assure you 't is as impossible for the King to part with this Parliament as it is for you to depart from that Loyalty Affection and Dutiful behaviour you have hitherto shewed towards him Let us bless the King for taking away all ur Fears and leaving no room for Jealiasies for those Assurances and Promises he hath made us Let us bless God and the King our Religion is safe That the Church of England is the Care of our Prince and that Parliaments are safe What more hath a good Englishman to ask but that this King may long Reign and that the Triple Alliance of King Parliament and People may never be Dissolved What more eloquently and truly could have been said than was said here in short by our noble Penitent to set forth the happy peaceful Estate and Condition of this Kingdom But note the time it was in the year 1672 that all was well that the King had the hearts of his Parliament and People So that they were like Man and Wife it was impossible to part or Dissolve them that the Parliament kept within their Bounds meddled not with the Affairs of his Prerogative nor imposed upon him being confident of his Wisdom and Conduct and not ●apt out of Tune with Fears and Jealousies Religion Church Parliaments Properties Liberties all was safe in that Golden Year 72. And his Lordship having thus generously done the King all that Right had reason to believe himself safe too II. Having seen in what a peaceful happy state all things were before the Earl of Shaftsbury's Offending 't is meet that in the next place you should see what the Offences were when they began the tendency and dangerous Consequences of them that others may be Converted who through had Doctrine have been corrupted and the like be avoided for the future Ingenious men use to have quick Motions and Emotions of mind into Acts and by this means oftentimes a sudden Turn of their Minds and Fortunes even to the tossing of all things Topsie-turvy in a fit of ill humour It was you see but in 72. That his Lordship had nothing to find fault with at Court how it hapned presently after this that he was commanded to render up the Great Seal and Office of Chancellor is not here to be discoursed let it sussice to know That it was in the very next year 1673 that it was done and his Lordship laid aside and 't is no part of my business to meddle with the Faults that occasioned it because my desire is rather to cherish him in his Repentance having often long'd to find him in so good a humour It is for me only to give a few Observations about the Affairs which preceeded his Lordships departure from Court while he was a prime Man in the Counsels of His Majesty which have since been made the Subject of many a loud Clamor by the Factious Party Some Observations also I shall make of divers particulars pointing out to you how as soon as his Lordship went out the World also it self was troubled and began to grow out of Order Perhaps it hapned so because his Lordship went out of Office his great Wisdom and Conduct not being any longer at the Helm A Poet of our own fancies the Frame of the World to be bolted together with a smal Pin or two if that be put out all falls to pieces therefore when he brings in Catiline in the Third Act in a great chase because himself was rejected and Cicero chosen Consul he makes him thus vent himself in a lofty Rant Repulse upon Repulse Oh that I could reach the Axel where the Pins are Which bolt this Frame that I might pull them out And pluck all into Chaos with my self So that you see if but a Pin or so be out all falls into Confusion if there be any Truth in Poetry And it may be this was our Case Who can tell For Poets have unlucky Hits many times as well as Polititians So have Historians too For the Record-keeper or Recorder of the Faction I mean the Author of the New Directory for Petty States-men that is to say The Account of the growth of Popery and Arbitrary Government c. Reporteth to us that the present Lord Chancellor another Cicero came in his Lordships Place before the end of 1673 as the former Cicero came into that which was aim'd at by Catiline And then the Golden times before and in 72. being gon the Iron age came on But I must return where I left As to my Observations about the Affairs preceeding his Lordships voidance from Court I find the aforesaid Recorder hath been very punctual to record them and one may well think he is not like to say any thing in prejudice of his Lordship because I perceive in page 44. of his Pamphlet he seems as if he would speak like a Friend of his and says the Parliament having met the 5th of February 1672. prepared an Act by which the Papists were obliged to pass through a new State-Purgatory to become capable of any publick Employment and that the Earl of Shaftsbury then Lord Chancellor of England Engaged so far in Defence of that Act and of the Protestant Religion that it cost him his Place and that it was upon this occasion that he was laid aside My Lord being now a Penitent I would not upon any terms say ought in prejudice to him by telling what the Occasions and Causes were that he was laid aside But appearing against Popery could not be the Cause because 't is known there had been many years before as great an out-cry among the Factious Party against Popery and Popish Counsellers and yet it never appeared all along those times that ever his Lordship appeared against or thought of any such matter for had there been any Cause for it can we think that a Lord so Pious and Zealous of Religion would be guilty of concealing it and have stood still and look't on while it grew up in the fair Sun-shine of all his good Offices Sure it could not be