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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65033	A vindication of the King with some observations upon the two houses / by a true son of the Church of England, and a lover of his countries liberty. Together with the resolution of Wiltshire, and the petition of the gentlemen of the foure Innes of Court,	Waller, Edmund, 1606-1687.	1642 (1642)	Wing V507; ESTC R186188	10,242	18

with so high impudence fly at the Face of Majesty unreproved and every corner stinks of this uncleane Doctrine yet since it is come to this height that we must declare our selves or loose our King wherin my purpose failes my life shall make good to my last breath but if Religion Reason and Law had not warranted so just a cause I should never have adventured to cleare a glasse to so foule a countenance yet before I conclude let mee propose one question in Religion Whether the Church was not in it's purity in the Primitive times the World agrees they had in those dayes a King that was no Christian Whether Christ had not more power then ever any can or dare pretend to since to eclipse that Regall Dignity if it had beene destructive to the Church yet hee refused the lowest office of a Magistrate But gave to Caesar the things that were His for when the young man came to him and said Lord command my brother that he divide the Inheritance with mee He replyes Who made mee a Ruler or a judge amongst you But now that we having a Christian King professing by His unblemisht Life the same way to salvation with us protesting to conserve our Liberties with His Life to make such an apparant difference which may be the occasion of the effusion of so much Christian Bloud upon meere Jealousies will be the most unheard of disloyalty that can be committed to future Ages WILTSHIRE'S Resolution presented with the Contributions of divers Gentlemen to His MAjESTIES Commissioners at OXFORD FOrasmuch as we whose names are hereto subscribed having taken the late Protestation recommended unto this Kingdome in generall according to the direction of both Houses of Parliament with His Majesties consent whereby wee hold our selves most especially bound and engaged to defend and maintaine with our lives and fortunes according to our utmost abilities the Protestant Religion established by authority of divers past Parliaments since the Reformation and also His Majesties Royall Person and Prerogative the just and ancient Priviledges of Parliaments the Lawes of this Land and the Liberty of the Subject And whereas it is evident unto us that at this present by the malitious practises of some dangerous spirits the Protestant Religion hath received manifest detriment by calumniating discountenancing and imprisoning divers painfull reverend and orthodoxe Divines as namely Dr Featley Dr Oldsworth Mr Shute of London and many other men of approved soundnesse in Doctrine and unspotted integrity in their lives and conversations and almost in all places obtruding anabaptisticall Brownisticall and Schismaticall Teachers of falshood and rebellion to the dishonour of God and scandall of the Pulpit abused nowadayes to seduce us from the Loyalty and piety which made our Fore-fathers and our selves formerly happy and to engage us in a Civill warre one against another The much and much worthy to be reverenced Liturgie and Common Prayer of our Church growne infamous and a reproach to those that use it and all possible endeavour used utterly to expunge it And having beene bold with God in his worship no wonder if they proceed to the injury of his Vicegerent our most Gracious Soveraigne who opposing as much as in him lay those and other unjust and illegall proceedings was by their subriltie rendred suspected to His Subjects of inclining to Popery and many other matters equally false that under such hatefull jealousies He might by degrees become lesse beloved of His Subjects and they brought into the condition they are at this time in open warre against him wherein lest they should relent they are made beleeve it is for the safety and defence of His Person the most absurd gullery that ever was put upon a Nation And as the KING did not alone dislike these injuries done to God and Himselfe so neither alone does Hee suffer for with him most of the most Learned and judicious Members of both Houses whose Noblenesse Honour Vertues Piety Religion and cleare understandings made them declare themselves averse to the present course of the times have beene either imprisoned or stigmatized with the brand of Traytors and Papists or at the least malignants and Prelatists these and such like have beene all the Priviledges of Parliaments allowed the Worthies of our times and worse is hatching for them if the Divine providence preserve them not Are our ancient Lawes in any better condition or seeme they not as dead as their prudent contrivers do not new borne Votes supply their roome and new borne miseries attend them the KING his Wife and Children voted forcibly kept out of all that is due to them wee are required to be assisting hereto if not we shall be voted to be plundered our goods and estates sequestred and all this is pretended to be for the Liberty of the Subject we have liberty indeed to give but no liberty to deny and we must give not as we know we are able but as they think fit and this they have the impudence to publish These things being taken into our serious consideration and the times now requiring us to declare our selves since we can no longer be at peace first condoling the generall calamity of our selves and Ireland we professe to all the world that we cannot see or find any other lawfull way to free us from the distresses we are in then by our best assistance of His Sacred Majestie against all that shall oppose Him in an assured confidence that His purpose is as He hath declared and no other than to maintaine and establish the Protestant Religion as it hath beene in authority use in this Kingdome ever since Edward the sixth likewise His own just and true prerogative and inheritance derived unto Him from His Ancestours Kings and Queens of England and also the rights and priviledges of Parliaments that have beene alway justly due to them to whom we conceive His Majesty ought especially to hearken as hath beene the custome of his Royall Predecessours they seeking in all humility His assent to their debates and resolutions by reason not by force and also the ancient Lawes of this Kingdome and all other Acts of Parliament ratified by the Kings consent And lastly the Liberty and Property of the Subject Hereto we hold our selves bound by Conscience and vow to God Loyalty to our King and duty to our Country and so God prosper us as wee shall be assisting to His Majestie in the accomplishment of all this His MAJESTIES Letter to both Houses of PARLIAMENT the 20th of Ianuary 1641. HIS Majesty perceiving the manifold distractions which now are in this Kingdome which cannot but bring great inconvenience and mischief to this whole Government In which as His Majesty is most chiefly interessed so Hee holds himselfe by many reasons most obliged to do what in Him lies for the preventing thereof Though He might justly expect as most proper for the duty of Subjects that propositions for the remedies of these evils ought rather to come to Him then from him yet His Fatherly care of all His people being such that He will rather lay by any particular respect of his owne dignity then that any time should be lost for prevention of these threatning evils which cannot admit the delaies of the ordinary proceedings in Parliament doth thinke fit to make these ensuing propositions to both Houses of Parliament That they will with all speed fall into serious consideration of all those particulars which they shall hold necessary as well for the upholding and maintaining of His Majesties just and Legall Authority and for the settling of His Revenue as for the present and future establishing of their priviledges the free and quiet enjoying of their Estates and Fortunes the liberties of their Persons the security of the true Religion now professed in the Church of England and the settling of Ceremonies in such a manner as may take away all just offence which when they shall have digested and composed into one entire body that so His Majestie and themselves may be able to make the more cleare judgement of them it shall then appeare by what His Majesty shall do how farre He hath beene from intending or designing any of those things which the too great feares and jealousies of some persons seeme to apprehend And how ready Hee will be to equall and exceed the greatest examples of the most indulgent Princes in their Acts of Grace and Favour to their people So that if all these present distractions which so apparently threaten the ruine of this Kingdome do not by the blessing of Almighty God end in an happy and blessed Accommodation His Majesty will then be ready to call Heaven and Earth God and Man to witnesse that it hath not failed on His part FINIS