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A vindication of the proceedings of the late Parliament of England An. Dom. 1689, being the first in the reign of their present Majesties King William and Queen Mary.
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Somers, John Somers, Baron, 1651-1716.
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it might be immediately succeeded by an unhappy one after the like manner it was a piece of great prudence in our late Representatives not to be over hasty in settling the Militia of the Nation till both they and the King were throughly acquainted with those who were to be trusted with Commissions of such an high concern but it being impossible they should understand their real temper while all things were as yet on float no wonder if they deferred the settling of the Militia till the Hearts of Men were known to be first settled which Time only could inform them of As to the Act of Indempnity it is clear there was little or no inconveniency to defer it for a while for since it relates mostly to such as have been guilty of Irregularities and Illegal Proceedings in the late Reign where is the harm if the Government keep them somewhat in awe by deferring their Pardons to more fettled times lest they might prove Ringleaders to new Changes if they were not check'd by the fear of the punishment their past crimes deserve For it is a groundless reflexion to say that the not passing of the Act of Indempnity encourageth them to doe their utmost endeavours towards the bringing in of King James again since it is clear to all Men acquainted with the present posture of his Majesty's Affairs both at home and abroad that they must needs despair of ever being secure if they hope for no security till King James is settled upon his Abdicated Throne again And may not I be allowed to say that to judge of things to come by the present temper of the Nation they are in no danger at all or at least not so great as some would have them apprehend it to be because of the great moderation the Government has hitherto shewn and will undoubtedly shew hereafter to all such as are willing to comply with the present that is the Protestant Interest in opposition to Popery and the French King's Designs against our Properties and Liberties if by the help of the Irish Papists and other Male-Contents he were enabled to conquer us But to mention here another pressing particular relating to this Subject since it is well known that at the sitting down of the late Parliament the King by the advice yea and earnest request too of our late Representatives entered into a necessary War against France on the one hand and against the Irish Papists in Ireland on the other hand I would fain know from any not designing Man what was fittest to be done in this case was the time to be trifled away with the settling of the Militia and passing an Act of Indempnity before any supplies had been granted his Majesty for maintaining this Kingdom and his Subjects against the formidable French King's Fleets at Sea and his Irish Forces at Land commanded by the late King James in Ireland Sure all Men of Sense must needs confess that this Principal was first to be minded before any such Accessories as undoubtedly these were in that juncture of our Affairs Now it is methinks evident that the ordering the Sinews of great Warlike Preparations both by Sea and by Land then as now so necessary could not but take up a great deal of time especially when the Money is to be levyed in due proportion upon all the chief Subjects of the Nation the necessary debates upon such occasions about the Summ it self to be raised upon what and the manner how it is to be gathered are things of such a Nature as cannot be done on a sudden whatever Men's endeavours may be to bring them in a short time to a period The late Transactions of the last Parliament besides the Nature of the thing it self are evident proofs of what I do here affirm to all such as understand any thing in Affairs of this kind never done in England otherwise than by Meetings Conferences Committees Debates Votes and such other like Methods used in Parliament upon all matters of a General and National Concern To conclude notwithstanding all that I have said grant it was expedient though I have sufficiently proved it was not to settle the Militia of the Kingdom and pass the Act of Indempnity before any thing else these so much talked of omissions are both inconsiderable in themselves since we smart not yet for them and not at all dangerous in their Consequences which if really hurtful may easily be prevented by the next Parliament FINIS Books Printed for Dorman Newman at the King's-Arms in the Poultrey THE History of the Treaty at Nimeguen with Remarks on the Interest of Europe in relation to that Affair Translated out of French A Vindication of the present great Revolution in England in five Letters passed betwixt James Welwood M. D. and Mr. John March Vicar of Newcastle upon Tyne Occasioned by a Sermon Preached by him on Jan. 30. 1688 9. before the Mayor and Aldermen for Passive Obedience and Non-Resistance The second Edition An Answer to the late King James's Declaration dated at Dublin-Castle the 8th of May last To all his pretended Subjects of the Kingdom of England And ordered by the Vote of the Honourable House of Commons to be burnt by the common Hang-man A Seasonable Discourse wherein is examined what is Lawful during the Confusions and Revolutions of Government especially in the Case of a King deserting his Kingdoms And how far a Man may lawfully conform to the Powers and Commands of those who with various successes hold Kingdoms Whether it be Lawfull 1. In Paying Taxes 2. In Personal Service 3. In Taking Oaths 4. In giving himself up to a final Allegiance As also whether the Nature of War be inconsistent with Nature of the Christian Religion The History of the Plot Anatomized Or the late Sham-Fanatical-Plot briefly and plainly laid open wherein those Worthy Patriots who were charged therewith are vindicated from the Malicious and False Aspersions cast upon them c. The Murmurers A Poem To which is added the Character of a Grumbletonian Joannis Georgii Graevii Oratio de Auspicatissima Expeditione Britannica cum Potentissimus Invictissimus Guilielmus Arausionensis Princeps Angliae Galliae Hiberniae Rex inauguraretur Die xj Aprilis Auctoritate Praepotensium Illustrium Ordinum Trajectinae Dioeceseos habita 1689. Ad Augustissimum Magne Britannia Frenciae Hiberniaeque Regem Guilielmum Vna cum Maria Aug. consecratum â—â— 22 April AE Vulg. 1689. Adlocutio Qua pro Imperii Aeternitate Salute Regnorum vota nuncupat Fridericus Spanhemius F. F. Reasons why the Parliament of Scotland cannot comply with the late King James's Proclamation sent lately to that Kingdom and prosecuted by the late Viscount Dundee Containing an Answer to every Paragraph of the said Proclamation and vindicating the said Parliament their present Proceedings against Him Nosce Teipsum Or A Leading-step to the Knowledge of our Selves as the surest Foundation to true Religion in all Persuasions In a brief Discourse of Man's being made and undone in order to his more happy Recovery And also of the Original and Nature of Man's Body and Soul and of the Faculties or different Ways of the Soul's Operation in the Body With a brief Discourse of the Lord's Day and of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper By an unworthy but happy Proselite of Religion and Morality To which is added a Poem treating of Humane Reason and the Nature Original and Immortality of the Soul written nigh one hundred years since by Sir John Davies Attorney-General to Q. Elizabeth and now herewith reprinted The History of Self-Defence in requital to the History of Passive Obedience The Dilucidator Or Reflections upon modern Transactions by way of Letters from a Person at Amsterdam to his Friend in London Published once a Fortnight The Sighs of France in Slavery First Second Third and Fourth Memorials A Breviary of the History of the Parliament of England expressed in three Parts 1. The Causes and Beginning of the Civil War of England 2. A short Mention of the Progress of that Civil War 3. A compendious Relation of the Original and Progress of the second Civil War Written by Thomas May Esq A short view of the Methods made use of in Ireland for the Subversion and Destruction of the Protestant Religion and Interest in that Kingdom from the beginning of the Reign of the late King James to this Time And of the Suffering of the Protestants all along By a Clergy-Man lately escaped from thence A brief Exposition of the Church Catechism with Proofs from Scripture By John Williams D. D. Rector of St. Mildred's Poultrey and St. Mary-Cole London The Character of the Protestants of Ireland impartially set forth in a Letter in Answer to Seven Quenies their Original Humour Interest Losses Present Condition Apprehensions and Resolutions With Remarks upon the great Charge England is like to be at with those People and the Dostruction of that Kingdom by Famine if not prevented The Intrigues of the French King at Constantinople to Embroil Christendom Discovered in several Dispatches past betwixt Him and the late Grand Seignion Grand Vizcar and Count Teckely All of them found among that Count's Papers seized in December last None of them being hithered seen in English With some Reflexions upon them A Vindication of the two Letters concerning Alterations in the Liturgy in answer to Vox Cleri with an Appendix concerning the Remarks c. The History of Gustavu Adolphus sirnamed the Great King of Sweden with the Life and Reign of his Successor after Christina Carolus Gustavus Count Palatius Sold by most Booksellers The Monthly Account of all considerable Occurrences Civil Ecclesiastical and Military with all Natural and Philosophical Productions and Transactions c. Mercurius Reformatus Or The New Observator is continued to be published every Week