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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55606	A vindication of monarchy and the government long established in the Church and Kingdome of England against the pernicious assertions and tumultuous practices of the innovators during the last Parliament in the reign of Charles the I / written by Sir Robert Poyntz, Knight of the Bath.	Poyntz, Robert, Sir, 1589?-1665.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3134; ESTC R3249	140,182	162

A VINDICATION OF MONARCHY AND The Government long established in the Church and Kingdome of England Against The pernicious Assertions and tumultuous Practises of the Innovators during the last Parliament in the REIGN OF CHARLES the I. Written by Sir ROBERT POYNTZ Knight of the Bath LONDON Printed by Roger Norton and are to be sold by Gabriel Bedell and Thomas Collins at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street 1661. A VINDICATION OF MONARCHY AND The Government long established in the Church and Kingdom of England c. CHAP. I. Innovations in Government Publishing of false Newes and Prophesies Pretenses of Reformation Sects and Divisions in matters of Religion Quarrel against Episcopacy WE find by daily experience that those Rivers which run from the purest Fountains the farther they run the more corruption they gather and so is it with the Church and Common-wealth which have had their institutions discipline and lawes drawn from the pure fountains of piety prudence and equity yet by the course of time they are carried through the corruption in manners defects in government and in the execution of good Lawes into a stream of abuses contempt and confusion But when the corruptions are such as are not incurable but removable we find it much better to content our selves with a fair orderly and prudent reformation or a temporary toleration then by adventuring rashly upon the cure make the disease worse or change it into as bad through the change of that which hath long continued and may very fitly be retained and easily be purged from the corruptions and abuses which are adherent For by Innovations especially sudden the minds of men are disquieted fuel is brought unto fiery and turbulent spirits and the peace of the Church and Common-wealth indangered if not destroyed which by the Apostolical precept and practise we ought carefully to preserve The rule which Vlpian giveth us is worth remembrance In rebus novis constituendis evidens esse debeat utilitas ut ab eo jure quod diu aequum fuit recedatur It is an evident sign of a distemperature in the brain or of great levity when we rashly rush upon the change of ancient institutions and customes if there can be found no great inconvenience in the use of them The desire of change is restless and like superstition taking hold in the minds of men when it hath broken the bounds of piety Alterations are dangerous although they are specious and have some reason to justifie them and oftentimes those are the most dangerous which are most specious especially if they are driven on tumultuously or by faction When the people begin to be divided in Religion or to shew themselves discontented with the present government then do the ambitious and factious spirits who fish best in troubled waters lay in their hooks and make use of the season and opportunity And it hath been often observed that those who have had designs upon the State or to become a head of a Faction to raise sedition or to possesse or alter the Government have ever pretended Religion or the Publick good or the reformation of abuses and the removing of evil Counsellors Pretences of great efficacy in a discontented and factious state abounding with men presumptuous self-willed and despisers of Government as the Apostle saith Jude and prone to cast off all affection and fear of their Soveraign I need not to insist upon examples they are frequent I will only relate one of our own In Anglia non defectiones qu●mp-in ùm à R●ge Henrico sexto sed in eos qui apud eum plurimum poterant Impetus fac●us erat Paulatim au dicis crevit ducum inter aemulationes simuliatesque ad postremum Domestica bella exorta in ipsum Regem vis intenta●ur Paulus Aemilius lib. 10. Histor Vnder this pretence of evil Government and removing of evil Counsellors and with great protestations of sincerity and love to his Countrey did Richard Duke of York gain the affections of the people from their innocent King Henry the Sixth who stood in his way to the Crown so as the Duke of Somerset for his faithful adhering unto that King Henry his Nephew and for crossing the aspiring of the Duke of York had by great cunning contrivance the hatred of the inconstant and seduced people stirred up against him under that general and indefinite notion of an evil Counsellor and an enemy of the Common-wealth to the ruine of himself first and then of his King Upon this and the like examples it seemeth that the Statute in the third year of Henry the seventh did reflect for the words are that by quarrels made to such as have been in great Authority Office and of Counsel with the King of this Realm hath ensued the destruction of the Kings and the ruine of the Realm So as it appeared evidently when the compassing of the death of such true subjects was had the destruction of the Prince was imagined thereby * Per latus alierum Regem peti ei que litem intentari ut qui capi opprimi non potuit is ametis fidis Consiliariis ministris Regis dignitate simul ac libertate spolietur Thuan de Henrico 3. Galli● lib. 91. Hist We find for the furtherance of such designs two pestiferous means often used by factious men and Incendiaries to infatuate the People and to raise them on their side the one is the devising and publishing of faise tales and newes as did Shimei by bruiting infamous Speeches or Libels against King David calling him the man of bloud * We have made lies our refuge and under falsehood have we hid cur selves Isa 28.15 The Histories in all times and the Lawes against it in all States shew the hurt it bringeth to the Common-wealth P. Justin hist of Ven. The Ven●tians put to death a man who divulged false newes which much disquieted the City But those who first related the true newes of the defeat given to the King of France by the Saracens in the East M. Paris in Hen. 3. were condemned in France to be hanged It was an ancient manner among the Heathen Princes Euseb Eccles hist l. 2 c●● that if any novelty happened it should be first declared to him who held the Scepter The Statute made in the 12. of Rich. the 2. saith That by this means of newes discord hath often risen between the King and the People and slander within the Realm whereof quick destruction and subversion of the Realm may ensue Caesar saith in his Commentaries Falsis rumoribus homines terreri ad facinus impelli de summis rebus consilium capere cognitum est Ecclus. 18.14 James 3 A back-biting tongue hath pulled down strong Cities and overthrown the houses of great men The tongue setteth on fire the whole course of nature and it is set on fire of hell saith the Apostle It is called a sharp sword by the Psalmist