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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48156	A letter to a friend, about the late proclamation on the 11th of December, 1679, for further proroguing the Parliament till the 11th of November next ensuing		1679 (1679)	Wing L1637; ESTC R9259	8,884	16

Religion His Majesties most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament Wednesday 30th of April 1679. and the publick security he should not follow their Zeal but lead it And for the generality of us if we respect our obedience to God what appearance is there that after so durable and general an enlightning of our minds with the sacred truth we should again put out our own eyes to wander through the palpable darkness of the Romish gross superstition And hath not His Majesty several times told us he verily believes there is a Plot and Conspiracy by the Papists against his most sacred Person and shall we imagine he can have any kindness for them or their Idolatrous Religion which bolsters them up in such horrible wickedness as to take away His life destroy his Subjects or at least absolve them from their Allegiance to him and possess themselves of his Kingdome by making it a Fendatory to the See of Rome This would be next to Nonsensical surely but to put it upon the supposition 2. And then what ground or Reason can any one have to think that he is fallen out with his Parliaments Has any King been so much beholding to them as he has been His Speech to both Houses of Parliament 21th March 1663 4 Pag. 6. He has himself told you none nor does he think the Crown can be happy without frequent Parliaments And hath he not often of la●e repeated to the same effect his affection to and esteem for them and will nothing assure you that he is Real because he hath made so many Prorogations and especially now so long a One He hath told you he hath been forced no doubt to his own inward regret to dissolve two Parliaments within less then a years time because of the great hea●s and animosities among them And if this present Parliament has only met as yet to be Prorogued you hear from him why it is viz. for many wieghty Reasons which he would have all his dutiful Subjects to know are the Arcana Imperii not to be searched into till he sees the best time gratiously to reveal them He hath heard how great the murmurs of his People have been at the heavy taxes that the Parliament have so often laid upon them and perhaps that may be one Reason why he is unwilling to have them sit any oftner than absolute necessity may require because he will not put them into fears and inquietudes of new and more greivous Impositions but chooses rather to submit to the loss of a great part of his Revenue which he does certainly within a little time and to take up with such Retrenchments in his own house that are almost to the dishonour of an English Monarch than he will as much as in him lies give them any disgust He hath promised in the Interval to make as strict a search as he can into the plot himself and to do all things for his people to their own wish if they will but have patience and give him time You see he hath issued forth several Proclamations for Removing of Roman Catholicks ten miles from the City of London and Westminster and hath straitly charged the Lord Mayor and Aldermen and his Justices of the Peace to see them put in due Execution He hath promised great rewards to any whosoever that shall apprehend Priests or Jesuits or make but any discovery of their Lands or Estates and given frequent assurances that he will be unwearied in his care and dilligence for our good for the safety of our Lives Religion Liberty Property and all that is dear to us Now what more can be said by a gracious King and what less can he expect from an obedient people next to our trust in Almighty God than that we should all unanimously repose our Confidence in him and rest satisfied under his Protection But O cry the people very fiercely here 's a year's Prorogation longer and we shall never see our dearly beloved Parliament again The French King he is ready to fall swoop upon us with a very great Army and what Ships have we to oppose him we hear too what is to be done in Scotland ten thousand of Additional forces to be raised to the standing Militia Besides how inclinable is Ireland to rebel naturally and especially when it is like to meet with so many great advantages on all hands and what if Holland should come and clap in 20000 more in some other parts of the Kings Dominions are we not in a fine bepickled condition to receive them and yet we must fear nothing I confess if these things should occur it is the high road way to make us Slaves and Vassals but if ever it tends to make more great and glorious more free more unconfin'd and absolute Phillida solus habeto I answer 't is true we have some Grounds to be Jealous least a French Armade may too soon come over and attaque us but admit the worst that it should dare to invade us they cannot any where Land so considerable a number both of Horse and men as there ought to be for such a design in so short a time as that the Country would not be Allarm'd at it and be presently up to quell so adventurous a Motion as we may be sure of by what happened about a year since in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorsetshire And when once we should find it was a thing in earnest all England would join in the concert and be as one man against so dangerous and potent an Enemy as is He of France It has been said that * Letter from Amsterdam to a friend in London England is a dull Brute I know not how justly it might deserve the ill-favoured Epithite supposing the Brute might be allowed but only in this respect that it does not fully know the greatness of its own strength but this I think I may very confidently say and stand to 't that whensoever any should put us upon the bloudy experiment and provoke us to extremities they would find that English hearts and courages especially on the defensive part and that too of a just and righteous cause are not of common mould No when we see our all lies at stake our Souls our Bodies our Estates our Wives our Children our Reformed Religion and all that makes for the peace and happiness of our KING and Country we shall no longer dally but quit our selves like men and like Christians and since in such a case it may be said we are fighting the Lord's battles how may we expect to have the Almighty Arm assisting and going before us conquering and to conquer and of whom then should we be afraid And as to the Proclamation for proroguing the Parliament what false conclusions doe they draw from it We say à potentia Hominis ad actum non valot consequentia But they will have it right or wrong that the Parliament is prorogued till the 11th of November because