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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54980	The plain man's essay for England's prosperity more particularly referred and submitted to the consideration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled, 1698.	Philalethes.	1698 (1698)	Wing P2364; ESTC R10783	22,461	29

handle to pervert blast or invalidate any Parliaments Proceedings The last thing that I shall here mention of this nature is That His Majesty was so very cautious of endangering the Nation though by a temporary or occasional means of its preservation and of even giving umbrage of any such offence that after he had represented in a peculiar instance § 19. the failure or rather neglect of the then Evil Counsellors in not doing more to satisfy the many good Subjects of these Kingdoms or to put an end to their doubts He declares in very express terms § 21. that he brought over with him a force sufficient by the blessing of God to defend him from the violence only of those the then Evil Counsellors And further promiseth § 23. That as soon as the state of the Nation will admit of it he would send back all those Foreign Forces that he had brought along with him Not only so but in his additional Declaration we all may remember how occasion'd he most emphatically disclaims abhors and renounceth all suspicion of a wicked design of Conquering the Nation And as jealous for the People of their abandoning themselves altogether and their Deliverance too at last after such Instances given of their over-great and too easy Passiveness he yet further there minds them of the fatal Consequences of putting the Free People of England under a Force as that which would make void their own lawful Titles to their Honours Estates and Interests This as it shews His Majesty's great Wisdom and Goodness together so it serves to speak and make appear the Considerateness and sound Reasons of the late Parliaments Proceedings in relation to the Army and also strongly implies the Defectiveness of what is yet done therein which may not be unworthy your further Consideration For as it was one of the State-Policies calculated to serve the sinister Ends of the late Reigns to neglect discourage and discountenance The Militia of the Kingdom thereby to render it both contemptible and in a great measure useless in order to the superinducing in process of time and as time should serve A Standing Force so it appears but a reasonable Jealousy or Conjecture That notwithstanding what is already done in this matter if more do not follow and that the Militia of the Kingdom at least be not new-modell'd and better form'd than it can possibly be on the Foot it now stands it may yet prove for want of some ready disciplin'd domestick Power of one kind or another to withstand and oppose any Foreign Attempt but as a Postern-gate to let in at one time or other A Standing Force upon the Nation and then they that would have Honours Estates and Interests according to what goes before must have them there or no where Or if Gentlemen notwithstanding our present sure and happy Peace apprehend it requisite as an immediate Guard and Defence of the Nation to continue on foot for this one Year longer a certain Number of Men call them Regular Troops a Standing Force or Army or whatever else their Appellation be yet taking the real meaning to be That their Being shall determine with the Year it may nevertheless sure with Decency and good reason be expected not only that some special Reason be assigned why These must be continued This Year more than The Ensuing for a Perpetual Reason and a Yearly Expedient correspond not over-well and Perpetuity it self is made up and in some sort consists of One Year after Another But further I humbly presume it may moreover be expected that the same Gentlemen will rather chuse to move First than wait to Second any Motion for suitable Provisions for Futurity suppose one be for instance as before The new forming the Militia of the Kingdom that thus under the Cover of the foremention'd Expedient this at least may be gain'd that it be better settled Trained and become more and every way useful ● upon this supposition still that as yet we want what is sufficient for the Safety Honour and Happiness of the Kingdom The glorious Ends His Sacred Majesty not only came hither for at first but which is all as he to his immortal Honour be it ever spoken continues gratiously to assure us in his late Speech to both Houses of Parliament he hath to ask After which I see not how it can any longer remain a doubt if any hitherto hath been but that an English Parliament will and without prejudice to any their more particular Engagements most carefully hold those general Engagements above-mentioned to the Safety Honour and Happiness of the Kingdom in all and every respect sacred or His Majesty is but too like to fail of the honourable Expectation he so graciously expresseth of the present Parliament And they will appear to come infinitely below the thoughts he entertain'd P. of O's Letter to the Officers of the Army even of the Officers of the late King James ' s Army who he had goodness enough to hope would not suffer themselves to be abused by a false notion of Honour but that they would in the first place consider what they owed to Almighty God to their Religion to their Country to themselves and to their Posterity which they as men of honour and it seems to hold much the same with all men of honour ought to prefer to all private Considerations and Engagements whatsoever but besides the force and extent of these Considerations yet even for the obtaining of the present supposed Point in issue a certain Land-Force for this one Year As such provisions and such concurrence by removing all Reasonable Jealousies and by that means inducing Men of somewhat other thoughts to quit their fears of this or any present Expedient that upon mature deliberation and debate shall be found occasionally necessary do both plainly and naturally tend to facilitate the End so they also help to make it easy for the time if not every way and altogether agreeable to those of such different Sentiments which with humble submission I take it His Majesty's late Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament is of more weight and better account than perhaps the bare carrying This or it may be any Other Point can in its self possibly be It being beyond all contradiction no less than self-evident That the flourishing of Trade the supporting of Credit and the quiet of Peoples minds at home will depend on the opinion they have of their Security I have been the freer to give some before-hinted Jealousies in this place the term of Reasonable because I observe That the raising and keeping a standing Army in time of Peace without consent of Parliament is assign'd in the Agreement of the House of Lords with the concurrence of the House of Commons as one of the Acts whereby the late King James did endeavour to subvert the Protestant Religion and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom and which together with all other the particulars therein enumerated