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A70272	A free discourse wherein the doctrines which make for tyranny are display'd the title of our rightful and lawful King William vindicated, and the unreasonableness and mischievous tendency of the odious distinction of a king de facto, and de jure, discover'd / by a Person of Honour.	Person of honour.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.; Howard, Robert, Sir, 1626-1698.	1697 (1697)	Wing H2995A; ESTC R10075	41,911	132

the Malitious Addresses of his furious Mistress as Testimonies of her passionate Fondness for him and so gave her that dominion over himself which he resolv'd to have over the Swedes He found the Pulse of the Church beat as high as his own they were even impatient to make their King their Tyrant supposing that their share in the Ecclesiastical part would be as Flourishing as his in the Civil and the violent Arch-Bishop of Vpsal fancied he should not be much the lesser Monarch of the two Christiern ill enough dispos'd of himself and always animated to mischief by his Hellish Erinnys quickly came to a resolution of destroying all the Senatours and Principal Noblemen that had been or were like to be Enemies of his Imperial Arbitrary Authority To facilitate the fatal Execution he put on a better countenance than the Withered Hagg his Spightful Favourite wore no cloud sate on his Royal Brow but all was clear and calm there proper as could be to perswade them to trust who once suspected him With this show of Gentleness and Affection then he invites the Lords to a Magnificent Feast at Sockholm Two Days they were highly treated and on the Third Massacred Yet was not the Imperial Tyrannick Thirst of Christiern satisfied for the Great Gustavus with some few Illustrious Patriots escap'd the Slaughter wherefore he sends fresh bloody Orders to his Troops who presently put the whole Town to the Sword sparing none except the Old and Ugly but them perhaps in Complement to Sigebrite Nay so utterly averse did this Tyrant then show himself to all Humanity that when a Swedish Gentleman could not restrain his Grief beholding such a Scene of Horrour he had him fastned to a Gibbet and his Bowels torn forth because of his tenderness and compassion This surprizing Bloody Start from a King to a Tyrant terrified the People so extreamly that it dispos'd them to do their parts to free themselves from their deplorable Condition Slavery may be the misfortune of a People but to submit to it can never be their Duty And I much question whether in the like Case our Advocates of Imperial absolute Sovereignty would not have been of the same mind with the Swedes and not by their Passive Obedience have acknowledg'd their ruine for their Religion Well! in a short time what the Swedes long'd for a Deliverer appear'd He was the injur'd Gustavus Ericson descended from the Ancient Kings of Sweden and Nephew to King Canutson Christiern had now not only Abdicated his Government by his Tyranny in the utter subversion of the Laws Rights and Properties of the People but being generally Hated Beaten and Forsaken he Consumated his Abdication by Flight and Gustavus the Generous Deliverer was by a Convention of the Estates with the Joy of the People chosen King of Sweden which he govern'd happily all the days of his Life A Philosopher being ask'd which was the most dangerous of all Beasts Answer'd of Wild Ones a Tyrant of Tame Ones a Flatterer These Tame Ones hunt the Game like Jacalls and with their plaguy yelping excite and guide the Wild Ones to the Prey and this they do in hopes that when their Lawless Masters are cloy'd they may satisfie their own Appetites with Reliques of that Destruction in which they had been instrumental This Jacall yalping in England was never more Fierce Eager and Loud than in the Reign of King Charles II. and it was a proper time for the Enemies of England and the Protestant Religion with the advantage of the shelter which he gave them to make preparation for the Triumphant Entrance of Popery and Slavery And at that time they did not neglect the opportunity witness the Dover Treaty The Popish Plot discover'd by Doctor Oates and many a bantering Sham that could not be brought to pass upon the People but then something that could make its one way came on Quo Warranto's like Bombs were thrown into Corporations which miserably destroy'd their Antient Charters Dispensing Judges were advanc'd Proper Sheriffs chosen and all unjust Arts used to dispose things for the easier plundering the Nation of their Liberties Properties and Religion These unrighteous Proceedings would hardly have been ventur'd on but for the Countenance that was giv'n them by the Doctrine of Passive Obedience a Doctrine not reveal'd by Jesus Christ nor recorded in his Gospel but stamp'd by latter Creation under the protection of which any King may play the Christiern or the Lewis safely and without controul This Creation stamped Doctrine grew in such Credit and Esteem that not a Man who did not give his Assent and Consent to the same could be allow'd to be a true Son of the Church scarcely to be a Christian. The unlimited Power of a King having been so strenuously asserted and so sucessfully in the Proceedings of those Times seem'd to make the death of King Charles very seasonable for the opening the Execution of the Grand Design in a barefac'd Subversion of the Religion and Laws of England King James at his first coming to the Crown seem'd to endeavour to take away the Apprehension and Terrour that was justly imagin'd to fill the Minds of People And in his first Speech declar'd so much tenderness for them and such a respect for the preservation of their Liberties and Properties that the cajol'd Parliament from an excess of Satisfaction shew I may safely say more Affection to him than ever Parliament did to a Protestant Prince and gave Money till he himself put a stop to the profuse and excessive Expressions of their Satisfaction It must be granted that the lives of some Professors are not so bad as the consequences of their erroneous Opinions And it was charitably thought by the Parliament that King James tho' a Papist would not Govern so Arbitrary as the encourag'd Doctrines of the Age gave him leave but they quickly perceiv'd their Error and found to their Sorrow that Popery and Arbitrary Power could no more be seperated than the double Monster that was shown in London of two Brothers one growing out of the side of the other who were so intimately conjoyn'd that the Life Decay or Death of the one was equally the Concern and Fate of the other For now he began to put his Imperial Laws in Execution and by dispensing with fairly abrogated all the Political which should have secur'd the Rights of the People but alas they were betray'd into his hands and he without Mercy dispatch'd them To me it seems almost impossible but that the Spiritual Defenders of the Absolute Power of an English King who deliver'd that Power to be Gospel and the Slavish Judges who declar'd it to be Law should have deplor'd the Wounds they have given to the Religion and Laws of their Country unless the hopes of a share in the Spoiles had prevail'd above all honest Considerations and unless they had been themselves as ready to embrace the Popish Religion as they had been instrumental to set it up Together