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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82298	A collection of speeches of the Right Honourable Henry late Earl of Warrington, viz. I. His speech upon him being sworn mayor of Chester, in November, 1691. II. His speech to the grand-jury at Chester, April 13. 1692. III. His charge to the grand-jury at the quarter-sessions held for the county of Chester, on the 11th. of Octob. 1692 IV. His charge to the grand-jury at the quarter-sessions. Held for the county of Chester, on the 25th. day of April, 1693	Warrington, Henry Booth, Earl of, 1652-1694. Selections.	1694 (1694)	Wing D876; ESTC R11819	38,885	113

good Inclinations and Sufficiencies to sway the Scepter did recommend him to the Affections of the People It being then very common not only to break into the Succession but even to set aside all that Family and Line whenever it was known that the Publick might suffer by their being at the Head of the Government the Publick Good being the only Rule and Consideration that governed that Point William the First declared upon his Death-bed and that is a time when men do seldom prevaricate That be did not possess the Crown by an Hereditary Right William the Second must be allowed by all people to come in by Election because Robert his Elder Brother was alive and survived him Next to him was Henry the First who also came in by Election because his Eldest Brother Robert was yet alive and this Henry in his Charter acknowledged that he owed his Crown to the Mercy of God and the Common Council of the Realm King Stephen Henry the Second Richard the First and King John all came in by Election so that till Henry the Third there is scarce to be found any President of Succession and since his Reign the Succession hath been broken into several times and the Crown shifted from one Family to another by Act of Parliament and being so transferred by that Authority it is the greatest proof that can be that Succession is a very feeble Title without something else to support it and I think I may say Defective For says one of great Authority never did any take pains to obtain an Act of Parliament to settle his Inheritance on his Heirs except he were an Alien or Illegitimate and therefore considering that by vertue of an Entail of the Crown by Act of Parliament in Henry the Seventh's time it is that the Four last Kings have swayed this Scepter I could never understand that Divine Right that was by some stampt upon the Title to the Crown or that the Succession was preferable to the Publick Good I have endeavoured to explain this Point the more by reason that some object against the Sufficiency of this King's Title to the Crown because the Succession was broke through to let him into the Throne as if nothing could give a King a good Title to the Crown but Succession For my part I never saw any reason to be of that Opinion and if there be nothing but the Interruption of the Succession to object to this King 's Right if he continue to govern according to the Principle upon which the Crown was given him and according to the good and laudable Customs of the Realm I think every man that wishes well to the Interest of his Countrey ought to bless God for this Revolution In my poor opinion I do not apprehend that a King that comes to the Crown by Election should think worse of his Title than if he had come in by Succession but rather the more securely because the People are under a more immediate Obligation to stand by and support the King they have Elected than any other that takes the Crown by Succession nor that the people should suspect that they hold their Properties and Rights more precariously under a King that is Elective than under one that claims the Crown by Succession but rather the contrary because it more highly imports him as well in point of Gratitude as in that of Policy to preserve the good opinion of the people by Governing well than if his Title was by Succession for I am far from believing that a King who comes in by Election may make more bold with the Laws than he that claims under any other Title or that his Right to the Crown continues any longer than by his Administration it doth appear that his Interest is the same with that of the Nation The next deceit by which the Nation was to be gull'd into Popery and Slavery was by fomenting Divisions amongst Protestants and especially about the Terms of Communion making them so strict and narrow as to exclude the greatest part of the Protestants in England and Nine parts in Ten of the rest in the world That this was not to promote God's Glory and the Salvation of mens Souls but to serve some new Design is clear to me from several Reasons First Because the Laws against Dissenters were stretched and executed beyond their genuine and natural Intent or Construction Where fair Play is intended such Tricks are altogether needless but daily experience proves that when they are made use of some other thing is designed than what is pretended True Religion needs no such methods to support it the nature of which is Peace and Charity and besides such forced Constructions being nothing less than summum Jus are abhorred by our Laws and are looked upon no less than summa Injuria the highest Injustice Secondly The Second Reason for my Opinion is because that several Laws were put in execution against the Dissenters which were plainly and directly made for other purposes by which the Law it self suffered Violence and so it became evident to every man that had a mind to see that some foul Design and not the Church was at the bottom of the business Thirdly Another Reason is this Because more Diligence and Care was employed to Punish People for Non-conformity than to Reform their Lives and Manners For if a man were never so openly Wicked and Debauched and very scarce if ever saw the inside of a Church yet if he could talk loud and swagger bravely for the Church and storm against and pull the Dissenters to pieces he was cry'd up by all means for a good Son of the Church an honest man and truly affected to the Government Whilst those who could not come up to all the Ceremonies enjoined in the Rubrick though their lives in all other respects were upright and their conversations unblameable yet were called Villains and Rogues and Enemies to the Government as if the outside and Ceremonious part of Religion was more to be valued than the substance and essence of it Which puts me in mind of a passage I have met with in a Play which is worthy your hearing if I do not spoil it in the telling it is in the Play called Sir COURTLY NICE betwixt two Persons one is called Mr. Hothead a very Idle Profligate Fellow but who yet sets up for a great Son of the Church and cannot speak or think with patience of any thing that inclines to Moderation the other Person is called Mr. Testimony as Rigid and Ridiculously squeamish on the other hand in his way these Two falling into a great Dispute about their Opinions Hot-head out of his great Zeal to the Church treats Mr. Testimony with very scurrilous Language and bitter Invectives against him and all Dissenters as that they were the plague of the State and that he hoped to see them all Hang'd and declares the mighty concern he hath for the Church To which Testimony replies pray Good