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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53091	The Character of a rebellion, and what England may expect from one, or, The designs of dissenters examined by reason, experience, and the laws and statutes of the realm	Nalson, John, 1638?-1686.	1681 (1681)	Wing N91; ESTC R4252	19,653	22

Pardon such who were in actual Arms against his present Majesty or his Father or the Sons of such who having got Estates by the Rapines of the last Rebellion and enjoy them by virtue of the Act of Oblivion such as have raised their inconsiderable Fortune and Families under the warm Sunshine of Royal Bounty and being waxen fat can kick against the Crown and spurn at the Mitre and having gotten Thousands by selling Places at Court can call it the House of Rimmon and declaim against it talk of Grievances deny Money to Support Tangier or the Forreign Alliances smile upon Dissenters and yet go to Church and hear the Publique Prayers Receive the Sacrament take any Oaths or Tests to capacitate them for Places of Trust and Power and when they are in it Exercise it to discourage and Oppress the Loyal and animate the Factious These are the only persons that are cryed up and cry up their own Abilities Loyalty and Integrity and must be the only persons fit to represent the Country and serve the King The Statute of 13 Car. 2.1 sayes Expressly That whosoever shall advisedly publish or affirm the King to be a Heretick or a Papist or that he indeavours to introduce Popery or shall maliciously by Writing Printing Preaching or other Speaking Expressly declare publish or utter any words sentences or other things to incite or stir up the People to hatred or dislike of the Person of his Majesty or the Established Government every such person or persons being thereof legally convicted shall be disabled to have or enjoy and is thereby disabled and made incapable of having holding or exercising any Place Office or Promotion Ecclesiastical Civil or Military or any other Employment in Church or State other then that of his Peerage and be liable to such other punishments as are inflicted by the Common Law That such as shall affirm by Writing Printing Publishing c. That the Parliament of Nov. 3. 1640. is not dissolved or that there lics any Obligation from the late Solemn League and Covenant or Engagement or that both or either House of Parliament hath a Legislative Power without the King shall inour a Praemunire as the Offenders against 16 R. 2. That a Peer or Commoner Convict of Offences against this Act shall be disabled during bit life to sit in Parliament unless his Majesty be gratiously pleased to pardon them And though by a Proviso there seems to be a reserve for freedom of debate in Parliament yet what can be said to those Speeches Printed and Published which tell us that we want a King and a Government whom we may trust That the Money given for Tangier may be made use of to raise an Army there That discoursing of Tangier at this time is like Nero 's Fidling whilest Rome was consuming by Fire A very pretty comparison to answer the Kings Message That a brand be set upon those that advised the King not to pass the Bill That instead of looking into the Tower they should have looked into Whitehall there the Plot is hatched cherished and brought up That the Court is a Nursery of Vice and none but such Men are imployed That some Lords have little Estates some little Consciences some less Religion And all this printed by an Anabaptist a very fit tool for a Reformation if we would have one of the Munster cut Out of the same Shop comes the Vox Populi and the Famous Addresses at Elections which must be recorded in perpetuam Rei memoriam with the Title of Vox Patriae We have seen Votes printed and published and pleaded in Bar against the standing unrepealed Laws in favour of Dissenters and if repealing Laws without the Kings Consent be not assuming a Legislative Power what is We have seen the Non-conformists under the notion of answering Dr. Stillingfleet's Sermon of the Mischiefs of Separation openly in Print avow the Obligation of the Solemn League and Covenant pag. 13. There hath passed say they a Solemn Oath over the Nation engaging the main Body of it to Endeavour a Reformation and we dread to think on it with what faces they shall be able to stand before God who have lift up their hands to him for things quite contrary in the late Revolutions We have seen but t'other day a second Character-man assert the Superiority of Parliaments to the Monarchy Pag. 10. By which it is plain saith he That the Authority of the King being only Derivative was inferior to the authority from whence it was derived which was the Parliament Which is a step beyond the affirming a Legislative Power in the Two Houses which incurs a Praemunire and is a plain vesting them with the Original of Imperial Sovereignty and all this countenanced promoted and deliberately published to alienate the Affections of the People from his Majesty and presented to them to stir up in them a dislike of His Majesties Person and the Established Government Notwithstanding all which these must be the Hopeful Patriots and Defenders of our Liberty and Property and we must not be Esteemed true Protestants unless we follow them in their Wild-goose Chase again and with a pretended fear of Popery run into Anarchy Confusion and every Evil work 2. Consider What must be the Way and what the End of these Violent Methods if they proceed to Extremities The Sword is a Dreadful Umpire of our Differences and yet this is the Arbitrator to which Rebels must flye and with which Dissenters seem to threaten us if there be truth in their late Addresses when they do with such Ostentation talk of assisting those that shall endeavour their satisfaction with their Lives and Fortunes And what must be the End of this Know ye not that the Sword devoureth one as well as the other and that it will be bitterness in the latter end The Events of War are uncertain but the Mischiefs and the Miserie 's certain Let us therefore first sit down and state the account compute our loss and gain and see what encouragement we have for the Undertaking And first for the Protestant Dissenters Upon the first moment of an Insurrection or Rebellion the Gracious Act of Oblivion is gone for though it pardons old Scores it is not like one of the Popes Indulgences which undertakes to pardon all the Crimes they shall do as long as they live and if that be once Forfeited their Lives Liberties and Estates must be at the discretion of the Law and the Mercy of the King and he will have but little encouragement to oblige those persons with a second Amnestie who have so much abused the First and however the more inconsiderable offenders may fall under the verge of Mercy as to their Lives yet the principal Actors Contrivers and Managers of Rebellion can expect no more favour than the Justice of the Law will afford them which is to be Drawn Hanged and Quartered their Estates Confiscate their Families Ruin'd their Honour lost their Names and Memories to be for

Complement to accost them with to tell them their Honours will be lost but credit me Illustrious Ladies neither your Beauties nor other most Attractive Charms will be able to secure you from the Insolence of Common-wealth Ravishers England can be no longer the Paradice of Women than it continues a Monarchy My Lord cannot suffer but my Lady will have a share the Widows of Barons by the Curiality or Curtesie of England enjoy the Titles and Priviledges of Peerage and the Daughters of Dukes Earls and Barons do by the Favour of the same Custom enjoy the Honour and Title of Ladies these too must fall with the Monarchy and in a Common-wealth Joan is as good as my Lady even by day-light I remember Harry Martin who was said not to be the greatest Enemy of the soft Sex yet in the late times stretched a Commission be had to seize Horses for the Service of the Common-wealth even to the taking the Coach-Horses of some Noble Ladies sitting the Parliament which was an Insolence and Breach of Priviledge that had Monarchy been in Power he must have made a severe account for but all the redress they could obtain was to sit down with the affront for the Commons House justified him in it and he justified himself for taking not only theirs but the Kings Horses from the Muse by pleading this We have said he selzed the Kings Castles Forts Navy and Magazines for the good of the Common-wealth and sure we may seize the Horses of any Person for the same purpose and the poor Ladies were obliged with patience to pocket up the Injury and either stay at home or learn to walk in Pattins to make their Visits or take the Air notwithstanding their Quality and the Priviledges of their Peerage Thirdly The great Priviledge the very Being and Essenne of Parliaments falls with the Monarchy for it is by vertue of the Kings Writ that Parliaments are called chosen meer sir debate and do every thing that a Parliament can do without this there may be Assemblies or Conventions but they are no more Parliaments than the Consults of Jesuits at Wild-house or the White Horse Tavern were Parliaments and are in reality no better than Riots and unlawful Assemblies who have no Right no Power no Authority and whatever they act or do is a perfect Usurpation and Arbitrary Invasion of Sovereignty over their fellow Subjects And what Justice Equity Law or Right are the People to expect from those who can have no Power all the People being their Equals And when this shall once be understood who will submit to them or obey them who have no Authority to command and then what Confusions Distractions Insurrections and Mutinies must follow to the utter ruine and subversion of Peace Trade Justice and the Prosperity of the Nation till we come either to be a Prey to some Eorreign Invader or ambitious Domestick Tyrant and Usurper Fourthly the Charter of London the Imperial City and those large Liberties Franchises Immunities Lands and Revenues Freedom from Tolls in all places of England nay their very Incorporation of Major Aldermen Common-Councel Sheriffs Courts Companies c. which are all the Favours of His Majesty and His Royal Progenitors as at large appears by the Charter of London lately printed in English must all stand and fall with the Monarchy from which they derive their Original their Power Authority and Jurisdiction and without which they cannot subsist and if Gratitude were not able as I hope it will to oblige this great Metropolis to a firm adherence to the Crown yet their Interest and Dependancy upon it does For let us but consider what a wild Desert of unmanageable Brutes must this City of necessity be without Laws and Government when even with the best and strongest which it enjoys under the Monarchy together with the assistance of the Militia all is little enough to prevent disorders and hinder the licentious from ruining the Honest and Industrious and should the Indigent Multitude the Licentious Rabble and the Head-strong and unconsidering Youth come to know there was no Law to punish them no Constables Beedles Justices Compters or Officers and Courts to restrain them the Freemen disfranchised the Courts dissolved the Indentures of the Apprentices cancelled what could be expected but Riots Tumults Disorders and that the Rich and Wealthy should become a Booty to the Poor lawless and unruly Multitude and this now Well-governed Rich Populous and Flourishing City become a Ruinous Heap and have stretched out upon it the Line of Confusion and the Stones of Emptiness and this great Mart or Emporium famous throughout the Habitable World lose all her Trade Riches and Glory and become the astonishment of the whole Earth Nor would the Lesser Cities Corporations and Burroughs be in a better Condition all their Charters Freedoms Priviledges Fairs Markets Tolls c. being derived from the same Fountain of Monarchy must have the same Date and Period with it to their utter Undoing Impoverishment and Ruine Fifthly All Priviledges granted to Merchants-Strangers as the Hans Towns the Lombard Eastland Norway Spain Venite Burgundy the Dutch c. and all our ancient and present Leagues of Peace War Offensive and Defensive Commerce and Traffick made with several Princes and States are built upon the Foundation of the Monarchy and expire with it and what a Damp must such a Blow give to the Trade of England when all the Forreign Merchants shall withdraw their Effects for want of the Security of these Alliances and how insecure must our Merchants be without them I leave to the Thoughts and Consideration of those Industrious and Worthy Merchants who frequent the Change which Place would have few Inhabitants besides the Statues of the Kings who have encouraged promoted and advanced Commerce and Trade if those were permitted to stand which I much question being they must reproach Usurpers with Ingratitude and Disloyalty Forreign Trade is the great support of England and does so universally Influence all Mens Estates that we see they rise and fall in Proportion with the Actions of the Merchants and what will become of the East India Guinea African Turky Hamburgh Companies and of all the Fraternities Guilds and Companies of Trade in London and all the Cities and Burroughs of England and Wales whose very Essence and Being depends upon the Monarchy and their Protection Encouragement and Well being upon those advantageous Priviledges Stipulations and Leagues of Commerce which have been and are made with Forreign Princes and States it is easie to determine and should any of our Potent Neighbours upon our unhappy Circumstances ingross the Trade and turn the Current of it let Antwerp teach London and Flanders England that Staples and Factories once removed are difficultly if ever regained Besides that the setting up a Common-wealth as it Cancels our Leagues and Alliances so it must put us into a state of War with all our Neighbours for all Crowned Heads must of necessity in regard

ever Infamous and their Posterity to curse them Secondly All their Liberties Franchises Charters Immunities Priviledges and even that great One of Chusing and sending Representatives to Parliaments will be forfeited and lost for their Freedoms and Freeholds upon which that Priviledg depends are by Rebellion ipso facto lost and gone Nay Thirdly Should they prevail against the Government which morally speaking is impossible their Circumstances being so different from those of the late Rebels who had first disarmed the Government before they attempted to overthrow it Yet what could they rationally hope for even after a Conquest Is it possible for Men in their Senses to imagine that an Usurping Power which is advanced by all the steps of Wickedness and the Violation of the Laws of God and Man will value any Laws Contracts Oaths Promises or Stipulations or that they will not maintain a Standing Force to protect their ill acquired Sovereignty And if a Military Government be so Formidable in a Lawful King bounded by his own Laws must it not be much more Dreadful in Lawless and Usurping Tyrants Was the Scepter of any Usurpers ever made of any other metal● than of Iron or in reality any thing besides a Sword You know the Fable The Horse had a quarrel with the Stagg and to satisfie his Ambition and Revenge he takes the man upon his Back 'T is true he won the Field but for ever lost his Liberty being unable to dismount his Rider Such Brutes are they who being weary of their present Condition set up a Power which reduces them to a worse Sovereignty and Supreme Power must be in some hand there can be no Society no Commerce no living without it and certainly it is most advantageously lodged there where God and Nature have placed it and our Laws declared it to be and the Reason is plain We have not power to choose for our selves for all Power is from God and if we had sure 't is an Atheistical presumption to think we are able to make a better choice than the only Wise God And besides what security can we possibly have from Usurpers Is it rational to think that they who can upon any considerations be tempted to violate their Faith and Allegiance to their Natural Liege Lord shoul esteem it a Crime to break their word with their Equals or Inferiors it is just as likely as that he who thinks it no sin to kill a man should scruple to tread upon a Worm Remember how you were treated for Twelve Years after the Execrable Murther of the late King and you will find I tell you the Truth and what is to be expected from these Protestant Dissenters should they get into Power and become a Government by Rebellion And because there is a lamentable out-cry against Jus Divinum and affirming Kings to Rule by Divine Right and that therefore all Attempts or Rebellions against them are unlawful under what pretence soever give me leave with a Digression not wholly impertinent to stop the mouths of these Ignorant or Designing Clamorers They have often ridiculed Scripture Arguments upon that subject and therefore I will offer them some Parliament Authorities which seem to them far more convincing and Canonical 1 Eliz. c. 3. It is declared That the Queen is and ought to be by the Laws of God and by the Statutes of the Realm our most Rightful and Lawful Sovereign Liege Lady and Queen So that you see by Act of Parliament and a Protestant Parliament she held her Crown by this double Tenure Jure Divino humano 1 Jacob. 1. The King is Recognized to be Lawful Heir to the Imperial Crown of these Realms both by the Laws of God and Man and this Act is Ordained to be a Memorial of Record by his Majesties Assent to all Posterity among the Records of the High Court of Parliament without which Assent it could neither be compleat nor perfect nor remain to all Posterity These are the very words of the Statute so that you see after all the noise which hath been made against Jus Divinum the Title of our Kings is declared to be so by Two Acts of Parliament unless those words The Law of God have some other meaning which hitherto the great Masters of Revelation have not discovered to us But that I may come close up to the Point There is not that person in England or any other of his Majesties Dominions of what Rank Degree Age Sex or Condition soever who has not besides the General Concern a particular Interest which does oblige him or them to endeavour to maintain defend support and preserve the present Establishment of the Government and Monarchy and by clear consequence to detest abhor and by all Lawful wayes and means to labour to suppress detect oppose and prevent all such Designs whether of Papists or Commonwealth Protestants who under Colour of Religion Reformation Liberty Property or any other of their specious pretences shall go about to alter or subvert the prosent most Exeellent Establishment And to make this good I will give a true but short account of the Principal Advantages which we do at present enjoy under his most Excellent Majesty and the Monarchy all which will be lost or forfeited if the Old Foundation be destroyed by Rebellion I will begin with that which is in every mans mouth and is every mans concern the Magna Charea or the Great Charter of England the greatest and most glorious Franchise and Immunity which is possessed by any Subjects on this side Heaven This Charter since the first Grant has been confirmed above 30 several Times with all the dreadful solemnities and imprecations upon whoever should violate or infringe it and if there were nothing in these formalities of its Ratification yet the consideration of such an irreparable loss ought to make us jealous and watchful against whatever may indanger it Now though this Charter may be forfeited by Rebellion and yet the Monarchy survive yet can it not possibly survive the Monarchy should that be subverted or changed into a Common-wealth as is evident both by the beginning and conclusion for we hold it of the Kings of England and their Heirs for so it runs Henricus Dei gratia c. Know ye That we have given and granted these Liberties following to be held in Our Kingdom of England for ever By which it appears they are granted so long as it continues a Kingdom and when ever it ceases to be a Kingdom of England or comes to be a Common-wealth of England the Grant and Charter becomes null and void And suitable to the Beginning is the Conclusion which after the Enumeration of all the General and Particular Liberties and Priviledges too long to be here inserted and too great to be lost for want of due caution or consideration is in these words Nos autem Donationes Concessiones praedictas ratas habentes c. Which Grants and Concessions aforesaid We having ratified and