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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62416	The Earl of Anglesey's state of the government & kingdom prepared and intended for His Majesty, King Charles II in the year 1682, but the storm inpending growing so high prevented it then : with a short vindication of His Lordship from several aspersions cast upon him, in a pretended letter that carries the title of his memoirs / by Sir John Thompson, Baronet.; State of the government & kingdom	Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.; Haversham, John Thompson, Baron, 1647-1710.	1694 (1694)	Wing T1000; ESTC R1565	19,674	41

Place but in that the only Supreme Court of the Kingdom 2. It will be your Honour and Safety to incourage and imploy your Ancient and deserving Nobility and Gentry whose interest in their Countries will be of more use and avail to your Majesty then all the bold and confident undertakings of those who seek themselves chiefly in all their pretences of Love and Duty to your Majesty and really weaken and diminish the Admiration Affection and Esteem which otherwise from your Gracious and Wise Government your Majesty may have will all your People who are the most Dutiful and fond of their Prince in the World if well and kindly used as the most Turbulent and Fierce under the Sun if by ill or unsteady management of Affairs and too much subjecting of them to the Will and Humour of their fellow Subjects and the oppressions which their too much presuming on his Favour brings upon them which they easily discover being a discerning People they find themselves transferred from the Clemency Bounty nad Kindness of their Soveraign and abandoned to the Pride Malice and Imperious Arbitrariness and Will of those who are but Subjects as well as they and who want that natural Affection and Tenderness which their Soveraign Liege Lord cannot but retain towards them and whose Wisdom which God who advanceth them to the Throne usually indues them with must needs perswade him that he is weakned and made a less Monarch by loss of the Love and Duty of his meanest Subject 3. The Two Great Instruments of Government with which your Majesty in Right of your Imperial Crown is solely intrusted by the Law are Reward and Punishment Let the first be always dispensed freely freely as your Personal Knowledge or the best information that may be had shall Guide you by your own immediate Hand that others may not receive the Thanks and Dependance due to you alone Sir Henry Sidney Great Sir Philips Father who was Lord Deputy of Ireland many times and my Great Grandfather Sir John Parrot who succeeded him in the same Great Charge and Trust and divers others though they refused not to serve your Predecessors yet grew weary of the place when in those troubled and dangerous Times they were forced to spend of their own to support the Dignity and Honour of the Crown Such as serve your Majesty so in expectation of future regard to be had to their deserts ought not to be forgotten when higher Preferments or more profitable permanent and easy happen then those they served in with Submistion and patient expectation Nothing is more discouraging and offensive to the generality of Subject then to see Men rise over hastily and before their Merits are known or taken notice of perhaps whilst their Demerit hath brought them into disesteem wherewas those that are advanced by just degrees are seen Shining in Merit before they are cloathed with Honour or Preferment rejoyce the Kingdom and are no more Maligned then those who have served their Apprentiships and come to be Lord Mayor Thus in the best time Men have risen in the Kings Houshould and in other Establishments from low Degree and after long approved Service and Faithfulness to high Preferment and Trust And this incourageth Industry and Dutiful Service and is a Bond of Safety whereas bought preferment or attained by Ill Arts is Odious and Dangerous to the Master and when Mony is the only qualification People mind solely how to come by that let the means to compass it be what they will As for the other which is Punishment let your Majesties Love and Clemency to your People make it appear to proceed from you unwillingly and of necessity for the support and strenthning of Government and be so executed that it may not seem or so much as be suspected to come from any Principle of Cruelty or Delight in the Pressures of Fall of any Persons The known Clemency of a Prince and Inclination to Mercy doth more to oblige Subjects then the strongest Impressions of Dread or Fear it being natural to the veriest Worm to turn again if he be unmercifully trod upon and despair to Please or causelesly conceived Jealousy many times occasions the loss of most Useful and Honest Servants 4. I know your Majesty to be a great Patron of the Church and Church-men and therefore for their sakes who are seldom wise for themselves I presume to implore that you will never Countenance and of them that shall busy them selves with matters of State and Government out of their Sphere In all my Reading and Experience I find that in the most dangerous Disorders and Revolutions of the World they have ever had a principal Hand when their chief work should be to pray for and promote the Peace of Church and State in the Calling God hath set them And it never yet came under my Observation or Knowledge that any Kingdom was Happy or Prosperous where they had too great and influence since the Primitive Time and Zeal nor that ever it succeeded well to themselves or gained upon those under their Charge when they shewed themselves Active in Temporal Affairs having a Calling competent to imploy the whole Man and are to give themselves to all diligence and piety wherein they are promised a Blesling as their great Master hath warned them that his Kingdom is not of this World and that they should not Fight nor Strive nor Intangle themselves with the Affairs of this Life It s observable what the pretended power of one to do so In ordine ad Spiritualia hath brought the World to and how difficultly Incroachments of that Tribe are removed your Majesty is not to scruple the distinct and incommunicale exercise of that Authority which the Law gives your and all your People have bound themselves to acknowledge your peculiar It s a hard Imposition on your Majesty that you should who are the Father of your People be called upon to Imprison Consiscate Banish or otherwise Afllict and Distress any of your Peaceable and Industrious Subjects because other taken upon them by what right let them consider to denounce them Excommunicate that were to punish their Bodies because their Souls are punished for the Clergy cannot so much as pretend a Power to go further And the Magistrate hath little reason to hearken to those Clergy-men who are so diffident of their pretended Authority that though they cry up the power of the Keys as their Office yet when they have done yield it to be so uneffectual a shadow of Power as can do nothing without the Civil Magistrates force below whom it is to be debased to be the Clergies Executioner in punishing before he have tried the Cause The Magistrate that seeth a Man Excommunicated for this fault should rather delay his Civil Force against that Man to see what effect his Excommunication will have for the Conjunction of the Sword with the Excommunication makes the fruit of it undiscernable so that none can see whether it did