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<P>Sir POLITIQUE UNCASED, Or, a Sober ANSWER TO A JUGGLING PAMPHLET, Entituled, A Letter Intercepted Printed for the U&s;e and benefit of the <HI>Inge|nuous Reader:</HI> In which the two different Forms of <HI>Monarchy,</HI> and <HI>Popular Govern|ment,</HI> are briefly Controverted.</P>
<P>The <HI>Common-wealth</HI> Party are advi&s;ed not to buy this.</P>
<P>By <HI>N. D.</HI> Gent.</P>
<Q><L>Salus Populi Suprema Lex e&s;to.</L></Q>
<P>By <HI>D. N.</HI> Gent.</P>
<P>London, Printed in the year 1660.</P>
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<HEAD>A plain An&s;wer to a Juggling Pam|phlet, Entituled, a <HI>Letter Inter|cepted,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
<P>I Have heard of one that has made <HI>him&s;elf</HI> a <HI>Cuc|kold,</HI>&mdash;that has pick'd his <HI>own pocket,</HI>&mdash;and 'tis po&s;&s;ible, a man may De&s;ign upon <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> and <HI>In|tercept his own Letters.</HI> The <HI>Mi&s;cariage,</HI> I confe&s;&s;e, is a little <HI>odd;</HI> where the <HI>Courted party,</HI>&mdash;the <HI>Contriver,</HI>&mdash;and the <HI>Intercepter,</HI> are all <HI>One, and the &s;ame Per|&s;on.</HI> (The <HI>Plot</HI> is Borrowed from the Story of <HI>Nar|ci&s;&s;us;)</HI> but by what Enemy both to the <HI>Author,</HI> and <HI>Reader,</HI> this Di&s;cour&s;e is made <HI>Publique,</HI> were an En|quiry fitter for <HI>Authority,</HI> than a <HI>Private hand.</HI> Since &s;o it is, let's make the be&s;t of a bad Market: what the <HI>Compo&s;er</HI> has <HI>&s;old Cheap,&mdash;We</HI> have <HI>Bought Dear,</HI> and <HI>Both</HI> mu&s;t <HI>Lo&s;e</HI> by the <HI>Bargain.</HI> Without further <HI>Prologue</HI>&mdash;Here's SIR POLITIQVE <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> and wee'll take the mea&s;ure of the man from his <HI>Title|page.</HI></P>
<P><HI>A LETTER INTERCEPTED,</HI>&mdash;Printed for the U&s;e and Benefit of the Ingenuous Reader&mdash;in which the Two Different Forms of <HI>MONARCHY, and POPV|LAR GOVERNMENT,</HI> are briefly controverted.&mdash;
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(The Commonwealth Party are advi&s;ed not to Buy this, by <HI>N. D.</HI> Gent.)</P>
<P><HI>EX UNGUE LEONEM. The</HI> VOICE <HI>is</HI> JA|COB'S, <HI>but the</HI> HANDS <HI>are</HI> ESAU'S. <HI>Popular Ar|guments</HI> are of late become &s;uch a <HI>Drugg,</HI> the <HI>Author</HI> dares not own his <HI>Inclination,</HI> for fear the <HI>Pamphlet</HI> &s;hould not off: but rather chu&s;es, under the colour of a <HI>Philo&s;ophical Debate,</HI> to advance a <HI>Seditious De&s;ign;</HI> and in&s;tead of delivering a <HI>&s;ober Opinion,</HI> to excite a <HI>turbulent</HI> Faction. This will appear in it's due place; but in the <HI>Front,</HI> 'twas not &s;o proper to di&s;clo&s;e him|&s;elf. <HI>The Title is but a more formal kind of Bo-peep,</HI>&mdash;a <HI>cou&s;enage</HI> of the <HI>Reader</HI> into a <HI>Two&punc;penny expen&s;e,</HI> up|on a thing not worth <HI>Three&punc;ha'-pence.</HI></P>
<P>In the <HI>next page,</HI> you'll find him more <HI>compo&s;ed,</HI> and <HI>Magisterial.</HI> He <HI>complements him&s;elf,&mdash;Ki&s;&s;es his own Fair Hand,</HI>&mdash;Promi&s;es us an <HI>Hone&s;t, Plain, Ratio|nal Di&s;cour&s;e,</HI> not clogg'd with <HI>Maxims,</HI> or <HI>Exam|ples;</HI>&mdash;and then he falls to work upon the <HI>Que&s;ti|on:</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pag.</HI> 2.</NOTE> Whether Monarchy, or the Popular form of Government, be in Rea&s;on, more Safe, and Profitable for the People?]</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> He proceeds thence, to <HI>Di&s;tingui&s;h Monarchy, into Ab&s;olute, and Mixt or Regulated.</HI> (tho', by his Favour, <HI>Mixt,</HI> implies a <HI>contradiction.)</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> The Ab&s;olute <HI>(he &s;ayes)</HI> is ab&s;olutely Unlawfull; and di&s;con&s;onant both to the Laws of God, and Nature, &amp;c.]</P>
<P>If either <HI>One,</HI> or the <HI>Other:</HI> How comes it then, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ior.</HI> 27.</NOTE>that <HI>God him&s;elf, stiles</HI> NEBVCHADNEZZAR <HI>(the King of Babylon)</HI> HIS SERVANT: upon the mo&s;t <HI>ex|pre&s;s,</HI> and <HI>&s;evere penalties</HI> imaginable, <HI>commanding</HI> an <HI>Obedience</HI> to him? What means the Prophet <HI>David</HI>
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when he &s;ayes,&mdash;<HI>The Lord keep me from doing that</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 24.</NOTE><HI>thing unto my Ma&s;ter,</HI> THE LORDS ANNOIN|TED? That <HI>Tyrants Life, which pur&s;ued his, was then at his Mercy;</HI> and a <HI>Phanatique Coun&s;el, at his El|bow, advi&s;ing</HI> him, to emprove the <HI>Providential</HI> Op|portunity of taking it away; (but our Common|wealth's-men are <HI>wi&s;er,</HI> po&s;&s;ibly, and <HI>hone&s;ter,</HI> than <HI>David.)</HI> This might &s;uffice; but <HI>He</HI> goes on, and &s;o &s;hall <HI>I,</HI> to bear him Company.&mdash;</P>
<P>It is again&s;t the Moral Law, <HI>(he tells us)</HI> for me to di&s;po&s;e of my own life; &s;ince that Law, which Commands <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pag.</HI> 2.</NOTE>me, not to kill; does certainly require me&punc; not to kill my &s;elf; and the Law of Nature and Nations, does warrant any man to kill, rather than to be kill'd. But He, that willingly and of Choyce, lives under a Monarchy ab&s;olute, mu&s;t, and doth &s;ubmit all that he hath, Life not excepted, to be at the will of the Monarch, &amp;c.]</P>
<P>What pains this worthy Gentleman takes, to prove him&s;elf as good a <HI>State&s;-man,</HI> as he is a <HI>Ca&s;uist&punc;</HI> Is not my Life as well expo&s;ed to any Government? &s;ince where&s;oever you place the <HI>Rule, the la&s;t appeal</HI> lies <HI>There;</HI> and <HI>There's the Power of Life, and Death, by the Agreement of all Nations.</HI> Again, <HI>An ab&s;olute Monarch</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>wicked,</HI> to de&s;troy a <HI>Loyal Subject:</HI> and if a <HI>Limited,</HI> will be &s;o <HI>Impious</HI> too, their's no <HI>Re|lief,</HI> but <HI>Flight. The right of &s;elf pre&s;ervation,</HI> which our Author Intimates; concerns but <HI>Individuals,</HI> at Liberty;&mdash;<HI>Grotius</HI> his <HI>Di&s;&s;ociatam Multitudinem. There Every man is every Bodies enemy:</HI> but when we come to find, that very <HI>end</HI> of <HI>&s;afety,</HI> better &s;ecured by <HI>&s;ocial Compact; aud by reducing all the&s;e &s;everal, and Di&s;|agreeing Particulars, under the Regiment of &s;ome certain
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Laws; directing to the Common benefit of All:</HI> In this Ca&s;e; we part with our <HI>Original Right,</HI> for the ob|taining of a <HI>Nobler Good;&mdash;Society, and Order,</HI> with|out which, there's no <HI>Peace.</HI> I might here <HI>mind</HI> our <HI>Prevaricating Author,</HI> of a <HI>Morality</HI> which he <HI>forgets,</HI> and that's <HI>Obedience, Rebellion is a Blacker Crime, than Murther;</HI> for it is <HI>That,</HI> and <HI>More;</HI> but I would fir&s;t convince him, that <HI>Killing</HI> is not alwaies <HI>Murther,</HI> and that in many ca&s;es, a man mu&s;t rather chu&s;e to <HI>be Killed, than Kill.</HI> The <HI>Law</HI> &s;trikes with the Sword of Ju&s;tice; and &s;ure it is not <HI>Murther,</HI> by a <HI>Legal pro|ce&s;&s;e,</HI> to <HI>de&s;troy a Malefactor.</HI> 'Twere <HI>That</HI> at <HI>lea&s;t</HI> in <HI>me,</HI> to <HI>Kill the Judge,</HI> to <HI>prevent</HI> his <HI>condemning me.</HI> (But I &s;uppo&s;e, our Author &s;peaks his <HI>Interest,</HI> rather than his <HI>Opinion.)</HI> In fine, I cannot ju&s;tifie the <HI>Commi&s;|&s;ion</HI> of a <HI>&s;in,</HI> to <HI>&s;ave my Life.</HI> To draw my Sword a|gain&s;t my <HI>Prince,</HI> although to &s;ave my <HI>&s;elf,</HI> in <HI>me,</HI> is <HI>Trea&s;on:</HI> but if I <HI>lo&s;e my Life,</HI> by not <HI>oppo&s;ing Him,</HI> 'tis <HI>He</HI> alone that's <HI>Criminal,</HI> I am <HI>Innocent.</HI> Nor does the <HI>Choice</HI> alter the Ca&s;e one jot. If I may <HI>Obey</HI> an <HI>Ab&s;olute Monarch,</HI> I am as Free to <HI>chu&s;e</HI> One, where I am at Liberty to chu&s;e the Form I would be govern'd by. It is the <HI>Ruler's part,</HI> not to <HI>Command ami&s;&s;e,</HI> and 'tis the <HI>Subjects Duty</HI> to <HI>Obey; (modo nihil Imperet, Naturali Juri, aut Divinis praeceptis Contrarium)</HI> and at the wor&s;t; <HI>refu&s;e,</HI> without <HI>Re&s;i&s;ting.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pag.</HI> 3.</NOTE> <HI>Nay, but our Author tells us;</HI>&mdash;A Free People, that have it in their Choyce and Power (as Englund now) to do otherwi&s;e, and &s;hall &s;ubmit their Lives to the will, and Di&s;po&s;e of an ab&s;olute Monarch, are mo&s;t evidently thereby, in danger of becoming guilty of &s;elf-Murther.]</P>
<P>Go thy waies <HI>N. D.</HI> for a profound Head piece!
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&mdash;They are in more danger of <HI>&s;elf-murther,</HI> in &s;ub|mitting to a <HI>Limited Monarch:</HI> that is, of Hanging them&s;elves, if the <HI>King</HI> &s;hould come. Was there ever a more exorbitant Tyrant than <HI>Cromwell?</HI> Our <HI>Free|men</HI> were content enough with him. Come;&mdash;out w' it, Our modeller would &s;peak, if he had a &s;poon, but the man is mode&s;t; I'll do't for him. 'Tis This, he would be at.</P>
<P><HI>That we are now at Liberty to chu&s;e our Government; and that the King would play the Tyrant, &s;hould he return.</HI> If his own Head does not &s;it &s;ure, he may thank him|&s;elf. I would fain learn, from whence we <HI>date</HI> our <HI>Freedom.</HI> Who has ABSOLVED US, of our OATHS, and DVTIES of ALLEGEANCE? Did we not <HI>&s;wear</HI> to the <HI>Late King,</HI> and to his <HI>Heirs?</HI> And <HI>can a Government be Altered,</HI> but by <HI>Con&s;ent of all the Parties to it?</HI> This is too much &s;aid, upon a Subject not properly my <HI>Bu&s;ine&s;s.</HI> I'll proceed, and wait upon him to his next Enquiry; and that's concerning <HI>Re|gulated Monarchy;</HI> but &s;o <HI>Embroyled,</HI> 'tis infinitely harder to <HI>Under&s;tand,</HI> than to <HI>confute.</HI> Of <HI>Regulated Monarchies,</HI> Ours here in <HI>England</HI> is beholden to him, <HI>he likes That be&s;t,</HI> and gives his Rea&s;on, <HI>Thus.&mdash;The Excellency of that Monarchy,</HI> WAS, <HI>that the Mo+narch</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pag.</HI> 3.</NOTE><HI>without his Coun&s;el could do no con&s;iderable thing.]</HI></P>
<P>By his fair Leave, the <HI>Excellency</HI> of the GOVERN|MENT, he would have &s;aid: for 'tis the <HI>Imperfection</HI> of the <HI>Monarchy.</HI> But why WAS? Is it not, <HI>de Ju|re,</HI> &s;till the <HI>&s;ame?</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE> <HI>He pro&s;ecutes this Trayn of</HI> Errors, <HI>yet with more;</HI> All things were to be done in conjunction with his
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Coun&s;el; either that Grand one, his Parliament, con&s;i&s;t|ing of Nobles, and Commons; or his Le&s;&s;er Coun&s;el, con|&s;i&s;ting of Nobles chiefly, &amp;c.]</P>
<P>Our Author, I perceive, is willing to confound <HI>Coun&s;el,</HI> and <HI>Authority:</HI> Whereas, to <HI>repre&s;ent,</HI> is <HI>one</HI> thing; 'tis <HI>another</HI> thing to <HI>Judge.</HI> It is the <HI>Coun|&s;ell's duty</HI> to <HI>propo&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Advi&s;e,</HI> according to their <HI>Rea&s;on,</HI> but &s;till it is the <HI>Monarch</HI>'s part to <HI>Act</HI> accor|ding to his <HI>own: without that Freedom, the Prince is bound to Act in many Ca&s;es again&s;t his Con&s;cience;</HI> and his <HI>A&s;si&s;tants</HI> are become his <HI>Governours.</HI> Not to in|&s;i&s;t upon the Gentleman's <HI>mi&s;take,</HI> in a&s;&s;erting <HI>All things to be done in conjunction with his Coun&s;el.</HI> This is too evident, to need a refutation. He &s;pends his Two next Pages, in dilating upon the <HI>De&s;ire of Ab|&s;olute</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pag.</HI> 4.</NOTE><HI>Power in the Monarch; and the Re&s;erves, or Ac|qui&s;itions of the People;</HI> where he Da&s;hes the <HI>Kings Prerogative,</HI> and the <HI>Privileges of Parliament,</HI> the <HI>One</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Other.</HI> Whereas the <HI>King</HI> hath &s;ome <HI>Pre|rogatives</HI> without a <HI>Parliament,</HI> but the <HI>Parliament</HI> hath not &s;o much as any <HI>Being,</HI> without the <HI>King:</HI> (he being an e&s;&s;ential of it.)</P>
<P>To pa&s;&s;e over his <HI>Fal&s;e-fires,</HI> I &s;hall come now to his <HI>main &s;trength:</HI> And thus it runs&mdash;</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pag.</HI> 5.</NOTE> The Monarch cannot Rationally be thought to have o|ther Bu&s;ine&s;s, or Study, than to confirm, and e&s;tabli&s;h the Monarchy to him&s;elf.</P>
<P><HI>To this:</HI> Fir&s;t, Hee's <HI>Entitled</HI> to the <HI>Government: (That, pro conce&s;&s;o)</HI> Next; hee's <HI>Entru&s;ted,</HI> in Order to the <HI>Publique Welfare,</HI> to <HI>Uphold</HI> it; and That, not only in the <HI>Form,</HI> but <HI>to Him&s;elf:</HI> 'Twere to Betray his Tru&s;t, &s;hould he do Le&s;&s;e.</P>
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As to the <HI>Appetite</HI> of <HI>Rule,</HI> which (as our <HI>Popular Champion</HI> will have it) tran&s;ports the <HI>Monarch,</HI> into a dangerous elevation above the <HI>People&punc;</HI>&mdash;That <HI>Re&s;t|le&s;s impotency,</HI> is much more Hazzardous, in any <HI>other Government,</HI> than in that of <HI>Monarchy.</HI> For, the <HI>Monarch</HI>'s <HI>upper most already:</HI> and <HI>rationally, Am|bition</HI> &s;eeks rather to <HI>Rai&s;e</HI> it &s;elf <HI>Above</HI> all <HI>Others,</HI> than when 'tis at that <HI>Height,</HI> &s;till to <HI>exceed it &s;elf. 'Tis but a Glorious Envy, which a&s;pires till it be highe&s;t, and there determines.</HI></P>
<P>As there is le&s;&s;e <HI>temptation</HI> from <HI>without,</HI> &s;o mu&s;t the <HI>inclination,</HI> be much <HI>calmer. Greatne&s;&s;e</HI> is <HI>native,</HI> and <HI>familiar</HI> to the <HI>Monarch:</HI> or; in ca&s;e any <HI>eagerne&s;s</HI> of <HI>Spirit</HI> &s;hould <HI>en&s;tame</HI> him; It &s;pends &s;elf upon his <HI>Neighbours liberties,</HI> rather than upon his <HI>Peoples:</HI> and 'tis <HI>extent</HI> of <HI>Empire abroad,</HI> not <HI>enlargement</HI> of <HI>Prerogative</HI> at <HI>home&punc;</HI> he <HI>covets.</HI></P>
<P>This is not to exempt the <HI>Per&s;on</HI> of a <HI>Prince,</HI> from the <HI>&s;railties</HI> of a <HI>Man&punc;</HI> he may be <HI>vitious.</HI> But that too with le&s;&s;e mi&s;chief to the <HI>Publique</HI> than to <HI>Him&s;elf.</HI> He ha's no <HI>private Ayms,</HI> but what proceed from Prin|ciples nearer ally'd to <HI>Kindne&s;&s;e,</HI> then to <HI>Malice.</HI></P>
<P>Now, to examine the likely <HI>Incidences to popular Government,</HI> and to proceed upon his <HI>Po&s;tulatum, that in all men there's an in bred appetency of Power.</HI> That granted, what can we expect from Per&s;ons of <HI>mean Fortunes,</HI> and <HI>extraction, (inve&s;ted with a title to Dominion)</HI> but <HI>Bondage,</HI> and <HI>Oppre&s;sion?</HI> The &s;hort is, there are <HI>many men,</HI>&mdash;earne&s;tly <HI>intent</HI> upon the <HI>&s;ame end; &s;purr'd</HI> on by <HI>keen</HI> and <HI>craving De&s;ires,</HI> to make them&s;elves <HI>Rich, Great;</HI> and the&s;e de&s;ign to ray&s;e their <HI>Fortunes,</HI> and <HI>Reputations</HI> upon the <HI>Pub|lique
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stock</HI> of <HI>blood</HI> and <HI>trea&s;ure.</HI> At la&s;t, when they have <HI>skrewed</HI> them&s;elves up to that <HI>pitch</HI> of <HI>Power,</HI> by <HI>force,</HI> and <HI>craft,</HI> where <HI>divine providence,</HI> by <HI>birth,</HI> had placed the <HI>&s;ingle Per&s;on:</HI>&mdash;when after a <HI>&s;harp, long,</HI> and <HI>chargeable conte&s;t,</HI> they have brought us within view but of the <HI>counterfeit</HI> of what we <HI>quietly</HI> enjoy'd before: Ready to &s;eize the &s;um of their own <HI>wi&s;hes;</HI> and the <HI>dear-purchas'd Fruit</HI> of all their <HI>La|bours:</HI>&mdash;they find that <HI>point,</HI> which &s;upports <HI>So|veraignty,</HI> too <HI>narrow</HI> for them <HI>all;</HI>&mdash;too <HI>large</HI> for any <HI>one</HI> of them;&mdash;and, as they <HI>climb'd</HI> together, &s;o they <HI>fall;&mdash;cru&s;h'd by tho&s;e Hands, and Principles that rais'd them.</HI> We need not look far Back for <HI>in|&s;tances,</HI> what ha's ob&s;tructed our long-look'd-for <HI>Settlement,</HI> but <HI>Competitours for a per&s;onal rule;</HI> even among the <HI>Salus-populi-men</HI> them&s;elves? 'Tis <HI>nobler at the wor&s;t, to yeeld our &s;elves a prey to a &s;ingle Lyon, than to a Herd of Wolves:</HI> and that's the Difference, upon <HI>experiment,</HI> betwixt the <HI>tyranny</HI> of <HI>one,</HI> and of a <HI>hundred?</HI> (&mdash;old <HI>Oliver,</HI> and the <HI>Rump.)</HI> Methinks 'tis a &s;trange Confidence, to Argue for a <HI>Cau&s;e,</HI> con|futed by the lo&s;&s;e of &s;o many <HI>Lives</HI> and <HI>Millions.</HI> For the&s;e twelve years la&s;t pa&s;t, we have been <HI>Slaves</HI> to <HI>Tyrants; Divided,</HI> in de&s;ign to <HI>&s;upplant one another,</HI> but &s;till <HI>united, to de&s;troy the Nation,</HI> under the gay amu&s;ement of a <HI>Free-&s;tate.</HI> But I grow tedious.</P>
<P><HI>The next thing I take notice of, is very</HI> remarkable, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Page</HI> 6:</NOTE><HI>(i. e.)</HI> Our Author's in the right&mdash;<HI>he &s;aies that</HI> From the Soveraignty, there lies no appeal. <HI>But then he follows; that</HI> where a People will be ruled by a King, they must give that King ab&s;olute Power to Govern.]</P>
<P>No need of that &s;ure neither,&mdash;<HI>the Soveraignty is in
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the King, tho' in a Limited Monarchy:</HI> which, &s;o attem|per'd; as that the <HI>People</HI> may not <HI>Rule</HI> in <HI>any</HI> Ca&s;e, nor the <HI>King,</HI> (&s;ingly by him&s;elf) in <HI>All; &s;ecures all In|tere&s;ts.</HI> I mu&s;t fix one note here, before I pa&s;&s;e.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Page</HI> 7.</NOTE> <HI>Although</HI> our Author <HI>tells us, that</HI> Ab&s;olute Mo|narchy is Unlawful; and Regulated, Dangerous: never|thele&s;&s;e, he rather advi&s;es the former, than the latter;&mdash;That, <HI>which he terms</HI> Di&s;con&s;onant to the Laws of God, <HI>than the</HI> Other, <HI>which he pronounces only</HI> Dangerous, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Nota.</NOTE><HI>as related to the</HI> civil Good, <HI>and</HI> Utility <HI>of the</HI> People.</P>
<P>This is the <HI>Method</HI> of the whole Party; they decry, fir&s;t, the <HI>Form</HI> it &s;elf, as being too <HI>Tyrannical;</HI> yet they condemn, the <HI>Limited</HI> of <HI>In&s;ufficience,</HI> as to the <HI>Exerci&s;e</HI> of <HI>Government;</HI> and the <HI>Ab&s;olute,</HI> of <HI>Exorbi|tancy,</HI> as to the <HI>end</HI> of it. <HI>One</HI> has too <HI>much Liberty,</HI> the <HI>Other,</HI> too <HI>Little.</HI> What is't they offer in Exchange? a <HI>Free-State;</HI>&mdash;of a <HI>Model,</HI> ten times more <HI>Arbitra|ry,</HI> and <HI>Pernicious.</HI> When they have &s;pent their <HI>Pow|der</HI> upon the <HI>Government;</HI> (for 'tis but <HI>Powder)</HI> their <HI>Shot</HI> is &s;till directed to the <HI>Per&s;on. Hinc ille Lacrymae.</HI> How have they courted the <HI>General,</HI> (who&s;e <HI>Hone&s;ty,</HI> is as <HI>Invincible</HI> as his <HI>courage)</HI> to <HI>Accept</HI> of what the&s;e <HI>Paper-Kites</HI> &s;o much di&s;claim again&s;t? Our <HI>Grave, Philo&s;ophi&s;ing Mon&s;ieur,</HI> he makes <HI>one</HI> too, and tells us,&mdash;that <HI>Providence hath ca&s;t the Lot upon the Peo|ples</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE><HI>&s;ide, and the Monarch has lo&s;t; if the people will exclude him.</HI>&mdash;</P>
<P>Alas Good man! <HI>the Congregation's Holy, every one of them&mdash;Pretious Beagles!</HI> to a&s;cribe that to <HI>Providence,</HI> which they owe to <HI>Perjury,</HI> and <HI>Sacrilege.</HI> Where's your <HI>Pre&s;cription?</HI> where's your <HI>Title?</HI> Enform the <HI>People,</HI> by what Power they are <HI>Ab&s;olved</HI> from all
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their <HI>tyes</HI> of <HI>Con&s;cience, Honour, Thankfulne&s;&s;e,</HI> and <HI>Pi|ety. Shew them the Laws their Fathers Purcha&s;ed with their Bloods. Preach to them out of Magna Charta. There's the Foundation of the Peoples Freedoms.</HI> But <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE>Sir I ask you pardon; The <HI>King</HI>'s a <HI>Woolf</HI> you &s;ay, and all th' <HI>abjuring Saints</HI> are <HI>Lambs,</HI> I warrant ye. But by your leave once more; you are ab&s;olutely of O|pinion then, not to admit the <HI>King</HI> by any manner of means?&mdash;Indeed you &s;hould do well, not to <HI>Anti|cipate the Parliament,</HI> it &s;poyls the project, to play the <HI>Tyrant,</HI> while you argue for the <HI>People.</HI> Pray let the <HI>King</HI> come in, if the next <HI>Parliament</HI> plea&s;es.&mdash;</P>
<P>I mu&s;t be now a little &s;erious; for your next Para|graph <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE>has a &s;pice of <HI>Con&s;cience</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="3 letters"> (the <HI>word</HI> I mean) you would per&s;wade the world, that if the <HI>King comes in;</HI> 'tis neither <HI>Faith,</HI> nor <HI>Honor,</HI> nor <HI>Humanity,</HI> nor <HI>all together,</HI> can tye up his <HI>Revenge. (None &s;o bold as blind Bayard;</HI> does it <HI>hit</HI> you or not?) It would become you now to tell the <HI>People,</HI> where ere he <HI>brake</HI> his <HI>Faith;</HI> Nay, I'll content my &s;elf, if you'll &s;hew <HI>me,</HI> where ever your <HI>Phanatiques kept</HI> an <HI>Oath,</HI> or <HI>Promi&s;e,</HI> if they might <HI>gain</HI> (the <HI>lea&s;t)</HI> by <HI>Breaking</HI> of it. The <HI>Conver&s;ation</HI> of the <HI>Per&s;on</HI> you inveigh again&s;t, is be|yond all <HI>Exception, Honorable:</HI> and 'tis in vain to <HI>mi&s;|enform,</HI> again&s;t an <HI>evident</HI> and <HI>contrary a&s;surance.</HI> Ma|ny of tho&s;e very men that <HI>&s;ought against</HI> him, will <HI>witne&s;&s;e for</HI> him: both for his <HI>Courage,</HI> and his <HI>Cle|mency.</HI> His <HI>Prudence,</HI> and his <HI>Piety,</HI> are manife&s;t, in This: that in de&s;pight of all <HI>Di&s;tre&s;ses,</HI> and <HI>Temptati|ons,</HI> he &s;tands <HI>Firm,</HI> to his <HI>Temper,</HI> and to his <HI>Con&s;ci|ence.</HI> A <HI>Better Friend,</HI> there lives not; nor a <HI>Better Nature.</HI> And <HI>this</HI> is <HI>He,</HI> at la&s;t, our <HI>Guilty Pamphleter</HI>
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be&s;tows his <HI>Gall</HI> upon. I am no &s;tickler for <HI>Preroga|tive;</HI> my <HI>Patience,</HI> will hold out till the next <HI>Se&s;sion:</HI> but to &s;ee <HI>Maje&s;ty Invaded</HI> by a <HI>Private Hand,</HI>&mdash;the <HI>people Poy&s;on'd,</HI> by the &s;ame In&s;truments that <HI>de|&s;troyed</HI> the <HI>Prince,</HI>&mdash;all I can &s;ay, is, <HI>we're tame Fools, to &s;uffer it.</HI> But though his <HI>pa&s;sion</HI> may be <HI>Trou|ble&s;ome, our Author</HI> gives us &s;ome <HI>Diver&s;ion</HI> in his <HI>Ar|gument,</HI> and (Kinder &s;till) he proves be&s;t company at la&s;t. <HI>Kingly Government, if not ab&s;olute,</HI> (he &s;aies) <HI>is</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Page</HI> 8.</NOTE><HI>Lame; If ab&s;olute,&mdash;De&s;tructive to the people.</HI> Ve|ry good: Help the <HI>Defect,</HI> (if that be all) of the <HI>One:</HI> or at lea&s;t, do not Impo&s;e upon us, in <HI>another &s;hape,</HI> the po&s;&s;ible <HI>Mi&s;chiefs</HI> of the <HI>Other</HI>&mdash;Pray what's the <HI>Difference,</HI> as to our Security; the <HI>Supreme Authority</HI> under a <HI>Popular Form,</HI> or the <HI>&s;ame power</HI> under a <HI>Mo|narchique?</HI> You'll have your <HI>Popular A&s;&s;embly,</HI> the <HI>Judge Unque&s;tionable</HI> of all <HI>Expediences,</HI> and <HI>Dangers:</HI> why not a <HI>Single per&s;on</HI> as well? <HI>You</HI> &s;ay, <HI>He may a|bu&s;e</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE><HI>that power;</HI> and <HI>I</HI> &s;ay&punc; &s;o may <HI>They.</HI> For in&s;tance, &s;uppo&s;e they <HI>judge</HI> it <HI>fit</HI> to <HI>change</HI> the very <HI>Form,</HI> what Hinders them? or if they rather <HI>chu&s;e, to entayl the Government upon their own Families, and to perpetuate them&s;elves,</HI> what <HI>Remedy?</HI> It <HI>any,</HI> they're not <HI>Ab&s;o|lute:</HI> if <HI>none,</HI> we're wor&s;e <HI>Here,</HI> than <HI>Before.</HI> The <HI>King cannot Betray the People's Tru&s;t; the&s;e may.</HI></P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pag</HI> 9.</NOTE> What &s;ignifies your telling us, that the <HI>King ab&s;o|lute,</HI> is not <HI>bound to the Laws he &s;hall make?</HI> and, by and by,&mdash;that <HI>contrary to the Monarchy, this,</HI> (meaning <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE>Democracy) <HI>makes not any one Law, to which every in|dividual per&s;on in the A&s;&s;embly,</HI> is not &s;ubject? <HI>(the whole A&s;&s;embly indeed, as it is the Soveraign power, is unque&s;tionable,</HI> you &s;ay.) 'Tis not the <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> but the
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<HI>Power,</HI> we're to con&s;ider, <HI>Conjunctim,</HI> they're as litttle <HI>&s;ubject</HI> as the <HI>&s;ingle Tyrant;</HI> and po&s;&s;ibly, they'll ne're <HI>di&s;-joyn, they that can make what Laws they plea&s;e,</HI> will doubtle&s;&s;e make this one of the number,&mdash;<HI>that their own Members &s;hall be only tryable by their Peers:</HI> and by that device, they make them&s;elves both <HI>Par|tyes</HI> and <HI>Judges.</HI></P>
<P>To grant more than is needful; &mdash; be it &mdash; that in a State of <HI>Quiet,</HI> and <HI>Univer&s;al liberty,</HI> &s;uch a <HI>Form</HI> might be <HI>admitted,</HI> as our <HI>Contriver thrusts</HI> upon us; but to attempt to <HI>force</HI> a <HI>Government, that excludes nineteen parts of twenty of the people,</HI> from the <HI>exerci&s;e</HI> of it; and this, upon a Nation <HI>pre-engaged</HI> by <HI>Oath,</HI> and (by a &s;ad experience) <HI>intere&s;&s;ed again&s;t it.</HI>&mdash;How <HI>practi|cable,</HI> or how <HI>prudent,</HI> &s;uch a Propo&s;al may appear to <HI>others,</HI> I cannot &s;ay: To me, it wears the Face of a <HI>De&s;ign,</HI> promoted by a <HI>factious, guilty Party, to &s;acri|fice the Nation, to their private intere&s;ts, and de&s;payres.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And yet &s;uch is the</HI> charity <HI>of our</HI> Author, <HI>he rec|kons</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE><HI>all the mi&s;carriages of</HI> the&s;e late years in Govern|ment, but as foul way upon a Journey: and bids us not conclude again&s;t our Inne at Night becau&s;e the Pa&s;&s;age was dirty. (This is according to his wonted tenderne&s;s.)</P>
<P><HI>Now to</HI> my Phan&s;y, <HI>it looks rather thus.</HI> We have been hitherto mi&s;led; our very Guides have robb'd us, and yet they bid us follow them &s;till, they'll bring us into Para|di&s;e at la&s;t,&mdash;whither they'll carry us, we know not;&mdash;wee're in the Bryars at pre&s;ent:&mdash;we know the way home again;&mdash;what have we then to do, but to return?</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P.</HI> 10.</NOTE> Our Authors little Rea&s;onings concerning <HI>Trade,</HI> are trivial; I &s;hall refer him to the <HI>Merchants</HI> for his <HI>An&s;wer.</HI> They are the <HI>fitte&s;t Judges</HI> in the Ca&s;e.
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They have try'd <HI>war,</HI> and <HI>peace, Monarchy,</HI> and <HI>Popular Government;</HI> let them &s;ay which they like be&s;t.&mdash;<HI>His Pen begins to run a little muddy;</HI> and what I do not <HI>under|&s;tand,</HI> I'm not oblig'd to <HI>an&s;wer.</HI> Something he talks of <HI>Peace abroad, and of the Motives to it;</HI> which he pronounces to be <HI>Advantage;</HI> and no Body denies it.</P>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P.</HI> 11.</NOTE> This does not hinder,&mdash;becau&s;e the <HI>Rea&s;ons</HI> of the <HI>Peace</HI> betwixt the <HI>Crowns</HI> of <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Spain,</HI> might pro|perly re&s;ult from a <HI>Particular Conveniency</HI> of <HI>State</HI> betwixt them; that therefore the <HI>effects</HI> of that <HI>Agreement</HI> cannot referr to <HI>&V;s.</HI> They're more at <HI>Lei&s;ure</HI> now: nay there's a high nece&s;&s;ity incumbent upon them, to &s;end <HI>abroad</HI> tho&s;e <HI>Forces,</HI> which otherwi&s;e would be both <HI>Expen&s;ive,</HI> and <HI>Dangerous,</HI> at <HI>Home,</HI> (not to pre&s;&s;e other <HI>arguments,</HI> of them&s;elves obvious, to ha&s;ten our <HI>Compo&s;ure, even for that very Cau&s;e; that they're Agreed.)</HI></P>
<P>I pre&s;ume not to <HI>direct,</HI> as our Imperious <HI>Common|wealths</HI>-man does; but as <HI>one Private Per&s;on,</HI> I pretend to <HI>Rea&s;on</HI> the <HI>Opinions</HI> of <HI>another,</HI> &s;ubmitting &s;till my <HI>Judg|ment</HI> to any <HI>Legal Determination,</HI> or <HI>Rational Conviction.</HI></P>
<P>Touching the King of Spain's De&s;ign to Propagate the Romi&s;h <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid.</NOTE>Religion;&mdash;<HI>we're the &s;ecurer for that very de&s;igu, if wee</HI> unite upon the Ba&s;is of the Engli&s;h Law: <HI>The meer</HI> Antiperi|&s;ta&s;is preferves us: <HI>whereas, If we</HI> compell that Per&s;on, <HI>who by</HI> divine A&s;&s;ignment, <HI>and</HI> Civil Right, <HI>is our</HI> undoubted So|veraign; to employ Foreign Succours to recover his Dominions; <HI>It may be feared, (and 'tis but Rea&s;on)</HI> that Spain will Article for &s;ome conce&s;&s;ions, in Favour of the Catholiques, <HI>more than otherwi&s;e would, po&s;&s;ibly, be granted to them: where the</HI> Fault <HI>lies, in ca&s;e of this extremity, let the</HI> People Judge.&mdash;</P>
<P>'Ble&s;&s;e us,&mdash;what a Fit of <HI>Piety</HI> has taken our <HI>Friend,</HI> now of a <HI>&s;odain! he calls in the Mini&s;ters, for his Compurga|tors, and de&s;ires them to declare&mdash;what Government.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>P.</HI> 12.</NOTE>(hee'l feed <HI>their Flocks</HI> in the mean while.) Indeed, the&s;e <HI>Pulpit-Politiques</HI> are not ami&s;&s;e. <HI>The Prie&s;ts &s;hall tell us what Government fits their Reformation.</HI> Pray Sir, let me help you out;&mdash;<HI>a Clo&s;s upon the Covenant,</HI> does your Bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e:
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'tis but to tell the <HI>people,</HI> that in the <HI>Holy Tongue,</HI> KING, &s;ignifies COMMONWEALTH, and the work is done.</P>
<P>The Gentleman, begins now to <HI>Rumble,</HI> and <HI>Talke Idle;</HI> and, in effect, <HI>he's drawing home.</HI> But fir&s;t he recommends <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Pag.</HI> 12.</NOTE>the <HI>Nurcery</HI> and <HI>Education</HI> of his <HI>Brat-project, even unto any Kinde and Powerful hand</HI> that will promote it. From <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ibid. Pag. <HI>13.</HI></NOTE>hence he pa&s;&s;es into a Quaint <HI>Re&s;emblance</HI> of the &s;tate of the <HI>Nation, to a man in a Feavour, and the People in Gro&s;&s;e, to a Re&s;tive Hor&s;e with a Galled Back:</HI> and &s;o <HI>commiting the i&s;&s;ue to the Lord;</HI> the man <HI>Departs.</HI></P>
<P><HI>His</HI> thoughts, and <HI>mine</HI> do not <HI>agree;</HI> what ere the matter is. His <HI>Conceit</HI> is this, <HI>The Nation's mad; and Prompted by fal&s;e appetite, covets things Mi&s;chievous;</HI> (that is, <HI>Monarchy)</HI> the <HI>Wi&s;e and Charitable Phy&s;itian,</HI> (that is, the <HI>Commonwealths-man,) hee forces upon it what he knows to be more proper for the Cure,</HI> (and this is a <HI>Free-State)</HI>&mdash;Now <HI>here's our difference.</HI></P>
<P>I'm of opinion, that the <HI>Phy&s;itians are mad;</HI> the <HI>Nation</HI> &s;ober, we've <HI>try'd</HI> their <HI>Phy&s;ick, for &s;ome dozen years together; and every day we're wor&s;e then other upon it;</HI> al|though we finde upon <HI>Experiment,</HI> that they pre&s;cribe us <HI>Poi&s;on,</HI> in&s;tead of <HI>Remedies,</HI> and that they are but <HI>Mounte|banks;</HI> they <HI>Live</HI> by <HI>Killing us.</HI> Our <HI>Former Diet agreed much better with our Con&s;titution,</HI> we have no way left, but to fall to That again.</P>
<P>But to conclude;&mdash;<HI>his conceit of</HI> a Jadi&s;h People, with a Gall'd Back, <HI>That's his</HI> Ma&s;ter-piece. <HI>He tells us,</HI> it will neither &s;uffer a Rider, nor a Dre&s;&s;ing, till it be overcome by force, and then a Child may up, and Ride it.</P>
<P>The&s;e are &s;omewhat broad &s;ignes. <HI>Now by your favour, Sir, the</HI> Faults <HI>not in the</HI> Hor&s;e; <HI>but rather in the</HI> Rider, <HI>and the</HI> Saddle; the Nation ha's been Ridden the&s;e <HI>12.</HI> years together, at Switch and Spur, and in a Commonwealth-Sad|dle; That must needs pinch the Back of a Monarchical people.&mdash;<HI>Nor will it be yet &s;o</HI> Tame, <HI>as you</HI> imagine, <HI>Change</HI> but the <HI>SADDLE, and the RIDER,</HI> and you &s;hall &s;ee the Nation will do well, without a Hor&s;leech.</P>
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