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Digital Edition A letter from a gentleman in the city to one in the country concerning the bill for disabling the Duke of York to inherit the imperial crown of this realm
by
A Gentleman in the city
1680
Digital Edition Published by:
School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Licence: Licensed Creative Commons Attribution ShareALike, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Oriignal Title:A letter from a gentleman in the city to one in the country concerning the bill for disabling the Duke of York to inherit the imperial crown of this realm
Original Author: A Gentleman in the city
Original Publisher: Curtis, L.
Original Publication Place: London
Newcastle University, Special Collections: Friends 397,
https://collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/collection/p21051coll82/id/41/rec/1
Titlepage:
A LETTER FROM A Gentleman in the CITY, TO One in the COƲNTRY; Concerning the BILL For Diſabling the Duke of York To Inherit the Imperial Crown Of this REALM.
LONDON, Printed in the Year, 1680
First two sections:
[1]
A Letter from a Gentleman in the City, to one in the
Country.
Sir,
THE Nation being awakened out of that Lethar-gy,
which for ſo many Years had bound up its Senſes, and deprived it
of all feeling and Perception; begins at laſt to diſcern it's
dan-ger and to provide againſt the ruine and miſchiefs which
threaten it. Accordingly the Houſe of Commons have not only
declared, nemine contradicente, That the Duke of York's being a
PapiſtThis is a sample editorial note about the term papist.,
hath given the greateſt countenance to the preſent Deſigns and
Conſpiracies of the Papiſts, a-gainſt the King and Proteſtant
Religion; but have brought in a Bill, Diſabling him to Inherit
the Imperial Crown of this Realm.
Now, Sir, this being the Affair
I deſign to Write freely to you about, I preſume in the very
entrance to tell you, that they could do no leſs, without
abandoning them-ſelves, and the whole Kingdom, to Bondage and
Popery. And all true Engliſh Men as well as Proteſtants, are ſo
ful-ly ſatisfied of the neceſſity and Juſtice of the courſe which
they ſteer; that they not only applaud and commend them in what
they have undertaken, but are ready to ſtake their Lives and
Fortunes towards the ſeeing it effe-cted and accompliſhed.
[2]
Sect. I. Nor, in the firſt place, can the Papiſts them-ſelves
Condemn us for taking theſe due ways and Me-thods to ſecure our
Religion, and preſerve our Lives and Properties; ſeeing they are
not only agreeable to the Meaſures, (but much more modeſt) which
they have ta-ken in Forreign Countries to preſerve their own.
Shall it be lawful for the French, to endeavour to preclude Henry
the 4th. from enjoying the Crown of France, be-cauſe he was a
Proteſtant, and muſt it be unjuſt for the Engliſh to debar James
Duke of York from attaining the Soveraignty over this Realm, that
is a Papiſt? Shall the Pope and Church of Rome cheriſh and
juſtify a Bloody War, upon the alone foot of his being of a
different Re-ligion from what was received in that Nation? And
ſhall not we be allowed to uſe ſuch legal means, as are
conſiſtent with and warranted by our Conſtitution, to hinder a
Papiſt from aſcending the Regal Throne of this Kingdom? Shall it
be lawful for thoſe in the Communi-on of the Papal Church, to
adviſe Phillip the 2d. of Spain to Murder his Son Charles, for
ſpeaking only favourably of his Fathers Subjects in the
Netherlands, who were called Lutherans? And ſhall not we have the
liberty humbly to pray and deſire our King, to deſert a Brother
who hath Plotted the Ruin of his Majeſties Subjects, and for no
other reaſon but becauſe they are not Papiſts. And ſuppoſe it
ſhould be ſaid; that theſe methods were not only unjuſt, but
Condemned by ſome of the very Roman Communion; yet the deſparity
is ſo great between a Pa-piſts arriving at the Government over a
Proteſtant King-dom, and a Proteſtants being advanced to Reign
over a Popiſh Countrey, that it will no ways follow from thence,
that what the Parliament have undertaken, is in the leaſt
[3]
reprehenſible. For no Proteſtant Prince will either en-ſlave his
Kingdom or Subjects to a Forreign Juriſdiction, nor call his
People into queſtion for their Religion, pro-vided they be not
influenced by the Principles of it, to diſturb the Government,
and diſquiet the Civil Peace. So that Papiſts inſtead of
receiving prejudice by having a Proteſtant Prince to rule over
them, they become poſſeſt of many advantages as to ſafety, eaſe
and immunities, which their being under a Popiſh King excludes
them from. And therefore it is, that we find the Papiſts do no
where ſo fully enjoy the Right and Liberties of mankind, as in
ſome Proteſtant Nations, where they have had the Wit and
Sobriety, not to moleſt their fellow Subjects, or Con-ſpire
againſt the Government under which they live. So far as their
Religion is found to have an Influence only up-a future Life, and
meerly to endanger their own happi-neſs; they are pitied inſtead
of being Capitally Proſecu-ted, and the worſt they are made to
ſuffer, is now and then to be rationally accoſted by their
Neighbours, and addreſſed unto by arguments, which may conduce to
re-ctify and inſtruct their Judgments. Whereas through the having
a Popiſh Prince Succeed over a Proteſtant Peo-ple, they become
immediately ſubjected to the ſevereſt Puniſhments, and that upon
the alone ſcore of their Chriſtian Profeſſion. It is not only
lawful for ſuch a Prince to deſtroy thoſe of his Subjects, who
diſagree from him in Faith and worſhip, but it is an
indiſpenſable Duty upon him to do it. Nor is he only ſure of a
Pardon up-on the accompliſhing ſo Bleſſed a work, but the merit
of the Atchievement entitles him to unſpeakable Happineſs and a
Glorious Crown.
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