A Modest answer to a printed pamphlet, intituled, A speech lately made by a noble peer of the realm

A Modest answer to a printed pamphlet, intituled, A speech lately made by a noble peer of the realm

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A Modeſt Anſwer To a Printed Pamphlet, Intituled, A SPEECH Lately made by a NOBLE PEER OF THE REALM.

A Modeſt Anſwer To a Printed Pamphlet, Intituled, A SPEECH Lately made by a NOBLE PEER OF THE REALM.

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JUſt and Worthy (with all Commendations to be Recorded to Poſterity) are the Endeavors of the Honourable Houſes of Parliament, and many other true Patriots, to deliver this, and ſucceeding Ages, from that unſupportable Yoke of Slavery, which that State-Policy call'd Popery, impoſes on all its Devoto's.

I do not at all queſtion but this was the main Deſign of a Speech lately made by a Noble Peer of the Realm: Yet if I endeavor to ſhew that the means which he adviſeth are ineffectual to obtain this End, I hope I ſhall not be accounted a Papiſt in Maſquerade, or guilty of Scandalum Magnatum, ſince the Noble Peer hath been pleaſed to make this Challenge, If any can anſwer or oppoſe Reaſon to what I ſay, I beg they would do it: Wherefore, to gratifie this Noble Peer's deſire, I (in all humility) offer to ſome of his Propoſitions, a few modeſt Anſwers.

Truly I think the Noble Peer is very unfortunate in the Preſident of Henry the 4th, (whom he is pleaſed to ſtile a Wiſe and Magnanimous Prince;) and yet in this Reign it was, that Fire and Fagot were firſt uſed againſt Diſſentérs in Religion: But however, the Chronicles we (of the meaneſt Rank) uſe, do not afford this Preſident. Baker indeed tells us, That he connived at the Impeachment of the Dukes of Aumarle and Exeter, The one was accuſed for ſpeaking againſt his Title to the Crown; the other for murthering his Father: And he adds the Reaſon, Becauſe he had profeſſed Enemies enough, and had no mind to make ſuch of them, who (at the leaſt) pretended to be his Friends:

But to grant what the Noble Peer deſireth:

Was there ever any Prince ſince the Conqueſt, that hath oftner changed his Miniſters of State, than our preſent Gracious King? And this ſome men knew to their ſorrow, who, when they were at the Helm, thought it very unreaſonable that every Month ſhould produce new Stateſmen; For by this method before any one could underſtand the Arcana Imperii, and able to give Counſel, he ſhall be ſent diſcontented into the Countrey; and the ill conſequences of diſcontented Stateſmen, who is ignorant of?

After our Noble Peer hath paſt a very witty and ſmart Reflection on the Ladies at Court, he paſſes to the next Paragraph, where we have theſe words, We muſt neither have Popiſh Wife—nor any new Convert.

What is meant by the firſt I cannot gueſs, unleſs with our New State-Officers, we are to have a New Model of Religion; If by New Converts be underſtood ſuch, who abominating the Superſtition of the Church of Rome, are come over to our Church; I much wonder this Noble Peer, who is eſteemed a great Patron of the Proteſtant Religion, ſhould forget what great Influence, Reputation, Honour and Rewards (in this Life) have upon the minds of men, and how hard a thing it is to perſuade a man to forſake theſe, though it was to embrace a true Religion, where by one Party he is diſeſteemed, diſreſpected by his Prince; by the other Party be loaded (though falſly) with the Ignominies of an Apoſtate; Schiſmatick, and what not? Is this the way to gain Converts to the true Proteſtant Catholick Religion? That is, The Religion of the Church of England as at preſent it is Eſtabliſhed by Law.

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A Modest answer to a printed pamphlet, intituled, A speech lately made by a noble peer of the realm

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1681

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— A Modest answer to a printed pamphlet, intituled, A speech lately made by a noble peer of the realm,

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s.n.,. [London? :: 1681]. (The "Speech" of the Earl of Shaftesbury on 23 Dec. 1680 is erroneously attributed to Francis Smith by Halkett & Laing.) (Broadside.) (Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.)

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