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eng Petition, Right of -- Great Britain -- Sources. Broadsides 2007-12 Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
A Modeſt Vindication of the Petition of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal for the calling of a Free Paliament.

THis Defence is grounded upon three fundamental principles; I. The Right of Petitioning. II. The Neceſſity. III. The Duty.

I. It is the undoubted Right of the Subjects to Petition, being founded upon an Act of Parliament, and the higheſt reaſon in the world; for that is a very monſtrous government, where the People muſt not approach their King, and acquaint him with their grievances. The people have the greateſt property in the Land, and therefore the moſt concern'd when a Foreign Enemy is upon it; their welfare is the ſupream Law; and yet they muſt not deſire to meet in order to conſult their own preſervation. The Jeſuits (the ſworn enemies to the Engliſh Nation) will take care of us, and our poſterity; therefore why ſhould we trouble our ſelves at this juncture? They can levy mony with a Proclamation, they can diſpenſe with all Laws, and what ſhould we do with a Parliament, when the whole Statute-Book ſerves for no other end but to wipe the Tayles of theſe Reverend Satyres; who fly into their Dens and Thickets, at the very ſound of a Houſe of Commons. II. The neceſſity, and that an indiſpenſable one: The Government turn'd Topſie Turvy, no Law, no Rule, all in a ſtate of War; all Treaties broken, all Obligations ceas'd; and yet the People muſt not come together to know why or wherefore they fight, or how they may avoid deſtroying one another; they muſt hack and cut one another to pieces blindfold, and to no other end, but to ſave the Jeſuits, and the Knaves, and to ruin themſelves: But the moſt Reverend Biſhops are told, that they ſhall have a Free Parliament as ſoon as ever the Prince of Orange has quitted this Realm; that is, ſuch a Free Parliament as they were like to have had before the Prince came hither, ſhuffl'd, cut, and pack't by Mr. Brent and his Miſſionaries, or perhaps ten times worſe, or rather none at all; for the Church of Rome is grown ſuch an infamous Bankrupt, that no body will truſt her further than they can command her: She may be compar'd to the Tyger, which fawns, ſneaks, and lurks as long as the Hunter is arm'd with his Spear and his Gun, but when once the Weapons are laid down, the Beaſt flies upon the unwary Foreſter, tears, and devours him. III. The Duty: For what better Office could thoſe pious Prelats and Patriots of their Country do for the publick Good, than to make all People Friends, to ſave the lives of many Thouſands, and to heal all our Wounds and Sores, which they of the Roman Faith have inflicted upon a People too kind and good natur'd for ſuch ravenous Monſters, who go about ſeeking whom they may devour. France, Hungary, and the Valleys of Piedmont are ſtill reeking with the blood of their poor innocent Preys, and ecchoing with the lamentations of a People ruin'd, by truſting theſe Crocodiles too much; and if God in his infinite mercy had not watch'd over theſe Kingdoms, and ſent a Gabriel to guard them, they had certainly fallen a Victim to the intollerable Pride, the lawleſs Fury, and untractable Barbarity of a ſort of Animals, call'd Catholicks, ſubtle, and treacherous by cuſtom and diſcipline, not to be chain'd by any Law either of God or Man; and therefore every body knows how far we may rely upon them, when the Arch-Angel leaves us. The Devil was ſick, the Devil a Monk would be; The Devil was well, the Devil a Monk Was he. Exeter, Nov. 21. 88. FINIS.