2 8 2 Mr. N E A I's W Vó1. of the World, excepting one fmall handful of our Neighbours (whole Condition denied them the Opportunity of this Government) is known to enjoy without contradiction : How fate is it erring in fuch Company ?' Neal, p. 498. The Actfor Triennial Parliaments will not be a fufficient Securityfor the Conflitution, if we confider, howmany Ads of Parliament, the King and his Arbitrary Miniflers had broke the laß fif- teen Tears. I fhould be very unwilling to fufpect Mr. Neal's .Attachment to Republicanifm, could I tell how to reconcile his violent and outrageous (hut groand- lefs) Charges upon King Charles the Firft, with Mo- narchical Principles. I knownone, but profeffed Re- publicans,. who have hitherto charged him with Breach of Prorife. Even Bithop Burnet, whom he himfelf will not allow to have been too great a Tavourer of the Royal Houfe ofStuart, fufficiently difproves this Affertion of Mr. Neal's : * ' I will not (fays he) enlarge upon the whole Field of that murder'd Prince's Verrues, for that were both endlefs, they being fo many ; and needlefs, they being fo well known. But having by a great happinefs feen not a few, (I may add Hundreds) of Papers under his own Royal Pen, I (hall now offer divers Pafiages out of thofe, that will give fome Characters of his great Soul. ' What our Martyr's Zeal was for the.protu- ing his Subjus, I fhall make appear from the following Evidences: How far he complied with their molt unreafonable Defires to the great dimi- nution of his Royal Authority, is well enough known ; when he faw them inclin'd to engage in 6 the Civil Wars in this Kingdom, he left no means * Dr. rurnet's Sermon at the Savoy, Tan. 3o. 1674. enti- tled. TheRoyal Martyr, p. 6. t Io. P. 9. un-
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