C8J ) reafons beft known to his Sacred felf ) that it ftiould not then be publiihed. And as his Majefties command to keep it private, is a fatisfa&ory anlwer to. the firft} fo, his licence now obtained that it might travel abroad, may fufficiently refolve the fecond queftion. But befides this, many prevalent reafons there are, which plead for a publication \ the chief of which are briefly thefe. That the implacable Enemies of this Crown may be for ever filenced and afhamed j who having neither Law, nor Religion to patronize their unjuft under-, takings, conftrued a bare Permiffion, to be a Divine Approbation of their A&ions and (taking the Almighty to be fuch a one as themfelves) blafphemoufly entitled God to be the Author of all their wickednefs. ' But the arm of God ftretched out from heaven to the refcue of the King , cutting off the clue of their Succefs, even then when they thought they had fpun up their thred, hath not left them io much as an apron of fig-leaves to cover the nakednefs of their moft fliameful proceedings. * The next is, That the Truth of his Ma-

DOI link for C8J ) reafons beft known to his Sacred felf ) that it ftiould not then be publiihed. And as his Majefties command to keep it private, is a fatisfa&ory anlwer to. the firft} fo, his licence now obtained that it might travel abroad, may fufficiently refolve the fecond queftion. But befides this, many prevalent reafons there are, which plead for a publication \ the chief of which are briefly thefe. That the implacable Enemies of this Crown may be for ever filenced and afhamed j who having neither Law, nor Religion to patronize their unjuft under-, takings, conftrued a bare Permiffion, to be a Divine Approbation of their A&ions and (taking the Almighty to be fuch a one as themfelves) blafphemoufly entitled God to be the Author of all their wickednefs. ' But the arm of God ftretched out from heaven to the refcue of the King , cutting off the clue of their Succefs, even then when they thought they had fpun up their thred, hath not left them io much as an apron of fig-leaves to cover the nakednefs of their moft fliameful proceedings. * The next is, That the Truth of his Ma-

C8J ) reafons beft known to his Sacred felf ) that it ftiould not then be publiihed. And as his Majefties command to keep it private, is a fatisfa&ory anlwer to. the firft} fo, his licence now obtained that it might travel abroad, may fufficiently refolve the fecond queftion. But befides this, many prevalent reafons there are, which plead for a publication \ the chief of which are briefly thefe. That the implacable Enemies of this Crown may be for ever filenced and afhamed j who having neither Law, nor Religion to patronize their unjuft under-, takings, conftrued a bare Permiffion, to be a Divine Approbation of their A&ions and (taking the Almighty to be fuch a one as themfelves) blafphemoufly entitled God to be the Author of all their wickednefs. ' But the arm of God ftretched out from heaven to the refcue of the King , cutting off the clue of their Succefs, even then when they thought they had fpun up their thred, hath not left them io much as an apron of fig-leaves to cover the nakednefs of their moft fliameful proceedings. * The next is, That the Truth of his Ma-