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Matters of Conſequence debated and reſolved, and then brought to the Privy Council to be confirmed. The firſt Footſteps we have of this Council in any European Go-
vernment were in Charles the Ninth's Time of
France, when reſolving to maſſacre the Proteſtants, he durſt not truſt his Council with it, but choſe a few Men whom he call'd his Cabinet Council: And conſidering what a Ge-
nealogy it had, 'tis no Wonder it hath Been ſo fatal both to King and People. To the King; for whereas our Con-
ſtitution has provided Miniſters in the ſeveral Parts of the Government to anſwer for Miſcarriages, and to ſkreen him from the Hatred of the People; this on the contrary protects the Miniſters, and expoſes the King to all the Complaints of his Subjects. And 'tis as dangerous to the People; for whatever Miſcarriages there are, no Body can be puniſh'd for them; for they juſtify themſelves by a Sign Manual, or perhaps a private Direction from the King; and then we have run it ſo far, that we cannot follow it. The conſequence of this muſt be continual Heart-
burnings between King and People; and no one can ſes the Event.


A Short Hiſtory of Standing Armies in England.

If any Man doubts whether a Standing Army is Sla-
very, Popery, Mahometiſm, Paganiſm, Atheiſm, or any Thing which they pleaſe, let him read,

Firſt, The Story of Matho and Spendius at Carthage, and the Mamalukes of Egypt.
Secondly, The Hiſtories of Strada and Bentivolio, where he will find what Work nine thouſand Spaniards made in the Seventeen Provinces, though the Country was full of fortified Towns, poſſeſſed by the Low Coun-
try
Lords, and the had Aſſiſtance from Germany, Eng-
land
and France.
Thirdly, The Hiſtory of Philip de Commines, where he will find that Lewis the 11th inſlaved the vaſt Country