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Show Points wherein the Nations fiand. al rc:ady uniced. Sovcraignty ; Line R0y.tll. Suhje8ion Obedient.:e. Alien Naturalization ArticleJ, touchivg the Vnion, of England, and ScoTland. The Second Eranch is; Allow no manifdl, or important, Perill, or JncotJVe11ience, fbould enfue, of t~e Continuing ot the J(ingdomes Divided; yet, on the other Stde~ ~hether that, upon the further Vniti11g of them, there be net hke to ~ollow3 that Addition, and Encreafe, of Wealth, qod Repntatwn, as is woi thy your AJajejiie.r Venues, and Fortune, to be the Aut hour and Founqer of, for theAdvanc.ement, and Exaltation; of1ou~ Majejti~s Royall I'ofterity, in. time to come. . , But admittmg, that your lffa;efly fbould proceed, to thts more perfect, and entire, Vnion; Wherein your 1J,Jaj1Jy may fay, ivtajur OpuJ moveo; To enter, int? the P~rts, and ?~grees tr, c~eof, I think fir fir{t to fet down, ~s tn a bnefTab/e, 1n whn Potnu, the Natio;s fra~d now, at this prefent time, already united; And . in what P~i~ts yetfiill fevered, and divided; that your M(.:F:JlJ may the bette~ f~e, w h'l,t is do~e, an~ what is to be done; A.nd how that which 1s to be done, ts to be Inferred, upon that whteh is done. The Points, wherein the Nations, fiand already united) are ; In Soveraignty. Jn the Relati·ue thereof, which is S1~bjel1iun. In Religion. In Continent. In Language. · And now, lafily, by the Peace, by your Majefly concluded, with Spain In Leagues, and C8nfederacics; For now, both Natio11s, have the fame Friends, and the fame Enemies. Yet notwithfl:anding, there is none of the fix Points, wh~rein the ~'nion, is perfeCt, and Confummate; But every of them, hath (orne fcruple, or rather Grain offeparation, enwrapped, and included !n them. Fonhesoveraignry, the Vnion is abfolute in your Majefly, :l and your Generation; But if it ibould fo be, (which God, of his infinite Mercy, defend,) th~t your 11Iue iliould fail, then the · Defcent, ofboth Rcalmes, doth refort to the feverall Lin~s, of' the Several! Blouds Royall. For subjdlion, 1 take the Law of England, to be clear, (what the Law ofscotland, is I know not;) That all Sc()ttifhnJen, fro~ . the. very Inf1:ant of your JUajefties Rtzign begun, are becoll"ft! Denizons; And the Pofl-Nati, are natnraliz'd Sub jeers, of England, forth~timeforwards: For, by ourLawer, npnecanbean.Alie,, but he that is, of another A11egeance, then our Soveraign ! L.md the Kin._e..f; For there be but two Sorts of .Aliens, whereof we fin f) mention in our Law; l\n Alien Ami, and an Alien Eulmy: Whereof the farmer, is a ~HbjerJ, of a State, in Amdy with the J --A-;r-tJ-:-.,:-1~-,,-to_tt_cl;-:Ji:-JJg~th;-e-;· V~:-n7io-n,-o7j'E:::-.-ng. -1:-a-n--:d:-;- a-,,-d-::S--co_tl;.a.__n_d. ~-.1-,-,-~ -th_e K- in_g_,_ __A_ n~d-t_h_e_la-t-te_r_,_a_S_~-0~~a--,-o~f~-a s,-t-a-te-,-in_ H_ of-itl-.h-.o-/ -= -B-ut f ~---~- whether he b.e one, or other, lt Is an Effentiall Dlfferehce unto the Definiti~n o~ an Alien;. if he be not of the KingJ l!!ege- . a_nce; As we fee 1t evtdently; 1n the precedent of Ireland; who hnce they were subjet1s, to the Crow12, of Ene,land have ever been Inheritable, and cJp?ble,as Nctfnrallsubj~Ch; And yet, not by 2ny Stat~tte, or A.CI ~{Parliament, but meerly by the comtnon Law~ and the Reafon thereoE So as, there is no doubt that every SubjcCI o.f S~otland wa_s, u~d is, i? like Plight, ;.tnd D~gree, fince yo~r .JI;.faJeftres Commtng m, as 1f you'r )'yJa_jefly, had granted, parttcul.arly, your Letters of DP.nizrztio~t, or Natural!Z.11.Jtion, To every of them; A.nd the I'ofi:-Nati, wholly Natural/. Bttt then, on the other Stde, for the time Back- wards and for t~ofe that were Ante-Nati, th~ Blo11d is not, by Law: naturaltzed; S? as they cannot take tt, by Dcfcent, froln their Anc:eftours, Without A{/ of Parliament. And therefore in this Point . there is a Defect, in [he Vnion, of S1tbjetfio11. ~ ~ Fo~ Matter _of Religion, th~ Vnion is perfect, in points of. Re_ligion· DotJrzne; but 111 Matter of Dzfcipline and Government it is CI10rch-Co- 1. mpene~.c. ...ln.. · ' · :> ve rnmeu·t . For the Continent; It is true, there are no Naturall Boundd- Continent ries of 11.1euntains, or Seas, or Navigt~.ble Rivers; But yet there B'ordc:cs. are Badges, and Memorialtr, of BordeN; Of which Point I have f poken before. ' For the Language; It is true, ~h€ Natio1u are uniur Labii- and Language, 3nd have not the firft Cu'fe of Difunion, which was· Conf;.tjion L"illect. o~ Ton~uei,, wh.ere?y on~ unde1~fiood not ~not her. But yet the D1alel1 ts dtffenng, and It rema41eth, a lund of Mark ofDifiinction. But for that, 7empcri permil'tendmn it is to b~ Jeft to Time:. F?r confidering, that both Language~, do concur, in the prmctpall Office, and Duty, of a L.t~tgtJage. which is to make a Mans felf underfiood; For the relt it is rather to be accounted, (as ~as. faid) a Dive~fity of nlatec1, then of Lan-p, uage: .an.d as I fa.td m my firfi JiVriti11g, it is like to bring forth, ~he enrlchmg of one La?Zg~tage, by compounding, and taking 1n the proper, and figmficant·W ords~ of either To.1tg/~-e r~ther then a Cout~nuance, of two Lang1tc.tges. ' For Leag11er, and CO?tfedertlciCJ; It is true that neither N a- Le:tgnes, Cbntion, is now in Hoflility, with any State, wherewith the other federacies Nation, is in .AmifJ': but yet fo, , as the L-eagues, and 1rettties Treaties., have been concluded, with either Nation ref pecrively and not w~th both, jo~ntly; which may .cont;in, fome Di~erfity of .Artu:let, offiraHnefs of Amity, wnh one, more then with the other. · Butma~y?f thefe Matters, may,perhaps, beofthatkind, as may fall w1th1n that Rule; In vefle 'lJarietaJ fit, Jcijfora 110n fit. . Now to defc:end to the parti~ular f>·oints, wherein the Realnu, fiand) fevered, and divided, over and befides, the for- E e 2 rner |
