be no occasion for Christians to persecute each other.  And since my Author speaks with some moderation, candor, and submission to his Mother Church, I shall only desire him and the dissenting Party, to make the use they ought, of the King Gracious Disposition to them, in not yet proceeding with all the violence which the penal Laws require against them.  But this calm of my Author, was too happy to last long.  You find him immediately transported into a storm about the business of Fitz-Harris, which occasion’d the Dissolution of the Parliament at Oxford:  and accusing, according to his sawcy Custom, both his Majesty, and the House of Lords, concerning it.  As for the House of Lords, they have already vindicated their own right, by throwing out the Impeachment:  and sure the People of England ought to own them as the Assertors of the publick Liberty in so doing; for Process being before ordered against him at Common Law, and no particular Crime being laid to his Charge by the House of Commons, if they had admitted his Cause to be tryed before the Lordships, this would have grown a President in time, that they must have been forc’d to judge all those whom the House of Commons would thrust upon them, till at last the number of Impeachments would be so increas’d; that the Peers would have no time for any other business of the Publick:  and the Highest Court of Judicature would have been reduc’d to be the Ministers of Revenge to the Commons.  What then would become of our ancient Privilege to be tryed per pares?  Which in process of time would be lost to us and our posterity:  except a proviso were made on purpose, that this judgment might not be drawn into farther President; and that is never done, but when there is a manifest necessity of breaking rules, which here there was not.  Otherwise the Commons may make Spaniels of the Lords, throw them a man, and bid them go judge, as we command a Dog to fetch and carry.  But neither the Lords Reasons, nor the King first having possession of the Prisoner, signifie any thing with our Author.  He will tell you the reason of the Impeachment was to bring out the Popish Plot.  If Fitz-Harris really know any thing but what relates to his own Treason, he chuses a fine time of day to discover it now, when ’tis manifestly to save his Neck, that he is forc’d to make himself a greater Villain; and to charge himself with new Crimes to avoid the punishment of the old.  Had he not the benefit of so many Proclamations, to have come in before, if he then knew any thing worth discovery?  And was not his fortune necessitous enough at all times, to catch at an impunity, which was baited with Rewards to bribe him? ’tis not for nothing that Party has been all along so favourable to him:  they are conscious to themselves of some other matters than a Popish Plot.  Let him first be tryed for what he was first accus’d:  if he be acquitted, his Party will be satisfied, and their strength increas’d