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             An account of the growth of knavery under the pretended fears of arbitrary government and popery with a parallel betwixt the reformers of 1677 and those of 1641 in their methods and designs : in a letter to a friend.
             Parallel
             L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.
          
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             London :
             1678.
          
           
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           AN
           ACCOUNT
           OF
           THE
           GROWTH
           OF
           KNAVERY
           ,
           UNDER
           The
           Pretended
           FEARS
           OF
           ARBITRARY
           GOVERNMENT
           ,
           AND
           POPERY
           .
           WITH
           A
           PARALLEL
           betwixt
           the
           Reformers
           of
           1677
           ,
           and
           those
           of
           1641
           ,
           in
           their
           Methods
           ,
           and
           Designs
           .
        
         
           In
           a
           Letter
           to
           a
           Friend
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           by
           
             H.
             H.
          
           for
           
             Henry
             Brome
          
           ,
           at
           the
           Gun
           in
           St.
           
           Paul's
           Church-Yard
           .
           1678.
           
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
         
           AN
           ACCOUNT
           Of
           the
           GROWTH
           of
           KNAVERY
           ,
           UNDER
           The
           Pretended
           FEARS
           OF
           ARBITRARY
           GOVERNMENT
           ,
           AND
           POPERY
        
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
        
         
           TO
           give
           you
           my
           Opinion
           freely
           of
           the
           two
           Libels
           that
           you
           sent
           me
           ,
           methinks
           the
           Design
           of
           them
           lies
           too
           open
           to
           do
           much
           Mischief
           ;
           for
           I
           never
           saw
           so
           bare-fac'd
           an
           Araignment
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           all
           the
           Parts
           of
           it
           :
           
             King
             ,
             Lords
             ,
             Commons
             ,
             Iudges
             ,
             Ministers
             of
             State
          
           ;
           they
           are
           all
           of
           
           them
           made
           Conspirators
           ;
           against
           the
           Sovereign
           Multitude
           ,
           forsooth
           ;
           and
           when
           the
           Libeller
           has
           done
           with
           the
           Body
           of
           the
           Commons
           ,
           he
           gives
           you
           a
           Defamatory
           List
           of
           betwixt
           two
           and
           three
           hundred
           of
           their
           Members
           ,
           provoking
           and
           abusing
           all
           Sober
           Interests
           ;
           Insomuch
           ,
           that
           he
           has
           left
           himself
           nothing
           to
           trust
           to
           ,
           but
           the
           contemplation
           of
           a
           
             General
             Tumult
          
           ,
           which
           is
           the
           very
           Point
           he
           drives
           at
           in
           his
           Appeal
           to
           the
           Rabble
           .
        
         
           The
           Man
           ,
           I
           confess
           ,
           is
           a
           great
           Master
           of
           Words
           ;
           but
           then
           his
           Talent
           is
           that
           which
           the
           Lord
           
             St.
             Albans
          
           calls
           
             Matter
             of
             Wonder
             without
             Worthiness
          
           ;
           being
           rather
           the
           Suppleness
           and
           Address
           of
           a
           Tumbler
           ,
           than
           the
           Force
           and
           Vigor
           of
           a
           Man
           of
           Business
           .
           And
           you
           cannot
           but
           observe
           too
           ,
           that
           his
           Excursions
           ,
           many
           of
           them
           ,
           are
           unmannerly
           and
           Vulgar
           ,
           and
           fitter
           for
           the
           Stage
           of
           a
           Merry-Andrew
           ,
           or
           a
           Iack-Pudding
           ,
           than
           for
           a
           Paper
           of
           State.
           
        
         
           You
           would
           have
           me
           guess
           at
           the
           Author
           ;
           and
           you
           might
           as
           well
           bid
           me
           tell
           you
           the
           right
           Father
           of
           a
           Child
           by
           a
           common
           Strumpet
           :
           But
           I
           think
           I
           may
           call
           him
           Legion
           ,
           for
           they
           are
           MANY
           ;
           and
           
           there
           's
           a
           Club
           to
           his
           Pen
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           his
           Pocket
           .
           This
           I
           dare
           assure
           you
           ,
           that
           the
           Author
           of
           
             A
             Letter
             from
             a
             Parliament-man
             to
             his
             Friend
             in
             the
             Country
             ,
             concerning
             the
             Proceedings
             of
             the
             House
             of
             Commons
             ,
             &c.
             in
          
           75.
           is
           very
           particularly
           acquainted
           with
           the
           Author
           of
           
             An
             Accompt
             of
             the
             Growth
             of
             Popery
             ,
             and
             Arbitrary
             Government
             ,
             &c.
          
           and
           the
           
             Seasonable
             Argument
             ,
             &c.
          
           that
           follow'd
           it
           ,
           in
           77.
           
        
         
           The
           Pretence
           of
           the
           former
           Pamphlet
           is
           exhibited
           in
           the
           Title
           of
           it
           :
           
             viz.
             An
             Account
             of
             the
             Growth
             of
             Popery
             ,
             and
             Arbitrary
             Government
             in
          
           England
           :
           And
           more
           particularly
           from
           November
           1675
           ,
           to
           Iuly
           1677.
           
           Upon
           these
           
             Nineteen
             Months
          
           the
           Composer
           has
           bestow'd
           precisely
           
             Nineteen
             Sheets
             of
             Paper
          
           ,
           and
           laid
           himself
           out
           most
           wonderfully
           in
           his
           Politicks
           and
           Conceits
           ,
           for
           the
           better
           Grace
           and
           Relish
           of
           the
           Discourse
           :
           But
           the
           Malignity
           of
           it
           is
           so
           rank
           ,
           that
           there
           's
           scarce
           a
           Page
           where
           the
           Poyson
           has
           not
           eaten
           quite
           thorough
           the
           Vernish
           ,
           and
           discover'd
           the
           Spring
           and
           Malice
           of
           the
           Design
           .
           View
           it
           narrowly
           ,
           and
           you
           shall
           find
           the
           Pique
           to
           be
           as
           well
           Personal
           as
           Seditious
           ,
           and
           the
           Work
           only
           
           of
           some
           Mercenary
           Pen
           to
           serve
           his
           principall's
           Animosity
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           his
           Ambition
           .
           For
           a
           Man
           may
           see
           with
           half
           an
           Eye
           ,
           how
           he
           aggravates
           ,
           or
           
             extenuates
             ;
             disparages
          
           ,
           or
           
             commends
             ,
             reflects
          
           upon
           ,
           or
           passes
           over
           ,
           as
           well
           Actions
           ,
           as
           Men
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           various
           Aspects
           of
           Affections
           or
           Parties
           ;
           and
           without
           any
           regard
           to
           the
           Pulse
           or
           Truth
           of
           Publick
           Proceedings
           .
           By
           his
           Vein
           of
           improving
           the
           Invective
           Humour
           ,
           it
           looks
           in
           some
           places
           as
           if
           he
           were
           Transprosing
           the
           
             First
             Painter
          
           ;
           only
           he
           has
           chang
           d
           his
           Battery
           ,
           which
           is
           a
           Property
           peculiar
           to
           his
           Party
           ,
           constantly
           to
           hate
           those
           that
           are
           uppermost
           .
        
         
           I
           was
           once
           a
           thinking
           to
           write
           a
           Just
           Reply
           upon
           the
           whole
           Relation
           ,
           and
           to
           lay
           open
           the
           falshood
           of
           many
           Passages
           in
           it
           in
           matter
           of
           Fact
           ;
           the
           Partiality
           of
           it
           in
           others
           ;
           how
           perverted
           ,
           and
           misapply'd
           it
           is
           throughout
           ;
           and
           to
           shew
           what
           Gapps
           ,
           and
           Maimes
           the
           Compiler
           of
           it
           has
           left
           in
           the
           Story
           ,
           purposely
           to
           divert
           the
           Reader
           from
           minding
           the
           Coherence
           of
           Actions
           ,
           and
           the
           reasonable
           Congruity
           of
           Counsels
           ,
           and
           Affairs
           :
           What
           uncharitable
           and
           illogical
           Inferences
           he
           has
           
           drawn
           from
           matters
           as
           remote
           as
           Tenterden
           Steeple
           from
           being
           the
           cause
           of
           Goodwin
           Sands
           .
           This
           was
           the
           Method
           I
           had
           propounded
           to
           my self
           ;
           but
           upon
           second
           Thoughts
           I
           quitted
           it
           ,
           for
           these
           Reasons
           .
           First
           ,
           It
           would
           have
           been
           too
           tedious
           ;
           for
           I
           must
           in
           Honesty
           have
           printed
           the
           Libel
           as
           well
           as
           the
           Reply
           ,
           which
           in
           Proportion
           would
           have
           amounted
           to
           near
           forty
           Sheets
           of
           Paper
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           It
           would
           have
           been
           superfluous
           ;
           for
           part
           of
           my
           Business
           being
           the
           Vindication
           of
           Truth
           from
           Calumny
           :
           I
           find
           the
           thing
           already
           done
           to
           my
           Hand
           ,
           in
           the
           common
           Sentence
           is
           that
           pass'd
           upon
           it
           for
           a
           lew'd
           and
           shameless
           Imposture
           .
           And
           Thirdly
           ,
           The
           Author
           himself
           ,
           you
           see
           ,
           has
           upon
           better
           consideration
           reduc'd
           his
           Pamphlet
           of
           19
           Sheets
           ,
           into
           another
           of
           Three
           ,
           as
           a
           more
           compendious
           Exposition
           of
           his
           Meaning
           :
           I
           speak
           of
           that
           Libel
           which
           you
           sent
           me
           ,
           under
           the
           Name
           of
           
             A
             Seasonable
             Argument
             to
             perswade
             all
             the
             Grand
             Iuries
             in
          
           England
           
             to
             petition
             for
             a
             New
             Parliament
             ;
             or
             a
             List
             of
             the
             Principal
             Labourers
             in
             the
             great
             Design
             of
             Popery
             ,
             and
             Arbitrary
             Power
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           So
           that
           my
           Task
           
           is
           only
           to
           make
           good
           in
           my
           Discourse
           the
           Parallel
           that
           I
           promis'd
           you
           in
           my
           Title
           ,
           and
           then
           to
           pass
           some
           Remarks
           upon
           the
           Scope
           ,
           and
           Venome
           of
           the
           Pamphlets
           themselves
           .
        
         
           Now
           to
           the
           end
           that
           you
           may
           not
           take
           the
           Libels
           here
           in
           question
           for
           Originals
           ,
           let
           me
           assure
           you
           that
           these
           Notable
           Pieces
           are
           neither
           better
           ,
           nor
           worse
           ,
           than
           the
           Old
           Declarations
           of
           40
           ,
           and
           41
           only
           Turn'd
           ,
           and
           
             New
             trimm'd
          
           ;
           The
           Contrivance
           ,
           the
           Positions
           ,
           and
           the
           Drift
           the
           very
           same
           ;
           and
           upon
           the
           whole
           Matter
           ,
           there
           is
           so
           near
           a
           resemblance
           betwixt
           them
           ,
           that
           one
           Egg
           is
           not
           liker
           another
           .
           If
           you
           would
           have
           a
           full
           History
           of
           the
           Faction
           ,
           you
           may
           read
           it
           at
           large
           in
           
             Bancroft's
             Dangerous
             Positions
          
           ,
           or
           
             Heylin's
             AERIVS
             REDIVIVVS
          
           .
           But
           my
           Purpose
           is
           principally
           to
           compare
           the
           Project
           of
           77.
           with
           that
           of
           40
           and
           41.
           and
           by
           tracing
           the
           Foot-steps
           of
           that
           Rebellion
           ,
           from
           the
           Undeniable
           Fact
           of
           things
           pass'd
           ,
           to
           gather
           some
           probable
           conjecture
           at
           things
           to
           come
           .
        
         
         
           To
           begin
           my
           Parallel
           with
           the
           Alarm
           of
           Popery
           ,
           and
           
             Arbitrary
             Government
          
           in
           1677
           ,
           take
           notice
           that
           it
           was
           likewise
           the
           Pretext
           and
           the
           very
           Foundation
           of
           the
           Rebellion
           in
           41.
           
           
             A
             Malignant
             and
             Pernicious
             Design
          
           (
           says
           the
           Remonstrance
           of
           December
           15.
           1641.
           
           )
           
             of
             subverting
             the
             fundamental
             Laws
             ,
             and
             Principles
             of
             Government
             ,
             upon
             which
             the
             Religion
             ,
             and
             Iustice
             of
             this
             Kingdom
             is
             firmly
             establish'd
             .
          
           Husband's
           Collections
           ,
           p.
           4.
           and
           in
           the
           same
           Page
           he
           tells
           us
           of
           
             Such
             Counsellers
             and
             Courtiers
             ,
             as
             for
             Private
             Ends
             have
             engag'd
             themselves
             to
             further
             the
             Interest
             of
             Some
             Foreign
             Princes
             or
             States
             ,
             to
             the
             Prejudice
             of
             His
             Majesty
             and
             the
             State
             at
             home
             .
          
           Which
           Counsellers
           ,
           and
           Courtiers
           of
           those
           days
           ,
           are
           now
           translated
           into
           
             French
             Pensioners
          
           and
           Conspirators
           in
           1677.
           
           But
           if
           you
           would
           see
           the
           Reformers
           in
           their
           Colours
           ,
           read
           the
           
             Declaration
             ,
             and
             Protestation
             of
             the
             Lords
             and
             Commons
             in
             Parliament
          
           (
           as
           they
           stile
           it
           )
           
             to
             the
             Kingdom
             ,
             and
             to
             the
             Whole
             World
          
           :
           where
           ,
           beside
           the
           Horrid
           Invocation
           of
           Almighty
           God
           to
           Countenance
           the
           Juggle
           ,
           the
           whole
           stress
           of
           the
           Quarrel
           is
           laid
           upon
           
           the
           Kings
           being
           
             Popishly
             Inclin'd
          
           ;
           and
           the
           War
           founded
           upon
           that
           Execrable
           Cheat.
           
             The
             Kings
             Counsels
             ,
             and
             Resolutions
          
           (
           Say
           they
           )
           
             are
             so
             engag'd
             to
             the
             Popish
             Party
             ,
             for
             the
             Suppression
             and
             Extirpation
             of
             the
             true
             Religion
             ,
             that
             all
             hopes
             of
             Peace
             and
             Protection
             are
             excluded
             ;
             and
             that
             it
             is
             fully
             intended
             to
             give
             Satisfaction
             to
             the
             Papists
             ,
             by
             Alteration
             of
             Religion
             &c.
             
          
           And
           a
           little
           further
           they
           say
           that
           
             the
             King
             endeavour'd
             to
             keep
             off
             all
             Iealousies
             and
             Suspicions
             ,
             by
             many
             fearful
             Oaths
             and
             Imprecations
             of
             maintaining
             the
             Protestant
             Religion
             .
          
           But
           what
           were
           all
           their
           Stories
           of
           
             Popish
             Plots
             ,
             Intercepted
             Letters
             ,
             Dark
             ,
             Conspiracies
             ,
          
           but
           only
           Artifices
           to
           gull
           the
           Credulous
           and
           Silly
           Vulgar
           ?
           For
           the
           King
           was
           so
           far
           from
           being
           
             Popishly
             affected
          
           ,
           that
           never
           any
           Prince
           purg'd
           himself
           of
           an
           Imputation
           ,
           by
           Two
           more
           Credible
           and
           Dreadfull
           Solemnities
           :
           The
           First
           ,
           Publickly
           upon
           the
           Sacrament
           in
           
             Christ-Church
             Oxon.
          
           1643
           ;
           and
           afterward
           ,
           at
           his
           Death
           upon
           the
           Scaffold
           .
           Now
           see
           the
           Harmony
           betwixt
           
             Those
             Remonstrants
          
           ,
           and
           
             Our
             Libeller
          
           in
           his
           
             Growth
             of
             Popery
             .
             There
             has
             now
             for
             Diverse
             Years
             ,
          
           says
           he
           ,
           
             a
             Design
             
             been
             carry'd
             on
             to
             change
             the
             Lawful
             Government
             of
          
           England
           
             into
             an
             Absolute
             Tyranny
             ,
             and
             to
             convert
             the
             establish'd
          
           Protestant
           Religion
           
             into
             down-right
          
           Popery
           .
           P.
           3.
           
           He
           begins
           in
           the
           Method
           of
           
             the
             Remonstrants
          
           with
           a
           
             General
             Charge
          
           upon
           
             Ill
             Ministers
          
           ,
           and
           he
           shall
           Advance
           with
           them
           too
           ,
           next
           step
           ,
           to
           an
           Attaque
           upon
           the
           
             King
             Himself
          
           .
           And
           not
           a
           Pin
           matter
           what
           is
           said
           on
           either
           side
           to
           the
           Contrary
           .
        
         
           
             It
             is
             true
          
           ,
           (
           says
           the
           
             Growth
             of
             Popery
          
           p.
           155
           )
           
             that
             by
             his
             Majesty
             and
             the
             Churches
             Care
             ,
             under
             God's
             special
             Providence
             ,
             the
             Conspiracy
             has
             receiv'd
             frequent
             Disappointments
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           And
           do
           not
           the
           Remonstrants
           on
           the
           other
           side
           say
           as
           much
           for
           the
           Late
           King
           ?
           That
           
             His
             Majesty
             indeed
             had
             past
             more
             Bills
             to
             the
             Advantage
             of
             the
             Subject
             ,
             than
             had
             been
             in
             many
             Ages
             ,
          
           pag.
           16.
           
           But
           how
           comes
           our
           Libeller
           to
           be
           so
           kind
           to
           the
           Church
           all
           on
           a
           sodain
           ?
           From
           whose
           Pen
           there
           never
           fell
           any
           thing
           yet
           but
           poyson
           upon
           that
           Subject
           .
           Can
           any
           thing
           be
           kinder
           than
           the
           Remonstrants
           were
           to
           this
           Late
           King
           (
           pag.
           2.
           )
           where
           they
           promised
           to
           
             Support
             His
             Royal
             Estate
             
             with
             Honour
             ,
             and
             Plenty
             at
             Home
             ;
             with
             Power
             ,
             and
             Reputation
             Abroad
             :
             and
             by
             their
             Loyal
             Affections
             ,
             Obedience
             ,
             and
             Service
             ,
             to
             lay
             a
             sure
             and
             lasting
             Foundation
             of
             the
             Greatness
             and
             Prosperity
             of
             His
             Majesty
             and
             his
             Royal
             Posterity
             after
             him
             .
          
           But
           what
           do
           you
           think
           rather
           of
           the
           pretended
           Loyalty
           of
           these
           People
           afterwards
           ,
           even
           in
           the
           state
           of
           an
           Actual
           Rebellion
           ?
           p.
           663.
           
           
             We
             the
             Lords
             and
             Commons
             in
             this
             present
             Parliament
             assembled
             ,
             do
             in
             the
             presence
             of
             Almighty
             God
             ,
             for
             the
             Satisfaction
             of
             our
             Consciences
             ,
             and
             the
             Discharge
             of
             that
             great
             Trust
             which
             lyes
             upon
             us
             ,
             make
             this
          
           Protestation
           and
           Declaration
           
             to
             this
          
           Kingdom
           and
           Nation
           ,
           
             and
             to
             the
          
           Whole
           World
           ,
           
             that
             no
             private
             Passion
             ,
             or
             Respect
             ,
             no
             evil
             Intention
             to
             his
             Majesty's
             Person
             ,
             no
             Design
             to
             the
             prejudice
             of
             his
             Iust
             Honour
             ,
             and
             Authority
             ,
             engag'd
             us
             to
             raise
             Forces
             ,
             and
             take
             up
             Arms
             against
             the
             Authors
             of
             this
             War
             ,
             wherewith
             the
             Kingdom
             is
             now
             enslam'd
             .
          
           And
           does
           not
           our
           Libeller
           follow
           the
           Remonstrants
           in
           their
           Hypocrisy
           too
           ?
           
             This
             Book
          
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           p.
           156.
           )
           
             though
             of
             an
             extraordinary
             Nature
             ,
             as
             the
             Case
             requir'd
             ,
             and
             however
             it
             may
             be
             calumniated
             by
             interressed
             
             Persons
             ,
             was
             written
             with
             no
             other
             Intent
             ,
             than
             of
             meer
             Fidelity
             ,
             and
             Service
             to
             his
             Majesty
             ;
             and
             God
             forbid
             that
             it
             should
             have
             any
             other
             Effect
             than
             that
             the
             mouth
             of
             all
             Iniquity
             ,
             and
             Flatterers
             may
             be
             stopp'd
             ;
             and
             that
             his
             Majesty
             having
             discerned
             the
             Disease
             ,
             may
             with
             his
             healing
             Touch
             apply
             the
             Remedy
             :
             For
             so
             far
             is
             the
             Relator
             himself
             from
             any
             sinister
             Surmize
             against
             his
             Majesty
             ,
             or
             from
             suggesting
             it
             to
             others
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           The
           Pamphlet
           ,
           I
           confess
           ,
           is
           ,
           as
           he
           calls
           it
           ,
           
             A
             Book
             of
             an
             Extraordinary
             Nature
          
           ;
           but
           why
           does
           he
           say
           ,
           
             As
             the
             Case
             requir'd
          
           ?
           Where
           's
           the
           Importance
           of
           it
           ?
           unless
           he
           means
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           the
           very
           Nick
           of
           Time
           for
           him
           to
           embroyl
           the
           Nation
           :
           And
           for
           the
           
             Interessed
             Persons
          
           ,
           who
           (
           he
           says
           )
           may
           Calumniate
           it
           ;
           they
           are
           only
           the
           King
           and
           
             His
             Ministers
          
           ,
           who
           are
           all
           of
           them
           the
           subject
           of
           his
           Scoptical
           and
           
             Malevolent
             Satyre
          
           .
           Of
           his
           Intent
           ,
           we
           shall
           speak
           hereafter
           .
        
         
           This
           is
           not
           the
           first
           time
           that
           we
           have
           heard
           of
           
             Words
             smoother
             than
             Oyl
             ,
             which
             yet
             are
             very
             Swords
             .
          
           It
           is
           the
           very
           Stile
           that
           brought
           the
           Late
           King
           to
           the
           Block
           ;
           and
           the
           Saviour
           of
           the
           World
           was
           betray'd
           
           by
           a
           
             Hail
             Master
          
           ,
           and
           a
           Kiss
           .
           It
           is
           the
           very
           Crown
           of
           the
           Parallel
           betwixt
           77
           ,
           and
           41.
           
           Now
           to
           proceed
           :
           What
           was
           the
           
             Old
             Remonstrance
          
           ,
           but
           a
           Spiteful
           and
           Invidious
           Misrepresentation
           of
           the
           State
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           under
           the
           Notion
           of
           Declaring
           Common
           Grievances
           ?
           (
           
             For
             His
             Majesty's
             Healing
             Touch
          
           too
           no
           doubt
           )
           and
           is
           not
           That
           also
           the
           very
           Aim
           ,
           and
           Profession
           of
           these
           two
           Libels
           ?
           What
           is
           the
           Publication
           of
           This
           same
           Scandalous
           List
           ,
           but
           the
           Old
           Trick
           over
           again
           ,
           of
           Posting
           those
           Members
           for
           Straffordians
           ,
           that
           would
           not
           consent
           to
           the
           Death
           of
           the
           Earl
           of
           Strafford
           ?
           And
           is
           not
           their
           Tampering
           of
           the
           
             Grand
             Iuries
          
           to
           Petition
           for
           a
           
             New
             Parliament
          
           ,
           the
           Old
           Practice
           reviv'd
           of
           drawing
           and
           solliciting
           Petitions
           against
           Grievances
           of
           their
           own
           framing
           ;
           and
           menaging
           Affairs
           of
           State
           by
           Tumults
           ?
           Would
           not
           our
           Remonstratour
           of
           77
           ,
           rather
           than
           his
           Life
           ,
           be
           at
           the
           Old
           Sport
           again
           ,
           with
           a
           Kennel
           of
           Brutes
           at
           his
           Heels
           ,
           in
           full
           
             Cry
             ,
             with
             No
             Bishops
             ,
             No
             Popish
             Lords
             ,
             No
             Evil
             Counsellours
             ,
             No
             Rotten
             Members
             ,
             No
             Porters
             Lodge
          
           ;
           and
           at
           last
           ,
           
             No
             King
             too
          
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           very
           Fact
           
           in
           Consequence
           upon
           this
           Method
           .
        
         
           So
           soon
           as
           the
           Remonstrants
           (
           those
           Sons
           of
           Cham
           )
           
             had
             laid
             open
             their
             Father's
             nakedness
             ,
          
           with
           a
           Malicious
           Aggravation
           of
           all
           Errours
           and
           Misfortunes
           ,
           (
           beside
           Falshoods
           innumerable
           )
           to
           Irritate
           the
           Multitude
           against
           their
           Superiours
           ;
           their
           next
           Art
           was
           to
           draw
           that
           Party
           to
           themselves
           ,
           which
           they
           had
           now
           detached
           from
           the
           Government
           ;
           with
           an
           
             Oh!
             that
             we
             were
             made
             Iudges
             in
             Israel
             !
          
           Boasting
           what
           wonderful
           things
           they
           had
           then
           upon
           the
           Anvil
           for
           the
           Publick
           Good
           ;
           and
           not
           forgetting
           to
           arrogate
           all
           those
           Acts
           to
           themselves
           ,
           which
           his
           Majesty
           had
           pass'd
           of
           his
           proper
           Grace
           and
           Bounty
           .
           
             Other
             things
          
           (
           say
           they
           ,
           p.
           15
           .
           )
           
             of
             main
             Importance
             for
             the
             Good
             of
             this
             Kingdom
             ,
             are
             in
             Proposition
             ;
             as
             the
             Establishing
             and
             Ordering
             the
             King's
             Revenues
             ,
             that
             so
             the
             Abuse
             of
             Officers
             ,
             and
             Superfluity
             of
             Expenses
             may
             be
             cut
             off
             ,
             and
             the
             necessary
             Disbursements
             for
             his
             Majesty's
             Honour
             ,
             the
             Defense
             and
             Government
             of
             the
             Kingdom
             ,
             may
             be
             more
             certainly
             provided
             for
             :
             the
             Regulating
             of
             Courts
             of
             Iustice
             ,
             and
             Abridging
             both
             the
             Delays
             and
             Charges
             of
             Law-Suits
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           See
           now
           if
           our
           Reformer
           of
           77
           ,
           
           does
           not
           fish
           with
           the
           very
           same
           Bait.
           
             The
             House
             of
             Commons
          
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           p.
           63
           .
           )
           
             took
             up
             again
             such
             Publick
             Bills
             as
             they
             had
             on
             foot
             in
             their
             former
             sitting
             ,
             and
             others
             that
             might
             either
             remedy
             present
             ,
             or
             prevent
             future
             Mischief
             :
             As
             the
             Bill
             for
          
           Habeas
           Corpus
           ;
           
             That
             against
             sending
             Men
             prisoners
             beyond
             Seas
             ;
             That
             against
             Raising
             of
             Mony
             without
             the
             Consent
             of
          
           Parliament
           ;
           
             That
             against
          
           Papists
           
             sitting
             in
             either
             House
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           The
           Libels
           in
           fine
           of
           77
           ,
           are
           so
           exact
           a
           Counterpart
           of
           the
           others
           of
           41
           ,
           that
           two
           Tallies
           do
           not
           strike
           truer
           :
           And
           undoubtedly
           such
           a
           Correspondence
           in
           Method
           ,
           cannot
           be
           without
           some
           Conformity
           also
           of
           Design
           .
        
         
           There
           needs
           no
           other
           Argument
           to
           prove
           the
           
             Late
             Rebellion
          
           to
           have
           been
           originally
           a
           Conspiracy
           against
           the
           Government
           ,
           than
           the
           Proportion
           that
           appears
           betwixt
           the
           Means
           ,
           and
           the
           End
           ;
           and
           the
           orderly
           Connexion
           of
           Proper
           Causes
           and
           Regular
           Effects
           .
           For
           it
           was
           a
           Perfect
           Train
           of
           Artifice
           ,
           Hypocrisie
           and
           Imposture
           ,
           from
           one
           end
           of
           it
           to
           the
           other
           .
           The
           Confederacy
           was
           form'd
           in
           a
           Cabal
           of
           Scotch
           and
           
             English
             Presbyterians
          
           ;
           as
           appears
           
           not
           only
           from
           their
           Correspondent
           Practices
           in
           both
           Nations
           ;
           but
           from
           his
           late
           Majesties
           Charge
           against
           the
           
             Five
             Members
          
           ;
           and
           likewise
           from
           the
           Care
           that
           was
           taken
           upon
           his
           Majesties
           
             Restauration
             to
             date
             the
          
           English
           
             Act
             of
             Indemnity
             from
             the
             beginning
             of
             the
          
           Scotch
           Tumults
           (
           Jan.
           1.
           1637.
           
           )
           which
           was
           three
           Years
           before
           the
           Meeting
           of
           the
           Long
           Parliament
           in
           November
           1640.
           
           The
           two
           Ministers
           that
           stood
           in
           the
           Gap
           betwixt
           the
           Conspiracy
           ,
           and
           the
           Government
           ,
           (
           and
           who
           were
           only
           cut
           off
           ,
           as
           appear'd
           by
           the
           Sequel
           ,
           to
           clear
           the
           passage
           to
           the
           King
           himself
           )
           were
           the
           Earl
           of
           Strafford
           ,
           and
           
             Archbishop
             Laud
          
           :
           So
           that
           their
           
             First
             Attaque
          
           was
           upon
           the
           Earl
           ,
           and
           their
           next
           upon
           the
           Archbishop
           ,
           under
           the
           Notion
           of
           
             Evil
             Counsellors
          
           ;
           and
           upon
           the
           
             Common
             Charge
          
           of
           Popery
           ,
           and
           
             Arbitrary
             Proceeding
          
           ,
           their
           Impeachments
           were
           carry'd
           on
           by
           Tumults
           ,
           and
           these
           Brave
           Men
           were
           rather
           baited
           to
           Death
           by
           Beasts
           ,
           than
           Sentenc'd
           with
           any
           Colour
           of
           Law
           ,
           or
           Justice
           :
           And
           as
           they
           liv'd
           ,
           so
           they
           dy'd
           ,
           the
           Resolute
           Assertors
           of
           the
           
             English
             Monarchy
          
           and
           Religion
           :
           The
           Earl
           of
           Strafford
           in
           May
           41
           ;
           
           But
           the
           Archbishop
           was
           kept
           languishing
           in
           the
           Tower
           ,
           till
           Ian.
           44.
           
           And
           their
           Crime
           was
           not
           in
           Truth
           ,
           their
           being
           Men
           of
           
             Arbitrary
             Principles
             Themselves
          
           ,
           but
           for
           being
           the
           Opposers
           of
           those
           Principles
           in
           Others
           .
        
         
           As
           the
           Remonstrants
           in
           41
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           Papists
           ,
           in
           Practice
           ,
           and
           Profession
           ,
           directed
           their
           Spleen
           against
           the
           
             Kings
             Ministers
          
           ,
           only
           as
           Persons
           
             Popishly
             affected
          
           ,
           (
           which
           in
           time
           came
           to
           be
           most
           Injuriously
           apply'd
           to
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           his
           whole
           Party
           )
           Just
           so
           does
           our
           Libeller
           in
           1677.
           
           
             Were
             these
             Conspirators
          
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             but
             avow'd
          
           Papists
           ,
           
             they
             were
             the
             more
             Honest
             ,
             the
             less
             Dangerous
             ,
             and
             their
          
           Religion
           
             were
             Answerable
             for
             the
             Errours
             they
             might
             commit
             in
             Order
             to
             promote
             it
             :
             But
             these
             are
             Men
          
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           in
           the
           next
           pag.
           )
           
             Obliged
             by
             all
             the
             most
             Sacred
             Ties
             of
             Malice
             and
             Ambition
             ,
             to
             advance
             the
             ruine
             of
             the
             King
             and
             Kingdom
             ;
             and
             qualify'd
             much
             better
             than
             Others
             ,
             under
             the
             Name
             of
          
           Good
           Protestants
           ,
           
             to
             effect
             it
          
           .
           As
           who
           should
           say
           ;
           Popery
           
             is
             to
             be
             brought
             in
             by
             some
             that
             pass
             for
          
           Good
           Protestants
           .
           (
           As
           Rebellion
           and
           Tyranny
           were
           brought
           in
           by
           the
           Remonstrants
           ,
           under
           the
           Prosession
           
           of
           Loyalty
           and
           Duty
           to
           their
           Country
           .
           )
           A
           very
           Compendious
           way
           of
           making
           every
           Man
           ,
           that
           will
           not
           be
           a
           Traytor
           ,
           a
           Papist
           .
           For
           who
           can
           say
           what
           any
           Man
           is
           ,
           or
           what
           he
           is
           not
           ,
           in
           his
           Heart
           ?
        
         
           From
           his
           Majesty's
           Yielding
           in
           the
           Business
           of
           the
           Earl
           of
           Strafford
           ,
           the
           Faction
           took
           their
           Measures
           how
           to
           deal
           with
           him
           in
           
             Other
             Cases
          
           ;
           and
           never
           left
           ,
           till
           by
           gradual
           Encroachments
           ,
           and
           Approaches
           ,
           they
           First
           stript
           him
           of
           his
           Friends
           ;
           Secondly
           ,
           of
           his
           
             Royal
             Authority
          
           ;
           Thirdly
           ,
           of
           his
           Revenue
           ;
           and
           Lastly
           ,
           of
           his
           Life
           .
           Whereas
           ,
           had
           but
           this
           Pious
           and
           Unfortunate
           King
           follow'd
           the
           Advice
           of
           his
           Royal
           Father
           to
           Prince
           Henry
           ,
           he
           might
           upon
           cheaper
           Terms
           have
           preserv'd
           himself
           ,
           and
           his
           Three
           Kingdoms
           .
           
             Take
             heed
          
           ,
           (
           says
           King
           Iames
           )
           
             to
             such
          
           Puritans
           ;
           
             very
             Pests
             in
             the
             Church
             ,
             and
             Common-weal
             ,
             whom
             no
             Deserts
             can
             Oblige
             ;
             neither
             Oaths
             ,
             or
             Promises
             Bind
             .
             Breathing
             nothing
             but
             Sedition
             ,
             and
             Calumnies
             ,
             and
             making
             their
             own
             Imaginations
             (
             without
             any
             warrant
             of
             the
             Word
             )
             the
             square
             of
             their
             Conscience
             .
             I
             protest
             before
             the
             Great
             God
             ,
             (
             and
             since
             I
             am
             here
             as
             upon
             my
             Testament
             ,
             it
             is
             no
             place
             for
             me
             to
             
             ly
             in
             )
             that
             ye
             shall
             never
             find
             with
             any
          
           Highlands
           or
           Border-Thieves
           ,
           
             greater
             Ingratitude
             ,
             and
             more
             Lyes
             ,
             and
             vile
             Perjuries
             than
             with
             these
          
           Phanatick
           Spirits
           .
           
             K.
             Iames
          
           his
           Works
           ,
           p.
           305
           ,
           and
           160.
           
        
         
           Upon
           the
           Ripping
           up
           of
           
             Publick
             Grievances
          
           ,
           it
           was
           but
           matter
           of
           Course
           to
           follow
           their
           Complaints
           with
           Petitions
           for
           Redress
           ;
           and
           the
           Good
           King
           ,
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           ,
           
             to
             heap
             Coals
             of
             Fire
             upon
             their
             Heads
             ,
          
           deny'd
           them
           nothing
           :
           But
           
             the
             Two
             First
             Bills
          
           that
           his
           Majesty
           pass'd
           ,
           were
           Fatal
           to
           him
           :
           That
           for
           the
           Attainder
           of
           the
           Earl
           of
           Strafford
           ,
           and
           the
           other
           for
           the
           Continuance
           of
           the
           Parliament
           .
           They
           complain'd
           of
           the
           
             Star-Chamber
             ;
             High-Commission
             Court
             ;
             Ship-Moneys
             ;
             Forrest-Laws
             ;
             Stannary-Courts
             ;
             Tonnage
             ,
             and
             Poundage
             ,
             &c.
          
           and
           had
           every
           Point
           for
           the
           Asking
           :
           Nay
           ,
           and
           as
           an
           instance
           of
           his
           good
           Faith
           and
           Meaning
           ,
           his
           Majesty
           took
           some
           of
           their
           Principalls
           even
           into
           his
           very
           Council
           .
           But
           so
           soon
           as
           he
           had
           parted
           with
           so
           much
           ,
           as
           almost
           put
           it
           into
           their
           Power
           to
           Take
           the
           Rest
           ,
           they
           began
           then
           to
           think
           of
           Setting
           up
           for
           themselves
           (
           see
           his
           Majesties
           Declaration
           of
           
           August
           12.
           1642.
           
           )
           
             and
             nothing
             but
             a
             thorough
             Reformation
             they
             said
             would
             ever
             do
             the
             Work.
          
           Now
           see
           the
           Gradation
           .
           First
           ,
           The
           People
           must
           be
           Alarm'd
           with
           the
           Noise
           of
           Tyranny
           ,
           and
           Popery
           ;
           and
           the
           
             Evil
             Counsellors
          
           must
           be
           Remov'd
           ,
           that
           are
           Said
           ,
           not
           Prov'd
           ,
           to
           stand
           that
           way
           inclin'd
           .
           
             His
             Majesty
             must
             be
             humbly
             Petition'd
             by
             Both
             Houses
             to
             Employ
             such
             Counsellors
             ,
             Ambassadours
             ,
             and
             other
             Ministers
             ,
             in
             managing
             his
             Business
             at
             Home
             ,
             and
             Abroad
             ,
             as
             the
             Parliament
             may
             have
             Cause
             to
             confide
             in
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           Nay
           ,
           
             It
             may
             often
             fall
             out
          
           ,
           they
           say
           ,
           
             that
             the
             Commons
             may
             have
             just
             Cause
             to
             take
             Exceptions
             at
             some
             Men
             for
             being
             Counsellors
             ,
             and
             yet
             not
             charge
             those
             Men
             with
             Crimes
             ;
             for
             there
             be
             grounds
             of
             Dissidence
             ,
             which
             lie
             not
             in
             Proof
             ;
             there
             are
             Others
             which
             though
             they
             may
             be
             prov'd
             ,
             yet
             are
             not
             legally
             Criminal
             ;
             to
             be
             a
             Known
             Favourer
             of
          
           Papists
           ,
           
             or
             to
             have
             been
             very
             Forward
             in
             defending
             or
             Countenancing
             some
             great
             Offenders
             questioned
             in
             Parliament
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           So
           that
           at
           first
           Dash
           all
           the
           
             King's
             Officers
          
           are
           but
           Tenants
           at
           the
           Will
           of
           the
           Faction
           .
           The
           next
           Step
           is
           ,
           To
           fill
           the
           Places
           of
           those
           whom
           they
           cast
           out
           ,
           with
           Ministers
           ,
           
           and
           Officers
           of
           their
           
             Own
             Chusing
          
           ;
           as
           well
           
             Privy
             Counsellors
          
           ,
           as
           Iudges
           .
           As
           in
           the
           19
           Propositions
           of
           Ian.
           2.
           42.
           wherein
           they
           demand
           ,
           
             The
             Translation
             of
             the
             Power
             of
             Chusing
             Great
             Officers
             ,
             and
             Ministers
             of
             State
             ,
             from
             the
             King
             to
             the
             Two
             Houses
             .
          
           Secondly
           ,
           
             All
             matters
             of
             State
             in
             the
             Interval
             of
             Parliaments
             to
             be
             debated
             ,
             and
             concluded
             by
             a
             Council
             so
             chosen
             ,
             and
             in
             Number
             not
             above
          
           25
           ,
           
             nor
             under
          
           15
           ;
           
             and
             no
             Publick
             Act
             esteem'd
             of
             any
             validity
             ,
             as
             proceeding
             from
             the
             Royal
             Authority
             ,
             unless
             it
             be
             done
             by
             the
             Advice
             and
             Consent
             of
             the
             Major
             Part
             of
             that
             Council
             ;
             attested
             under
             their
             Hands
             ,
             and
             these
             also
             sworn
             to
             the
             Sence
             of
             Both
             Houses
             .
          
           Thirdly
           ,
           
             The
             Lords
             ,
             and
             Commons
             must
             be
             intrusted
             with
             the
          
           Militia
           .
           Fourthly
           ,
           
             His
             Majesty
             may
             appoint
             ,
             but
             the
             Two
             Houses
             ,
             or
             the
             Council
             (
             in
             such
             manner
             as
             afore-said
             )
             must
             approve
             of
             all
             Governours
             of
             Forts
             and
             Castles
             .
          
           Lastly
           ,
           
             No
             Peers
             hereafter
             made
             ,
             must
             sit
             ,
             or
             vote
             in
             Parliament
             ,
             unless
             admitted
             thereunto
             by
             the
             Consent
             of
             Both
             Houses
             .
          
        
         
           By
           this
           time
           the
           Plot
           is
           ripe
           for
           a
           Rebellion
           ;
           they
           
             Levy
             War
             ,
             Impose
             Oaths
             ,
             Seize
          
           the
           Revenues
           of
           the
           Church
           and
           
             Crown
             ;
             
             Kill
             ,
             Plunder
             ,
          
           and
           Emprison
           their
           
             Fellow-Subjects
             ;
             Depose
          
           and
           Murther
           their
           Sovereign
           ,
           under
           a
           Form
           of
           
             Publick
             Iustice
          
           ;
           by
           these
           Means
           advancing
           themselves
           into
           That
           
             Arbitrary
             Power
          
           which
           they
           pretended
           to
           Fear
           ;
           Over-turning
           the
           Government
           ,
           under
           the
           Colour
           of
           a
           Zeal
           to
           Support
           it
           :
           and
           instead
           of
           setting
           us
           Right
           in
           our
           Religious
           and
           
             Civil
             Liberties
          
           ,
           they
           left
           us
           neither
           Church
           ,
           nor
           Law
           ,
           nor
           King
           ,
           nor
           Parliament
           ,
           nor
           Properties
           ,
           nor
           Freedoms
           .
           Behold
           the
           Blessed
           Reformation
           ;
           and
           Remember
           that
           the
           Outcries
           against
           
             Tyranny
             ,
             Popery
          
           ,
           and
           
             Evil
             Counsellors
          
           ,
           were
           the
           Foundation
           of
           it
           .
           What
           was
           their
           Covenant
           ,
           but
           a
           Blind
           to
           their
           Designs
           ?
           
             A
             Popular
             Sacrament
             of
             Religious
             Disobedience
          
           ;
           and
           only
           a
           Mark
           of
           Discrimination
           who
           were
           against
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           who
           for
           him
           ?
           Nay
           ,
           in
           the
           very
           Contemplation
           of
           their
           Purpose
           ,
           they
           knew
           before-hand
           ,
           That
           there
           was
           no
           gaining
           of
           their
           Point
           ,
           but
           by
           
             Rapine
             ,
             Sacrilege
             ,
             Perjury
             ,
             Treason
             ,
          
           and
           Bloud
           .
        
         
           After
           these
           Notorious
           Violations
           of
           
             Faith
             ,
             Honour
             ,
             Humanity
          
           ,
           and
           Religion
           ;
           to
           the
           Common
           destruction
           of
           
             Prince
             ,
             
             Government
          
           ,
           and
           People
           ,
           and
           All
           upon
           the
           same
           Bottom
           with
           our
           Late
           Libels
           ;
           what
           can
           this
           
             Vnderminer
             of
             Parliaments
          
           ,
           What
           can
           our
           Geneva-Faux
           find
           to
           say
           for
           himself
           ?
           Is
           not
           Mercury
           as
           good
           Poyson
           in
           77
           ,
           as
           it
           was
           in
           41
           ?
           Do
           we
           not
           
             strike
             Fire
          
           the
           same
           way
           Now
           ,
           that
           we
           did
           Then
           ?
           And
           may
           not
           a
           Spark
           in
           the
           Gun-Room
           do
           as
           much
           Mischief
           
             This
             Year
          
           ,
           as
           it
           did
           Thirty
           ,
           or
           
             Forty
             Years
             ago
          
           ?
           Are
           not
           the
           People
           as
           much
           Tinder
           now
           ,
           as
           they
           were
           Formerly
           ?
           and
           as
           apt
           to
           take
           Ill
           Impressions
           ?
           What
           if
           the
           same
           Method
           should
           work
           the
           same
           Confusion
           over
           again
           ?
           or
           in
           Truth
           ,
           what
           is
           there
           else
           to
           be
           expected
           ?
           For
           
             the
             same
             Cause
             ,
             acting
             at
             Liberty
             ,
             must
             eternally
             produce
             the
             same
             Effect
             .
          
           There
           's
           no
           Chance-medley
           ,
           or
           Misadventure
           in
           the
           Case
           ;
           but
           the
           Thing
           is
           manifestly
           done
           with
           
             Prepense
             Malice
          
           ,
           and
           
             on
             set
             Purpose
          
           ,
           to
           embroyl
           the
           State
           :
           As
           upon
           Examination
           of
           the
           Matter
           will
           undeniably
           appear
           .
        
         
           You
           cannot
           but
           take
           Notice
           ,
           That
           the
           Author
           of
           
             The
             Growth
             of
             Popery
          
           ,
           does
           upon
           the
           Main
           ,
           principally
           labour
           these
           
           Two
           things
           .
           First
           ,
           To
           insinuate
           that
           the
           King
           is
           in
           some
           Cases
           
             Accomptable
             to
             his
             People
          
           ,
           (
           of
           which
           hereafter
           .
           )
           And
           Secondly
           ,
           To
           provoke
           the
           People
           ,
           by
           suggesting
           that
           their
           Souls
           ,
           and
           their
           Liberties
           are
           at
           stake
           ,
           to
           make
           use
           of
           that
           Power
           .
           From
           the
           former
           Proposition
           he
           passes
           into
           a
           Florid
           and
           Elaborate
           Declamation
           against
           Popery
           ;
           and
           when
           he
           has
           wrought
           up
           the
           Figure
           to
           a
           height
           ,
           to
           make
           it
           Terrible
           and
           Odious
           ,
           his
           next
           Business
           is
           to
           tell
           the
           People
           ,
           that
           This
           Gobling
           is
           coming
           in
           among
           them
           ,
           and
           to
           possess
           the
           Multitude
           with
           the
           Apprehension
           of
           a
           Form'd
           Conspiracy
           against
           our
           Religion
           and
           Government
           :
           And
           this
           too
           ,
           under
           the
           Countenance
           of
           an
           
             Historical
             Deduction
             of
             Affairs
          
           ;
           but
           with
           the
           Faith
           of
           a
           
             Iesuitical
             Legend
          
           ;
           wherein
           all
           the
           Kings
           Ministers
           are
           in
           General
           Terms
           branded
           for
           Conspirators
           .
        
         
           His
           Hand
           being
           now
           in
           ,
           he
           is
           resolv'd
           to
           go
           thorough-stitch
           ,
           and
           nothing
           scapes
           him
           that
           falls
           in
           his
           way
           :
           He
           makes
           the
           
             House
             of
             Lords
          
           (
           p.
           72.
           )
           to
           be
           
             Felon
             of
             it self
          
           ;
           and
           (
           p.
           82
           .
           )
           
             Non
             Compos
          
           ;
           Arraigning
           their
           Proceedings
           in
           several
           Cases
           with
           
           Boldness
           and
           Contempt
           .
           But
           he
           makes
           a
           great
           deal
           bolder
           yet
           with
           the
           
             House
             of
             Commons
          
           ;
           he
           divides
           them
           into
           
             Three
             Parts
             .
             It
             is
             too
             notorious
             to
             be
             conceal'd
          
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           p.
           73.
           )
           
             that
             near
          
           a
           Third
           part
           of
           the
           House
           ,
           
             have
             Beneficial
             Offices
             under
             his
             Majesty
             in
             the
             Privy
             Council
             ,
             the
             Army
             ,
             the
             Navy
             ,
             the
             Law
             ,
             the
             Houshold
             ,
             the
             Revenue
             both
             in
          
           England
           ,
           and
           Ireland
           ,
           
             or
             in
             Attendance
             upon
             his
             Majesties
             Person
             .
          
           Upon
           this
           Exception
           ,
           he
           expounds
           himself
           ,
           that
           
             'T
             is
             to
             be
             fear'd
             ,
             their
             Gratitude
             to
             their
             Master
             ,
             with
             their
             own
             Interest
             ,
             may
             tempt
             them
             beyond
             their
             Obligation
             to
             the
             Publick
             .
          
           What
           can
           be
           more
           Audacious
           than
           this
           Charge
           upon
           
             King
             ,
             Lords
          
           ,
           and
           Commons
           ,
           in
           the
           Face
           of
           
             a
             Sitting
             Parliament
          
           ?
           He
           says
           that
           
             It
             is
             too
             Notorious
             to
             be
             conceal'd
             &c.
             
          
           And
           where
           's
           the
           Crime
           ,
           or
           the
           Shame
           ,
           I
           beseech
           you
           ,
           for
           an
           Officer
           of
           the
           Kings
           ,
           to
           be
           a
           Member
           of
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           ?
           As
           if
           he
           that
           has
           an
           Office
           ,
           and
           he
           that
           has
           none
           ,
           had
           not
           Both
           of
           them
           the
           same
           Master
           ;
           or
           that
           a
           Man
           might
           not
           as
           well
           be
           a
           Knave
           without
           an
           Office
           ,
           as
           with
           it
           .
           This
           was
           the
           Complaint
           also
           of
           41
           ,
           against
           Officers
           ,
           till
           the
           
           Complainants
           had
           gotten
           those
           Offices
           themselves
           ,
           and
           then
           all
           was
           quiet
           .
           This
           is
           only
           a
           flyer
           way
           of
           declaring
           the
           King's
           Servants
           Enemies
           to
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           Erecting
           an
           Opposition
           betwixt
           the
           Common
           ,
           and
           Inseparable
           Interests
           of
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           his
           Subjects
           .
           Beside
           that
           ,
           the
           same
           Reason
           would
           reach
           to
           the
           Excluding
           of
           the
           King's
           Servants
           from
           any
           other
           Trust
           in
           the
           Goverment
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           from
           That
           of
           a
           Member
           in
           the
           House
           of
           Commons
           ;
           and
           his
           Majesties
           Favour
           should
           at
           that
           rate
           Incapacitate
           any
           Man
           for
           Publick
           Business
           .
           If
           the
           Libeller
           had
           open'd
           his
           mouth
           a
           little
           wider
           ,
           he
           would
           have
           told
           us
           in
           
             Plain
             English
          
           ,
           that
           there
           are
           three
           ,
           or
           four
           of
           
           Oliver's
           Old
           Servants
           out
           of
           Office
           ,
           and
           that
           the
           King
           is
           strangely
           over-seen
           to
           bestow
           his
           Boons
           upon
           a
           Company
           of
           Fellows
           that
           never
           had
           any
           hand
           in
           the
           bringing
           of
           him
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           by
           the
           Murther
           of
           his
           Father
           ,
           as
           they
           did
           .
           But
           yet
           he
           is
           content
           upon
           some
           Terms
           ,
           that
           they
           may
           be
           admitted
           ,
           
             provided
             that
             they
             do
             not
             croud
             into
             the
             House
             in
             numbers
             beyond
             Modesty
             ,
          
           (
           pag.
           74
           .
           )
           which
           may
           seem
           to
           be
           some
           amends
           for
           the
           Rascalls
           he
           
           made
           of
           them
           the
           very
           Page
           before
           .
           Suppose
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             that
             the
             Question
             concerning
             this
          
           Prorogation
           ,
           
             were
             by
             the
             Custom
             of
          
           Parliaments
           
             to
             be
             justify'd
             ,
             (
             which
             hath
             not
             been
             done
             hitherto
             )
             yet
             who
             that
             desires
             to
             maintain
             the
             Reputation
             of
             an
             Honest
             Man
             ,
             would
             not
             have
             laid
             hold
             upon
             so
             plausible
             an
             Occasion
             ,
             to
             break
             Company
             ,
             when
             it
             was
             grown
             so
             scandalous
             ?
          
           And
           then
           he
           assigns
           the
           matter
           of
           Scandal
           .
           
             For
             it
             is
             too
             notorious
          
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             to
             be
             conceal'd
             ,
             that
             near
             a
             Third
             Part
             of
             the
             House
             have
             Beneficial
             Offices
             under
             his
             Majesty
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           Here
           's
           a
           great
           deal
           of
           Business
           done
           in
           one
           Period
           .
           First
           ,
           He
           pronounces
           this
           Parliament
           void
           ,
           and
           consequently
           all
           their
           Proceedings
           to
           be
           Nullities
           .
           Secondly
           ;
           He
           will
           not
           allow
           any
           Man
           to
           be
           Honest
           ,
           that
           right
           or
           wrong
           would
           not
           improve
           the
           Opportunity
           of
           Breaking
           This
           
             Parliament
             .
             Thirdly
          
           ,
           He
           makes
           
             the
             House
             of
             Commons
          
           to
           be
           
             scandalous
             Company
             ,
             and
             scandalous
             for
             having
             Beneficial
             Offices
             under
             his
             Majesty
             .
          
           The
           first
           time
           that
           ever
           I
           heard
           the
           King's
           Bounty
           was
           a
           Scandal
           to
           any
           Man.
           But
           to
           my
           Point
           .
        
         
           
             And
             yet
          
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           p.
           77.
           )
           
             These
             Gentlemen
             
             being
             full
             ,
             and
             already
             in
             Employment
             ,
             are
             more
             good
             Natur'd
             ,
             and
             less
             dangerous
             to
             the
             Publick
             ,
             than
             those
             that
             are
             Hungry
             ,
             and
             out
             of
             Office
             ,
             who
             may
             by
             probable
             Computation
             make
          
           another
           Third
           Part
           of
           this
           House
           of
           Commons
           .
           And
           a
           while
           after
           ,
           
             They
             are
             all
             of
             them
          
           ,
           he
           says
           ,
           
             to
             be
             bought
             ,
             and
             sold.
          
           And
           when
           he
           goes
           on
           ;
           (
           p.
           78.
           )
           There
           is
           a
           Third
           Part
           still
           remaining
           ,
           
             but
             as
             contrary
             in
             themselves
             ,
             as
             Light
             and
             Darkness
             .
             These
             are
             either
             the
             Worst
             ,
             or
             the
             Best
             of
             Men
             ;
             The
             first
             are
             most
             prostigate
             Persons
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           Concluding
           (
           p.
           79
           .
           )
           That
           
             it
             is
             less
             difficult
             to
             conceive
             how
             Fire
             was
             first
             brought
             to
             Light
             in
             the
             World
             ,
             than
             how
             any
             thing
             Good
             could
             ever
             be
             produc'd
             out
             of
             a
             House
             of
             Commons
             so
             Constituted
             .
          
           And
           (
           p.
           149.
           )
           he
           calls
           them
           
             this
             House
             ,
             or
             BARN
             of
             Commons
          
           ;
           treating
           the
           Members
           accordingly
           .
           
             They
             list
             themselves
          
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             into
             some
             Court
             Faction
             ,
             and
             it
             is
             as
             well
             known
             among
             them
             to
             what
             Lord
             each
             of
             them
             retain
             ,
             as
             when
             formerly
             they
             wore
             Coats
             and
             Badges
             .
          
        
         
           And
           he
           has
           not
           done
           with
           them
           yet
           neither
           ;
           for
           nothing
           will
           do
           his
           Jobb
           ,
           but
           a
           Final
           Dissolution
           ;
           Considering
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           
           p.
           81.
           )
           
             how
             doubtful
             a
             Foot
             this
             long
             Parliament
             now
             stood
             upon
             by
             this
             long
             Prorogation
             ,
             there
             could
             not
             have
             been
             a
             more
          
           Legal
           ,
           
             or
             however
             ,
             no
             more
          
           Wife
           ,
           and
           Honest
           
             a
             thing
             done
             ,
             than
             for
             Both
             the
             Lords
             and
          
           Commons
           
             to
             have
          
           Separated
           Themselves
           ,
           &c.
           
           I
           could
           wish
           that
           he
           had
           not
           appeal'd
           from
           the
           Legality
           of
           the
           thing
           ,
           to
           the
           Wisdom
           ,
           and
           Honesty
           of
           it
           :
           But
           however
           Legal
           ,
           or
           not
           Legal
           ,
           the
           thing
           is
           to
           be
           done
           :
           For
           he
           knows
           very
           well
           that
           so
           long
           as
           this
           House
           of
           Commons
           continues
           in
           Being
           ,
           Rebellion
           can
           never
           turn
           up
           Trump
           again
           .
           
             But
             it
             was
             otherwise
             order'd
          
           ,
           he
           says
           ,
           and
           so
           he
           betakes
           himself
           to
           an
           Experiment
           of
           Tampering
           all
           the
           
             Grand
             Iuries
          
           in
           
             England
             ,
             to
             Petition
             for
             a
             New
             Parliament
             ,
          
           upon
           the
           Credit
           of
           his
           Story
           concerning
           the
           Corruptions
           of
           this
           .
           Wherein
           by
           the
           Foul
           Reflexions
           he
           has
           past
           upon
           many
           Persons
           of
           Known
           ,
           and
           Eminent
           Example
           ,
           for
           Piety
           ,
           Integrity
           ,
           and
           Moderation
           ,
           he
           has
           utterly
           disappointed
           the
           Malice
           of
           his
           Scandal
           upon
           the
           Rest.
           It
           was
           well
           enough
           said
           ,
           me
           thought
           ,
           by
           a
           Worthy
           Member
           of
           the
           House
           of
           
             Commons
             ;
             Do
             not
             you
             see
             ,
          
           says
           he
           ,
           
             how
             they
             
             have
             Libell'd
             me
             in
             that
             damn'd
             List
             of
             the
             Parliament-men
             ?
          
           One
           told
           him
           that
           he
           was
           mistaken
           ,
           for
           his
           Name
           was
           not
           in
           't
           .
           
             Why
             ,
             that
             's
             the
             Business
          
           ,
           says
           he
           ,
           
             for
             't
             is
             only
             a
             Libel
             upon
             those
             that
             are
             left
             out
             .
          
           Nay
           ,
           rather
           than
           fail
           ,
           he
           does
           as
           good
           as
           Advise
           a
           downright
           Insurrection
           ,
           (
           in
           these
           Words
           ,
           p.
           155.
           )
           
             It
             is
             now
             come
             to
             the
             fourth
             Act
          
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             and
             the
             next
             Scene
             that
             opens
             ,
             may
             be
          
           Rome
           ,
           or
           Paris
           ,
           (
           by
           the
           Plot
           ,
           it
           should
           be
           rather
           Geneva
           ,
           or
           Edinburgh
           )
           
             yet
             Men
             sit
          
           by
           ,
           like
           
             Idle
             Spectators
             ,
             and
             still
             give
             mony
             toward
             their
             own
             Tragedy
             .
          
           And
           why
           does
           he
           blame
           them
           for
           
             Sitting
             by
          
           ?
           And
           like
           
             Idle
             SPECTATORS
          
           ?
           unless
           he
           would
           have
           them
           enter
           into
           Tumult
           ,
           and
           Action
           .
           A
           very
           fair
           Encouragement
           to
           make
           Men
           bestir
           themselves
           ,
           and
           without
           more
           Ceremony
           ,
           lay
           violent
           Hands
           upon
           the
           Publick
           .
           Good
           God!
           That
           ever
           such
           a
           Creature
           as
           This
           should
           propound
           to
           himself
           by
           the
           Dash
           of
           a
           Pen
           ,
           to
           move
           the
           Foundations
           of
           the
           
             English
             Government
          
           .
        
         
           From
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           he
           descends
           to
           the
           
             Iudges
             .
             Alas
          
           !
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             the
             Wisdom
             
             and
             Probity
             of
             the
             Law
             went
             off
             ,
             for
             the
             most
             Part
             ,
             with
          
           Good
           Sir
           Matthew
           Hales
           ,
           
             and
             Iustice
             is
             made
             a
             meer
             Property
             .
          
           And
           then
           he
           raves
           upon
           
             The
             Constant
             Irregularities
             ,
             and
             Injustice
             from
             Term
             to
             Term
             ,
             of
             those
             that
             administer
             the
             Iudicature
             betwixt
             his
             Majesty
             ,
             and
             his
             People
          
           (
           p.
           154.
           )
           
             This
             Poysonous
             Arrow
          
           (
           meaning
           the
           Choice
           of
           the
           Judges
           )
           
             strikes
             to
             the
             very
             Heart
             of
             Government
             ,
             and
             could
             come
             from
             no
             Quiver
             ,
             but
             that
             of
             the
          
           Conspirators
           .
           What
           French
           Counsel
           ,
           what
           Standing
           Forces
           ,
           what
           Parliamentary
           
             Bribes
             ,
             what
          
           National
           Oaths
           ,
           
             and
             all
             the
             other
             Machinations
             of
             Wicked
             Men
             have
             not
             yet
             been
             able
             to
             effect
             ,
             may
             be
             more
             compendiously
             Acted
             by
             Twelve
             Iudges
             in
             Scarlet
          
           (
           p.
           66.
           )
           And
           is
           not
           this
           directly
           41
           again
           ?
           When
           no
           Iudges
           would
           serve
           the
           Turn
           ,
           but
           those
           that
           betray'd
           the
           People
           to
           Slavery
           ,
           and
           
             His
             Sacred
             Majesty
          
           to
           the
           Scaffold
           ?
           He
           has
           another
           Fling
           at
           the
           
             Sheriffs
             .
             If
             any
             Worthy
             Person
          
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           p.
           80
           .
           )
           
             chance
             to
             carry
             the
             Election
             ,
             some
             Mercenary
             or
             Corrupt
          
           Sheriff
           
             makes
             a
             double
             Return
          
           ;
           and
           so
           the
           Cause
           is
           handed
           to
           the
           Committee
           of
           Elections
           ,
           &c.
           
           And
           truly
           he
           does
           not
           give
           either
           the
           King
           ,
           or
           the
           Monarchy
           of
           
           England
           ,
           much
           better
           Quarter
           than
           he
           allows
           the
           rest
           ;
           as
           you
           shall
           see
           by
           and
           by
           :
           So
           that
           nothing
           less
           than
           the
           
             Thorough
             Reformation
          
           of
           41
           will
           do
           the
           Work
           of
           77.
           
           And
           the
           whole
           Frame
           of
           the
           Government
           must
           be
           unhing'd
           ,
           to
           gratify
           the
           Caprice
           of
           a
           Pragmatical
           Mal-content
           .
        
         
           The
           Passion
           ,
           and
           Malice
           of
           the
           Libeller
           is
           so
           evident
           ,
           that
           he
           does
           half
           confess
           it
           himself
           ,
           by
           an
           Anticipation
           of
           the
           
             Charge
             .
             The
             Relator
          
           ,
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           pag.
           155.
           )
           
             foresees
             that
             he
             shall
             on
             both
             hands
             be
             blam'd
             for
             pursuing
             this
             Method
             .
             Some
             on
             the
             One
             side
             will
             expect
             that
             the
             very
             Persons
             should
             have
             been
             Nam'd
             :
             whereas
             he
             only
             gives
             Evidence
             to
             the
             Fact
             ,
             and
             leaves
             the
             Malefactors
             to
             those
             that
             have
             the
             Power
             of
             Enquiry
             .
          
           If
           he
           can
           but
           acquit
           himself
           on
           the
           Other
           hand
           for
           
             Writing
             the
             Libel
          
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           on
           This
           for
           
             not
             Naming
             the
             Persons
          
           ,
           he
           will
           do
           well
           enough
           .
           For
           first
           ;
           It
           is
           not
           his
           Business
           to
           Prove
           ,
           but
           to
           
             Defame
             .
             Secondly
          
           ,
           The
           Naming
           of
           Particulars
           would
           have
           restrein'd
           the
           Calumny
           :
           whereas
           his
           work
           is
           to
           wound
           
             All
             the
             Kings
             Ministers
          
           that
           Faithfully
           adhere
           to
           their
           Master
           in
           the
           Generality
           of
           the
           
             Scandal
             .
             Thirdly
          
           ;
           He
           
           judges
           it
           safer
           ,
           and
           more
           expedient
           to
           amuse
           the
           Multitude
           with
           Iealousies
           that
           cannot
           be
           Disprov'd
           ,
           than
           point-blank
           to
           fasten
           upon
           Particulars
           an
           Accusation
           that
           cannot
           be
           Prov'd
           .
           What
           does
           he
           mean
           by
           saying
           that
           
             he
             gives
             Evidence
             to
             the
             Fact
             ?
          
           It
           is
           the
           first
           Libel
           certainly
           that
           ever
           was
           given
           in
           Evidence
           .
           But
           where
           's
           the
           Relator
           himself
           all
           this
           while
           ,
           upon
           whose
           bare
           word
           ,
           Parliaments
           are
           to
           be
           Dissolv'd
           ;
           Ministers
           of
           State
           Arraign'd
           ;
           Judges
           Displac'd
           ;
           and
           the
           whole
           Government
           new
           Modell'd
           ?
           What
           if
           he
           should
           appear
           ,
           and
           be
           found
           at
           last
           to
           have
           been
           one
           of
           
             Oliver's
             Cabal
          
           ?
           Would
           any
           Man
           desire
           a
           more
           Competent
           Witness
           for
           
             Charles
             the
             Second
          
           ,
           than
           the
           Murtherer
           of
           
             Charles
             the
             First
          
           ?
           But
           he
           has
           been
           so
           us'd
           to
           call
           the
           King
           himself
           Traytor
           ,
           that
           he
           may
           be
           allow'd
           to
           call
           his
           
             Friends
             Conspirators
          
           .
        
         
           
             On
             the
             other
             hand
          
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           pag.
           155.
           )
           
             some
             will
             represent
             this
             Discourse
             (
             as
             they
             do
             all
             Books
             that
             tend
             to
             detect
             their
             Conspiracy
             against
             his
             Majesty
             ,
             and
             Kingdom
             )
             as
             if
             It
             too
             were
             written
             against
             the
             Government
             .
             For
             now
             of
             late
             ,
             as
             soon
             as
             any
             Man
             
             is
             gotten
             into
             Publick
             Employment
             by
             ill
             Acts
             ;
             and
             by
             worse
             continues
             it
             ;
             he
             ,
             if
             it
             please
             the
             Fates
             ,
             is
             thenceforward
             the
             Government
             ,
             and
             by
             being
             Criminal
             ,
             pretends
             to
             be
             Sacred
             .
          
           This
           is
           only
           crying
           Whore
           first
           ,
           to
           call
           those
           People
           Conspirators
           ,
           who
           are
           likely
           to
           censure
           him
           for
           a
           Libeller
           :
           which
           with
           his
           Learned
           Leave
           ,
           is
           but
           a
           Course
           Figure
           neither
           ;
           and
           runs
           much
           better
           in
           the
           
             Common
             Billinsgate
          
           of
           
             You
             are
             a
             Knave
             yourself
             to
             say
             that
             I
             'm
             one
             .
          
           Which
           in
           few
           words
           is
           all
           that
           's
           in
           't
           .
           For
           he
           does
           not
           offer
           so
           much
           as
           one
           Syllable
           in
           his
           Justification
           ,
           but
           with
           another
           Lash
           or
           two
           at
           the
           King's
           Ministers
           ,
           winds
           up
           his
           Period
           .
           
             Now
             of
             late
          
           ,
           says
           he
           ,
           (
           he
           means
           I
           suppose
           ,
           since
           Oliver
           went
           out
           of
           Play
           )
           
             as
             soon
             as
             any
             Man
             is
             gotten
             into
             Publick
             Employment
             by
             ill
             Acts
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           He
           should
           do
           well
           to
           consider
           who
           Governs
           ,
           before
           he
           says
           That
           Villany
           is
           the
           ready
           way
           to
           Preferment
           ;
           
             He
             ,
             if
             it
             please
             the
             Fates
             ,
             is
             thenceforward
             the
             Government
             ,
             and
             by
             being
             Criminal
             ,
             pretends
             to
             be
             Sacred
             .
          
           I
           answer
           ,
           That
           in
           the
           Case
           of
           a
           Publick
           ,
           and
           Legal
           Accusation
           ,
           the
           Minister
           is
           not
           the
           Government
           ;
           for
           the
           Charge
           terminates
           in
           ,
           
           and
           operates
           no
           further
           than
           his
           Person
           ;
           but
           in
           the
           Affront
           of
           a
           Nameless
           ,
           and
           Indefinite
           Libel
           ,
           the
           King
           himself
           is
           wounded
           in
           a
           General
           Reflection
           upon
           his
           Ministers
           ;
           for
           it
           is
           his
           Choice
           ,
           and
           Commission
           ,
           not
           the
           Officers
           Misdemeanour
           ,
           that
           is
           there
           in
           Question
           :
           Nor
           does
           he
           pretend
           to
           be
           Sacred
           because
           he
           is
           Criminal
           ;
           but
           the
           Libeller
           (
           who
           still
           writes
           after
           the
           Remonstrance
           )
           makes
           every
           thing
           Criminal
           that
           is
           Sacred
           ,
           and
           gives
           the
           Construction
           of
           Rebellion
           to
           Loyalty
           ,
           and
           of
           Loyalty
           to
           Rebellion
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           there
           be
           not
           Mischief
           in
           the
           very
           Project
           of
           this
           Libel
           ,
           there
           's
           nothing
           at
           all
           in
           't
           ;
           for
           I
           cannot
           frame
           to
           my self
           the
           least
           Colour
           ,
           or
           Possibility
           of
           any
           other
           End.
           He
           says
           ,
           
             It
             was
             his
             Design
             indeed
          
           to
           give
           Information
           ,
           
             but
             not
             to
             turn
          
           Informer
           .
           That
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           He
           would
           set
           the
           People
           together
           by
           the
           Ears
           ,
           and
           no
           body
           should
           know
           who
           did
           it
           .
           Now
           see
           the
           End
           he
           propounds
           .
           
             That
             those
          
           (
           says
           the
           Relator
           )
           
             to
             whom
             he
             has
             only
             a
             Publick
             Enmity
             ,
             no
             Private
             Animosity
             ,
             might
             have
             the
             Priviledge
             of
             States-men
             to
             Repent
             at
             the
             last
             hour
             ,
             and
             by
             one
             single
             Action
             to
             expiate
             
             all
             their
             former
             misdemeanours
             .
          
           Which
           is
           e'en
           as
           Civil
           a
           way
           as
           a
           body
           would
           wish
           ,
           of
           Recommending
           a
           Publick
           Minister
           to
           his
           last
           Prayer
           .
           It
           remains
           now
           to
           speak
           a
           word
           to
           the
           Timing
           of
           his
           Enterprize
           ,
           which
           ,
           in
           a
           wicked
           Sence
           ,
           is
           in
           Truth
           the
           Glory
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           I
           shall
           not
           need
           to
           speculate
           upon
           the
           Power
           ,
           and
           Designs
           of
           France
           ,
           the
           deplorable
           State
           of
           Flanders
           ,
           or
           the
           Consequences
           that
           must
           inevitably
           reflect
           upon
           England
           in
           the
           Loss
           of
           the
           
             Spanish
             Neitherlands
          
           :
           the
           matter
           being
           agreed
           upon
           at
           all
           hands
           ,
           that
           an
           Union
           of
           Affections
           ,
           Counsels
           ,
           and
           Interests
           ,
           was
           never
           more
           necessary
           to
           this
           Nation
           than
           at
           this
           Instant
           it
           is
           ;
           and
           that
           Delay
           is
           Death
           to
           us
           ,
           This
           being
           given
           for
           granted
           ,
           it
           is
           likewise
           as
           certain
           ,
           that
           nothing
           under
           Heaven
           ,
           but
           the
           Credit
           of
           this
           Sitting
           Parliament
           ,
           and
           the
           Blessing
           of
           a
           Fair
           Understanding
           betwixt
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           his
           Two
           Houses
           can
           preserve
           this
           Kingdom
           (
           Morally
           speaking
           )
           from
           Irreparable
           Ruine
           .
           And
           yet
           this
           is
           the
           Critical
           Juncture
           that
           the
           Libeller
           has
           made
           choice
           of
           ,
           for
           the
           blasting
           both
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           the
           
           Administration
           of
           it
           ;
           for
           the
           violent
           Dissolution
           even
           of
           this
           most
           necessary
           Parliament
           ;
           for
           the
           sowing
           of
           Jealousies
           ,
           and
           alienating
           the
           Peoples
           Hearts
           from
           their
           Duty
           to
           their
           Sovereign
           .
           Let
           the
           World
           now
           judge
           betwixt
           the
           Libeller
           ,
           and
           the
           pretended
           Conspiratours
           ;
           who
           are
           more
           probably
           the
           
             Pensioners
             of
             France
          
           ;
           those
           that
           are
           only
           Calumniated
           in
           the
           Dark
           ,
           and
           without
           any
           Proof
           ,
           or
           the
           least
           Colour
           of
           it
           ,
           or
           the
           
             Calumniatours
             themselves
          
           ,
           (
           I
           mean
           ,
           the
           Libeller
           and
           his
           Adherents
           )
           who
           are
           doing
           all
           that
           is
           possible
           toward
           the
           Facilitating
           of
           the
           Work
           of
           France
           ,
           and
           the
           Putting
           of
           England
           out
           of
           Condition
           to
           defend
           it self
           .
           What
           is
           it
           ,
           I
           beseech
           you
           ,
           that
           can
           now
           support
           us
           in
           this
           Exigent
           ,
           but
           the
           Wisdom
           ,
           and
           Reputation
           of
           a
           Parliament
           ?
           which
           they
           are
           at
           this
           very
           Instant
           ,
           labouring
           to
           desame
           and
           dissolve
           :
           Distracting
           and
           Dividing
           the
           Nation
           ,
           at
           a
           Time
           when
           our
           best
           Union
           is
           little
           enough
           to
           preserve
           us
           ;
           and
           obstructing
           those
           Parliamentary
           supplyes
           ,
           without
           which
           we
           must
           unavoidably
           perish
           :
           For
           it
           is
           to
           this
           Session
           ,
           that
           the
           Libeller
           directs
           the
           Mock
           of
           
             Still
             giving
             Mony
          
           toward
           
           
             their
             own
             Tragedy
          
           .
           But
           sure
           we
           are
           not
           so
           mad
           yet
           ,
           as
           to
           take
           the
           Subverters
           of
           our
           Church
           and
           State
           ,
           for
           the
           Advocates
           of
           our
           Religion
           and
           Freedom
           .
           I
           would
           know
           in
           the
           next
           place
           ,
           What
           any
           Man
           can
           say
           to
           excuse
           his
           
             Growth
             of
             Popery
          
           ,
           from
           being
           a
           Daring
           ,
           and
           a
           
             Spightful
             Libel
          
           against
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           his
           Government
           .
           And
           I
           shall
           begin
           with
           the
           Liberties
           he
           takes
           with
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           sometime
           in
           direct
           Terms
           ,
           and
           otherwhile
           under
           the
           Blind
           ,
           of
           the
           Conspiratours
           .
        
         
           Speaking
           of
           the
           Shutting
           up
           of
           the
           Exchequer
           (
           pag.
           31.
           )
           
             The
             Crown
          
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             made
             Prize
             of
             the
             Subject
             ,
             and
             broke
             all
             Faith
             ,
             and
             Contract
             at
             Home
             ,
             in
             order
             to
             the
             breaking
             of
             them
             Abroad
             with
             more
             Advantage
             .
          
           The
           Copy
           has
           in
           This
           Point
           out-done
           the
           Original
           ;
           for
           the
           Remonstrants
           were
           in
           Arms
           ,
           before
           they
           presum'd
           to
           word
           it
           at
           this
           Audacious
           height
           .
           Take
           it
           in
           the
           Insolent
           Representation
           of
           the
           Fact
           ;
           the
           Malicious
           Construction
           and
           Presumption
           of
           the
           Intent
           ;
           and
           to
           Both
           these
           ,
           add
           the
           Sordid
           Manner
           of
           Reflecting
           upon
           an
           Extraordinary
           thing
           done
           
           upon
           an
           Extraordinary
           Occasion
           ,
           and
           wherein
           the
           Subject
           has
           since
           receiv'd
           so
           Ample
           ,
           and
           Generous
           Satisfaction
           ;
           the
           Clamour
           is
           so
           foul
           ,
           as
           if
           an
           
             AEgyptian
             Plague
          
           were
           broken
           in
           upon
           us
           ,
           and
           the
           Frogs
           of
           
             Geneva
             crept
             into
             the
             King's
             Chambers
             .
          
           And
           't
           is
           much
           at
           the
           same
           Rate
           that
           he
           treats
           the
           King
           about
           his
           
             Declaration
             of
             Indulgence
          
           ,
           (
           pag.
           33.
           )
           Hereby
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           )
           
             all
             the
             Penal
             Laws
             against
          
           Papists
           ,
           
             for
             which
             former
             Parliaments
             had
             given
             so
             many
             Supplyes
             ,
             and
             against
          
           Non-conformists
           ,
           
             for
             which
             this
             Parliament
             had
             pay'd
             more
             largely
             ,
             were
             at
             one
             Instant
             suspended
             ,
             in
             order
             to
             defraud
             the
             Nation
             of
             all
             that
             Religion
             ,
             which
             they
             had
             so
             dearly
             purchased
             ,
             &c.
             
          
           Observe
           here
           how
           ungratefully
           he
           charges
           the
           Design
           of
           this
           Declaration
           to
           be
           
             The
             defrauding
             the
             Nation
             of
             their
             Religion
          
           ;
           which
           ,
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           was
           a
           Manifest
           Concession
           ,
           only
           to
           gratifie
           the
           restless
           Importunities
           of
           his
           own
           Gang.
           And
           see
           what
           Sport
           he
           makes
           ,
           but
           five
           or
           six
           Lines
           further
           ,
           with
           the
           very
           Reason
           of
           that
           Law
           which
           he
           takes
           here
           so
           hainously
           to
           be
           suspended
           .
           
             It
             appears
          
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             at
             the
             first
             Sight
             ,
             that
             Men
             ought
             to
             enjoy
             the
             same
             
             Propriety
             ,
             and
             Protection
             in
             their
          
           Consciences
           ,
           
             which
             they
             have
             in
             their
          
           Lives
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Estates
           :
           
             But
             that
             to
             take
             away
             there
             in
             Penalty
             for
             the
             other
             ,
             is
             meerly
             a
             more
             Legal
             ,
             and
             Gentile
             way
             of
             Padding
             upon
             the
             Road
             of
             Heaven
             ;
             and
             that
             it
             is
             only
             for
             want
             of
          
           Mony
           ,
           
             and
             for
             want
             of
          
           Religion
           ,
           
             that
             Men
             take
             these
             desperate
             Courses
             .
          
           Now
           ,
           by
           his
           Favour
           ,
           there
           is
           a
           great
           Disparity
           betwixt
           a
           Pretence
           to
           Propriety
           ,
           and
           Protection
           in
           Consciences
           ,
           and
           a
           Pretence
           to
           them
           ,
           in
           
             Lives
             ,
             Liberties
          
           ,
           and
           Estates
           ;
           for
           the
           Latter
           are
           lyable
           to
           Violence
           ,
           and
           may
           be
           
             taken
             away
          
           ,
           but
           the
           
             Other
             cannot
          
           .
           And
           now
           he
           talks
           of
           Padding
           upon
           this
           Road
           ;
           the
           Remonstrants
           (
           as
           I
           remember
           )
           were
           very
           good
           at
           it
           ,
           that
           
             drove
             away
             from
             their
             Churches
          
           ,
           85
           
             Ministers
             ,
             of
          
           97
           ,
           
             within
             the
             Walls
             of
          
           London
           .
           We
           'll
           agree
           in
           the
           Matter
           with
           him
           ,
           That
           
             want
             of
             Mony
             ,
             and
             want
             of
             Religion
             will
             put
             Men
             upon
             Despesperate
             Courses
          
           ;
           for
           my
           Charity
           perswades
           me
           ,
           
             he
             would
             never
             have
             written
             these
             Libels
             else
             .
          
           He
           is
           a
           little
           positive
           ,
           me
           thinks
           ,
           in
           Averring
           that
           a
           Great
           Lord
           lost
           his
           Place
           for
           defending
           the
           
             Protestant
             Religion
          
           ,
           (
           pag.
           44.
           )
           But
           he
           has
           forgotten
           the
           
           Statute
           of
           his
           own
           Citing
           (
           pag.
           15.
           )
           that
           makes
           it
           Incapacity
           ,
           for
           saying
           That
           the
           King
           is
           a
           Papist
           ,
           or
           
             an
             Introducer
             of
             Popery
          
           ,
           and
           that
           it
           was
           the
           King
           himself
           that
           remov'd
           his
           Lordship
           .
           And
           what
           do
           you
           think
           of
           his
           Irony
           ,
           (
           pag.
           43
           .
           )
           where
           he
           says
           ,
           that
           The
           Parliament
           ,
           by
           the
           Conspiratours
           
             good
             Leave
             ,
             was
             admitted
             to
             sit
             again
             at
             the
             day
             appointed
             .
          
           He
           tells
           us
           of
           another
           Affair
           too
           ,
           pag.
           51
           ;
           which
           
             being
             transmitted
             to
             his
             Majesty
             ,
             was
             easily
             chang'd
             into
             a
          
           Court
           Intrigue
           ;
           And
           (
           pag.
           63.
           )
           That
           
             the
             Conspiratours
             might
             so
             represent
             things
             to
             his
             Majesty
             ,
             as
             to
             incense
             him
             against
             the
             Parliament
             ,
             and
             distrusting
             all
             Parliamentary
             .
             Advice
             ,
             to
             take
             Counsel
             from
          
           Themselves
           ,
           from
           France
           ,
           
             and
             from
          
           Necessity
           .
        
         
           In
           this
           Disloyal
           and
           Irreverent
           Licence
           ;
           he
           drops
           you
           a
           word
           or
           two
           now
           and
           then
           ,
           before
           he
           is
           aware
           ,
           against
           the
           
             King
             himself
          
           ;
           and
           other
           whiles
           ,
           Discharges
           his
           Malice
           to
           the
           Government
           ,
           upon
           the
           Heads
           of
           
             Publick
             Ministers
          
           .
           The
           Subject
           Matter
           of
           his
           Complaint
           is
           a
           Tendency
           of
           Counsels
           ,
           and
           Actions
           towards
           Tyranny
           ,
           and
           Popery
           .
           But
           
             the
             King
          
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           pag.
           4.
           )
           
             can
             do
             no
             wrong
          
           ;
           and
           so
           goes
           on
           ,
           
             nor
             can
             
             he
             receive
             wrong
             .
          
           What
           is
           this
           ,
           but
           a
           Justification
           of
           all
           the
           Violences
           that
           were
           acted
           upon
           the
           late
           King
           ;
           even
           to
           the
           very
           Murther
           of
           him
           ;
           under
           that
           Mortal
           ,
           and
           Treasonous
           Distinction
           betwixt
           his
           AVTHORITY
           ,
           and
           his
           PERSON
           ?
           And
           an
           Allowance
           ,
           that
           the
           same
           Course
           may
           be
           taken
           with
           his
           Royal
           Successours
           ?
           
             The
             King
             can
             receive
             no
             wrong
          
           ;
           (
           he
           says
           )
           What
           does
           he
           mean
           by
           this
           ?
           Is
           not
           his
           Majesties
           Breath
           in
           his
           Nostrils
           ?
           Is
           he
           not
           Flesh
           and
           Bloud
           ?
           Is
           not
           his
           Body
           lyable
           to
           Wounds
           ,
           Distempers
           ,
           Emprisonment
           ,
           and
           Death
           ?
           He
           'll
           tell
           you
           ,
           Yes
           ;
           but
           This
           is
           not
           the
           KING
           ,
           but
           the
           MAN
           ,
           the
           PERSON
           :
           But
           the
           KING
           ,
           all
           this
           while
           ,
           that
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           the
           Authority
           ,
           is
           Sacred
           ,
           and
           Invulnerable
           .
        
         
           Now
           for
           Peace
           ,
           and
           Brevity
           sake
           ,
           let
           us
           suppose
           that
           this
           Charge
           of
           a
           Popish
           ,
           and
           
             Arbitrary
             Design
          
           ,
           does
           neither
           Intend
           nor
           Reflect
           any
           Imputation
           upon
           his
           Majesty
           ;
           (
           his
           Religion
           ,
           and
           his
           Tenderness
           of
           Nature
           being
           Unquestionable
           )
           It
           is
           yet
           
             a
             worse
             Libel
             Another
             way
          
           .
           Worse
           (
           I
           say
           )
           both
           as
           to
           the
           Drift
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Scandal
           of
           it
           ,
           by
           how
           much
           Contempt
           is
           more
           dangerous
           
           to
           a
           Prince
           ,
           than
           Hatred
           :
           For
           he
           employes
           his
           Utmost
           Skill
           to
           represent
           his
           Majesty
           only
           Passive
           in
           all
           his
           Administrations
           ,
           and
           so
           to
           lessen
           the
           Indubitable
           Fame
           of
           his
           Royal
           Prudence
           ,
           and
           Courage
           among
           his
           People
           .
        
         
           You
           see
           ,
           Sir
           ,
           the
           Freedom
           he
           takes
           with
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           his
           Ministers
           ;
           the
           next
           Point
           will
           be
           to
           enquire
           how
           he
           stands
           affected
           to
           the
           Government
           it self
           .
           
             The
             Subjects
          
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           pag.
           3
           .
           )
           
             retain
             their
             Proportion
             in
             the
          
           Legislature
           .
           In
           which
           saying
           ,
           he
           makes
           them
           
             Partners
             of
             the
             Sovereignty
          
           ,
           and
           turns
           the
           Monarchy
           of
           England
           into
           a
           Tripartite
           and
           
             Coordinate
             Government
          
           ;
           which
           is
           as
           well
           Destructive
           of
           Parliaments
           ,
           on
           the
           One
           hand
           ,
           as
           of
           Royalty
           ,
           on
           the
           Other
           .
           Upon
           the
           Admittance
           of
           this
           Co-ordination
           ,
           any
           Two
           of
           the
           Three
           may
           destroy
           the
           Third
           :
           the
           
             Two
             Houses
          
           may
           destroy
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           ,
           with
           Either
           of
           the
           Houses
           ,
           may
           destroy
           the
           Other
           .
           Which
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           so
           ,
           what
           Prince
           that
           is
           Imperial
           in
           the
           Intervalls
           ,
           would
           ever
           hazard
           the
           Dethroning
           of
           himself
           by
           a
           
             Session
             ?
             The
             Making
             of
             Law
             is
             a
             Peculiar
             ,
             and
             Incommunicable
             Priviledge
             of
             the
             
             Supreme
             Power
             ,
          
           and
           the
           Office
           of
           the
           
             Two
             Houses
          
           in
           this
           Case
           is
           only
           Consultive
           ,
           or
           Preparatory
           ;
           but
           the
           Character
           of
           Power
           rests
           in
           the
           Final
           Sanction
           ,
           which
           is
           in
           the
           King
           :
           And
           Effectually
           ,
           the
           Passing
           of
           a
           Bill
           ,
           is
           but
           the
           granting
           of
           a
           Request
           :
           The
           
             Two
             Houses
          
           make
           the
           Bill
           ,
           't
           is
           true
           ,
           but
           the
           King
           makes
           the
           Law
           ;
           and
           't
           is
           the
           Stamp
           ,
           not
           the
           Matter
           ,
           that
           makes
           it
           Current
           :
           Nor
           does
           the
           Subject
           any
           otherwise
           make
           Laws
           ,
           than
           
             the
             Petitioner
          
           makes
           
             Orders
             of
             Council
          
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           a
           Suspicious
           ,
           and
           Ill-looking
           Passage
           that
           he
           has
           ,
           Pag.
           14.
           
           
             As
             to
             Matter
             of
             Government
          
           ,
           says
           he
           ;
           
             If
             to
             murther
             the
             King
             ,
             be
             (
             as
             certainly
             it
             is
             )
             a
             Fact
             so
             horrid
             ,
          
           (
           he
           does
           not
           say
           how
           horrid
           )
           
             how
             much
             more
             Hainous
             is
             it
             to
             Assassinate
             the
             Kingdom
             ?
          
           Here
           is
           First
           involv'd
           in
           this
           Clause
           ,
           the
           
             Deposing
             Position
          
           of
           41
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           is
           
             Singulis
             major
             ,
             Vniversis
             minor
          
           :
           For
           it
           is
           clear
           that
           the
           Comparison
           was
           only
           made
           to
           draw
           on
           the
           Preference
           ,
           and
           to
           possess
           the
           People
           that
           they
           have
           a
           greater
           Prize
           at
           Stake
           in
           the
           hazard
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           than
           in
           the
           Tye
           of
           their
           
             Civil
             Obedience
          
           .
           (
           the
           very
           Translation
           still
           of
           41.
           )
           And
           for
           
           their
           further
           Encouragement
           ,
           he
           tells
           them
           (
           pag.
           4.
           )
           that
           
             We
             have
             the
             same
             Right
             (
             modestly
             understood
             )
             in
             our
             Propriety
             ,
             that
             the
             Prince
             hath
             in
             his
             Regality
             :
          
           which
           carries
           with
           it
           an
           Innuendo
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           may
           as
           well
           Forfeit
           his
           Crown
           ,
           as
           the
           Subject
           his
           Free-hold
           .
           It
           cannot
           be
           imagin'd
           that
           all
           these
           Leading
           and
           Desperate
           Hints
           should
           fall
           from
           a
           Man
           of
           Brains
           and
           Sense
           by
           Chance
           ;
           and
           you
           see
           the
           whole
           Tract
           takes
           the
           same
           Biass
           .
        
         
           
             No
             King
             of
          
           England
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           pag.
           58.
           )
           
             had
             ever
             so
             great
             a
             Treasure
             of
             his
             Peoples
             Affections
             ,
             except
             what
             those
             Ill
             men
             have
             (
             as
             they
             have
             done
             all
             the
             rest
             )
             consum'd
             ;
             whom
             ,
             but
             out
             of
             an
             Excess
             of
             Love
             to
             his
             Person
             ,
             the
             Kingdom
             would
             never
             (
             for
             it
             never
             did
             formerly
             )
             so
             long
             have
             suffer'd
             .
          
           Here
           's
           still
           the
           Crocodile
           of
           41
           ;
           nothing
           but
           Love
           and
           Reverence
           to
           his
           late
           Majesty
           too
           ,
           till
           his
           Head
           was
           off
           .
           But
           let
           us
           Reason
           the
           Matter
           in
           a
           word
           .
           
             These
             Ill
             men
          
           have
           no
           Names
           ,
           it
           seems
           ;
           so
           that
           any
           Man
           that
           's
           near
           the
           King
           ,
           is
           by
           this
           Libeller
           set
           up
           for
           a
           Mark
           to
           the
           Outrage
           of
           the
           People
           .
           And
           then
           he
           says
           ,
           
             The
             Kingdom
             would
             never
             have
             suffer'd
             them
             .
          
           Who
           are
           they
           ,
           I
           
           pray
           ,
           that
           he
           calls
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           but
           the
           Rabble
           still
           of
           41
           ;
           the
           Execrable
           Instruments
           of
           
             That
             Rebellion
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Hopes
           of
           Another
           ?
           But
           if
           the
           Kingdom
           would
           not
           suffer
           it
           ,
           what
           would
           he
           have
           them
           do
           to
           help
           themselves
           ?
           The
           Law
           is
           open
           ,
           in
           Case
           of
           any
           Legal
           Impeachment
           ,
           and
           't
           is
           too
           Early
           Days
           yet
           for
           a
           Tumult
           .
        
         
           In
           his
           Descant
           upon
           the
           ,
           Test
           he
           is
           wonderfully
           free
           of
           his
           Figures
           .
           Never
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           pag.
           59.
           )
           
             was
             so
             much
             sence
             contain'd
             in
             so
             few
             words
             ;
             no
             Conveyancer
             could
             ever
             in
             more
             Compendious
             ,
             or
             Binding
             Terms
             have
             drawn
             a
             Dissettlement
             of
             the
             whole
             Birth-right
             of
          
           England
           .
           This
           Test
           has
           made
           a
           great
           Noise
           ,
           and
           it
           will
           be
           worth
           the
           while
           to
           examine
           what
           is
           said
           against
           it
           .
           The
           Form
           of
           it
           is
           as
           follows
           .
        
         
           I.
           A.
           B.
           
             do
             declare
             that
             it
             is
             not
             lawful
             upon
             any
             Pretence
             whatsoever
             to
             take
             up
             Arms
             against
             the
             King
             ;
             and
             that
             I
             do
             abhor
             that
             Trayterous
             Position
             of
             taking
             Arms
             by
             his
             Authority
             ,
             against
             his
             Person
             ,
             or
             against
             those
             that
             are
             Commission'd
             by
             him
             in
             Pursuance
             of
             such
             Commission
             .
             And
             I
             do
             swear
             that
             I
             will
             not
             at
             any
             time
             Endeavour
             the
             
             Alteration
             of
             the
             Government
             ,
             either
             in
             Church
             or
             State.
             So
             help
             me
             God.
             
          
        
         
           He
           says
           ,
           pag.
           57
           ,
           That
           
             it
             was
             thrown
             out
             of
             the
             House
             in
             the
             Plague-year
             at
          
           Oxford
           ,
           
             for
             fear
             of
             a
             general
             Infection
             of
             the
             Vitals
             of
             this
             Kingdom
          
           ;
           whereas
           in
           truth
           ,
           it
           was
           
             brought
             into
             the
             House
          
           as
           an
           Antidote
           against
           that
           Poyson
           which
           had
           seiz'd
           the
           Vitals
           of
           this
           Kingdom
           already
           ;
           and
           amounts
           to
           no
           more
           than
           the
           Vnswearing
           of
           That
           on
           the
           Behalf
           of
           theGovernment
           ,
           which
           had
           been
           formerly
           sworn
           for
           the
           Destruction
           of
           it
           .
           The
           Author
           of
           
             A
             Letter
             from
             a
             Person
             of
             Quality
             ,
             &c.
          
           calls
           it
           ,
           p.
           1.
           
           
             A
             STATE-MASTER-PIECE
          
           ,
           and
           design'd
           to
           these
           Ends.
           
             First
             ,
             To
             make
             a
             Distinct
             Party
             ,
             from
             the
             rest
             of
             the
             Nation
             ,
             of
             the
             High
             Episcopal
             Man
             ,
             and
             the
             Old
             Cavalier
             .
          
           Now
           I
           took
           it
           rather
           to
           be
           a
           Design
           of
           Vniting
           All
           Parties
           ,
           under
           one
           Common
           Bond
           of
           Duty
           ,
           and
           Obedience
           to
           the
           Government
           :
           And
           where
           That
           could
           not
           be
           obtain'd
           ,
           to
           distinguish
           who
           were
           for
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           who
           against
           it
           ;
           for
           the
           Late
           King
           was
           murther'd
           upon
           this
           very
           Distinction
           betwixt
           his
           
           Authority
           and
           his
           Person
           ,
           Nor
           is
           there
           any
           Government
           upon
           the
           Face
           of
           the
           Earth
           ,
           without
           some
           Obligation
           upon
           the
           Subject
           ,
           Equivalent
           to
           This
           Test.
           
        
         
           Next
           ,
           says
           he
           ,
           
             they
             design
             to
             have
             the
             Government
             of
             the
             Church
             sworn
             to
             as
          
           Unalterable
           ,
           
             and
             so
             Tacitely
             own'd
             to
             be
             of
             Divine
             Right
             .
          
           This
           ,
           is
           under
           favour
           ,
           is
           a
           Fallacy
           .
           The
           Test
           does
           not
           concern
           it self
           whether
           the
           Government
           be
           Changeable
           ,
           or
           not
           ,
           but
           only
           provides
           that
           the
           State
           may
           be
           serv'd
           with
           Magistrates
           and
           Officers
           ,
           that
           stand
           well
           .
           Affected
           to
           the
           Establishment
           .
           Those
           that
           do
           so
           ,
           will
           never
           scruple
           the
           Oath
           ;
           and
           for
           those
           that
           do
           not
           ,
           it
           is
           the
           very
           Intent
           of
           it
           to
           discriminate
           ,
           and
           to
           exclude
           them
           :
           And
           to
           encounter
           the
           Covenant
           ,
           by
           Virtue
           of
           which
           they
           dissolv'd
           the
           
             Late
             Government
          
           ,
           with
           an
           Oath
           never
           to
           endeavour
           any
           further
           Alteration
           in
           This.
           And
           certainly
           ,
           a
           Man
           may
           better
           swear
           the
           Maintaining
           of
           a
           Government
           According
           to
           the
           Law
           ,
           than
           the
           Alteration
           of
           it
           Against
           Law.
           
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           says
           the
           Author
           of
           the
           Letter
           ,
           
             In
             Requital
             to
             the
             Crown
             ,
             they
             declare
             the
             Government
          
           Absolute
           ,
           and
           Arbitrary
           ,
           
             and
             
             allow
          
           Monarchy
           ,
           
             as
             well
             as
          
           Episcopacy
           ,
           
             to
             be
          
           Jure
           Divino
           ,
           
             and
             not
             to
             be
             bounded
             ,
             or
             limited
             by
             Humane
             Laws
             .
          
        
         
           How
           
             This
             Test
          
           does
           either
           Declare
           ,
           or
           Pretend
           the
           Government
           to
           be
           Absolute
           ,
           and
           Arbitrary
           ,
           I
           cannot
           imagine
           :
           But
           on
           the
           Contrary
           ,
           every
           Man
           is
           ty'd
           by
           it
           from
           Endeavouring
           to
           make
           it
           so
           ,
           if
           it
           be
           not
           so
           already
           ,
           in
           Swearing
           that
           
             he
             will
             not
             at
             any
             time
             endeavour
             the
          
           Alteration
           
             of
             it
          
           .
           And
           then
           in
           his
           Explication
           of
           the
           meaning
           of
           Church
           ,
           and
           State
           in
           the
           Test
           ,
           by
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           Episcopacy
           in
           his
           Reflection
           upon
           it
           ,
           he
           has
           done
           us
           a
           greater
           Kindness
           than
           he
           was
           aware
           of
           ;
           for
           he
           has
           wholly
           Disappointed
           the
           Spight
           ,
           and
           the
           Intent
           of
           his
           next
           Clause
           .
           And
           (
           as
           he
           goes
           on
           )
           
             to
             secure
             all
             this
             ,
             they
             resolve
             to
             take
             away
             the
             Power
             ,
             and
             Opportunity
             of
          
           Parliaments
           ,
           
             to
             alter
             any
             thing
             in
             Church
             or
             State
             ,
             only
             leave
             them
             as
             an
          
           Instrument
           
             to
             raise
          
           Mony
           ,
           
             and
             to
             pass
             such
             Laws
             ,
             as
             the
             Court
             ,
             and
             Church
             shall
             have
             a
             mind
             to
             :
             The
             Attempt
             of
             any
             other
             ,
             how
             Necessary
             soever
             ,
             must
             be
             no
             less
             a
             Crime
             than
             Perjury
             .
          
        
         
           See
           now
           whether
           or
           no
           this
           be
           fair
           dealing
           .
           It
           is
           ,
           by
           his
           own
           Confession
           ,
           the
           
           Form
           of
           Monarchy
           ,
           and
           the
           Order
           of
           Episcopacy
           ,
           the
           Government
           it self
           ,
           and
           not
           the
           Administration
           of
           it
           ,
           that
           is
           here
           in
           Question
           .
           He
           would
           have
           it
           believ'd
           ,
           That
           by
           this
           Test
           ,
           Parliaments
           are
           barr'd
           upon
           Pain
           of
           Perjury
           from
           Attempting
           any
           
             Alteration
             IN
             Church
          
           or
           State
           :
           whereas
           they
           are
           left
           at
           Liberty
           to
           debate
           what
           Alterations
           they
           please
           in
           the
           Parts
           of
           the
           Government
           provided
           they
           do
           not
           strike
           at
           the
           Root
           of
           the
           Government
           it self
           .
           And
           the
           Deliberation
           and
           Result
           of
           the
           whole
           Matter
           ,
           is
           no
           more
           than
           This.
           Many
           of
           the
           People
           (
           and
           All
           the
           Principles
           )
           are
           yet
           Living
           ,
           that
           destroy'd
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           the
           Bishops
           in
           the
           last
           Rebellion
           ;
           Let
           us
           have
           a
           Care
           of
           the
           same
           Hands
           again
           ,
           and
           trust
           none
           of
           them
           in
           the
           Government
           but
           under
           an
           Oath
           ,
           not
           to
           endeavour
           the
           Alteration
           of
           it
           .
           That
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           of
           the
           Monarchy
           into
           a
           Republique
           ,
           or
           of
           Episcopacy
           into
           Presbytery
           ;
           as
           they
           did
           before
           .
           And
           this
           was
           the
           Clear
           Scope
           of
           the
           Test.
           
        
         
           The
           Author
           of
           the
           
             Growth
             of
             Popery
          
           ,
           discoursing
           upon
           this
           Subject
           ;
           
             There
             is
             nothing
          
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           p.
           57.
           )
           
             more
             Portentous
             ,
             
             and
             of
             worse
             Omen
             ,
             than
             when
             such
             an
             Oath
             hangs
             over
             a
             Nation
             like
             a
             New
             Comet
             ,
             foreboding
             the
             Alteration
             of
             Religion
             or
             Government
             .
          
        
         
           A
           word
           first
           to
           the
           Oath
           ,
           which
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           an
           Epithete
           to
           express
           the
           hainousness
           of
           it
           ,
           the
           Libeller
           so
           Emphatically
           calls
           
             SVCH
             an
             Oath
          
           .
           It
           is
           an
           Oath
           founded
           upon
           the
           same
           Consideration
           with
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           and
           directed
           to
           the
           same
           End
           ;
           and
           every
           jot
           as
           Necessary
           under
           This
           King
           ,
           as
           That
           was
           under
           his
           Grand-Father
           .
           The
           
             Iesuited
             Papist's
          
           had
           invited
           the
           Spaniard
           to
           Invade
           England
           :
           The
           
             Iesuited
             Protestants
          
           in
           the
           late
           Rebellion
           ,
           did
           ,
           in
           like
           manner
           apply
           themselves
           to
           the
           French.
           The
           Former
           laid
           on
           Plot
           for
           the
           Blowing
           up
           of
           the
           Parliament
           :
           The
           Other
           executed
           the
           Plot
           of
           Destroying
           Parliaments
           ,
           Changing
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           murthering
           the
           King.
           The
           People
           were
           misled
           in
           the
           One
           Case
           ,
           upon
           the
           Iesuitical
           Principle
           ,
           that
           a
           Prince
           being
           Excommunicate
           by
           the
           Pope
           ,
           the
           Subject
           is
           discharg'd
           of
           his
           Duty
           to
           him
           ,
           and
           they
           were
           seduc'd
           in
           the
           Other
           ,
           by
           a
           Persuasion
           that
           the
           Sacred
           Character
           
           of
           a
           King
           rests
           in
           the
           Authority
           ,
           and
           is
           separable
           from
           the
           Person
           ;
           which
           Authority
           they
           lodg'd
           in
           the
           
             Two
             Houses
          
           ,
           and
           so
           did
           their
           Business
           .
           This
           Practice
           of
           the
           Iesuites
           occasion'd
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           in
           the
           Statute
           3
           o
           Iacobi
           ,
           entitled
           
             An
             Act
             for
             the
             Discovering
             ,
             and
             Repressing
             of
          
           Popish
           Recusants
           .
           In
           which
           Oath
           ,
           you
           have
           this
           Clause
           .
           
             And
             I
             do
             further
             swear
             that
             I
             do
             from
             my
             Heart
             detest
             and
             abjure
             ,
             as
             Impious
             and
             Heretical
             ,
             this
             damnable
             Doctrine
             ,
             and
             Position
             ,
             That
             Princes
             which
             be
             Excommunicated
             ,
             or
             Deprived
             by
             the
          
           Pope
           ,
           
             may
             be
             Deposed
             ,
             or
             Murther'd
             by
             their
             Subjects
             ,
             or
             any
             other
             whatsoever
             .
          
           Here
           was
           an
           Act
           for
           the
           Discovering
           and
           Repressing
           of
           
             Popish
             Recusants
          
           ,
           with
           an
           
             Oath
             ,
             under
             a
             Penalty
             ,
             and
             a
             Declaration
             against
             ,
             and
             an
             Abhorrence
             of
          
           that
           Impious
           Position
           ,
           whereupon
           the
           Treasons
           of
           those
           Times
           were
           founded
           :
           And
           why
           not
           a
           Provision
           as
           well
           against
           those
           People
           that
           with
           premeditated
           Malice
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Ambition
           ,
           over-turn'd
           the
           Late
           Government
           ;
           and
           against
           That
           Principle
           ,
           of
           Dividing
           his
           Majesties
           Authority
           from
           his
           Person
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           Countenance
           and
           Support
           of
           the
           late
           Rebellion
           ?
           
           Take
           it
           in
           short
           ,
           and
           the
           Test
           is
           but
           a
           Supplement
           to
           the
           Oath
           of
           Allegiance
           .
           The
           Scottish
           Faction
           Impos'd
           upon
           the
           People
           that
           they
           might
           be
           true
           to
           the
           King
           ,
           though
           they
           Levy'd
           Arms
           against
           his
           Person
           :
           and
           the
           end
           of
           this
           Oath
           is
           only
           to
           expound
           
             That
             Position
          
           to
           be
           Treasonous
           ,
           and
           to
           Secure
           the
           Government
           for
           the
           Future
           against
           Men
           of
           such
           Principles
           :
           According
           to
           Equity
           and
           Conscience
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Common
           Practice
           ,
           and
           according
           to
           the
           Prudence
           of
           all
           well
           Order'd
           States
           .
        
         
           Is
           this
           the
           Oath
           now
           that
           he
           calls
           
             SVCH
             an
             Oath
          
           ?
           The
           Oath
           ,
           
             than
             which
             there
             is
             nothing
             more
          
           Portentous
           ,
           
             and
             of
             worse
          
           Omen
           
             to
             a
             Nation
          
           ?
           He
           has
           forgotten
           the
           Fore-boding
           ,
           and
           
             Portentous
             Omens
          
           of
           Forty
           One
           ,
           and
           the
           Dire
           Events
           of
           those
           Presages
           .
           What
           do
           you
           think
           of
           a
           deliberate
           Design
           ,
           to
           spoil
           the
           Crown
           ,
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           the
           Subject
           :
           And
           all
           this
           in
           the
           Name
           of
           God
           ,
           for
           the
           Honour
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           the
           Good
           of
           the
           People
           ?
           And
           then
           the
           Entitling
           of
           Providence
           to
           all
           the
           Advantages
           that
           the
           Faction
           got
           by
           the
           Ruine
           of
           
             Three
             Kingdoms
          
           ?
           Here
           's
           the
           unrepented
           
           Guilt
           of
           
             Sacriledge
             ,
             Treason
          
           ,
           and
           Bloud
           ,
           to
           the
           Highest
           Degree
           ,
           and
           so
           Transcendent
           an
           Ingratitude
           ,
           that
           some
           of
           the
           very
           Men
           that
           were
           Pardon'd
           for
           One
           Rebellion
           ,
           are
           now
           the
           Advocates
           for
           Another
           .
           If
           these
           Practices
           should
           be
           suffer'd
           ,
           there
           would
           be
           no
           need
           to
           consult
           the
           Stars
           for
           a
           Prognostick
           of
           Change
           of
           Government
           .
        
         
           The
           Oaths
           (
           says
           he
           ,
           pag.
           58.
           )
           
             in
             our
             Late
             King's
             time
             taught
             the
          
           Phanaticks
           ,
           
             because
             they
             could
             not
             swear
             ,
             yet
             to
             Covenant
             .
          
           His
           Memory
           fails
           him
           ,
           I
           perceive
           ,
           for
           the
           Covenant
           was
           a
           Foot
           in
           Scotland
           before
           any
           Oaths
           complain'd
           of
           here
           ;
           by
           the
           Token
           that
           the
           Assembly
           at
           Glasgow
           ,
           in
           1638
           ,
           came
           to
           this
           Resolution
           upon
           the
           Point
           .
           
             It
             is
             lawful
             for
             Subjects
             to
             Covenant
             and
             Combine
             ,
             without
             the
             King
             ,
             and
             enter
             into
             a
             Bond
             of
             mutual
             Defence
             against
             him
             .
          
           Take
           notice
           next
           that
           the
           Oath
           complain'd
           of
           ,
           was
           the
           
             Oath
             ex
             Officio
          
           ,
           which
           Oath
           was
           Abolish'd
           ,
           before
           any
           Covenanting
           in
           England
           :
           And
           he
           is
           so
           much
           out
           again
           ,
           in
           saying
           that
           
             the
             Phanaticks
             Covenanted
             ,
             &c.
             because
             they
             could
             not
             swear
             ,
          
           that
           in
           Truth
           
             they
             Covenanted
             because
             they
             
             car'd
             not
          
           what
           
             they
             swore
          
           .
           Witness
           their
           
             Covenants
             ,
             Negative
             Oaths
          
           ,
           and
           Oath
           of
           Abjuration
           ,
           in
           Opposition
           to
           their
           Oaths
           of
           Allegiance
           ,
           and
           
             Canonical
             Obedience
          
           :
           There
           was
           no
           Compounding
           ,
           no
           Living
           in
           their
           Quarters
           ,
           without
           Swearing
           .
           There
           was
           an
           Oath
           ,
           given
           at
           a
           Communion
           at
           Fife
           ,
           obliging
           People
           not
           to
           take
           the
           King's
           Covenant
           ;
           And
           
             it
             was
             one
             Condition
             upon
             the
             Treaty
             at
             the
             Isle
             of
             Wight
             ,
             that
             his
             Majesty
             himself
             should
             give
             Assurance
             by
          
           Solemn
           Oath
           
             under
             his
             Hand
             ,
             and
             Seal
             ,
             for
             settling
             Religion
             according
             to
             the
             Covenant
             :
          
           So
           that
           they
           made
           no
           Conscience
           (
           you
           see
           )
           either
           of
           Swearing
           ,
           or
           Forswearing
           ;
           either
           of
           taking
           Oaths
           Themselves
           ,
           or
           of
           
             Forcing
             them
          
           upon
           Others
           for
           the
           Advancement
           of
           their
           Design
           .
        
         
           He
           takes
           Exception
           (
           pag.
           59.
           )
           to
           the
           
             Two
             Declaratory
             Points
          
           of
           the
           Test.
           First
           ,
           That
           
             it
             is
             not
             lawful
             upon
             any
             Pretence
             whatsoever
             ,
             to
             take
             up
             Arms
             against
             the
             King.
          
           And
           he
           reasons
           the
           Matter
           in
           these
           Words
           :
           
             It
             were
             difficult
             to
             instance
             a
             Law
             ,
             either
             in
             This
             ,
             or
             Other
             Country
             ,
             but
             that
             a
             Private
             Man
             ,
             if
             any
             King
             in
             Christendom
             Assault
             him
             ,
             may
             ,
             having
             Retreated
             to
             the
             
             Wall
             ,
             stand
             upon
             his
             Guard.
          
           That
           is
           to
           say
           ,
           A
           Private
           Man
           may
           kill
           his
           Prince
           in
           his
           own
           Defence
           .
           For
           he
           puts
           This
           Case
           in
           Opposition
           to
           the
           Declaration
           ;
           Only
           translating
           the
           
             Taking
             up
             of
             Arms
             against
             the
             King
             ,
          
           into
           a
           Man's
           
             Standing
             upon
             his
             Guard.
          
           All
           that
           's
           Honest
           in
           't
           is
           This
           ,
           That
           he
           refuses
           to
           declare
           That
           to
           be
           Vnlawful
           ,
           which
           he
           holds
           to
           be
           Lawful
           .
        
         
           His
           Second
           Scruple
           is
           
             The
             Abhorrence
             of
             that
             Traiterous
             Position
             of
             taking
             Arms
             by
             his
          
           Authority
           ,
           
             against
             his
          
           Person
           ;
           
             or
             against
             those
             that
             are
          
           Commissioned
           
             by
             him
          
           ,
           in
           
             pursuance
             of
             such
          
           Commission
           .
           Here
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             is
             neither
             Tenour
             ,
             or
             Rule
             of
             any
             such
          
           Commission
           
             specify'd
             ,
             nor
             the
             Qualification
             of
             those
             which
             shall
             be
             Armed
             with
             such
          
           Commissions
           ,
           
             expressed
             ,
             or
             Limited
          
           .
        
         
           The
           Author
           of
           this
           Frivolous
           Shift
           ,
           knows
           very
           well
           ,
           that
           the
           Rules
           ,
           and
           Measures
           of
           Commissions
           vary
           according
           to
           the
           Circumstances
           of
           
             Time
             ,
             Place
             ,
             Fact
             ,
             Person
          
           ;
           that
           the
           Qualification
           of
           the
           Commissioner
           does
           not
           at
           all
           operate
           upon
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           Commission
           :
           and
           that
           if
           the
           Bill
           were
           drawn
           out
           to
           the
           length
           of
           the
           
             Book
             of
             Martyrs
          
           ,
           there
           would
           not
           yet
           be
           room
           
           enough
           to
           obviate
           all
           Cavills
           ,
           and
           Objections
           .
           But
           in
           the
           next
           Page
           ,
           he
           speaks
           his
           Mind
           a
           little
           plainer
           .
        
         
           
             As
             to
             the
          
           Commission
           ,
           (
           says
           he
           )
           
             if
             it
             be
             to
             take
             away
             a
             Man's
             Estate
             ,
             or
             his
             Life
             ,
             by
             Force
             ,
             yet
             it
             is
             the
             King's
             Commission
             :
             Or
             if
             the
             Person
             Commissionate
             be
             under
             never
             so
             many
             Disabilities
             by
             Acts
             of
             Parliament
             ;
             yet
             his
             taking
             this
             Oath
             ,
             removes
             all
             those
             Incapacities
             ,
             or
             his
             Commission
             makes
             it
             not
             disputable
             .
          
        
         
           This
           Seditious
           Hint
           ,
           (
           for
           I
           cannot
           call
           it
           an
           Argument
           )
           lyes
           open
           so
           many
           ways
           ,
           that
           I
           am
           only
           at
           a
           Loss
           where
           to
           begin
           with
           it
           .
           First
           ,
           Let
           the
           Commission
           ,
           and
           Commissioner
           be
           what
           they
           will
           ,
           
             no
             Man
             is
             to
             be
             a
             Iudge
             in
             his
             own
             Cause
          
           ;
           but
           the
           Law
           must
           be
           the
           Iudge
           both
           of
           the
           Legality
           of
           the
           One
           ,
           and
           the
           Capacity
           of
           the
           Other
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           If
           upon
           this
           Ground
           
             an
             Injur'd
             Person
          
           may
           take
           Arms
           ,
           in
           One
           Case
           ;
           so
           may
           a
           Criminal
           ,
           upon
           the
           bare
           Pretence
           of
           it
           in
           
             any
             Other
          
           :
           For
           't
           is
           but
           saying
           that
           the
           
             Commission
             is
             Vnwarrantable
          
           ,
           or
           that
           
             the
             Officer
             is
             a
             Rascal
          
           ,
           and
           there
           's
           his
           Justification
           .
           Thirdly
           ,
           Suppose
           a
           
             Double
             Abuse
          
           in
           Manner
           ,
           as
           is
           here
           suggested
           ;
           
           That
           Abuse
           does
           not
           yet
           void
           the
           Authority
           ,
           to
           which
           the
           Law
           on
           the
           One
           side
           requires
           Obedience
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           Submission
           ;
           and
           there
           is
           no
           Law
           ,
           on
           the
           
             Other
             side
          
           ,
           that
           allows
           Resistance
           .
           Fourthly
           ,
           The
           End
           and
           Prospect
           of
           all
           Laws
           is
           Publick
           Convenience
           ,
           and
           there
           was
           never
           any
           Law
           invented
           ,
           so
           Profitable
           to
           a
           Community
           ,
           but
           it
           was
           in
           some
           Respect
           or
           other
           ,
           to
           the
           Detriment
           of
           some
           Particulars
           :
           So
           that
           the
           very
           Admittance
           of
           his
           Suppositions
           ,
           does
           not
           at
           all
           affect
           the
           Reason
           of
           the
           Test
           ,
           if
           the
           Benefit
           be
           General
           on
           the
           One
           hand
           ,
           and
           the
           Mischief
           only
           Particular
           on
           the
           Other
           .
           How
           many
           Men
           are
           sworn
           out
           of
           their
           Lives
           ,
           and
           Fortunes
           by
           
             False
             Witnesses
          
           ?
           Shall
           we
           therefore
           quarrel
           the
           Method
           of
           Proceeding
           
             Secundum
             Allegata
             ,
             &
             Probata
          
           ?
           A
           Man
           is
           Arrested
           upon
           a
           Fobb'd
           Action
           ,
           for
           a
           sum
           of
           Mony
           ,
           knowing
           First
           ,
           that
           he
           ows
           not
           a
           Penny
           ;
           Secondly
           ,
           that
           the
           Consequence
           of
           it
           will
           be
           his
           Ruine
           ;
           Thirdly
           ,
           that
           the
           Action
           is
           meerly
           Malicious
           ;
           And
           Fourthly
           ,
           (
           to
           make
           it
           strong
           enough
           )
           that
           the
           Officer
           that
           serves
           the
           Writ
           is
           Consederate
           with
           his
           Adversary
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           have
           Both
           
           complotted
           his
           Destruction
           :
           All
           this
           will
           not
           yet
           Authorize
           a
           Resistance
           ;
           but
           if
           an
           Officer
           that
           has
           the
           
             King's
             Writ
          
           ,
           or
           any
           other
           Lawful
           Warrant
           ,
           though
           Erroneous
           ,
           shall
           be
           slain
           in
           the
           Execution
           of
           it
           ,
           This
           is
           MVRTHER
           .
           A
           word
           now
           as
           to
           the
           Occasion
           of
           it
           .
        
         
           The
           People
           of
           41
           ,
           when
           they
           had
           forced
           his
           Majesty
           from
           his
           Palace
           ,
           by
           Affronts
           and
           Arm'd
           Tumults
           ,
           Publish'd
           this
           Doctrine
           to
           the
           Nation
           ,
           That
           though
           his
           Person
           was
           gone
           ,
           his
           Authority
           resided
           in
           the
           
             Two
             Houses
          
           :
           under
           which
           Colour
           they
           imposed
           Ordinances
           upon
           the
           People
           ,
           for
           Laws
           ,
           and
           by
           Degrees
           proceeded
           to
           an
           Exercise
           of
           all
           the
           Acts
           of
           Sovereignty
           ;
           making
           War
           against
           the
           Person
           of
           the
           King
           ,
           and
           those
           that
           were
           Commission'd
           by
           him
           ,
           under
           the
           Pretence
           afore-said
           :
           as
           
             Rebellious
             ,
             Traytors
          
           ,
           and
           Conspirators
           .
           Now
           to
           prevent
           the
           
             same
             Mischief
          
           again
           ,
           from
           the
           
             same
             Principles
          
           ,
           it
           was
           thought
           fit
           to
           propose
           this
           Declaration
           of
           Abhorrence
           .
           The
           Objections
           against
           it
           are
           ,
           That
           
             the
             King
             may
             grant
             a
             Commission
             to
             take
             away
             a
             Man's
             Life
             ,
             or
             Estate
             ,
             and
             Employ
             any
             Man
             at
             a
             venture
             to
             execute
             it
          
           :
           which
           
           is
           First
           ,
           The
           Supposal
           of
           an
           Vnjust
           ,
           and
           
             Tyrannical
             Commission
          
           :
           Secondly
           ,
           A
           Case
           so
           Rare
           ,
           that
           it
           would
           be
           a
           hard
           matter
           to
           produce
           a
           President
           for
           it
           ,
           without
           a
           Reference
           to
           a
           Tryal
           at
           Law
           :
           And
           Thirdly
           ,
           What
           would
           be
           the
           Fruit
           of
           such
           a
           Resistance
           ,
           but
           the
           Turning
           of
           an
           Oppression
           on
           the
           One
           side
           ,
           into
           a
           Rebellion
           on
           the
           other
           ,
           and
           the
           Forfeiting
           of
           that
           Life
           ,
           and
           
             Estate
             To
          
           the
           Law
           ,
           which
           was
           otherwise
           invaded
           Contrary
           to
           the
           Law
           ?
           For
           't
           is
           a
           Thousand
           to
           one
           that
           the
           Power
           that
           Issu'd
           the
           Commission
           will
           find
           Assistants
           to
           Execute
           it
           .
           So
           that
           the
           Resistance
           pleaded
           for
           in
           this
           Case
           ,
           is
           First
           ,
           of
           a
           very
           remote
           Supposition
           .
           Secondly
           ,
           of
           dangerous
           Consequence
           to
           the
           Resistent
           :
           And
           ,
           Thirdly
           ,
           of
           no
           Avail
           to
           him
           at
           all
           .
        
         
           If
           we
           may
           not
           Resist
           (
           says
           the
           Faction
           )
           under
           these
           Circumstances
           our
           Lives
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Estates
           are
           at
           the
           King's
           Mercy
           ;
           for
           that
           which
           maybe
           .
           One
           Man's
           Case
           ,
           may
           be
           Any
           Man's
           And
           so
           because
           of
           This
           Possibility
           of
           Wrong
           to
           Particulars
           ,
           we
           judge
           it
           Reasonable
           ,
           that
           every
           Particular
           Man
           should
           be
           Allow'd
           to
           Defend
           himself
           .
           See
           now
           the
           Inconvenience
           ,
           
           which
           ,
           upon
           the
           Allowance
           of
           this
           Liberty
           in
           Favour
           of
           Particulars
           ,
           will
           redound
           to
           the
           Publick
           .
        
         
           An
           Honest
           Man
           is
           charg'd
           with
           Treason
           in
           the
           King's
           Name
           ,
           and
           by
           his
           Majesties
           Order
           to
           be
           taken
           into
           Custody
           ,
           and
           by
           an
           Officer
           too
           ,
           under
           what
           Disabilities
           you
           please
           .
           Here
           's
           the
           whole
           Case
           .
           
             An
             Innocent
             Person
             ;
             Life
             ,
             Liberty
             ,
          
           and
           Estate
           at
           stake
           ,
           and
           an
           
             Vnqualify'd
             Commissioner
          
           .
           If
           One
           Man
           may
           Resist
           ,
           because
           he
           is
           
             Innocent
             ,
             Another
          
           upon
           the
           same
           Pretence
           may
           Resist
           too
           ,
           although
           he
           be
           Guilty
           .
           For
           no
           Man
           under
           a
           Charge
           ,
           is
           either
           Guilty
           ,
           or
           Innocent
           in
           the
           Eye
           of
           the
           Law
           ,
           till
           he
           be
           Legally
           ,
           either
           Convicted
           ,
           or
           Acquitted
           .
           So
           that
           the
           Innocent
           ,
           and
           the
           Guilty
           ,
           are
           to
           be
           try'd
           indifferently
           by
           the
           
             same
             Law
          
           ,
           and
           so
           are
           the
           Pretended
           Errours
           either
           in
           the
           Commission
           ,
           or
           Commissioner
           .
           Take
           matters
           once
           out
           of
           the
           Channel
           of
           
             Tryal
             by
             our
             Peers
          
           ,
           There
           's
           an
           end
           of
           
             Magna
             Charta
          
           ;
           and
           the
           Government
           it self
           is
           become
           Passive
           ,
           and
           Precatious
           .
           Will
           you
           have
           the
           true
           Reason
           now
           ,
           why
           this
           Abhorrence
           goes
           so
           much
           against
           the
           hair
           with
           some
           People
           ?
           The
           Position
           is
           to
           be
           Cherish'd
           ,
           and
           kept
           in
           〈◊〉
           till
           the
           time
           comes
           for
           us
           .
        
         
         
           No
           Man
           can
           be
           so
           blind
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           discern
           by
           the
           correspondent
           Motions
           of
           the
           Consistorians
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           and
           the
           
             Scottish
             English
          
           ,
           that
           they
           Act
           already
           by
           Concert
           ;
           and
           it
           is
           as
           plain
           by
           this
           Bold
           and
           Adventurous
           way
           of
           Libels
           all
           on
           the
           soddain
           ,
           that
           they
           depend
           upon
           France
           for
           a
           Second
           :
           Which
           is
           no
           more
           than
           was
           done
           in
           the
           Late
           Rebellion
           ,
           by
           the
           same
           Faction
           ,
           as
           appear'd
           by
           a
           Letter
           of
           the
           Lord
           Lowdens
           to
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           ,
           for
           his
           Protection
           and
           Assistance
           ,
           for
           which
           he
           was
           committed
           to
           the
           Tower
           ;
           and
           it
           was
           also
           confirm'd
           by
           the
           Fourth
           Article
           against
           the
           Five
           Members
           ,
           Accusing
           them
           to
           have
           
             Trayterously
             invited
             and
             encourag'd
             a
             Forreign
             Power
             to
             invade
             his
             Majesties
             Kingdom
             of
          
           England
           .
           
           Husband's
           Collections
           ,
           p.
           35.
           
           These
           are
           the
           
             French
             Pensioners
          
           ,
           and
           the
           Betrayers
           of
           our
           Religion
           and
           Freedom
           ,
           under
           Oaths
           ,
           and
           Covenants
           to
           Preserve
           them
           .
           Were
           not
           our
           Divines
           Pillag'd
           ,
           Sequestred
           ,
           Imprison'd
           ,
           either
           for
           praying
           for
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           or
           for
           Refusing
           to
           Abjure
           him
           ?
           How
           many
           Reverend
           Divines
           were
           poyson'd
           in
           Peter-House
           ?
           I
           could
           give
           you
           the
           History
           of
           their
           Spiriting
           away
           several
           
             Persons
             of
             
             Honour
          
           for
           
             Slaves
             ;
             their
             Sale
             of
             three
             ,
             or
             four
             Score
             Gentlemen
             to
             the
          
           Barbadoes
           .
           Their
           
             Sequestrations
             ,
             Decimations
             ,
             Exclusion
          
           from
           all
           
             Offices
             ,
             Plunders
             ,
             Banishments
             ,
             Consinements
             ,
             Prohibition
             of
             Correspondence
             with
             the
             King
             ,
          
           upon
           Pain
           of
           Death
           :
           The
           Juggles
           of
           the
           
             Irish
             Adventures
             ;
             Money
             ,
             and
             Plate
          
           upon
           the
           
             Propositions
             ;
             Confiscated
             Estates
             ;
             Twentieth
             Parts
             ,
             Weekly
             Assessments
             ,
          
           and
           a
           Hundred
           other
           Pecuniary
           ,
           and
           Arbitrary
           Stratagems
           ,
           till
           they
           finish'd
           the
           Ruine
           of
           the
           Nation
           ,
           in
           the
           Dissolution
           of
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           in
           the
           Bloud
           of
           their
           Sovereign
           .
           It
           is
           not
           less
           certain
           that
           This
           is
           in
           Sum
           the
           Design
           of
           their
           
             Second
             Reformation
          
           ,
           than
           that
           it
           was
           the
           Effect
           of
           their
           Former
           :
           and
           they
           are
           Fools
           that
           take
           Men
           of
           these
           Practices
           to
           be
           of
           any
           Religion
           .
           To
           understand
           these
           People
           aright
           ,
           a
           Man
           must
           read
           them
           ,
           like
           the
           Original
           Tongues
           ,
           Backward
           .
           They
           are
           never
           so
           deadly
           ,
           and
           dangerous
           Enemies
           to
           the
           Government
           ,
           as
           when
           they
           prosess
           the
           dearest
           Affection
           to
           it
           ;
           and
           I
           do
           not
           know
           but
           that
           the
           Author
           of
           the
           
             Growth
             of
             Popery
          
           may
           be
           the
           greatest
           Friend
           in
           the
           World
           to
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           when
           he
           
           Professes
           himself
           the
           Bitterest
           Adversary
           .
           I
           pray
           ,
           bestow
           a
           Second
           Thought
           upon
           his
           Declamation
           against
           Popery
           (
           with
           which
           I
           shall
           Conclude
           )
           and
           tell
           me
           next
           time
           I
           see
           you
           ,
           whether
           he
           has
           not
           taken
           more
           Pains
           to
           Shew
           his
           Skill
           ,
           than
           Care
           to
           Deliver
           his
           Opinion
           .
        
         
           
             Adieu
             .
          
        
      
       
         
           
             Growth
             of
             Popery
          
           ,
           pag.
           5.
           
        
         
           POpery
           is
           such
           a
           thing
           as
           cannot
           ,
           but
           for
           want
           of
           a
           word
           to
           express
           it
           ,
           be
           call'd
           a
           Religion
           :
           nor
           is
           it
           to
           be
           mention'd
           with
           that
           Civility
           which
           is
           otherwise
           Decent
           to
           be
           us'd
           ,
           in
           speaking
           of
           the
           differences
           of
           Humane
           Opinion
           about
           Divine
           Matters
           .
           Were
           it
           either
           Open
           Judaisme
           ,
           or
           Plain
           Turkery
           ,
           or
           Honest
           Paganisme
           ,
           there
           is
           yet
           a
           certain
           
             Bona
             Fides
          
           in
           the
           most
           Extravagant
           Belief
           ;
           and
           the
           Sincerity
           of
           an
           Erroneous
           Profession
           may
           render
           it
           more
           Pardonable
           :
           But
           This
           is
           a
           Compound
           of
           all
           the
           Three
           ,
           an
           Extract
           of
           whatsoever
           is
           most
           Ridiculous
           ,
           and
           Impious
           in
           them
           ,
           incorporated
           with
           more
           Peculiar
           Absurdities
           of
           its
           Own
           ,
           in
           which
           those
           were
           Deficient
           ;
           and
           all
           this
           Deliberately
           contriv'd
           ,
           Knowingly
           carry'd
           on
           ,
           by
           the
           bold
           Imposture
           of
           Priests
           ,
           under
           the
           Name
           of
           Christianity
           .
           The
           Wisdom
           of
           this
           Fifth
           Religion
           ,
           this
           Last
           ,
           and
           Insolentest
           Attempt
           upon
           the
           Credulity
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           seems
           to
           me
           (
           tho'
           not
           Ignorant
           otherwise
           
           of
           the
           Times
           ,
           Degrees
           ,
           and
           Methods
           of
           its
           Progress
           ,
           )
           principally
           to
           have
           consisted
           in
           their
           owning
           the
           Scriptures
           to
           be
           the
           Word
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           Rule
           of
           Faith
           ,
           and
           Manners
           ;
           but
           in
           Prohibiting
           ,
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           their
           Common
           Vse
           ,
           or
           the
           Reading
           of
           them
           in
           Publique
           Churches
           ,
           but
           in
           a
           Latine
           Translation
           ,
           to
           the
           Vulgar
           :
           there
           being
           no
           better
           ,
           or
           more
           Rational
           way
           to
           Frustrate
           the
           very
           Design
           of
           the
           Great
           Institutour
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           who
           first
           planted
           it
           ,
           by
           the
           Extraordinary
           Gift
           of
           Tongues
           ,
           than
           to
           forbid
           the
           Vse
           even
           of
           the
           Ordinary
           Languages
           .
           For
           having
           thus
           a
           Book
           which
           is
           Vniversally
           avow'd
           to
           be
           of
           Divine
           Authority
           ,
           but
           sequestring
           it
           only
           into
           such
           hands
           as
           were
           entrusted
           in
           the
           Cheat
           ,
           they
           had
           the
           Opportunity
           to
           Vitiate
           ,
           Suppress
           ,
           or
           Enterpret
           to
           their
           own
           Profit
           these
           Records
           ,
           by
           which
           the
           Poor
           People
           hold
           their
           Salvation
           .
           And
           this
           Necessary
           Point
           being
           once
           gain'd
           ,
           there
           was
           thence
           forward
           nothing
           so
           Monstrous
           to
           Reason
           ,
           so
           Abhorring
           from
           Morality
           ,
           or
           so
           Contrary
           to
           Scripture
           ,
           which
           they
           might
           not
           in
           Prudence
           Adventure
           on
           .
           The
           Idolatry
           (
           for
           Alass
           it
           is
           neither
           better
           ,
           nor
           worse
           )
           of
           Adoring
           ,
           and
           Praying
           to
           Saints
           ,
           and
           Angels
           ;
           of
           Worshipping
           Pictures
           ,
           Images
           ,
           and
           Reliques
           ,
           Incredible
           Miracles
           ,
           and
           pable
           Fables
           to
           promote
           That
           Veneration
           .
           The
           whole
           Liturgy
           ,
           and
           Worship
           of
           the
           Blessed
           Virgin
           ;
           The
           Saying
           of
           
             Patter
             Nosters
          
           ,
           and
           Creeds
           ,
           to
           the
           honour
           of
           Saints
           ;
           and
           of
           
             Ave
             Maryes
          
           too
           ,
           not
           to
           her
           Honour
           ,
           but
           of
           others
           .
           The
           Publique
           Service
           which
           they
           can
           spare
           to
           God
           among
           so
           many
           Competitours
           in
           an
           Vnknown
           Tongue
           ,
           and
           Entangled
           with
           such
           Vestments
           ,
           Consecrations
           ,
           Exorcisms
           ,
           Whisperings
           
           Sprinklings
           ,
           Censings
           ,
           and
           Phantastical
           Rites
           ,
           Gesticulations
           ,
           and
           Removals
           ,
           so
           Vnbeseeming
           a
           Christian
           Office
           ,
           that
           it
           represents
           rather
           the
           Pranks
           ,
           and
           Ceremonies
           of
           Iuglers
           ,
           and
           Conjurers
           :
           The
           Refusal
           of
           the
           Cup
           to
           the
           Laity
           ;
           The
           Necessity
           of
           the
           Priests
           Intention
           to
           make
           any
           of
           their
           Sacraments
           Effectual
           ;
           Debarring
           their
           Clergy
           from
           Marriage
           ;
           Interdicting
           of
           Meats
           ;
           Auricular
           Confession
           ,
           and
           Absolution
           ,
           as
           with
           them
           practiced
           :
           Penances
           ,
           Pilgrimages
           ,
           Purgatory
           ,
           and
           Prayer
           for
           the
           Dead
           .
           But
           above
           all
           their
           other
           Devices
           ,
           their
           Transubstantial
           Solecisme
           ,
           whereby
           that
           glorify'd
           Body
           ,
           which
           at
           the
           same
           time
           they
           allow
           to
           be
           in
           Heaven
           ,
           is
           sold
           again
           ,
           and
           Crucify'd
           dayly
           upon
           all
           the
           Altars
           of
           their
           Communion
           .
           For
           God
           indeed
           may
           now
           and
           then
           do
           a
           Miracle
           ,
           but
           a
           Romish
           Priest
           can
           ,
           it
           seems
           ,
           work
           in
           one
           moment
           a
           thousand
           Impossibilies
           .
           Thus
           by
           a
           new
           ,
           and
           Anti-Scriptural
           Belief
           ,
           compil'd
           of
           Terrours
           to
           the
           Phancy
           ,
           Contradictions
           to
           sense
           ,
           and
           Impositions
           on
           the
           Vnderstanding
           ,
           their
           Laity
           have
           turn'd
           Tenants
           for
           their
           Souls
           ,
           and
           in
           Consequence
           Tributary
           for
           their
           Estates
           to
           a
           more
           than
           Omnipotent
           Priesthood
           .
        
         
           I
           must
           indeed
           do
           them
           that
           right
           to
           avow
           ,
           that
           out
           of
           an
           Equitable
           Consideration
           ,
           and
           Recompence
           of
           so
           Faithful
           a
           Slavery
           ,
           they
           have
           discharg'd
           the
           People
           from
           all
           other
           Services
           ,
           and
           Dependance
           ;
           Enfranchis'd
           them
           from
           all
           Duty
           to
           God
           ,
           or
           Man
           ;
           insomuch
           that
           their
           Severer
           ,
           and
           more
           Learned
           Divines
           ,
           their
           Governers
           of
           Conscience
           ,
           have
           so
           well
           instructed
           them
           in
           all
           the
           Arts
           of
           Circumventing
           their
           Neighbour
           ,
           and
           of
           Colluding
           with
           Heaven
           ,
           that
           ,
           were
           the
           Scholars
           as
           apt
           as
           their
           Teachers
           ,
           
           there
           would
           have
           been
           long
           since
           an
           end
           of
           all
           either
           True
           Piety
           ,
           or
           Common
           Honesty
           ;
           and
           nothing
           left
           among
           them
           but
           Authorized
           Hypocrisie
           ,
           and
           Licentiousness
           ;
           had
           not
           the
           Natural
           Worth
           of
           the
           Better
           sort
           ,
           and
           the
           good
           Simplicity
           of
           the
           Meaner
           ,
           in
           great
           measure
           preserv'd
           them
           .
           For
           nothing
           indeed
           but
           an
           Extraordinary
           Temper
           ,
           and
           Ingenuity
           of
           Spirit
           ,
           and
           That
           too
           assisted
           by
           a
           Diviner
           Influence
           ,
           could
           possibly
           restrein
           those
           within
           any
           the
           Terms
           ,
           or
           Laws
           ,
           or
           Humanity
           ,
           who
           at
           the
           same
           time
           own
           the
           Doctrine
           of
           their
           Casuists
           ,
           or
           the
           Authority
           of
           the
           Pope
           ,
           as
           it
           is
           by
           him
           claim'd
           ,
           and
           exercis'd
           .
           He
           by
           his
           Indulgences
           delivers
           Souls
           out
           of
           the
           Pains
           of
           the
           other
           World
           ;
           so
           that
           who
           would
           refuse
           to
           be
           Vicious
           Here
           ,
           upon
           so
           good
           Security
           ?
           He
           ,
           by
           his
           Dispensations
           ,
           Annulls
           Contracts
           betwixt
           man
           and
           man
           ;
           Dissolves
           Othes
           between
           Princes
           ,
           or
           betwixt
           Them
           ,
           and
           their
           People
           ;
           and
           gives
           Allowance
           in
           Cases
           which
           God
           ,
           and
           Nature
           Prohibite
           .
           He
           ,
           as
           Clerk
           of
           the
           Spiritual
           Market
           ,
           hath
           set
           a
           Rate
           upon
           all
           Crimes
           :
           the
           more
           Flagitious
           they
           are
           ,
           and
           Abominable
           ,
           the
           better
           Commodities
           ,
           and
           men
           pay
           only
           an
           higher
           Price
           ,
           as
           for
           greater
           Rarities
           .
           So
           that
           it
           seems
           as
           if
           the
           Command
           of
           God
           had
           been
           invented
           merely
           to
           Erect
           an
           Office
           for
           the
           Pope
           .
           The
           worse
           Christians
           men
           are
           ,
           the
           better
           Customers
           ;
           and
           
             This
             Rome
          
           does
           by
           the
           same
           Policy
           people
           its
           Church
           ,
           as
           the
           
             Pagan
             Rome
          
           did
           its
           City
           ,
           by
           opening
           a
           Sanctuary
           to
           all
           Malefactours
           .
           And
           why
           not
           ,
           if
           his
           Power
           be
           indeed
           of
           such
           Virtue
           ,
           and
           Extent
           ,
           as
           is
           by
           him
           challeng'd
           ?
           That
           he
           is
           the
           Ruler
           over
           Angels
           ,
           Purgatory
           ,
           and
           Hell
           ;
           That
           His
           Tribunal
           ,
           and
           Gods
           ,
           are
           all
           One
           :
           That
           all
           
           that
           God
           ,
           he
           can
           do
           ,
           
             Clave
             non
             Errante
          
           ;
           and
           what
           He
           does
           ,
           is
           as
           God
           ,
           and
           not
           as
           Man
           :
           That
           he
           is
           the
           Vniversal
           Head
           of
           the
           Church
           ;
           the
           Sole
           Interpreter
           of
           Scripture
           ,
           and
           Iudge
           of
           Controversie
           :
           That
           he
           is
           above
           General
           Councils
           :
           That
           his
           Power
           is
           Absolute
           ,
           and
           his
           Decrees
           Infallible
           :
           That
           he
           can
           change
           the
           very
           Nature
           of
           things
           ;
           making
           what
           is
           Iust
           to
           be
           Vnjust
           ,
           and
           what
           is
           Vice
           to
           be
           Virtue
           :
           That
           all
           Laws
           are
           in
           the
           Cabinet
           of
           his
           Breast
           :
           That
           he
           can
           Dispense
           with
           the
           New
           Testaments
           ,
           to
           the
           great
           Injury
           of
           the
           Devils
           :
           That
           he
           is
           Monarch
           of
           this
           World
           ;
           and
           that
           he
           can
           dispose
           of
           Kingdoms
           ,
           and
           Empires
           as
           he
           pleases
           .
           Which
           things
           being
           granted
           ,
           that
           stile
           of
           
             Optimum
             ,
             Maximum
             ,
             &
             Supremum
             Numen
             in
             Terris
             ,
          
           or
           that
           of
           
             Dominus
             Deus
             noster
             Papa
          
           ,
           was
           no
           such
           extraordinary
           stroke
           of
           Courtship
           ,
           as
           we
           reckon'd
           :
           but
           it
           was
           rather
           a
           great
           Clownishness
           in
           him
           that
           treated
           so
           mighty
           a
           Prince
           under
           the
           simple
           Title
           of
           Vice-Deus
           .
           The
           Exercise
           of
           his
           Dominion
           is
           in
           all
           Points
           suitable
           to
           this
           his
           Pretence
           .
           He
           Antiquates
           the
           Precepts
           of
           Christ
           ,
           as
           things
           only
           of
           Good
           Advice
           ,
           not
           Commanded
           :
           but
           makes
           it
           a
           Mortal
           Sin
           ,
           even
           to
           Doubt
           of
           any
           Part
           of
           his
           own
           Religion
           ;
           and
           demands
           ,
           under
           pain
           of
           Damnation
           ,
           the
           Subjection
           of
           all
           Christians
           to
           his
           Papal
           Authority
           :
           the
           denying
           of
           two
           things
           so
           Reasonable
           as
           Blind
           Obedience
           to
           This
           Power
           ,
           and
           an
           Implicit
           Faith
           to
           his
           Doctrine
           ,
           being
           the
           most
           Vnpardonable
           Crime
           ,
           under
           his
           Dispensation
           .
           He
           has
           indeed
           of
           late
           been
           somewhat
           more
           Retentive
           than
           formerly
           as
           to
           his
           Faculty
           of
           Disposing
           of
           Kingdoms
           ,
           the
           thing
           not
           having
           succeeded
           well
           with
           him
           in
           
           some
           Instances
           ;
           but
           he
           lays
           the
           same
           Claim
           still
           ;
           Continues
           the
           same
           Inclination
           ;
           and
           ,
           tho'
           velvet-Headed
           ,
           hath
           the
           more
           Itch
           to
           be
           Pushing
           .
           And
           however
           in
           order
           to
           any
           Occasion
           he
           keeps
           himself
           in
           Breath
           Always
           ,
           by
           Cursing
           one
           Prince
           or
           another
           upon
           every
           
             Maunday
             Thursday
          
           .
           Nor
           is
           there
           any
           ,
           whether
           Prince
           ,
           or
           Nation
           ,
           that
           dissents
           from
           his
           Vsurpations
           ,
           but
           are
           mark'd
           out
           ,
           under
           the
           Notion
           of
           Heretiques
           ,
           to
           Ruine
           ,
           and
           Destruction
           ,
           whensoever
           he
           shall
           give
           the
           Signal
           .
           That
           word
           of
           Heresie
           misapply'd
           ,
           hath
           serv'd
           him
           ,
           for
           so
           many
           Ages
           ,
           to
           Iustifie
           all
           the
           Executions
           ,
           Assassinations
           ,
           Wars
           ,
           Massacres
           ,
           and
           Devastations
           ,
           whereby
           his
           Faith
           hath
           been
           Propagated
           ;
           of
           which
           our
           times
           also
           have
           not
           wanted
           Examples
           ,
           and
           more
           is
           to
           be
           Expected
           for
           the
           Future
           .
           For
           by
           how
           much
           any
           thing
           is
           more
           False
           ,
           and
           Vnreasonable
           ,
           it
           requires
           more
           Cruelty
           to
           Establish
           it
           :
           and
           to
           Introduce
           that
           which
           is
           Absurd
           ,
           there
           must
           be
           somewhat
           done
           that
           is
           Barbarous
           .
           But
           nothing
           of
           any
           Sect
           in
           Religion
           can
           be
           more
           recommended
           by
           all
           these
           Qualities
           ,
           than
           the
           Papacy
           .
           The
           Pagans
           are
           Excusable
           by
           their
           Natural
           Darkness
           ,
           without
           Revelation
           .
           The
           Jews
           are
           Tolerable
           who
           see
           not
           beyond
           the
           Old
           Testament
           .
           Mahomet
           was
           so
           Honest
           as
           to
           own
           what
           he
           would
           be
           at
           ,
           that
           he
           himself
           was
           the
           greatest
           Prophet
           ,
           and
           that
           His
           was
           a
           Religion
           of
           the
           Sword.
           So
           that
           these
           were
           all
           ,
           as
           I
           may
           say
           ,
           of
           another
           Allegiance
           ;
           and
           if
           Enemies
           ,
           yet
           not
           Traytours
           :
           But
           the
           Pope
           Avowing
           Christianity
           by
           Prosession
           ,
           doth
           ,
           in
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           Practice
           ,
           Renounce
           it
           ;
           and
           presuming
           to
           be
           the
           only
           Catholique
           ,
           does
           persecute
           those
           to
           the
           Death
           who
           dare
           Worship
           the
           Authour
           
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           instead
           of
           his
           pretended
           Vice-Gerent
           .
        
         
           And
           yet
           there
           is
           nothing
           more
           Evident
           ,
           notwithstanding
           his
           most
           Notorious
           Forgeries
           ,
           and
           Falsification
           of
           all
           Writers
           ,
           than
           that
           the
           Pope
           was
           for
           Several
           hundreds
           of
           years
           an
           Honest
           Bishop
           as
           other
           men
           are
           ,
           and
           never
           so
           much
           as
           dream'd
           upon
           the
           seven
           Hills
           of
           that
           Vniversal
           Power
           ,
           which
           he
           is
           now
           come
           to
           :
           Nay
           ,
           he
           was
           the
           First
           that
           Oppos'd
           any
           such
           Pretention
           .
           But
           some
           of
           them
           at
           last
           ,
           growing
           wiser
           ,
           by
           foysting
           a
           Counterfeit
           Donation
           of
           Constantine
           ,
           and
           wresting
           another
           Donation
           from
           our
           Saviour
           ,
           advanc'd
           themselves
           in
           a
           Weak
           ,
           Ignorant
           ,
           and
           Credulous
           Age
           ,
           to
           that
           Temporal
           ,
           and
           Spiritual
           Principality
           ,
           which
           they
           are
           now
           seiz'd
           of
           .
           
             Tu
             es
             Petrus
             ,
             &
             super
             hanc
             Petram
             aedificabo
             Ecclesiam
             meam
             .
          
           Never
           was
           a
           Bishoprick
           and
           a
           Verse
           of
           Scripture
           so
           Emprov'd
           by
           good
           Menagement
           .
           Thus
           ,
           by
           Exercising
           ,
           in
           Quality
           of
           Christs
           Vicar
           ,
           the
           Publick
           Function
           under
           an
           Invisible
           Prince
           ,
           the
           Pope
           ,
           like
           
             the
             Maires
             of
             the
             Palace
          
           ,
           hath
           set
           his
           Master
           aside
           ,
           and
           deliver'd
           the
           Government
           over
           to
           a
           New
           Line
           of
           Papal
           Succession
           .
           But
           who
           can
           ,
           unless
           wilfully
           ,
           be
           Ignorant
           what
           wretched
           Doings
           ,
           what
           Bribery
           ,
           what
           Ambibition
           there
           are
           ;
           How
           long
           the
           Church
           is
           without
           an
           Head
           upon
           every
           Vacancy
           ,
           till
           ,
           among
           the
           Crew
           of
           Bandying
           Cardinals
           ,
           the
           Holy
           Ghost
           hath
           declar'd
           for
           a
           Pope
           of
           the
           French
           ,
           or
           Spanish
           Faction
           .
           It
           is
           a
           Succession
           like
           that
           of
           the
           
             Egyptian
             Ox
          
           (
           the
           Living
           Idol
           of
           that
           Country
           )
           who
           Dying
           ,
           or
           being
           made
           away
           by
           the
           Priests
           ,
           there
           was
           a
           Solemn
           ,
           and
           General
           Mourning
           for
           want
           of
           a
           Deity
           ;
           until
           in
           their
           
           Conclave
           they
           had
           found
           out
           another
           Beast
           with
           the
           very
           same
           Marks
           as
           the
           Former
           ;
           whom
           then
           they
           themselves
           Ador'd
           ,
           and
           with
           great
           Iubilee
           brought
           forth
           to
           the
           People
           to
           Worship
           .
           Nor
           was
           That
           Election
           a
           grosser
           Reproach
           to
           Humane
           Reason
           ,
           than
           This
           is
           also
           to
           Christianity
           .
           Surely
           it
           is
           the
           greatest
           Miracle
           of
           the
           
             Romish
             Church
          
           that
           it
           should
           still
           Continue
           ,
           and
           that
           in
           all
           this
           time
           the
           Gates
           of
           Heaven
           should
           not
           prevail
           against
           it
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           almost
           Vnconceivable
           how
           Princes
           can
           yet
           suffer
           a
           Power
           so
           pernicious
           ,
           and
           Doctrine
           so
           Destructive
           to
           all
           Government
           :
           That
           so
           great
           a
           Part
           of
           the
           Land
           should
           be
           Alienated
           ,
           and
           Condemn'd
           to
           (
           as
           they
           call
           it
           )
           Pious
           Vses
           .
           That
           such
           Millions
           of
           their
           People
           ,
           as
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           should
           ,
           by
           remaining
           Vnmarry'd
           ,
           either
           Frustrate
           Humane
           Nature
           ,
           if
           they
           live
           Chastly
           ;
           or
           ,
           if
           otherwise
           ,
           Adulterate
           it
           :
           That
           they
           should
           be
           priviledg'd
           from
           all
           Labour
           ,
           all
           Publique
           Service
           ,
           and
           Exempt
           from
           the
           Power
           of
           all
           Secular
           Iurisdiction
           :
           That
           they
           ,
           being
           all
           bound
           ,
           by
           strict
           Othes
           ,
           and
           Vows
           of
           Obedience
           ,
           to
           the
           Pope
           ,
           should
           evacuate
           the
           Fealty
           due
           to
           the
           Sovereign
           :
           Nay
           ,
           that
           not
           only
           the
           Clergy
           ,
           but
           their
           whole
           People
           ,
           if
           of
           the
           Romish
           Perswasion
           ;
           should
           be
           oblig'd
           to
           Rebel
           ,
           at
           any
           time
           ,
           upon
           the
           Popes
           Pleasure
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .